Video for newspaper journalists

Maastricht - March 6, 2008

The diet of news consumers has changed. Readers have turned online, away from broadsheets. Content providers are rapidly integrating video coverage into their daily offerings.

Too many times, though, a newsroom’s multimedia strategy consists of tossing hand-held cameras or mobile phones to reporters and telling them, “Go get video.”

To help newsrooms become “video literate”, the European Journalism Centre now offers video training courses for newspaper journalists.

These seminars target both field reporters and editors who want to learn what it takes to produce professional video with the latest generation of cameras and editing equipment. By the end of the course, participants will have a basic understanding of video as the language of the 21st century.

Course dates: 21-25 April / 16-20 June / September, TBA

Raymond Frenken, the founder and chief editor of EUX.TV, will lead these “Video literacy” training sessions. Prior to EUX.TV, Frenken worked for the Dow Jones, Bloomberg and Financial Times news services as well as broadcaster CNBC Europe.

A course overview:

* Monday afternoon: Introduction to convergence and new media storytelling. Introduction to terminology and tools. Introduction to workflow. Analysis of best-practice examples.

* Tuesday: Hands-on equipment session. Story development for the web: concrete learning from best-practice examples and preparation of Wednesday’s production.

* Wednesday: Shooting video, editing new and “repurposed content.”

* Thursday: Post production. Distribution platforms and delivery systems. Legal and copyright issues.

* Friday morning: Lessons learned. The big picture – where from here?

The five-day course will be held at the head office of the EJC in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The course fee is €1,200, with a 10 percent discount for each employee from the same media outlet. The course is offered in English, Dutch and German. It begins midday Monday and ends midday Friday. The EJC will supply all equipment, two lunches and a dinner. For more information, please contact the European Journalism Centre at .

Posted on March 6, 2008 by EJC
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