My First AFP Video – Initial Lessons
Readers of this blog will know that I’m trying to learn how to do more photos and videos to become more of a “multimedia” journalist (whatever that is). I did some training at AFP in Hong Kong to learn how to do “webclips”, and put together a little video about an Iraqi Ramadan game. So [...]
Facebook on the Frontline (Part II)
Prashant’s note: The following article was originally published in the latest issue of Correspondent, the bi-monthly magazine of the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents’ Club. It is reproduced here in full with the permission of the magazine. by Prashant Rao How is social media changing the role of today’s correspondent? All I know is that for [...]
AFP Journalists on Twitter
UPDATE: I’ve actually moved this post into a page (unimportant why, but easier to organise for me) which can be found here. LAST UPDATED: April 18, 2011 More and more AFP journalists are on Twitter, to the point where a simple old #FollowFriday is difficult, so I’ve set about compiling a list with as full [...]
‘Webclip’ Training at AFP Hong Kong
Yesterday morning, I was in AFP’s Hong Kong bureau (I spend much of my leave from Iraq in Hong Kong) to learn how to make ‘webclips’, which the agency has been promoting and training several of us for. A webclip is a video, around a minute in length and comprised of a few short scenes [...]
AFP CEO pushes multimedia (WSJ)
The Wall Street Journal has just published an interview with AFP chief executive Emmanuel Hoog. The agency is on a real multimedia push (like the videoclip training I’m doing tomorrow), details of which he gives in his answers. (Hat tip to Kabir Chibber)