Leaders in Digital Journalism

Featured speakers from our workshops are
webcast live, and archived here.

There Will be Swearing, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Accept Mistakes

Justin Ellis discusses his experiences producing multimedia.


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Latest Tutorials

FTP Made Simple

Once you've created a web site, you'll need to upload it to a public web server, where the rest of the world can enjoy it. If you're not working with a content management system, you'll need to use one of the internet's oldest protocols, FTP ...

Embedding Map Mashups

Now that you've learned how to create map mashups, adding them to your site should be a simple matter of copy-and-paste, right? Not so fast - there are a number of issues you may run into when trying to insert the map embed code provided by Google and other providers ...

Creating a Publication Widget

Widgets are bits of code that when embedded into a website, blog or personal page on a social network, can display different kinds of content from other websites, such as a feed of news stories.

Video Cameras

Choosing the right video camera gear can be difficult since the market is flooded with an abundance of choices. If you break down the elements each camera has to offer, you can significantly narrow your choices to a camera that offers you the best results at an acceptable price.

Geotagging and Mapping Photos

Locating photographs and mapping them online is a great way to add another dimension to a story or project. This tutorial will cover methods in tracking the locations where photos are shot and how to get them into maps.

CSS 101

HTML is for setting the logical markup of documents on the web, but has nothing to do with how those documents appear - that's a job for Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS. This tutorial provides an introduction to the fundamentals of document decoration with CSS.

Canon Rebel Camera

The Canon Rebel family of cameras is the first level of SLRs the company makes. They generally run between $600 to $1,000 depending on the kit options and accessories. The camera caters to a wide audience by including automatic options for beginners as well as highly customizable settings for ...

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June Multimedia Webcasts

Another week of multimedia workshops has passed, and we've beeen webcasting featured panelists and speakers live.  Video archives are now online.

Twitter Dividends

An interesting question came up amongst alumni of our training programs recently: Are journalistic organizations seeing an up-tick in traffic to their sites as a result of regular Twitter usage? What other incentives are there to use Twitter, if driving traffic isn't the main goal? We thought some of ...

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Multimedia in the Newsroom

May '09 Alum Anna Johnson Covers Iran Elections

Anna Johnson, an AP reporter and editor based in the Middle East, produced a photo slideshow and a video on the Iranian elections. Anna was in the KDMC's May 2009 multimedia workshop.

P.I. Reed School of Journalism

Fellow John Temple, who is associate dean of P.I. Reed School of Journalism implemented a program whereby students of the school will produce multimedia projects for local papers, and in turn teach the staffers at those newspapers on how they did it. Congratulations John on spearheading this program.

Shreveport Times Mashup

RustonFellow Scott Anderson, video and technology editor for The Times in Shreveport, Louisiana shares with us a Google Map he produced offering locations of hurricane shelters to the public and which ones were over-capacity during Hurricane Gustav.

Detroit Free Press Video

Fellow Eric Seals, photographer and multimedia producer for the Detroit Free Press produced this fantastic video on local coach Courtney Hawkins of Flint (MI) Beecher High School.

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New Projects

A Healing Haven for Pets

By William Johnson, Frances Robles, Utku Cakirozer, sngager, Emily Cadei

The Berkeley Dog and Cat Hospital specializes in cutting-edge care.

A Neighborhood Afloat

By Lois Breedlove, Jennifer Nycz-Conner, Robert Little, Gretchen Weber, Dan Rosenheim

More than 1,000 boats line the docks where Berkeley meets the Bay. Schooners and fishing scows, houseboats and rowboats, they form an eclectic community of people seeking amenities from land and shelter from the sea.

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Workshops

Highlights from previous workshops:

  • Newsroom Newsroom
    Working in the newsroom, fellows upload, edit, and review their work.
  • Botanical Gardens Botanical Gardens
    July 08 Fellows fully equipped for work in the field.
  • Sitting Pretty Sitting Pretty
    A group of engaged participants listen with rapt attention as the speaker shares their wisdom.
  • Quality Time Quality Time
    Each fellow gets to spend one-on-one time with the equipment.
  • Voice Training Voice Training
    Our speech specialist coaxes participants out of the shells and onto the screen.

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KDMC at USC

News and commentary from
our sister organization at USC

USC News Leadership Blog

Where newsroom leaders discuss the challenges and opportunities of transforming their news organizations into creative, adaptive, multi-platform engines of journalism and information.

Online Journalism Review

Where digital pioneers and leaders focus on the future of digital journalism.

Total Community Coverage

Exploring how news organizations can reach under-served "communities of difference" with strategies that blend traditional, digital, and mobile media with practical community outreach skills.

The training provided at USC focuses on leadership and topic training to journalists already working in online, multimedia environments. The seminars aim to increase participants' critical thinking and depth of understanding of the topics they cover and the environment they publish in.

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Additional funding is provided by the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation.

For more information, including future seminars, see the training workshops and About page on this site.