Hey, everyone, Laura here. I just wanted to take a moment to post the updated agenda for next weekend’s SPJ Region 9 Conference in Santa Fe. This conference has been months in the making, and I’m sort of stunned that it’s finally just a few days away.
And wow, has there been an amazing response: we have more than 120 people coming from across New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. I’m especially excited to meet many of the students who are coming–and who we’ll be recognizing during the Mark of Excellence Awards Luncheon on Saturday.
Check out the agenda below–and I look forward to seeing many of you on Friday and Saturday!
Friday: The Santa Fe New Mexican
202 E. Marcy St.
3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Early bird session with Henry Lopez on digital tools for journalists.
Monroe Gallery of Photography
112 Don Gaspar Ave
5 to 7 p.m. Opening Reception – Drop by to pick up your conference materials and network at Monroe Gallery of Photography, which has photo exhibit from the Civil Rights Movement and the life of JFK.
6 p.m. Lecture by Richard Stolley, Life magazine, who covered the movement and the assassination of JFK. Stolley was the founding editor of People magazine and former editorial director of Time, Inc. He retired in Santa Fe.
After party 8-10 p.m.: The Palace
142 W Palace Ave
· $5 and $6 drink specials for SPJ conference attendees.
Saturday, at The Santa Fe New Mexican, 202 E. Marcy St.
8:30 to 9:45 a.m.
Super Session {in the newsroom}
–Welcome by Julie Ann Grimm, former Rio Grande Chapter president
–Keynote from M.E .Sprengelmeyer, owner of Guadalupe County Communicator and former correspondent with Rocky Mountain News
10 a.m. Silent Auction opens in the corridor. Please drop off contributions on Friday afternoon or Saturday morning. Shop early and often! Proceeds support future journalism training.
10:00 to 10:30 {in the newsroom}
Stretching for stress relief and other good body habits for journalists
–Karine Talley , physical therapist, Spine Solutions in Santa Fe
10:45 to noon
Morning Breakout (Choose to attend one of these programs)
1. Business of Journalism {in the library}
with The Santa Fe New Mexican publisher Ginny Sohn; NM In Depth’s Heath Haussamen and ME Sprengelmeyer, moderated by Henry Lopez
2.Loner to loser, how framing matters in reporting trauma {in the conference room}
Tammy Kaiser, director of lifelong learning at Congregation Albert in Albuquerque, writes training curricula on cultural and religious diversity for the Department of Homeland Security and is a workplace-shooting survivor.
3. Public Information Stage {in the newsroom}
Gywneth Doland, New Mexico Foundation for Open Government, joins Utah’s Joel Campbell, past chairman of the SPJ national Freedom of Information Committee to engage audience to role play about tactics for getting the records you want without the hassle. Bruce Moats, an attorney in Wyoming, will also participate along with Cara DeGette, of Colorado Public News.
noon to 1:30
Break for catered New Mexican food lunch and recognition of Mark of Excellence college journalism award winners
Afternoon Super Session
1:30 to 3:00 {in the newsroom}
Keynote by Doug Fine, author of the new book Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution, and former foreign correspondent
3:15 to 4:45
Afternoon breakout sessions (Choose to attend one of these)
1. Go There! {In the newsroom}
Journalist and book author Doug Fine talks about the importance of on-the-ground reporting in places like Somalia and Mendocino, even in our backyards
2. Modernizing Journalism Education {in the library}
Recent drama over a “sex issue” by the Community College of New Mexico student publication will be among topics discussed by Christopher Braider, director of Journalism & Mass Communication at University of Colorado, Boulder; Glenda Balas, chair of the Communication and Journalism program at University of New Mexico; and Roger Mellen, associate Professor of Journalism & Mass Communications at New Mexico State University, with Jyllian Roach, editor of the CNM Chronicle — moderated by Robert Galin
3. Simplifying Science {in the conference room}
Scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory (microbiologist Harshini Mukundan and weather scientist Geoff Reeves) and journalists (John Fleck, Albuquerque Journal and independent Bryant Furlow) talk about reporting science accurately and effectively. Moderated by Staci Matlock.
5 pm Silent Auction closes. Pick up your treasure! Credit card payments will be accepted along with checks and cash.
Extra Credit: 5 to 5:45 — {in the conference room}
Make the most of your point-and-shoot digital camera with photographer Natalie Guillen
Happy Hour Social Event: 6 to 8 p.m.: Vanessie
427 W. Water Street
Cash bar with appetizers provided by Region 9
For more information:
M.E. Sprengelmeyer, owner of Guadalupe County Communicator and former correspondent with Rocky Mountain News
Tammy Kaiser, director of lifelong learning at Congregation Albert in Albuquerque and a workplace-shooting survivor, who writes training curricula on cultural and religious diversity for the Department of Homeland Security.
Gywneth Doland, New Mexico Foundation for Open Government, and Joel Campbell,
·Doug Fine is a comedic investigative journalist, bestselling author and solar-powered goat herder. He has reported from five continents for the Washington Post, Wired, Salon, The New York Times, Outside, National Public Radio, and US News & World Report. His work from Burma was read into the Congressional Record and he won more than a dozen Alaskan press club awards for his radio reporting from the Last Frontier. Fine is the author of three previous books (with a fourth coming out in Spring, 2013): Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution, Farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living, and Not Really an Alaskan Mountain Man. A Web site of his work and short films about Too High to Fail and Farewell My Subaru, as well as his recent appearances on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno and The Conan O’Brien Show, are at www.dougfine.com.