NLA | October 24, 2019 | Issue 13
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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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Only five seats left!
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.
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RCFP Local Legal Initiative — Proposal Deadline Approaching!
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The deadline is quickly approaching to submit proposals to have a Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press attorney in your city or state. If journalists in your community would benefit from the legal support of a Reporters Committee attorney, submit a proposal detailing why by 11:59 ET October 31 at
rcfp.org/local.
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Train in data, video, social, mobile, podcasting, analytics and verification at Fresno NewsTrain on March 27-28, 2020
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Join us for 1.5 days of affordable digital training at Fresno NewsTrain on March 27-28, 2020, at California State University, Fresno.
Training Sessions 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.
For Fresno 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 Feb. 13.
You Will Learn How To:
- Identify a good idea for a podcast and develop that idea into a pitch.
- 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.
- Make smart choices among alternative ways to tell a story on mobile to get the maximum audience impact with the least expenditure of time, energy and effort.
- Verify user-generated images and other content on social media on deadline,
- Follow a storyboard to shoot and sequence your best five shots to create a one-minute video,
- Use your smartphone to shoot a well-composed, well-lit and in-focus photo that captures a moment and tells a story; capture high-quality audio; and record dictation that can be translated into text.
- Identify five ways to find relevant databases and formulate questions to identify stories in the data. Leave with at least one story idea using data that you can do now.
- Use audience analytics to create compelling journalism.
Agenda
The blue and green tracks on the agenda allow for smaller class sizes. All attendees receive the same instruction, sometimes just at different times.
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As news outlets are trying to figure out the best mobile video equipment to buy, the latest RJI Innovation in Focus post reviews various iPhone gimbals, along with attachments and add ons.
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Train in data, video, social, mobile and verification at Lincoln NewsTrain on April 4, 2020
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Join us for a full day of affordable digital training at Lincoln NewsTrain on April 4, 2020, at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Training Sessions Include:
- Using social media as powerful reporting tools,
- Storytelling on mobile: making smart choices,
- Becoming a verification ninja,
- Edit smarter video on your smartphone, and
- Mining data for enterprise off any beat.
For Lincoln 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 Feb. 19.
You Will Learn How To:
- 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.
- Edit short news videos using an app on your smartphone,
- Verify user-generated images and other content on social media on deadline,
- Make smart choices among alternative ways to tell a story on mobile to get the maximum audience impact with the least expenditure of time, energy and effort.
- Identify five ways to find relevant databases and formulate questions to identify stories in the data. Leave with at least one story idea using data that you can do now.
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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— Industry News —
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