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.
Fake TV journalist Stephen Colbert conducts a funny, yet fairly useful interview with Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone. Twitter, Stone and to a degree, Colbert himself in this context, are all certainly victim of the “law of unintended consequences.”
The Colbert staff cleverly filed Tweets to Stephen’s stream while he was interviewing the guy who created Twitter. Stephen pretended to live Tweet and even post a tweetpic photo of Stone during the interview. Warning: Colbert intentionally mispronounces the word “Tweets.” He calls them “Twats,” for comedic effect.
What video camera do you use? How should we train reporters to use video? What’s the secret to video on the Web?
Good questions and I attempt to answer them here for my friend, Steve Garfield who has been commissioned to write a book about video journalism and asked me to contribute to a chapter about newspapers using Web video.
Steve’s questions to me are in bold and my answers follow.
1. Why are newspapers training their reporters and photographers to become video producers?
They have observed the sea change with the medium that YouTube ushered in and are catching up to the fact that web video is now a mainstream activity and an affordable form of online journalism. Quite simply that is where the audience is.
Camp Video Journalism - Orlando focused on training the next generation of educators. We had several K-12 teachers as well as college students taking the course and while I could certainly write more about MY impressions from the sessions, I think it might be more beneficial to relay the feedback I just got from Camp VJ student and Kalamazoo, Michigan educator Anthony Gettig.
Thank you so much for CampVJ Orlando! Lance, Kristen, and I really enjoyed our time in this beautiful city and learned so much during our stay.
Ken, your hospitality was very generous. Thank you for being such a gracious host. I appreciate the opportunity to get to know you a bit and share some great stories. Thanks too for the encouragement about my coffee video podcast. Valencia is blessed to have a great professor like you there.
Robb will be directing the production of a news documentary about the state of newspapers and readers in Alexandria, Egypt with a team of eight student videographers and reporters. the project is under the direction of the Media Development Project (A USAID sponsored training and development group)
The central question is “Why doesn’t Alexandria have local newspapers?”
The film will be shot and edited on location in Alexandria, the city of ancient scholarship with historic contributions to the written word and the one-time repository of all human knowledge.
A first-day report from the upscale suburban streets of Chicago, home to the Chicago Tribune’s core readership. I went out to see what people who were reading the Monday Sept. 29 edition were saying about the shrunk-down three-section paper and the new emphasis on graphic design.
Robb Montgomery works with top media houses in Europe, North America and the Middle East to develop new prototypes for news products and to design multimedia and cross platform newsrooms.
He also produces training that grows visual and digital literacy within organizations.
