GPA Education Seminars
EDITORS' FORUM & COFFEE
Date: Thursday, August 7, 2014, 9:30 a.m. to noon
Location: The Albany Herald, 126 N. Washington Street, Albany, Georgia 31701
Cost: $5, includes coffee and donuts
Moderator: Jim Zachary, Editor, Clayton News Daily, Jonesboro and
Henry Daily Herald, McDonough
This open forum is for editors to brainstorm and talk about best practices and successful ideas. Bring an idea you would like to share, and leave with one you can try at your paper.
CRITIQUES
Date: Thursday, September 18, 2014, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Location: Gwinnett Daily Post, 725 Old Norcross Road, Lawrenceville, Georgia 30046
Cost: $25, includes lunch
Moderators: Rick Crotts, Sunday business and sports editor, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and
instructor of communication, Kennesaw State University
Kathy Goldsberry, Lifestyles Editor, Marietta Daily Journal
Robbie Schwartz, Managing Editor, The Walton Tribune
Jim Zachary, Editor, Clayton News Daily, Jonesboro and
Henry Daily Herald, McDonough
Come join in this rapid-fire roundtable in which you'll get great ideas for putting out quality newspapers through critiques. There will be four parts to this seminar: Layout & Design, News/Editorial (including writing styles, headline usage, news photos and news judgment), Sports (including strength of local coverage, design and photography) and Lifestyles (including article selection, community coverage, layout and design and photography). Bring your newspaper and receive constructive criticism and simultaneously receive ideas on ways to make your paper better and new things to try.
CIRCULATION ROUNDTABLE
Date: Thursday in October - Date TBD
Location: The Telegraph, Macon
Cost: No Cost, includes lunch
Bring your best ideas to share at this roundtable, which always ends with new ideas for you to take back to your own circulation department. Various and current topics will be discussed.
WATCHDOG WORKSHOP
presented by Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE),
hosted by the Department of Journalism, Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication, UGA, and the Georgia Press Association
Dates: TBA
Locations: Saturday: Room #101, Miller Learning Center, 48 Baxter Street, Athens, Georgia
Sunday: Rooms 242 and 243, Journalism Building, 120 Hooper Street, Athens
Cost: Saturday: $55 for professionals / $25 for students
Sunday: $30 for optional advanced hands-on training
Lunch is on your own both days.
Watchdog Workshop on Saturday, April 26 - This training will offer several of our core sessions that will improve your ability to find information on the Web quickly, and point you to key documents and data that will help you add depth to your daily work and produce quick-hit enterprise stories. In addition, this workshop will give you tips on bulletproofing stories, digging deeper on the Web with social media, search engines and much more. Join IRE's experienced trainers and a group of veteran reporters for this workshop and get the tools and the tricks of the trade that you need to be a better, faster, watchdog journalist.
Optional Computer-Assisted Reporting Training on Sunday, April 27 - Attend this hands-on workshop and learn how to use Excel, a powerful electronic spreadsheet for deadline and beat reporting on budgets, salaries, election data and more. Also, learn how to dig deeper using the Internet and find valuable datasets for your stories. Class size is limited; register early to reserve a seat on a first-come, first-served basis.
These sessions are designed for reporters, editors, and producers from small, midsize and large publications, TV, radio stations, Web-only news sites and news blogs. Freelancers, students and journalism educators are also encouraged to attend.
Registration for this workshop will be through IRE. Please visit
www.ire.org/events-and-training/event/1248/ to register for this workshop.
SPECIAL SECTIONS
Date: TBD, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Location: The Macon Telegraph, 487 Cherry Street, Macon, Georgia 31201
Cost: $25, includes lunch
Too many of our special sections are not too special. Learn how to turn ordinary sections into something extraordinary for your readers. The morning will focus on unique approaches to sports sections and the afternoon will look at producing a strong editorial section.
MORE INFO HERE
Contact Ashley at GPA for more info
asears@gapress.org
or
770-454-6776
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