Citizen journalists honed their interviewing and reporting
skills at the Regina Media Collective’s second workshop, held March 10.
“Everyone has vague ideas of things they’d like to write. It’s good to have
workshops like this,” said participant Kai Hutchence.
If you missed the workshop, read on and view the videos.
Jason Hammond (left), Zeba Hashmi and Jim Elliott work on news leads. T. Elliott photo. The workshop was led by Briarpatch editor David O. Mitchell
and Patricia Bell, a former Globe and Mail correspondent and Ottawa Citizen
reporter. They stressed accurate reporting and clear, simple writing.
Hutchence said the workshop was a good reminder that “there
are actual standards and principles” to follow as citizen journalists. Seventeen budding journalists spent the afternoon interviewing community activists and writing stories.
It was the first news writing lesson for Lucile McPartin, a
self-described “Food for Life volunteer, grandmother and Canadian-African”.
McPartin said she is impressed by the power of homemade alternative media.
“It’s like the cottage industry for newsprint. You’re not
standing under the lamplight shouting out the news, but the information gets
out to a broader audience than the mainstream media.”
The next Media Collective workshop will be on how to post
stories to the web. For information contact (
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Citizen journalists honed their interviewing and reporting
skills at the Regina Media Collective’s second workshop, held March 10.
“Everyone has vague ideas of things they’d like to write. It’s good to have
workshops like this,” said participant Kai Hutchence.
and writing stories.