We’re launching a new program designed to provide more mentorship and training to new journalists. Join us for our new monthly journalism meetup series, where we’ll be holding mini-workshops to help develop the skills you need to make videos, and supporting you to develop your own video project. Over the course of the series, you’ll be working independently or with a team to bring your own project to life.
Monthly meetups happen on a drop in basis. You do not need to come to every meetup and you can always join later in the season! Meetups will consist of two parts, a pitch meeting, where you are invited to bring story ideas or choose one from our staff, and a skill development session, where we’ll do a mini workshop and some exercises to practice skills needed in making video journalism projects.
Meetups will take place at the CUTV studio (2110 rue Mackay, 4th floor) from 12-2pm on Tuesdays each month.
The schedule and workshop topics:
May Meetup: Pitch and Research
- Date: May 6, 2025 12-2pm
- How to conduct research, write a script, develop a story.
June Meetup: Technical Training
- Date: June 3, 2025 12-2pm
- Hands-on tutorial for CUTV’s video cameras, camera mount mics and lav mics.
July Meetup: Interviews
- Date: July 8, 2025 12-2pm
- How to prepare for and conduct interviews.
August Meetup: Editing
- Date: August 12, 2025 12-2pm
- The basics of editing for cutting together video journalist projects.
September Meetup: Wrapup
- Date: September 9, 2025, 12-2pm
- Watch the finished projects together, share reflections, and give feedback.
Questions? Send us an email at outreach@cutvmontreal.org.
