Course Overview
- Title:
- Multimedia Reporting: Covering Breaking News
- Type:
- Self-Directed Course
- Time Estimate:
- This course takes about an hour to complete.
About Self-Directed Courses
In a self-directed course, you can start and stop whenever you like, progressing entirely at your own pace and going back as many times as you want to review the material.
In the days that followed Hurricane Katrina, online news organizations took stock of their skills and resources and turned out some of the best work to date. They sent video reporters out on boats to float through the streets of New Orleans. They fashioned multimedia blogs out of the simplest of technologies. They set up forums for citizen participation. And a few of them saved lives in the process.
This course examines the compelling journalism of six online news organizations:
- NOLA.com
- latimes.com
- MSNBC.com
- washingtonpost.com
- USATODAY.com
- Magnum in Motion
They managed to get great stories despite the chaos and disorder of those first few days. The course details lessons from the Katrina coverage that you may adapt to your news organization.
What Will I Learn:
Upon completing this course, you will be able to:
- Improve your technical skills and preparedness as a multimedia reporter
- Prioritize multimedia training issues for your reporters and editors
- Prepare your newsroom to create groundbreaking multimedia reports in all types of situations
Who should take this course:
Reporters, producers, editors and anyone who wants to explore ways to cover breaking news online before the next big story breaks.
Training Partner:
Online News Association
The Online News Association is the world's largest association of online journalists, with more than 1,700 members. ONA's mission is to inspire innovation and excellence among journalists to better serve the public.
Technical Requirements:
For this course you will need to have at least version 7.0 of the Flash plugin installed. For the best experience, we suggest that:
- PC users use Internet Explorer or Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox
- Mac users use Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox or Safari
- You set your monitor resolution to 1024 x 768 or higher
- You use a high-speed connection