About Mitzi Mock

Mitzi Mock is a freelance producer living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She loves telling narrative stories in radio, video, photos and print. Her work has been featured on NPR’s Snap Judgment, The Bay Citizen, StoryCorps, Crosscurrents and Richmond Confidential. Most recently, she has worked as a multimedia trainer for the Knight Digital Media Center at U.C. Berkeley, supporting instruction in video, photography and data visualization. Before starting her career in journalism, Mitzi was a communications specialist. She developed social media strategies, produced print and multimedia content for web, and coordinated public relations on behalf of public and nonprofit agencies. She has a master’s degree in journalism from U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University.

• Occupation: Multimedia Producer
• Organization: Knight Digital Media Center
• Website: http://www.mitzimock.com/

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Writing

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• Blog Posts

  • June Multimedia Institute: What you’ll take away
  •   Every June we host a two-week Multimedia Storytelling Institute designed to equip journalists, educators and other communications professionals with the skills they need to produce and distribute their own ...
  • Q&A with Alberto Cairo: Exploring the art and ethics of infographics
  • We’re only two weeks away from our data journalism symposium. Have you registered, yet? In the meantime, we’ve been checking in with our symposium speakers, who are giving us a ...
  • Q&A with Catherine Bracy: Technology, innovation and the public sector
  • We can't wait for our data journalism symposium next month. We have a great line up of speakers, and over the next couple weeks we will be giving you a ...
  • Our First Ever Data Journalism Symposium
  •   Anyone who follows our blog knows how much we champion data journalism. We teach workshops on it, create online tutorials, and even build tools to support reporters who want ...
  • Free Online Training Series in Data Journalism
  • Free and easy--two words we love to hear. We are excited to announce that we are now making it easier than ever for you to learn data visualization skills by ...
  • Unleash your inner data geek
  •   This year we've had a surge of interest in our data viz workshops. Our January training quickly filled to capacity, and we've had a lot of requests asking for ...
  • Custom Trainings: Supporting the Next Generation of Broadcast Media
  • As a growing number of readers turn to the web for news, it’s a no-brainer that magazines and newspapers should be putting their articles online or developing electronic editions for ...
  • Video Storytelling Workshop: Three things you'll take away
  •   If you have any lingering doubts about the pervasiveness of video in our world today, consider this: about two-thirds of all search results now contain video. And here’s the ...
  • Data Visualization for Storytellers
  • When people talk about data visualization projects you often hear things like, "That visualization brings out the story behind the data."  But what does that really mean? That's the question ...
  • TJ Kelly: Social Media and The Impact of Storytelling
  • We owe a big thanks to TJ Kelly of Edelman Digital for coming out to our Social Media for Audience Engagement Workshop last week. As a senior vice president of ...
  • Can Twitter predict an election?
  • Can Twitter predict an election? That's a question that kdmcBerkeley's Len De Groot and UC Berkeley PhD candidate, Political Science Mark Huberty are trying to answer with their latest experiment: ...
  • Social Media Influence: An experiment in information mobilization
  •   This year we’re hearing a lot of buzz about the potential influence of social media in the upcoming election. It makes sense: more than a third of us are ...
  • Clicks, Likes and Tweets: Boost Your Social Media Engagement
  •     Whenever I hear about the latest and greatest social media workshop promising to transform my communication skills for a Web 2.0 world, I’m can’t help but feel skeptical. ...
  • Information is Beautiful Awards Celebrates Data Viz Experts
  •   Data is beautiful. Yes, you read that correctly. I’m not talking about clunky spreadsheets full of meaningless numbers. I’m talking about the infographics, maps, charts and interactive tools that ...
  • Friends and alumni of kdmcBerkeley top nominees for Online Journalism Awards
  • Last week the Online News Association announced the finalists for the 2012 Online Journalism Awards. At the top of the crop we found friends and former participants of kdmcBerkeley workshops. ...
  • Storytellers: Master the Modern Toolbox
  • As the plethora of apps, gadgets and media platforms grows, so does the toolbox for storytellers. Working in these mediums can be creative, inspiring and, at times, utterly daunting. Figuring ...