Twenty journalists from different cities of Ukraine – Uzhhorod, Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, Kyiv, Kherson, Horishni Plavni, Cherkasy, Ivano-Frankivsk, to name a few – completed a three-day training session at the Interregional School of Convergence Journalism in Odesa.
The event was organized by Souspilnist Foundation with the support of Internews Ukraine and Detector Media as part of the national Open Media Stories initiative.
The program included intensive training.
During day one of the School, the media specialists learned from Dmytro Tuzov of NV Radio how the convergent NV Holding works, where the money comes from and why create podcasts.
Then, the two days of hands-on training on “Tools, desires, intuition in the work of a convergent newsroom” began, led by Vitalii Moroz, head of new media programs at Internews Ukraine.
Already the next day, the young journalists presented their own convergent media projects: websites and social media pages with integrated QR-codes, digital maps, texts, photographic reports and quick interviews.
During day two, the journalists also learned to record podcasts with Dmytro Tuzov, spoke about a convergent newsroom with Olena Removska of Radio Liberty and learned to mount and edit video from Vasyl Arovych, UGC producer at UA:PBC, during the hands-on session “The speed of digitization at UA:PBC. Universality: how to independently film and edit material using the tools at hand”.
On the last training day, the participants presented their caption videos and spoke about developing their own brand in social networks as a way to promote and monetize content during the hands-on training led by Viktoriia Dubinets of Souspilnist Foundation.
Viktoriia Pylypenko, a participant in the last year’s School of Convergence Journalism from Sievierodonetsk also joined in via Zoom to tell the journalists about the stages of launching her own Youtube project, as she is currently working on a program dedicated to tourism in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions called “Nomads at home”.
Finally, Christopher Atwood of Souspilnist Foundation spoke about how to successfully sell crazy ideas in a world of new risks.
Traditionally, the training workshop ended with receiving certificates for completing the School of Convergence Journalism in Odesa.
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