Come early to New York and boost your career by staying ahead of the curve: Sign up for one of several pre-convention workshops on Wednesday, Aug. 21.
AAJA, in partnership with several industry leaders, will be offering immersive training, ranging from investigative reporting to coding HTML to unlocking the secrets of a successful freelance career. Here’s a sneak peek at some of the workshops.
Investigative Reporters and Editors’ Watchdog Workshop (at convention site)
Investigative Reporters and Editors’ full-day Watchdog Workshop offers tips, tools and training that you can use immediately to add depth to your work, from breaking news coverage to quick-turn enterprise and long-term projects. Reporters, editors and producers return to their newsrooms with hard-hitting story ideas, websites and online resources to explore, lists of key documents to obtain, techniques for more effective reporting, ways to use the web and social media to find information, insight into the latest technology for news gathering and much more.
Covering Your Local Economy, presented by the Donald W. Reynolds Center for Business Journalism (at convention site)
This half-day workshop will teach attendees how to cover the economic angle to any beat, find and use data to develop local stories, and find fresh angles on unemployment and housing trends. Expect to walk away with 10 local economic story ideas you can start next week — whether business is a part of your beat or not.
Coding Workshop (at convention site)
This full-day workshop has two components to learning how to code. Students will first get a four-hour crash course into HTML and CSS. The second half of the day will be devoted to putting coding skills into action and attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions for work or personal projects.
Building a Successful Freelance Career (hosted by CUNY)
Join AAJA for a one-day workshop to help develop the connections, skills and strategies you need to build a successful freelance career. Hear from other freelancers about how they’ve made it work. Meet top editors and learn about the pitches they like to receive.
In the Digital Age: Journalists Need To Know the Business (hosted by New York University)
This full-day workshop will help journalists understand the business side of journalism to be better managers and entrepreneurs. Attendees will learn business basics including basic concepts in marketing, accounting, finance, funding, metrics, revenue, and budgeting; learn entrepreneurial skills and intelligent risk-taking; and connect with others who have gone down the entrepreneurial path.
Multiplatform Storytelling (hosted by Columbia University)
This half-day workshop will be focused on telling stories across platforms and teaching people how you can tell a story and package it for delivery via video, audio, social media. Some of the questions to be addressed in a workshop would include: What makes a good video? What makes a good audio? How do you develop a social media campaign for a story?
AAJA will offer more details soon. Additional fees may apply for these pre-convention workshops
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