New Webinars From ReportingonHealth
As editor-in-chief of ReportingonHealth, I'm always looking for ways to help journalists and content producers find and share compelling health stories about their communities. Next week, we launch our first webinars to provide you with yet another way to add to your own reporting and story telling tool kit.
The webinars are free and allow you to follow along and ask questions of our discussion leader online.
In our July 18 course, Web entrepreneur and Health Journalism Fellow Pascale Fusshoeller will share the ways that she makes her community news site, YubaNet, a go-to destination, for readers looking to know the latest word about fires in the Sierras. Pascale jokes that her fire maps are addictive (okay, she used the word "crack") and that they get people coming back for more and more information on her site. If you are interesting in having similar "sticky" qualities online for your content, take her one-hour course on how to embed images, maps and videos - cheaply or for free.
In our July 20 webinar, Barbara Feder Ostrov, deputy editor of ReportingonHealth, and Mark Taylor, a veteran health reporter, will share basics for those just starting out with health reporting. How do you find experts to explore community health issues locally? How do you get information during a health scare? How do you understand what happens at your local hospitals?
This is our initial foray into webinars. We welcome your feedback and comments on these topics and your suggestions for others.
Please join us! Details are below.
July 18: Embedding 101: Boost Engagement with Multimedia Elements in Your Online Content
July 20: The Health Reporting Survival Kit: Sources and Tools for Covering Community Health and Health Business
Embedding 101: Boost Engagement with Multimedia Elements in Your Online Content
Date and Time: July 18 at 10:00 a.m. PST
Location: Online
Have you ever struggled to embed a Google map or place a photo exactly where you wanted to in your blog or website? If so, this webinar is for you.
Learn how to embed images, maps, videos, audio, timelines and other multimedia or interactive elements into your content and make your blog or website come alive!
Presenter Pascale Fusshoeller of the community news site YubaNet in California will teach the basics of embedding all kinds of multimedia content into your blog or news site using basic HTML code. This hour-long webinar is useful for beginning-to-intermediate bloggers, website editors, journalists and others who want to learn or brush up on adding multimedia elements to their content without using a WYSIWYG editor.
Fusshoeller launched YubaNet in 1999 to deliver hometown news to the rural Northern California communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, and Truckee and the surrounding Sierra region. YubaNet.com is a forum for top-notch citizen journalism, putting readers in control of the site's content. Contributors from all corners of the Sierra, including businesses, non-profits, government agencies, universities, community groups, artists, musicians and others, submit their news, events and commentary.
Pascale is participating in the California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowship's Online Community Building and Health program at the USC Annenberg School for Journalism & Communication, where she is known as the "head geek" because of her web development and programming expertise.
To register, click here.
The Health Reporting Survival Kit: Sources and Tools for Covering Local Community Health and Health Business Issues
Date and Time: July 20 at 10:00 a.m. PST
Location: Online
New to the health beat? Want to learn more about how health issues play out at a local level?
Join presenters and veteran health journalists Barbara Feder Ostrov and Mark Taylor as they help you build your own survival kit for covering health care and the business of health in your community. You'll learn about the key sources, government officials, advocacy groups, healthcare providers, regulatory agencies and business interests that influence how health care is delivered - for better or for worse - at the local level. A great way to build your source list!
This webinar is targeted to beginning-to-intermediate journalists, bloggers and others who want an overview of how health care is provided in their communities and more knowledge of their health-related business community.
Barbara Feder Ostrov is deputy editor of Center for Health Journalism Digital and covered healthcare and medicine at the San Jose Mercury News for eight years. Mark Taylor, an Indiana-based freelance journalist, formerly worked for Modern Healthcare and the Gary Post Tribune and is a founding member of the Association for Health Care Journalists.
To register, click here.