BusinessJournalism.org Reynolds Center for Business Journalism » 2010 Workshops, Webinars

Live chat with personal branding expert Dan Schawbel on Sept. 21

Linda Austin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:36:00 +0000

The Particulars
Instructor:Personal branding expert Dan Schawbel

Location: Online
Date and Time: 1:30-2:15 p.m. EDT Sept. 21

Get your questions answered about how best to build your brand as a business journalist during a live chat with personal branding expert Dan Schawbel on Sept. 21.

The author of the book, “Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success,” will take your questions online from 1:30 to 2:15 p.m. EDT Sept. 21. To sign up for the live chat, please click here.

Here’s more from his website about Schawbel’s remarkable career since his graduation from Bentley University in 2006:

“‘Me 2.0′ made the New York Times summer reading list for job seekers, was one of three social networking books recommended by Shape Magazine, was the No. 1 career book of 2009 by The New York Post, is a No. 1 bestseller in Japan, and is also being translated into French. Recently, Dan was named to the prestigious Inc. Magazine 30 Under 30 list.

With over 1 million results for his name in Google, 89,000 Twitter followers, and a maxed-out Facebook account (5,000 friends), Fast Company calls Dan a ‘personal branding force of nature.’ BusinessWeek named Dan as one of 20 people entrepreneurs should follow on Twitter, alongside Richard Branson, and Details Magazine cited him as one of five Internet gurus that can make you rich, alongside Seth Godin. He is the founder of the Personal Branding Blog®, which was the No. 1 job blog by CareerBuilder in 2008 & 2009, is an AdAge top 30 marketing blog and is syndicated by Reuters, Forbes, Fox Business and other major networks. Dan is also the publisher of Personal Branding Magazine® and the Student Branding Blog, head judge for the Personal Brand Awards®, director of Personal Branding TV®, and holds live Personal Branding Events. As a brand futurist, Dan was one of the first seven bloggers to have their own iPhone application.

In 2007, Dan co-created one of the first social media positions in a Fortune 200 company, EMC Corp. He is a syndicated columnist for Metro US (New York, Boston & Philadelphia), reaching over 1.2 million readers biweekly. At 26 years old, Dan is the youngest columnist at BusinessWeek.”

If you’d like to send your questions in early, please e-mail them to Robin J. Phillips, Reynolds Center Web managing editor, who will be moderating the text-based chat with Schawbel using CoverItLive on Sept. 21.

Schawbel, who is visiting Arizona State University’s Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, will also speak in a free, public event at 7 p.m. Sept. 20 at the school in downtown Phoenix. His topic will be “Building Your Own Brand.”

Covering the green economy – The future of energy: Online, Nov. 16

Reynolds Staff — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:36:51 +0000

The Particulars
Instructor: Angel Gonzalez
Location: Online
Date and Time: Noon OR 4 p.m. EST on Nov. 16
Register for this Webinar.

After years of working to convince the government to expand offshore drilling, oil companies finally got the thumbs up. So they dug in quick and began tapping deep inside the ocean to keep up with our country’s ever-expanding energy dependence.

The gulf oil disaster changed everything. The massive spill caused significant environmental damage and sent shock waves through the multiple industries and consumers who rely on the gulf for their livelihood. The fallout from the event, could rework the regulatory foundations in the oil industry and place added emphasis on utilizing sustainable methods of energy production.

Post spill, the energy industry – especially big oil – is at somewhat of a crossroads. It’s hard to know yet all the ramification of the spill on the energy industry, but we do know this: No matter where you are reporting from, the business of energy lurks somewhere in your community and its reach creates a rich pool of potential story ideas.

This Webinar will provide journalists with:

A detailed backgrounder of the oil industry: how and where are fossil fuels extracted and why they remain the foundation of the global economy; who the main players are among oil companies, the national agencies that regulate them, and global organizations that band producing and consuming nations together. Also, a brief tour of what the zeitgeist is – in terms of what energy companies and regulators are looking at right now.
An understanding of how energy production or consumption relate to local economies – not only at the pump, but also in terms of jobs and tax revenue generation, as well as environmental impact.
Useful websites to gather local, national and global information about energy that can lead to ideas or help nail stories down.

YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Angel Gonzalez is Houston Bureau Chief for Dow Jones Newswires, where he helps lead the Newswires’ coverage of the global energy industry. He has written about OPEC, hurricanes, Big Oil companies, renewable energy and the BP oil spill for Dow Jones Newswires, WSJ.com and the Wall Street Journal. Previously he covered green energy and biotechnology for the Seattle Times, and worked as an oil reporter for Dow Jones. A native of Caracas, Venezuela, he’s a graduate of the University of Paris and obtained a master’s in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

This free seminar is sponsored by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism.

The Reynolds Center is funded by a grant from the Las Vegas, Nevada-based Donald W. Reynolds Foundation. Besides its workshops, the center runs BusinessJournalism.org, offering tips, training and resources for those who want to do a better job of covering business.

Please do not register unless you are sincere about participating in this online seminar and can do so for each day of the designated week. Those who successfully complete three regional workshops or online seminars presented by the Reynolds Center are eligible to receive a “Circle of Achievement” award certificate.

Boost your skills this fall with Reynolds Center’s training

Kelly Carr — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:21:54 +0000

John Daley listens to a presentation during a training session.

Are you grappling to understand what’s next for your local economy ? Or maybe you’re ready to take the full plunge into dissecting mounds of data or producing your own video, but are unsure where to begin.

The Reynolds Center’s fall training schedule is the answer you’ve been looking for. Our lineup of free regional and online workshops covers a mix of topics that will take your reporting, multimedia and Web skills to the next level.

We’ll help you grasp forward-thinking tactics to enhance your coverage, such as engaging readers through social media and crowdsourcing, utilizing SEO to get more eyes on your stories and writing business stories for the Web with insights from Pulitzer winner Jacqui Banaszynski.

Our schedule also includes sessions to beef up your knowledge of Excel spreadsheets and business databases for reporting, techniques for producing videos stories and tips for understanding your local economy. And we’ve even incorporated Webinars on how to find business stories on all beats for your buds on the city desk.

Upcoming Webinars:

• Develop Business Angles on Any Beat: Sept. 14

• Think Like Google – What You Need to Know about SEO: Oct. 19

• Covering the Green Economy – The Future of Energy: Nov. 16

• Writing Business News for the Web: Dec. 1-2, with Pulitzer-winner Jacqui Banaszynski.

Regional Workshops:

• Engage Your Community to Power Your Business Coverage: Sept. 1, San Francisco,with former BusinessWeek.com editor-in-chief John A. Byrne and Spot.Us founder David Cohn.

• Produce a Business News Video in a Day: Oct. 2, New York

• Be a Better Business Watchdog – CAR for Business Journalists: Oct. 11, Atlanta and Nov. 9, Milwaukee, co-presented with IRE.

• What’s Next for the Economy in Your Town?: Oct. 27, Washington D.C., with Ezra Klein of The Washington Post’s Wonkbook.

All-expenses-paid seminars:

Deadline: Nov. 1

Strictly Financials, Jan. 4-7, Phoenix.
Business Journalism Professors, Jan. 4-7, Phoenix

What’s Next for the Economy in Your Town: Washington, Oct. 27

Reynolds Staff — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:55:59 +0000

The Particulars

Instructors: Gus Faucher, director of
macroeconomics for Moody’s Economy.com;
Ezra Klein, Washington Post Wonkbook
blogger; Jennifer LaFleur, ProPublica
computer-assisted reporting director;
Matt Apuzzo, AP investigative reporter; and
Russ Choma, reporter for Investigative
Reporting Workshop

Location: Mary Graydon Center,
Butler Boardroom (Third Floor)
American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20016

Hotels: Holiday Inn Georgetown
Telephone: 202-338-3120
Embassy Suites at Chevy Chase Pavilion
Telephone: 202-362-9300
When making reservations at either hotel,
please ask for the “AU Negotiated Rate.”

Parking and Transit: The Nebraska
Parking Lot is available for attendees.
Attendees may also take the Shady
Grove leg of the Red Line to the
Tenleytown Station and click here for
American University shuttle directions.

Download PDF Directions to the
Mary Graydon Center at AU.

When: 8:30-4 p.m. Oct. 27

Register for this workshop.

The workshop is the day before the
Online News Association Conference
Oct. 28-30 at the Marriott Renaissance
Washington, D.C., Downtown Hotel.

You’ve seen them on the tube. Here’s your chance to learn from Gus Faucher, director of macroeconomics for Moody’s Economy.com, and Ezra Klein, author of The Washington Post’s Wonkbook blog, in person.

They will offer the basics of what’s up with the national and your local economy at a free, daylong workshop Oct. 27 in Washington.

They will be joined by Jennifer LaFleur, computer-assisted reporting director for ProPublica.org; Matt Apuzzo, investigative reporter for The Associated Press; and Russ Choma, reporter for American University’s Investigative Reporting Workshop.

Ezra Klein

LaFleur, Apuzzo and Choma will clue you in to what local stories to do now on the federal economic stimulus.

Faucher, who helps run Moody’s Economy.com computer model of the U.S. economy, will offer an update on what’s next for it. He will also offer insights on what economic data to follow to track the recovery – or lack thereof – in your area, with special emphasis on the 300-mile radius surrounding Washington, D.C.

Learn how to create your own economic-data dashboard for your town. Find out which local economic statistics are worth following and what story ideas they might trigger.

AGENDA: “What’s Next for the Economy in Your Town”

8:30-9 a.m.: Continental breakfast and registration

9-9:10 a.m.: Introduction and welcome from Robin J. Phillips, Web M.E. for BusinessJournalism.org

Gus Faucher

9:10 a.m.-noon: Gus Faucher, director for macroeconomics for Moody’s Economy.com, ”Where the National Economy is Headed and How to Track the Economic Recovery in Your Town”

Noon to 1 p.m.: Ezra Klein of The Washington Post’s Wonkbook, “The View from Washington,” a 30-minute talk with 30 minutes for questions. Box lunch provided.

1 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.: Jennifer LaFleur, CAR director for ProPublica.org, “Tracking the Federal Economic Stimulus in Your Town”

Matt Apuzzo

1:45 -2:30 p.m.: Matt Apuzzo, investigative reporter for The Associated Press, “Five Local Stories to Do Now on the Federal Stimulus”

2:30-2:45 p.m.: Break

2:45-4 p.m.: Russ Choma, reporter for American University’s Investigative Reporting Workshop, “Five Local Stories to Do Now on the Green Stimulus”

YOUR INSTRUCTORS

Gus Faucher is director of macroeconomics for Moody’s Economy.com. Gus edits the firm’s flagship Précis Macro publication, covering the U.S. economy. He covers U.S. fiscal, regulatory and monetary policy and is a frequent contributor to the U.S./Canada edition of Moody’s Dismal Scientist website. Speaking on the U.S. economic outlook, he is a frequent guest on CNBC and the Fox Business Network. Gus was a senior economist for six years at the U.S. Treasury Department and taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has an A.B. from Cornell University and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, both in economics.

Ezra Klein writes the Wonkbook blog for The Washington Post ”on economic policy, collapsing banks, cap-and-trade, health-care reform and pretty much anything else you can attach a chart to,” according to his Post bio. “His blog points to the hottest policy ideas on the Web and provides his own up-to-the-minute take. Before coming to The Post, he was an associate editor at the American Prospect. Klein has appeared as a guest on CNN, MSNBC, NPR and C-SPAN.”

Russ Choma

Matt Apuzzo is an investigative reporter in The Associated Press’ Washington bureau. He was previously The AP’s legal affairs writer in Washington, where he covered the FBI investigations of Blackwater Worldwide, Ted Stevens and Scooter Libby. He spent three years with The AP in Connecticut, where he investigated corruption in state government.

Russ Choma is an investigative reporter who focuses on climate and energy issues, transportation and stimulus spending for American University’s Investigative Reporting Workshop, Nieman Watchdog and Grist.org.

Jennifer LaFleur

Jennifer LaFleur is the computer-assisted reporting (CAR) director for the nonprofit news site, ProPublica.org, which has aggressively made information about the stimulus available to journalists and citizens. She was the CAR editor starting in 2003 for The Dallas Morning News, where she worked on the investigative team. She has directed CAR at the San Jose Mercury News and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and was Investigative Reporters and Editor’s (IRE) first training director. She is the co-author of IRE’s “Mapping for Stories: A Computer-Assisted Reporting Guide.”

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Please do not register unless you are sincere about participating. Space is limited, and signing up and not participating deprives someone else of the opportunity.

Those who successfully complete three regional workshops or online seminars presented by the Reynolds Center are eligible to receive a “Circle of Achievement” certificate.

This free seminar is sponsored by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. If you have any questions about the workshop or the center, please e-mail Executive Director Linda Austin or call 602-496-9187.

Be a Better Business Watchdog – CAR for Business Journalists: Atlanta, Oct. 11

Linda Austin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:11:59 +0000

The Particulars
Instructor: Jaimi Dowdell, training director for IRE
Location: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
223 Perimeter Center Parkway
Atlanta, GA 30346-1301
When: 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Oct. 11
Register for this workshop

Polish your skills in computer-assisted reporting (CAR) and learn how to hold local businesses accountable with this free, daylong workshop co-presented by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism and Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE).

Even if you’ve never touched an Excel spreadsheet before, you will leave this hands-on workshop with the skills you need to begin analyzing the wealth of information available in public databases about businesses. Remember: the 2010 Pulitzer for Public Service was won by a reporter for The Bristol (Va.) Herald Courier who used CAR skills he learned from IRE to investigate the mismanagement of natural gas royalties.

Jaimi Dowdell, IRE training director, speaks at 2010 CAR Conference in Phoenix, Ariz.

Data is one of four developments transforming the business and financial press, according to Forbes Managing Editor Carl Lavin in a July 1 interview with IR Alert. “There will be an exponential increase in data available—to analyze businesses, to compare them to model future activity and so on. The people with the tools and personnel that can mine business data for intelligence will be adding tremendous value,” he says. (The other three developments are social media, the semantic Web and mobile Web.)

In this Oct. 11 workshop in Atlanta, you will learn how to find and download online databases, use Excel spreadsheets to analyze that information and translate that analysis into business stories. The Reynolds Center and IRE are co-presenting an identical workshop in Milwaukee on Nov. 9. (You do not have to be a member of IRE to attend either one.)

The Reynolds Center, which has trained more than 10,000 journalists in business journalism since 2003, is partnering with IRE, which has been training journalists in investigative techniques since 1975, to offer this mini-boot camp in computer-assisted reporting for business journalists. Our host is The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which recently moved its office about 10 miles north of downtown, near Interstate 285, the Perimeter Mall and the Dunwoody MARTA station.

YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Jaimi Dowdell joined IRE as a training director in October 2008. Before that she was computer-assisted reporting editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for more than three years. Her duties included obtaining and analyzing data for daily and long-term stories; training staff on CAR and investigative techniques; and maintaining the newspaper’s online data center. In addition to her work at the Post-Dispatch, she taught a CAR course for Washington University in St. Louis.

Previously she worked at IRE and NICAR in the Database Library and Resource Center while completing her master’s degree at the University of Missouri.

“Be a Better Business Watchdog — CAR for Business Journalists” Workshop Agenda

8:30-9 a.m.: Continental breakfast and registration

9-9:10 a.m.: Introduction and welcome, Linda Austin, executive director, Reynolds Center

9:10-12:40 p.m.: How to use Excel spreadsheet software, Jaimi Dowdell, training director, IRE

12:40-1:30 p.m.: Box lunch provided

1:30-3:30 p.m.: Where and how to access great databases with examples of business stories done from them, Dowdell

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Please do not register unless you are sincere about participating. Because this workshop offers hands-on training on individual computers, space is extremely limited, with spots allotted on a first-come, first-served basis. Signing up and not participating deprives someone else of the opportunity.

Those who successfully complete three regional workshops or online seminars presented by the Reynolds Center are eligible to receive a “Circle of Achievement” certificate.

Be a Better Business Watchdog – CAR for Business Journalists: Milwaukee, Nov. 9

Linda Austin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:01:49 +0000

The Particulars

Instructor: Jaimi Dowdell,
training director for IRE;
Raquel Rutledge, Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel investigative
reporter; Ben Poston,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
database reporter

Location: Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel,
333 W. State St.,
Milwaukee, Wisc. 53203

When: 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Hotels:
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Hilton Hotel

Click here for the
Hotel and Parking Guide
(PDF).

Register for this workshop

Jaimi Dowdell, IRE training director, speaks at 2010 CAR Conference in Phoenix, Ariz.

In this Nov. 9. workshop in Milwaukee, you will learn how to find and download online databases, use Excel spreadsheets to analyze that information and translate that analysis into business stories. The Reynolds Center and IRE are co-presenting the identical workshop in Atlanta on Oct. 11. (You do not have to be a member of IRE to attend either one.)

YOUR INSTRUCTORS

Previously she worked at IRE and NICAR in the Database Library and Resource Center while completing her master’s degree at the University of Missouri.

Ben Poston talks about one of his stories at IRE's 2010 Computer-Assisted Reporting Conference in Phoenix.

Raquel Rutledge is an investigative reporter on the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s watchdog team. Her series, “Cashing in on Kids,” won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting. It also won the George Polk Award, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism. Rutledge previously worked for the Colorado Springs Gazette, where she covered education, the military and city hall.

Ben Poston has been a database reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel since 2007 and contributed to “Cashing in on Kids.” He was a 2009 Livingston Award finalist for coverage of the federal economic stimulus. He was a member of the Journal Sentinel team who won a 2010 IRE Award for breaking news investigation for coverage of the gap in the Wisconsin DNA databank.

Previously, he was a data analyst at NICAR. | VIDEO and presentation: Michael Grabell and Ben Poston on Covering the Sluggish Recovery. [Presentation starts on Slide 4.]

“Be a Better Business Watchdog — CAR for Business Journalists” Workshop Agenda

8:30-9 a.m.: Continental breakfast and registration

9-9:10 a.m.: Introduction and welcome, Linda Austin, executive director, Reynolds Center

9:10-12:40 p.m.: How to use Excel spreadsheet software, Jaimi Dowdell, training director, IRE

12:40-1:30 p.m.: How CAR figured in the Pulitzer-winning “Cashing on Kids” series, Ben Poston and Raquel Rutledge, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Box lunch provided.

1:30-3:30 p.m.: Where and how to access great databases with examples of business stories done from them, Dowdell

Here’s a video by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on how Rutledge got the “Cashing in on Kids” story:

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Those who successfully complete three regional workshops or online seminars presented by the Reynolds Center are eligible to receive a “Circle of Achievement” certificate.

Think like Google — what you need to know about SEO: Online, Oct. 19

Cassandra Nicholson — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:22:40 +0000

The Particulars
Instructors: Chad Graham and Robin J. Phillips
Location: Online
Date and Time: Noon OR 4 p.m. EDT on Oct. 19
Register for this Webinar.

Web analytics changes the game for reporters. Even with circulation figures and TV ratings, we didn’t used to have data on our individual stories. But we now know exactly how many people read our stories online. If your work (stories, blogs) goes online at all, you need to know some basics about search engine optimization (SEO).

Chad Graham, social media editor at The Arizona Republic, and Robin J. Phillips, Reynolds Center Web managing editor, will co-present this one-hour Webinar that will be of interest to business journalists who want to expand the audience for their work online.

help reporters and editors understand the Web and how search engines find online content;
explain some fundamentals of SEO and why journalists should care;
give journalists tips and tools for writing good headline and ledes for the Web.

YOUR INSTRUCTORS

Robin J. Phillips, managing editor of BusinessJournalism.org, is an online journalist with experience at newspapers, magazines, as a freelancer and with a little time at a wire service. Before moving to the Reynolds Center, she was online community manager for azcentral.com, the online site for The Arizona Republic. She was deputy business editor at Newsday and small business editor at BusinessWeek Online. She teach journalists to use Twitter, Facebook and other social media tools to expand and manage their networks.

Chad Graham, social media editor at The Arizona Republic, oversees search engine optimization for azcentral.com, as well as the Phoenix media company’s use of Twitter, Facebook, blogs and other technology. He previously covered the workplace and economy for the Republic. He’s also worked at the Advocate magazine, Des Moines Register, Associated Press and Hollywood Reporter.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

This free seminar is sponsored by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism.

The Reynolds Center is funded by a grant from the Las Vegas, Nevada-based Donald W. Reynolds Foundation. Besides its workshops, the center runs BusinessJournalism.org, offering tips, training and resources for those who want to do a better job of covering business.

Develop business angles on any beat: Online, Sept. 14

Reynolds Staff — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:08:23 +0000

The Particulars
Instructor: Chad Graham and Robin J. Phillips
Location: Online
Date and Time: Noon OR 4 p.m. EDT on Sept. 14
Register for this Webinar.

There’s no denying that business is a big news story these days…. financial reform, housing, jobs, the economy, recovery. Even if you are not on a business desk, you write about topics that involve money, funding, finances, consumers. There certainly is a business angle to every news story. And a quick look at journalismjobs.org shows that newsrooms are hiring journalists with business experience.

Chad Graham, social media editor at The Arizona Republic, and Robin J. Phillips, Reynolds Center Web managing editor, will co-present this one-hour Webinar that will be of interest to all journalists and editors who understand the importance of exploring the business angle of every story.

help all journalists identify business angles in their stories (news, sports);
give you some basic tips for reporting on companies or finances;
help brainstorm ways to reframe stories for a business audience.

YOUR INSTRUCTORS

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

This free seminar is sponsored by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism.

Reynolds Center to present at NLGJA 20th anniversary convention

Reynolds Staff — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 00:37:04 +0000

Chad Graham, The Arizona Republic

Two presenters from the Reynolds Center will hold sessions at the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association 20th anniversary convention in San Francisco, Sept. 2-5.

Chad Graham, social media editor at The Arizona Republic, and Robin J. Phillips, Reynolds Center web managing editor, will co-present two sessions that will be of interest to all journalists and editors who understand the importance of exploring the business angle of every story.

Robin J. Phillips, Reynolds Center

‘Business angles for non-business journalists’ is aimed to help any reporter or editor think about the business angles in stories. ’Think like Google: SEO and writing for the Web’ will help journalists understand ways to make sure their stories are not overlooked online.

‘Business angles for non-business journalists’

There’s no denying that business is a big news story these days…. financial reform, housing, jobs, the economy, recovery. Even if you are not on a business desk, you write about topics that involve money, funding, finances, consumers. There certainly is a business angle to every news story. And a quick look at journalismjobs.org shows that newsrooms are hiring journalists with business experience.

This session will

help all journalists identify business angles in their stories (news, sports);
give you some basic tips for reporting on companies or finances;
help brainstorm ways to reframe stories for a business audience.

Think like Google: SEO and writing for the Web

This session will

help reporters and editors understand the Web and how search engines find online content;
explain some fundamentals of SEO and why journalists should care;
give journalists tips and tools for writing good headline and leads for the Web.

More information is available at www.nlgja.org.

WEBINARS

The Reynolds Center also will hold Webinars on these topics:

‘Business angles for non-business journalists’ – Tuesday, Sept. 14 at noon and 4 p.m. Eastern.

‘Think like Google: SEO and writing for the Web’ – Tuesday, Oct. 19 at noon and 4 p.m. Eastern.

Produce a business news video in a day: New York City, Oct. 2

Cassandra Nicholson — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:02:05 +0000

The Particulars
Instructor: Brian Snyder,
TV-production specialist,
Cronkite School of Journalism
Location: CUNY Graduate School
of Journalism, Room 436
219 W. 40th St.
New York, NY 10018
Map and Directions
When: 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
This free workshop is part of
SABEW’s fall conference.
However, you don’t have to attend
the conference to participate in
the workshop.
Hotels:
On the Ave
Marriott Marquis
Fairfield Inn New York
Long Island City/Manhattan View
Renaissance New York Hotel 57

Click here for a Parking
and Public Transportation Guide.

Register for this workshop.

Has shooting video stories become part of your job as a business journalist? Here’s a chance to hone your skills as a multimedia journalist by shooting a business news video in a day.

Under the expert instruction of Arizona State University TV-production specialist Brian Snyder, this intensive day of hands-on training will equip you with the skills and build your confidence to shoot business news videos.

No previous experience with video is required. You don’t even have to bring any equipment. Cameras, tripods and editing equipment will be provided.

By the end of the day, you and your partner will have reported, shot and edited a 1.5- to 2-minute video.

Brian Snyder, ASU TV-production specialist, teaches how to use a video camera.

Registration for this free workshop is limited to 20 journalists, who will shoot videos in pairs at local businesses. “I am still surprised at how much can be learned in a day,” said Scott McCleskey, managing editor, North America, for Complinet.com. He took the workshop in March. ”This training was focused, practical and of immediate use to me back in my organization.”

YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Brian Snyder is the TV-production specialist for the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University and a faculty associate, teaching videography and non-linear editing. Snyder has worked as a high school journalism teacher, teaching both print and broadcast classes.

Before that he was a sports anchor/reporter at KLST-TV in Texas. Additionally, Snyder works with the Arizona Diamondbacks as part of their game-day operations staff.

Agenda for “Produce a Business News Video in a Day” Workshop

9:30 a.m.: Intro to video shooting, including equipment orientation

11 a.m.: Pair up in teams of two and shoot video at a nearby business

1 p.m.: Lunch

1:30 p.m.: Instruction in editing in Final Cut Pro

2:30 p.m.: Edit

5 p.m.: Critique of finished videos

6 p.m. Adjourn

The video below is a student’s video filmed during one of Brian’s one-day sessions. Students were sent out to Phoenix-area businesses. This one was shot at Bunky Boutique.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Please do not register unless you are sincere about participating. Our workshops are often oversubscribed. Signing up and not participating deprives someone else of the opportunity.

Those who successfully complete three regional workshops or online seminars presented by the Reynolds Center are eligible to receive a “Circle of Achievement” award certificate.