A team from Newsplex, the College's newsroom of the future,
journeyed to Moscow in June to train Russian academics on
the concepts and techniques of convergent journalism. The
Russians produced audio stories, created slide shows and
shot video using small Kodak flip cameras. Many had previous
professional experience and they were quick to embrace the
pragrmatic approach to convergent journalism advocated by
Newsplex.
"We've been doing these workshops forx almost a decade,
and this was one of the most successful we've ever done," said
Newsplex Director Randy Covington, who headed a training
team included visual communications professor Scott Farrand
and former Newsplex resource coordinator Jordan Ellis.
The training was held at Moscow State University and included
journalism faculty from that school as well as from several
others across Russia. It was funded by USAID through a grant
to the U.S non-profit IREX. At the conclusion of the training,
one participant produced the ollowingslide show documenting
the week.
