Multimedia for Final Story

I have included two of my ideas for multimedia. The top is a sidebar that would accompany my story by giving NCAA defined terms of particular periods dealing with recruiting. The second picture is that of the Woody Hayes Athletic Center in which the football program is housed and is a large factor in swaying prospective athletes for not only the football program, but many other varsity sports as well.

Some other ideas I have for multimedia would be pictures of some of the Nike and Under Armour football camps and combines in which the best high school players from all over the country participate. I would also have liked to do a broadcast of myself asking the director of football operations, Greg Gillum, a few questions pertaining to the biggest challenges involved with the process of recruitment. Another idea I had would be to create a chart of recruiting classes and individual rankings for players for this upcoming year's incoming freshmen.

Dan Caterinicchia Article

http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/virginian-pilot-ledger-star-norfolk/mi_8014/is_20071110/gas-prices-3-3/ai_n41366844/?tag=content;col1

I'm going to start with the headline first off. I like it for a less formal publishing and it definitely catches the reader's eye, but it could be seen as a bit too opinionated. I would like to have seen you combine the first two paragraphs into one lead graph. I think the comparison between years ago and today should be within the same sentence as far as a lead goes. There were a lot of good statistics and comparisons of different times. I also liked the people you got to quote, but I thought there was a bit too much of you saying something for them and not having more full, complete quotes. I'd be fine with that normally, but it happened a few times throughout the piece. There were some good explanations of what everything meant, but there were also a few times when jargon or scenarios that might be confusing to the average reader were used that could have been clarified more.

The paragraph that started with, "Another factor in the muted response...," almost felt like it was something thrown in at the end. There wasn't much of a smooth transition to it and thought you probably could have wove it in somewhere else in the story a little better. I especially liked this phrase you used; "the psychologically important threshold of $100 a barrel." I thought this was very well said and conveyed the importance of that specific price.

The ending was a little awkward to me. Someone accusing the White House of something, I think, should be a little higher up in the story. The end paragraph was also a bit of a let down. I feel as though you might have been able to give a better kicker or something that would stick with the reader more than the current closing paragraph.



The website itself didn't have much in the way of multimedia, but it was a bit difficult to find more of your articles with multimedia. The site did have a lot of links to other articles, however. There are numerous links to more articles from this specific newspaper, articles from that date, and articles from the journalist. They also made blogging about this specific article possible and sharing ability through email, facebook,and twitter very easily accessible.

One-minute news Update

Good morning, today is Tuesday March 2nd and I’m Trent Barter bringing you the morning update. Last night talk show host Jay Leno made his return to his former time slot as host of the “Tonight Show” nearly 9 months after he left the position at NBC. Leno’s biggest challenge will be winning back the audience for the once highly-rated “Tonight Show” that has suffered plummeting ratings since Leno’s original departure.

Perhaps adding some pressure to the comeback, the show makes its return to NBC on the heels of the highly successful Winter Olympics.

The games culminated on Sunday afternoon with the highly-anticipated, men’s gold medal hockey game between USA and host-country Canada. The favored Canadians outlasted team USA, 3 to 2 when Sidney Crosby slapped in the game-winning goal in overtime. The game itself scored 27.6 million viewers, making it the most watched hockey game since the 1980 US gold medal-clinching game.

While the Olympics have come to a halt, the winter weather is still at work, as the Northeast is recovering from a harsh weekend. From Maine to Maryland snow and ferocious winds have caused travelers much grief with the cancellation of 2700 flights Friday and Saturday. Winds gusted up to greater than 60 miles per hour in Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire causing the delay in weekend travel.

For your morning update, I’m Trent Barter.

Multimedia posts

http://money.cnn.com/2010/03/01/markets/markets_newyork/index.htm?hpt=T2

http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/columns/story?columnist=harig_bob&id=4925486

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/world/americas/02chile.html?hp

Tim Tebow vows Florida will be better in emotional speech after stunning upset to Ole Miss

After failing to complete an undefeated season with a 31-30 loss against SEC rival Ole Miss in Gainesville, University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow took the podium and apologized to fans and pledged that no team will work as hard.
In Tebow’s words, “I’m sorry. I’m extremely sorry,” showing remorse to Gator fans. He continued his tearful speech pledging that good will come from the loss saying, “You will never see any player in the entire country play as hard as I will play the rest of the season.” Tebow also went on to say the team would show signs of change as well claiming, “You will never see a team play harder than we will the rest of the season.”

Olympics fill sports void in late winter

When I turn on any one of the numerous Olympic events on multiple NBC channels, I find myself thinking what the heck did I watch this time of year for the past three years. After the long and exciting football season is over I normally go into a sports coma I call mid-season hockey and basketball. Don't get me wrong, I love to watch these two sports, but there is a definite wow-factor missing when talking about mid-season basketball and hockey. I find myself more involved with this dilemma than most of my fellow Ohio Staters who are typically deeply seeded in Cleveland-based sports teams. They have the ability to watch their favorite team night in and night out, whereas an out of state student, such as myself, cannot easily do so.
The Super Bowl, the biggest American sports event, has come and gone, and the highest-rated sport in America, football, along with it. Baseball, America's No.2 sport, has yet to come, and with Tiger Woods' recent public downfall the start of the PGA season is anything but scintillating. The winter Olympics, which is seemingly on around the clock on channels that I would not expect (MSNBC, CSNBC, USA) is helping me deal with my winter blues. I've forgotten personally how much I love to watch curling, for some reason, and just how an upset (USA beating Canada in hockey) can really brighten my mood. I will also always relish the moments when I get the chance to see an athlete from my home state, Maine, actually do well and reach national prominence. Thank you Seth Wescott.