For the third year in a row Al Tompkins will present a workshop for TV news broadcasters, anchors, producers, reporters, videographers, editors and writers. All are invited to participate in this FREE event.
Below is the agenda for the Saturday, April 25th session which will be held in Lexington at the Hilton Downtown Lexington.
Agenda for session:
9:00-11:00
Write Tight
Your viewers won't allow you to waste their time. So you have to write tight, get to the point and tell me something I didn't know.
We will explore:
How to start a story and what goes where in the piece. The BEST is not ALWAYS at the top. How do you know?
What to do when you are working with boring video.
How to make characters more interesting.
How to write so you sound like Morgan Freeman (no kidding, it is not the voice, it is the order of the words in the sentence!)
11:00-11:15
Break
11:15-12:30
Jaw-Droppingly Cool Apps and Online Tools
You will learn the newest ways to go live from your phone on Twitter
You will see how to build an interactive image in less than 2 minutes
You will discover how to build a 360 interactive photo in less than 3 minutes
And so much more. This is stuff you can use on your next shift to find stories and sources and tell stories in new ways.
12:30-1:45
Lunch
Provided by the KBA.
1:45-3:45
The Skill of Critical Thinking
There is nothing more important to a journalist than the ability to think critically. We will use real cases to sort fact from fiction. You will learn to ask four questions to help you discover deeper ways to report your stories. We will examine many stories that should never have aired, but did, because the journalists didn't know what you will learn in this session.
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