DURHAM, NC (March 31, 2008) - Registration is now open for NPPA's Convergence '08 in Louisville, KY, beginning May 27, 2008.
Online registration is now live here.
In the race to bring award-winning multimedia photojournalism to the Web, the National Press Photographers Association is helping photojournalists by putting the leaders in visual journalism at their fingertips. NPPA’s Multimedia Immersion workshop and annual meeting in Louisville opens on May 27 and offers training in audio, video, editing, and Web presentation with an intense four-day workshop that puts the latest equipment in your hands and the best teachers by your side.
NPPA, along with the generous support of Apple and Aperture and Canon Video, will provide the cameras, computers and editing software.
Space for the workshop will be limited to the first 50 applicants (NPPA is trying to make more space available). If the registration indicates the workshop is full, please indicate whether you'd like to have your name placed on a waiting list and NPPA will contact you as soon as space becomes available.
Some of the workshop staff who will be working closely with attendees are Scott Anger, a video editor for the Los Angeles Times; Meredith Birkett, a multimedia producer with MSNBC; Regina McCombs, a multimedia producer with the Minneapolis Star Tribune; Will Sullivan, an interactive director for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Scott Utterback, a former broadcast television photojournalists who now shoots video as a staff photographer for the Louisville Courier-Journal; Joe Weiss, the creator of SoundSlides; Will Yurman, a staff photojournalist for the Democrat & Chronicle in Rochester, NY; and about 20 additional trainers and speakers who are experts in the field of multimedia and visual storytelling.
The registration fee for the NPPA Multimedia Immersion workshop, which includes four days of training, use of a camera, computer, and software, and attendance to the seminars is $895 for NPPA members, $1,150 for non-members. NPPA Professional Membership is $110 for one year, and student membership is $65 for one year. Please visit here for more information on the benefits of membership and an application form.
“Convergence ‘08 is the direct result of NPPA members asking the NPPA to be more relevant to their lives, to help give them the tools and the skills to better compete in a dramatically changing news environment,” event chair Russ Kendall said.
“Besides offering the powerful Multimedia Immersion workshop, we’re also offering sessions to help young visual journalists get that first job, sessions to help freelancers better understand the reality of doing business as a solo practitioner, and sessions designed to help mid-career visual journalists cross-train into other highly-employable fields.
“In addition to the many hands-on workshops, the very finest still, television, and multimedia journalists will be presenting and speaking about their inspiring work. There will be formal and informal portfolio critique sessions. Where else can a young photographer have their work looked at by a Pulitzer Prize winner? There will be the opportunity to network with others, to recruit, to get a job, or to change jobs. Whether you’re just starting out in visual journalism or well into a satisfying career, this is one weekend you can’t afford to pass up,” Kendall said.
“In a recent NPPA membership survey the two most important elements members looked for in our events were location and topics,” NPPA executive director Jim Straight said. “So the planners are really focusing on the topics this year, looking at the things that our members have told us that they need to know. We’ve brought back the very popular Multimedia Immersion program, and the annual awards dinner is on the final night. As far as location goes there aren’t too many cities more accessible than Louisville. Flights are abundant, and it’s less than a 12-hour car ride for half of America’s population. Join us in Louisville in May at the Downtown Marriott for what promises to be a great opportunity.”
Convergence '08 is sponsored by Canon, Nikon Professional Services, Apple's Aperture and NPPA.
