Video for newspaper journalists^2.0

The diet of news consumers has changed. Readers have cast their eyes from broadsheets, turning instead online. Content providers are therefore 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.”

Newspapers often don’t have the capacity to train staff in the processes of visual narration. To help newsrooms become “video literate”, the European Journalism Centre now offers video training courses for newspaper journalists.

These seminars are for 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.

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.