New media reporting workshop
Ricardo Lopez, Miami Herald
Will Payne, Current TV
Brent McDonald, New York Times
We’re going to break into groups now. I’ll be back with an update later.
UPDATE, 12:11 P.M.: I was in Brent McDonald’s group. He showed us his camera (a $6,000 Panasonic HD) and related gear. He also talked about techniques and what to look out in terms of lighting, sound and settings.
I will be attending the following sessions Friday morning as part of Comm Week 2008:
Be sure to check back at 11:30 a.m. for the liveblog. I will also post a link to the live Web cast, if available.
Rafael Sangiovanni began writing and designing for The Miami Hurricane his freshman year. Raph, as he is known, wrote for EDGE, the arts and entertainment section, through spring 2007.
He moved up to chief copy editor in fall 2007, his current position at The Hurricane, and was recently hired part-time as an online producer for The Miami Herald‘s Web site.
Here are a couple posts Raph wrote on Wired Journalists:
Here is a video of Raph talking about his experience so far:
A not-so-old newspaper friend stopped by campus recently.
Allison Bezold-Diaz, who graduated from the University of Miami in spring 2007, spoke to my online journalism class last Thursday. She gave great tutorials on capturing/editing audio, photography/digital SLR basics and editing photos in Photoshop.
I sat down with Allison, a former Miami Hurricane photo editor, to ask her about the importance of multimedia and what advice she would give student journalists.
Here’s what she had to say:
I posted Monday about two journalism events for Comm Week 2008 (read it here); more details have since been released on two other events, a new media workshop and panel.
I will be participating in the workshop and liveblogging the panel. I will post the streaming feed for the panel and then the video once it’s posted. Stay tuned.
Details from the School of Communication Web site:
New Media Reporting: VIDEO WORKSHOP
February 15, 2008
10:00 am
Location: Communication International Building 2055
Panelists:
Ricardo Lopez, Miami Herald visual journalist
Brent McDonald, New York Times visual journalist
Will Payne, Current TV
The workshop is an introduction to video journalism. Lopez, McDonald and Payne will discuss the best gear for the job, basic elements new media reporters should look for while shooting, as well as editing techniques – what to include in a Web audio-visual news story and what to avoid.
PANEL: New Media Reporting – trends and challenges
February 15, 2008
11:30 am
Location: Communication International Building 2055
Moderator: Chris Delboni, UM / SoC
Panelists:
Suzanne Levinson — Miami Herald, director of site operations
Phil Lewis — Naples Daily News, editor & vice president of editorial
Ricardo Lopez — Miami Herald, visual journalist
Brent McDonald — New York Times, visual journalist
Will Payne — Current TV, College Outreach
Side note: Check out this video I produced after Suzanne Levinson spoke to my online journalism class.