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Journalism Week: Inside the Big Headlines
02-25-2009
Graphic design by Mike Higdon
An updated program guide and coverage of all J Week events is on our special Inside Big Headlines Web site. Please visit and share your comments.
All J-Week events are free and open to the public, except as noted. Read the program below for a day-by-day description of events. To register for an event, please email Zanny Marsh.
Monday, March 2, 2008
PIZZA WITH THE PULITZERS
Clark Hoyt, Charles Shepard & Robert J. Rosenthal
6 pm -- Joe Crowley Student Union Great Room
Mingle with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists over pizza and drinks before the first presentation of J Week.
J Week Launch Event
AWARD WINNERS INVESTIGATE JOURNALISM
Clark Hoyt, Charles Shepard & Robert J. Rosenthal
7 pm -- Joe Crowley Student Union Theatre
Three award winning journalists discuss the art of investigative reporting and what’s in store for the big headlines of tomorrow.
As a reporter at the Charlotte Observer, Charles Shepard won a Pulitzer Prize for tracking down the evidence that eventually toppled Jim Bakker’s PTL empire. He later documented his reporting in his book, Forgiven.
An award-winning journalist with nearly 40 years of experience, Robert J. Rosenthal became Executive Director of Center for Investigative Reporting in January 2008. Before joining CIR he worked for some of the most respected newspapers in the country, including the New York Times, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer and, most recently, the San Francisco Chronicle. As a reporter, Rosenthal won numerous awards, including the Overseas Press Club Award for magazine writing, the Sigma Delta Chi Award for distinguished foreign correspondence, the National Association of Black Journalists Award for Third World Reporting, and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in international reporting.
Clark Hoyt is the public editor for the New York Times, working outside of the reporting and editing structure of the newspaper. He receives and answers questions or comments from readers and the public, principally about articles published in the paper. Previously he was Knight Ridder's vice president/news from 1993-99. And from 1999 until the sale of Knight Ridder, he was Washington editor, with responsibility for the Washington bureau and the editorial operations of Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services. The Washington bureau of Knight Ridder has received much praise in recent years for its aggressive reporting and its journalists have won George Polk, Overseas Press Club and Headliners Awards, among many others.
Free and open to the public.
TUESDAY, March 3, 2009 -- J Week Online Journalism Day
THE MOVE FROM PRINT TO ONLINE
Cole C. Campbell Dialogue on Journalism and Democracy
9:30 am -- Joe Crowley Student Union Theatre
Alan Mutter, Cole Campbell Speaker
Publisher, Reflections from a Newsosaur
Come hear the publisher of Reflections of a Newsosaur, as he outlines how online commentary and technological developments are challenging the traditional media. Mutter is the nation’s go to guy when discussing the economic analysis of old and new media and what it’s going to take to move from print to online. His blog is frequently quoted by some of the world’s most prominent reporters and commentators. As a journalist earlier in his career, he led the newsrooms of the Chicago Sun-Times and San Francisco Chronicle.
Free and open to the public.
You must be dumber than you look: My life second guessing The New York Times
11 am – Joe Crowley Student Union Theatre
Fred W. Smith Ethics Seminar Series Speaker
Clark Hoyt, Fred Smith Speaker and Public Editor of
The New York Times
The public editor of The New York Times returns to discuss the role he plays watchdogging the largest paper of record.
Free and open to the public.
WORLD’S MOST CREATIVE GOES “HYPERLOCAL”
5 pm – Joe Crowley Student Union Theatre
Rob Curley, President and Executive Editor, Greenspun Interactive
Rob Curley’s business of developing interactive journalism earned him a spot recently on Creativity Magazine’s annual list of the 50 most creative people in the world. Join him as he discusses what he calls “Hyperlocal” in his work at the Las Vegas Sun.
Free and open to the public.
ECONOMIC CHALLENGES FACING THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
7 pm – Joe Crowley Student Union Theatre
Damon Darlin, Technology Editor, New York Times
Damon Darlin has been senior editor at Business 2.0, managing editor at U.S. News & World Report and senior editor at Forbes Magazine.
Free and open to the public.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4 , Diversity and the Law Day
OJ SIMPSON, THEN AND NOW
11 am -- Joe Crowley Student Union Theatre
Jerrianne Hayslett, Media Consultant and Former LA Court Information Officer
Michael Sommermeyer, Information Officer, Clark County Courts
Jerrianne Hayslett was media liaison for the Los Angeles, California, court system in 1995 when OJ Simpson was acquitted, one of the most publicized trials in history. Hayslett will join Michael Sommermeyer, the information officer for Clark County Courts, to discuss how legal stories have changed over the 14 years between the Los Angeles “innocent” and Las Vegas “guilty” verdicts.
Free and open to the public.
Careers in sports journalism
1:30 pm -- Joe Crowley Student Union, 402
Michael Fountain, Senior Producer of ESPN
Find out how to join the ranks of sports journalists in this presentation by ESPN’s Michael Fountain.
DIVERSITY AND THE OBAMA EFFECT
3 pm -- Joe Crowley Student Union Theatre
Michael Fountain, Senior Producer, ESPN oversees college football studio programming including College GameDay and college basketball.
Carole Chouinard, senior producer at Tavis Smiley, Late Night on PBS and former producer for Dennis Miller, and Real Time with Bill Maher.
Kristen Go, Assistant Metro Editor, San Francisco Chronicle. Go was on The Denver Post team awarded the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for spot news reporting on the Columbine school massacre and is a UNR Reynolds School of Journalism graduate.
Join three experienced journalists for a frank discussion about diversity and journalism and how the Obama headlines of 2008 will change the course of reporting far into the future.
Free and open to the public.
THURSDAY, MARCH 5, Public Relations Day
9 am -- Joe Crowley Student Union, Room 423
Ira M. Gostin, MBA
A former Pulitzer-nominated photojournalist turned corporate and advertising photographer, Ira Gostin is now the Director of Business Advising and Senior Marketing Strategist at Rand & Associates, a Reno financial and small business consulting firm. Following his retirement from photography, he enrolled in graduate school, became a Starbucks manager and worked for several years to "re-brand himself." He will present a variety of case studies of people who have recreated themselves into new careers while presenting tips, pointers and advice for college students to set their own personal brand.
WHEN THE NEWS BECOMES THE NEWS
11 am -- Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center – Room 124
Lynne Dale, former producer for ABC’s Primetime Live
Join the former ABC producer for a historical discussion about when the news becomes the headline and trace the public relations steps from both sides of the story. In 1992, Lynne Dale produced the Primetime Live report about the grocery store chain Food Lion. As part of her investigation, she worked undercover in a Food Lion store for two weeks and documented with a hidden camera potentially dangerous food handling problems and unsanitary practices. The story garnered much attention from the courts, the public and created a tidal wave of public relations activity on both sides of the story.
Free and open to the public.
DON’T EAT THE SPINACH
Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center – Room 124
1 pm to 2 pm
Gene Grabowski, Senior Vice President, Levick Strategic Communications
Come hear from one of the nation’s foremost authorities on crisis communications, specializing in food and consumer product recalls, about some of the biggest headline product recalls of modern time. As winner of PR Week’s 2007 Crisis Manager of the Year award, Grabowski is an expert on crisis, litigation communications and reputation management. He has directed the media strategy on scores of the major food and consumer product recalls in the United States, ranging from the genetically modified foods scare to the most recent spinach and pet food contamination crises and the Chinese toy import issue. Clients whom he currently counsels include the Government of Kuwait, U.S. Department of Agriculture, AIG International, Hasbro, Akzo Nobel, Kraft Foods, GE Healthcare, Qiagen International, Six Flags Amusement Parks, Southwest Airlines and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.
Free and open to the public.
Discussion panel: Thinking beyond boundaries
3 pm -- Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center, 124
Steve Bishop, IDEO
Anthony Moor, The Dallas Morning News
Jennifer Carroll, Gannett
Michael Maness, Gannett
Rob Curley, Greenspun Interactive
Dennis Dimick, National Geographic Magazine
August Grant, University of South Carolina
Alan Mutter, blogger
Mary Peskin, American Press Institute
Dwayne Spradlin, InnoCentive.com
Tom Brew, MSNBC.com
Jerry Ceppos, RSJ
Donica Mensing, RSJ
Larry Dailey, RSJ
Michael Higdon, RSJ student
Innovation executives emerge from an extensive two-day meeting to discuss new models for journalism and how to take a leap beyond the expected.
Social networking
MOCKTAIL PARTY
5:30 pm -- Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center, Frank and Joan Randall Rotunda
Here’s another chance to mingle with students and guests.
CHANGING CLIMATE DOCUMENTED
7:30 pm -- Joe Crowley Student Union Ballroom
Dennis Dimick, Executive Editor of National Geographic Magazine
Get an expert's view of the role media must play in reporting the convergence of energy and global warming.
It is nearly impossible to read a newspaper or magazine, listen to the radio, or watch the nightly news without encountering at least one mention of climate change. For years, melting glaciers and ice caps, cataclysmic storms, rising seas, and longer, hotter summers have fueled concerns that our planet is warming and prompted heated debate among politicians, scientists, journalists, and ordinary citizens.
Quietly, below the roar of the crowd, National Geographic has been documenting the effects of climate change and its many contributing factors, and reporting on scientists’ projections of potential future trends.
Executive Editor Dennis Dimick has overseen this coverage and reporting, working side by side with senior writers, photographers, scientists, and research teams as they gather and analyze the data. He has a unique gift for distilling this vast information into a manageable narrative and he has shared it with a wide range of public and corporate audiences worldwide.
Free and open to the public.
FRIDAY, March 6
INSIGHT TO THE PRESIDENCY
9 a.m. -- Joe Crowley Student Union Theatre
Eric Draper, Photographer
See moments of history from the eye of White House Photo Director and personal photographer for U.S. President George W. Bush. Additionally, as an AP photographer, he’s shot some of the histories most memorable moments from the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney to the Kosovo conflict.
Free and open to the public.
American Press Institute
ETHICS FOR AN ONLINE WORLD
8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Sponsored by the Nevada Press Association and the Reynolds School of Journalism. For more details on this event, see the Ethics Training program of the Nevada Press Association.
Cost is free to students; $29 per person for everyone else.
SATURDAY, MARCH 7
Nevada Interactive Media Summit
10 am to 4 pm
Donald W. Reynolds Journalism School
Join local bloggers, social media experts and the public for an interactive day of learning about new media.
For more information on this event, see Nevada Interactive Media
Admission to the public: $25 for the day, including lunch
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