Skydiver jumps 150 times in one day
Prior Lake skydiver Kevin Burkart completed 150 jumps in one day. Burkart’s original goal was 200 jumps, but overcast skies in the morning delayed the start of the event by six hours. This story was originally featured on StarTribune.com.
Voices from the Future of Journalism
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 [...]
Living outside the Green Zone
May 30, 2010 – A local soldier lost his leg in a roadside bomb near Fallujah, Iraq, but he has since been denied the $50,000 insurance benefit for his loss. A link to the full story is available here. Produced by McKenna Ewen.
The art of the baseball time-lapse video
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 [...]
The murder of journalist Arthur Kasherman
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 [...]
Learning online video from the “White Castle lady”
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 [...]
Welcome back to campus
The Gophers opened up their football season with a 20-13 victory over Air Force in the first game ever played at TCF Bank stadium.
Storytelling done right
With the Upper Midwest Regional Emmys taking place on Saturday, I thought it would be fun to post some of my favorite video stories. I could probably make an entire post with just Boyd Huppert’s stories, but I thought I’d share the love. Add your favorites below! 1) Portrait of Compassion 2) High school wrestlers [...]
Winning the (video) story
As of late, I’ve been thinking a lot about the best way for newspapers to compete with TV stations to win the big video stories of the day. When I started working with newspaper video, my goal was always to be first. Since the web offered an opportunity to upload a video at any time, [...]
