WCSJ2009

Stories that Matter to a Changing World

WCSJ 2011

The next World Conference of Science Journalists will be held in Cairo, Egypt from 27 to 29 June 2011.
Please visit http://www.wcsj2011.org for more information and an overview of the program.

09. New Media Tools

Submitted by Horacio Salazar on Sun, 2009-05-31 14:07

c. Workshops

Host or sponsor:

Session supported by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

This workshop will lay out the details of how to put together effective stories in the new media. Media tools to be discussed include podcasts, audio slide shows, mobile phone reports, writing effective blogs and using multiple blogs as sources. Practitioners of new media will talk about how they use these tools themselves, and how those tools are used in their respective regions of the world.

Place & time

Venue:

Central Hall, Westminster

Date & Time:

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 09:30 - 13:30

People

Producer:

Phil Hilts

Speaker:

Hujun Li

Juliana Rotich

Rory Cellen-Jones

Steve Mirsky

Multimedia files

Audio clip:

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Workshop 09a.mp3

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Workshop 09b.mp3

Session reviews:

New Media Tools

2009-06-30 11:10

I'm only 26 but I felt like a real dinosaur when Rory Cellen-Jones emptied his briefcase onto the table and showed us the equipment he carries around with him.

Along with his Apple Mac laptop and mobile broadband dongle, the BBC’s technology correspondent also has a mini audio recorder and microphone, a digital pen and two mobiles phones, having ditched a Nokia N95 in favour of “just” an iPhone and Blackberry.