Name: Midterm Essentials - Pennsylvania (July 2022)
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Midterm Essentials – Pennsylvania (July 2022)

This is a free, one-day intensive training session for broadcast journalists who want to more meaningfully cover key issues facing citizens as they vote in the 2022 midterm elections.

July 28, 2022

Overview

Convene with fellow journalists and experts at WCAU-TV / NBC 10 Philadelphia.
Deepen your knowledge about immigration, the economy, health care, climate change and disinformation.
Register to attend for free by July 8, 2022.

Price: $0.00

The goal of this one-day, in-person, fast-moving, expert-led and practical training is simple: We want to help local broadcast journalists ask more informed questions and demand more solid answers about five complex issues facing America in the 2022 midterm election cycle.

From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., our experts will teach journalists the essential insights they have to know to effectively cover immigration, inflation and the economy, health care and drug costs, climate change and disinformation.

Our teaching team includes a top expert on health care who testifies before Congress, a Pulitzer Prize-winning immigration reporter and a climate expert from Climate Central. These won’t be stale lectures but instead will be tailored to journalists seeking context and clarity on behalf of their communities.

More than ever, this training is vital for busy, resource-strapped journalists who might otherwise settle for campaign talking points, allow candidates to talk in rhetorical circles or amplify common falsehoods online.

The workshop’s tuition is covered by a grant to Poynter and MediaWise from the Google News Initiative. The funder has no influence over the content of the seminar, the faculty or even the choices of where to teach the workshops. The non-partisan workshop is produced by Poynter’s senior faculty Al Tompkins who has five decades of journalism experience and is a key instructor for Poynter’s digital literacy program.

We will bring this training to five battleground states — Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ohio and Florida — and will reach hundreds of journalists in July and August, just in time to help them cover races after Labor Day. Poynter is proud to work with state broadcast journalism associations in each state.

Interested in this workshop but not able to make it to Pennsylvania? Check out our programs in other battleground states:

July 8: Phoenix, Arizona at the Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University

July 14: Madison, Wisconsin at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

July 26: Columbus, Ohio at Quest Conference Center

Aug. 2: St. Petersburg, Florida at the Poynter Institute

Questions?

If you need assistance, email us at info@poynter.org.

This one-day workshop will take place 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time Thursday, July 28, 2022. It is a full day of learning with continental breakfast and lunch provided. Below is a tentative schedule:

9 a.m. — Welcome (Al Tompkins)
9:05 a.m. — Big Issue 1: What journalists need to know about the economy and inflation (Matthew Klein)
10:30 a.m. — Break
10:45 a.m. — Big Issue 2: Immigration issues that the next congress will face (Molly O’Toole)
Noon — Lunch
1:15 p.m. — Big Issue 3: The emerging issue of climate change (Bernadette Woods Placky)
2:30 p.m. — Break
2:45 p.m. — Big Issue 4: Healthcare and drug cost problems congress still faces (Larry Levitt)
4 p.m. — Big Issue 5: Detecting disinformation that leads to truth decay (Al Tompkins)
5 p.m. — Go do great journalism

Who should apply

This workshop is intended for broadcast journalists in Pennsylvania. Journalists covering the midterm elections in other battleground states will also benefit.

Application process

The process to apply is straightforward and simple. No letter of recommendation or reference is required. Please be prepared to answer questions about your professional experience, areas of interest and basic demographic information.

The deadline to apply is July 8, 2022.

Cost

This workshop is tuition-free, thanks to the Google News Initiative.

Instructors

Lead Faculty

Al Tompkins

Senior Faculty, Broadcast and Online

Al Tompkins is The Poynter Institute’s senior faculty for broadcasting and online. He has taught thousands of journalists, journalism students and educators in newsrooms around...

Guest Faculty

Matthew Klein

Founder, The Overshoot

Matthew Klein is the founder of The Overshoot, a guide to the global economy, financial markets, and public policy. He is the and co-author of...

Larry Levitt

Executive Vice President for Health Policy, Kaiser Family Foundation

Larry Levitt is Executive Vice President for Health Policy, overseeing KFF’s policy work on Medicare, Medicaid, the health care marketplace, the Affordable Care Act, women’s...

Molly O’Toole

Immigration and Security Reporter, Los Angeles Times

Molly O’Toole is a Pulitzer Prize winning immigration and security reporter for the Los Angeles Times. based in the Los Angeles Times’ Washington, D.C., bureau....

Bernadette Woods Placky

Chief Meteorologist and Climate Matters Program Director, Climate Central

Bernadette Woods Placky is an Emmy Award winning meteorologist and director of Climate Central's Climate Matters program. In her role, Bernadette works with fellow meteorologists...

Midterm Essentials – Pennsylvania (July 2022)

Midterm Essentials – Pennsylvania (July 2022)

Overview

Learning Outcomes