PROGRAMS & WORKSHOPS
FRIDAY, April 24 (at Temple University—Center City campus)
1:00 – 2:15 PM
Multimedia 101 – Understanding and finding your place across the spectrum of new media platforms and technologies is daunting for many journalists looking to enhance and diversify career options. This introductory course walks you through it. (Room 622)
Investigative Reporting on a Budget – Few news organizations have the time or the resources to pull staff “off the line” for months at a time anymore. A new paradigm is emerging, heavily supported by technology and a new outlook on format and scope. How does it work? How is it working? (Room 621)
Talk Radio: What it takes, where it’s going (Room 620)
2:30 – 3:45 PM
Multimedia 2.0 – For the more sophisticated, tech-savvy journalists, this program explores the latest technologies and new platforms being developed. How to take advantage of and practice your profession on the cutting edge. (Room 622)
Health/Science/Medical Journalism A comprehensive look at the fastest-growing field of journalism across media and in the non- and for-profit worlds. Program examines how to make the subject come alive, while protecting the integrity of the science and the credibility of your organization. The program will include finding that special story or field, navigating research, developing sources who really know, and finding opportunities and your niche in the industry. (Room 620)
From Full-timer to Freelancer: Making the
Leap from In-house Security to Who Knows What?
Program focuses on the in-house skills that could translate into freelancing opportunities in a variety of media (and perhaps some new career fields) and the differences to expect from the security of full-time employment to the uncertainty but self-empowerment of freelancing. (Room 621)
SATURDAY (at Temple University--Main Campus)
9:00 – 10:15 AM
Ethics in the Digital Age (Annenberg 3)
Websites for Journalists: The Essentials and Some New Wrinkles (Annenberg 201)
Broadcast Writing: Copy to web content and back again (Annenberg 129)
10:00 AM-noon
Barcamp Philadelphia, a joint program with Temple University.
(http://bcniphilly.com/)
Bar Camp News Innovation Philadelphia is an “unconference” designed at coming up with new ideas on how to re energize and innovate the news industry. What's a barcamp? Its a conference with no set schedule. The presentation schedule is blank and will be filled in by attendees throughout the day. Anyone can present, and everyone is expected to participate in some fashion. Don't come just expecting to fall asleep in the back row.
.More info on the wiki: http://barcamp.org/NewsInnovation-Philly
Stay up to date on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BCNIPhilly
(from Wikipedia): BarCamp is an international network of user-generated conferences — open, participatory-workshop events, whose content is provided by participants. The first BarCamps focused on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats. The format has also been used for a variety of other topics, including public transit, health care, and political organizing.
SPJ Conference goers will attend the morning sessions. Limited space; sign up required.
10:30 – 11:45 AM
Legal Issues in a Multimedia World Cyberspace presents the modern media with a host of both old-fashion and modern legal concerns. Defamation, invasion of privacy and intellectual property infringement are all alive and kicking in new media venues. This panel of media law experts will examine cutting-edge legal issues reporters and editors face today. (Annenberg 3)
News Radio (Annenberg 201)
Trauma Journalism Along with the special challenges of complete and accurate reporting of traumatic events in the news--from urban violence and school shootings to man-made and natural disasters, terrorist attacks and foreign wars—come concerns about the ethical treatment of victims and survivors and the impact of trauma coverage on news consumers and communities, as well as the psychological hazards of traumatic events for the news professionals who cover them. (Annenberg 129)
Noon – 2:00 PM
Mark of Excellence Luncheon, Diamond Club, Mitten Hall
Broad Street, between Montgomery and Norris streets
Keynote Speaker: Mike Leary, Managing Editor, Philadelphia Inquirer
Regional Fund Public Auction
Mark of Excellence Awards Presentation
2:30 – 3:45 PM
"The Future"—Where your job is going; where your next job is coming from
Decision-makers, academics, media watchers and prominent journalists discuss the future they are facing, what they are doing to change and how you can become part of it in all-star forum. (Annenberg 3)