NLA | September 12, 2019 | Issue 7
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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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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.
Learn more here.
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.
Diversity scholarships: The deadline to apply for a competitive diversity scholarship for Albuquerque, NewsTrain is
Sept. 18. Applications are open to journalists, journalism educators or journalism students from a diverse background, Successful applicants have their registration fee waived; they must pay their own travel expenses.
Apply online; also, email a current résumé and up to three work samples (published or unpublished) to UNM Professor Mike Marcotte. Journalism educators need not submit work samples.
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.
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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Reserve your space today!
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Train in data, mobile newsgathering, smart storytelling, podcasting, analytics and management approaches at Milwaukee NewsTrain on Sept. 27, 2019
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Milwaukee NewsTrain will offer a full day of digital training on Friday, Sept. 27, 2019, at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 333 W. State; Milwaukee, WI 53203. New, two separate management-track courses are available in the morning.
NewsTrain sessions include:
- Developing a data mindset and use it to improve daily work
- Mobile newsgathering with your smartphone
- Making the smart choices in how to pitch and tell a story
- So, you have an idea for a podcast
- Using audience analytics to get your story read
Morning management track sessions include:
- Having difficult conversations
- Managing tension between generations (particularly millennials entering leadership positions)
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