Journalism August 2 2024

Mobile Journalism

Identify and produce engaging multimedia news using the latest mobile media tools

What’s it about?

This comprehensive and ambitious training course uses a special model to help participants recognise and then create compelling mobile multi-media journalism. The aim (in over three to five days, depending on group size and level of experience) is to acquaint staff with the skills needed to devise media which will make news, encourage debate and raise the profile of key issues important to the audience. Our teaching methods blend real-time practical exercises with lecturing that analyses best current practice and new media developments. Participants will be encouraged to assemble a personal action plan for post-course use.


Who should attend?

All journalists would benefit from this training course and it would also be useful to anyone involved in the production of multimedia content while on the move.


Learning outcomes

  • Identify, and produce mobile multimedia stories with confidence and context
  • Grasp what makes a good content
  • Learn to present stories in exciting ways while maintaining standards of fairness, accuracy and quality
  • Become comfortable writing to pictures and making shot selections suitable for professional broadcast
  • Understand the fundamentals of good news production values in the context of multimedia

Benefits

Participants will benefit from an understanding of how multimedia journalism applies and acquire an expanded skillset that will help them recognise and develop engaging news stories.

Training structure highlights

  • Multimedia production values
  • Using storyboards to focus and structure
  • The power of pictures: how the eye sees and basic visual grammar
  • The video toolbox
  • Writing to pictures and writing for the ear
  • Common mistakes, language, clarity and brevity
  • Practical creativity techniques
  • Individual news gathering and delivery exercises
  • Building an audience
  • Ethics/credibility
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