The Live Reporting Workshop

900 San Antonio Road,Palo Alto CA 94303

18 September, 2021

Description

A 4-hour Youth Community Journalism Seminar Are you interested in telling local stories and making local change? Do you dream of a career in journalism or sports broadcasting? Maybe you're looking for the tools to archive important local history or be the first one to break a local story? This one-day, 4-hour workshop will introduce you to live reporting, sports broadcasting, and community journalism. You will learn how to operate and produce on-the-go video with Midpen Media Center’s mobile production studio and broadcast truck. Through the lens of community journalism and local sports, and while confidently using high-tech news cameras, you’ll learn how to transform footage of a live event into a video segment worth sharing. Additionally, upon completion of this workshop, students are invited to attend local sports games and community events to put their new live broadcasting skills into practice. The Live Reporting Workshop will be outdoors to allow for social distancing. The curriculum is designed for students between the ages of 11 and 18. All students who complete this workshop will be invited to join our Youth Sports Crew, a social group that travels to local schools to cover live sports games throughout the school year. About Midpen Media Midpen Media is a local community access television service and center that encourages community engagement, facilitates free speech, inspires creative expression and reflects our local cultural diversity by providing high-quality media resources and training to members of our community. The organization has provided important local free speech access to video production and television programming opportunities for the people in the Silicon Valley communities of Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton, East Palo Alto, Stanford, and other areas of San Mateo and Santa Clara counties since 1990. Midpen Media is a 501(c)(3) public benefit corporation. Learn more at MidpenMedia.org. The Midpen Media Center is a non-profit community media center dedicated to empowering local creators and uplifting local voice of the Bay Area's Midpeninsula community.