Mobile journalism has well and truly arrived in Novi Sad

The project has reached the next stage of its work with the broadcaster, Radio – television of Vojvodina. The consultant and trainer David Hayward delivered the first of his mobile journalism or Mojo courses.

It was attended by journalists from the Serbian language TV news programmes, the Serbian language radio programmes and from the minority language programmes at RTV.

The workshop was one of the best received courses the trainer has run. The participants were engaged from the very beginning and produced some incredibly high quality content.

The students learnt the key elements of filmmaking with a mobile phone. How to film, how to edit and the most important storytelling rules of mobile journalism. Several of the reports that were filmed and edited on the course, were of broadcast quality and would look perfectly at home in any news programme.

It is now hoped all of those who took part in the course can pass on their knowledge to colleagues at RTV.

The final day of the five day course was a training the trainers workshop. It gave the students the skills and understanding to become the teachers. The aim of this was to produce a legacy for the training courses that ICE runs on the project. The way in which these participants took to the exercises suggests this will have a lasting impact.

The mobile journalism course was designed to support the work of Radio-television of Vojvodina as it enters the next stage of its move into a multi-media news operation. Early next year, the RTV news teams will be moving into a state of the art purpose built Newshouse. Mojo and multi-skilled working will be central to this.