Multimedia Training

Colin Mulvany is the multimedia editor at The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington. The latest entry on his blog is titled Stop bitchin’ and just train yourself and deals with the growing importance of video training for journalist and photojournalists.

Colin sums up the current state of journalism nicely: "As newspapers accelerate their move to online, it is more important than ever for journalists to have new media skills... No longer will the skills we learned in college be enough to sustain a career. Journalism has changed. The people who went into the profession to just write or just take photos will soon be considered dinosaurs."

I attended an interview last week for the Nova Scotia Community College Broadcast Journalism program. The course teaches radio, television, journalism, and video/audio production and editing. 2nd year students produce a documentary film. The course looks like it will give me the skills I need to continue in the media field and be able to sell myself. Unfortunately this years class had more then 250 applicants and only 30 were chosen. I was late to apply. Bummer. I'm in for 2009 though so my plan for now is to try to get on as an apprentice with a local media outlet. Hopefully it won't be to hard seeing as the military will pay my salary for up to six months.

Exciting times.