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12A/13A FALL 2014 black Going out and getting the story 'LJLWDO6NLOOV:RUNVKRSKHOSVEXLOGFRQÀGHQFHDQG VNLOOVWRPDNHVWXGHQWV·RZQYRLFHVKHDUG By Chris Parker I about reading chapters and taking tests. Journalism is about going out and getting that story,” Kennedy says. She asks students what really concerns them, what have they seen or heard that they want to explore. “This is an opportunity to develop your voice,” she says. Students taking the workshop learned to effectively use electronics to help them use those voices to tell the story. “More and more, the expectation is that students will have video skills. We’re seeing more students turning in their work electronically. These skills are not optional. We’re so much more a visual society,” Madison says. Digital skills may help students get to the next educational rung. “Colleges are incorporating digital technology into their curriculums and are expecting their students to arrive ready to use these tools,” Lazaro says. “By learning video basics, these students now have an edge when applying for scholarships or internships, or when working on school assignments or personal projects.” In addition to digital skills, the project teaches JYP[PJHS[OPURPUNHUKOV^[VZPM[V\[MHJ[MYVTÄJ[PVU “We are Googling things at every age all day long. Many people, especially young people, don’t know if what they are getting is a good journalism source. They need to ask, ‘does it have an agenda?’ That’s one of the fundamental skills the ^VYRZOVW[LHJOLZ·OV^[VKPɈLYLU[PH[LIL[^LLU spin and neutrality,” Madison says. “There is so much noise out there. Everybody’s got something they think is viable.” Those skills will extend beyond news stories. And it’s not only the students who are learning. “By turning the workshop into digestible, character-driven video modules, we’ve created what we see as a promising and compelling alternative to traditional teacher-education training programs that lack the ability to engage or inspire,” Lazaro says. “Although we came to this project as journalists, this teaching module carries the potential to be expanded to subject areas beyond just journalism.” Visit the Digital Skills Workshop at digitalskills. uoregon.edu/index.html. JCampers ask: ¶:K\VKRXOGZHJRLQWRMRXUQDOLVP"· By Linda Shockley T Director’s Chair QVIPU[OLÄLSK[OL`Z[\KPLK he Asian American Diversity is still a pressing Journalists Association issue for the industry. Minorihas been running JCamp, a ties were particularly hard-hit stellar multicultural summer in the downturn. journalism program for high Downsizing continues school students, since 2001. apace. Market pressures to Neal Justin of the Minneapmake more money across olis Star Tribune, Josh F. du media coupled with techLac of the Washington Post, nological innovations have and Mark Angeles of The led to the belief that fewer Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J., people can do more in less co-founded the camp. Justin time. ran it in Boston along with A New York editor recently Clea Benson of Bloomberg said digital advancements News and Lorene Yue of pile on new tasks to checkCrain’s Chicago Business. lists for journal \