I am teaching a four day seminar on multimedia reporting to Web journalists for France 24. France 24 is A CNN-style 24/7 video and Web news organization designed for a French audience.
I was hired as a consultant to New York City-based Mignon-Media and have been working closely with Jeff Mignon for months in preparation to make this the best possible training event possible.
The studios are first-class, state-of-the art. Uber-impressive.
The editor-in-chief, Karine Broyer, gave me a tour while they were broadcasting and then she came to attend the class. I can tell you right now that impresses me the most. When the editor comes to class.
I have, without fail, witnessed over the years that when the editor goes to class with staff that the training takes hold.
Below are some quick visual reports I made as part of some of the live/demo seminars I taught in this afternoon’s session.
A slideshow of where I went for lunch (the Eiffel Tower) and some animated and reported maps that can be built quickly and go up without bothering the photo department or the graphics department.
The first thing I had to manage was learning the train line and finding the platform to take me from Issy-les-Val de Seine station to Champ de Mars (the name of the park where the tower lives).
When I stepped out of the train station, I walked up the street and found myself next to the iconic tower.
View Robb’s lunch excursion in a larger map
I found a sandwich, chips and a tea at small kiosk on a side street and parked myself on a bench next the tower and people-watched. I do like that my French hosts grant me a two-hour window to take lunch each day. Very reasonable people, they are!
Mr. Eiffel’s masterpiece was, naturally, a star of the last movie I made here in Paris in the summer of 2008.
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