Calendar of Multimedia and Training Events

By Ameena Rasheed, NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force Intern

Webbmedia Group has a great mega calendar of events that catches things not covered below. If you want to subscribe to the calendar, click here. You can also subscribe to this calendar so the information appears on your personal Google Calendar. Just go to the Webbmedia Google calendar, click the “+Google Calendar” icon at the bottom right, and then click “Yes, add this calendar” in the dialog box). The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism has its training calendar posted for courses through July 2013.

APRIL

• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism will award two $1,000 fellowships to attend the annual conference of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) in Washington April 4-6. NABJ member Christopher Nelson, NBC News Assignment Editor , was one of last year’s winners.
• Join NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force Chair Benét Wilson for the next  DJTF TweetChat — Mobile Journalism Tools You Can Use — on Monday, April 8 at 8:00 p.m. EDT.  We’ll recommend tools for smartphones and tablets and take your questions. The hashtag is #DJTFChat.
• See how Spundge can help you cover a beat, research stories, collaborate with colleagues and create content and curated streams with its Content Curation and Creation with Spundge: A Digital Tools Tutorial webinar. This webinar is part of the Digital Tools Project at 2 p.m. Eastern time, April 10.
• Learn how award-winning professionals work through the creative process of storytelling on a deadline in these on-demand video replays in the Video Storytelling with the Pros: Creativity on a Deadline training package.
• The Society for Features Journalism is offering the 2013 Penny Bender Fuchs Diversity Fellowship for  journalists of color who produce arts and features content for news organizations or those interested in pursuing careers in arts and features. SFJ is hosting this  award in conjunction with its annual convention. Fellowships cover SFJ conference registration, airfare , hotel and a $300 stipend for other SFJ expenses. The application deadline is April 15.
• The Data Visualization Summit will be taking place on April 10-13 in San Francisco. The summit brings together leaders in Data Viz to explain and clarifiy the numerous benefits of using data visualization. If you would like to attend please contact Victoria Elton at velton@theiegroup.com.
• The National Conference for Media Reform is dedicated to changing  the media and building a better democracy. The conference will be held in Denver on April 5-7.
• The National Association of Black Journalists will be hosting its 2013 NABJ Conference on Health Disparities in Washington D.C. on April 4. Topics addressed at the Media Institute will include the social determinants of health, creative community solutions to health care access and prevention, newly enacted provisions of the Affordable Care Act and HIV/AIDS in the black community. Previous conference have addressed mental health, childhood obesity, and infant mortality.
• The National Association of Black Journalists will be hosting the 2013 NABJ Region V Conference on April 19-20. This two-day conference will include journalism workshops featuring media professionals and educators. Workshops will be offered in the following areas: radio production and programming, print journalism, television news reporting, social media and career preparation.
• USC Annenberg’s Knight Digital Media Center is hosting a Show Me the Numbers: Basic Metrics to Grow Your Project webinar on Wednesday, April 10 at 2 p.m. EST.  This free hands-on webinar will provide tangible strategies to use Google Analytics, Facebook Insights and other tools to measure results and make strategic decisions about your online project or web site.
• Get expert advice in working with writers to generate better story ideas and tell them in ways that resonate with readers at the Editors Boot Camp 2013: A Poynter Broadcast presentation. Learn more about how to join us either online or in-person for this April 22 event at 9 a.m. Eastern time.
• Mark your calendars for April 12-13 when NABJ-MU and the Diederich College of Communication will host the 2013 Midwest Journalism Summit. More than 75 journalism students from around the region will gather for two days of networking, hearing from seasoned journalists and participating in workshops and panels designed to build their journalism skills and savvy in whichever type of media they choose to pursue.
• The American Society of Journalists and Authors is hosting its annual writer’s conference on April 25-27 in New York City. The conference is geared toward freelance writers who are looking to supercharge their careers.

• Calling all entrepreneurs! The Ray Taliaferro NABJ Entrepreneurial Spirit Award seeks to encourage and promote journalistic entrepreneurship. The grant is awarded annually to one recipient as recognition for the introduction or significant innovation of a new or existing media enterprise. The winner will receive $5,000 and a trip to NABJ’s 2013 Convention in Orlando! The deadline is April 19.

• Blogalicious is planning its first-ever TECH Summit for aspiring and active startup founders, software developers and coders, bloggers with technology interests and tech thought-leaders on April 18 in Washington, D.C.

MAY

• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is holding a free two-part online webinar, “Getting the Goods – Interviews that Work,” on May 8-9 at noon or 4:00 p.m. EST. Pulitzer Prize winner Jacqui Banaszynski will explore the core purposes, techniques and ethics of the interview process. She will reveal different interview approaches that work best in different situations and that apply to any genre of journalism. On Day 2, she will focus on interviews that produce not just information, but true stories, rich with character, scene and detail.
• The collaboration between the Human Resources teams at NPR and Twitter, #NPRTwitterChat, has now been extended to a quarterly series. The one hour chat, covered in the Mashable article, ‘How to Effectively Use Twitter as a Job Search Resource‘, brings together a mix of global subject matter experts at the intersections of human resources, recruiting and social media to share insights and tips with job seekers. The next #NPRTwitterChat will be held on Thursday, May 16 from 4 to 5 p.m. EST.
• The Sunlight Foundation’s 5th annual TransparencyCamp on May 4th and 5th at the George Washington University’s Marvin Center, Washington, DC. For the last five years, they’ve gathered together a variety of journalists, policy creators, technologists, concerned citizens, academics, watchdogs, and others to build community, share best practices, and problem-solve challenges to work in the transparency arena.
• Learn how to pitch articles and reach out to major media outlets to get coverage for your book with the Self-Publishing Finishing School’s Marketing & Publicity Part 2 session at 2-3 p.m. on Wednesday, May 1.
• Expert John Low will show you the similarities and differences between print books and eBooks with  the Self-Publishing Finishing School’s Format Your eBook for Publication session at 2-3 p.m. on Wednesday, May 8.
• Reporters who cover education and the difficult issues around teacher evaluation are invited to apply to attend “Grading the Teachers,” a McCormick Specialized Reporting Institute on May 8-10 in Detroit.

JUNE

• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is holding a free two-part online webinar, “The Business of Me,” June 4-6 at noon or 4:00 p.m. In this three-day webinar with Mark Luckie of Twitter, learn how to brand and market yourself and to pitch your ideas, plus understand the basics of financial and time management. Identify five next steps to advance your career as an entrepreneur.
• The Knight Digital Media Center is taking applications for its two-week “Multimedia Storytelling Institute 2013,” June 10-21 at UC-Berkeley. This intensive two-week program provides seminar style and hands-on training in essential skills for digital media production. The institute is ideal for journalists, educators and communication professionals interested in a rapid-paced immersible experience in multimedia content creation through delivery. The cost is $5,400; there’s a 10% discount if you register before May 10.
• The Online News Association is partnering with the Global Editors Network to present several sessions at the Global News Summit 2013: Hack the Newsroom! (#GEN2013) conference on June 19-21 in Paris, France at Hotel de Ville, 5 rue de Lobau, 75004 Paris. The conference will feature industry experts giving you the tools and strategies you need to help seed, encourage and implement experimentation and start-up culture in your digital newsroom. Registration is open to all ONA members and you can save 30 percent on registration if you purchase your tickets by Feb. 18. Early bird tickets are € 839 ($1,119.95) for GEN and ONA members and € 1,199 ($1,600.31).

JULY

• The National Association of Black Journalists welcomes you to join us from July 31-August 4, 2013 as we gather in Orlando for the 38th Annual Convention and Career Fair! Thousands of journalists, media executives, public relations professionals, and students are expected to attend to network, participate in professional development sessions and celebrate excellence in journalism.

If you have items you wish to include, please email them to me at benet AT aviationqueen DOT COM. Thanks!!

Calendar of Multimedia Training and Events

By Ameena Rasheed, NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force Intern

Webbmedia Group has a great mega calendar of events that catches things not covered below. If you want to subscribe to the calendar, click here. You can also subscribe to this calendar so the information appears on your personal Google Calendar. Just go to the Webbmedia Google calendar, click the “+Google Calendar” icon at the bottom right, and then click “Yes, add this calendar” in the dialog box). The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism has its training calendar posted for courses through July 2013.

MARCH

• Explore strategies and statistics to help you tell powerful stories with context, accuracy and sensitivity with the Reporting on Sexual Violenceself-directed course. Developed in partnership with the National Sexual Violence Resource Center.
• Journalists can learn the the essential skills that you need to tell, and sell, travel stories with NewsU’s On the Road With Serious Intent: A Journalistic Approach to Travel Writing online seminar starting on March 29 through April 26.
• Looking for sources and resources for covering child sexual abuse, school/youth violence, or to localize international stories? NewsU offers tips and links on these and other topics with Reporting Resources, gathered from the McCormick Foundation’s Specialized Reporting Program.

APRIL

• The NABJ Associate Members Task Force will host a TweetChat on Jobs/Careers in Communications on April 2 at 7:00 p.m. ET.  A panel of experts will share their experiences on how they got hired, how they stay employed and much more.
• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism will award two $1,000 fellowships to attend the annual conference of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) in Washington April 4-6. NABJ member Christopher Nelson, NBC News Assignment Editor , was one of last year’s winners.
• See how Spundge can help you cover a beat, research stories, collaborate with colleagues and create content and curated streams with its Content Curation and Creation with Spundge: A Digital Tools Tutorial webinar. This webinar is part of our Digital Tools Project at 2 p.m. Eastern time, April 10.
• Learn how award-winning professionals work through the creative process of storytelling on a deadline in these on-demand video replays in the Video Storytelling with the Pros: Creativity on a Deadline training package.
• Beginning in 2013, UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism will each year offer five $10,000 postgraduate Food and Farming Journalism Fellowships. The fellowship, a project of the Knight Center in Science and Environmental Journalism, is supported by a grant from The 11th Hour Project, a program of The Schmidt Family Foundation. Online applications are due April 1. The program will announce this year’s fellows by May 1.
• The Society for Features Journalism is offering the 2013 Penny Bender Fuchs Diversity Fellowship for  journalists of color who produce arts and features content for news organizations or those interested in pursuing careers in arts and features. SFJ is hosting this  award in conjunction with its annual convention. Fellowships cover SFJ conference registration, airfare , hotel and a $300 stipend for other SFJ expenses. The application deadline is April 15.
• The Data Visualization Summit will be taking place on April 10-13 in San Francisco. The summit brings together leaders in Data Viz to explain and clarifiy the numerous benefits of using data visualization. If you would like to attend please contact Victoria Elton at velton@theiegroup.com.
• The National Conference for Media Reform is dedicated to changing  the media and building a better democracy. The conference will be held in Denver on April 5-7.
• The National Association of Black Journalists will be hosting its 2013 NABJ Conference on Health Disparities in Washington D.C. on April 4. Topics addressed at the Media Institute will include the social determinants of health, creative community solutions to health care access and prevention, newly enacted provisions of the Affordable Care Act and HIV/AIDS in the black community. Previous conference have addressed mental health, childhood obesity, and infant mortality.
• The National Association of Black Journalists will be hosting the 2013 NABJ Region V Conference on April 19-20. This two-day conference will include journalism workshops featuring media professionals and educators. Workshops will be offered in the following areas: radio production and programming, print journalism, television news reporting, social media and career preparation.
• Get expert advice in working with writers to generate better story ideas and tell them in ways that resonate with readers at the Editors Boot Camp 2013: A Poynter Broadcast presentation. Learn more about how to join us either online or in-person for this April 22 event at 9 a.m. Eastern time.
• Mark your calendars for April 12-13 when NABJ-MU and the Diederich College of Communication will host the 2013 Midwest Journalism Summit. More than 75 journalism students from around the region will gather for two days of networking, hearing from seasoned journalists and participating in workshops and panels designed to build their journalism skills and savvy in whichever type of media they choose to pursue.
• The American Society of Journalists and Authors is hosting its annual writer’s conference on April 25-27 in New York City. The conference is geared toward freelance writers who are looking to supercharge their careers.

• Calling all entrepreneurs! The Ray Taliaferro NABJ Entrepreneurial Spirit Award seeks to encourage and promote journalistic entrepreneurship. The grant is awarded annually to one recipient as recognition for the introduction or significant innovation of a new or existing media enterprise. The winner will receive $5,000 and a trip to NABJ’s 2013 Convention in Orlando! The deadline is April 19.

• Blogalicious is planning its first-ever TECH Summit for aspiring and active startup founders, software developers and coders, bloggers with technology interests and tech thought-leaders on April 18 in Washington, D.C.

MAY

• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is holding a free two-part online webinar, “Getting the Goods – Interviews that Work,” on May 8-9 at noon or 4:00 p.m. EST. Pulitzer Prize winner Jacqui Banaszynski will explore the core purposes, techniques and ethics of the interview process. She will reveal different interview approaches that work best in different situations and that apply to any genre of journalism. On Day 2, she will focus on interviews that produce not just information, but true stories, rich with character, scene and detail.
• The collaboration between the Human Resources teams at NPR and Twitter, #NPRTwitterChat, has now been extended to a quarterly series. The one hour chat, covered in the Mashable article, ‘How to Effectively Use Twitter as a Job Search Resource‘, brings together a mix of global subject matter experts at the intersections of human resources, recruiting and social media to share insights and tips with job seekers. The next #NPRTwitterChat will be held on Thursday, May 16 from 4 to 5 p.m. EST.
• The Sunlight Foundation’s 5th annual TransparencyCamp on May 4th and 5th at the George Washington University’s Marvin Center, Washington, DC. For the last five years, they’ve gathered together a variety of journalists, policy creators, technologists, concerned citizens, academics, watchdogs, and others to build community, share best practices, and problem-solve challenges to work in the transparency arena.
• Learn how to pitch articles and reach out to major media outlets to get coverage for your book with the Self-Publishing Finishing School’s Marketing & Publicity Part 2 session at 2-3 p.m. on Wednesday, May 1.
• Expert John Low will show you the similarities and differences between print books and eBooks with  the Self-Publishing Finishing School’s Format Your eBook for Publication session at 2-3 p.m. on Wednesday, May 8.
• Reporters who cover education and the difficult issues around teacher evaluation are invited to apply to attend “Grading the Teachers,” a McCormick Specialized Reporting Institute on May 8-10 in Detroit.

JUNE

• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is holding a free two-part online webinar, “The Business of Me,” June 4-6 at noon or 4:00 p.m. In this three-day webinar with Mark Luckie of Twitter, learn how to brand and market yourself and to pitch your ideas, plus understand the basics of financial and time management. Identify five next steps to advance your career as an entrepreneur.
• The Knight Digital Media Center is taking applications for its two-week “Multimedia Storytelling Institute 2013,” June 10-21 at UC-Berkeley. This intensive two-week program provides seminar style and hands-on training in essential skills for digital media production. The institute is ideal for journalists, educators and communication professionals interested in a rapid-paced immersible experience in multimedia content creation through delivery. The cost is $5,400; there’s a 10% discount if you register before May 10.
• The Online News Association is partnering with the Global Editors Network to present several sessions at the Global News Summit 2013: Hack the Newsroom! (#GEN2013) conference on June 19-21 in Paris, France at Hotel de Ville, 5 rue de Lobau, 75004 Paris. The conference will feature industry experts giving you the tools and strategies you need to help seed, encourage and implement experimentation and start-up culture in your digital newsroom. Registration is open to all ONA members and you can save 30 percent on registration if you purchase your tickets by Feb. 18. Early bird tickets are € 839 ($1,119.95) for GEN and ONA members and € 1,199 ($1,600.31).

JULY

• The National Association of Black Journalists welcomes you to join us from July 31-August 4, 2013 as we gather in Orlando for the 38th Annual Convention and Career Fair! Thousands of journalists, media executives, public relations professionals, and students are expected to attend to network, participate in professional development sessions and celebrate excellence in journalism.

If you have items you wish to include, please email them to me at benet AT aviationqueen DOT COM. Thanks!!

Calendar of Multimedia Training and Events

By Ameena Rasheed, NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force Intern

Webbmedia Group has a great mega calendar of events that catches things not covered below. If you want to subscribe to the calendar, click here. You can also subscribe to this calendar so the information appears on your personal Google Calendar. Just go to the Webbmedia Google calendar, click the “+Google Calendar” icon at the bottom right, and then click “Yes, add this calendar” in the dialog box). The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism has its training calendar posted for courses through June 2013.

MARCH

• Enroll in the Audience Growth and Digital Content Strategies: API Training online course for your guide to key strategies for your digital content that can help your organization improve its digital presence and grow audience. Developed in partnership with the American Press Institute.
• Explore strategies and statistics to help you tell powerful stories with context, accuracy and sensitivity with the Reporting on Sexual Violence self-directed course. Developed in partnership with the National Sexual Violence Resource Center.
• Journalists can learn the the essential skills that you need to tell, and sell, travel stories with NewsU’s On the Road With Serious Intent: A Journalistic Approach to Travel Writing online seminar starting on March 29 through April 26.
• Looking for sources and resources for covering child sexual abuse, school/youth violence, or to localize international stories? NewsU offers tips and links on these and other topics with Reporting Resources, gathered from the McCormick Foundation’s Specialized Reporting Program.

APRIL

• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism will award two $1,000 fellowships to attend the annual conference of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) in Washington April 4-6. NABJ member Christopher Nelson, NBC News Assignment Editor , was one of last year’s winners.
• See how Spundge can help you cover a beat, research stories, collaborate with colleagues and create content and curated streams with its Content Curation and Creation with Spundge: A Digital Tools Tutorial webinar. This webinar is part of our Digital Tools Project at 2 p.m. Eastern time, April 10.
• Learn how award-winning professionals work through the creative process of storytelling on a deadline in these on-demand video replays in the Video Storytelling with the Pros: Creativity on a Deadline training package.
• Beginning in 2013, UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism will each year offer five $10,000 postgraduate Food and Farming Journalism Fellowships. The fellowship, a project of the Knight Center in Science and Environmental Journalism, is supported by a grant from The 11th Hour Project, a program of The Schmidt Family Foundation. Online applications are due April 1. The program will announce this year’s fellows by May 1.
• The Data Visualization Summit will be taking place on April 10-13 in San Francisco. The summit brings together leaders in Data Viz to explain and clarifiy the numerous benefits of using data visualization. If you would like to attend please contact Victoria Elton at velton@theiegroup.com.
• The National Conference for Media Reform is dedicated to changing  the media and building a better democracy. The conference will be held in Denver on April 5-7.
• The National Association of Black Journalists will be hosting its 2013 NABJ Conference on Health Disparities in Washington D.C. on April 4. Topics addressed at the Media Institute will include the social determinants of health, creative community solutions to health care access and prevention, newly enacted provisions of the Affordable Care Act and HIV/AIDS in the black community. Previous conference have addressed mental health, childhood obesity, and infant mortality.
• The National Association of Black Journalists will be hosting the 2013 NABJ Region V Conference on April 19-20. This two-day conference will include journalism workshops featuring media professionals and educators. Workshops will be offered in the following areas: radio production and programming, print journalism, television news reporting, social media and career preparation.
• Get expert advice in working with writers to generate better story ideas and tell them in ways that resonate with readers at the Editors Boot Camp 2013: A Poynter Broadcast presentation. Learn more about how to join us either online or in-person for this April 22 event at 9 a.m. Eastern time.
• Mark your calendars for April 12-13 when NABJ-MU and the Diederich College of Communication will host the 2013 Midwest Journalism Summit. More than 75 journalism students from around the region will gather for two days of networking, hearing from seasoned journalists and participating in workshops and panels designed to build their journalism skills and savvy in whichever type of media they choose to pursue.
• The American Society of Journalists and Authors is hosting its annual writer’s conference on April 25-27 in New York City. The conference is geared toward freelance writers who are looking to supercharge their careers. The early bird registration discount ends March 22.

MAY

• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is holding a free two-part online webinar, “Getting the Goods – Interviews that Work,” on May 8-9 at noon or 4:00 p.m. EST. Pulitzer Prize winner Jacqui Banaszynski will explore the core purposes, techniques and ethics of the interview process. She will reveal different interview approaches that work best in different situations and that apply to any genre of journalism. On Day 2, she will focus on interviews that produce not just information, but true stories, rich with character, scene and detail.
• The collaboration between the Human Resources teams at NPR and Twitter, #NPRTwitterChat, has now been extended to a quarterly series. The one hour chat, covered in the Mashable article, ‘How to Effectively Use Twitter as a Job Search Resource‘, brings together a mix of global subject matter experts at the intersections of human resources, recruiting and social media to share insights and tips with job seekers. The next #NPRTwitterChat will be held on Thursday, May 16 from 4 to 5 p.m. EST.
• The Sunlight Foundation’s 5th annual TransparencyCamp on May 4th and 5th at the George Washington University’s Marvin Center, Washington, DC. For the last five years, they’ve gathered together a variety of journalists, policy creators, technologists, concerned citizens, academics, watchdogs, and others to build community, share best practices, and problem-solve challenges to work in the transparency arena.

JUNE

• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is holding a free two-part online webinar, “The Business of Me,” June 4-6 at noon or 4:00 p.m. In this three-day webinar with Mark Luckie of Twitter, learn how to brand and market yourself and to pitch your ideas, plus understand the basics of financial and time management. Identify five next steps to advance your career as an entrepreneur.
• The Knight Digital Media Center is taking applications for its two-week “Multimedia Storytelling Institute 2013,” June 10-21 at UC-Berkeley. This intensive two-week program provides seminar style and hands-on training in essential skills for digital media production. The institute is ideal for journalists, educators and communication professionals interested in a rapid-paced immersible experience in multimedia content creation through delivery. The cost is $5,400; there’s a 10% discount if you register before May 10.
• The Online News Association is partnering with the Global Editors Network to present several sessions at the Global News Summit 2013: Hack the Newsroom! (#GEN2013) conference on June 19-21 in Paris, France at Hotel de Ville, 5 rue de Lobau, 75004 Paris. The conference will feature industry experts giving you the tools and strategies you need to help seed, encourage and implement experimentation and start-up culture in your digital newsroom. Registration is open to all ONA members and you can save 30 percent on registration if you purchase your tickets by Feb. 18. Early bird tickets are € 839 ($1,119.95) for GEN and ONA members and € 1,199 ($1,600.31).

JULY

• The National Association of Black Journalists welcomes you to join us from July 31-August 4, 2013 as we gather in Orlando for the 38th Annual Convention and Career Fair! Thousands of journalists, media executives, public relations professionals, and students are expected to attend to network, participate in professional development sessions and celebrate excellence in journalism.

If you have items you wish to include, please email them to me at benet AT aviationqueen DOT COM. Thanks!!

Calendar of Multimedia Training and Events

By Ameena Rasheed, NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force Intern

Webbmedia Group has a great mega calendar of events that catches things not covered below. If you want to subscribe to the calendar, click here. You can also subscribe to this calendar so the information appears on your personal Google Calendar. Just go to the Webbmedia Google calendar, click the “+Google Calendar” icon at the bottom right, and then click “Yes, add this calendar” in the dialog box). The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism has its training calendar posted for courses through June 2013.

MARCH

• The Knight Digital Media Center at UC-Berkeley is hosting a two-day, hands-on certification program, “Create Meaning from Data,” focused on communicating complex information with visually appealing charts, graphs and maps. It will be held March 8-9 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at UC-Berkeley’s North Gate Hall. Tuition costs $645. Participants will learn to create a clearer, more meaningful picture of complex statistics and publicly available data, tell stories with interactive GIS maps, and create beautiful and effective graphs and charts. Click here to register.
• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is holding a free online webinar, “Power Searching for Business Journalists,” March 19 at noon EST. In this free, hour-long online training, Google senior research scientist Daniel M. Russell will offer his tips, techniques and strategies for using Google to find what might seem to be impossible.
• The Future Journalism Project, media initiative which explores disruption, opportunity and innovation across the media landscape, is looking for spring 2013 interns.
• Harvard Writers is hosting a 3-day course, “Achieving Healthcare Leadership and Outcomes through Writing and Publishing,” for physicians, healthcare professionals and writers who want to publish nonfiction in print form. The course will be held at the Boston Marriott Cambridge in Cambridge, M.A..
• The Knight Digital Media Center at UC-Berkeley is hosting a two-day, hands-on certification program, “Create Meaning from Data,” focused on communicating complex information with visually appealing charts, graphs and maps. It will be held March 8-9 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at UC-Berkeley’s North Gate Hall. Tuition costs $645. Participants will learn to create a clearer, more meaningful picture of complex statistics and publicly available data, tell stories with interactive GIS maps, and create beautiful and effective graphs and charts. Click here to register.
• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is holding a free online webinar, “Power Searching for Business Journalists,” March 19 at noon EST. In this free, hour-long, online training, Google senior research scientist Daniel M. Russell will offer his tips, techniques and strategies for using Google to find what might seem to be impossible.
• The Digital Media Summit will be returning to Toronto on March 19-20 at the Toronto Marriott Eaton Center Hotel. You can use the promo code DMSMASH13 to receive a discount on the delegate badge.

APRIL

• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism will award two $1,000 fellowships to attend the annual conference of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) in Washington April 4-6. NABJ member Christopher Nelson, NBC News Assignment Editor , was one of last year’s winners.
• Beginning in 2013, UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism will each year offer five $10,000 postgraduate Food and Farming Journalism Fellowships. The fellowship, a project of the Knight Center in Science and Environmental Journalism, is supported by a grant from The 11th Hour Project, a program of The Schmidt Family Foundation. Online applications are due April 1. The program will announce this year’s fellows by May 1.
• The Data Visualization Summit will be taking place on April 10-13 in San Francisco. The summit brings together leaders in Data Viz to explain and clarifiy the numerous benefits of using data visualization. If you would like to attend please contact Victoria Elton at velton@theiegroup.com.
• The National Conference for Media Reform is dedicated to changing  the media and building a better democracy. The conference will be held in Denver on April 5-7.
• The National Association of Black Journalists will be hosting its 2013 NABJ Conference on Health Disparities in Washington D.C. on April 4. Topics addressed at the Media Institute will include the social determinants of health, creative community solutions to health care access and prevention, newly enacted provisions of the Affordable Care Act and HIV/AIDS in the black community. Previous conference have addressed mental health, childhood obesity, and infant mortality.
• The National Association of Black Journalists will be hosting the 2013 NABJ Region V Conference on April 19-20. This two-day conference will include journalism workshops featuring media professionals and educators. Workshops will be offered in the following areas: radio production and programming, print journalism, television news reporting, social media and career preparation.

MAY

• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is holding a free two-part online webinar, “Getting the Goods – Interviews that Work,” on May 8-9 at noon or 4:00 p.m. EST. Pulitzer Prize winner Jacqui Banaszynski will explore the core purposes, techniques and ethics of the interview process. She will reveal different interview approaches that work best in different situations and that apply to any genre of journalism. On Day 2, she will focus on interviews that produce not just information, but true stories, rich with character, scene and detail.
• The collaboration between the Human Resources teams at NPR and Twitter, #NPRTwitterChat, has now been extended to a quarterly series. The one hour chat, covered in the Mashable article, ‘How to Effectively Use Twitter as a Job Search Resource‘, brings together a mix of global subject matter experts at the intersections of human resources, recruiting and social media to share insights and tips with job seekers. The next #NPRTwitterChat will be held on Thursday, May 16 from 4 to 5 p.m. EST.

JUNE

• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is holding a free two-part online webinar, “The Business of Me,” June 4-6 at noon or 4:00 p.m. In this three-day webinar with Mark Luckie of Twitter, learn how to brand and market yourself and to pitch your ideas, plus understand the basics of financial and time management. Identify five next steps to advance your career as an entrepreneur.
• The Knight Digital Media Center is taking applications for its two-week “Multimedia Storytelling Institute 2013,” June 10-21 at UC-Berkeley. This intensive two-week program provides seminar style and hands-on training in essential skills for digital media production. The institute is ideal for journalists, educators and communication professionals interested in a rapid-paced immersible experience in multimedia content creation through delivery. The cost is $5,400; there’s a 10% discount if you register before May 10.
• The Online News Association is partnering with the Global Editors Network to present several sessions at the Global News Summit 2013: Hack the Newsroom! (#GEN2013) conference on June 19-21 in Paris, France at Hotel de Ville, 5 rue de Lobau, 75004 Paris. The conference will feature industry experts giving you the tools and strategies you need to help seed, encourage and implement experimentation and start-up culture in your digital newsroom. Registration is open to all ONA members and you can save 30 percent on registration if you purchase your tickets by Feb. 18. Early bird tickets are € 839 ($1,119.95) for GEN and ONA members and € 1,199 ($1,600.31).

JULY

• The National Association of Black Journalists welcomes you to join us from July 31-August 4, 2013 as we gather in Orlando for the 38th Annual Convention and Career Fair! Thousands of journalists, media executives, public relations professionals, and students are expected to attend to network, participate in professional development sessions and celebrate excellence in journalism.

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Calendar of Multimedia Training and Events

By Ameena Rasheed, NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force Intern

Webbmedia Group has a great mega calendar of events that catches things not covered below. If you want to subscribe to the calendar, click here. You can also subscribe to this calendar so the information appears on your personal Google Calendar. Just go to the Webbmedia Google calendar, click the “+Google Calendar” icon at the bottom right, and then click “Yes, add this calendar” in the dialog box). The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism has its training calendar posted for courses through June 2013.

MARCH

• The National Association of Black Journalists will be hosting the 2013 NABJ Region 3 Conference on March 8-10 at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina. The conference program will offer participants an opportunity to sharpen old skills,
  learn new ones, and engage in valuable networking.
• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is holding a free online webinar, “Branding for Journalists: You Being You,” March 5, 2013, at noon or 4:00 p.m., EST. In this free, one-hour webinar, Robin J. Phillips, the Reynolds Center’s digital director, will show you some simple tips to take control of your image, and accentuate the value of who you are and what you do best – apart from your news organization.
• The Knight Digital Media Center at UC-Berkeley is offering an intensive 9-week graduate level certificate program, “Content & Strategy,” which focuses on the strategic implementation and production of digital media content combining seminar style instruction with practical hands-on training. The program is from March 5 through May 2. There will be presentations by world-class trainers, award-winning journalists and industry leaders, including Richard Koci Hernandez, Len De Groot, Jerry Monti. Tuition costs are $5,900. For more information, click here.
• The Knight Digital Media Center at UC-Berkeley is hosting a two-day, hands-on certification program, “Create Meaning from Data,” focused on communicating complex information with visually appealing charts, graphs and maps. It will be held March 8-9 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at UC-Berkeley’s North Gate Hall. Tuition costs $645. Participants will learn to create a clearer, more meaningful picture of complex statistics and publicly available data, tell stories with interactive GIS maps, and create beautiful and effective graphs and charts. Click here to register.
• The Investigative Reporters and Editors are hosting the “2013 Salt Lake City Watchdog Workshop” in Salt Lake City, Utah on Friday, March 15 through Saturday, March 16. This training will offer several of our core sessions that will improve your ability to find information on the Web quickly, and point you to key documents and data that will help you add depth to your daily work and produce quick-hit enterprise stories. In addition, this workshop will give you tips on bulletproofing stories, digging deeper on the Web with social media, search engines and much more. Workshop fees: $55 Professional, $25 Student and $30 Optional Computer-Assisted Reporting Training. Registration closes on Friday, March 8 at 7 p.m.
• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is holding a free online webinar, “Power Searching for Business Journalists,” March 19 at noon EST. In this free, hour-long online training, Google senior research scientist Daniel M. Russell will offer his tips, techniques and strategies for using Google to find what might seem to be impossible.
• The Future Journalism Project, media initiative which explores disruption, opportunity and innovation across the media landscape, is looking for spring 2013 interns.
• Harvard Writers is hosting a 3-day course, “Achieving Healthcare Leadership and Outcomes through Writing and Publishing,” for physicians, healthcare professionals and writers who want to publish nonfiction in print form. The course will be held at the Boston Marriott Cambridge in Cambridge, M.A..
• The Knight Digital Media Center at UC-Berkeley is hosting a two-day, hands-on certification program, “Create Meaning from Data,” focused on communicating complex information with visually appealing charts, graphs and maps. It will be held March 8-9 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at UC-Berkeley’s North Gate Hall. Tuition costs $645 and there is a 10% early registration discount through Feb. 1. Participants will learn to create a clearer, more meaningful picture of complex statistics and publicly available data, tell stories with interactive GIS maps, and create beautiful and effective graphs and charts. Click here to register.
• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is holding a free online webinar, “Power Searching for Business Journalists,” March 19 at noon EST. In this free, hour-long, online training, Google senior research scientist Daniel M. Russell will offer his tips, techniques and strategies for using Google to find what might seem to be impossible.
• The Digital Media Summit will be returning to Toronto on March 19-20 at the Toronto Marriott Eaton Center Hotel. You can use the promo code DMSMASH13 to receive a discount on the delegate badge.

APRIL

• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism will award two $1,000 fellowships to attend the annual conference of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) in Washington April 4-6. NABJ member Christopher Nelson, a freelance journalist based in Baltimore, was one of last year’s winners.
• Beginning in 2013, UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism will each year offer five $10,000 postgraduate Food and Farming Journalism Fellowships. The fellowship, a project of the Knight Center in Science and Environmental Journalism, is supported by a grant from The 11th Hour Project, a program of The Schmidt Family Foundation. Online applications are due April 1. The program will announce this year’s fellows by May 1.
• The Data Visualization Summit will be taking place on April 10-13 in San Francisco. The summit brings together leaders in Data Viz to explain and clarifiy the numerous benefits of using data visualization. If you would like to attend please contact Victoria Elton at velton@theiegroup.com.
• The National Conference for Media Reform is dedicated to changing  the media and building a better democracy. The conference will be held in Denver on April 5-7.
• The National Association of Black Journalists will be hosting its 2013 NABJ Conference on Health Disparities in Washington D.C. on April 4. Topics addressed at the Media Institute will include the social determinants of health, creative community solutions to health care access and prevention, newly enacted provisions of the Affordable Care Act and HIV/AIDS in the black community. Previous conference have addressed mental health, childhood obesity, and infant mortality.

MAY

• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is holding a free two-part online webinar, “Getting the Goods – Interviews that Work,” on May 8-9 at noon or 4:00 p.m. EST. Pulitzer Prize winner Jacqui Banaszynski will explore the core purposes, techniques and ethics of the interview process. She will reveal different interview approaches that work best in different situations and that apply to any genre of journalism. On Day 2, she will focus on interviews that produce not just information, but true stories, rich with character, scene and detail.
• The collaboration between the Human Resources teams at NPR and Twitter, #NPRTwitterChat, has now been extended to a quarterly series. The one hour chat, covered in the Mashable article, ‘How to Effectively Use Twitter as a Job Search Resource‘, brings together a mix of global subject matter experts at the intersections of human resources, recruiting and social media to share insights and tips with job seekers. The next #NPRTwitterChat will be held on Thursday, May 16 from 4 to 5 p.m. EST.

JUNE

• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is holding a free two-part online webinar, “The Business of Me,” June 4-6 at noon or 4:00 p.m. In this three-day webinar with Mark Luckie of Twitter, learn how to brand and market yourself and to pitch your ideas, plus understand the basics of financial and time management. Identify five next steps to advance your career as an entrepreneur.
• The Knight Digital Media Center is taking applications for its two-week “Multimedia Storytelling Institute 2013,” June 10-21 at UC-Berkeley. This intensive two-week program provides seminar style and hands-on training in essential skills for digital media production. The institute is ideal for journalists, educators and communication professionals interested in a rapid-paced immersible experience in multimedia content creation through delivery. The cost is $5,400; there’s a 10% discount if you register before May 10.
• The Online News Association is partnering with the Global Editors Network to present several sessions at the Global News Summit 2013: Hack the Newsroom! (#GEN2013) conference on June 19-21 in Paris, France at Hotel de Ville, 5 rue de Lobau, 75004 Paris. The conference will feature industry experts giving you the tools and strategies you need to help seed, encourage and implement experimentation and start-up culture in your digital newsroom. Registration is open to all ONA members and you can save 30 percent on registration if you purchase your tickets by Feb. 18. Early bird tickets are € 839 ($1,119.95) for GEN and ONA members and € 1,199 ($1,600.31).

JULY

• The National Association of Black Journalists welcomes you to join us from July 31-August 4, 2013 as we gather in Orlando for the 38th Annual Convention and Career Fair! Thousands of journalists, media executives, public relations professionals, and students are expected to attend to network, participate in professional development sessions and celebrate excellence in journalism.

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Top Five Reasons to Apply for the Reynolds Center for Business Journalism Fellowship

By Christopher E. Nelson, NBC News Assignment Editor

Nelson at a CAR workshop in 2012 taught by Jaimi Dowdell (foreground), training director for Investigative Reporters and Editors. Photo courtesy of Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, via Flickr.

Last spring I was fortunate enough to receive one two Reynolds Center for Business Journalism fellowships, which allowed me to attend the Society of American Business Editors and Writers conference. For me, it was an eye-opening experience and my first real exposure to the world of business journalism.

In addition to attending the SABEW conference I was also fortunate enough to receive computer assisted reporting training through a workshop presented by the Reynolds Center in conjunction with Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc.  So here are my reasons why you should apply for this year’s fellowships.

1. The business beat is a comprehensive one.

Business reporters have to know a little about a lot. Almost every day their stories could include bits about politics, government, the economy, society and culture. If you choose to become a business journalist, you’ll learn to be a better journalist,  and without a doubt you’ll become a better informed one.

 

2. Journalists of color are underrepresented on the business beat.

As a journalist of color, you might want to consider business journalism. There are a number of business networks on TV.  CNBC, Bloomberg, and Fox Business, but also new and relatively new outlets from Atlantic Media’s Quartz to BusinessInsider.com. These outlets are making solid attempts at explaining money matters in interesting ways.

3. You’ll learn about the future of the journalism industry.

At last year’s SABEW conference, I heard more about data visualization  something I was not all that familiar with. Data visualization jobs are an emerging hot job in journalism as papers, and web outlets hire reporters who can communicate important information in a great way.

4. It’s a great opportunity to meet industry leaders who have excelled at different beats, and then made a new path by writing about business and the economy.

From Diana Henriques, who literally wrote the book on Bernie Madoff to sports business reporter Sam Mamudi to personal finance columnist Gail Marks Jarvis, I heard incredible stories from some of the best in the business about the world of business. Who would have thought you could talk crime, politics, sports, and so much more at a conference of business writers?

5. Winning a Reynolds Center Fellowship is only the beginning; it truly opens the door to what the Reynolds Center can offer you — lots and lots of FREE training.

Even after attending SABEW, I’ve found that the Reynolds Center continues to offer free training that is not only interesting, but quite informative. It’s so important to stay current on trends, and hot topics, and the Reynolds Center helps journalists to do that, free of charge.

So apply today and become one of the Reynolds Center 2013 Fellows! It’s a great experience that continues to pay off.

- Nelson is an assignment editor at NBC News based in New York. He was a 2012 Reynolds Center for Business Journalism Fellow and attended SABEW 2012 in Indianapolis.

Why I Donated To The For Journalism Kickstarter — And Why You Should Too!

By Benét J. Wilson, chair, NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force & social media/enewsletters editor, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association

Back at the beginning of 2013, the International Journalists’ Network website did a post entitled “Three skills journalists should learn in 2013.”  I’m not sure if they did this on purpose, but number one on the list is coding.  IJE says we need to learn to code in order to “spruce up a blog or to conceptualize remarkable projects.”

So when my friend and fellow Online News Association board member, USC professor Robert Hernandez, told me about a new Kickstarter to fund the For Journalism: Data Journalism For All project, created to teach journalists how to code different languages, I was hooked.

I believe in helping to fund good journalism projects, and For Journalism is the third Kickstarter I’ve supported.  The first was a project to help DJTF Secretary Kiratiana Freelon’s “Kiratiana’s Travel Guide To Multicultural London,” which helped fund her travel to cover the Summer Olympics and write her book.  You can read Kiratiana’s blog post about doing a Kickstarter program here.  The second was to keep Laura Amico’s DC Homicide Watch blog alive after she won a Nieman Fellowship.

Every dollar counts with the For Journalism Kickstarter, which ends on March 11.   Donations range from a low of $5 to a high of $10,000.  I donated $45, which will allow me to take Michelle Minkoff’s charting and visualization course.  So I encourage you to throw some dollars to this worthy project. Depending on how you donate, not only do you help a worthy project, but you can even take the courses!

Calendar of Multimedia Training and Events

By Ameena Rasheed, NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force Intern

Editor’s note: Join NABJ DJTF Secretary Kiratiana Freelon for a TweetChat — 10 Things You Can Do To Improve Your Digital Skills in 2013 — on Tuesday, Jan. 15 at 8:00 p.m. Eastern time.  She will offer up 10 ideas, including resource links.  Participants are also free to offer up their own resources.  The hashtag is #DJTFChat.  We will create a Storify of the event for those who can’t make it live.

Webbmedia Group has a great mega calendar of events that catches things not covered below.  If you want to subscribe to the calendar, click here.  You can also subscribe to this calendar so the information appears on your personal Google Calendar. Just go to the Webbmedia Google calendar, click the “+Google Calendar” icon at the bottom right, and then click “Yes, add this calendar” in the dialog box).  The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism has its training calendar posted for courses through April 2013.

JANUARY

• The National Press Club Journalism Institute is hosting “Spreadsheets 101″ (Jan. 7) and “Spreadsheets 102″ (Jan. 14) classes from 9 a.m. – 12 noon in its Bloomberg Room. Spreadsheets 101 will demonstrate how Excel and other programs can be powerful tools for putting yourself in charge of your data, following the campaign money and holding accountable the officials who spend our tax dollars. These classes will help orient reporters with basic and powerful features of Excel that make data analysis a snap, including importing, formatting and sorting. Spreadsheets 102 will get into more advanced features, such as pivot tables. The class will assume a basic level of familiarity with Excel (understanding terms such as “row,” “column” and “cell”), but even long-time users may learn some new things. Each class is $20 for NPC members and $40 for non-members. To register for 101 click here; for 102 click here.
• The Knight Digital Media Center at UC-Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism will hold an intensive three-day workshop, “Video Storytelling,” Jan. 9-11 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Graduate School of Journalism’s North Gate Hall. Participants will receive hands-on training in every phase of planning, production and digital delivery. There will be presentations by world-class trainers, award winning journalists and industry leaders, including Len De Groot, Jerry Monti.  Tuition is $1,395.
• The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at UT-Austin will be offering an online course, “Introduction to Infographics and Data Visualization,” Jan. 12 through Feb. 23. This course is an introduction to the basics of the visual representation of data. In this class you will learn how to design successful charts and maps, and how to arrange them to compose cohesive storytelling pieces.The course will be taught by Alberto Cairo, an internationally renowned expert in the field who teaches at the University of Miami. Click here to register.
• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is holding a free online webinar, “5 Local Economic Stories to Jump on Now: Online,” Jan. 15-16. Marilyn Geewax, national economics correspondent for NPR, will cover the five best local economic stories to jump on now. Understand the economic concepts, and learn how to make them relevant to listeners, readers or viewers.
• The Poynter Institute will hold a broadcast, “Video Storytelling with the Pros: Creativity on a Deadline,” Jan. 19., at 10:00 a.m. EST.  Learn how award-winning professionals tell creative stories despite time constraints in this daylong workshop.  The cost is $75.
• The Freelance Writers Meetup is celebrating Freelance Forum Week, a celebration taking place during January 21-28 to empower freelance writers to organize and learn from each other, with this month’s forum, “Breaking Into Video and Photojournalism with Multimedia Journalist Jay Irani,” on Jan. 21 from 7-9 p.m. at Contently HQ at 598 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, NY. Irani will be joining in for a conversation with Contently Director of Contently John Hazard about the world of audio/visual journalism. The discussion will be centered around what audio/visual skills have the most impact on a journalist’s professional value, how to get those skills as quickly and cheaply as possible, how to demonstrate those skills on a resume or portfolio, and how to make sure you’re leveraging these skills as a freelancer.
• The National Press Club Journalism Institute is hosting “Databases 101″ (Jan. 28) and “Databases 102″ (Feb. 4) classes in Washington, D.C., in its Bloomberg Room. The classes will show how to use databases to make connections in databases where the secrets of governments, companies and candidates are hidden.   Classes do not need to be taken in succession. Each class is $20 for NPC members and $40 for non-members. To register for 101 click here; for 102 click here.
•  The Institute for Interactive Journalism and the McCormick Foundation are seeking to fund four women-led media projects that show promise in creativity and sustainability. The McCormick New Media Women Entrepreneurs award provides $14,000 in funding to women who have the vision, skills and experience to launch a new venture. There is a $35.00 fee to apply. Applicants should submit payment here. Applications are due by Jan. 23. For more information, click here.
• The Alexia Foundation is offering $15,000 grants for a photographer to have the financial ability to produce a substantial picture story that furthers the Foundation’s goals of promoting world peace and cultural understanding. Any photographer from any country may apply for this grant. Applications must be received by 5 p.m. EST, January 18, 2013. For more information click here.
• The International Women’s Media Foundation will award three $20,000 grants to entrepreneurial women journalists proposing to use digital media in innovative ways to deliver the news. In addition to seed funding, the program provides coaching from leading entrepreneurs and digital news media experts. Applications will be accepted until Friday, January 25, 2013. Click here to apply.

FEBRUARY

• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is holding a free online webinar, “Finding Your Best Investigative Business Story,” Feb. 5. Pulitzer winner Michael J. Berens help attendees find, develop and pitch a winning investigative story idea.
• The Alexia Foundation provides educational opportunities and cash grants to help students produce picture stories that further the Foundation’s goals of promoting world peace and cultural understanding. Applications must be received by 5 p.m. EST, February 1, 2013. Click here for more information.
• Learn how to create a responsive Web design with this 15-minute tutorial.

MARCH

• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is holding a free online webinar, “Branding for Journalists: You Being You,” March 5, 2013, at noon or 4:00 p.m., EST. In this free, one-hour webinar, Robin J. Phillips, the Reynolds Center’s digital director, will show you some simple tips to take control of your image, and accentuate the value of who you are and what you do best – apart from your news organization.
  
• The Knight Digital Media Center at UC-Berkeley is offering an intensive 9-week graduate level certificate program, “Content & Strategy,” which focuses on the strategic implementation and production of digital media content combining seminar style instruction with practical hands-on training. The program is from March 5 through May 2. There will be presentations by world-class trainers, award winning journalists and industry leaders, including Richard Koci Hernandez, Len De Groot, Jerry Monti. Tuition costs are $5,900 and you save 10% when you register by Jan. 10.  For more information, click here.
• The Knight Digital Media Center at UC-Berkeley is hosting a two-day, hands-on certification program, “Create Meaning from Data,” focused on communicating complex information with visually appealing charts, graphs and maps. It will be held March 8-9 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at UC-Berkeley’s North Gate Hall. Tuition costs $645 and there is a 10% early registration discount through Feb. 1. Participants will learn to create a clearer, more meaningful picture of complex statistics and publicly available data, tell stories with interactive GIS maps, and create beautiful and effective graphs and charts. Click here to register.
• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is holding a free online webinar, “Power Searching for Business Journalists,” March 19 at noon EST.  In this free, hourlong, online training, Google senior research scientist Daniel M. Russell will offer his tips, techniques and strategies for using Google to find what might seem to be impossible.

MAY

• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is holding a free two-part online webinar, “Getting the Goods – Interviews that Work,” on May 8-9 at noon or 4:00 p.m. EST.  Pulitzer Prize winner Jacqui Banaszynski will explore the core purposes, techniques and ethics of the interview process. She will reveal different interview approaches that work best in different situations and that apply to any genre of journalism.  On Day 2, she will focus on interviews that produce not just information, but true stories, rich with character, scene and detail.

JUNE

• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is holding a free two-part online webinar, “The Business of Me,” June 4-6 at noon or 4:00 p.m. In this three-day webinar with Mark Luckie of Twitter, learn how to brand and market yourself and to pitch your ideas, plus understand the basics of financial and time management. Identify five next steps to advance your career as an entrepreneur.
• The Knight Digital Media Center is taking applications for its two-week “Multimedia Storytelling Institute 2013,” June 10-21 at UC-Berkeley. This intensive two-week program provides seminar style and hands-on training in essential skills for digital media production. The institute is ideal for journalists, educators and communication professionals interested in a rapid-paced immersible experience in multimedia content creation through delivery. The cost is $5,400; there’s a 10% discount if you register before May 10.

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Crafting a Winning Personal Statement

By Christopher Nelson, freelance multimedia journalist

As the end of the year approaches journalism students across the country find themselves studying for and taking final exams, and of course completing incisive multimedia reporting projects. For some the next challenge will be applying to graduate school.

The application process can be daunting, and perhaps the part, which makes applicants most nervous is the challenge of writing a personal statement. We asked faculty, staff, and alumni at some of the nation’s most respected j-schools for tips, tricks, and tidbits on crafting a winning personal statement, and making your overall application stand out.

1) Think about what you’re going to say.

What you’re asked to discuss as a part of your journalism school personal statement varies. Sometimes there is a very specific prompt or question, or other times you’re given more freedom and flexibility. Experts stressed the importance of paying attention to detail, and answering the question.

2) Go into the writing process committed to being yourself, and showcasing your best self.

“A bad piece of advice for life, but a great piece of advice for this process is you have to be less humble. We want to know why you’re great!” said Maximo A. Patino, Director of Recruitment & Diversity, The Newhouse School, Syracuse University.

“Be up front about your flaws because they know what they are,” said Sia Nyorkor, Multimedia Reporter, KWCH-TV and 2009 graduate, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. “So many times you have to turn it into a positive.”

3) Be mindful of the importance of telling a good story.

“Write your truth. Be honest, be compelling, make me want to know you and accept you,” said Yvonne Latty, Director of the Reporting New York and Reporting the Nation, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, New York University.

“We’re looking for storytellers, so tell us your story,” added Patino.

4) Particularize each and every statement for the school to which you are applying.

“Write to me. Don’t send me a generic statement that you can send to other schools. Research my program, NYU Journalism, what we do and who teaches here. Do your research,” said Latty.

5) Remember to showcase those skills, which will make you a great journalist.

Once you’re done writing your statement, “read it over carefully, have others read it, and copy-edit,” said Latty.

Beyond your record on paper, it’s also important to show yourself as aggressive, a go-getter.

“Make sure you three-dimensionalize this process beyond your transcript, and beyond your GRE score,” said Patino. “Now more than ever before folks in admissions office, we’re looking at the application even more holistically.”

The end goal is to put a face to the story, your story.

“I want to know you. I want to forget that I am reading a statement and just see you,” said Latty.

Calendar of Multimedia Training and Events

By Benét J. Wilson, chair, NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force & social media/newsletters editor, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association

Webbmedia Group has a great mega calendar of events that catches things not covered below.  If you want to subscribe to the calendar, click here.  You can also subscribe to this calendar so the information appears on your personal Google Calendar. Just go to the Webbmedia Google calendar, click the “+Google Calendar” icon at the bottom right, and then click “Yes, add this calendar” in the dialog box).  The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism has its training calendar posted for courses through April 2013.

NOVEMBER

• Tickets are on sale now for the Mashable Media Summit 2012.  This annual one-day conference will take place on Nov. 30 at the Times Center in New York City, where it will unite the brightest minds in media, including journalists, technologists, media executives, entrepreneurs and social media leaders.  The cost is $499.
• SABEW is hosting a free “Drilling Deep” Investigative Reporting Workshop on Nov. 30 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Tampa Tribune, 200-202 S. Parker Street, Tampa, FL 33606. The workshop will feature two experts with ties to the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) organization: former IRE executive director Houston of the Investigative News Network, and current IRE President Johnston. Joining them in the lineup of speakers is Chris Davis, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and investigations editor for the Tampa Bay Times, Aaron Kessler a staff writer covering international corruption for the not-for-profit 100 Reporters and Marty Steffens, the SABEW chair at the Missouri School of Journalism. The workshop is free and includes lunch, but attendees must RSVP online in advance.
• Nov. 30 is the deadline to apply for the first AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research 12-month residential fellowship focused on issues surrounding the aging workforce in the United States. The fellow will be selected through a national competition open to mid-career journalists who are currently employed by the Associated Press or by any Associated Press Media Editors (APME) association news organizations. With funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the 2013 fellowship includes a salary of up to $100,000 and full benefits for the year and will focus on the economics of Americans working longer. The fellowship begins in March 2013, and the fellow will be required to live in Chicago to benefit from the AP-NORC Center resources at the University of Chicago.

DECEMBER

• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is holding a free online webinar, “Investigating Public Pensions,” Dec. 4. Arizona Republic senior reporter Craig Harris will explain how you can dig into your state’s public pensions.
• The Poynter Institute will hold a webinar, “Programming for Non-Geeks: Publishing Multimedia on the Web,” Dec. 5 at 2:00 p.m. EST. Getting multimedia content from your desktop to the Web is not always a straightforward process. This Webinar will help you navigate the foreign territory of fundamental formats, file streaming strategies and publishing methods.  The cost is $29.95.
• The Knight Digital Media Center at UC-Berkeley’s Multimedia Storytelling series will hold a session, “Visual Essentials for Content Creators,” Dec. 10-14 at UC-Berkeley. The two-day workshop is for journalists and communications professionals interested in building their video and multimedia skills set. This intensive one-week production course focuses on the art and craft of digital storytelling and features hands-on practical skills training.  The cost is $1,750.

JANUARY

• The Poynter Institute will hold a seminar, “A New Curriculum for a New Journalism,” Jan. 2-4, 2013. We’ll share with you wish lists from newsrooms around the country, case studies of successful curriculum innovation and insights into the tools that will transform the communication field. When this three-day seminar is over, you’ll know how to anticipate and address the needs of your program, introduce new ideas across the curriculum and prepare innovative, entrepreneurial journalists.  The deadline to apply is Dec. 7.  The cost is $1,125.
• The Knight Digital Media Center will hold a three-day workshop, “Create and Captivate with Video,” Jan. 9-11 at the University of California-Berkeley. Participants will receive hands-on training in every phase of planning, production and digital delivery. Master storytellers will share techniques on how to capture audience attention and make your video storytelling effective. The cost is The cost is $1,395; there’s a 10% discount if you register before Nov. 30.
• The Knight Digital Media Center will hold a two-day data visualization workshop, “Create Meaning from Data,” Jan. 7-8 at the University of California-Berkeley. Participants will learn to create a clearer, more meaningful picture of complex statistics and publicly available data, tell stories with interactive GIS maps, and create beautiful and effective graphs and charts.  The cost is $645; there’s a 10% discount if you register before Nov. 30.
• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is holding a free online webinar, “5 Local Economic Stories to Jump on Now: Online,” Jan. 15-16, 2012. Marilyn Geewax, national economics correspondent for NPR, will cover the five best local economic stories to jump on now. Understand the economic concepts, and learn how to make them relevant to listeners, readers or viewers.
• The Poynter Institute will hold a broadcast, “Video Storytelling with the Pros: Creativity on a Deadline,” Jan. 19, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. EST.  Learn how award-winning professionals tell creative stories despite time constraints in this daylong workshop.  The cost is $75.

FEBRUARY

• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is holding a free online webinar, “Finding Your Best Investigative Business Story,” Feb. 5. Pulitzer winner Michael J. Berens help attendees find, develop and pitch a winning investigative story idea.

MARCH

• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is holding a free online webinar, “Branding for Journalists: You Being You,” March 5, 2013, at noon or 4:00 p.m., EST. In this free, one-hour webinar, Robin J. Phillips, the Reynolds Center’s digital director, will show you some simple tips to take control of your image, and accentuate the value of who you are and what you do best – apart from your news organization.
• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is holding a free online webinar, “Power Searching for Business Journalists,” March 19 at noon EST.  In this free, hourlong, online training, Google senior research scientist Daniel M. Russell will offer his tips, techniques and strategies for using Google to find what might seem to be impossible.

MAY

• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is holding a free two-part online webinar, “Getting the Goods – Interviews that Work,” on May 8-9 at noon or 4:00 p.m. EST.  Pulitzer Prize winner Jacqui Banaszynski will explore the core purposes, techniques and ethics of the interview process. She will reveal different interview approaches that work best in different situations and that apply to any genre of journalism.  On Day 2, she will focus on interviews that produce not just information, but true stories, rich with character, scene and detail.

JUNE

• The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is holding a free two-part online webinar, “The Business of Me,” June 4-6 at noon or 4:00 p.m. In this three-day webinar with Mark Luckie of Twitter, learn how to brand and market yourself and to pitch your ideas, plus understand the basics of financial and time management. Identify five next steps to advance your career as an entrepreneur.
• The Knight Digital Media Center is taking applications for its two-week “Multimedia Storytelling Institute 2013,” June 10-21 at the University of California-Berkeley. This intensive two-week program provides seminar style and hands-on training in essential skills for digital media production. The institute is ideal for journalists, educators and communication professionals interested in a rapid-paced immersive experience in multimedia content creation through delivery. The cost is $5,400; there’s a 10% discount if you register before May 10.

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