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.
Continue reading ‘Newstrain: Web video, Social Media (OKLAHOMA)’
I am so proud to be teaching video journalism to more and more print reporters. And humbled by the amazing volunteer contributions of colleagues old and new that are donating their time and expertise to the Camp Video Journalism training workshops.
Today I am preparing two lectures that I will be giving in Bucharest October 2-3 for the World Editors Forum Master Class series but last week I was joined in the Chicago Sun-Times classroom by my former Sun-Times colleague, Carol Marin and some new CampVJ instructors: Danielle Guerra, Mark Flescher and Aaron Cahan.
Continue reading ‘Camp VJ: Interview tips from Chicago’s Carol Marin’
May 12-15 - East Lansing, Michigan
Michigan State University School of Journalism.
Private training for journalism professor: Web video and digital multimedia reporting and editing techniques.
April 1, 2008: Warsaw, Poland
Robb Montgomery will conduct a one-day seminar on techniques for integrating reporting and editing with the visual departments.
Produced by DPMP for the Axel Springer group of regional newspapers in Poland.
April 2, 2008: Warsaw, Poland
Robb Montgomery will conduct a one-day seminar on multimedia and advanced Web reporting techniques for online editors from Poland.
Produced by DPMP
March 13, 2008 - Reading, Pennsylvania
WEB VIDEO IS NOT TELEVISION
Lectures, practical exercise and critique sessions
Produced in the newsroom of the Reading Eagle.
For reporters, editors, photographers and online staff.
How newspapers can employ social media, low-cost methods and critical
visual editing techniques for making and distributing engaging,
interactive news films.
Themes include include managing user-generated video content and
using video to create niche Web sites.
Robb Montgomery will present two lectures for Medill journalism students on the keys to reporting and writing for online audiences.
He will demonstrate techniques and produce a live rich media report during the lecture.
The lecture will be presented at Northwestern University for two groups: the first at 1:00 - 1:50 p.m. and the second at 7:00 - 7:50 p.m.
