Mar 25-30 2007 Multimedia Training

North Gate Hall, UC Berkeley

The Knight Digital Media Center's Multimedia Reporting and Convergence Workshop, March 25-30, 2007, offers intensive, short course multimedia training for mid-career journalists. The workshop covers all aspects of multimedia news production, from basic storyboarding to the incorporation of multimedia features in storytelling. Participants are taught the technical skills they need to produce quality multimedia stories including audio/video recording and editing, Flash graphics, digital cameras, Photoshop and web design concepts. Guest speakers discuss the future of journalism, the role of technology and the importance of audience engagement.

Featured speakers include: Rob Curley, washingtonpost.com; Lisa Stone, BlogHer; Kevin Sites, Matt McAlister; Yahoo!; Katy Newton, Sean Connelley, The Oakland Tribune; and Joe Howry, Collen Cason, Tom Kisken, Anthony Plascencia, Ventura County Star. UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism lecturers Jane Stevens, Paul Grabowicz, Ellen Seidler, Marilyn Pittman, Scot Hacker, Robin Wise, and Laura Hilliger present the workshop’s core multimedia curriculum.

Mar 25, 2007 - Mar 30, 2007

Application deadline was Feb 1, 2007 12 a.m.

Webcasts

Some presentations from this workshop were webcast live.
Archived webcasts may be viewed below.

Presentations

The following presentations were provided to workshop participants but not publicly webcast.

Participants

The following people attended this workshop as "fellows."

Projects

Workshop participants often produce multimedia web sites as part of their instruction.
In most cases, these demonstration web sites are available for public viewing.
Click "View Files" to access source materials used to build these web sites.

Bog People

By Patrick Thornton, Kenneth Cooper, Chris Lefkow, Fern Shen, Samantha Sommer

Published Mar 30, 2007

Over the past few centuries, hundreds of bodies have been discovered in northern European bogs, or mashes. Many have been preserved because of high acid levels and the lack of oxygen in the bogs.

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Living Green

By Peter Huoppi, Bridget Scrimenti, Tanya Ballard, Carol Hanner, Joshua Kleinbaum

Published Mar 30, 2007

Forget color scheme. The Green Apartment is about a new way of life.

In a modern apartment near the University of California-Berkeley campus, four students share a residence filled with energy-efficient appliances and products. They live in an environmentally sensitive way, such as recycling and eating organic, and open their home for educational tours.

They're "living green."

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The Greatest Science Circus on Earth!

By Laylan Connelly, Janette Neuwahl, Peter King

Published Mar 30, 2007

Local children enjoy a fantastic physics experience at Lawrence Hall of Science. Teachers praise the interactive circus exhibit as their students walk tightropes, perform flips and learn to fly like a  human cannonball! 

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Easy Rider

By Niala Boodhoo, John Sutter, Emily Veach, John Kroll, Erik Rodriguez

Published Mar 30, 2007

How do you pursuade commuters to leave their cars at home? A Bay Area research project looks for the answer on two wheels.

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