Essential multimedia tutorials and resources for do-it-yourself training

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

The funny thing about the new wave of journalism is that news organizations are requiring journalists to learn additional technical skills, but aren't making the necessary training readily available. In order to be or remain employed in this industry its essential to hunker down and learn some new skills.

The following tutorial sites will take you from journalist to multimedia journalist, something that looks great on any business card.

Knight Digital Media Center

Available tutorials: Video, Audio, Photography, Web design, Flash, Multimedia storytelling, Mashups; Cost: free

J-Learning

Available tutorials: Web design, Video, Audio, Graphic Design, SWiSHmax, Blogging, Photography, Databases; Cost: free

News University

Available tutorials: Assorted journalism fundamentals, as well as multimedia storytelling and social networking

Teaching Online Journalism/Mindy McAdams

Available tutorials: A wide variety, including online tools and multimedia software; Cost: free

Media College

Available tutorials: Video, Audio, Photography, Graphic design, Web design, Various software (Flash, Photoshop, etc.); Cost: free

lynda.com

Available tutorials: Pretty much everything under the sun, from software to online tools; Cost: $25 monthly/$250 annual membership

BBC Training & Development

Available tutorials: HTML, Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop, Audio editing and recording and more; Cost: Varies

tutsearch

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Available tutorials: Photoshop, CSS, Illustrator, Flash, JQuery, Web design; Cost: Free

Common Craft

A series of short explanatory videos that focused on making complex technical concepts ideas easier to understand. Covers everything from wikis to RSS to social media to social bookmarking

Tutorial Today

Available tutorials: Photoshop, Flash, CSS, HTML, Javascript, PHP and more; Cost: free

Also on 10,000 Words:

• What is...? A handy guide for the new media novice
• The 20 Essential RSS Feeds for Multimedia Journalists
• Essential social networks for journalists
• 8 Flash tips and tricks + one big cheat sheet

5 Comments

Tracy Boyer Says:

Great round-up, Mark. I would suggest also mentioning Flash Kit for a lot of great tutorials on interactivity, Flash and other multimedia concepts. Everything is free, easily searchable, and organized by software version, level, and content. I avidly used this when I was first learning Flash before I got my hands on a Lynda.com subscription :)

(http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/)

March 19, 2009 2:23 PM

Anonymous Says:

Some more

www.totaltraining.com
www.tutsplus.com/

March 19, 2009 2:28 PM

topfunky Says:

We publish hour-long screencast tutorials for web developers and iPhone developers. Only $9 each, or less with a subscription:

http://peepcode.com

March 19, 2009 4:46 PM

anna Says:

Glad you found our tutorials on J-Learning helpful, Mark. We also have several (free!) citizen journalism training modules on the Knight Citizen News Network site.

March 23, 2009 6:03 AM

Eba Says:

Great list, Mark. I'm heading up a new round of training sessions for the newsroom soon, and this will be a big help.

March 30, 2009 10:24 AM