Many mono media journalists and journalism educators are asking to be retrained to adapt to the networked journalism era. I design and deliver training for my clients and also for the Visual Editors non-profit. When I train journalists in multimedia, it often tends to be multi-platform as well because of tools and techniques I use to teach with.
Please help me out and take this poll and I’ll publish the results when I am back from my European tour. I love the variety of teaching multi-platform skills and I consider myself very lucky to be able to teach this material to colleagues and educators.
Teaching multi-platform techniques in Europe
I depart Thursday for Brussels, Belgium where I will be delivering a Podcast workshop for reporters who cover the EU parliament. After that I am leading a Camp Video Journalism workshop in Berlin and end the trip in Prague where I will be consulting for the World Association of Newspapers on visual journalism.
This past weekend I presented three separate sessions at AMPE Newstrain in St. Louis that kind of sums up this crazy multi-platform world that I, strangely, feel comfortable operating in.
The first session was on producing better short-form video journalism, the second was a rapid prototyping exercise where delegates created plans for continuous news coverage and the third was a session for journalism instructors on RSS, Delicious and Yahoo! Pipes Cloverfield buy Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin’ Down a Dream video .
Lots of fun and I sure needed a nap after that back-to-back-to-back program. But I loved every second of it, because I can see the lights going on in people’s heads as we navigate the ins and outs of becoming more valuable, more versatile journalists.
You can call it multimedia, multi-platform journalism and I am not sure the name matters. What will prepare us all is to feel comfortable moving away from a mono-media culture mindset. That is the progress I like to see. To be fortunate to help close the gap between where we were and where we need to be is rewarding.
Here is a photo Eastern Illinois professor, Bryan Murley
tweeted during the Pipes session. Thanks Bryan - I was so glad to have a brother in arms helping me explain these valuable story tools.
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