APME Newstrain - Video and multimedia journalism March 5, 2009

Become a more effective editor. Two days of training in editing and management skills for online news.

Cost:
$50 registration fee, which includes Saturday’s lunch, Friday night’s reception and continental breakfast Saturday and Sunday.

Program highlights:
This national program teaches key editing/coaching and management skills to frontline editors. The program, which will emphasize adapting skills to multimedia platforms, offers practical advice that editors can use on the job right away. The program is open to editors, college journalism faculty members and college student journalists. Participants are welcome to attend the entire program or any part of it.

Robb Montgomery of Visual Editors will be teaching three sessions

Making Better Short-Form Video
Discussion of the elements of strong video. Managing and planning for multiple narratives and lessons from top video journalists.

Planning Content for Multiple Deadlines, Multiple Platforms (All)
Where does the story start and does it ever end in a Twitter-enabled news world? Tips and techniques from market leaders in managing multimedia news. 24Sata (Croatia), The New York Times (USA) and The Guardian (London U.K.)

Digital-J school: Learn how to use RSS feeds how to aggregate them using Yahoo! Pipes. PLUS: See how bookmarking and networking with Delicious can improve your digital classroom.

Other faculty members for the program will include Michael Roberts of the Arizona Republic, Will Sullivan and Kurt Greenbaum of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Bryan Murley of Eastern Illinois University and Brian Johnson of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and others.

Get there

1. Send an email to a with name, title, email address, news organization mailing address and office phone number for each participant.
2. Or, fax that information to 217.581.2923.
3. Or, mail that information to John David Reed, Executive Director, Mid-America Press Institute, Department of Journalism, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Ill. 61920.
4. To pay the registration fee, mail a check or bring it along March 6.
To book a hotel:

Mention Mid-America Press Institute for $106/night rate for single, double, triple or quad occupancy. Reserve rooms soon–the MPI block is limited.

Millennium Hotel
200 S. Fourth St.
St. Louis, Mo. 63102
314.241.9500

For more information:

Call MPI executive director John David Reed at 217.273.5812 (days) or 217.348.8781 (evenings) or send an email to a.
Program Sponsors:

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Illinois Press Foundation
Scripps Howard Foundation
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
The Associated Press
AP Managing Editors Foundation

Official Website: http://newstrain.org/seminar_stlouis_highlights.html