Today We Launch USA Today Travel Academy

USA TODAY Travel Video Academy Are you an avid traveler? Have you always wanted to shoot better travel videos? USA TODAY Video Academy

Now you can learn how through the USA TODAY Travel Video Academy – the experience of a lifetime!

The hands-on travel video training courses will help you shoot, write, edit and produce award-winning travel videos from all over the world – featuring the hotels and restaurants, the landscapes and attractions, the sights, sounds and tastes of travel. And the stories you have shot and reported while on the road could appear on USA TODAY’s Travel site.

From an introductory one-day class to an intensive four-day course, we offer a range of options for every interest level and budget. Each course, offered in either New York City, Los Angeles, or McLean, Va. (USA TODAY headquarters), will be taught by highly experienced trainers with a proven track record and talent for sharing their expertise.

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You’ll learn:

• How to shoot broadcast quality video with your home video camera
• How to script and structure a compelling video story
• How to write for video and track your own voice
• How to produce professional quality travel video on your own
• How to upload and share that video with friends, or the world
• How to market your video work

This is an exciting chance to learn one of the most important skills for the digital age – offered by the No. 1 newspaper in the USA.

You can either bring your own camera and laptop or we’ll rent them to you. But either way, you’ll not only get great classroom instruction from our team of professionals, but you’ll also go out ‘into the field’ where you’ll actually shoot and cut complete travel videos.

The classes are run by RosenblumTV. They’ve been running professional video bootcamps for more than 20 years, and their clients have run the spectrum from The Travel Channel to the BBC. Some of their graduates have gone on to great careers in the world of professional travel journalism and filmmaking.

You’ll also get to meet the executives from USA TODAY’s travel section and video team – and find out exactly what makes good video content for USA TODAY.

Michael Rosenblum

For more than 30 years, Michael Rosenblum has been on the cutting edge of the digital video journalism revolution. During this time, he has lead a drive for video literacy, and the complete rethinking of how television is made and controlled. His work has included: The complete transitioning of The BBC's national network (UK) to a VJ-driven model, starting in 2002. The complete conversion of The Voice of America, the United State's Government's broadcasting agency, (and the largest broadcaster in the world), from short wave radio to television broadcasting and webcasting using the VJ paradigm (1998-present). The construction of NYT Television, a New York Times Company, and the largest producer of non-fiction television in the US. Rosenblum was both the founder and President of NYT TV, (all based on this paradigm (1996-1998). The President and Founder of Video News International, a global VJ-driven newsgathering company, with more than 100 journalists around the world. (1993-1996). Other clients include Spectrum News, Verizon and CBS News.