Journalism is evolving yet again with multimedia journalism online. Instead of the lack of multimedia journalism has had in the past, which made journalism an "orphan" in a sense, journalism is in its "adolescent" stage of learning how to improve through multimedia. Journalism is bringing videos, photos, and audio to take their profession to the next level. These styles are being used online very often. The National Press Photographers Association awards made comments about the entries in the online categories that they reviewed this past year.
Here is some of their positive and negative criticism:
- Media has made many improvements by incorporating more multimedia then in the past.
- The audio that is used in storytelling, when used correctly, can make a huge difference in the story's meaning. News organizations are using audio slideshows to tell more adequate stories.
- Do not let the user become confused because they cannot run the program being used.
- Do not use so much multimedia that it is hard for the user to understand the story line.
- There is to much going on in many of the stories that are barely hanging together by the common subject.
- The biggest criticism was to be cautious of "Too much!"
The journalism world is being taken to the next level throughout these multimedia innovations. I am very pleased that journalism is going in the direction of adding new technology of the times. I feel that journalism must grow along with everything else in the world in order to keep up with the competition. There will always be one journalist that uses the new multimedia. Therefore, every journalist must do this in order to keep the future public's attention.
If you would like to read more, here is the link to the article:
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=101&aid=140573
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