National Press Photographers Association

NPPA's Mulitmedia Immersion 2010 Workshop Is Sold Out

 

DURHAM, NC (April 26, 2010) – NPPA's 2010 Multimedia Immersion Workshop is now sold out, and the 40 applicants who registered for the limited seating at the five-day hands-on workshop at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in New York starting on May 18 will be trained – with a 2:1 student to teacher ratio – by today's leaders in multimedia journalism.

The 2010 Multimedia Immersion Workshop is for visual journalists who are looking to expand and grow their multimedia skills using the latest technology. Multimedia Immersion 2010 will focus on mixing photographs, audio, and video content and editing them into multimedia presentations. Previous students at NPPA's Multimedia Immersion include more than just beginners, as the workshop has been taken by Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalists, top title winners from the Best Of Photojournalism contest, White House photographers, academics, editors, working professionals and freelancers, and graduate and undergraduate students, all looking to supercharge their careers.

This year the Immersion will be sharing four of its sessions with the photojournalism and multimedia community by offering live streaming video online from 1-2 p.m. EST on these days:

More Multimedia Immersion tips and information will also be shared with the greater community through the Multimedia Immersion Workshop Web site, Twitter, and Facebook during the seminar.

This year's faculty includes a diverse group of talented visual journalists from organizations including the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Associated Press, the Washington Post, the Associated Press, and more.

"Every year we tweak our schedule to curtail our workshop to the interests, skills, and needs of the students and the demands of the modern media environment," said workshop co-chairman Will Sullivan, interactive director for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "We have the most amazing coaches working in the business. These aren't consultants or retired folks, they do this every day, with the best, most modern equipment from Canon and a student-to-coach ratio that's unrivaled. There's simply no better environment to get up to speed on modern multimedia skills than the Immersion."

Multimedia Immersion Workshop 2010 students will be provided with computers and software to use for the week at the S.I. Newshouse School for Public Communications, and cameras will be provided by Canon. NPPA's instructors recommend bringing whatever audio and video equipment you currently use on an everyday basis so that learning can be done on gear that will be used back home in the field after the workshop. But if you can't bring your own gear, there will be equipment for students to use on site.

NPPA executive director Jim Straight says students at the Multimedia Immersion workshop will learn:


Every student at the Multimedia Immersion 2010 workshop will produce their own finished professional project, from capturing all the content to editing and compressing the final files, workshop co-chairman Seth Gitner said.

During the week in Syracuse the workshop's students will be personally coached by industry leaders and the best educators in the country. In addition to Gitner, this year's workshop faculty includes:

Sponsors for the Multimedia Immersion Workshop include Canon, Camera Bits, the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, USAToday, the Associated Press, Delkin Devices, Think Tank Photo, Photoshelter, and the Maine Media Workshops.

 

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