Here’s another journalist bailout program – just in time to rescue all the newspaper reporters and editors Gannett laid off earlier this week.
Webbedia Group, a new media training firm created by veteran journalists, is holding two free online training sessions on emerging technology and “post-mainstream journalism careers” for recently laid off newspaper staffers and other writers. The identical, 75-minutes sessions will run Tuesday, Dec. 23 at 4 p.m. EST and Wednesday, Jan. 7 at 11 a.m. EST.
According to Webbmedia manager Amy Webb, the seminars will cover new tech trends, how to combine them with traditional journalism skills and “how to apply your skills set to land a gig doing new kinds of journalism in unexpected places.”
Participants in the sessions will get help brainstorming new projects or Websites and hear about different revenue models and branching out from traditional news organizations. “This won’t be an hour of learning code or new software – it’ll be instruction on how to think and understand digital communications differently using a more entrepreneurial spirit,” says Webb, a former Newsweek and Wall Street Journal staffer and current Online News Association board member.
Former Gannett and Conde Nast staffers have first dibs on session spots but any working journalists are welcome, according to Webb. Sessions are limited to 100 each and are already 70 percent full, but if there’s enough interest, the firm may add a third later in January.
Registration closes Dec. 15. To sign up or for more details go to www.mydigimedia.com.
Thanks very much for posting this, Michelle! We’re looking forward to holding the session… It’s both exciting to see how many people have signed up and sad to learn that so many veteran journalists are out of work.
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