How to use free or low-cost Web services to enhance your paper’s online reporting and multimedia efforts.
The latest innovations and tools for everyday multimedia and web reporting. From sourcing, to podcasting, to Google map mashups - engage your journalists and communities with the latest tools and techniques.”
There is so much more that newspapers can do to commit acts of journalism with free or nearly free Web services. Google maps, Del.icio.us, Plazes, RSS feeds, Flickr slideshows, mobile podcasts and more. Robb will update the editors with a tour and live demonstrations of practical real-time Web reporting techniques that will enrich your everyday digital journalism.
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Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Newspaper Foundation.
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Here’s a little dittie for a sunny Sunday afternoon
This song was written a few years ago in my studio when my brother’s wife, Allison Montgomery, add libbed some brilliant lyrics to a little keyboard pattern I had just penned.
What an imagination - she writes of all the pain of filing paperwork in ways today that I can relate. All that she says in the song (And is in real life a social worker!) is that she wants to do is “help the hurt. Can’t do that with paperwork.”
I have returned to a month of postal mail, have already filed three reports and proposals fro clients, booked thousands of dollars in new flights and have two more reports to file for the US AID funded project I am working with to help journalists in the Middle East. No good deed goes unpunished.
One report goes only to one group, the other to the sponsor and all of the filing has to follow the reporting rules of the funder. And you have to “CC” the right people for each report or you will not get paid or get your contract signed. Not BCC as I learned today - Ahhh. I may have just learned something valuable in writing that passage. . .
Anyways, the system works - but I couldn’t say it is very friendly, timely or efficient - it’s government work after all and that means . . . sigh . . more paperwork.
Not complaining too loudly - it is nice to be to needed now and also in future for the project.
Puh, I will get a reprieve next Sunday when I head out to Pennsylvania to produce a series of all day video and audio journalism workshops with master trainer Craig Duff at America-East - the second largest press trade show in the U.S.A.
OK - no phone calls please, and shut the door behind you on the way out - I still have homework to do . . .
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March 10-12 - AMERICA EAST - Video and audio master classes
Video: Beyond the Basics (Two-day advanced master class) March 10-11
Instructors: Craig Dufff and Robb Montgomery
- Advanced camera techniques — “Getting out of auto mode for better results”
- Getting the Sequence - Gathering enough of the right images to let the story tell itself.
- Running and Gunning - strategies for getting video images when things are moving fast
- The video interview - what makes a good video interview different from print
- Story structure - moving past the pyramid: how best to structure a video segment.
- Trade Secrets - 10 helpful tricks of the video trade that come in handy when doing multi-platform reporting.
Audio: Getting great sound for video and podcasts (One day intro master class) March 12
Instructor: Robb Montgomery
- What makes a good podcast?
- Audio dos and don’ts
- The lingo and the kit
- Using Garage Band for professional productions
- Mobile phone podcasting techniques
- Interview tips
- Mixing multi-track audio
- How to do a Skype interview and make it sound great
- Get pro sound on a budget - the top ‘must-have’ tools needed in any production
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