Alex Gamela

Digital Journalism

Profile

Alex Gamela

Digital Media Producer

Media Production | Coimbra Area, Portugal, PT

Experience

Sept 2011 - Present
Columnist / PCGuia

Monthly column about social Networks
Sept 2009 - Present
Blogger / http://Alexgamela.com/blog

Alex Gamela is a freelance journalist, a media thinker and a reasonable guitar player. He wrote a blog called The Lake | O Lago wich was a huge hit in the noughties.
Jan 2001 - Present
Looking for Work | Procuro Trabalho / Freelancer

Been working as a freelancer building websites, as a journalist, PR consultant, writer, and new media expert. Journalism.co.uk articles: SoloLocal.info: Hyperlocal with an Argentinean twist SoloLocal.info: http://tinyurl.com/yclnzj5 Mar 2010 LaInformacion.com: ‘Semantic news’ and the rise of the robots http://digs.by/1JYM - Feb 2010
Apr 2012 - Present
Formador | Trainer / FLAG

Formador do módulo de Blogging Blogging Trainer
Sept 2010 - Present
Instructor / Universidade do Porto

Online journalism and multimedia production training with major media Portuguese groups
Oct 2009 - Present
Columnist / Rascunho.net

Alex Gamela writes a weekly column for the Rascunho website about media
Nov 2009 - Present
Journalist/Developer / HashBrum

Group project with other MA Students, to create a local news website for Birmingham city. Working on multimedia and website development. Read more about the project here: http://www.alexgamela.com/2010/01/27/building-a-hyperlocal-news-website-a-short-story-on-brum-part-1/ http://www.alexgamela.com/2010/01/28/building-a-hyperlocal-news-website-a-short-story-on-brum-%e2%80%93-part-2/ http://www.alexgamela.com/2010/02/01/building-a-hyperlocal-news-website-a-short-story-on-brum-part-3/ http://www.alexgamela.com/2010/02/05/building-a-hyperlocal-website-final-thoughts/
May 2007 - Present
Author / O Lago | The Lake

Blog about new media. It became quite notorious and it was the launch pad for Alex in Online Journalism
Apr 2007 - Present
Journalist; Newscaster / 921FM

Worked for this local radio in different periods of 2007 and 2008. Was responsible for the news, working as an editor, journalist, and newscaster.
Apr 2004 - Present
Journalist / Rocksound Music Magazine

Concert coverage for Rocksound Magazine Franchise in Portugal
Oct 1999 - Present
Assistant producer; Journalist; Video / TVSaúde

Worked in the production team of four shows; was responsible for the organization, content gathering, and post production. Also did camera work and video editing, besides directing some of those shows.
Jun 1998 - Present
Journalism Internship / RDP-Coimbra

Curricular internship at local delegation of Portuguese Public Radio

Education

2009 - 2010

Birmingham City University

MA in Online Journalism
1995 - 2000

ESEC

Licenciate in Journalism
1995 - 2000

Escola Superior de Educação de Coimbra

Licenciatura in Journalism

Additional Information

Websites:

AlexGamela.com/blog, Personal Website, Personal Website

Honors:

2007-Vencedor Prémio Literário Hernâni Cidade

Posts

April 30, 05:19 AM

Interactive Radial Calendar – SVG / HTML5 / CSS3 / Javascript

SVG/HTML5/CSS3 project – Acacia longifolia Interactive Phenological Radial Calendar from Alex Gamela on Vimeo. I’ve experimented recently with ways to create interactive visualizations using HTML5 and CSS3. Starting with a SVG based design, I used HTML/CSS to animate and create transitions for specific items of the visualization. SVG is quite useful, because we can have [...]

April 20, 11:42 AM

Interactive Infographic: Torre dos Clérigos by JN

Jornal de Notícias (JN) built an interactive infographic celebrating the 250th anniversary of the iconic Torre dos Clérigos (Clérigos Church), in Porto. They used Flash but it incorporates some navigational devices used with HTML5/CSS3, like vertical scrolling. I got the tip they’re moving into that direction, and sometime soon maybe we’ll see pure HTML/CSS coded [...]

April 15, 01:40 PM

Recommended: Into the Arctic

Interactive narratives are more interesting each day, and are not limited to news websites. Quite the opposite. Greenpeace created this amazing package dedicated to the Arctic, and it’s a feast to the eyes. I’m going through the code and I’m delighted to see how the HTML5 /Css3 /Javascript has been put to work so beautifully [...]

April 08, 04:23 AM

Is this a journalism job?

Are you a student? Contrast this to your course. Are you an editor? Do you have/need these skills in your newsroom? There are some journalism job ads that could be asking for Superman rather than for old plain Mr.Kent, but this one seems to be reasonable enough, if not only for the impression it gives [...]

April 01, 03:02 AM

How they made Snow Fall

I had been waiting for this for some time now: the step by step explanation of the development of NY Times most successful and attention grabbing multimedia narrative Snow Fall. I wrote about the resources that were applied to this (in Portuguese), and how they may seem excessive both in the number of people involved [...]

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