Knight New Media Center
Multimedia and Technology Training At the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Multimedia and Technology Training At the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
The Knight Digital Media Center's Multimedia Reporting and Convergence Workshop, January 6-11 2008, 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: Kathleen Kirkwood, associate editor/online news; Sean Connelley, staff photographer; Melissa Worden, multimedia producer, Sarasota Herald-Tribune; Seth Familian, Bertelsmann Media Worldwide; Jennifer Baldwin, contributions editor, The Bakersfield Californian; Richard Hernandez, deputy director of photography, San Jose Mercury News; Jose Antonio Vargas, staff writer, Washington Post; Meg Smith, researcher, Washington Post.
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism lecturers Jane Stevens, Paul Grabowicz, Ellen Seidler, Samantha Grant, Marilyn Pittman, Scot Hacker and Jeremy Rue present the workshop’s core multimedia curriculum.
Jan 6, 2008 - Jan 11, 2008
Application deadline was Oct 26, 2007 11:59 p.m.
Some presentations from this workshop were webcast live.
Archived webcasts can be viewed below shortly after a workshop has ended.
Building the Multimedia Newsroom at The Oakland Tribune
Multimedia Storytelling: Plotting the Non-Linear Narrative
Emerging Trends in Digital Media
Jennifer Baldwin, contributions editor, The Bakersfield Californian
Richard Hernandez, deputy director of photography, San Jose Mercury News
Jose Antonio Vargas, staff writer, Washington Post and Meg Smith, researcher, Washington Post
The following presentations were provided to workshop participants but not publicly webcast.
Jane Stevens and Paul Grabowicz present the concepts of multimedia storytelling
Storyboarding basics with Jane Stevens
Video camera basics with Ellen Seidler
Jeremy Rue demonstrates tips and techniques for using flash audio recorders
Jeremy Rue shares basic skills for digital photo cameras
Scot Hacker and Jerry Monti discuss Macintosh basics
Jeremy Rue demonstrates basic usage of Adobe Photoshop
Voice coaching and presentation training with Marilyn Pittman
Audio editing tutorial with Samantha Grant
Video editing tutorial with Ellen Seidler
Jeremy Rue shows how to use Flash to create slideshows, buttons, and interactive packages for the web
Scot Hacker & Jeremy Rue show how to create websites with Dreamweaver
The following people attended this workshop as "fellows."
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
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