Free multmedia reporting seminar
The Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism is accepting applications for an expenses-paid "Multimedia Reporting and Convergence Seminar" seminar that combines practical instruction in multimedia reporting with in-depth exploration of media convergence and other critical issues for online news operations. It will be held March 20 - 25 at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
Participants will get:
- Five full days of intense, hands-on instruction on how to do multimedia stories for the Web, including using digital video cameras, photo cameras and minidisc recorders; doing storyboards, stand-ups, voiceovers and other broadcast techniques; digital video, audio and photo editing; creating photo slide shows in Flash; Web page creation and multimedia Web site design. You'll create an actual multimedia project as part of the seminar.
- Evening and noontime panels and presentations by online publishing experts on the most pressing issues in online publishing, such as implementing converged newsrooms, working with citizen journalism sites, integrating multimedia into the newsroom and managing multimedia projects, and business issues in online publishing.
WHO SHOULD APPLY? Print and broadcast reporters and editors who want to make the transition to multimedia journalism and professional journalists engaged in preparing their news organizations for convergence.
HOW: Applications should be addressed: Vikki Porter, Director, The Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, USC Annenberg School for Communication, One California Plaza, 300 South Grand Ave., Ste. 3950, Los Angeles, CA, 90071.
Applications should include TWO copies each of: a resume; a 500-word statement of why this seminar would be valuable to the journalist; a supervisor's strong nominating letter agreeing to cover salary and incidental expenses.
WHEN: Applications must be received no later than Friday, February 4, 2005. Application forms are available online at www.WKConline.org. Applicants can file online applications but we must receive a hard opy
of the application with work samples and signed documents no later than Wednesday, February 9.
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