{"id":121,"date":"2012-05-29T16:10:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T16:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/?p=121"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:23:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T08:23:14","slug":"media2012wm-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/media2012wm-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympics citizen reporting hub to launch in June with day of free workshops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><strong>A hub that hopes to build a \u201csustainable group of citizen journalists\u201d will be offering free workshops at its launch on June 29th. <a title=\"#media2012 West Midlands Launch\" href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/wmlaunch\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/strong>#media2012,<\/strong> in partnership with 3D Native, is launching its West Midlands hub with an unconference day at The Public (West Bromwich) from 10am.<\/p>\n<p>The day will be filled with workshops including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How to set up a free website<\/li>\n<li>How to set up a paid site<\/li>\n<li>WordPress blogging<\/li>\n<li>Video production &amp; editing<\/li>\n<li>Recording audio<\/li>\n<li>Live blogging<\/li>\n<li>Publishing from mobile (video, text, pictures &amp; audio)<\/li>\n<li>Any other suggested sessions from attendees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Visitors will be encouraged to trade skills and ideas, helping to build connections between different communities, encouraging engagement with locals and media producers to generate a unique perspective on coverage of the Olympics and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>On the 30th June attendees will be invited back to West Bromwich to put into the practice the skills learnt the previous day, helping to create a solid group of community journalists who are passionate about their local area and want to give it a voice.<\/p>\n<p>Workshops will be delivered by media workers from across the UK, including Adam Perry from Newsnet\u2019s Media Trust who are backed by organisations such as BBC, Sky, Google, The Guardian, MTV and many more; Jon Coster from Citizens Eye, a successful citizen journalism group based in Leicester; as well as Franzi Bahrle, Jennifer Jones, Joe Hagen, Luke Holloway, Luke Seager, Ollie Clark and Steve Hands.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"#media2012 West Midlands Launch Event tickets\" href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/wmlaunch\" target=\"_blank\">You can find free tickets here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hub that hopes to build a \u201csustainable group of citizen journalists\u201d will be offering free workshops at its launch on June 29th. Tickets here. #media2012, in partnership with 3D Native, is launching its West Midlands hub with an unconference &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/media2012wm-launch\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[54,72,73,75,49,56,6,64,76,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}