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VIEW PROGRAM / On Saturday, June 28, 2008, the New England News Forum and the law firm of Prince, Lobel, Glovsky & Tye, LLP presented a unique, one-day workshop, "Sharing the News: Fresh Approaches to Reaching Students and Training Citizens." forged new links among New England college journalism educators, high-school newspaper advisors and journalism teachers, citizen journalists and bloggers.

Ideas for using video, blogs, camera phones and other multimedia to enhance traditional newsroom activities are the subject of a 90-minute video available for download or streaming online viewing. The video is an edited version of a seminar conducted by the New England News Forum in January. For details, and to launch the video, point your browser to: http://www.archive.org/details/NEPABOSTON2008. You can also view a portion of the 90-minute seminar -- Steve Garfield's presentation on mobile video blogging. Here's an alternate link to the Garfield 15 minutes.

Increased collaboration among citzens and newsrooms requires that citizens be given precise tasks with an obvious purpose, and strong guidance, especially about how to merger observation with opinion, according to the editor of a successful New Hampshire project. New Hampshire Public Radio is reporting on its year-long "Primary Place Online" project.

Get practical instruction in multimedia reporting with in-depth exploration of issues in online publishing. The workshops are held at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and are funded by the Knight Foundation, the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation and other private sources.
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Butch Ward, a former Philadelphia Inquirer and Baltimore News-American managing editor, is urging America's newsrooms to focus on "why journalism matters." In an essay on the Poynter Institute website, "The Big Switch from Hack to Flack," he recalls attending a recent American Society of Newspaper Editors seminar on challenges to the First Amendment. He says the session caused him to reflect on the meaning of work . . . to a journalist, to a PR person and to his own father, who was a mechanical draftsman. He suggests that discouraged newsroom workers would do well to convene some critical thinking about the value of their work. READ COLUMN

The Knight New Media Center Multimedia Training Program accepted applications through Nov. 3 for 20 fellowships for traditional mainstream journalists to attend a expenses-paid seminar that combines practical instruction in multimedia reporting with in-depth exploration of media convergence and other critical issues for online news operations. The week-long seminar takes place at the University of California at Berkeley. Three more such sessions are planned during 2007.