NewsTrain/Harrisburg
DAY
1 – June 25, 2008
All
training sessions will take place in the First Floor Conference Room
9:30-10
am | Registration
Location:
Lobby | 10-10:30
a.m. | Welcome
and
Introductions
Presenters: Lauren Lee, PNA Foundation director, and Elaine Kramer,
NewsTrain
project manager | 10:30
a.m.-12:00 noon | Web
video is not
Television!
Why:
Editors combine
new video skills with print-legacy knowledge to enhance the news report
online.
How
newspapers can employ social media, low-cost methods and critical visual
editing techniques for making and distributing engaging, interactive
news
films. Themes
include
managing reporter-generated video content and developing a
multi-tiered strategy for the video
reports.
and | 12
-
1 p.m. | Lunch and Intro
to Shooting: Attendees undertake
assignment to shoot B-roll sequences and cutaways. Participants will
pick up a
grab-and-go lunch and head out to start filming.
Presenter:
Robb
Montgomery | 1 – 4:45 pm | You-Do-It Web Video
Why:
As an editor, you need to be familiar with how
to put together a brief news video for the Web.
Learn
the lingo and the steps for producing brief
news videos for the Web. Working in small groups and using cameras and
editing
tools, you will get hands-on experience gathering the elements of what
it takes
to put
together a
video, start to finish.
Presenter: Robb Montgomery | 4:45
–
5 p.m. | Coffee
Break | 5:00 - 6:15 p.m. | News Ethics and
Values in
the Digital Age
Why: News
values and ethical decision-making remain critical, no matter the
platform.
As
new
formats and concepts emerge, new issues involving ethics and standards
develop
too. For example: What are your policies on removing offensive anonymous
postings? How do you police images that may have been altered? Do you
use user
content in an effective and important way? How do you correct errors?
Should a
journalist tell someone that he is taking their picture with a camera
phone
with the intention of posting it on the Web? Learn to apply your
journalism
values and ethical know-how to these intriguing new issues, as well as
to old
issues such as privacy, anonymous sources and tone as redefined by
digital
media.
Presenter:
Carol
Nunnelley, moderator, and Panel | 6:15 p.m. | End of workshop Day 1 | 6:15 p.m. | Reception
Why:
Because you deserve it!
The
conversation continues at a reception, sponsored
by PNA.
Location: Patio, weather permitting
| DAY 2 – June 26, 2008
All
training sessions will take place in the First Floor Conference Room 7:45
a.m. | Continental breakfast
available | 8:15
a.m. | Welcome back &
announcements
Presenter:
Elaine Kramer | 8:30-9:30 a.m. | The Big
Picture
Why:
You want to understand the digital
transformation of news coverage and information distribution, and
particularly,
how the news media’s relationship with readers is changing.
This
course provides an illustrated tour of the
dynamics of social media tools, RSS, database driven reporting, Web
video,
interactive multimedia and social networks.
Presenter:
Robb Montgomery | 9:30
– 9:45 a.m. | Coffee Break | 9:45-11:15
p.m. | Multi-Platform
Story Planning
Why:
Editors need to plan constantly for now, a few
minutes from now, tomorrow and next Sunday.
This course discusses
techniques for planning coverage of breaking news and enterprise
stories,
learning to develop from the very beginning the components for
publication in
multiple media.
Presenter:
Susan Jacobson | 11:30 –
12:30 p.m.
| Lunch
Location:
Kitchen / First Floor Conference Room /
Patio | 12:30 - 2
p.m. | Covering
Communities in New Ways
Why:
You want to give readers thorough coverage,
but you have fewer staffers and less time.
This
seminar helps you learn to use social
networking, aggregation and other Web-driven techniques to cover the
news.
Discussion
on planning stories for multiple media
will draw on case studies, examples and Q&A from delegates
attending.
Remember the expertise in the room.
Presenters: Ellyn
Angelloti and Robb Montgomery | 2 -
2:15p.m. | Coffee Break | 2:15-3:00
p.m. | Lab for Video
Editing and Social Multimedia Tools
Practice
time
for delegates to edit their videos, slideshows, podcasts and social
media
tools for reporters and editors. | 2:30-2:45p.m. | Coffee
Break | 3:15-4:15 | Creating
Change
Back in the Office
Why:
Every
editor can help lead change, beginning with material learned at this
NewsTrain.
Learn
strategies
to help you lead your staff through changing times, and motivate
journalists to see the potential for doing great journalism in new ways.
Editors will develop a plan for implementing a new program, project or
skill
when they return to their newsrooms.
Presenter:
Elaine
Kramer | 4:15
p.m. | NewsTrain
Caboose
Feedback forms and goodbye
Presenter: Elaine Kramer | 4:30
p.m. | Workshop
ends |
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