Student-journos get tips on content creation at US Embassy workshop
Student journalists and presenters at the U.S. Embassy's workshop on October 23.
CARIMAC students were among a group of student-journalists from Jamaican universities who were urged to consider opportunities in content creation for media houses. The students were participants at a U.S. Embassy workshop on the role of the modern journalist.
CARIMAC director Canute James, who presented at the workshop, told the students that they are “living in a golden age of technology,” echoing the previous day’s discussion on the many ways for freelance journalists to provide content for local media houses.
Assistant Professor of Journalism/New Media at Howard University Ingrid Sturgis also guided the students on strategies for building their own brand and creating an online community that will support and enhance their reporting. Dr. James put these ideas into a regional context, noting that Caribbean journalists must “stop thinking parochially” and “join the dots” between local, regional and global stories.
-story and photo contributed by Emma Lewis, U.S. Embassy
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