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Soundslides is the popular free software that permits the photojournalist to build a slide show from the photojournalist's take and adding location sounds, interviews and music.
Two other software...
Robert Mercer taught journalism this fall at Lutsk Liberal Arts University as a Fulbright Scholar. He lectured in English using PowerPoint slides, video camcorders and Adobe software. He is the...
By Robert R. Mercer
Fulbright Scholar 2007-2008
August 2007, Fullerton, Packing Out
Why did you want to be a Fulbright Scholar?
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Multi-Media WIKI Mashups for cheap journalists
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Robert R. Mercer, M.A.
Journalism Department
Cypress...
Robert R. Mercer
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Journalism Department
Cypress College
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Convergence Journalism has been invited to Ukraine by the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
Twenty-five working journalists became a part of the National Mohyla Academy’s Digital...
Regularly, advisers to student publications try to appropriate student photography, writing, graphics and video as belonging to the Journalism Department where they advise, or to the college or...
While researching a speech on Whack-A-Mole publishing in developing democracies, the editor discovered Reporters Sans Frontieres, (Reporters Without Borders) have created the "Handbook for...
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Oklahoman Will Rogers, the premiere 1930s American radio political commentator, once wrote he was not sure he'd want to belong to any organization whose standards would permit a man like him to be...
"Freedom of the Press belongs to those who own a press." — an American Maxim.
With the advent of free internet tools such as Wikidot.Com, YouTube.Com, etc., freedom of the press has never been...
Lutsk Liberal Arts University and the Cypress College Journalism Department have created a working partnership.
Robert R. Mercer, department chair, is currently teaching a weekly distance...
A Publication of the students of Lutsk Liberal Arts University, Lutsk, Ukraine
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Gender Conference (complete caption using this...
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer of Jan. 7, 2008 reports the continuing closing of many community college newspapers across that state.
Amy Rolf writes, "One by one, community college papers around...
STUDENT MEDIA AS A RESEARCH TOOL: How a small program can participate in the age of International, Post-Convergence Journalism.
Robert R. Mercer
Cypress College
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Education is going global Newsweek reported in a special double edition Aug. 20, 2007.
"A fancy name like Yale or Oxford doesn't cut it," the editors write. "College kids are now global consumers,...
Photojournalism is the heart of convergence journalism. The classic definition was put forth by Cliff Edom; pictures supported by words. This applies to convergence journalism where images tell...
Writing a simple, quick video script can be done by simply answering the basic questions any viewer wants to know about a story. One can expand the format infinitely. For the beginning student, it...
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Volodymyr-Volynsky Ukraine) School #5 High School students are currently hanging their photo exhibition, “A Day in the Life” of their school as the final lesson in their...
How and why we see is as important as what we see.
Visual Communications, Multimedia 110c, teaches the physiology and psychology behind graphics that communicate. This sequence of pages hosts the...
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Despite talk of the country being an “emerging democracy,” broadcasting in Ukraine does not appear technologically behind the United States based on a tour of Volhyn Teleradio Company in...
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A California community college newsroom recently scored a major scoop—the...
