Audio for Web Journalists

Jay Heinz is the manager of the digital production department at the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center at UNC-Chapel Hill and is currently directing and producing full-dome digital planetarium shows for that institution. He recently taught "Interactive Multimedia Narratives," an audio and video documentary course, at the UNC Journalism School and continues to work closely with the faculty. Before joining Morehead, Jay played a lead role in several award-winning multimedia documentaries around the world and has acted as a multimedia coach at the Eddie Adams Workshop. Previous experience has included working as a documentary videographer for the Washington Post and as a multimedia producer for Lucasfilm, helping produce sites such as starwars.com.

Multimedia Design and Usability

Assistant Professor Laura Ruel teaches visual communication and multimedia journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. Before coming to UNC in 2004, she was inaugural director of the Estlow Center for Journalism and New Media at the University of Denver. She coordinates the Society for News Design's Best of Multimedia Design competition. She was project leader for the Poynter Institute's Eyetrack III research and is co-founder of DiSEL, the Digital Storytelling Effects Lab.  Before joining the academic world she worked for more than 15 years at a number of publications including the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the Omaha World-Herald and the Rocky Mountain News.

Video for Web Journalists

Mike Schmidt is psyched about storytelling, graphic design, motion graphics, interactive design and video production. When he's not building interactive multimedia audio and video graphics packages for clients like the New York Times, the Open Society Institute, and even Lenovo or GSK, he can be found teaching the next generation of Journalists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he lectures as an Adjunct Professor and teaches Interactive Multimedia Narratives. Schmidt worked as a videographer, video editor, production manager, television producer, motion graphic designer, web designer, flash animator and multimedia art director before going out  and starting his own studio, http://www.MohawkStreet.com. He has helped judge the SND.ies: The Best of Multimedia Design Competition for the Society of News Design as well as won a handful of their Multimedia awards... (don't worry, he wasn't allowed to vote on his own projects!)

Introduction to Flash Graphics and Multimedia Production