Marissa Dederer was the Senior Online Editor for the Spring 2014 issue of Ryerson Review of Journalism. Multimedia journalism misunderstood
Newspapers are now turning to visual reporters to create video content, but are editors really using them the right way?
By Marissa Dederer Ryan Jackson’s rig looks more like a Grade 6 science project than a 360-degree video machine. Using elastic bands and red gaffer tape, he’s bound four GoPro cameras and a digital recorder to a square plastic patio-table leg—and mounted it on a tripod with the same tape-will-fix-all attitude. The finishing touch: two Edmonton […]
Coming Soon: RRJ Spring 2014
A trailer for the upcoming Spring 2014 Issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism
By Marissa Dederer A trailer for the upcoming Spring 2014 Issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism.
Athletes increasingly jump from the podium to the Olympic broadcast booth
Two-time Olympic medallist Jennifer Heil is used to performing under the lights with her ski goggles and skis strapped on. But this month, as a commentator for CBC’s Sochi Olympics broadcast, the former freestyle moguls skier performed by analyzing the event in which she competed four years ago. Heil isn’t the only athlete to turn […]
