The Baltimore Sun’s Web site has finally added the Honeywell Educators at Space Academy project I spent my entire summer internship working on. The Space Academy videos I composed together and edited, including my recorded voice overs, and links to important teacher resources from NASA all seemed to come together nicely as a result. One [...]
It’s over. My internship at The Baltimore Sun has finally come to an end, but it was an experience that has taught me many things about the news industry. I worked this past week on pulling together everything I’d been working on for the Space Academy project to turn over to the multimedia team. I [...]
This week at The Baltimore Sun has been a busy one with me watching video after video of the Space Academy footage. I’ve been trying to piece sound bites with clips of video to form short vdeos for the project, but there is still so much to go through!
Rachel Murphy (above) suited up for the [...]
I’ve been spending most of my hours at The Sun developing my video skills as far as shooting video and editing go. I’ve been practicing by editing videos for online content, going out and interviewing the public, and transcribing a gazillion videos.
Now it is time for me to combine these things and take the next [...]
The week’s been slow at The Sun, but I’ve been keeping busy with the Honeywell Space Academy project that we are working on putting online, hopefully soon.
Just a refresher, middle school teachers from around the world had the opportunity to go to the Honeywell Space Academy in Huntsville, Ala. to participate in astronaut-style training and [...]
The death of Steve McNair is a tragic loss for the Baltimore Raven’s and many fans are sharing their memories of this NFL All-Star quarterback.
I spent the day by the Inner Harbor and along Charles Street interviewing fans about McNair and what he meant to them. Here is the final product that is posted on [...]
Last Wednesday was my first day going out by myself and doing some reporting for The Sun. I’d have to say I was more than a little nervous, but not for the reporting. It was my first time driving anywhere (besides The Sun office) in downtown Baltimore.
Once I got to Camden Yards to do some [...]
At 7 p.m. on June 25, I stood outside of The Windup Space in Baltimore, eagerly waiting to see if I could get in to the Ignite Baltimore 3 event. Lucky for me, I am interning at The Baltimore Sun and I guess you could say my badge comes with a few perks. I got [...]
Connectivity, immediacy and a global awareness of news all deal with using the social media to your personal advantage.
Mary Hartney, director of audience engagement at The Sun, discussed with me yesterday the power that is in our own hands to use social media to reach audiences globally.
Connecting with our audience is one step. We all [...]
Yesterday at The Sun, I worked with Merlin, the photo archive we use, and uploaded the Space Academy profile pictures of many of the teachers that are taking part in this training with NASA. After filling in all of the captions, cutlines, credits, etc., the finishing result was posted on The Sun’s web site.
It [...]