This is a proposal I recently made to the UMass Amherst journalism department. The idea is to hold a week-long boot camp teaching the basics of multimedia journalism at the end of every summer, geared toward incoming freshmen but open to all j-students.
» PDF: Sample program schedule for a multimedia journalism boot camp
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Yesterday marked the opening of The Amherst Wire’s newsroom, UMass Amherst’s first independent, web-only news operation.
To recap on how we got here, The Amherst Wire was hatched in January 2008 by three students in Steve Fox’s multimedia journalism class. In the early days, we collaborated largely by E-mail and weekly editor’s meetings in the journalism [...]