2010 Media Pro Workshops

Workshop Drilldown

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PLEASE NOTE: Prices in paranthese denote early bird and regular registrations. The Early Bird ends February 9, 2010.

SATURDAY (March 13, 2010)

Hart Room
9 a.m.-11:30 a.m.    Photo Prep for Print and Web ($39/$59)
Specifications for photos are quite different between print media and web uses. This hands-on workshop will show you photo naming, filing, improvements, sizing, cropping, and saving for these two end uses. (Additional fee and prior registration required) Instructor: Peggy Elliott

12-2:30 p.m.    Audio Editing with Audacity ($39/$59)
Editing audio is the foundation of multimedia production. Add another dimension to your storytelling by learning the basics of Audacity, a free audio editing tool. In this session you will learn how to create an audio story from start to finish. We will walk through the production process of non-linear audio editing on a timeline and how to use audio editing tools. Bring a set of headphones. (Additional fee and prior registration required) Instructor: William Murphy

3-5:30     p.m.    Multimedia Storytelling with Soundslides ($39/$59)
Soundslides makes combining still images with audio a feasible multimedia storytelling option for any journalist. In this session we will take still photos and MP3 audio files and produce a multimedia flash presentation ready to add to your Web site. We’ll walk through the process from importing and editing to exporting and posting for the Web. Bring a set of headphones. (Additional fee and prior registration required) Instructor: William Murphy

Gilbert Room
9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Photojournalism Techniques and Digital Photo Workshop
This workshop enables participants to hone their shooting techniques, while also improving their interpersonal and storytelling skills. The workshop will inspire and motivate participants in the documentary photojournalism spirit and provide an opportunity to discover a fresh perspective for your work. In addition to just taking photos, photojournalists are now responsible for digitally editing their images, archiving them and producing audio-visual shows to display their work online. In this all hands-on workshop, we’ll review techniques in Photoshop for preparing photos for use in print/online, develop archiving techniques and produce a SoundSlides presentation including audio and visuals. Presentation will include discussions of Flickr Photo blogs and Twitpic. Laptops with CS3 will be available. Participants should bring along digital camera. If personal laptop is brought – download SoundSlides and CS3 prior to attendance in workshop. Download a demo version of SoundSlides from soundslides.com and a trial copy of CS3 from http://www.storecs3.com/us. Keep in mind that the trial software will expire in 30 days from the time it is first downloaded. (Additional fee and prior registration required)   Instructor: Bradley Wilson

Brecht Room
9 a.m.-4 p.m.    Narrative Storytelling with Pulitzer Winner Tom Hallman  ($59/$79)
This workshop will help you develop your narrative writing and storytelling skills. Tom Hallman, a Pulitzer Prize winner, leads this workshop and he believes that every reporter – no mater how many years in the business – can learn how to spot stories and write them in ways that resonate with readers. The ability to write has less to do with pure talent, and more with understanding of craft, vision and emotion. Hallman has asked that you send some samples of your writing in advance of the workshop. Please send to: cmanyportfolio@gmail.com. Also, please bring the following: reporter’s notebook, laptop (if available), audio recorder (if available) and ideas for stories. (Additional fee and prior registration required) Instructor:  Tom Hallman

O’Neill Room
9 a.m.-1 p.m.    Newsroom Management for Newspaper Editors ($39/$59)
This workshop will cover most of the essentials of managing a newsroom regardless of the frequency of publication and size of the staff. Topics include recruiting, hiring and firing staff, organizational structure, mediating staff disputes, staff meeting, deadlines, working with advisers and governing boards, staff manuals, pay or other incentives for work, staff morale, building credibility with readers, handling controversies and other essentials. (Additional fee and prior registration required) Instructor: Mark Witherspoon

O’Neill Room
2-5 p.m.    Web Publishing with Content Management System ($39/$59)
You've got words, images, video and multimedia content but how do you make it look good on the Web? Free content management systems provide an easy way to organize and publish professional-looking online publications in a manner of hours. Creating a dynamic online news publication or yearbook has never been easier! (Additional fee and prior registration required) Instructor: Bill Neville

Ziegfield Room
9 a.m.-5 p.m.   Advanced Newspaper and Magazine Design Techniques ($59/$79)

An award-winning design editor for Cigar Aficionado and the six-time editor of The Best of Newspaper Design lead this daylong session of information, ideas and encouragement in visual journalism. We’ll tackle some fundamentals and move quickly into the latest trends in magazine and news design – seen through hundreds of ideas for photos, graphics and stories. Bring copies of your paper, in either print or PDF, and we’ll share quick ways to make big improvements. (Additional fee and prior registration required.)  Instructors: Ron Johnson, Leah Bailey and Jody Strauch.

Odets Room   
9 a.m.-5 p.m.    Multimedia Storytelling ($59/$79)
Online news sites must look at the very best ways to provide information to its readers. This hands-on workshop will take you through the multimedia planning and execution with web story packages. It’s a new media world and this workshop will look at new ways to think about storytelling and the best systems to deliver the content.
This Multimedia Workshop is an immersion into the art of storytelling using multiple forms of media. Story development, videography, audio gathering, interview techniques and content editing for a multimedia project are a part of the workshop. We’ll look at web-enhanced storytelling and how to improve those skills in this emerging form of media.

If you have it available, bring your own multimedia equipment – video or still cameras, audio recorder, laptop computers. Instructors: Jennifer Ward, Steve Rhodes, Lisa Renze. 

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SUNDAY (March 14, 2010)
Odets Room
9 a.m.-1 p.m.    New Media Coverage of Events – Breaking and Planned ($39/$59)
This hands-on workshop will take a look at planning event coverage for use online, including live chats, blogging, video and updates. Learn what it takes to cover the big football game, elections and other campus events.
In addition, we'll take a look at pulling together the tools needed for covering breaking news. What do you need to know before you're stuck in the middle of covering the unexpected? What tools should you be familiar with? What do you need to be sure your staff knows?
Best for editors who will be in charge of planning coverage and anyone who may be in charge of updating the Web site. (Additional fee and prior registration required.)  Instructor:  Jennifer Ward

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MONDAY (March 15, 2010)
Odets Room
8 a.m. to 12 p.m.   Code Breaking ($39/$59)
Online journalism means more than writing and editing, so don't let the "geek talk" scare you. We'll do more than go over the basics of markup tags, we'll take a look at manipulating embed tags (that code that sites like YouTube give you to embed video), discovering data online and using free, existing online tools to add interactivity to your stories and sites (example: using TweetGrid to embed a specialized Twitter feed)
Best for beginners. (Additional fee and prior registration required.)  Instructor: Jennifer Ward.

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