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2006 Multimedia News Production Workshop

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Joe Weiss

Joe Weiss has worked as a photojournalist, multimedia reporter, designer, programmer, producer and editor in print and online media since 1996. He's currently an interactive producer at The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C.

Previously he was the Director of Photography and Multimedia at The Herald-Sun in Durham, N.C. and twice worked for MSNBC.com as a multimedia producer in Redmond, Wash.

His multimedia reports have garnered national and international recognition including the Online Journalism Award for Creative Use of the Medium (2001) from the Online News Association and two Digital Edge awards from the NAA (2001, 2003). Most recently his work received a Gold medal in the 2005 Society for News Design's Interactive Design competition.

He has judged several awards including the Pictures of the Year International (2004), Society for News Design's Interactive Design Awards (2002), and the Online News Association's Online Journalism Awards (2002). Weiss frequently speaks at seminars and workshops concerning the integration of photojournalism, audio reportage and multimedia technology.

He started his life in journalism as a photographer at The Herald-Sun after attending the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and Randolph Community College.

Joe Weiss is the developer of the SoundSlides program for creating photo/audio Flash slide shows.

Mindy McAdams

Mindy McAdams joined the faculty of the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida in August 1999 as the Knight Chair for journalism technologies and the democratic process. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in online journalism. Previously she was the Web strategist at the American Press Institute and lived in Washington, D.C.

Back in the days before "www dot" rolled lightly from our tongues, she was the first content developer at Digital Ink, The Washington Post's first online newspaper. Prior to that, she was a copy editor for 11 years. She worked on the Metro desk at The Washington Post and at Time magazine in New York. She also worked as a technology editor for a weekly business newspaper and in book publishing.

Her book Flash Journalism: How to Create Multimedia News Packages was published by Focal Press/Elsevier in 2005.

She was awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant for teaching and research in Malaysia (seven months in 2004-2005).

Her teaching and consulting work since 1995 has taken her to Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Bulgaria, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Britain and Canada. She gives seminars and workshops on Flash journalism, the use of hypertext in journalism and writing for online media.

She holds an M.A. in media studies and a B.A. in print journalism.

Regina McCombs

Regina McCombs is a multimedia reporter, photographer and producer for StarTribune.com, the online division of the Star Tribune, Minneapolis-St. Paul. She arrived there after 13 years as a television photographer and producer at KARE-TV, the NPPA-winning powerhouse in the Twin Cities.

Winner of numerous Best of Photojournalism and Pictures of the Year International awards for multimedia storytelling, she is a regular speaker around the country, talking about finding new ways to tell stories on the Web.

For StarTribune.com, she does a wide variety of things - filing stories from the field, shooting video, stills, recording audio, creating slide shows, producing major projects, and training staff in creating multimedia for the Web. She's taught classes in online journalism and TV news at the University of Minnesota, where she earned her master's degree.

A few of her recent projects include Minnesota's Olympic Athletes, Little Minneapolis and Taking it to the Streets.

Nora Paul

Nora Paul is the inaugural director of the Institute for New Media Studies. She came to the University of Minnesota in July 2000 after nine years at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Florida. At the Poynter Institute she led the programming efforts in the areas of news library management, computer-assisted research, and new media leadership. Prior to the Poynter Institute, Nora was the Editor, Information Services at the Miami Herald from 1979-1991 where she developed one of the early full-text electronic archives for news, brought in computer-assisted research, and created a fee-based news research service for the public.

Nora is the author of Computer Assisted Research: A guide to tapping online information, co-author, with Margot Williams, of Great Scouts: Cyberguides for Subject Searching on the Web, editor of When Nerds and Words Collide. Reflections on the Development of Computer Assisted Reporting, and co-authored with Kathleen Hansen, Behind the Message: Information Strategies for Communicators.

She has an MLS from Texas Women's University and, after college, founded one of the first information brokerage services. She got her first modem in 1978 and has been accessing, studying, and explaining the electronic delivery of information ever since.

Additional faculty will include:

Dave Braunger, flash designer, StarTribune.com
Mike DeSisti, multimedia photographer and producer, Appleton Post Crescent
Jenni Pinkley, multimedia producer, StarTribune.com
Laura Ruel, professor in visual communication and multimedia production, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill