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Newstrain: Web video, Social Media (OKLAHOMA)

APME NewsTrain and Mid-America Press Institute present:
The Busy Editor’s Guide to Better Journalism

A two-track workshop offering:
• hands-on classes for editors in boosting their skills at shooting and editing brief web video and using social media to distribute content;
• the best new ideas for setting and maintaining standards, planning multimedia content, online ethical decision-making and more.

When:
Friday and/or Saturday, Sept. 25-26, 2009 - attend one or two full-day sessions.

Where:
Gaylord School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Oklahoma.
Norman, Okla.

Cost:
$50 registration fee, which includes brownbag lunches on Friday and Saturday and coffee on Saturday morning.

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Newstrain: Web video, Social Media (OKLAHOMA)
Norman, Oklahoma
September 25 — 26, 2009

Bad photos can tell a story, or at least odd ones can

This collection of accidental, casual and awkward photos reveal a dimension of 80 days of overseas travel that isn’t normally revealed in a journalist’s storytelling.

I am back in Chicago now organizing thousands of still-frame images and hours of documentary video footage and I kept pausing over the unplanned images that were never part of my “official reporting.” Hmm. I kept being drawn to them and decided to see if they could still be useful.

The multimedia below is made almost entirely from poor quality mobile phone images.

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