Video Editing Classes Mean New Jobs for TNG, NABET Members

An innovative CWA/NETT Academy program and the Future of the News Media Strategic Industry Fund are helping TNG-CWA and NABET-CWA members learn new video editing skills, keep their jobs and move into new jobs in a rapidly changing media sector.

Members of NABET-CWA and TNG-CWA locals in Toronto, New York, Boston, Mass., Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle and Portland, Ore., all have given the Final Cut Pro7 editing training rave reviews.

NABET-CWA members in Detroit saved their jobs after upgrading their video editing skills, and NABET-CWA members in other locations are getting new jobs and advanced job titles after they complete the program. Newsrooms increasingly are requiring TNG-CWA members to do this work, and the video editing offered through CWA/NETT Academy provides a real way forward.

Through CWA/NETT Academy, newsroom reporters and broadcast technicians get instruction in the cutting-edge technology. More than 200 media workers have participated in the training so far.

“Our training has not only saved good, union jobs, it’s helped members get promoted,” said NABET-CWA President Jim Joyce.

TNG-CWA President Bernie Lunzer said many TNG-CWA members are being required to edit video for their careers, and that “it’s critical that our union can provide this important training,” he said.

During a recent west coast training tour, as part of the project, members of the Media Workers Guild created a video about a local landmark, an old-fashioned barber shop.

And learn more about the training CWA/NETT Academy provides at www.cwanett.org.