UCLAN prepares for second round of multimedia training for freelancers

Infuze, the multimedia training scheme for freelance journalists, is to launch its second programme with an event featuring Propublica's editor of distributed reporting Amanda Michel on October 21.

The initiative, which is run by the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) and BBC, has been commissioned for a second time by screen agency Northwest Vision and Media, following a successful launch in March this year.

The next programme run from November 23-27 and provide training in online, TV, radio and mobile journalism for 10 freelancers.

Seminars will also address issues including crowdsourcing, networked journalism and how to make your journalism stand out when technology makes everyone a publisher.

The schedule also includes a 12-week paid placement for attendees at news outlets in the region, a press release confirmed.

The course will deliver skills for 21st-century journalists, Matt Foster, programme manage BBC at MediaCityUK BBC training and development, said in the release.

The initiative is particularly aimed at working journalists looking to 'upskill', who won't previously have benefited from such training, Paul Egglestone, who heads UCLAN's Sandbox facility where the course will be held, told Journalism.co.uk prior to the scheme's launch last year.

"This is a professional development opportunity for journalists, who want to get to grips with what is multi-platform journalism," he said.

Related reading: Report on the trainees from Infuze's March programme

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