
I’ve spent the past couple of days checking out the nominees for this year’s Emmy Awards, especially those in the “New Approaches to News and Documentary” categories. Wow, what a group! These nominees have provided a pretty clear vision for the future of visual journalism – a future where storytelling meets interactivity – and it [...]
Jul 16, 2010 | Categories: blog | Tags: a life alone, a life in politics, Alabama Homeboys, behind the veil, boston globe, brian storm, Danny Wilcox Frazier, disabled in vietnam, Driftless, emmy nominees, Eric Maierson, flipped, globe and mail, katy newton, maisie crow, media storm, multimedia, new york times, nova, one in 8 million, red cross, reuters, san jose mercury news, secret life of scientists, soul of athens, Stories from Iowa, Stories of Hope, Surviving the Tsunami, ted kennedy, times of crisis, Todd Heisler | 1 Comment »

Forty of the country’s top college journalists traveled to the Poynter Institute in May 2009 for an intensive multimedia bootcamp. During the fellowship, Greg Linch, Nic Barajas and I asked the group why they’re pursuing careers in journalism and what the future holds. We have collected their responses and built them into a Web site [...]
Jun 01, 2010 | Categories: blog, featured, projects | Tags: 2009, bootcamp, college, fellowship, future of journalism, learning, mckenna ewen, multimedia, poynter, poynter institute, videos | Leave A Comment »

The Minnesota News Photographers Association held their 2010 convention this weekend highlighting some of the best in photojournalism. The convention has always been an interesting place to reflect on some of the changes in visual journalism with many of the attendees coming from a traditional newspaper background. For the final presentation at this year’s conference, [...]
Apr 21, 2010 | Categories: blog | Tags: 2 seats, 4 wheels and 24 angels, a prayer for father tim, boyd huppert, conference, crash for clunkers, father tim, fiero, freedom met its limits, in the moment, jim gehrz, jonathan malat, kare 11, locked in limbo, minnesota, minnesota news photographers association, minnesota public radio, mnpa, multimedia, newspaper video, online video, photo, photography, photojournalism, republican national convention, rnc, sasha aslanian, star tribune, storytelling, the wonder of flight, videography | Leave A Comment »
1) Target Field opening day time lapse Ben Garvin – Pioneer Press See the Twins home opener in miniature compiling thousands of photos and using tilt-shift lenses. 2) World Series time lapse Robert Caplin – Freelance Photographer This is a time-lapse compilation of over 5,000 images taken from dozens of locations inside and outside of [...]
Apr 17, 2010 | Categories: blog | Tags: art, baseball, ben garvin, chistopher drost, jim gehrz, joel lehman, lapse, minnesota, multimedia, photo, photography, red sox, robert caplin, stadium, target, target field, tilt shift, tilt-shirt, time, time-lapse, timelapse, torontoist, twins, videos, world series, yankees | 2 Comments »

In 1945, newspaper publisher Arthur Kasherman was gunned down on a snowy street in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Was he a crusader for justice, or a low-life who angered the underworld once too many? Watch the video, read the stories and maybe you’ll solve a 65-year-old murder mystery. About the Site Rubbed Out is an experiment in [...]
Mar 06, 2010 | Categories: blog, featured, projects | Tags: arthur kasherman, death, documentary, ewen, gangster, Howard Guilford, independent, interactive, Isadore Blumenfeld, Jack Apple, james eli shiffer, james shiffer, joey swartz, journalism, journalist, kid cann, killed, linking, media, minneapolis, muckraker, multimedia, murder, online, project, ray sullivan, Reuben Shetsky, sharing, star tribune, tommy banks, videos, walter liggett | 1 Comment »

On Wednesday, Feb. 24, multimedia journalists from around the country participated in a Web journalism chat moderated by Mark Luckie, author of the blog 10,000 Words and the Digital Journalists Handbook! Here’s a collection of the top projects mentioned during the chat. #wjchat is a weekly Twitter conversation for web journalists. We talk about all [...]
Feb 25, 2010 | Categories: blog | Tags: 10000 words, bombay flying club, death perceptions, ed kashi, elmundo, examples, fifty people one question, forgotten people, frozen land, haiti 360, immersive media, innovative interactivity, interactive, iraqi kurdistan, journey to the end of coal, luge crash, mapping la, media storm, multimedia, new york times, pedro pan children, projects, streetlight, times of crisis | Leave A Comment »

As part of my course work at the University of Minnesota, I wanted to produce an interactive multimedia project on the economic crisis. After following a couple other student projects, like Soul of Athens and Andaman Rising, I knew exactly what I wanted to do and had absolutely no idea how to do it. Three [...]
Jan 26, 2010 | Categories: blog | Tags: design, flash, interactive, learning, mckenna ewen, multimedia, project, students, times of recession, university of minnesota | Leave A Comment »

Projects Times of Recession Times of Recession was a multimedia project that featured seven Minnesotans and the recession’s impact on each of their lives. The project was nominated for an Upper Midwest Regional Emmy in September and the videos ran individually on MinnPost.com. Built using Flash and AS3, this project was Ewen Media’s first interactive [...]
Jan 07, 2010 | Categories: blog | Tags: 2009, best, blog, ewen media, interactive, journalism, multimedia, projects | Leave A Comment »

Here’s a link to my Other Future of News (#ofon) presentation on “making the most of online video.” Please take a look and let me know what you think! The Other Future of News conference took place on December 12, 2009, and was a response to MPR’s Future of News event that took place earlier [...]
Dec 28, 2009 | Categories: blog | Tags: ariel wade, embed, linking, mckenna ewen, multimedia, news, online, share, sharing, star tribune, videos, white castle, youtube | 1 Comment »

A photo recap of Monday night’s game. The Vikings won 30-23 and Brett Favre became the first player to defeat all 32 NFL teams. Originally produced for the Star Tribune. Photography by Carlos Gonzalez, Jerry Holt, Brian Peterson, Jeff Wheeler and McKenna Ewen.
Oct 13, 2009 | Categories: featured, videos | Tags: brett, favre, multimedia, packers, photography, slideshow, star tribune, vikings | 1 Comment »

In the midst of a broad-based recession affecting nearly all sectors of the economy, University of Minnesota student McKenna Ewen shows how the economic downturn has shaped his home state of Minnesota. Times of Recession
Oct 12, 2009 | Categories: featured, projects | Tags: interactive, journalism, mckenna ewen, multimedia, recession, student, times of recession, university of minnesota | Leave A Comment »

Recently, when talking with multimedia journalist Jeff Achen, I was asked how young journalists could develop the skills necessary to compete in a new media environment. At the time, I wasn’t really sure. However, when I watched this video (see below), it all made sense. As a Minnesotan, I was born loving Herb Brooks’s famous [...]
Oct 09, 2009 | Categories: blog | Tags: flash, interactive, journalism, journalist, learning, media, multimedia, new, online, storytelling, student, web | 2 Comments »

Ewen Media has been nominated for an Upper Midwest Regional Emmy nomination for its latest project, Times of Recession. This is the organization’s first Emmy nomination and a tremendous honor to be associated with some of the top journalists in the Upper Midwest region. This is a very exciting moment and it’s great to see [...]
Sep 04, 2009 | Categories: blog | Tags: economy, emmy, ewen media, ewenmedia, mckenna ewen, minneapolis, multimedia, recession, times of recession, university of minnesota | 1 Comment »

The Asian Meals on Wheels program, supported by the Neighborhood House in St. Paul, is the only program in the country to deliver culturally specific food to the Hmong community.
May 04, 2009 | Categories: videos | Tags: asian meals on wheels, economy, multimedia, recession, st. paul, student, times, times of recession | Leave A Comment »