NPR’s Knights are training with digital swords
One of NPR’s newest blogs showcases the work of the Knights in Training – the journalists who are training to integrate video and other media elements into their reporting. Knight Digital Media Center provided the funding.
Posts are thin so far (the blog is barely launched), but it looks like a great platform for reporters to share their work and talk about their experiences producing it. Frank Langfitt, for instance, talks a little about the learning curve – shooting video with an HD cam inside a car – for his piece on slugging.
I can’t embed the video, so you’ll need to go to the blog to see it.
Knights in Training is the newest addition to the “public media master feed” – a one-stop site for all posts from public media bloggers. (the rss feed is here.)
If you’re blogging about public media and want to be included, email me or @toddmundt on twitter.
Yeah, there’s not much posted yet, mostly because the first class of Knight trainees was graduating by the time the blog was ready to roll. It’ll pick up in a couple of weeks when the next group of trainees begin their five-week stint with the program. And we’ve set up @nprknights on Twitter where they’ll do some Twitter experimenting as well.
It’s a great idea… and I hope we all benefit by what the NPR reporters are learning. We had a Flip cam/general video training session today for our reporters, and I told them about the blog.
That looks like a very nice idea and makes their article just more interesting. I was wondering if they do the post production (editing) by themselves or they just shoot the material and write the article ? If they do edit themselves, than I'm impressed with Frank's work !
Dave