Web novinarstvo

Serbian Web Journalism School was founded by Ljubisa Bojic at Serbian Journalist Association. The project was inspired by David Sasaki, outreach director of Global Voices Online, Rebecca MacKinnon, professor of new media at University of Kong Kong, Nino Brajovic, president of Journalist Association of Serbia and Gradimir joksimovic, editor of Viva magazine. Lecturers of Web Journalism School are Russell Gordon, Danica Radovanovic, Predrag Prokopljevic, Lidija Kujundzic and Djordje Branokovic. Lectures are given in both Serbian and English language. 

For more information take a look at the Google translation of this web site to English, text 1, text 2 and text 3 about the School published on Rising Voices web site, our Rising Voices Project Blog written in English, Journalism.co.uk take on Web Journalism School and a blog post written by Serbian Ambassador to the World.

Photo taken by Milica Stojković

Basic areas of study at Serbian Web Journalism School are:

• How users read online content?
• Writing for the web.
• Advanced use of e-mail.
• Google groups and creation online newsletters for internal or external PR.
• Blogs and citizen journalism.
• Anonymous blogging.
• Corporate blogging.
• Comparative study: classical newspaper texts versus texts published online.
• Google hacking – advanced search techniques for journalists.
• Documents search and online publishing.
• News writing and reporting for the web.
• Social bookmarking (Del.icio.us) and Really Simple Syndication.
• RSS feed mixing by Yahoo Pipes.
• Photography on the web.
• Special web sites for press relations (live press conference broadcast).
• Filming, editing and publishing of video interview on Youtube server.
• Use of graphs and maps to illustrate online texts.
• How transformation of journalism affects the world. Case study: Global Voices Online.
• Rising Voices: discussion about improvement of Internet knowledge. What is future of online education?
• Recording audio interview, editing in Audacity and uploading it to boomp3.com.
• Sounslides creation from photos and audio.
• Web entrepreunurship.
• Digital marketing.
• Use of Social networking for promotion of people, products and services (MySpace and Facebook).
• How to write online CV. Business networking and search of Linkedin service.
• Phenomenon of open encyclopedia in terms of global cooperation. impact of Wikipedia on collective intelligence.
• Use of PbWiki application in education, for improvement of editorial meetings and to boost business creativity.
• How to download and upload big files by using of RapidShare, BitShare and Bit torrent.
• Instant messaging applications and use of Internet telephony for journalists.
• Creation of interactive web site by using Joomla, Content Management System.
• Structure of news web portal.
• Editorial process for web journalists.
• Special coverage of events when reporting for web site.

For more information about organizing seminars on web journalism, web 2.0 public relations, corporate blogging or any other topic on the list please contact Ljubisa Bojic.