This photo package ran in the paper to refer to a video about a group of Medieval history enthusiasts. I enterprised this story and then pitched it to a print reporter. All of the pictures are framegrabs. Click the images to download PDFs of the published pages.

I was honored this weekend to travel to Milwaukee to present a session about online video for the Wisconsin News Photographers Association. I talked about challenges for still photographers moving to video, how to choose stories for video, different types of video story forms, and I highlighted some great online resources to learn video. The [...]

I traveled to Nashville March 6-9 to teach video editing at the CICM Digital Media Workshop. I gave a lecture about how to tell stories with video and I gave tips about how to edit properly. I taught the students how to use iMovie to edit video that they had shot the day before. For [...]

I’m presenting a session the regional conference of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists on March 1 at Texas State University in San Marcos. Here is the agenda. I will participate in a panel discussion on “moving your career ahead in multimedia.” The Internet and related technologies continue to drastically change the way we communicate. [...]

Studies show affluent students more likely to earn degree (Story by Melissa Ludwig/Express-News). “As the American economy teeters on the cusp of a recession, the keys to a comfortable, middle-class life increasingly hang on one peg — a bachelor’s degree … For the next few months until the end of the semester, the San Antonio [...]

These photos were published in the San Antonio Express-News on Sept. 20, 2007. They are framegrabs from a video I produced about a boy scout troupe embarking on a canoe trip to earn credits towards badges. The story was my idea, and the photos were published to refer readers to the online video.

Venture Crew 100 is a brand new group for 14- to 21-year-old boys and girls who enjoy high adventure activities like canoeing, hiking and camping. On Sept. 8, the nine-member Crew canoed down the Nueces River with a group of Boy Scouts.

Time appears to be against U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay in his fight to exonerate himself of money laundering charges before he is permanently replaced as House majority leader.

In an attempt to meet a late January deadline for DeLay to regain his position, DeLay’s attorneys asked the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to compel a lower court to give the congressman a speedy trial. Since the state’s response to the request was filed today, the court could agree to consider the issue as early as Wednesday, but would not make a decision for another two weeks.

Communities around Fort Worth and all over the state began fighting the legislature last week to stop a proposal that will slow or stop local governments from building new parks, and possibly decrease the economic growth and quality of life benefits that come with them.

The Texas Recreation and Parks Account, which provides grants to local governments to build community parks, already suffered a 30-percent reduction by the 78th Texas Legislature. Now the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has proposed cutting the fund to the brink of extinction, because Gov. Rick Perry mandated that all state agencies reduce their budgets by 5 percent …

Sixty-two University of Texas shuttle buses allegedly contain an electrical system defect that causes engine fires, which makes the buses “unreasonably dangerous and a threat to the safety of bus riders,” according to a recent lawsuit.

Multiple bus fires have caused some shuttle drivers and members of the group Students for a Fair and Safe Shuttle to question ATC/Vancom of Texas’ bus maintenance procedures.