Jan/120
Bolsas SAPO para #infoviz
Gostam de visualizações de dados? Percebem de Javascript, HTML5, PHP/Python/Perl? Querem ter acesso a uma bolsa para fazer isso?
A SAPO abriu concurso para duas bolsas para o seu Laboratórios em Picoas, em Lisboa. Eles procuram dois bolseiros para trabalhar em full time em projectos de ciber-jornalismo e de visualização de informação como estes:
Mundo Visto Daqui: http://noticias.sapo.pt/nacional/artigo/as-noticias-da-semana-antonio-me_2142.html

Twittometro: http://legislativas.sapo.pt/2011/twitometro/
Voxx: http://voxx.sapo.pt/
De acordo com o Luís Sarmento, engenheiro de dados da SAPO, eles estão à procura de candidatos com conhecimentos de Javascript, HTML5, PHP/Python/Perl e gosto por visualização de informação.
Idealmente, os candidatos devem ter terminado recentemente mestrado em áreas afins à informática.
Estas bolsas têm um valor inicial de 800 euros, durante 6 meses, renováveis até um ano.
Tipicamente, alguns dos bolseiros que temos integrado nos Labs acabam por ser integrados na equipa SAPO.
Se estiverem interessados enviem o CV ou as vossas questões para las@co.sapo.pt.
Jan/120
Tools: 360 Panorama Test
Tinkering with panorama tools. Not satisfied yet. | A brincar com ferramentas para panoramas. Ainda não é isto.
Test 1 – Panorama Maker 5 (Flash output)
Test 2 – Dermandar (online editing)
Test 3 – Microsoft ICE + Photosynth
Test 4 - Panorama Maker 5 (MOV output)
Test 5 - Panorama Maker 5 (.html output)
Galeria do Tubo d’Ensaio, exposição de Filipe Cravo. Camera: Samsung Omnia (cellphone)
Dec/111
O DN tem uma nova redacção, mas tem uma orientação para o online?
Ao ver este vídeo do DN tenho duas reacções: uma de admiração e respeito pelo investimento feito na evolução e na criação de melhores condições de trabalho numa redacção nacional, outra de estupefacção. Onde é que está a estratégia para o online?
O espaço de trabalho define a forma e os resultados desse trabalho e, pelo que percebi da descrição feita, o DN vai-se lançar como canal de televisão. A lista de inovações centra-se principalmente no hardware, no cenário, nas funcionalidades, mas zero na filosofia de conteúdos online e na estratégia de relação com os utilizadores, com a utilização da interactividade e do multimédia, na utilização das redes sociais. O que falta ali é o futuro dos conteúdos digitais.
Não vou falar mais especificamente do DN, já tive chatices que cheguem por causa de críticas a outros projectos e até agora ninguém me provou que estava errado, só me dificultou a vida profissional e animosidades mais ou menos veladas. Eu sei que não sou um génio, mas percebo disto.
Isto é um problema transversal aos grandes jornais (e jornalistas do papel?) portugueses que parecem morrer de inveja das televisões e querem ser uma, o que até é bem claro nas movimentações de investimentos dos grupos de media nacionais. O que querem perpetuar é a comunicação unidireccional que estão habituados a fazer desde sempre. É um problema de mentalidade, não de capacidade ou qualidade na informação.
As direcções dos jornais não percebem o online. Isso é ponto assente senão não faziam certos (des)investimentos.
Por isso, acho que a única coisa que posso fazer em vez de dar os meus bitaites de borla – se os quiserem vão ter que pagar – posso partilhar com vocês algumas ideias de outros sobre o que é ter uma filosofia dirigida para o online e conteúdos multimédia e interactivos:
How a Digital First approach guides a journalist’s work
How Digital First journalists work
Digital platforms are first in the processes and priorities of the Digital First journalist. We publish newspapers as well, but newspapers cannot drive our work. Newspapers are a shrinking audience and revenue stream and our digital community and revenue stream are growing. Our survival demands a digital focus.
Digital journalists produce content initially for multiple digital platforms: our news websites, blogs, social media, text alerts, email alerts and newsletters (and whatever comes next or whatever I’ve overlooked). Editors responsible for print products will assemble them primarily from content produced originally for digital platforms.
Whatever your job, you need to make high priorities to:
- Work and think first for digital platforms.
- Experiment and take risks.
- Try new tools & techniques.
- Cover news live.
- Join, stimulate, curate and lead the community conversation.
- Engage the community in your coverage.
Ten things every journalist should know in 2012
7. Focus on what works – do less to do more. No news organisation however well resourced can achieve everything. Work out what works and strive for excellence in that area.Sometimes you need to take a step back to see where your priorities should lie. You may realise it is better to write one original feature than chase five stories already in the public domain.
E no que toca ao valor da marca, ela passa por isto:
Did I need a newspaper to write precisely the same story days after I read it for the first time? How much do we care about the race for ‘first’ when first is now measured in seconds or perhaps minutes?
Robert Hernandez: For journalism’s future, the killer app is credibility
We want people who will cut through the spin and tell us what’s going on, how it will affect us and what can we do about it. We want transparent news. We want news that, while it may not always achieve that goal, honestly strives to be objective.We want to trust journalism. And to do so, we need to trust journalists.And bypassing the blogger-vs-tweeter-vs-media company-vs-journalist debate, it is going to come down to one thing: Credibility.
Forget doom, journalism’s future is bright
Senão, o que acontece é isto:
Newspapers Dead Within Five Years, USC Predicts
Posso oferecer duas borlas, uma sobre a criação de produtos jornalísticos dentro da filosofia que defendo para conteúdos digitais e este apontamento que mostra porque é que não fiquei demasiado impressionado com a nova redacção do DN (vejam o slideshow para ter uma ideia).
Isto é o que eu penso que é parte do futuro do jornalismo. O vídeo do DN é muito daquilo que eu penso que não é.
Dec/110
ObCiber 2011: Online Journalism Awards Nominees | Nomeados dos Prémios de Jornalismo Online
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It’s that time of the year again, when the best online journalism made in Portugal is awarded by ObCiber. This time the nominees list isn’t that different from previous editions, there are names credited in different projects that have been regularly present. This means the best are still the same, and they are few. I expected a bit more variety, but since I know some of these talented people I’m happy for them. The question is: why there isn’t more competition? There are also differences in the projects running: more multimedia and interactivity, using more screen real estate, and better design and UX. For those of you who want to risk it and navigate through online Portuguese news projects, here’s the list below, and if you like, vote on your favorites. |
Estamos outra vez naquela altura do ano, quando os melhores trabalhos do jornalismo online em Portugal são premiados pelo ObCiber. A lista de nomeados não é muito diferente das edições anteriores, e os nomes presentes nos créditos dos trabalhos repetem-se. Isto significa que os melhores são os mesmos e são poucos. Esperava maior variedade, mas como conheço algumas destas pessoas talentosas fico contente por eles. A pergunta que se impõe é porque é que não há mais concorrência? Há também algumas diferenças nos trabalhos a concurso: mais multimédia e interactividade, a ocupar mais área no ecrã, e com melhor design e usabilidade. Vejam a lista abaixo e votem nos vossos projectos favoritos. |
Overall Excellence in Online Journalism | Excelência geral em ciberjornalismo:
Breaking News | Última hora:
Minuto a minuto: “O Egipto está livre” - Público
Milhões exigem queda de Mubarak - Jornal de Notícias
Acordo fechado - Rádio Renascença
José Sócrates demite-se - Rádio Renascença
Multimedia Reports | Reportagem multimédia:
Órfãos de Pátria - Jornal de Notícias
João Paulo II: As dimensões de um santo - Rádio Renascença
Cimeira da NATO - Rádio Renascença
“24 Horas de Porto” - Porto24
A crise bateu à porta – TVI24
11 de Setembro – 10 anos depois - SAPO.pt
Reconstituição da tragédia de Entre-os-Rios - Jornal de Notícias
Online Video | Videojornalismo online
Os búlgaros nas vindimas - Jornal de Notícias
Fábricas Fantasma - Rádio Renascença
Egipto: Geração Revolução - Rádio Renascença
Infographics | Infografia Digital
OE2012: Como vamos ser afectados no dia-a-dia - Público
SCUT vs alternativas - Jornal de Notícias
O mundo a cada mil milhões - Público
Guia das Legislativas 2011 – Rádio Renascença
School Journalism | Ciberjornalismo académico
Mercado do Bom Sucesso: As vidas do mercado - JPN
No mundo das mulheres - JPN
Dossiê “Jornalismo de Guerra” - JPN
“Subterrâneos de Arca D’Água escondem galerias extensas” - JPN
Nov/110
New video | Novo video
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Video I made using a 60d and a H4n. It’s about the 5th anniversary of an independent arts center that just moved to a new place, and their evolution and goals through the eyes of the leader of the project. I’ll use this footage to try other narratives and format. Stay tuned. |
Video feito com a 60d e o H4n. É sobre o 5º aniversário de um centro inpendente de artes que acabou de se mudar para umas novas instalações e a sua evolução e objectivos vistos pelo líder do projecto. Vou usar ainda estas imagens para testar outros tipos de narrativas e formatos. Estejam atentos. |
Sep/110
Survey: analyzing the need for Multimedia Production in Portugal
For my MA report, I conducted a small survey about multimedia production in Portuguese newsrooms, and although it is not statistically relevant (only 13 responded), it was answered by some of the most important media companies in Portugal, including two reference national dailies and two major TV networks.
The results do not fall far from the expected: there isn’t still a solid investment in the newsrooms to create and publish multimedia/interactive content, in spite of the desire to do so, mainly because they lack the skilled professionals to do so.
Point by point here are the conclusions reached with the survey:
Confronted with the importance of multimedia in today’s news practice they all consider it is at least important but most don’t have the habit of producing them. This may be explained by the insufficient staff available to create them, many times overlapping functions as page makers, and the habit of only use in house production.
Most of the interactive content that comes from external sources is created by LUSA, the national news agency, which sells exclusive infographics or retail videos.
As you can see in the following chart, the types of content are mostly very simple to produce, being photo galleries and videos the most common. Very few take the time to build their own multimedia packages, but these have increased significantly in the last years in other brands that did not respond to the survey, some of them featuring multimedia packages on a regular basis.
When asked if their companies were interested in buying content created by others, the answers were quite conservative. It is understandable that they wish to have control over the process despite paradoxically they don’t produce multimedia content due to staff limitations.
And how much they would be willing to pay for a basic multimedia package? The example given was one with 4 videos plus an interactive chart. Most of them indicated the usual price range here in Portugal for this type of products, between 75 to 150€. This is clearly insufficient, even if we look at it as a one-man-band endeavour. To make them profitable, these packages would have to be made in a 10 to 15 hour period, and have at least 10 orders per month.
I’m currently producing a similar package and first video only took 7 working hours total (it was more than that but i’m not counting with hardware glitches).
But the idea of acquiring multimedia kits, which by definition would be pieces that could be assembled and adapted to each newsroom’s editorial and design guidelines, was more appealing. Again, the issue of control over news content creation is present.
I also asked for their insights about the need for multimedia production in Portuguese newsrooms and the answers were pretty similar: many agreed that though multimedia content is important “newsrooms aren’t ready enough to operate them” and “there isn’t enough money to invest in external production”.
This seems to be a structural problem within news organizations, as pointed out by others: there is a lot of interest in the newsrooms in multimedia contents, finding them valuable “from an editorial point of view” and as a support for their text stories.
However, “because of the unpreparedness of the professionals, or by having the need to recruit new staff or acquire external content, it will be difficult to persuade administrations of the importance of those contents, mainly because websites haven’t been able to impose a profitable business model”.
The idea that media administrations are reluctant to invest in multimedia was also reinforced in other answers.
So, as a freelancer, things don’t seem that bright for me. And all I can say from first hand experience is that there is a strong will to produce multimedia content in portuguese newsrooms. They just don’t have the time or the money in most of them.
What do you make of this picture? Let me know in the comments.
Sep/110
Video: Teaching the drums
This Sunday was spent editing a video for a multimedia package I’m doing about an independent cultural centre. My subject is Filipe, the drum teacher, and he gets to show off a bit.
The gear used was the 60D, audio by the H4N, and edited in sturdy but insufficient computer with Premiere CS4 an After Effects. The drums sound great, but the interview has that common hiss in these HDSLR, but I think I figured how to get the levels right next time. I probably went a bit overboard with color correction, maybe it’s too dark.
Let me know what you think, and wait for the coming videos and developments of this project.
Sep/110
The news website of the future? New portuguese project P3 presents bold layout
P3 is the name of a youth oriented news website, under the umbrella of Público, one of the reference news brands in Portugal. With a small team they tried to create a new concept that affects not only the design but also the relationship with users and functionality. They premiered around midnight this 22nd of September, and it looks really great.
I already had a sneak preview back in June and I should say I was looking forward for them to come out. Few times a new news website can be looked as a milestone in the industry, but I truly believe this is going to be one of those moments. I wish only the best to the team, where I have some friends.
Explore the website and share your thoughts about the look and feel of the layout.
More news about P3 soon.










