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Journalism Faculty Washington Workshop May 19 to May 22, 2014 The Journalism Faculty Workshop will give you a unique experience to come to Washington, D.C. and talk with some of the important innovators in journalism and some of the leading journalism academics who are devising new curricula to meet a rapidly changing news and communication industry. Our goal is that you come away from the experience with three important accomplishments. 1. You will have a better idea – and perhaps a more positive attitude – about the future of journalism and how to direct your students in preparing for a career. You should have specific ideas of how to modify your curricula. 2. You will make connections in Washington that you can draw on both professionally and academically to help you plan new ideas and to expand your programs as well as to direct your students in seeking help in finding journalism jobs. 3. By talking to working journalists from the youngest to the oldest, you will increase your depth of understanding of the forces that are shaping journalism and the values that must be maintained in this time of rapid change. I will be your guide. I became a full time journalism professor with American University’s Washington Semester Program in 2010 after serving as a national correspondent in D.C. for 22 years. My classes each term take students to meet innovators in Washington journalism and to experience work first hand through internships in news and communications offices. Washington Workshop for Faculty
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Schedule of events: (As this is the news business, this schedule is subject to change. But I am pretty confident it will hold) Monday, May 19 6:30 p.m. Dinner at the National Press Club. 529 14th St. NW. The National Press Building is at the corner of 14th and F Streets, two blocks from the White House. The nearest Metro stop is Metro Center. The Club is on the 13th (top) floor. I will meet you in the Club’s lobby. This is an informal get-­‐to-­‐know-­‐you evening at the world’s leading professional organization for journalists. I was president of the Club in 1994, and I wrote the Club’s centennial history in 2008. I will give you a tour of the Club. We will talk about where journalism is heading and what challenges we face as journalism educators and what we will be doing for the rest of the workshop. Temporary membership in the Club comes with the program. To see all that’s available at the National Press Club, visit http://press.org/ Tuesday, May 20 9:30 a.m. National Press Club As temporary members of the National Press Club, you can get a free continental breakfast. We will be talking to Sabrina Siddiqu of the Huffington Post, Jared Rizzi of Sirius-­‐
XM Radio, and Dan Stone, formerly of Newsweek/Daily Beast and now with National Geographic, three young journalists who have managed to land significant jobs in DC. They will tell you how they did it, what skills employers were seeking and what opportunities are growing for young journalists. Washington Workshop for Faculty
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11:30 Kiplinger Magazine 1399 New York Ave. NW We will be talking with Doug Harbrecht, who is the director of new media for Kiplinger Magazine, a highly respected personal finance publication. My students have always liked talking to Doug because he has such great insights into melding legacy media with new media. The Kiplinger website: www.kiplinger.com Check out Doug’s bio and some things he wrote here: http://www.kiplinger.com/fronts/archive/bios/index.html?bylineID=150 Doug recommends you read these three articles about the state of journalism: Inky Tears by Frank Rich http://nymag.com/news/frank-­‐rich/news-­‐media-­‐2013-­‐4/ Boy, Was I Wrong By Stephen B. Shepard http://www.219mag.com/2013/05/17/the-­‐future-­‐of-­‐journalism/ A Closer Look: Three Golden Ages of Journalism? By Paul Steiger http://www.propublica.org/article/a-­‐closer-­‐look-­‐three-­‐golden-­‐ages-­‐of-­‐
journalism 2:00 p.m. Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting 1779 Massachusetts Ave. NW Suite 615 We will be talking with Jon Sawyer and/or Ann Peters. The Pulitzer Center promotes in-­‐depth engagement with global affairs through its sponsorship of quality international journalism across all media platforms and an innovative program of outreach and education. Jon and Ann want to share the resources they can provide you and your students. In previous sessions, professors worked Washington Workshop for Faculty
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out alliances with the Center to bring innovative journalists who have done major in-­‐depth international reporting to their campuses. Jon Sawyer, the Pulitzer Center’s founding director, is a former Washington bureau chief for the St. Louis Post-­‐Dispatch. He has reported around the world and is a three-­‐time winner of the National Press Club prize for best foreign correspondence. Ann Peters has worked as journalist, lawyer and director of non-­‐profit initiatives. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Georgetown University Law Center, Ann began her career as a correspondent for United Press International. She reported from North Carolina, Washington, D.C., Israel, the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Egypt and South Africa between 1983 and 1991. Her domestic reporting ranged from covering the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster to the North Carolina Senate race between Governor James Hunt and Senator Jesse Helms. More information about the Pulitzer Center can be found here: http://pulitzercenter.org/ They are particularly interested in your looking at their Campus Consortium Program: http://pulitzercenter.org/campus-­‐consortium The Pulitzer Center invites you to return on Wednesday evening at 5:30 for one of its special programs. See the note at the end of this schedule. 6:30 p.m. National Press Club Fourth Estate Dining Room We will be having dinner with television news legend Marvin Kalb. In the past, this has been the culminating dinner for the workshop, but Marvin tells me he will be in New York Thursday interviewing Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel. Marvin was the last CBS correspondent hired by Edward R. Murrow. As chief diplomatic correspondent for CBS, he circled the globe many times, traveling with Henry Kissinger. He was Moscow bureau chief. And he was moderator of NBC’s “Meet the Press.” After leaving CBS and NBC, he was the founding director of the Joan Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University. Washington Workshop for Faculty
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When I was president of the National Press Club, I worked with George Washington University and Marvin to create “The Kalb Report,” which is a regular television program that examines the news media and public policy. This has lasted 20 years. For our last program of the 20th season last month, Marvin interviewed Supreme Court justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg to a sold-­‐out crowd. Kalb Reports are terrific teaching tools, and they are available on line at http://kalb.gwu.edu/. Marvin is one of the deepest thinkers on the news media as well as an entertaining raconteur. At last year’s workshop, he mesmerized the participants by recounting the Cuban Missile Crisis from his perspective as Moscow bureau chief. This will be a special evening. Wednesday May 21 9:45 a.m. Washington Post 1150 15th St. NW Farragut North is the closest Metro stop on the Red Line Please be prompt because we have a lot to pack into today. We will be talking to Emilio Garcia-­‐Ruiz, who is a managing editor in charge of digital initiatives and operations, video, the presentation departments of photo, graphics and design and the multiplatform editing desk. He is responsible for driving innovation in the newsroom across all digital platforms and is the newsroom’s primary liaison with the business side on digital efforts. Here is a link to what the Post reported when Emilio got the position: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/garcia-­‐ruiz-­‐named-­‐wapo-­‐
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0b5e9247e8ca_story.html 11:30 a.m. Bloomberg Washington Bureau 1200 G St. NW Suite 1100 Washington Workshop for Faculty
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We will be talking with Bloomberg editor Mark Silva. If you want to get a job in journalism today, apply to Bloomberg. It is growing. It has an entirely different business model than any other news organization, and it’s pumping out money. Mark’s career has taken him to many newspapers until he got an offer from Bloomberg, where he has edited its political coverage. Bloomberg, which started with a Washington bureau of five people, now has a couple of hundred reporters and editors in two floors of one of the premier office locations downtown. A couple of years ago it hired more than a hundred journalists in DC alone. Bloomberg’s Web site: www.bloomberg.com (Bloomberg is well known for its free food, so we can get some snacks to sustain us). 1:00 p.m. Slate Magazine 1350 Connecticut Ave. Suite 400 (near DuPont Circle). Slate Magazine was one of the first and most successful totally online magazines. It was created in 1996 as a current affairs and culture magazine by former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley and owned by Microsoft as part of MSN. In December, 2004 it was purchased by the Washington Post Company and now is managed by The Slate Group, an online publishing entity created by the Washington Post to develop and manage web-­‐only magazines. We will be talking to Chad Lorenz, who is Slate’s News Editor. He manages the home page and coordinates news coverage. Previously, he was managing editor of Washingtonian and he worked as metro copy editor for the Post. Chad will talk to us about how to position stories so they get the most hits on the Internet. Make sure you have a good understanding of Slate (slate.com). I recommend getting the app. Washington Workshop for Faculty
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2:45 p.m. Politico 1100 Wilson Blvd. Arlington. We will go as a group, but if we get separated here are the directions: Take the Orange Line and get off at Rosslyn, the first stop in Virginia. Politico is located in a high-­‐rise building at 1100 Wilson Blvd. a block or two from the Metro station. We will meet in the building’s lobby. Politico is one of the great success stories in recent years of journalism. While most outlets are contracting, it is expanding. It just announced it is opening an entirely new Politico aimed at New York. Make sure you are well versed in Politico (politico.com). Politico is a niche news outlet that has just blown away the competition, including the Washington Post, in its area of expertise – politics. While most of our other speakers have been journalists, this time we will be talking with someone on the business side of journalism. Peter Cherukuri wants to talk to us about the business side of journalism and the opportunities available there. He is all about what is happening now in journalism and where the future will be. I don’t want to raise your expectations too high, but in the fall term, the students – who had most of the same speakers you have had – said he was amazing, one of the best. Here is his bio: Peter Cherukuri Regarded as a thought leader in the political information industry, Peter Cherukuri is currently the SVP, Advertising & Business Development at POLITICO as the innovative media company expands into additional products and services for the influencer community. Previously he served as the VP & General Manager for the DC bureau of Huffington Post overseeing operations and revenue as the publication expanded in the Washington market before its sale to AOL. Prior to Huffington Post, Peter was the publisher of Roll Call overseeing the business and editorial operations for the Capitol Hill newspaper and helping the company Washington Workshop for Faculty
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diversify via acquisitions into a multi-­‐platform information & advocacy services company. Additionally, he led marketing and business development efforts for TMG Custom Content, a DC-­‐based agency that develops targeted print and online content for corporations and nonprofits. He received his start in the political publishing market working at National Journal Group and Congressional Quarterly in product development and branding leadership roles. Originally from Mingo County, West Virginia, he received his BA from Colgate University and currently serves on the board for the National Press Foundation, the West Virginia University School of Journalism, the Close-­‐Up Foundation, and the tech start-­‐up incubator, 1776. He is also co-­‐founder of K Street Capital, an angel investment group based in DC. Thursday, May 22 9:00 a.m. Meet outside the Tenley Circle Metro Station to head to AU’s School of Communication at McKinley Hall. We will be talking to three outstanding professors at AU’s School of Communication this morning. 9:30 Andrew Lih A well-­‐known expert on using Wikipedia in journalism http://www.american.edu/soc/faculty/lih.cfm 10:30 Amy Eisman Director of Media Entrepreneurship and Interactive Journalism http://www.american.edu/profiles/staff/aeisman.cfm 11:30 Lynne Perri Managing Editor, Investigative Reporting Workshop http://www.american.edu/profiles/faculty/perri.cfm 2:00 NBC News Washington bureau Across the street from the AU campus Washington Workshop for Faculty
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We will be talking to either NBC Washington Bureau Chief Ken Strickland or to Deputy Bureau Chief Meaghan Rady about how television news is changing. Both have spoken to my class and they are great. I also hope we can take a quick look behind the scenes of NBC News Here is a video about Ken Strickland: http://thegrio.com/2013/02/05/thegrios-­‐
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Manny has worked as the head of an assignment desk in Fla., as a news director in Oregon and now as a Digital Director in Washington, DC. 6:00 National Press Club Lets come together for a final dinner to talk about what we learned and bid each other farewell. SPECIAL OPTIONAL PROGRAM AT PULITZER CENTER WEDNESDAY EVENING: Join us on Wednesday, May 21 for a conversation with Pulitzer Center grantees Ameto Akpe and Allison Shelley about their work reporting on women's health in Nigeria. Shelley will share her work documenting access to family planning options for Nigerian women, and Akpe will present her coverage of foreign aid in Nigeria and its impact on the country's women's health initiatives. Akpe, a Nigerian print journalist, was the 2013 Persephone Miel fellow and a Nieman fellow at Harvard University. In her Pulitzer Center-­‐supported project, "Nigeria: U.S. Dollars and Dubious Results," Akpe explores the impact of U.S. foreign aid in northern Nigeria, asking just how much this money has been able to change health outcomes in the region, and how these displays of American "soft power" will be affected by the rise of Boko Haram, an anti-­‐Western, anti-­‐Christian, and anti-­‐democratic group. Shelley is an independent documentary photographer and multimedia creator. In her project, "Deadly Cycle: Nigeria's Silent Abortion Crisis," along with journalist Allyn Gaestel, Shelley portrays the struggles for Nigerian women as they navigate the country's reproductive health laws. Contraception is difficult to obtain and with limited access to family planning, one third of Nigerian women have experienced an unwanted pregnancy. Unfortunately, many of these women turn to abortion, which is illegal and dangerous. We'll start the evening with a light reception at 5:30 pm, followed by remarks at 6 pm. Space is limited so reserve your seat today: rsvp@pulitzercenter.org—specify in subject line: "May 21 Talks @ Pulitzer." Wednesday, May 21 5:30-­‐7pm Pulitzer Center 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Suite 615 Washington, DC 20036 Closest Metro: Dupont Circle