BRIEFING

Award triumph for video team

JOURNALISTS who have completed Press Association Training’s video journalism course have won a national award for their newspaper.

The Hull Daily Mail won the award for Newspaper Publishing Innovation of the Year at the recent Press Gazette Regional Press Awards.

Six journalists from the Mail attended the three-week PA Course last November. They then went live with their first video stories within days of the end of the course.

Tony Johnston, head of Press Association Training said: “ We are delighted that the work the Hull Daily Mail has done in video has been honoured in this way.

“It is a very prestigious award that recognises that they are leading the way in print newsrooms becoming truly multi-skilled.”

Editor John Meehan collected the award at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London. Paul Hartley, assistant editor, headed the video journalism team. Examples of their work can be seen on www.thisishull.co.uk

PA has now run three video journalism courses and delegates have included Trinity Mirror titles, Newsquest and the Manchester Evening News.

The next course starts on October 2 and a limited number of places are still available.

By the end of the course, delegates can expect to be fully conversant in camera skills, audio, the art of telling stories in video and the basics of video editing.