NLA | October 10, 2019 | Issue 11
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Train in data, data viz, social, mobile and ethics at Albuquerque NewsTrain on Oct. 25-26, 2019
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EARLY BIRD DEADLINE EXTENDED
Albuquerque NewsTrain will offer a day and a half of digital training on Oct. 25 and 26, 2019, in conjunction with the New Mexico Press Association Convention and hosted by the University of New Mexico.
Training Sessions Include:
- Getting your story read: maximizing and measuring social media for branding and audience engagement
- Driving daily enterprise coverage with documents and data
- Creating data visualizations to tell better stories
- Mobile newsgathering: better storytelling with your smartphone
- Turbocharge your reporting using online tools
- Promoting ethics, trust and transparency in your daily work
- Paradigm shifts in New Mexico journalism
Members of the New Mexico Press Association (NMPA) should
not register on this page. If your news organization is a
member of NMPA, register for NewsTrain and the New Mexico Press Association Convention
here.
For Albuquerque NewsTrain, competitive diversity scholarships are available for journalists, journalism students and journalism educators from diverse backgrounds; please see the information to the right for how to
apply by Oct. 9.
You Will Learn How To:
- Improve your writing on social media, establish your brand, encourage community engagement, and measure how well your social media efforts are working.
- Use social media to locate diverse expert and “real people” sources, listen to your community and identify news stories, crowdsource using Google Forms and call-outs, and create a social dossier on a person in the news.
- Use data and documents to bring an enterprising mindset to daily work.
- Create simple data visualizations such as charts and maps.
- Promote ethical behavior and transparency as a way to increase audience trust.
- Stock your smartphone with the right apps to shoot better news photos, record interviews, dictate stories and create on-the-go images-with-text for social media.
- Coordinate with other news organizations to create more powerful journalism.
Agenda
The blue and green tracks on the agenda allow for smaller class sizes. All attendees receive the same instruction, just at different times.
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Register now for $75 for 1½ days of digital training at Fresno NewsTrain on March 27-28
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NewsTrain is bringing affordable training in digital-journalism skills to Fresno on March 27-28.
Sessions at California State University, Fresno, will include:
- So, you think you have an idea for a podcast?
- Using social media as powerful reporting tools,
- Storytelling on small screens: making smart choices for mobile audiences,
- Becoming a verification ninja,
- Shooting smarter video with your smartphone,
- Mobile newsgathering: better reporting with your smartphone
- Developing a data mindset to improve stories every day, and
- Maximizing audience analytics to produce better journalism.
Experience NewsTrain’s highly rated training; attendees regularly judge sessions as 4.5, with 5 as highly useful and highly effective. Daily Camera reporter Katie Langford praised the “excellent training sessions” at the recent Denver NewsTrain. She tweeted that she “learned tangible skills that will expand and improve my reporting immediately.”
The early-bird rate of $75 includes two light meals.
Journalists, journalism educators and journalism students from diverse backgrounds are invited to apply for competitive scholarships, which cover their registration, by Feb. 13.
#FresnoNewsTrain will be the site of the 96th NewsTrain, designed in collaboration with a host committee of local journalists. The host committee for Fresno is led by California State University, Fresno.
Started by the nonprofit Associated Press Media Editors (APME) in 2003, NewsTrain has trained more than 7,500 journalists across the United States and Canada. APME merged with the American Society of News Editors to form the News Leaders Association in 2019.
Questions?
Email Laura Sellers-Earl, NewsTrain project co-director.
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Workplace Integrity: Train the Trainers
Discover what 100 media organizations have already learned. Join world-class trainer Jill Geisler for our next “Workplace Integrity: Train the Trainers” workshop Nov. 12-13 in Washington, D.C.
Qualified applicants receive free tuition and travel subsidy.
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