Hands on Time at RTNDA@NAB 2009
Whether you call it one-man-band reporting, backpack journalism, VJ reporting or multimedia reporting, broadcast newsrooms across the globe are asking reporters and photographers to "do it all" write, shoot and report. It is more important than ever for news executives to update their skills so they can teach their newsrooms how to do this work. Participants must be registered attendees of RTNDA@NAB to sign up for this FREE workshop. Space is limited.
 We train you to write, shoot and edit video as a one-man-band while preserving the most important tenants of truth-telling and visual ethics. We will issue cameras, we will supply the editing computers and software. These sessions will last a full day, from 8:30 a.m. until about 5 p.m. (depending on how long it takes participants to complete editing.)
We will train three sessions of RTNDA attendees over three days how to shoot a video camera and edit on Final Cut Pro. You will actually cover a story at the convention, then you will edit the piece and load it to the RTNDA website.
You will learn the basics of lighting and working with available light. We will teach you the skills of how to ask better questions to produce memorable soundbites and capture crisp and meaningful natural sound.
You will get coaching from some of the best known names in video journalism. We understand that some newsroom managers may have some anxiety about learning these new skills because it may have been years since you worked in the field, if you ever worked in the field at all. We will help you focus your story, shoot great video and we will walk you step-by-step through the editing process.
This is training you will be able to use to teach your newsroom as soon as you return home.
We will be using Canon XHA1 HD cameras loaned to us by Canon USA.
We will accept 12 hands-on participants each day, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. We will accept an unlimited number of observers who will listen to the teaching but not shoot or edit video.
Choose a day to participate and tell us a little bit about yourself. We will select the 12 daily hands on participants in this priority:
- Newsroom Executives (News Director, Asst ND, EP, Assignment Editor)
- Reporters and Photographers
- Producers
- College Educators
- College Students
- High School Students
- Non-journalists (PR, PIO)
The trainers would be:
 Al Tompkins, group leader for Broadcast and Online at Poynter. An 18 time Emmy Award winning journalist who was just awarded the Governor's Award, the highest award given by the National Academy for Television Arts and Sciences. He is an author and has taught thousands of journalists in more than forty states and five countries how to write more effectively and make sound ethics judgments. Tompkins co- authored four editions of RTNDF's Newsroom Ethics workbooks and DVDs which have been used in workshops nationwide.
 Regina McCombs, The Poynter Institute, started as a photojournalist at KARE-TV in Minneapolis and was head of multimedia at the Star-Tribune in Minneapolis. She now produces distance learning modules at Poynter.
 Les Rose is a photojournalist for the CBS News bureau in Los Angeles. His television career started in 1978. Prior to joining the L.A. bureau in 1997, Les worked 13 years at KCBS and from 1984-1986 he was with NBC News, Miami as a freelancer. He has also shot for WFLA (Tampa), KTVI (St. Louis), and WTSP (St. Petersburg).His assignments are for The CBS Evening News, CBS Sunday Morning, 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, and The CBS Early Show.Les’ awards include a Murrow and a DuPont with Steve Hartman and nine local Emmys.
 Lynn French is a veteran TV photojournalist. She has been doing one-man-band reporting for 13 years, and has served time as an assignment editor, producer, and every job in production. She is currently the Assistant Chief Photographer at KPNX-TV in Phoenix, Ariz., and is in Athens as part of Gannett's Broadcast division, which includes crews from KUSA, WXIA, KARE and KSDK
Together these journalists have more than 50 years of experience.
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