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Multimedia and Social Media Day on the Border for Journalists

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University of Texas at El Paso

The National Association of Hispanic Journalists along with our NAHJ Region 5 and University of Texas at El Paso are hosting a series of multimedia workshops this Saturday, April 10, 2010. Take advantage of this full-day of intensive workshops which will include training on: editing video using Final Cut Pro, using the latest in Social Media for better storytelling and journalism, creating your blog inexpensively using WordPress, learning PhotoShop, and improving how you use audio to tell stories more effectively and with more impact. Space is limited in the workshops so register and reserve a space today!

Don’t delay and sign up now!!

NAHJ Member rate: $40

Non-Member rate: $75

NAHJ Student Member Rate: $20

Non-Member Student Rate: $40

Registration is now open!

NAHJ members can access the online application form below.
 

Preliminary Schedule

 8:30 a.m. Registration and breakfast snacks (coffee, tea, pan dulce) — Lobby, Cotton Memorial Building, University Street, UTEP

All Day Sessions                                                                   

9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with a break for lunch

Understanding Final Cut Pro: Hands-on Seminar on Editing Video

(Space limited to 21 registrants)

Students will familiarize themselves with the Final Cut Pro interface and learn basic editing techniques using this tool. Participants will learn how to edit a project from to import to final export. This seminar will cover file management, terminology, basic and advanced editing techniques using transitions, filters, color correction, audio, type, keyframing, exporting and compressing, among other techniques.

Instructor: Ricardo Lopez is the Photography Editor at El Diario de Juarez and a former visual journalist and multimedia producer at The Miami Herald. He has conducted several multimedia and video production workshops for students and professional photojournalists. Ricardo is a Brooks Institute of Photography alumnus and a former Platypus Workshop teacher assistant. He was born and raised in Mexico.

Half-Day Sessions

9 a.m. to noon or 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.

(Participants should choose only one a.m. and one p.m. session)

Morning sessions

Blogging, Social Media & Your Work

(Space limited to 25 registrants)

With the ubiquity of the Internet, an individual’s power to report and propagate news is greater than ever. How do you tap into the latest social media platforms to promote the integrity and information contained in your work, increase readership and maintain authority in a realm full of citizen journalists? Are blogs, Facebook, Twitter and the like must-haves, or can you get away with just focusing on one?

This workshop will help familiarize you with the ever-evolving options offered by online promotion and empower you to decide how they can be used to strengthen your professionalism.

Instructor: The workshop will be led by Lisa Y. Garibay, founder of LARGetc. Publicity & Marketing. A native El Pasoan, she pioneered cutting-edge social media and grassroots marketing techniques while working within the film and music industries in Los Angeles. She is also a seasoned journalist focusing on arts & culture for print and online publications worldwide.

How to Get Your Feet Wet in Photoshop Even if You’re Terrified of the Water

(Space limited to 20 registrants)

This introduction to essentials will cut Photoshop down to size and give you the same control in the digital darkroom that the 20th Century masters spent years perfecting in the dark with chemistry and optics.

Instructor: Costa Rican-born David Smith-Soto, a bilingual writer, editor, journalist and photographer, brings more than 30 years of experience in bilingual print journalism, newspaper management and international public relations to UTEP. At UTEP, he teaches digital photography and bilingual journalism. Smith-Soto earned a BA in English from the University of Maryland and an MFA in bilingual creative writing at UTEP.

Noon-1:15 lunch on your own (restaurants nearby)

Afternoon Sessions

Boost Your Presence on the Web: Publish Your Own WordPress Blog or News Site

(Space limited to 20 registrants)

After this workshop, you will be able to set-up, customize and publish your own blog, news magazine, or news site using WordPress. This workshop covers the basics (creating accounts, pages and posts, uploading images and video), moves to the intermediate (themes, widgets and plugins) and provides all you need to engage and expand your social media networks. This is a hands-on workshop in a fully-equipped computer lab.

Instructor: Lourdes Cueva Chacón has an MS in Information Science and has worked designing and implementing websites for more than six years (Lulu.com, liberalarts.utep.edu, Borderzine.com). She is Borderzine.com’s webmaster.

Audio Recording like a Pro

(Space limited to 25 registrants)

No matter what area in the field of journalism, learning audio will enhance your final product and increase your marketability to potential employers. Go far beyond simply slapping a musical background to your audio slideshow! In this workshop, you’ll learn to record audio like a professional. We’ll cover the basic elements of recording quality audio, which can be applied no matter what equipment you use. We’ll also cover basic audio editing where you’ll learn to layer your sound. You’ll learn how to get creative with the sound you record and how to match it up with photographs that can add up to one powerful audio slideshow.

Instructor: Monica Ortiz Uribe is a freelance reporter for National Public Radio and other public radio networks. She’s worked closely with NPR’s Next Generation project which trains young people for careers in radio. Monica is a 2005 graduate from the University of Texas at El Paso.

4:30-4:45 Evaluations and wrap up the day

Registration Information

  • NAHJ Members who wish to register for this event click here.
    • Login using your username and password (contact pluizaga@nahj.org if you do not have this information available)
    • Click on the “Events” tab towards the top of the screen.
    • Click on the “Multimedia and Social Media Day on the Border for Journalists” option.
    • Click on the “Register” button on the right side of the page.
    • Proceed with event registration

Non NAHJ members who wish to register at the non-member rate for this event, click here to create an account. Once this is complete:

  • Login using your username and password (contact pluizaga@nahj.org if you do not have this information available)
  • Click on the “Events” tab towards the top of the screen.
  • Click on the “Multimedia and Social Media Day on the Border for Journalists” option.
  • Click on the “Register” button on the right side of the page.
  • Proceed with event registration

If your membership has lapsed and you wish to register for this event at the Member rate, click here to join NAHJ or renew your membership. Continue by:

  • Login using your username and password (contact pluizaga@nahj.org if you do not have this information available)
  • Click on the “Events” tab towards the top of the screen.
  • Click on the “Multimedia and Social Media Day on the Border for Journalists” option.
  • Click on the Register button on the right side of the page.
  • Proceed with event registration

 For questions, login information or if you are having difficulty signing up for a session, please contact Paulo Luizaga at pluizaga@nahj.org or 202-662-7460.

PLEASE NOTE:

This online system will ask registrants to select which session(s) they will be attending. Most sessions are strictly limited to 20 or 25 people, so it is necessary to select the session(s) to reserve a space in the computer lab being used. The Final Cut Pro session is a full-day of training, so participants are expected to select no other session if they reserve a space there. For the other sessions, attendees can select one of the morning sessions and an afternoon session.

Knight Foundation Awards NAHJ Grant and Training Scholarships

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John S. and James L. Knight Foundation logoWashington, DC – The National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) has received a $20,000 general operating grant and $7,000 in scholarships from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to provide training to NAHJ members through the Poynter Institute.

To help NAHJ weather the economic downturn, Knight Foundation has contributed $20,000 to the group’s Count Me In campaign. In addition, the foundation has provided NAHJ with $7,000 in tuition scholarships for NAHJ members to participate in online seminars and webminars at the Poynter Institute’s News University.

There will also be an additional $8,000 in scholarships — for in-person training – shared by members of NAHJ, the National Association of Black Journalists, the Asian American Journalists Association, the Online News Association, the Journalism & Women Symposium and the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, on a first-come, first-served basis.

“The Poynter Institute is at the forefront of addressing the training needs of journalists and we look forward to using these scholarships to continue to give our members the tools they need to keep their jobs, find new ones, or work on their own,” said NAHJ Executive Director Iván Román.

“We know how tough it is to get the time and money to do training in these tough budgetary times, and we’re committed to doing what we can to get journalists the training they need” said Keith Woods, Dean of Faculty at the Poynter Institute.

In order to apply for the scholarship you must be a member in good standing. To renew your membership, please visit http://www.nahj.org/2009/06/membership/.

To sign up for online seminars and webinars visit Poynter’s News University, visit http://www.newsu.org/. Once your register with NewsU, you can sign up for a scholarship to participate in any of the online seminars and webinars. If you would like to sign up for the in-person training sessions, you will need to register with NewsU as well, but those funds are shared among all six groups mentioned above and are on a first-come, first-serve basis until the funds are exhausted.

For questions about membership, please contact NAHJ Membership Coordinator, Paulo Luizaga, at pluizaga@nahj.org or 202.662.7460.

 

Founded in 1984, NAHJ’s mission is to increase the percentage of Latinos working in our nation’s newsrooms and to improve news coverage of the Latino community. NAHJ is the nation’s largest professional organization for Latino journalists with more than 1,400 members working in English and Spanish-language print, photo, broadcast and online media. NAHJ is a 501 (c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization. For more information, visit www.nahj.org.

 About the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation advances journalism in the digital age and invests in the vitality of communities where the Knight brothers owned newspapers. Since 1950, the foundation has granted more than $400 million to advance quality journalism and freedom of expression. Knight Foundation focuses on projects that promote community engagement and lead to transformational change. For more, visit www.knightfoundation.org.

NAHJ Journalism Awards Honor the Best of 2008

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Winning Work Helped Improve Education, Reveal Suicide Cover Ups, Save Lives

Carmelo RodriguezWashington, DC – Crusading education coverage, investigations that saved lives of liver transplant patients, and a detailed telling of the Bush administration’s economic legacy headlined the excellent work honored in the National Association of Hispanic Journalists’ 2009 Journalism Awards announced this week.  

Among the eight awards given, the honor in the TV Investigative category went to a probe into a cover up by authorities to hide the number of suicides by veterans, led by CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian and producer Pia Malbran. 

A revealing look at the dangerous and often horrendous trek by Central Americans crossing through Mexico to get to the U.S. by La Opinión writer Gardenia Mendoza Aguilar won this year’s Guillermo Martinez Marquez Award for Latin American Reporting. 

“Despite less participation than in previous years, the quality of the work was just outstanding, both in its range of topics and in the depth of talent these colleagues demonstrated by what they put on the page or on the air,” said NAHJ Executive Director Iván Román. “It proves that we forge ahead with great journalism during these challenging times of transition into potentially new and exciting ways to tell our stories.” 

Luis Fábregas and Andrew Conte of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review were honored in the Print Investigative category for their probe into how a liver transplant system driven by profit was actually killing people and spurred reforms which have saved lives. In the Television Documentary category, judges cited excellent editing, imagery and treatment of the topic to award TVE Espana’s Jose Jimenez Pons and Llucía Oliva de la Esperanza for their work on how growing poverty in the U.S. under the Bush administration is affecting people, including many Latinos. 

The Detroit News’ editorial writer Amber Arellano’s crusading pieces using investigative journalism to reveal the true magnitude of the black and Latino male high-school dropout problem received the award for Print Commentary. Winning in the Print Feature category, the St. Paul Pioneer Press’ Frederick Melo and Brandi Jade Thomas gave readers a well-written immigrant-dreams-gone-bad tale from the hometown Guatemalan village of an undocumented immigrant accused of striking a school bus with her minivan in Minnesota and killing four children. 

Julio Rivera Saniel of WKAQ 580 Univision Radio in Puerto Rico, won the Radio Reporting award for his look into the life and resistance in San Juan’s poor community of La Perla. A CBS News team led by correspondent Byron Pitts detailing the suffering of a family of a deceased Marine sergeant whose skin cancer was misdiagnosed while serving in Iraq won in the Television Feature Large Market category. 

For more information and the judge’s comments on the winners and to see the work being honored, …click here 

Several categories were declared vacant by the judges due to a lack of participation in an exceptionally difficult economic and professional year for journalists and the news media industry. NAHJ also decided not to give its most prestigiousñ awards in 2009, usually presented at the Annual Noche de Triunfos Journalism Awards Gala during Hispanic Heritage Month, which was canceled this year. The ñ Awards include the Leadership Award, the Emerging Journalist Award and others. 

Honors in all the categories and the ñ awards are expected to be given in 2010 as NAHJ holds the often inspiring gala next fall. Next year’s NAHJ awards will feature revised guidelines and categories and a new price structure for entry fees. All information will be posted on the NAHJ website in January. 

Founded in 1984, NAHJ’s mission is to increase the percentage of Latinos working in our nation’s newsrooms and to improve news coverage of the Latino community. NAHJ is the nation’s largest professional organization for Latino journalists with more than 1,400 members working in English and Spanish-language print, photo, broadcast and online media. NAHJ is a 501 (c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization. For more information, visit www.nahj.org. 

Media Contact: Iván Román, (202) 662-7178