May 20-25 2007 Multimedia Training

North Gate Hall, UC Berkeley

The Knight Digital Media Center's Multimedia Reporting and Convergence Workshop, May 20-25, 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: Tom Mallory, Chuck Scott, Alexa Capeloto, Nicole Vargas, San Diego Union Tribune; Seth Gitner, Lindsey Nair, Roanoke.com; Brian Storm, Mediastorm.org; Richard Koci Hernandez, San Jose Mercury News; Rob Curley, washingtonpost.com; and Colin Crawford, IDG Communications. UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism lecturers Jane Stevens, Ellen Seidler, Marilyn Pittman, Scot Hacker, Jeremy Rue and Samantha Grant present the workshop’s core multimedia curriculum.

May 20, 2007 - May 25, 2007

Application deadline was Apr 13, 2007 11:59 p.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.
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The Perfect Fire

By Ann Grimes, Nicole Childers, Tony Davis, Lil Swanson, Ryan Cormier

Published Oct 17, 2007

At 3:41 a.m. on April 29, 2007, a tanker truck carrying 8,600 gallons of gas hit a guardrail on the Interstate 880 connector in Oakland, Calif., and overturned. A giant fireball melted the freeway directly above, causing it to collapse. The accident in the MacArthur Maze, one of the nation's busiest interchanges, raised important questions about freeway safety.

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Are we safe from the next killer quake?

By Tahra Makinson-Sanders, Jay Koester, Crystal Davis, Mark Higgins, Katherine Long

Published May 25, 2007

Thousands of highway overpasses throughout California are in danger of failing during a catastrophic earthquake. Civil engineers are taking a close look at the way bearings – the components sandwiched between a bridge deck and its supporting pillars -- perform during quakes. At the seismic lab, they are running earthquake simulation tests on bearings made of different materials. The goal: Safer overpasses.

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Pests of Summer

By John Mecklin, Chris Polydoroff, Laura Sparks

Published May 25, 2007

The pests of summer are coming out. UC Berkeley's pioneering pest-management program offers environmentally friendly alternatives to pesticides to battle roaches, ants, mosquitos, and yellow jackets.

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Bigger faster stronger

By Ana Alaya, Abe Kwok

Published May 25, 2007

If you think the UC Berkeley campus is just a place for academia and social protest, think again. Cal has a rich athletic tradition dating back to national championship titles in the 1930s. Mike Velasquez, strength and conditioning coach, is responsible for the success of many recent Cal athletes.

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