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Sign up For UNITY 2004 Pre-Convention Workshops
Today!
UNITY 2004 Pre-convention workshops provide a full day
of concentrated and interactive instruction covering a wide variety
of industry-related curricula. Held Wednesday, August 4 — a day before
regular conference programming,* these special sessions
allow for a more intimate, classroom-style environment conducive to
hands-on training primarily for mid to higher-level experienced journalism
professionals who have graduated past the early stages of their careers
but still desire to hone their skills. Though costs are covered with
your conference registration, UNITY would not cover lodging, food or
transportation expenses. Slots for pre-convention workshops are limited
and require pre-registration and confirmation.
All workshops are now filled.
Scheduled sessions include, but are not limited
to:
UNITY/ASNE Advance Leadership Seminar:
Managing a Diverse and Changing Newsroom (Off
site)
SUNDAY, AUGUST 1 to WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4
Calling all high ranking editors who are eyeing
the managing editor or top editor job. This three-and-half-day
seminar will help you get there.
We'll talk about what a top editor really does, what do publishers
look for when they go out to hire an editor. We'll spend a day
using a case study developed by the Poynter Institute give participants
the feeling of actually being at the helm of a newsroom.
We'll also spend a day learning how white people, black people, Asians
and Latinos can better understand each other. Yes, what a concept
-- improving communications in a newsroom.
We're looking for 15 people -- of any race* who are now department
heads (city editor, sports editor, etc.) or an assistant managing editor
and who aspire to the top newsroom. We'll introduce you to the people
who can help you can there.
You will hear from:
Caesar Andrews, editor, Gannett News Service
Denise Palmer , publisher, Baltimore Sun
Craig Moon, publisher, USA TODAY
Jerry Ceppos, vice president/news, Knight Ridder
Carol Leigh Hutton, editor and publisher, The Detroit Free Press
Gilbert Bailon, editor and publisher, Al Dia
Debra Adams Simmons, executive editor, Akron Beacon Journal
UNITY will pay your hotel expenses and feed you. You just need to get
there.
* This seminar is open to all editors regardless of color. We encourage
white editors to apply. We all have to learn how to run diverse
newsrooms and the best way is to learn together.
Coordinated by the American Society of Newspaper
Editors
WORKSHOP
FULL
The Power of Leadership Development
This workshop, for up to 30 beginning to mid-level managers,
will focus on learning the skills and values of powerful newsroom leadership.
It will address such leadership essentials as leadership styles, power
and influence, communication, collaboration and conflict resolution,
tough calls and managing up, down and sideways.
Moderator:
Jill Geisler, Group Leader, Leadership & Management Programs, The
Poynter Institute
Panelists:
Aly Colón, Group Leader, Ethics & Diversity
Programs, The Poynter Institute
Janice S. Gin, Associate News Director, KTVU-TV
Ricardo Pimentel, Editorial Page Editor, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Keith Woods, Group Leader, Writing & Editing Programs, The Poynter
Institute
Coordinated by the Poynter Institute
WORKSHOP FULL
Covering Changing Communities: A Leadership
Seminar
Up to 50 mid-level managers will learn and develop new strategies for
covering and serving an increasingly multicultural audience. Session
will include a review of the country's changing demographics, panel discussions
on what ethnic media can teach mainstream media, and launching new products.
Faultlines and Content Reporting:
Dori J. Maynard, President, Maynard Institute for Journalism Education
Preventing Burnout:
Peggy Duncan, President, Duncan Resource
Group, Inc.
Fair and Unbiased Journalism:
Group Facilitator - Phillip Dixon, Journalism
Chair, Howard University
Panelists
- George Curry, Editor-in-Chief, NNPA News Service/BlackPress.com
- David Goodwin, Editor, Ohio Middleton Journal
- Joanna Hernandez, Editor, New York Times Regional Newspapers
- Gaiutra Bahadur, Immigration Reporter, Philadelphia Inquirer
Successful Diversity Management Panel:
Moderator - Orage Quarles III, Publisher, The News & Observer
Panelists
- Eldra Rodriquez Gillman, Dir. of Professional Development and Internships,
CBS News
- Sherri Jackson, Managing Editor, The Town Talk, Alexandria
- John Mason, Publisher, Chambersburg Public Opinion
- Sree Sreenivasan, Columbia University Professor
- Edwina Blackwell-Clark, Publisher, Ohio Middleton Journal
- Javier Adalpe, Vice President and Publisher, Diario La Estrella
Closing Remarks: Mary Livingston, Program Director,
MMK
WORKSHOP
FULL
Tools for Excellent Storytelling
The Poynter Institute, featuring top instructors Keith Woods,
Roy Peter Clark and Aly Colon, will spend a full day with up to 25 journalists
sharpening reporting, editing and writing skills. Session will focus
on deadline writing, critical reporting and include small tips with big
impact.
Moderator:
Keith Woods, Writer Group Leader, The Poynter Institute
Panelists:
Roy Peter Clark, Poynter Institute
Aly Colon, Poynter Institute
Coordinated by the Poynter Institute
WORKSHOP FULL
Crafting the Feature Story: Prose with Power
This is an advanced feature writing workshop for mid-level journalists.
The session will challenge participants to think more critically and
creatively about how they report and write. It will offer practical tips
for sharpening skills and for writing more powerfully. Presenters will
discuss, among other things, developing voice as a writer, storytelling
techniques that elevate writing, using thorough reporting and writing
to captivate readers. This will be an interactive session, rich with
stimulating discussion, writing exercises and reading assignments.
Moderator:
Deborah Heard, Deputy Style Editor, The Washington Post
Panelists:
Will Haygood, Style Writer, The Washington Post
Victor Merina, Feature Writer & Senior Fellow, Institute for
Justice & Journalism, USC: Annenberg School of Communications
Helen Zia Author & Contributing Editor Ms. Magazine, formerly
executive editor
Sponsored by The Washington Post
WORKSHOP FULL
IRE Better Watchdog Workshop
A crucial duty of a journalist is to serve the public interest by acting
as a watchdog on government and business. This duty has become all the
more important at a time when governments are restricting the flow of
information. At such times, broadcast and print journalists must redouble
their efforts to use freedom of information laws to obtain public documents
and help the public appreciate the value of such laws. A Better Watchdog
Workshop is intended to help those journalists at small-to-medium-sized
news organizations – and those in bureaus of larger organizations – to
learn the investigative skills that keep government and business accountable
and to produce enterprising and informative stories. Critical among these
skills is the ability to use federal and state FOI laws to open the doors
to the public information.
Moderator:
Brant Houston, Executive Director, Investigative Reporters & Editors
Panelists:
David Donald, Training Director, IRE and National
Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting
Maureen Fan, The Washington Post
Manny Garcia, Assistant Managing Editor, Metro, The Miami Herald
Dianna Hunt,
Assistant Government Affairs Editor, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Edward Iwata,
USA Today
George Jordan, The (Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger
Steven C. Miller, The
New York Times
Ron Nixon, Computer-Assisted Reporting Editor, Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Aron Pilhofer,
The Center for Public Integrity
Norberto Santana, The Orange County Register
Maurice Tamman, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Mc Nelly Torres, San Antonio Express-News
Sponsored by The New York Times
WORKSHOP FULL
Using Sound Instead of Pictures: An Introduction
to News Reporting on Public Radio (off site)
This all-day workshop - held at National Public Radio headquarters
in Washington - is designed for up to 12 mid-career journalists from
newspapers, online journals or television stations. The goal is to
give reporters and editors who are interested in public radio a sampling
of some of the skills needed to make the transition from other media.
The session will include hands-on exercises on writing for the ear,
structuring a radio story, using recording equipment, working with
sound, digital editing and on-air delivery. Participants will get a
chance to write and read aloud an NPR-style “spot” a 45-second
report like those broadcast in NPR’s hourly newscasts.
Moderators:
Jonathan Kern, Executive Producer, Training Unit, National Public Radio
Sora Newman, Senior Trainer, Training Unit, National Public Radio
Coordinated by National Public Radio
WORKSHOP FULL
Reporting on Race, Ethnicity, and Demographics
in the Media
" Who Is An American" is the theme of the Let's Do It Better Workshop
UNITY presentation. The full-day workshop will feature a selection of journalists
who have been honored during the six-year-old program, in a "how I did it" format
for newspaper editors and television news directors who want to make their own
coverage more inclusive. The workshop will be limited to 40 news managers.
WORKSHOP FULL
TV Storytelling Workshop
This highly interactive and practical full day workshop is
perfect for TV reporters, producers, photojournalists, writers and
newsroom leaders who want to learn ways to sharpen their storytelling
skills. The workshop will be lead by The Poynter Institute’s
Al Tompkins and KHOU’s award-winning consumer investigative reporter
Eileen Faxas. They will: show you how to find laserbeam focus for your
stories, teach you how to develop memorable characters in your stories,
help you find ways to turn daily assignments into remarkable stories,
help you learn to enterprise stories, not rely on press conferences
and handouts from the “desk,”make tough ethics calls on
deadline, use the internet to enrich your stories and find sources.
You will take home a CD-ROM chock-full of 150 online links that you
can begin using on your next shift.
Moderator:
Al Tompkins, Group Leader, Broadcast/Online, The Poynter Institute
Panelist:
Eileen Faxas, Consumer Reporter, KHOU-TV
Sponsored by Scripps
WORKSHOP FULL
Non-Linear Editing
A hands-on workshop developing digital-editing skills with the latest
equipment, including Final Cut Pro.
Moderator:
Abba Shapiro, Shapiro Video & Multimedia
Sponsored by Apple, Inc.
WORKSHOP FULL
Converging Rivers:
The Intersection of Native & African-American Cultures & It’s
Environmental Effects on the DC/VA Area
( 7 a.m. - 4 p.m. Bus Tour)
Conference attendees will be able to have an unusual, enjoyable, and
information-rich experience on the "Converging Rivers" full-day tour
Aug. 4 from 8 a.m. to approximately 4 p.m. We will be looking at historic
and present-day environmental and sociological issues involving Native
and African Americans in the D.C. area. The following is the intended
schedule for the day:
- The tour will leave sharply at 8 a.m. from
the conference center. We will then go to the Mathew Henson Conservation
Center. The speaker will be Bob Nixon of the Earth Conservation
Corps. We will be viewing eagle's nests and Bob will speak to us
about the corps. work.
- Next, we will go to Reed Educational Center (Smithsonian Environmental
Research Center) in Edgewater MD. Our speaker will be Kimbra Cutlip
and we will be walking a historic trail known as the Java Trail.
Kimbra will discuss the land, and connections to both Native and
African American influences there.
- We will then travel to Galesville where our speaker and author
Vince Leggett will discuss the Black Watermen's Association and the
traditions and impacts on the community we will visit as well as
historic information regarding both African and Native Americans
during the times of slavery.
- We will then travel to the Piscataway Museum in Waldorf, Md. Lunch
will be served at this time.
- We will meet with Natalie Proctor, director of the museum, and
her grandmother Gladys Proctor, who is a clan mother and tribal historian.
They will talk about current and historic issues facing the tribe,
one of the very few still established in the Chesapeake area, as
well as historic connections to African Americans.
- The last stop will be Cedarville State Forest. Park Director Bill
Moffatt will speak to us about the land and its history/connections
to both the Piscataway and African Americans. Bill will also allow
us to view the park's fish hatchery.
- After we leave the park, Washington Post reporter Gary Lee will
speak regarding the mixing of peoples and culture between African
and Native Americans. Mr. Lee is presently working on a book focusing
on this topic.
- We plan to arrive back at the conference center by 4 p.m.
Coordinated by the Society of Environmental
Journalists, in partnership with NAJA and NABJ.
WORKSHOP FULL
El español correcto en los medios
de comunicación hispanos de los E. U. ( 9 a.m.
- 1 p.m.)
Este taller es eso: un taller, es decir, los participantes trabajarán
con el presentador y analizarán juntos los textos noticiosos
que antes habrán redactado, así como los materiales de
la prensa hispana local. Con ello se pretende lograr un buen nivel
de autocrítica y crear entre los periodistas participantes un
sentido de la responsabilidad en el buen uso del español en
los medios de comunicación hispanos de los Estados Unidos. Se
revisarán todos los aspectos lingüísticos: ortografía,
morfología, sintaxis y léxico, para que los redactores
participantes aprendan a resolver errores comunes en la redacción
de noticias en español, y reciban la orientación
oportuna para continuar capacitándose tras la conclusión
del curso. Y los materiales de trabajo del taller cubrirán todas
las especialidades informativas: prensa escrita (noticias y artículos),
radio y televisión (guiones de noticieros y reportajes).
Presentador: Alberto Gómez Font, filólogo
y coordinador del Departamento de español urgente, Agencia
EFE, Madrid
WORKSHOP FULL
HIV/AIDS in America (off
site - Barbara Jordan Conference Center, Kaiser Family Foundation,
9 a.m. – 4 p.m.)
This workshop will offer practical suggestions
on new story ideas and ways to overcome reporting challenges as well
as provide an overview of how to interpret and use HIV/AIDS data
for reporting purposes. With the release of the new Kaiser Foundation
national survey on Americans’ attitudes
and experiences of HIV/AIDS, this workshop will give you the latest
information on the ongoing epidemic, with state and city-specific data
on those affected or at greatest risk.
A panel of senior journalists will discuss useful reporting strategies
for HIV/AIDS-related stories. Topics covered will include the latest
information on prevention strategies, HIV testing, AIDS drugs, and
obstacles to getting care; the growing impact of HIV/AIDS on women,
African-Americans, Latinos and Native Americans; and discussions with
leading journalists about ways to report effectively on AIDS in the
United States today.
Moderator: Jackie Judd, Senior Visiting Fellow, Kaiser Family Foundation;
former ABC- TV Correspondent
Panelists include print and broadcast journalists from leading news
organizations, and community-based AIDS organizations across the country.
Complimentary breakfast and lunch will be provided.
Coordinated by the Kaiser Foundation
WORKSHOP FULL
Who Is An American? - A “Let's Do It
Better!” Workshop on Race and Ethnicity
This workshop is for top editors, news directors, executive
producers and journalism educators who are seeking case studues and best
practices to improve coverage of race and ethnicity. The program will
examine the theme, “Who is an American?” Presentations will
be made by a selection of award winners from the Ford Foundation-sponsored “Let’s
Do It Better!” Workshop on Journalism, Race and Ethnicity at The
Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
Moderator:
Arlene Morgan, Associate Dean of Continuing Education, Columbia Graduate
School of Journalism
Panelists:
Ted Chen, Reporter, KNBC-TV, Los Angeles
Anh Do, Columnist, The Orange County Register
Carmen Duarte, Reporter, The Arizona Daily Star
Craig Franklin, Senior Producer, KRON-TV
Karyne Holmes, Editor, KRON-TV
Elizabeth Llorente, Reporter, The Bergen Record
Pam Moore, Evening News Anchor, KRON-TV
Jody Rave Lee, Reporter, The Lincoln Journal Star
Lisa Richardson, The Los Angeles Times
Karen Thomas, Reporter, The Dallas Morning News
Cindy Yanamaka, Photographer, The Orange County Register
David Yarnold, Editor and Senior Vice President, San Jose Mercury
News
WORKSHOP FULL
Abandonados a su suerte: Los retos para los directores/editores
en las publicaciones en español ( 12:30 p.m. – 4:30
p.m.)
Esta sesión explorará los retos particulares que enfrentan
los directores/editores y supervisores en los medios noticiosos en
español en los Estados Unidos - aquéllos en las publicaciones
independientes pequeñas y/o de máyor circulación,
y los que trabajan en publicaciones ligadas a los periódicos
de circulación general en inglés. La presentadora dirigirá a
los participantes en varias discusiones y ejercicios prácticos
que detallarán cómo reclutar y desarrollar el mejor personal
en el mercado, cómo refinar la misión editorial del periódico,
cómo lidiar con los jefes corporativos, y cómo manejar
un personal y un público que provienen de muchos países
distintos. Además, se tratarán a fondo varios asuntos
claves para la administración efectiva de una publicación
como crear y manejar presupuestos y escalas de compensación,
asegurar la capacitación profesional necesaria, y lograr que
todos trabajen en equipo para lograr mejores resultados. Este taller
es para aquellos directores/supervisores/gerentes con menos de tres
años de experiencia en sus funciones, particularmente los que
desempeñan este rol por primera vez en una redacción.
Presentadora: Liza Gross, Subdirectora de Presentación, The
Miami Herald y ex directora y subdirectora de varias publicaciones
en español en los Estados Unidos y Puerto Rico.
WORKSHOP FULL
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