GTLN Journalists Build Social Video Skills at Mercer University Workshop

To boost efforts to reach new audiences and increase social video production, the Georgia Trust for Local News (GTLN) recently partnered with Mercer University to offer a training session for GTLN reporters. 

Mercer University visual journalism professor Evey Wilson Wetherbee led the session, which focused on capturing, editing and distributing social video content. The interactive seminar, offered as part of a Google News Initiative and National Trust for Local News grant, included hands-on shooting and editing work. Nineteen GTLN journalists joined the session, held at the Reg Murphy Center for Collaborative Journalism at Mercer University in Macon.

The Macon Melody, a startup newsroom founded by the National Trust for Local News, thanks to the support of Knight Foundation, is located at Mercer University and often works with the university's faculty and students.

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Kathryn Crockett, community reporter at The Albany Herald, introduces herself to colleagues from the Georgia Trust for Local News during a social video journalism training session at The Macon Melody’s office at Mercer University in Macon on Friday, March 27.

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Mercer University visual journalism professor Evey Wilson Wetherbee guides Payton Towns of The Courier Herald through an editing exercise.

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Owen Jones, a staff writer for the Houston Home Journal, records Kyle Dominy, weekly managing editor for the Georgia Trust for Local News, during an outdoor field exercise as part of a social video journalism training.

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Lizzie Bacik, partnerships specialist for The Macon Melody, records Brieanna Smith, managing editor of the Houston Home Journal, during a field exercise as part of a social video journalism training.