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- Nicole7:44 PM | 0 Comments
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
"Mudcat" Saunders to give press conference
The W&L SPJ chapter is pleased to announce that Dave "Mudcat" Saunders will host a press conference before the Mark of Excellence Awards Luncheon. The colorful Bubba-Democratic political advisor helped get Democrats Mark Warner, Jim Webb and Tim Kaine elected in Red-State Virginia.Saunders has been featured in the Weekly Standard and the New York Times Sunday Magazine. The Roanoke Times has described him as "the go-to guy for national reporters searching out freewheeling, in-your-face quotes -- kind of a James Carville meets Dale Earnhardt meets Barney Fife." And the book he co-wrote with Harvard Professor Steve Jarding is said to be a blue-print for how the Democrats can re-take the White House: Foxes in the Henhouse: How the Republicans Stole the South and the Heartland, and what the Democrats Must Do to Run 'em Out. Mudcat says Steve wrote the book, and "I added the cuss words."
Paul Freedman from the University of Virginia has also agreed to speak on our "Covering Elections" panel.
Freedman is the 2003 recipient of the University of Virginia Alumni Board of Trustees Teaching Award. Freedman's current research projects focus on campaign advertising, issue framing, and the politics of abortion. His work has appeared in Public Opinion Quarterly, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Political Communication, Campaigns and Elections and Slate. He has recently completed a book about television campaign advertising and American democracy. Freedman served as research director for the Project on Campaign Conduct at the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership. Since 2000, he has been an election analyst for ABC News in New York.
Other confirmed speakers include Greg Esposito (Roanoke Times), Wilson Lowrey (University of Alabama), Juliet Bickford (WSLS10 in Roanoke, Va.; WKTR in Norfolk, Va.), Duncan Adams (Roanoke Times) and Kelly Evans (Wall Street Journal).
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- Nicole9:18 PM | 0 Comments
Friday, February 8, 2008
Confirmed speakers
Hello SPJ members!We are pleased to announce, again, that Amy Goodman will be the keynote speaker for Saturday's Mark of Excellence luncheon. Goodman co-hosts Democracy Now!, a daily, independent news program, with Juan Gonzalez. The program airs on over 650 stations, "pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the U.S.," according to the Democracy Now! Web site. The site says this about their coverage and purpose:
"Democracy Now!'s War and Peace Report provides our audience with access to people and perspectives rarely heard in the U.S. corporate-sponsored media, including independent and international journalists, ordinary people from around the world who are directly affected by U.S. foreign policy, grassroots leaders and peace activists, artists, academics and independent analysts. In addition, Democracy Now! hosts real debates–debates between people who substantially disagree, such as between the White House or the Pentagon spokespeople on the one hand, and grassroots activists on the other."
Goodman also wrote Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back.
We are still confirming speakers for all of our workshops, but we'd also like to officially announce that Kate Long will be running a workshop on feature writing called, "Turning News Into Great Stories." This workshop will be available from 9 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. on Sat., March 29. This hands-on workshop is limited and pre-registration is required. Long has worked as a writing coach for more than 20 years. She has won numerous awards for fiction, songwriting, and newspaper stories, and she produces programs for West Virginia Public Radio and Television in addition to her writing workshops.
Soon we will have a speakers page with more information about Goodman and Long. We will continue to update this page for each confirmed speaker. Check back often!
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- Abri2:05 PM | 0 Comments
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Big news!
Hey everyone! Big news about the conference:The keynote speaker for Saturday's Mark of Excellence luncheon is...
Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!
More info to follow, but in the meantime, check out www.democracynow.org and read her stuff.
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- Anonymous8:50 PM | 0 Comments
Web site launched
Today we launched our chapter's official Web site. Check it out at http://journalism.wlu.edu/spj.Labels: Web site
- Nicole5:15 PM | 0 Comments
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