New dates and times announced for the remainder of the summer journalism meetups! The final three meetups will be on:
- July Meetup: Interviews
- Date: July 15, 2025 4-6pm
- Discussion of considerations for preparing for and conducting interviews. Practice coming up with interview questions and interviewing each other.
- August Meetup: Editing
- Date: August 12, 2025 4-6pm
- Basic editing tutorial in Premiere/DaVinci for cutting together videojournalist projects.
- September Meetup: Feedback session
- Date: September 9, 2025, 4-6pm
- Watch finished projects as a group. Share reflections, give feedback.
Thanks to everyone who has come to the first two workshops! We can’t wait to see your finished projects!
Summer Journalism Meetups
We’re launching a new program designed to provide more mentorship and training to new journalists. Each month 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.
We encourage you to work in pairs to support each other, but you can also work independently, or with a larger group. The program is designed to help facilitate the completion of one video project over the summer, but you are welcome to take on more video projects if you finish one and have time for more.
