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Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
Opportunity for high school J teachers
The Eastern Illinois University Journalism Department is partnering with the McCormick Foundation, the Illinois Press Foundation and the Illinois JEA to offer another free Multimedia Workshop for high school journalism teachers and advisers in the Southwest suburbs of Chicago Oct.14-15 at Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Hills, Ill.
In addition to free registration, we also have a limited number of stipends for substitute teachers on the Friday of the workshop on a first-come first-served basis.
For more about the workshop and a registration form go to http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~jtidwell/Multimedia/Oct2011.pdf
In addition to free registration, we also have a limited number of stipends for substitute teachers on the Friday of the workshop on a first-come first-served basis.
For more about the workshop and a registration form go to http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~jtidwell/Multimedia/Oct2011.pdf
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
2011 Fall Conference is set
In a year of blizzards, tornadoes, earthquakes and hurricanes, it’s only natural to focus NINA’s Fall Conference on disaster coverage.
Kevin Wendt, editor of the Hunstville (Ala.) Times and a 2000 graduate of Northern Illinois University, will serve as keynote speaker for the Oct. 20 evening event. Wendt’s paper provided acclaimed coverage of this year’s tornadoes in northern Alabama.
In 2005, while with the San Jose Mercury News, parent company Knight Ridder sent Wendt to Columbus, Georgia, to help the Biloxi (Miss.) Sun-Herald cover Hurricane Katrina. From Columbus, Wendt helped organize the desk operation that remotely published the paper for 11 days. The coverage received a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
In 2001, with Wendt as a key designer, the Mercury News was named one of the five “World’s Best Designed Newspapers” by the Society for News Design. He later would serve as the paper’s assistant managing editor before departing for Huntsville in 2008.
The Oct. 20 event at NIU also features NINA’s annual awards dinner, with honors announced in 28 individual categories, plus newspaper sweepstakes awards for dailies and nondailies. Judging has been completed and contest results now are being compiled, said contest coordinator Jim Killam.
What: NINA Fall Conference and Awards Dinner
When: Thursday, Oct. 20
Time: 5:30-6:30 p.m. Social hour (cash bar); 6:30-7:15 dinner; program follows
Where: University Suite, second floor of the Holmes Student Center, NIU-DeKalb
Cost: $30 a person for dinner and program
To register online: http://www.ninaonline.org/
To register by phone or email: Contact Jim Killam at 815-753-4239 / jkillam@niu.edu
Registration deadline is Monday, Oct. 10.
In 2005, while with the San Jose Mercury News, parent company Knight Ridder sent Wendt to Columbus, Georgia, to help the Biloxi (Miss.) Sun-Herald cover Hurricane Katrina. From Columbus, Wendt helped organize the desk operation that remotely published the paper for 11 days. The coverage received a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
In 2001, with Wendt as a key designer, the Mercury News was named one of the five “World’s Best Designed Newspapers” by the Society for News Design. He later would serve as the paper’s assistant managing editor before departing for Huntsville in 2008.
The Oct. 20 event at NIU also features NINA’s annual awards dinner, with honors announced in 28 individual categories, plus newspaper sweepstakes awards for dailies and nondailies. Judging has been completed and contest results now are being compiled, said contest coordinator Jim Killam.
What: NINA Fall Conference and Awards Dinner
When: Thursday, Oct. 20
Time: 5:30-6:30 p.m. Social hour (cash bar); 6:30-7:15 dinner; program follows
Where: University Suite, second floor of the Holmes Student Center, NIU-DeKalb
Cost: $30 a person for dinner and program
To register online: http://www.ninaonline.org/
To register by phone or email: Contact Jim Killam at 815-753-4239 / jkillam@niu.edu
Registration deadline is Monday, Oct. 10.
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