Mid-America Press Institute is teaming with APME’s NewsTrain for a two-day seminar Oct. 29-30 at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Ill. Sessions include:
–producing enterprise stories efficiently,
–conducting data journalism for beginners,
–maximizing your use of social media for reporting, as well as for personal branding and community engagement,
–shooting effective video on your smartphone,
–using audience analytics to do better journalism,
–taking creative approaches to local features coverage, and
–unleashing your watchdog with beat mapping
Your instructors include:
- Linda Austin, NewsTrain project director and a former top editor in three local newsrooms.
- Michael J. Berens, investigative reporter for the Chicago Tribune and Pulitzer Prize winner
- Betsey Guzior, features editor at The State in Columbia, South Carolina, and past president of the Society for Features Journalism
- Kathy Kieliszewski, visuals director for the Detroit Free Press and four-time National Emmy Award-winning journalist.
- Charlie Meyerson, vice president of news for Rivet Radio Inc. and principal at Meyerson Strategy, a Chicago-area content-strategy consultancy.
- Karen Workman, senior staff editor and former social strategy editor at The New York Times who was named to Editor & Publisher’s “25 Under 35” list.
Best of all — Registration is just $75 for both full days of training, plus Continental breakfast, lunch and snacks each day. Diversity scholarships are available, and a discounted hotel rate is available for just $79/night.
You can’t afford to miss this!
Questions? Go to http://www.apme.com/?page=DeKalbNewsTrain
Jim Kirk, editor and publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times, is the latest addition to the speaker line up for the News Literacy seminar Sept. 17, at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Ill.
Kirk will speak on the future of news.
Mid American Press Institute, the Northern Illinois Newspaper Assn. and the Communication Department at Northern Illinois University are sponsoring the day-long seminar from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 17, at the Barsema Alumni & Visitors Center, DeKalb.
The $25 registration fee will be waived for the first 50 journalists and educators to register thanks to a grant from the McCormick Foundation. To register, email MPI Executive Director John Ryan at jmryan@eiu.edu.
The sessions will also be videoed for future use by journalists and educators as part of the grant.
The following is the tentative program:
AGENDA
10 a.m. Welcome and introductions
10:10 a.m.
The Case for News Literacy: Why sorting fact from fiction is a vital 21st Century skill
In this session, the News Literacy Project’s senior vice president for educational programs, Peter Adams, gives an overview of the field of news literacy and explores the ways our rapidly changing information landscape makes these skills some of the most vital for 21st century students and citizens.
11:15 a.m.
Engaging news consumers about News Literacy
All will discuss the need for and how to engage readers regarding News Literacy. Panel discussion including:
* Stan Zoller, journalism lecturer at Lake Forest College who is involved with the Center For News Literacy @ Stony Brook University and ISBE’s Citizen’s Advocacy Center.
* Michael Spikes, director of the Digital Resource Center for the Center for News Literacy.
* Andrea Guzman, NIU journalism professor who specializes in digital and new media.
12:15 p.m. Lunch
1 p.m.
The First Amendment: An amendment under fire
Discussion, led by Gene Policinski, chief operating officer of the Newseum Institute and its First Amendment Center, on today’s challenges to the First Amendment’s five freedoms.
2 p.m.
The Future of News
Jim Kirk, Editor/Publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times, will share his vision about the fast-changing trends and technology, and how to target the best opportunities for future digital efforts using limited resources.
End 3 p.m.
Sept. 17 — News Literacy at Barsema Alumni & Visitors Center at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb. Speakers include Peter Adams of the News Literacy Project and Gene Policinski of Newseum/First Amendment Center. Registration of $25 waived for the first 50 registrants thanks to a grant from the McCormick Foundation. Email MPI Executive Director John Ryan, jmryan@eiu.edu, to register.
Oct. 29-30 — APME’s NewsTrain at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb. Sessions on producing enterprise stories, conducting data journalism, maximizing social media, shooting effective video and watchdog journalism, among other topics. Registration is $75. To register: Go to http://www.apme.com/?page=DeKalbNewsTrain.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Cardinals beat reporter Derrick Goold will headline the Mid-America Press Institute’s annual sports seminar Monday, June 29, at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Sessions on using social media to report and promote sports coverage, covering the big story and video and real time reporting, among other topics, will follow.
To register for the seminar, send an email to MPI Executive Director John Ryan at jmryan@eiu.edu. The registration fee is $25 and includes lunch.
Should participants want to come in on Sunday, June 28, and stay over, MPI has a room block for Sunday, June 28, at the St. Louis City Center Hotel, 400 S. 14th St., 314-231-5007, formerly a Sheraton hotel. MPI’s room rate is $115 a night. Reservations must be made by June 18.
The St. Louis Cardinals play the Chicago Cubs on Sunday, June 28, but tickets are selling out and ticket prices are escalating. MPI is not purchasing a block of tickets this year but leaving it up to individuals to make their own plans.
Registration is under way for Mid-America Press Institute’s Watchdog Journalism seminar May 20 at the Briar Ridge Country Club, Schererville, Ind.
Sessions on investigations on the beat, doable computer-assisted reporting projects, navigating public records laws, figuring out the real story and covering Indiana’s religious freedom law will be offered.
Registration is $30 and will include lunch and drinks. To register, email MPI Executive Director John Ryan at jmryan@eiu.edu.
Bob Heisse, editor of The Times of Northwest Indiana, will serve as host for the seminar. Non-MPI members are welcome to attend.
The tentative schedule calls for registration to begin at 9:30 a.m., the first session at 10 a.m. and the last session will conclude about 3:30 p.m.
Ethridge succeeds Zaltsberg as MPI chair
Tim Ethridge, editor of the Evansville Courier & Press, was named chair of MPI at the board of directors annual meeting Saturday at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Motivating staffs, digital innovations and diversity of coverage in changing times part of MPI’s February management seminar
Motivating staffers in an era of no-raises, few promotions and increased demands will be a topic Feb. 28 during Mid-America Press Institute’s one-day management seminar at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
