Berkeley, CA, United States

Organised by The Knight New Media Center Multimedia and held at the University of California, Berkeley/Graduate School of Journalism, this seminar for traditional mainstream journalists will combine practical instruction in multimedia reporting with in-depth exploration of media convergence and other critical issues for online news operations.

The organisers are accepting applications for 20 fellowships to attend this expenses-paid seminar, in which participants will receive five full days of intense hands-on instruction on how to do multimedia stories for the Web, including:

• Using digital video cameras, photo cameras and minidisc recorders;
• Doing storyboards, stand-ups, voiceovers and other broadcast techniques;
• Digital video, audio and photo editing;
• Creating photo slide shows in Flash;
• Web page creation and multimedia Web site design.

Fellows will create a multimedia project as part of the seminar.

In addition, there will be evening and noontime panels and presentations by online publishing experts on the most pressing issues in online publishing, such as implementing converged newsrooms, working with citizen journalism sites, integrating multimedia into the newsroom and managing multimedia projects, and business issues in online publishing.

Click here for information on how to apply.


Application Deadline: October 27, 2006 .