Young people are the future of our communities. Their ideas and input can help to shape our small towns and neighborhoods in meaningful ways, but their voices are often underrepresented in the media. To address this need, Coal Cracker Magazine, a project of Heron’s Eye Communications, will host a series of four free workshops to train young journalists in exploring their sense of place through interviews, writing and photography. The series is open to young people ages 12 – 18,
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For a soul-satisfying look at the nature and the human nature of New York’s Catskill Mountains, don’t miss Michael Gadomski’s brand new book, The Catskills: A Photographic Portrait. Hot off the press, this full-color treat is a feast for the eyes and for the spirit, with more than 180 photographic images gathered in Delaware, Greene, Ulster and Sullivan counties. Filled with waterfalls, sky swells, cloud rolls, mountain vistas and more, the richly colored photos feature nature at its finest, but
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Stories have long been a moving and effective vehicle for communicating ideas or information in a way that is accessible and memorable. Why should things be different in the age of social media? Facebook’s new Timeline helps users “tell your life story” using features like cover photos and life events. But even beyond that, Storify offers a new level of online engagement called digital media curation. Though the comic strip character Dilbert may mock it, Storify is a powerful tool
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