Tracy and her husband Patrick are the publishers of the West Seattle Blog, one of the hyperlocal weblogs that have proved it is possible to make a living from community journalism in a neighborhood or small town. She has been identified as one of the communicators who is finding ways of making sense of news as a business by people like the Poynter Institute — she is part of their Sense-Making Project — and the News Innovation program at CUNY. Read more…

The Multimedia Storytelling class Part II will be working more on how to compile these videos together, but for now, I thought you might like to see the order they were meant to be in. We envisioned a series of stories that would explore the changing media landscape, beginning with traditional media, transitioning to citizen journalism and even experimenting with our own user-generated content. The videos were all filmed using inexpensive Flip cameras.

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-Adri, Team Pedro.