Free Online Video Offers Training for Multimedia Journalists

The New England News Forum is offering a free online 90-minute video on journalism training and information, called "Rebooting Your Newsroom: Adding Blogs, Podcasts, Citizens and the Web."

The video is available for downloading or streaming, at http://www.archive.org/details/NEPABOSTON2008

The journalism resource is an edited Internet-based video of the workshop of the same name, which the New England Press Association presented at its annual convention on Feb. 9, 2008, in Boston.

A high-resolution DVD may be ordered for $30 from jtm@mediagiraffe.org.

Portions of the video include:

VIDEO: "It can't get much easier"
* Steve Garfield, a pioneering Boston-based videoblogger and correspondent for the daily videoblog Rocketboom.com.

WEEKLIES: "You, too, can have an interactive Web site"
* Jeff Potter, editor and publisher of the Shelburne Falls (MA) Independent.

Training/STAFF -- "Fresno's invention convention"
* Jennifer Ward, interactive editor at The Fresno (CA) Bee

USERS: "How reliable a source?"
* Mark Potts, blogger, consultant to Philly.com and former WashingtonPost.com executive.

Training/PUBLIC -- "The citizen-media academy"
* Cody Howard, news director, 6-News, a cable station owned by the Lawrence (KS) Journal World.

BLOGS: "The new link with readers/users?"
* Steve Fox, journalism professor, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst.

The New England New Forum (NewEnglandNews.org) is a non-profit collaboration among news professionals and others who support independent and accountable journalism.

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