The National Black Programming Consortium and its National Minority Consortia partners are thrilled to launch the 4th Annual New Media Institute (NMI) at the IMA conference. The NMI is a unique professional development program designed to introduce producers to the latest in digital media production, marketing and distribution. This year’s Institute will focus on developing the mobile journalist. In the Pre-conference sessions, participants will take part in the Beta-test of Mojoco.org, an original web project developed by NBPC.

Mojoco.org is a public media collaboration site where mobile journalists can showcase their work, find and share public domain stock to improve their projects, share best practices, collaborate, and even brainstorm together on innovative future citizen media projects, all the while getting public feedback through ratings and comments. In the General Sessions, the NMI will be holding discussions to explore the growing influence of mobile journalists and the impact of crucial issues such as Net Neutrality.

Improving the quality and diversity of digital authorship is an important goal of the NMI. Our experiments in citizen media present us with wonderful opportunities to further the conversation on the relevance of these new technologies in telling stories with impact, real stories from real people. To that end the NMI has been showcasing the NMI One Shot production technique at conferences and workshops all over. In 2009 we hope to bring our workshops to even more producers in more locations in the US and certainly through NMI: Africa.

APPLICATIONS ARE NO LONGER BEING ACCEPTED.

Please see schedule for further information.

If you have questions about the New Media Institute, please contact Denise Greene, Director, New Media Institute, at denise@nbpc.tv, or Thabi Moyo at thabi@nbpc.tv.