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ALL SEMINARS
| 9/14/2003 - 9/19/2003 |
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Poynter Ethics Fellows (EFELL)
Travel and hotel paid by Poynter. Poynter brings together a select group of outstanding journalists - sharp thinkers and gifted practitioners who are committed to excellent and ethical journalism. You will explore key issues, including the tensions between journalism and business values, the challenges of covering an increasingly diverse society, and public concerns about invasion of privacy. We'll anchor the sessions in the real-world issues of the newsroom, connecting ethics to craft and leadership. You will strengthen your ethical decision-making and develop techniques for effectively coaching ethics in your newsroom. The Ethics Fellows will come to St. Petersburg for a week in March and four days in December. In the interim, they will stay connected with one another and with Poynter faculty to discuss important ethics issues. Fellows may write articles or essays on ethics for Poynter Online and the Poynter Report.
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| 9/21/2003 - 9/23/2003 |
7/28/2003 |
Poynter Executive Excellence Series: Grooming & Guiding the Best and the Brightest (MESGG)
Participants will get ideas for identifying, training, motivating, and keeping the next generation of newsroom leaders. After you spot those in your newsroom who can move up the ladder, what do you do to make sure they are ready for the challenge? You will hear innovative approaches to building a newsroom culture that values creativity and diversity and inspires better journalism. You will get candid feedback on your own efforts to increase the bench strength of leaders in your newsroom. You will learn more about the components that make a good leader and how you can mentor the promising people on your staff.
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| 9/21/2003 - 9/24/2003 |
7/28/2003 |
Collaboration Conference: Storytelling Partnerships (CONVG)
A great journalist knows how to team up with others to tell important stories. Today, that journalist may need to collaborate not only with practitioners of other disciplines, but also with other media. As news organizations converge and merge, how can journalists pool their skills with others? How can they learn the values and practices of other journalists and leverage those to improve storytelling? This conference will build awareness and skill. We will explore how the tools of coaching, teamwork, managing up, and collaborative story planning apply to specific teamwork challenges.
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| 10/12/2003 - 10/17/2003 |
8/18/2003 |
TV Power Reporting for Reporters & Photojournalists - (B402B)
Participants in this seminar will learn to tell clearer, more focused stories. You'll enhance your skills in developing characters in your stories and get tips on how to maximize the visuals you have to work with. You'll learn to find stories that others miss, to develop a distinctive storytelling style, and to use the Internet to find and enrich stories. You'll learn the skills of ethical decision-making even under deadline and enhance your ability to cope with difficult co-workers. You'll also receive individualized coaching on your work.
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| 10/19/2003 - 10/24/2003 |
8/25/2003 |
Advanced Copy Editing: Words & Visual Thinking (W402)
If you've been on the desk for half a decade or more, it's time to take the next step up. Participants will sharpen skills in editing for style, writing headlines, using design and visual elements, editing for story, and checking facts. You'll also develop strategies for personal growth and learn how to play a leadership role in the newsroom.
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| 10/19/2003 - 10/24/2003 |
8/25/2003 |
Newspaper Reporting, Writing & Editing III: Winning Writing (W401C)
In this hands-on seminar, participants will focus on the skills behind powerful reporting and writing and effective editing by focusing on 25 years of award-winning journalism presented in Poynter's annual Best Newspaper Writing collection. Working with ASNE award-wining visiting faculty and Poynter faculty who have edited the series since 1979, you'll learn practical approaches and successful methods that you can take back to the newsroom, with special emphasis on storytelling, deadline writing, diversity issues, and ethical decision-making.
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| 10/28/2003 - 11/1/2003 |
8/28/2003 |
Photographic Storytelling: Editing & Ethics (G424)
Converging media require new approaches to photographic editing and presentation. In this seminar, you'll learn about current convergence efforts and strategies, and explore ideas for developing ethical guidelines for photographic presentation. You'll explore the power of photographic storytelling to convey information quickly and sharpen your ability to spot visual potential in news coverage. You'll learn about culture, diversity, and concerns of photojournalists. And you'll explore effective collaboration with colleagues in news organizations by developing your skills in team-building and coaching.
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| 11/2/2003 - 11/7/2003 |
9/26/2003 |
Reporting on Faith, Religion & Values (E413)
In this seminar, you'll learn how to tell the stories that examine the changing role of religion in society, that explore how faith affects people's lives, and that explain the values people live by. You'll develop compelling enterprise story ideas about people's search for the sacred; discuss how faith, religion, and values play a role, not only in their church, temple, mosque, or other places of worship, but in such areas as politics, social issues, and community. You'll learn to use the Internet as a reporting tool on this topic, and you'll develop a larger and more varied source base.
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| 11/2/2003 - 11/7/2003 |
9/29/2003 |
Interactive Design & Graphics (G421)
This session focuses on the most current approach to modern and innovative web design, and offers tips on creating interactive graphics for your publications. We will also learn navigation techniques and ways to create user-friendly design and graphics. You'll learn to tell a story in linear fashion by creating storyboards, writing captions and voice-overs for animation, and creating interactive graphics. We will review the newest technology as well as discuss and demonstrate how to sharpen your software skills. In addition, we will explore how design enhances visual communication.
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| 11/9/2003 - 11/13/2003 |
9/26/2003 |
Planning Your 2004 Election Coverage: A Poynter Workshop
You know it's coming at you. You want to make it more interesting than before.
The $64,000 question: When are you ever going to get time to plan your newsroom's coverage of Politics 2004?
The $450 answer: Nov. 9-13, 2003 at Poynter. Application deadline: Sept. 19, 2003.
That $450 covers all the training at Poynter as well as five nights at the Hilton Hotel in downtown St. Petersburg.
Poynter will help you develop a coverage plan to produce innovative coverage in such areas as candidate profiles and investigations, localizing national races, connecting with voters, finding the heart of your community's best politics stories, and developing your own weblogs, among other things.
We encourage newsrooms to consider teams of two -- perhaps the editor coordinating politics coverage along with an AME for visuals & presentation or the lead politics reporter. Solos also welcome.
Show up with rough ideas for what you'd like to accomplish. Leave with a plan. Participants will share best practices and work as it unfolds through Nov. 2, 2004 with a group Weblog and/or listserv.
Visiting faculty: David Von Drehle of the Washington Post, Bobbie Bowman of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Dan Weintraub of the Sacramento Bee, Tom Fiedler of the Miami Herald, Neil Brown of the St. Petersburg Times, and retired Poynter president Jim Naughton.
You'll find more details here.
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