Course Overview
- Title:
- Collaboration With Users
- Type:
- Seminar Snapshot
- Cost:
- $24.95
- Time Estimate:
- One hour and 20 minutes
About Seminar Snapshots
A Seminar Snapshot captures the key learning points of a seminar presentation at The Poynter Institute or at another training event. A snapshot features edited video highlights and other materials offered during a seminar presentation.
Amanda Michel, director of distributed reporting at ProPublica, shares the techniques you can use to ask for user contributions and how you can build on that information to deliver high-impact stories. She emphasizes how to identify what information you want, how to ask for it in a systematic way that gets results and how to track the responses and follow up with professional reporting.
The presentation was given May 6, 2010, as part of a two-day conference at The Poynter Institute, “Stretching Your News Budget with User Content.”
What Will I Learn:
- How to solicit specific stories and information from many people
- How to create user-generated features to solicit random information
- How to create a reporting team
- How to motivate the right users to respond and keep them involved over time
Who should take this course:
Editors, producers and reporters in any medium who want to draw on the knowledge of users to create high-impact stories.
Amanda Michel
Amanda Michel is the director of distributed reporting at ProPublica. She recently directed HuffPost's OffTheBus, a ground-breaking citizen journalism site. She has also worked as an online organizer and strategist for political campaigns, including the Internet teams for Howard Dean and John Kerry.
Technical Requirements:
This Broadcast contains audio. Please make sure you've got your headphones and speakers adjusted.