Storytelling Innovations

October 2 - October 5, 2007

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Featured Discussion Leaders

Janet Chasse Web Editor, yumasun.com Session: "So What's My Motivation?" How to get your staff involved in multimedia.

John Jackson The Roanoke Times Session: What’s Your Breaking News Plan? When a big story breaks in the digital age, journalists need to be adept at using blogs, databases and multi-media to meet constant deadlines.

Regina McCombs Multimedia Producer, StarTribune.com Session: The best tool for the job: Developing great multimedia stories using video, audio and slide shows means making the right media choices, getting equipment and developing staff skills. We’ll talk about how to get started.

Michael Quintanilla Reporter for the San Antonio News-Express Session: Confessions of a Former Disco Maniac: The Write Moves Award-winning journalist Michael Quintanilla shares his odyssey to reinvent and redefine himself as a person and a writer.

Tim Richardson Editor, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Session: Creating Interactive Newspaper Sites: From multimedia to coverage of hyperlocal events, we'll discuss the best ways to present stories to a Web audience.

Jim Sheeler Reporter, Rocky Mountain News Session: The Timeless Power of Storytelling: Pulitzer Prize-winner Jim Sheeler tells how narrative writing, gripping photographs and multi-media tools worked together to tell the story of the men who deliver the message no military family wants to hear.

Who Should Attend?
Successful print reporters and editors who know they need to become multi-media storytellers; online journalists who want help in integrating their efforts with their print colleagues; and senior editors and writing coaches who seek to transform the storytelling culture of their newsrooms.

How Your Organization Will Benefit
For all the upheaval in the newspaper industry, powerful stories still connect with readers. Journalists need to develop new storytelling skills to succeed in engaging busy readers on multiple platforms.
Storytelling Innovations will prepare your reporters, editors and online staff to return to your newsroom as evangelists for innovative storytelling.

Some of the topics we will cover:

• Crowdsourcing
• Mobile journalism
• Multimedia storytelling
• Telling the fast-breaking story
• The full-range of digital storytelling opportunities
• Narrative writing
• Alternate story forms

Co-sponsored by the Minnesota Journalism Center at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota

“This was the best, most informative journalism seminar ever!”
– Gerald Gilmore, American Forces International Service, Alexandria, Va.

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The Particulars

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Tuition: $1,800

Hotel/Meal Package: Attendees will be responsible for securing their own accommodations in Minneapolis. A list of nearby hotels are posted on this Web site. A room block has been reserved for seminar attendess until SEPT. 10 at the Radisson University Hotel (612-379-8888), the hotel closest to the seminar site. Please see the hotel link for details..
This charge is in addition to the tuition fee, and is paid directly to the hotel by the seminar member upon checkout.

Location: Minneapolis, Minn.

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