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news Editors Blog | Journalism.co.uk Online journalism news Menu Home Site map The authors Wishing all our readers a happy Christmas 1 Reply By Joseph Jayanth on Flickr. Some rights reserved . Before we close the Journalism.co.uk office for the Christmas holiday period we just want to wish all our readers a happy Christmas. We’ll be back on Thursday 2 January and look forward to an exciting year of digital journalism innovation ahead. We have lots planned for the coming months, including our journalism social on Tuesday 11 February and our digital journalism conference news:rewired on Thursday 20 February – we hope to see you there. In the meantime, have a lovely Christmas and very happy new year celebrations. This entry was posted inand tagged Christmas , Journalism. co.uk , new year on December 24, 2013 by Rachel Bartlett . Five key courses for journalists in September 1 Reply Did you know that Journalism.co.uk organises one-day, evening and online training courses? We provide new skills to trained journalists. We are aware that we all need to keep learning, so we offer intensive and practical training in areas such as data journalism, social media and online video. Rather than bringing in trainers who spend little time in a newsroom, we like to invite people to lead courses who are working journalists or who spend a large proportion of their of their time practicing a key skill. And as our trainers are professionals taking a day out of their normal schedule to share their skills, these courses don’t take place very often. It is the first time that we are offering courses run by Luke Lewis from BuzzFeed and by Glen Mulcahy from Irish broadcaster RTE. We have a great line up for September. You can click the links to find out more. 1. Data journalism (4 September) Paul Bradshaw is a data journalism expert and is running this course which will get you started in dealing with data. You’ll be able to use data as a source of stories and learn how to present information online. Paul divides his time between being a visiting professor at City University, London, course leader for the MA in Online Journalism at Birmingham City University, and a freelance trainer, speaker and writer. He founded Help Me Investigate, a platform for crowdsourcing investigative journalism, and the Online Journalism Blog. 2. Growing social media communities (19 September) Luke Lewis , the editor of BuzzFeed UK and former editor of NME.com, is leading a course on growing social media communities . Interested in finding out how to make your posts go viral? Then sign up to the course. This course has a great venue too. It’s being hosted by VICE UK in Shoreditch. 3. Mobile journalism (19 September) Glen Mulcahy has been key to introducing iPhone and iPad reporting at Irish broadcaster RTE. In this one-day course he is leading you will learn how to shoot and edit broadcast-quality footage using an iPhone or iPad. If you think you know how to use your phone, take a peek at this course description and you will probably realise that Glen can teach you some valuable lessons. (And if you want to see the quality of his teaching skills, take a quick look at this video of him presenting at news:rewired .) This course is taking place in the building in London Victoria which is home to MSN UK and Microsoft. SaaS comparisons and reviews from users. myreviews Use our data driven guides to find the best business software for your specific needs. 4. Open data for journalists (19 September) Kathryn Corrick and Ulrich Atz are experts in open data. This course takes place at the Open Data Institute , which launched earlier this year having been founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. This course is designed to provide journalists with an introduction to open data. 5. Online video (30 September) Adam Westbrook is a multimedia producer and has been a key voice in the development of online video. He is running a one-day course in which you can learn how to shoot and edit video. Cameras and an editing suite are provided. Courses cost £200. If you would like to discuss these or any other courses (there’s a full list here ) speak to Sophie Green on 01273 384293 or or email sophie (at) journalism.co.uk. We also arrange in-house courses . A one-day course for 10 people costs less than £1,500. To find out more call me (Sarah Marshall) on 07957 121028 or or email sarah (at) journalism.co.uk. This entry was posted in, Training and tagged Data journalism , journalism courses , online video , social media , Training on July 31, 2013 by Sarah Marshall . #editors13: Presentation on Snow Fall-like multimedia stories 2 Replies This afternoon I gave a presentation at the World Editors Forum in Bangkok. Here are my slides, notes, and links to further examples and resources. 1. Title My name is Sarah Marshall and I am technology editor at Journalism.co.uk, a news site reporting on innovations in the digital news space. 2. Logos We run a digital journalism conference called news:rewired. 3. The title of this talk is ‘new wave storytelling’ and I want to talk to you about why we should be ‘thinking outside the box’. So what do I mean by the box? 4. Take a look at these three news stories – about David Beckham’s retirement. What do you see? Remove the mastheads and they all look the same: picture and text or video and text – each one uses inverted triangle way of telling a news story. 5. Box Where magazines use powerful images and text to tell stories, the technological limitations of the digital space – and the CMS – mean that stories are generally told in within a box. 6. Open box More recently we have seen that box opening up, news sites have been moving beyond the article, they have been breaking article boundaries. We are seeing new innovations in web-native storytelling. 7. Snow Fall video The most famous example is Snow Fall . Snow Fall is an immersive reading experience. It is about a deadly avalanche which claimed the lives of three very experienced skiers. It is a 17,000 word feature told with the help of videos, moving graphics, picture slideshows, the recordings of 911 calls. John Branch, the sports reporter who wrote it, won a Pulitzer for the words. It took six months. John worked alone for one month, and then the second month was working alongside a videographer and photojournalist. His bosses at the New York Times saw the potential to make something extra special. During the six months while Snow Fall was being worked on, there were some pretty major news stories to cover: the Olympics, Hurricane Sandy and the presidential elections. 8. And the Snow Fall effect? Six days after publication the story had received 2.9 million visits. Up to 22,000 users visited Snow Fall at any given time. A quarter to a third of the hits were from new visitors to nytimes.com 9. Tweets Six months on and it has been tweeted 10,000 times. 10. Facebook And it’s has been shared more than 77,000 times on Facebook. 11. Clock And the average time on site? 12 minutes. Any of you who check analytics on a daily basis will know that’s a lot. Now if you have read Snow Fall, you will know that it takes a lot longer than that. It took me about two or two-and-a-half hours. So arguably a lot of people just looked at the whizzy graphics and fewer people went on the full journey. Plenty of digital column inches have been written about Snow Fall. There has been criticism – and there has been praise. 12. Om Malik Om Malik called it one of the first truly post-tablet reading experiences”. And it is interesting he said tablet. That, I would argue, is the best place to read Snow Fall. It makes you want to press play on the videos, on the audio, it makes you want to scroll. And am I going to spend two-and-a-half hours sitting upright looking at my desktop? Before we come onto some other examples, let’s think about how well the multimedia presentation works as a storytelling device. 13. Gallery Have you ever been to an art gallery or museum and not...