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VIEW PROGRAM / On Saturday, June 28, 2008, the New England News Forum and the law firm of Prince, Lobel, Glovsky & Tye, LLP presented a unique, one-day workshop, "Sharing the News: Fresh Approaches to Reaching Students and Training Citizens." forged new links among New England college journalism educators, high-school newspaper advisors and journalism teachers, citizen journalists and bloggers.

Three political reporters discussed the perils of predicting presidential primaries, the humor of filing stories in a men's locker room and the difficulties campaigns face in managing the message in the Internet era featuring the likes of "Obama Girl" during a panel at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst on March 26. LAUNCH GOOGLE VIDEO

Ideas for using video, blogs, camera phones and other multimedia to enhance traditional newsroom activities are the subject of a 90-minute video available for download or streaming online viewing. The video is an edited version of a seminar conducted by the New England News Forum in January. For details, and to launch the video, point your browser to: http://www.archive.org/details/NEPABOSTON2008. You can also view a portion of the 90-minute seminar -- Steve Garfield's presentation on mobile video blogging. Here's an alternate link to the Garfield 15 minutes.

  (Photo: Emily Sweeney) Top editors at the online operations of The Washington Post and ESPN, and a Boston Globe reporter, will fill out a panel on multimedia reporting in the first UMass Amherst Journalism Program Series on Broadcast and the Media on Monday, Oct. 1. The event, entitled: "The New New Journalism: Challenges and Opportunities in Multi-Media Reporting," will run from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall on the Amerst campus and is open to the public. Featured panelists are:

ABOVE, from left: Hume, Crossley, Williams, Wilpers (VIEW MORE PHOTOS)

MediaNation blogger and Northeastern University journalism professor Dan Kennedy highlights a philosophical exchange between Ellen Hume and John Wilpers on the classic question -- should newspapers lead or follow the public in making news judgements? Read what Kennedy wrote on his blog.  The exchange occurred at the innaugural "Civic News Library Listening Series" event of the New England News Forum at the Boston Public Library on Thurs., May 17. Nearly 40 people attended.  (LAUNCH STREAMING VIDEO / 1 hour, 31 mins. / QUICKTIME  OR  FLASH); Also learn about Jim Caralis' OpenMass project and Pete Stidman's Alliance for Community Journalism.