The Walk on Campus
The Walk on Campus A unique, half-day workshop for educators interested in bringing Paul Salopek’s Out of Eden Walk into the university classroom The Walk on Campus WORKSHOP FOR UNIVERSITY EDUCATORS N PARTNERSHIP WITH THE PULITZER CENTER on Crisis Reporting, the Out of Eden Walk is offering half-day workshops on university campuses designed to share Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Salopek’s style of “slow” journalism on digital platforms. We invite professors across disciplines to join us, whether in journalism, geography, international studies, anthropology, environmental science, education, or other fields. In this practical, fast-pacedI workshop, journalist Grounded in the Walk’s literature and spirit of and educator Don Belt of the University of Rich- innovation, Belt developed his curriculum at mond shares ideas on using Salopek’s historic, Virginia Commonwealth University and the seven-year, 22,000-mile reportage to teach stu- University of Richmond in close collaboration dents to slow down, carefully observe, and use the with Salopek, who is supported by the Knight digital tools in their hip pockets to tell the subtle, Foundation, the National Geographic Society, powerful stories that “fast” journalists often over- the Pulitzer Center, and others. look in the rush to feed a 24/7 news cycle. The Walk on Campus Workshop draws from Belt’s classroom experience and Salopek’s rich “We were inspired by Paul’s work body of work, including more than 150 dispatches to apply the philosophy of slow and feature articles and ongoing innovations in the use of digital cartography, photography, journalism to covering the streets videography, language translations, sound record- and neighborhoods of our ings, social media, and own city.
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