Visual Storytelling for Print + Web

January 21 - January 24, 2008

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Featured Discussion Leaders

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

John Duchneskie Graphics Editor, The Philadelphia Inquirer Session: Using Databases to Create Multimedia and Print Maps and Graphics

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.

Monica Moses Consultant Session: Change Leadership: How to change about your organization, department, or team in order to improve storytelling and collaboration.

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

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

Cosponsored by the Society for News Design.

A design workshop for visual journalists who want to be innovative multimedia storytellers.

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

Who Should Attend?
Print and Web designers, editors, graphic artists, copy editors and photographers who communicate stories through the artful manipulation of typography, images and structures.

How Your Organization Will Benefit
Visual journalists will develop creative and problem-solving processes that give meaningful visual form to content and expressions of ideas both in print and on screen. Led by creative experts from inside and outside the industry, participants will learn innovative concepts and gain practical knowledge to help expand their creativity and maximize resources. In a collaborative storytelling exercise in the community, they will learn to work across departments and platforms in a collaborative workshop. Seminar sessions will include:

• Critiques by notable designers of participants’ portfolios
• Toolbox workshops on typography, graphics, photography and video
• Techniques for building and leading a multimedia staff
• Fresh strategies for designing outstanding cross-platform coverage for big events
• Inspiring examples and practical tips from around the world
• Trip to Washington, D.C. for a collaborative storytelling workshop

Newspaper Next: Seminar moderator Mary Peskin will reveal the latest research from API’s blueprint for newspaper transformation.

Brainstorming Workshop: Breaking News. What’s a newspaper to do when the news breaks too late to make the press run or painfully early for the next edition? What goes in print? What goes online?

Designers’ Toolbox. Industry experts in typography, photography, video and graphics talk about how visual communications tools are changing to meet the multimedia, cross-platform news and information needs of audiences. Val Hoeffner, Multimedia Editor, Indianapolis Star, and John Duchneskie, Graphics Editor, The Philadelphia Inquirer, lead the discussion.

Dinner and a Movie. Special screening of Helvetica, a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture.

Tuesday, Jan. 22

Collaboration and Creativity. An inside look at the creative collaboration that makes the newly redesigned The Virginian-Pilot one of America’s most-admired newspapers. The dynamic duo of managing editor Maria Carrillo and deputy managing editor/presentation Deborah Withey show and tell how they engage readers every day.

Storytelling Workshop at the NMAI. Members of the concurrent seminars, "Visual Storytelling for Print + Web" and "Storytelling Innovations", work together in a multimedia workshop of collective idea-making at the National Museum of the American Indian, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

Wednesday, Jan. 23

Being a Multimedia Storyteller. Ju-Don Roberts, Managing Editor, washingtonpost.com and Tom Kennedy, Managing Editor for Multimedia, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive show how teams can work across departments and platforms to produce print and multimedia stories such as the award-winning series Being a Black Man.

Putting it All Together. Techniques for building, developing and leading a cross-platform staff.

What Alumni Say
“API taught me what I needed to know before I knew I needed it. And it was like a triple espresso of inspiration.”
Pamela Sword, News Editor
The Chronicle Herald, Halifax, Nova Scotia

“Excellent. Inspiring. Informative. I am bursting with ideas.”
Nicholas Ciarochi, Student
University of Georgia, Athens

The Particulars

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

Tuition: $1,800

Note: Presented in conjunction with Storytelling Innovations. 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)