By David Greer
KPA Member services director

A group of enthusiastic citizen journalists and citizen-journalists-to-be attended the first KPA Citizen Journalist Workshop Nov. 13.

And judging by their support for the concept, it won’t be the last KPA Citizen Journalist Workshop.

Nine people from Louisville, Georgetown, Shepherdsville, Caneyville, Mount Sterling and Bardstown attended the day-long event at Paroquet Springs Conference Centre at Shepherdsville, just south of Louisville.

Louisville Courier-Journal reporter Sara Cunningham led a morning session on writing for the web and print. C-J new media editor Kim Kolarik led a session on blogging. Scott Utterback, former chief photojournalist for WAVE-TV in Louisville and now C-J photojournalist, demonstrated video and still cameras and editing software and C-J online manager John Mura led a Q&A session on multimedia.

Workshop participants will be surveyed for their feedback on what went well in the workshop and their suggestions on how it might be improved in the future will be sought.

The workshop was held on the recommendation of the KPA News Editorial Steering Committee.