AJAs Workshop

Tomorrow I'll be attending the Atlantic Journalism Awards Workshop at the Nova Scotia Community College. The first workshop will be The Multimedia Journalist by Chronicle Herald Photographer Jeff Harper. The session will explore the tools and workflow for production of the new and rapidly expanding news medium of combining traditional photography with audio and video to create multimedia items for online news. Should be interesting.

Next up will be a refresher course on libel law to help spot and fix potential legal problems in stories, plus an update on the new defense of ‘responsible journalism’. This will be presented by Dean Jobb, author (Media Law for Journalists, co-author of Digging Deeper), journalist and teacher. Another important and interesting topic. Looks like a good day.