New Multimedia Workshops At University Of Miami

 

By Rich Beckman

CORAL GABLES, FL (September 19, 2008) – For almost a decade, the multimedia bootcamp workshops at the University of North Carolina provided one of the main training sites for hundreds of professional journalists seeking to understand new storytelling tools and techniques and to gain hands-on training.

These workshops provided an important introduction for journalists being asked to tell multimedia stories by introducing them to hardware and software, and multimedia planning, production and programming techniques.

Now we're pleased to announce that the Beyond Bootcamp Workshops for journalists and journalism educators will premier in January at the School of Communication at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL. [Beckman was founder at director of the Multimedia Bootcamp Workshops at UNC; now he serves as the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism and the school and the Knight Center for International Media will host the workshops.]

Rather than a single workshop that introduces participants to different areas of multimedia storytelling, the Beyond Bootcamp Workshops will each last three days and cover a specific skill set. The workshops will retain many of the most popular features of the Multimedia Bootcamp Workshops, including the opening night keynote presentation, daily lunches with leading multimedia producers, a faculty of the leading multimedia educators and practitioners, training on state-of-the-art hardware and software, highly trained lab assistants and numerous handouts and take-home materials.

The first six workshops will be offered beginning January 3-6 and 7-10, 2009. The first session includes Creating Audio Narratives with Jim Seida of MSNBC and Nancy Donaldson of The New York Times; Multimedia Production with Meredith Birkett of MSNBC and Kim Grinfeder of the University of Miami; and Teaching Multimedia: A Workshop for College Educators, with Beckman and Laura Ruel, both of the University of Miami.

The second session includes Creating Video Narratives with Travis Fox of Washingtonpost.com and Jim Virga of the University of Miami; Creating Effective Online Graphics with Alberto Cairo of UNC and Xaquin GV of The New York Times; and Multimedia Programming for Journalists with Donny Lofland of UNC and Tom Jackson of The New York Times.

Keynote speakers include Brian Storm, CEO of MediaStorm, and Andrew DeVigal, director of multimedia for The New York Times.

Tuition for one three-day workshop is $750; tuition for two consecutive three-day workshops is $1,400. Tuition includes all materials, a dedicated computer terminal for each participant, access to state-of-the art hardware and software and many meals (three lunches and two dinners) during the workshop. Tuition does not include transportation or lodging. Each workshop will be limited to the first 15 participants who register and submit payment.

Registration is online and available at www.beyondbootcamp.org.

For questions about any of the workshops, contact Beckman at rbeckman@miami.edu or +1-305-284-2726.

 

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