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Caring for photojournalists: Preventing burnout, treating trauma and ensuring equity
Visual journalists have been on the front lines of the pandemic, injured at protests and attacked at the Capitol insurrection. Holding a camera makes those who are reporting on events a visible target for law enforcement or people angry at the media. And working remotely is not an option when you’re the community’s eyes and ears at the scene. So how do we care for photojournalists facing more pressure than ever under exhausting and dangerous circumstances? Join the National Press Club Journalism Institute and the National Press Photographers Association for honest answers to this question…
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Getting it right: Breaking news, the Inauguration, and the Capitol insurrection
Newsrooms mobilize on instinct when news breaks. Those split-second decisions — how we describe an individual or a group and their actions — can define reality for millions of people. The Capitol insurrection provides lessons for the upcoming Inauguration in what loaded language to avoid, questions to ask in real time, and how your values influence the way audiences understand and remember world events. Join the National Press Club Journalism Institute and Resolve Philly for a practical program that will leave you with tips you can use to ask the right questions in real time and prepare to…
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COVID vaccine: How to communicate reliably and combat disinformation
We start 2021 with a COVID vaccine, but the rollout has been slower than planned and a coordinated public health communication effort is needed to convince people to get vaccinated. Public opinion research shows a number of challenges: some people are justifiably skeptical of “big Pharma” and government; others are actively working to spread disinformation about the vaccine; and many remain unconvinced of the vaccine’s safety. What is being done to overcome these challenges, how can communicators be most effective, and how can reporters best cover the vaccination story and combat the…
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What’s next for White House coverage? Trump, Biden, and the future of US political reporting
As president-elect Joe Biden prepares to lead a deeply divided country, what’s next for White House coverage? What can past coverage and recent experiences teach us about envisioning a better future for how journalists cover the president, and how Americans understand the United States? Register now for this program, a partnership between the National Press Club Journalism Institute and the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, which will address these topics. Date: Friday, December 18, 2020 Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EST / 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. PST Joining us with…
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Pro Tips: Writing refresh
Find motivation and some new tools for energizing your writing in this afternoon workshop. After a year of working from home, journalists and communicators around the country are hitting reset on their routines as they consider life after vaccination. Add “Pro Tips: Writing refresh” to your toolkit as you reset. In this 3-hour workshop, we’ll get you motivated with: Tips on energizing tired writing Structuring stories with inclusivity at their core Writing killer headlines that attract, rather than distract While the formal program begins at 1 p.m. ET, participants are invited to join at…
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Career Connection: Defining your digital footprint
Making an impression on a potential employer starts long before an email or phone call. By then, your digital footprint has done the talking … don’t let it send someone walking. “Career Connection: Defining your digital footprint” is a weeklong series of hands-on workshops to help you create and maintain the journalism/writing identity you want to showcase to sources, employers, and publishers. The class will meet from noon to 1 p.m. ET daily, from Monday, May 10 to Friday, May 14. Designed to focus on accomplishing practical tasks in short bursts, each daily program will highlight parts of…
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Design Hacks: How to create attention-grabbing visuals
Get a head start on designing graphics and other visuals on deadline — even when you aren’t a graphic designer. In our scroll and skim culture, dynamic visuals can make the difference in whether a reader engages with a story. But not every story can attract a graphic design professional’s time in the newsroom, especially in the continuing pandemic news cycle. If you’re a reporter, editor, social media manager now handling (or who wants to handle) quick-turn graphics, get a head start with our hacks for designing visuals when it’s not usually part of your job. Beth Francesco, National Press…
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Design Hacks: How to create social media graphics
RESCHEDULED TO OCTOBER 30. Visual social media posts are no longer a nicety — they are a necessity. Not all teams, though, have the resources to devote to designing and creating social media posts that sing. Learn how to stop skimmers in their scrolls with visually dynamic social media messaging in “Design Hacks: How to create social media graphics,” from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, 2020. During this hands-on workshop, participants will practice design fundamentals while creating posts from start to finished product. This session is designed for journalists and communicators…
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Write what you know: ‘Fix What You Can’ & ‘Love You Hard’
What does it take to turn your memories into a memoir? When is the right time to write a memoir about your life? How do you report on your own experiences and fact-check them? How do you determine what you don’t know and decide what to leave out? And when, and how, do you tell the people closest to you about their role in the narrative? These issues will be discussed in a 45-minute program with memoirists Mindy Greiling, author of “Fix What You Can: Schizophrenia and a Lawmaker’s Fight for her Son”; Abby Maslin, author of “Love You Hard: A Memoir of Marriage, Brain Injury, and Reinventing…
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Gaming Election 2020: Chaos-proof your coverage
The National Press Club Journalism Institute, the National Press Foundation, and the RAND corporation are offering journalists a new way to prepare for the unexpected in Election 2020 news: Gaming your coverage plan. Registration is open for this free program, which will be held on Friday, Sept. 25 from 5-7 p.m. ET. RAND gamemaster David A. Shlapak will present players with scenarios based on current and likely events, and each team will make coverage decisions, not knowing what the next roll of the dice will bring. The game will surface journalists’ assumptions and test decisions as…
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