Newsroom training
Friday, April 18, 2008I’ll be in the Orlando Sentinel newsroom today, doing a bit of basic training (blogging; audio) for a variety of reporters.
See the outline.
Archive for the “training” category
The reporter’s audio gear list
Wednesday, April 16, 2008I saw this idea on someone else’s blog (I forget whose) and thought it a brilliant way to keep an up-to-date gear list that’s easy to share with others:
B&H WishList: Audio Gear (Mindy)
Please do not try to buy gear for me — it’s a “wishlist” for other people, not for me!
The one thing you can’t [...]
Better writers needed (and fewer editors)
Friday, April 11, 2008Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. Good writing remains one of the stalwart needs in the journalism field.
Read this in the context of slashing the number of editors that stand (often belligerently) between a story and the audience.
The layers of editing newspapers lavish on stories have long been regarded an essential safety net. [...]
Take a break and learn some new tricks
Saturday, April 5, 2008“Want to step away from the daily deadlines and learn new ways to tell powerful visual stories? By combining the best of public affairs reporting with the latest in technology, the Kiplinger Program gives journalists the time and training needed to report and produce in-depth multimedia projects. We offer two types of fellowships [...]
Apply now for multimedia training program
Saturday, April 5, 2008The highly regarded Berkeley Multimedia Training Seminars for journalists will be held three times in May, June, and July 2008 at the Knight Digital Media Center, University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism.
The application deadline for all three seminars is April 11, 2008.
There will be 20 fellowships awarded per workshop.
Participants will receive six days [...]
Journalist video training in Europe
Wednesday, March 12, 2008The European Journalism Centre has announced a five-day video training course, to be held at its offices in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Sessions will be held in April, June, and September.
(Thanks to Andy Dickinson for the link.)
Why you should suck it up and learn to script
Wednesday, March 5, 2008Let’s think about programming today. Or scripting, if you will.
To go beyond static pages of text and images online, you will need at least a little programming. One reason why I advocate for everyone to learn at least a little is that if you bog down your newsroom’s expert programmer with too many trivial tasks, [...]
