Do you think like an entrepreneur? If you have ideas for building future business models for sustainable journalism, you should join me in applying for this free seminar at the USC Annenberg School for Communication in Los Angeles.
I just signed up for the News Entrepreneur Boot Camp offered by the Knight Digital Media Center. Here’s the catch - the week long seminar is free but you have to earn your seat in the classroom by applying by Feb 16.
Vikki Porter, the director of the Knight Digital Media Center e-mailed me via my blog today about promoting this cool camp and I told her that I could only do so if I felt a strong desire to either want to lead a session or be in the class. I read through her course offering and messaged her back that that I wanted to be a student. I have ideas and I need this class.
So I applied.
What are the dead simple to use reporting tools for field audio interviews? The field research continues in Europe where I’ll be training reporters using these FlashMics in Brussels.
I hope to be convinced that they are extremely simple to use AND can produce sound to professional standards. That’s a winning combination for me and, as a part owner in a recording studio, something I obviously value very highly.
On the FlashMic, You basically just have to press one button to make it record, and another to stop. They also do have line input for picking up sound from an external source (like a press conference etc).
Great news! For the March 17-19 video journalism training, Visual Editors has a great host in KircherBurkhardt. KircherBurkhardt is the famous German editorial design firm and is donating training space and facilities.
I did a few days of private multimedia training with KB staff last year and my friend, Lukas Kircher has opened up his shop to allow this event to take place for anyone who wants to learn how to tell Web video stories better. Walking into KB is like entering Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. It is Germany’s largest information graphics operation and it is an amazing place to come practice multimedia.
All proceeds benefit the Visual Editors charity.
Come to Berlin to learn: – Fundamentals of camera usage
– Shooting and editing sequences
– How to gather audio
– Elements of visual stories
– Writing scripts, recording voice overs and editing scenes
– Final Cut shortcuts and workflows
– Compressing, uploading and filing videos for Web
Sound is the highest value multimedia asset that modern journalists must master. Audio quality is the first thing an audience will judge you by and instantly brands you as an amateur or a professional.
I have been doing audio multimedia consulting for correspondents who cover the EU Parliament in Brussels for the last few months and I’ll share some of the expertise I have gained in recording and mixing sound for better the part of my life.
Chicago Sun-Times Page One Editor, James Smith, is interviewed for more than five minutes on Oprah’s show to talk about the series of historic front pages the paper has published as Barack Obama ascended to the presidency and the White House.
Editor-in-chief Michael CookeDinner at Eight full movie reports in a message to me that he was in the audience while James took the questions. I don’t know about you but I would never imagine Oprah ever giving a five minute interview with a newspaper designer and also wouldn’t think a top editor could ever exhibit that much class by NOT taking the stage.
To give the spotlight to the designer for this occasion is really rare and gallant.
This just in: The World Association of Newspapers has decided to postpone its World Newspaper Congress, World Editors Forum and Info Services Expo, scheduled to be held in Hyderabad, India from 22 to 25 March, until December, due to the impact of the global financial downturn on newspaper companies.
I was scheduled to present at the World Editors Forum in Hyderabad, India in March and I guess I am not surprised that the event will be delayed. For the past few years I have also directed teams of video journalists who file daily reports from the congress and I really love working these events. I often describe them as the Olympics of journalism meetups. The host country’s president usually opens the congress and the delegates are all publishers, owners or editors-in-chief. A fascinating group of global media decision-makers.
WAN usually holds these congresses in June and this one was going on a fast-track nine month plan that has been slowed down due to the global economic crisis.
From Brussels, DeMorgen’s front page meshes the print and online worlds. A word glyph of the words from President Obama’s address paired with an iconic image and strongly worded headline.
Those word cloud graphics are striking and surprisingly easy to generate at worldle.net
Some of the best photos I have seen from the Obama Inauguration week have been taken by amateurs. The New York Times is inviting ordinary shutterbugs to post up documentary images from D.C. They even link to this amazing gallery from their home page.
You can add in your best photos from Obama’s big week by e-mailing them to pix@nyt.com
The Chicago Tribune has gone tabloid and the critic who was heavily criticized recently by the editor of the paper about the recent redesign of the paper’s redesign has published his first-return review
Robb Montgomery produces new media workshops to train journalists and media professionals in more than 20 countries in writing for the Web, multimedia reporting, and Web video journalism.
His hands-on seminars include interactive learning techniques, live demonstrations and expertise in teaching new media concepts to professionals.
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