Feb 23 2008
MediaStorm announces its own multimedia workshop
This should be really exciting. I know Brian Storm from last summer when he worked with us at a Carnegie - Knight funded organization called News21.
I like Brian because he is a visionary. He is not one of the ones trying to “catch up” but rather he is helping to lead the charge with innovative storytelling. He comes from a photojournalism background, and I suspect his workshop will be more visually oriented that others, especially given the nature of his business.
Other multimedia training workshops tend to go about training in different ways, I think. Here at Berkeley’s Knight Workshop, I feel like we are more technology oriented and we cater more toward journalists that are just starting out on the digital side of things. Our aim is to help “mid-career” journalists who are trying to catch-up.
The price of the MediaStorm workshop is pretty steep: $3,000 for an “observer” position and $4,500 for a participant such as a reporter or editor. I assume a news organization will be footing the bill for an employee, that’s usually how these things work. Then when they go back, they can help spread the knowledge.
He failed to mention Knight in the list of “others” on his FAQ however. (I should note that we are the first result to come up when doing a Google search on “Multimedia Journalism.”) Maybe he’ll give us a shout out later. 
Read the details of MediaStorms workshop here.
EDIT: Brian Storm e-mailed me to tell me they added Knight to their list of “other” workshops. Oops, forgot about the trackbacks. A big thank you goes out to MediaStorm.
Certainly a wonderful opportunity but, for me, the cost of all these top-tier multimedia programs underlines the importance of your work (and Paul’s and Lanita’s and Jane’s …) at the Knight workshop. My company barely scraped together the money to buy me a plane ticket to Berkeley in December and things ain’t getting any better. Training simply isn’t in the budget for the foreseeable future.
So keep up the great work (and perhaps you could develop a more advanced class for poor small and mid-market journalists…).