On the Cutting Edge: Digital Reporting in the 21st Century

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The workshop entitled, “On the Cutting Edge: Digital Reporting in the 21st Century,” will focus on multi-platform storytelling as well as the dissemination of information through new media.  This workshop will include presentations from Latin American journalists who have successfully launched their own news sites and will focus on the effective use of new technology to reach wider and more diverse audiences.

The workshop will invite specialists to discuss the issues of accuracy and credibility, libel and other legal questions, reporting ethics and the sourcing of information in electronic media.  We will also offer hands-on training sessions to give journalist participants new reporting tools.

Journalists will participate in professional training sessions on innovative, multiplatform storytelling led by faculty at the USC Annenberg School of Journalism and a new media/design instructor at Los Angeles Pierce College. And one full day of the workshop will focus on field reporting followed by critique session with the founder of a San Diego web-based news site.