Module Leader | Editorial Leaders, Mod 5 - Mobile Reporting and Video Journalism
Editorial Leaders, Mod 5 - Mobile Reporting and Video Journalism
Mark Egan is the module leader. He is an experienced mobile-video consultant, journalist and trainer. He worked for the BBC for many years, where he was as one of the Corporation's first self-shooting video journalists. He specialises in mobile journalism, delivering trainings to major broadcasters and news outlets around the world.
He is a faculty member of the Eurovision Academy in Geneva, delivering the European Broadcasting Union’s courses on smartphone journalism. He is an expert in teaching advanced courses on mobile video, social media video and live-streaming.
Editorial Leaders' initiative from the World Editors Forum and WAN-IFRA, is a module based training programme aimed at improving the knowledge of editors and journalists. The programme will develop future-ready editorial leaders and help news publishers create a pool of talent for the future.
The programme has trained more than 300 participants in the past three batches. The participants have gained insights about trends and challenges and improved their skills to face changing media landscape.
The modules are led by best-in-class trainers and addresses the new and changing needs of the readers, the skills needed to engage them with the publisher’s brand and the ways to gain advantage over old and new competitors.
