Learning from the Best

“I don’t like to focus on the technical aspect of anything,” says video journalist Jenn Crandall “I like to overcome it so that I can just focus on the aesthetic aspect.”

Here are the tools that let her and her colleagues at washingtonpost.com do just that…

Very strange coincidence.  This very afternoon I was appreciating the quality of the multimedia/podcast offerings of the Washington Post. Only yesterday by searching for “slideshows” on itunes did I come across the Photo Stories podcast.  I wondered what it must be like to work there.  The multimedia approach to storytelling, the tools, the mentality.

Wonder no more.  Just a few hours later a new feed reader link pops up from my delicious network, and amazingly it’s an Apple Video Profile of WashingtonPost.com.  Watch the video.  It’s pretty good.

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