On Saturday, 31st May, the Left Berlin editorial board organised our Third Left Journalism Day School. This follows similar events in November 2021 and May 2022. We are hoping that we can once more make the Journalism Day School a regular Event.
We were pleasantly surprised by the number of people who tried to register for the Journalism Day School. We had 95 registrations. Because of capacity, we unfortunately had to put some of these people on a waiting list. We apologise to anyone who we were unable to accept and hope that you can come to the next one. In the end, we had around 60 people attending the event.
The day started with 3 parallel workshops:
- Katharina von Stackelberg from our tech team talked about The Politics of Graphic Design. You can see Katharina’s presentation here.
- Cherry Adam from our social media team and Ignacio Rosaslanda from Unpublished.de talked about Journalism on the Go: How to Create Social Media Videos. You can see Cherry’s presentation here. In his talk, Ignacio referred to this video which he took of police beating people during the International Women’s Day demo.
- Nick Babakitis from Corner Späti talked about How to Make a Podcast.
After a break for lunch, we had a second set of parallel workshops:
- Palestinian journalist Farah Maraqa talked about Political Journalism – Ethics and Norms. You can see Farah’s presentation here.
- Negro Matapacos from our editorial board talked about Interview Tips and Tricks.
- Phil Butland, also from our editorial board, talked about Writing Book and Film Reviews. You can see Phil’s presentation here.
To conclude the day, we had a panel discussion with Farah Maraqa, Tina Lee, and Hebh Jamal on How the German media manufacture consent about Palestine. You can see Farah’s presentation here, and Tina’s here. Although we had some problems filming the panel, we did make an audio recording which will be available soon.
On the following day, we organised a second set of workshops, which were specifically aimed at how we apply what we have learned to our work on theleftberlin.com. Thanks to the people who had registered for Saturday, but still found time to attend this extra event.
The next step is an open meeting of our editorial board on Monday, 9th June at 3pm in the Agit buildings where we will discuss our future strategy for the website. One item on the agenda is an evaluation of the Journalism Day School and a discussion about whether we have the capacities to organise another one before the end of the year.
For people who are new to the editorial board and want to know more, we are holding an on-boarding session at 2pm. Please mail us at team@theleftberlin.com if you want to attend this session.
Thanks once more to everyone who attended. Below are some photos taken at the event by Inês Colaço.
