Storytelling Innovations

January 21 - January 24, 2008

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Featured Discussion Leaders

Mark Briggs Editor, thenewstribune.com Session: Writing for the Web: How fast can you write a breaking news bulletin? How do you blog a breaking news event? You'll find out as we explore the many ways to write for the web today.

Maria Carrillo Managing Editor, The Virginian-Pilot Session: Creating compelling local stories in a team of collective idea-making. Presented with Deb Withey

Tom Kennedy Managing Editor for Multimedia, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Session: Being a Multimedia Storyteller: How separate print and online operations work together to produce award-winning stories. Presented with Ju-Don Roberts.

Howard Owens Director of Digital Publishing, Gatehouse Media, Inc. Session: Goals for Today's Wired Journalist

Ju-Don Roberts Managing Editor, washingtonpost.com Session: Being a Multimedia Storyteller: How separate print and online operations work together to produce award-winning stories. Presented with Tom Kennedy

Chuck Rose Deputy Managing Editor, USA TODAY Session: 10 Steps to a USA Interactive Graphic

Mackenzie Warren Managing Editor of Information Distribution, The News Press, Ft. Myers, FL Session: MoJos, Crowdsourcing, Social Networking and More. We'll discuss the decentralized storytelling process that is emerging in the technological and social revolution that has changed how stories are collected, synthesized and distributed.

Deborah Withey Deputy Managing Editor, Presentation, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va. Session: Creating compelling local stories in a team of collective idea-making. Presented with Maria Carrillo

A seminar to help journalists reach audiences with compelling stories on multiple platforms.

Offered in conjunction with Visual Storytelling for Print and Web. Organizations save 25% on tuition when they send one person to each seminar. (No other discounts apply, including early-bird rates.)

Who Should Attend?
Reporters and editors who need to master digital storytelling strategies and techniques; senior and online editors who want to help their staffs master digital storytelling.

How Your Organization Will Benefit
As you seek to build audience online, your staff needs to learn new storytelling skills and technology. In seminar discussions and in a hands-on collaborative storytelling exercise in the community, attendees at this seminar will learn and apply innovative storytelling techniques across multiple platforms. Participants will learn how t

• Cover breaking news online.
  Use video, audio and slide shows in multimedia storytelling.
• Engage the community in telling the story.
• Use alternate story forms.
• Use tools such as interactive maps, databases, and widgets to allow users to personalize their stories and delve more deeply into important local content.

What Alumni Say
“This was informative, useful and the most inspiring three-and-a-half days I’ve spent in a long time … By the way, ‘API’ (pronounced ‘ah-pee’) in Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Malaysia means ‘fire.’ That’s what happens over in Reston, you light a fire.”
Alan John, Associate Editor
The Straits Times, Singapore

“Inspiring, re-energizing and better than I could ever hope. This workshop has my mind turning right now, and I think it will for a while.”
Mike Osegueda, Music Writer and Columnist
The Fresno (Calif.) Bee

“I learned more than I ever imagined. I can’t wait to take the lessons home and apply them to my own work and my newsroom.”
Jennifer Reeger, Staff Writer
Tribune-Review, Greensburg, Pa.

The Edmund C. Arnold Fellowship provides tuition, hotel and meals for Visual Storytelling for Print and Web. The application deadline is Friday, Nov. 2, 2007. More information can be found at: http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/pages/api/seminars/api_fellowships/

The Particulars

Please read:
:: API's Registration, Tuition and Hotel Policies
:: Special requirements for international members

Tuition: $1,800

Note: Presented in conjunction with Visual Storytelling for Print and Web. Save 25% on the second tuition when you send an attendee to both! The package price for both tuitions is $3,150. No other discounts apply, including early-bird rates.

Special pricing for weekly organizations: $1,195. No other discounts apply.

Hotel/Meal Package: $980.
This charge is in addition to the tuition fee, and is paid directly to the hotel by the seminar member upon checkout.

Location: Reston, Virginia

(This seminar has already occured)