Journalists' Toolkit

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A training site for multimedia and online journalists

Video Resources updated

The new Video Resources page has been added to this site.

This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching video in their classes.

Soundslides: Getting started, tips and help

A new resource page here: Soundslides: A Brief Introduction.

It provides a simple overview of what Soundslides can do and how to get started with the application — which is widely used for creating simple audio slideshows for the Web.

At the bottom of the page you’ll find some helpful links.

You might also be interested in this site’s Soundslides Troubleshooting Guide, which covers the most common errors made by new users of Soundslides.

Beginner’s tutorial for Audacity

> Watch and listen to the tutorial.

It’s been a long road to making this tutorial, but finally, it’s finished. This is essentially my entire lecture and demonstration about how to use Audacity, step by step, for journalists and journalism students.

The target audience is people who have never edited audio before.