Tuesday, February 5, 2008

[CW:MONTHLY] NewsU: Five Steps to Multimedia Storytelling

Want to spread your wings beyond print reporting, but don't know where to start?

In News University's "Five Steps to Multimedia Storytelling," you'll learn the basic steps of telling your story with multimedia. You'll discover ways to map out your story before you head out to do your reporting. And you'll learn when to use such tools as audio, video and graphics.

Walk through a case study to see how a multimedia story is built. Explore a library of tutorials to help you with the technical side of recording, taping and editing for the Web. Enroll at http://www.newsu.org/courses/course_detail.aspx?id=ucknight_multimedia07 and take the free course on your schedule. It will take just an hour or two to complete.

NewsU (http://www.newsu.org/) offers more than 50 focused, interactive courses that appeal to journalists at all levels of experience and in all types of media. NewsU is funded by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The program is a project of The Poynter Institute, a leader in journalism training.

Five Steps to Multimedia Storytelling