Russell Chun

Flash author, teacher, educational multimedia developer

CUNY Journalism

Adjunct Assistant Professor at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism, a three-semester program which saw its inaugural class begin in the Fall of 2006.

Spring 2012

Data-driven Interactive Journalism

This course will explore complex storytelling using data. Students will pitch, report, conceptualize, design, and produce compelling data-driven pieces.

January Academy: Basic Hype, HTML, and CSS

Learn how to create media-rich and interactive stories with Tumult Hype, an HTML5 editor that allows you to build content that works across browsers and mobile devices that use Android or iOS. Students will learn how to integrate text, photos, audio, and video and incorporate buttons for non-linear navigation. We’ll address the important questions of where and when to use Tumult Hype versus other kinds of delivery methods. We’ll survey existing new media sites to evaluate techniques and discuss how other news and non-news sites use HTML5 to present content.
This workshop also introduces students to HTML and CSS, the fundamental coding languages for presenting information on the Web. Understanding these fundamental Web languages will allow students to better build and customize Web presentations, sites and WordPress templates. You will be expected to learn and use code in this course..

Spring 2007-present

Interactive Journalism 2

This course will emphasize individual and collaborative deadline reporting, writing and packaging for the Web. The course will also further examine the tools of new media. The classes will be structured to cover journalistic technique and issues, technology training and the review of students’ work.

Interactive Journalism 3: Capstone Project

Working individually, students are expected to produce an in-depth feature that will serve as their Interactive capstone. This piece will bring together all the appropriate skills and tools acquired over the previous semesters to create a multilayered and well-reported Interactive feature.

with Sandeep Junnarkar, Duy Linh Tu,  John Smock, and Bob Sacha

January Academy: Flash Workshop

Learn what Flash can do and how it is used to present media-rich, interactive and compelling stories for the web. Students will learn how to integrate text, photos, audio, and video and incorporate buttons for non-linear navigation. We’ll address the important questions of where and when to use Flash versus other kinds of delivery methods. We’ll survey existing new media sites to evaluate techniques and discuss how other news and non-news sites use Flash to present content. We’ll also explore online tools that help build rich Flash content.

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