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- 1. World U.S. Politics New York Business Deal book Technology Sports Olympics Science Health Arts Sama Alzahrani Style 13 Aug 2012 Opinion
- 2. According to (Manovich 2), Transcoding refers to “the changes that occur due to translating an established cultural product into a new technology”. Journalism of New York Times has been transcoded from print to digital in the past 12 years.
- 3. Of special interest to the researchers were: • the relationship between the online multimedia material and material appearing in print and the presence of feedback mechanisms and interactive features in the multimedia packages.
- 4. “The number and sophistication of the multimedia packages grew over time to include new interfaces that incorporated elements native to digital environments such as hyper textual links, interactivity, and elements borrowed from digital games and social media tools” (Jacobson 4).
- 5. Features observed in the interactive packages . present on the site Videos were often made as stand-alone content. Photo slideshows were often used in conjunction with newspaper stories, although the online packages contained almost twice the number of photos on newspaper stories. The style of reporting in the online platform exhibited extensive variation with the print media. Stories on the online platform had a personal signature and offered broader facts, in stark contrast to the brief first-person statements in print editions
- 6. VIDEO: NY TIMES: USAIN BOLT VS. 116 YEARS OF OLYMPIC SPRINTERS The video on Usain Bolt can be regarded as a .stand alone content http://creativity-online.com/work/ny-times-usain-bolt-
- 7. BMX Cycling Quarterfinals Little Camaraderie, Plenty of Crashes at BMX Races An example of media package on nytimes.com
- 8. Use of Photo Slides by New York times. The photo slides in the NY times give a round up of all the highlights that were witness at the London Olympics
- 9. Use of Photo Slides by New York times. The photo slides in the NY times gives a clear understanding of the lifestyle in London. The slides are under the genre art and design. http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/07/27/arts/de
- 10. The nytimes.com reporter wrote a compelling story on the accusations against Bank on Iran Deals that surprised the U.S. http://thunderfeeds.com/re ader/news/iran- SILVER-GREENBER accusations-against-bank- nytimes .com reporter surprised-regulators-too- new-york-times
- 11. From the graph it is evident that the first person perspective is able to enjoy more interactive features than a third person perspective. http://firstlook.blogs.nytime s.com/category/interactive- features/
- 12. The multi media packages offer a lot of information to aspiring journalists. For example, a Nytimes editor Tyler Manaukian has a multimedia journalist blog That offer analysis of an effective multimedia package. http://tmanoukian.wordpress.com/tag/new-york-times/ Another site that that focuses on transcoding the news and has a full report on multimedia journalism is : http://nms.sagepub.com/content/14/5/867.abstracti
- 13. Face book is one the most common means of communication in this digital world. Nytimes has a face book account in which they interact with there subscribers. http://www.nytimes.com/20 12/06/11/opinion/wising- up-to-facebook.html?_r=1
- 14. Nytime.com also has numerous flowers on tweeter one can get the breaking news from their tweeter accounts.
- 15. Transcoding refers to the changes that occur due to translating an established cultural product into a new technology. Journalism on nytimes.com has been transcoded from print to web based packages as shown earlier.
- 16. The number and sophistication of multimedia It remains to be seen whether video stories
- 17. Activity In groups, discuss the following questions and : tweet your answers to #mdia5003 How do you think the invariable web package growth will change journalism in future? Will it be affected positively or negatively?
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