Mar 16-21 2005 Multimedia Training

North Gate Hall, UC Berkeley

The Knight Digital Media Center's Multimedia Reporting and Convergence Workshop, March 16-21, 2005, 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.

A series of presentations on new media and multimedia storytelling featuring Noah Glass of Odeo and Audioblogger; Andria Ruben McCool of Keyhole; Regina McCombs of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune; Bill Gannon of Yahoo!; Craig Newmark of craigslist; Amy Hill of the Center for Digital Storytelling; Terry Moore of the Orange County Register; Mary Miller of the Exploratorium, and Rob Curley of the Lawrence Journal-World.

Mar 16, 2005 - Mar 21, 2005

Application deadline was Mar 2, 2005 12 a.m.

• Webcasts
• Presentations
• Participants
• Projects

Webcasts

Some presentations from this workshop were webcast live.
Archived webcasts can be viewed below shortly after a workshop has ended.

• Audioblogging and Podcasting
• Speakers: Noah Glass
• When: 12:45 - 1:30 PM, Monday Mar 21st 2005

  Noah Glass, Odeo and Audioblogger

• Doing a Multimedia Story
• Speakers: Regina McCombs
• When: 12:30 - 1:15 PM, Tuesday Mar 22nd 2005

  Regina McCombs, Minneapolis Star-Tribune

• Craigslist and Emerging Journalism
• Speakers: Craig Newmark
• When: 1:15 - 2 PM, Wednesday Mar 23rd 2005

  Craig Newmark, craigslist

• Digital Storytelling: New Media's New Storytellers
• Speakers: Amy Hill
• When: 7:15 - 8:15 PM, Wednesday Mar 23rd 2005

• Preparing Newspapers for the Future
• Speakers: Terry Moore
• When: 12:45 - 1:30 PM, Thursday Mar 24th 2005

• Museums as Mediators for Science
• Speakers: Mary Miller
• When: 7:15 - 8:15 PM, Thursday Mar 24th 2005

• Let's Quit Building Crappy Newspaper Sites
• Speakers: Rob Curley
• When: 3:45 - 5:30 PM, Friday Mar 25th 2005

  Rob Curley of the Lawrence Journal-World.

• Earth Stories: Mapping Technologies for New Media
• Speakers: Victor DeRubeis
• When: 7:15 - 8:15 PM, Friday Mar 25th 2005

  Andria Ruben McCool, Keyhole

Presentations

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

• Internet News: What’s Next
• Speakers: Bill Gannon
• When: 7:15 - 8:15 PM, Tuesday Mar 22nd 2005

  Bill Gannon, Yahoo!

Participants

The following people attended this workshop as "fellows."

• Lex Alexander
• Jennifer Baldwin
• Amanda Barrett
• Tracy Everbach
• Janice Lindsey
• Roland Martin
• Michael Mccarter
• Lori Mirrer
• Fred Nelson
• Christina Nunez
• Shannon O.neill
• Constance Parten
• Becky Risch
• John Russial
• Scott Steepleton
• Nikita Patel

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.

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See also: Workshops archive