Journalists and Communicators Learn Digital Media Secrets

Journalists and communicators go back to school and learn the secrets of technology used in story telling in a week long seminar hosted by Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

See the link here:

http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/#tab2

If you missed it, then there are a series of free tutorials posted on its website covering the various subjects such as (audio, data visualizations, flash, maps, photography, public records, reporting, social media, video, web development, wordpress, and other).

Note: Digital media tools cross many technologies and are used in many related job roles, so you don't have to be a journalist to benefit. Companies are downsizing and expect workers to learn more than one traditional role and expect them to take on larger responsibilities. Here is a video of how a former print journalist became a one woman band. She taught herself print, video, and social media skills to transition from paper journalism into the role of what has become the digital media. It's a lesson on how to embrace technology, master it and stay in the game.

5.16.2011 Sarah Hoye: Storytelling Secrets from a "One-Woman Band" from kdmcinfo on Vimeo.