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"Sharing the News" symposium draws 45 to UMass-Lowell, Alumni Library
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Some 45 New England college journalism educators, high-school newspaper advisors, editors, news directors, citizen journalists, bloggers
Sharing the News: Reaching students, training citizens; June 28 / UMass-Lowell
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.
NENF unveils video on how to add multimedia resources to the newsroom
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.
2008 Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism
The 2008 Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism will continue to explore the dimensions of literary journalism:
• How to gather rich material through deep reporting.
• How to structure fluent accounts.
• How to flesh out stories with flesh-and-blood characters.
But, given the changes in the way that stories are being told online as well as in print, we will incorporate a new focus on multimedia storytelling, adding journalists from the creative edge of radio, documentary, and the Web to our renowned all-star cast of writers and editors.
When media literacy meets English High School -- stories from the front; and convergence strategies from MIT's Jenkins
What happens when a video teacher and administrator at Boston English High School start to infuse media-literacy principles in the school day? Listen to this unedited audio of a session at the Oct. 27, 2007 media literacy conference at MIT: "Creating and Learning in a Media Saturated Culture." The panel, lead by Renee Hobbs, of Temple University, included (in first order of speaking): Rona Zickower, of Media Power Youth, Manchester, N.H.; Xavier Rozas, media teacher, Boston English High School; and Chris Toulet-Cote, assistant headmaster of English High. Click here to launch an audio stream, or DOWNLOAD MP3 PODCAST.
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Editors, reporter describe convergence of media forms at UMass panel
From left, Chet Rhodes, assistant managing editor, news video for WashingtonPost.com; Patrick Stiegman, executive editor of ESPN.com and Emily Sweeney, Boston Globe reporter, pictured Monday, Oct. 1 during a panel discussion in Memorial Hall at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, on the topic: "The New New Journalism: Challenges and Opportunities in Multi-Media Reporting."
ESPN, WashingtonPost.com editors and Globe report to discuss multi-media reporting
(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:
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