Multimedia Students Uncover “Rich Tapestry”

An intensive workshop in multimedia storytelling creates “motivated journalists” who can tell great stories with digital tools, according to one of its instructors.

Teacher Arielle Emmett says a “multimedia reporting boot-camp” held in Armagh last summer proved a great hit and brought out the best in its American students.

“In a short period we managed to do what most multimedia reporting classes of full semesters don’t seem to do: Create high-energy, motivated journalists who uncover rich tapestries of stories and manage to tell them (quickly and convincingly) with digital tools,” writes Emmett in American Journalism Review.

The students used multimedia tools such as video and slideshow to tell their stories, which ranged from the experiences of people during the Troubles to investigations into local legends and a feature on a girls’ Gaelic football team.

Managed by the Institute for Education in International Media, the Armagh Media Project is a four-week course; all the stories produced by this year’s class can be viewed here.