Contact Aric Lane with questions.

The Future of News – Day-long Journalism Workshops

Only 12 days left to register! The Western Washington Pro Chapter of SPJ is co-sponsoring a conference on Saturday, October 10 on the Seattle University campus dedicated to the future of news. Buy your tickets online now!

Sessions include:

- The Future of Newspapers;
- Building Your Brand as an Independent Journalist;
- How is Technology Shaping the Newsroom of the 21st Century?;
- Introduction to Investigative Reporting;
- Online Content Management: Who’s Using What – and Why?;
- Building Independent Online News Sites;
- Career Transitions: Leaving Journalism Behind;
- Covering The Recovery: A Primer On Business Reporting;
- Online Options: CoPress and Stunt3;
- Freedom of the Press: From state sunshine laws to the federal shield law, what’s the status of legal issues impacting journalists in the Pacific Northwest?;
- Can Public Interest PR Help Fill the Information Gap?;
- The Blogging Life;
- Cool Tools;
- User Generated Content: Keeping it Legal, Keeping it Lively; and
- Fair Fight or Copy Right?

Registration is $50 per person; $15 for students and unemployed journalists.

For more information, visit www.thenewsconference.com.

In cooperation with national SPJ, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tom Hallman, Jr. will teach a full-day of training on Narrative Writing.

Saturday, December 12, 2009
9 am – 4:30 pm
Portland State University

$60 SPJ members
$80 nonmembers

More details can be found at the national SPJ website.

To register, click here.

Don’t just report the story. Tell it like it is.

The Society of Professional Journalists invites early career reporters and front-line editors to step out of the inverted pyramid and into the art of storytelling! Through SPJ’s Narrative Writing Workshops, participants will learn options for reinvigorating the writing craft.

Join Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and reporter Tom Hallman, Jr., from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in one of five Narrative Writing Workshops for a day filled with tips for creating excitement in news stories.

The freestyle conversation with Hallman includes discussion on the following topics:
— Defining narrative writing
— Reporting for narrative
— Long form narrative storytelling
— How you can apply narrative techniques to your daily reporting
— Strategies for your newsroom

Have a special project in the works? Share it! Participants will have the chance to send Hallman a sample of their work in advance of the workshop. Tom will critique the work and discuss it with the rest of the class.

Digital Journalism Portland and the SPJ chapter in Oregon/SW Washington are teaming up to host an informal social hour that showcases local, innovative digital journalism projects.

Thurs., September 24
7 pm
More details here

Welcome to SPJ’s Region 10 blog, called The X Factor (for now). The purpose of this blog will be to share news, regional contest updates, training opportunities and ideas for SPJ members in Region 10 (Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana). If your chapter resides in one of these states and you have information to share with the region, please send it to me via email and I’ll be happy to post it for you. I also welcome your comments to my posts and would love suggestions for a new name.

I look forward to working with you!

Dana Neuts
Region 10 Director
www.spj.org