After much thought and deliberation, I am excited to announce that I am selling Innovative Interactivity. After nearly five years of sweat and tears, I have decided to step aside and let someone else (or another entity) take over the site and ensure its continued growth. I am open to considering any and all proposals so please email me at innovativeinteractivity@gmail.com if you would like to learn more!
Alan Murray, Deputy Managing Editor and Online Executive Editor at The Wall Street Journal, in 2012 stated that “media now becomes popular by consumer choice, not lack of choice.†With low barriers to entry and non-existent switching costs, digital consumers today are not only less loyal to any one news organization, but less willing to pay for content that they have, up until now, assumed was free. Thus is the root cause for why newspaper organizations are now strategically reshuffling their business models in order to adopt and adapt to the changing digital landscape. Wall Street Journal, on the other hand, continues to enjoy the strong revenue flow from its tried-and-true digital subscription model and has become the de-facto standard from which all other print news organizations benchmark their latest digital strategies.
In 2011 The Hinterlands held their first residential photofilm workshop in Devon, UK with the wonderful duckrabbit and it was a brilliant experience. So this year we decided to do it all over again and we will we be working alongside duckrabbit for the photofilm workshop from 27th May – June 1st 2012. We are also organising another residential week which will focus on developing your photographic style and finding your voice as a documentary photographer and storyteller. The Photographic Immersion workshop with Brooklyn based photographer and documentarian Brenda Ann Kenneally will run from 24th-29th June 2012.
You know school’s out when the job boards quickly fill with faculty openings. This month brings us four great faculty positions across the U.S, as well as 16 other multimedia-related jobs. Happy job hunting everyone!
I always love seeing what British blogger and entrepreneur Adam Westbrook is up to — one day he’s making motion graphic videos detailing his media predictions for the upcoming year … another day he’s making an e-book on entrepreneurial journalism. His latest initiative is making an e-book for philanthropy called “Inside the Story” that gives multimedia designers and developers quick hits of inspiration from the best of the best, all for $5 and available for a limited time only so grab one while you can!
“The notion of ‘home’ has shifting significance for Ed Kashi, a photojournalist who travels the world documenting social and political issues. For the past 30 years, Kashi has lived a life of intense engagement mixed with danger, anticipation, and loneliness. Encompassing nearly 20 years of photographs and journal entries to his wife, Julie, “Photojournalisms” (a supplement to Ed Kashi’s new book by the same title) is a short, experimental film by Talking Eyes Media that provides a glimpse into the life and mind of an intrepid photographer. It is a complex collage defined by sensation, tension, and passion.”
Documentary photographer Justin Cook takes readers behind the scenes in his recent advocacy piece “Family, Unfettered,” a multimedia story about two women with triplets who will be affected if North Carolina passes Amendment One on May 8th, which will enforce that one man and one woman is the only legally recognized and valid domestic union. This story is a part of a larger documentary profile project called “Commitment NC.”
I recently learned about “Moneyocracy,” a multimedia initiative consisting of a documentary, i-doc, and comic book by French photographers Gerald Holubowicz and Jean Nicholas Guillo. They are trying to raise $48,000 to fund the project via KickStarter, and currently only have a little more than $3,000 with one week left. Check out their project and if you think it warrants support, I encourage you to spread the word and/or donate. I’m always happy to promote entrepreneurial initiatives in the multimedia community, so I hope these two can get the necessary funding and pursue this project!
If you’ve read this blog for awhile, you know that I am a huge fan of the “choose-your-own-adventure” packages. Thus, when Katie McKenna contacted me about her site “Inside the Haiti Earthquake” I knew I wanted to feature it in a behind the scenes post so that you all can learn more about how they put it together. You may have already come across the site since it’s a few years old. However, if you are like me and somehow missed it, then now’s the time to learn more about it! Here is Katie’s account of the site and the larger package within which it lives called “Inside Disaster.”
