• October 3 - October 7, 2010
  Knight Community Info Challenge Boot Camp
  KDMC@USC

Leadership Summit: The Future of Local News and Public Media

July 17 - July 20, 2010
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, University of Southern California
In partnership with National Public Radio and Public Interactive

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About the Seminar

The Knight Digital Media Center, in partnership with National Public Radio, hosted a training workshop for 24 newsroom leaders representing 12 of National Public Radio’s member stations. The workshop focused on how to transform from public radio to local public media organizations using new tools and applications developed by NPR’s Public Interactive.

Knight-McCormick Leadership Institute

June 30 - December 31, 2010
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, University of Southern California

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About the Seminar

The Knight Digital Media Center @ USC Annenberg broadened the scope and expanding the reach of its popular Transformative Leadership training opportunities in 2010.

With additional support from the McCormick Foundation and USC Annenberg’s Online News Review, KDMC@USC provided tailored, expenses-paid professional development services to 20 top newsroom leaders from both legacy news organizations and new entrepreneurial operations, with the goal of helping them move to the next level while learning from their best practices.

Participants were people who are already positioned as the new leaders of news and information in the community interest—leaders from major established news organizations that are transforming themselves, and news entrepreneurs who are reinventing models for news and information.

These newsroom leaders and their revenue counterparts participated in a six-month long series of onsite as well as customized virtual courses, and personal coaching/mentoring focused on their specific skill and strategic planning needs for their organizations (be it newspapers, broadcast, online-only, community startups or hybrids that provide quality news and info in the public interest).

KDMC@USC also worked with a corps of USC Annenberg School of Communication graduate students who helped in our initial ascertainment process of identifying potential participants. These students documented the particular traits and actions that make our Leadership fellows special news/info leaders for the 21st Century, to identify best practices to share with the greater professional audience.

Multimedia Storytelling Workshop

June 13 - June 18, 2010
Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley

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About the Seminar

The Knight Digital Media Center’s Multimedia Reporting and Convergence Workshop, June 13-18, 2010, offered intensive, short course multimedia training for mid-career journalists. The workshop covered all aspects of multimedia news production, from basic storyboarding to the incorporation of multimedia features in storytelling. Participants were taught the technical skills they need to produce quality multimedia stories including audio/video recording and editing, Flash graphics, digital cameras, Photoshop and web design concepts. Guest speakers discussed the future of journalism, the role of technology and the importance of audience engagement.

UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism lecturers Paul Grabowicz, Samantha Grant, Marilyn Pittman, Jeremy Rue, Jerry Monti and Scot Hacker presented the workshop’s core multimedia curriculum.