The tools and training committee of the Learning Newsroom is scheduled to set priorities for training for 2006. We've surveyed the newsroom, many of you have come to talk to us about training wants and needs.
Here's another chance: Email us about your thoughts on priorities for training or come to our next meeting:
Monday, Nov. 21 at 2:30 p.m.: Editorial boardroom.
Put it down on your calendar.
Here is a reminder of your survey results:
REPORTING SKILLS
Investigative techniques, including online and database searching, investigative tools-tricks and types of document searches
How to do CAR, spreadsheets, excel training
Researching in-depth, government sources, document searches, including how to find corporate, land, court and police
FOI: tracking and requests
Demographic information
Reading financial reports
Interviewing techniques
Generating column ideas
Statistics for dummies a simple stats course to help make sense of databases, trials, etc
where to go for hard-to-get information in breaking news stories, investigative
Coaching and brushups on how to reduce common errors
Have journalists from other places come and talk us through their work on big stories
Maps, city reference materials
WRITING SKILLS
Writing workshops - how to capture people's character in writing/bring in experts/quirky voices/slice of life writing/critical writing
Grammar seminar suggestion that Doug Haggo do this
Handouts on common errors, flagging recent foulups
CP style brushup tests
Critiquing of work
more feedback on stories, learn different approaches to writing
Writing workshops -- how to write tighter, better / lessons in explanatory writing
COPY-HANDLING/LAYOUT SKILLS
Headline writing
Production
-learn more about pagination/page creation/page design
Copy editing includes a workshop for and by copy editors and self editing
Quark pagination from basic layout
skills to quick-key shortcuts, job-shadowing but only if they had
ongoing opportunities to reinforce that learning.
TECHNICAL AND COMPUTER SKILLS
Computer skills desktop, email, quark, excel, letter writing
Internet searching , includes Online and database searches, trolling databases for story ideas
Web-based skills to build a more user friendly website incl. updates on new technology such as blogs
Quickwire training
cascade
Ordering photos/photo filing and searching
On-line training courses for editors
Solo browser/processing pictures
Keyboard refresher
training in how to use the scanners I've never found the hold button
Copy desk basic functions
How to build web pages quickly and simply easy-to-build web pages could be simple warehouses for the tons of info we look at and discard daily and lots of other uses R
Finding photos and logos
MISCELLANEOUS
Performance/Public speaking as means of raising profile of columnists, tv, radio
Time management
Mentoring program
Time management
More dictionaries
Management training
Courses designed for supervisors
Brush up coarse/even manual on functions of each job so others can easily fill in for those jobs
Organizational skills
How to preserve written material library
Archiving materials
Customer or client relations. Coaching on answering calls from the public
How to better inform the reader of Spectator services ie photo orders, pics to The Talk, The Town
Better understanding of how the paper planning/decision making works
Not so much a training session, but
tutorials in understanding our mission, mandate and expectations as
seen by management editors
Conflict resolution/communications
Cross-training in other jobs
Photo training
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