New TPA benefit: Earn Your Press Pass training

Paul Hammel explores the use of training programs in Nebraska, including Earn Your Press Pass, in a recent article. Read it here.

FORJ out of Oregon is doing some really cool work, and we’ve been lucky enough to be a small part of all they’re doing for journalism. Read about their program here.

Emily Sachar’s awesome article, “Got no time to train new reporters? Check this out.” is a great explanation of the benefits of Earn Your Press Pass. You can read it here.

NEWTON, Kan.—Kansas Publishing Ventures (KPV) is launching a new, online learning platform geared toward small community newspapers called “Earn Your Press Pass.” The course’s goal is to take a person in a small community who has solid reading and writing skills and give them the basic journalism background to help them become a solid reporter…

It was interesting to have some cameras trained on us as we put our weekly newspaper together recently. Watch the excellent report created by Josh Robin here.