Regional Director Sonya Smith's
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Spring SPJ Conference is Almost Here!
Make Your Plans NOW!!!
The Web site is:
http://www.spj.org/uarizona/
The 2008 SPJ spring conference for Region 11
will be held April 11 and 12 in sunny Tucson, Ariz.
We?ll follow the traditional format, kicking off with a reception on Friday night, then a full day of informative, useful sessions for working journalists and journalism students on Saturday.
Conference Highlights Include:
Build Skills in a Multimedia Bootcamp
Optional pre- and post-conference one-day bootcamps on how to tell stories using multimedia. You pick a Friday or Sunday bootcamp. There's room for only a dozen people in each one, so best to register early!
Each bootcamp will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and will be held in the University of Arizona Department of Journalism's Marshall building, right next to the University Marriott hotel. Plan to attend the whole day, not a portion. After completing some reading and homework ahead of time, you will receive training in shooting video, story planning, storytelling, and project editing in Final Cut Express. We hope you'll get enough done that you will leave with your story on a DVD.
Attend Dazzling Reception on Friday Night
Mingle with fellow journalists and enjoy drinks, hors d'oeuvres and light jazz at the SPJ opening reception to be held 6-8 p.m. at the world-renowned Center for Creative Photography on the University of Arizona campus. The CCP is an archive and research center established in 1975 that today retains the archives of Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Garry Winogrand, Harry Callahan, and other greath 20th century photographers. The current exhibition, "Debating Modern Photography: The Triumph of Group f/64," explores the controversy of "straight" photography versus the manipulation typical of pictorialists. Group f/64 ? named after the camera's smallest aperture ? included Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Willard Van Dyke, Alma Lavenson and others. See more on the exhibition at the CCP's Web site.
To read more about the exhibit, check out this recent story from UA News.
The reception also will feature the saxophone and guitar music of Elevation Duo, performing a repertoire that is both smooth and subtle, and includes such styles as Bossa Nova, American jazz standards, ambient, blues, and original.
Enjoy Edifying Panels for Reporting Smarter
Great panels on racial profiling, election coverage, environmental reporting,diverse communities, border reporting, law enforcement and public records access and specialty reporting. We'll pay particularly close attention to the disappearing border between print and broadcast journalism, emphasizing the new multimedia skills required on the job. And we'll have a special session on journalists whose jobs lead to threats on their lives.
All of the sessions are designed to be practical; they will teach you to be a better journalist. This year?s conference will be one you don?t want to miss! We'll have more details on our Schedule page as we confirm speakers and session times. Stay tuned!
Get Sage Advice From the Pros
Students will be able to sign up for one-on-one sessions to have their clips, tapes, cover letters and/or résumés critiqued by either Mark Casey, vice president for news at Phoenix's KPNX-TV/Channel 12, an NBC affiliate, or Dennis Foley, the internship, recruiting and training director and reader innovation editor at the Orange County Register. Take advantage of this excellent opportunity to make your package shine. Sing up sheets will be available at registration tables at the conference.
Dine and Dish for Mark of Excellence
Hilarious newspaper cartoonist and stand-up comic Dave Fitzsimmons, of the Arizona Daily Star, will emcee the event, when student journalists are honored for their excellent work over the past year. Lunch time will be your last chance, too, to bid on fun items in the silent auction.
Make Your Plans Now!
Go to the Hotel page to book your double occupancy roomsat the University Marriott Park hotel. The rates are $129 a night for conference attendees. The conference rate will be available for three days before and after the conference, so you might want to schedule extra time to visit the Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum, the U.S.-Mexico border, Mount Lemmon, Kitt Peak, the dozens of fabulous Mexican restaurants and more.
The Marriott is located in a bustling university district, with lots of shopping, restaurants and coffee joints, and it?s right next door to the UA journalism department, where we?ll hold one round of sessions on Saturday.
Go to the conference registration page to register. Registration will be $75 per person. And the optional bootcamps (Friday, April 11, and Sunday, April 13) will cost $50.
We are excited and hope you are, too!
From: "Sonya Smith" <sonyanews@mac.com>
To: "Sonya Smith" <sonyanews@mac.com>
Subject: Region 11 E-Newsletter
Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 8:58 PM
WILDFIRE DISCUSSION
Last week the San Diego chapter hosted a panel discussion on on media
issues during the October 2007 wildfires that killed 10 people and
destroyed more than 2,000 homes in Southern California.
The program, titled "After the Fires: Coverage and Communication,"
featured speakers from the county and city of San Diego as well as
members of the local media.
If you didn't get a chance to attend or see the live broadcast of
"After the Fires: Coverage and Communication," you can catch the
program when it is rebroadcast at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27, on Cable
Channel 16 (Cox and Time Warner).
JUDGES NEEDED
The Orange County Journalism Education Association is looking for
judges to critique and score articles written at an on-the-spot
competition at El Toro High School on February 23, 2008. Student
journalists from Orange County high schools are invited to
participate. Students watch one-hour press conferences and have one
hour to write stories.
Judges are needed in the areas of news, editorial, feature, sports
feature, critical review, editorial cartooning, photography, newspaper
design, and yearbook.
If interested, contact Tanya Katnic the journalism and yearbook
adviser at Mater Dei High School at 714-850-9552.
WORK FOR SPJ
The application deadline for SPJ's summer internships in Indianapolis
and Washington, D.C., has been extended to Feb. 1. Two students will
be selected for the Pulliam-Kilgore Freedom of Information
internships. One intern - with a legal background -- will be stationed
in Washington, D.C., and the other - with a strong reporting
background -- will spend 10 weeks in Indianapolis. Both interns will
research and write about access issues. Or, how about trying your hand
at communications and public relations work for SPJ? A third student
will be selected for SPJ's Archibald Communications internship.
Complete details and applications: Visit SPJ's Web site.
MULTIMEDIA TRAINING
The Knight Fellowship for Multimedia Training is accepting
applications for its Technology Training for Editors Workshop on March
25-28 and its Technology Training for Reporters Workshop on April
15-18. The workshops will be at the Knight Digital Media Center at The
University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism.
Deadline for both seminars: Feb. 8. Space is limited to 20
fellowships per workshop, so get those applications rolling.
Questions? Contact Lanita Pace-Hinton, director of multimedia and
technology training, at pacel@berkeley.edu or (510) 649-7429.
LA SPJ ANNUAL BANQUET
Journalist and author Cokie Roberts will be the speaker at the Greater
Los Angeles Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists’ 32nd
annual awards banquet on April 30.
Roberts is a senior news analyst for NPR and a political commentator
for ABC News. She was the co-anchor of the ABC News' “This Week with
Sam Donaldson & Cokie Roberts”from 1996-2002, while also serving as
the chief congressional analyst for ABC News. Roberts is the author of
the national bestseller “We Are Our Mother's Daughters” and “Founding
Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation.”
SPJ/LA will honor six journalists at its awards banquet. The winners
of the Distinguished Journalists Award are Bob Banfield of KABC-TV,
Beth Barrett of the Los Angeles Daily News, John Rabe of KPCC-FM and
Tom Tugendof the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. Los Angeles
Timesreporters ScottGlover and Matt Lait will be honored with the
Freedom of Information Award.While SPJ/LA traditionally gives the FOI
award to non-journalists for making changes that positively impact
journalism,the work that Lait and Glover have done provides similar
results.
The Distinguished Journalists Awards banquet will be held on
Wednesday, April 30 at the Omni Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.
Tickets are $80 per person for SPJ members and $90 for non-SPJ
members. Tables of 10 are available for $800. For reservation
information, contact Roberta Wax at (818) 993-7027 or RobiW@aol.com.
ETHICS WEEK
To help with the promotion of Ethics in Journalism Week, chapters may
request ethics related materials from headquarters.
Each chapter may request of SPJ:
Up to 50 pocket size Code of Ethics
Up to 5 Ethics Posters (11x17)
One plaque (mounted Code of Ethics)
In 2008, Ethics in Journalism Week will be April 21-27. Complete
details on Ethics Week may be found by visiting http://www.spj.org/ethicsweek.asp
.
If interested in any of these materials, contact Heather Porter at hporter@spj.org
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CONTEST
Bill Norris and his Inland Empire SPJ friends are at it again
recruiting entries for the chapter's Southern California Excellence in
Journalism contest. Two Microsoft Word forms about the contest are
attached at the end of this e-mail.
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CONTACT ME
Sonya Smith
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Desk: 714-796-4952
E-mail: sonyanews@mac.com
Region 11 blog: http://spj.org/blog/blogs/region11/