RSJ News
Honing multimedia skills in Ireland
09-09-2009
Left, a patron of The Vintage Bar in Armagh, Northern Ireland, makes a face at a bad joke before sipping his whiskey. On the right, a lion statue in a park in the center of Brussels, where journalism student Robin Bigda toured the European Parliament.
Journalism student Robin Bigda, 23, spent the summer in Northern Ireland developing multimedia Web packages for IEI Media. Bigda was one of 14 students chosen to study the techniques of multimedia journalism in the small city of Armagh.
“The cultural experience was phenomenal and I met a lot of people and made lasting connections,” Bidga said. “And I went bog snorkeling for a cultural immersion. It was pretty fantastic.”
Bigda’s contribution to the Web package included a video on politics in Northern Ireland, an interactive story and Web site for the Armagh public library, and a slideshow on the symbolic use of the harp.
Check out her work at www.inarmagh.net.
Bigda, triple-majoring in journalism-advertising, Spanish and anthropology, says her dream job is to work for National Geographic some day.
The students worked with five American educators and an Irish cultural historian.
