Monday, September 17, 2007

eMerge News Seeking Crew for Fall

eMerge News, Tincan's after school youth journalism program, is set to start meeting again October 1st. This will be a general meeting for all interested teens. There will be grilled cheese sandwiches and lots of info about what will be going on this year.

What's going on in eMerge this year includes some exciting new changes. We are switching from just creating news packages to doing bi-weekly newscasts, covering a wider spectrum of stories. The newscasts will be videotaped and distributed online via the emerge website, myspace, youtube, and itunes. They will also be available as a video and audio download for portable devices. Our focus this year is on developing teens ability to watch and analyze their community for stories that are newsworthy, and then communicate them in a simple fashion that is widely available. News crew members will be required to attend city council and other community meetings, read and watch local news as well as independent national newscasts that provide an alternative to the nightly network news.

In addition to participating in putting the newscast together participants will also have the opportunity to complete training courses in journalism, video production, and web publishing. We are also organizing trips to journalism and film departments at local colleges and universities, festivals and conferences.

As always we are looking for adult volunteers and participants. If you are interested or have any questions call Hannah Whitmore at 744-0972, or email at hannah@tincan.org.

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