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A Hybrid Media Production

Using a workflow modeldeveloped by AssistantProfessor Mo Krochmal,


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A.M. Schedule

The operation was divided into threeday parts, or sections, relevant to thetype of events being covered.

Early in the day, the work was to loadup a schedule of events, anddistribute and track the students whowere reporting that event. Thestudents had a selection of tools toreport with, including still and videophotography, audio, and live remote


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Mid-Day

Assignments were tracked and new assignments wereadded and production began for the next segment.

The assignments were posted onto NassauNewsas theywere completed. Professor Krochmal produced theposts initially and trained students almost literally on

the fly to run positions. JRNL10 students, who areparticipating in the assignment desk training, ran theday-time assignment desk and also wrote news piecesdetailing the coverage of the day in mainstreammedia.

Another team of students, led by journalism graduatestudent Tim Robertson (Blogger), and JRNL80 studentsKelly Glista a(Vlogger) and Jillian Sorgini(ManagingEditor), began producing the evening programmingshow by selecting and writing background news textand selecting videos of the days reports.


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Pre-Game

The live programming required areloading of the Nassau News contentmanagement system, to include a rich-

media web-based free application,CoverItLive.com, the fourth instance ofthe use of this service since December2007.

As had been done in May, 2008, the CILservice was blended with a free videostreaming service, Mogulus.com, for thestudio streamcast and Ustream.tv for


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Game On

When the debate began, the streamcast shifted to amore text presentation, with no narrator onMogulus.com and a live-blogging operation withcollaborative reporters from Arizona State University,and nearby Adelphi University as well as Hofstra

alumni and students. This operation was fueled by a combination of

resources: Students actively Twittered (microblog and social media)

on their own accounts, including live Twittering the eventfrom inside the debate hall as well as an official live

Twitter blog. CoveritLive was seeded by invitations to a number of

universities to join in the live audience submittingcomments.

JRNL80 students prepared briefing papers on more than


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Post Game

After the debate, the operationcontinued, shifting to live videostreaming, originally planned to

begin with analysis, and thendebriefing reports from students whowere within the debate hall, but

unable to communicate reports dueto security rules.


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Issues

Personnel-- University debate operations took a large number ofstudent reporters and producers out of the pool ofavailability, and school regulations deemed any otherparticipation to voluntary basis.

Participation was enthusiastic with some staying fromstart to finish.

The Professor as Bottleneck To many things to do toput it on. Overcome by on-the-fly delegating, training. Asset for

next production.

An Enthusiastic but Inexperienced Group Overcome by on-the-fly delegating, training. Now,

experienced

Stamina


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Content

In the period from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m.,students produced:

43 separate original and edited news

posts on Nassau News, ranging fromslideshows, to taped video reports, textarticles, and audio, all reported via a

number of technologies, includingrudimentary mobile distributiontechnology;


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Reach

From Oct. 13-Oct. 17, site attracted 637 visitors (70 percent new)from 20 countries, a milestone. Some 242 visitors came fromHofstra. 122 came from Germany.

The site logs list visitors from the University of Arizona, ArizonaState, Penn State, George Washington University, University ofFlorida, Stony Brook, Rider University, Pratt Institute, Ocean State,

Pratt Institute, New York City Public Schools, National Institutes ofHealth, CW Post, California State, Cal-Santa Cruz, University ofNew Hampshire, New York University, Northeastern University,Assumption College, Columbia University, and Amherst.

Media Organizations on the logs include: WGBH, WYNC, SouthHampton Press, Hearst, Fox/T3 Secaucus, Emmis Communications,Crocker Communications, Disney, Advance Publications, Hachette

Filipacchi, Cox Communications, Jobson Publishing, ScrantonTimes, CBS,.

Non Internet-provider Businesses visiting included: Perot Systems,Bayer, Canon USA, Daimler, Ford Motor Company, First Financial ofMaryland Federal, JP Morgan Chase, Nabisco, Rubies Costumes,United States Postal Service.


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Geography

748 visitors from the US. 102 Germany 7 Canada

5 UK 3 Netherlands 2 Bahamas and France 1 from Guatemala, Switzerland, Greece,

Austria, New Zealand, Turks and Caicos,Luxembourg, Finland, Iceland, Brazil,Sweden, South Africa, and Ireland


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US

Had visitors from 28 states, themajority, 472, from New York, thenMass. (73), Arizona (38), New Jersey

(27), Maryland (22), Pennsylvania(17), California (16), Florida (15),Rhode Island (10),


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Success

As a beta test of this melange offreely available web-basedtechnologies and services, this was

ambitious and ultimately successful.

The students performed had a deep

real-world, deadline pressure

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