Some people are calling it a lifeline for newspapers and magazines. Amazon is expected to announce it’s larger screen Kindle today designed especially for these larger publications. Now the recession-ravaged newspaper and magazine industries are hoping for their own knight in shining digital armor, in the form of portable reading devices with big screens. The [...]
Music In Nonfiction: Crutch Or Crucial?
By Christopher Ave I was talking to a colleague not long ago about potentially adding music to a journalistic photo slideshow. “I think music is too often used as a crutch,” he said, suggesting that perhaps a recent video about a juggler might have been a more appropriate project for background music. Is he right? [...]