Multimedia Study

The Multimedia Workshop I attended at the NSCC was very informative. This is a very exciting time to be involved in the journalism field and to see where this is all going. The era of being simply a photojournalist has pretty much ended. It's a multi task job that now requires knowledge of video, audio, the written word, software editing programs, slideshow presentations, etc. Some media outlets are creating not just two minute news clips but ten minute documentaries for their online content and with a great deal of success.

The term 'Mojo Journalist' was also used. It refers to Mobile Journalists that can either be staff or freelance and who use technical tools such as digital cameras, camcorders, and laptops to publish their work on the road.

MediaStorm was also discussed. MediaStorm's principal aim is to "usher in the next generation of multimedia storytelling by publishing social documentary projects incorporating photojournalism, interactivity, animation, audio and video for distribution across multiple media." This is somewhere along the lines of where I want to go, creating small media productions for online content.