A total of 40 Journalists in Kogi State have participated in multimedia newsroom training. The one-day training workshop on Thursday was organized by Stallion Times Media Service LTD., the publisher of Stallion Times newspaper.
Stallion Times Media Services Ltd. is implementing a 3-year Participatory Governance and Media Literacy project tagged “Get Involved, Dialogue and Improve (G-DRIP)” in Kano and Kogi states, under the Collaborative Media Project (Collaborating for media independence and government accountability), funded by the MacArthur Foundation.
He said: “In today’s world of media convergence, news storytelling and the way people consume news has changed.
“This workshop, therefore, is designed to introduce the concept of multimedia newsroom storytelling that caters to all sorts of audiences and platforms.”
“It will help journalists appreciate the use of technology to deliver investigative reports in a blend of text, static images, animation, video, and audio clips.”
While signing out, Ahmed urged the participants to practice the knowledge and experience gained and step down the training in their media organisations.
Stephen Enoch, a Stallion Times Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Stephen Enoch took participating journalists through practicals on how to use some editing tools, among them were Canva, Lumen 5, and Adobe Premiere Pro.
“I have learned a lot about how to use different tools of multimedia to tell compelling stories.
Another participant, Aliyu Muhammed Lawal, Managing Editor, Core News, said: “This training has been very insightful because the media is a vast world with different updates.
“Attending this training today has made me learn different ways of editing videos with myriads of application tools to tell stories in a succinct way.
“As the Managing Editor of my online newspaper, I will step down this training to my reporters to boost the creativity of my news outlet.”
Ishak Dan-Iman, a Senior Correspondent with Voice of Nigeria (VON) said the training session has exposed him to existing technological editing software.
He said: “I am equally impressed with the practical demonstrations on the use of Canva to create multimedia content in line with the dynamics of journalism.”
