Archive for 'training' Category
NABJ’s (New) Media Institute
9 October 2008NABJ kicks off its fall Media Institute series with Lessons From the Multimedia Battlefield in Nashville. The seminar, which runs Oct. 23 to 25, features new media professionals who will help the journalists in attendance understand how to position themselves in a new media landscape. My personal bias is that I’m the closing speaker for [...]
ONA Conference Is a Month Away
1 August 2008The Online News Association conference is fast approaching. If you’re interested in new media — innovation, implementation or jobs — this is the conference you want to attend. I first became involved in ONA as a panelist for the ‘04 conference. Since then, I’ve been on the conference planning committee each year. Last year, I [...]
As Newsroom Change, Mid-Career Journalists Embrace Training to Adjust
19 March 2008Tanya Ballard was already a veteran Web editor when she decided to attend a workshop to beef up her technical skills.
Ballard, who oversees investigative projects for washingtonpost.com, said that although her work does not require her to create multimedia elements, she felt that gaining experience with certain software and tools would help her create [...]