Social media, mobile and virtual reality to be covered in NewsTrain seminar

NORMAN — Daniel Victor, senior staff editor for The New York Times, and Socrates Lozano, national technology coordinator and photojournalist for The E.W. Scripps Co. and an expert on using 360-video, will join other national and local journalists at NewsTrain at the University of Oklahoma’s Gaylord College.

NewsTrain, sponsored by The Associated Press Media Editors, offers hands-on, practical advice and proven techniques designed to help front-line editors and educators polish their editing and management skills. Media professionals, educators and students, as well as the interested public, are invited to register for the workshop to be held March 4.

The all-day session includes lunch.

Victor will teach social media reporting and breaking-news planning, and Lozano will teach mobile- and 360-video. In addition: • Joey Senat, one of the foremost authorities on Oklahoma open-records law, will teach “10 Habits of Highly Effective Open-Records Users.”

• Clifton Adcock, awardwinning investigative reporter for Oklahoma Watch, will teach datadriven enterprise.

• Bill Church, senior VP of news at GateHouse Media, will speak at lunch on “Finding the Right Leadership Tune.”

For $75, early-bird registrants can get a full day of digital training at APME’s NewsTrain workshop in Norman on March 4. Sessions include: • Using social media as powerful reporting tools

• Producing data-driven enterprise stories off your beat

• Shooting short, shareable smartphone video

• Experimenting with virtual reality and 360video to tell immersive stories

• Planning for breaking news in a mobile-first, multiplatform environment

• Identifying and accessing the Oklahoma public records you need to tell compelling stories

Register by Feb. 4 at bit.ly/NormanNews Train to get the earlybird discount. Registration increases to $85 on Feb. 5.

The first 25 registrants qualify to receive a free AP Stylebook.

Journalists, journalism students and journalism educators from diverse backgrounds are invited to apply by Feb. 1 for competitive diversity scholarships, which cover the registration fee.

NewsTrain attendees regularly rate their training as 4.5, with 5 as highly effective and highly useful. “This is the best hands-on collection of practical sessions with knowledgeable ‘inthe-field’ instructors I’ve experienced,” said reporter Kelly Shiers, who attended NewsTrain in Halifax, Nova Scotia, last year.

The program also includes a keynote lunchtime talk by APME President Bill Church: “Finding the Right Leadership Tune.” Church is senior vice president of news at GateHouse Media.

The workshop is being held in conjunction with the AEJMC Midwinter Conference at the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Oklahoma.

Questions? Email NewsTrain Project Director Linda Austin at laustin.news train@gmail.com