Don Himsel on multimedia

Our guest speaker on April 2 will be Don Himsel, photo editor and multimedia producer at the Nashua Telegraph.

Here is Don's thinking on newspapers and multimedia:

"Wanting to do multimedia and doing it are different things.
"Not all stories are multimedia stories.
"Not all multimedia stories are video stories. Journalists have to decide what will work based on the strengths of each medium.
"It can be expensive. It can be cheap. You get what you pay for.
"New media projects shouldn't mirror print projects. They should be complete unto themselves but not comprehensive. They shouldn't be built like print stories (used to be).
"The Web may be infinite but my time is not. Get to the point.
"Photographers can and should be at the forefront of the new push for multimedia. They are best suited for strong visual presentation.
"Young journalists have to be familiar with multimedia storytelling. Whether it will save newspapers, who knows? It will, however, be part of the solution at least in the short term. "New media practices build better journalists."