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Every day, a new social media platform is coming full circle as part-time, volunteer and citizen journalists emerge. They’re gaining momentum in the media community and changing the way news is reported and delivered, as well as how community members view the world around them.
People are practicing journalism through blogs, Web site production and interaction with sites maintained by mainstream news organizations. They are contributing to the world’s 24/7 news cycle, making it easy and accessible for more of us to be in the know.
The Society of Professional Journalists believes the world benefits from more news coverage, not less. Through its Citizen Journalism Academy, which takes place May 17 in Chicago, SPJ seeks to help everyone wanting to practice journalism to do so accurately, ethically and fairly. The Society aims to help participants understand how responsible practices could increase their reach and help them have strong journalistic reputations within their communities and around the world.
Among topics these one-day workshops will explore:
— Journalism ethics. The new-media landscape is rife with dilemmas for anyone wanting to report accurately, fairly and outside the bounds of special interests.
— The basics of media law. The same longstanding laws concerning libel, slander and access to people and information apply to 21st-century news-gatherers.
— Access to public records and meetings. Public information can add substance and value to every news story. But knowing where to look for it can be tough.
— Standard and responsible reporting practices. With media ethics and law in mind, how else should news-gatherers approach sources?
— The use of technology. We'll show you an array of tools you could start using — or continue using even more effectively.
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May 17, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Chicago
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Location: Room 161, Schmidt Academic Center Building, DePaul University, Lincoln Park campus, 2320 N. Kenmore Ave.
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Parking: Street parking (meter and non-meter), parking garage at Sheffield and Fullerton
CTA Trains: Brown or Red Line to the Fullerton stop and walk one block west to the building
Registration Fee: $25
(includes lunch)
Registration Deadline: May 3
Facilitators
Freedom of Information: David Cullier, University of Arizona
Journalism Ethics: Meg Tebo, Columbia College Chicago
Media Law Basics: Meg Tebo, Columbia College Chicago
Reporting/Writing Basics: Geoff Dougherty
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June 7, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Greensboro, N.C.
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Location: Greensboro, N.C., Guilford College, Frank Family Science Center, Bryan Junior Auditorium
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— program is in the building marked F on the map and parking is in the red/blue area above F
Parking: Bryan Lot
Registration Fee: $25
(includes lunch)
Registration Deadline: May 24
Facilitators
Freedom of Information: Joel Campbell, Brigham Young University
Journalism Ethics: Christine Tatum
Media Law Basics: Laurie Babinski, Baker & Hostetler
Reporting/Writing Basics: Forrest Brown, Charlotte Observer
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June 28, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Los Angeles
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Location: Loyola University-Los Angeles, Robinson Courtroom
919 Albany St., Los Angeles, CA 90015
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Registration Fee: $25
(includes lunch)
Registration Deadline: June 14
Facilitators
Freedom of Information: David Cullier, University of Arizona
Journalism Ethics: Meg Tebo, Columbia College Chicago
Media Law Basics: Gary Williams, Loyola Law School
Reporting/Writing Basics: Geoff Dougherty
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About the speakers
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Greensboro, N.C.
Laurie Babinski
Laurie Babinski practices in the litigation group for Baker Hostetler, with an emphasis on First Amendment matters. She has participated in the defense of claims for libel and invasion of privacy, and also assists with freedom of information issues. While earning her law degree, Babinski served as a law clerk at the Los Angeles Times. Prior to attending law school, she was a copy editor and page designer at the Inland Valley (Calif.) Daily Bulletin and a Scripps Howard Foundation Journalism Intern at the Student Press Law Center.
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Greensboro, N.C.
Forrest Brown
Forrest Brown has worked as a copy editor at The Charlotte Observer since January 2000. Before that, he held various newsroom jobs at the Austin American-Statesman in Texas, (Greensboro) News & Record, Augusta Chronicle in Georgia and (Fort Myers) News-Press in Florida. He graduated from The University of South Carolina in the winter of 1983.
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Greensboro, N.C.
Joel Campbell
Joel Campbell is an assistant professor in the Department of Communications at Brigham Young University. He was a reporter and editor at the (Salt Lake City) Deseret Morning News for 15 years covering everything from the night police beat to Salt Lake's Olympic bid. He holds a master's degree from Ohio State University and bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University. He is active in many First Amendment and Freedom of Information causes and is past president of the National Freedom of Information Coalition and Chairman of Society of Professional Journalists Freedom of Information Committee. He has received the SPJ Outstanding Chapter Member Award, Utah SPJ chapter's Clifford Cheney Service to Journalism Award and the Utah Press Association's Honorary Publisher Award.
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Chicago, Los Angeles
David Cuillier
David Cuillier, a former newspaper reporter and editor, is an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism at the University of Arizona. He researches public attitudes toward freedom of information and is one of the SPJ newsroom trainers for acquiring government documents.
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Chicago, Los Angeles
Geoff Dougherty
Geoff Dougherty is the editor of the Chi-Town Daily News and CEO of PublicMedia, Inc. Prior to founding the Daily News, he was an investigative reporter at the Chicago Tribune. Before that, he served in similar roles at the Miami Herald and St. Petersburg Times. He has 14 years of journalism experience and has won numerous state and national awards for his work. While at the Miami Herald, he spearheaded the newspaper's effort to review, count and analyze discarded ballots from the 2000 presidential election.
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Chicago
Lorraine Forte
Lorraine Forte is deputy editor of Catalyst Chicago, a monthly publication on urban education. She produces a monthly radio show on education for City Voices, a public affairs program that airs on WNUA, 95.5 FM. She has worked as a writer/producer for television and has also been a daily newspaper reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times and the Daily Southtown. She earned a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Ohio State University.
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Chicago
Steve Rhodes
Steve Rhodes is the founder of The Beachwood Reporter, an online Chicago-centric news and culture review. He is a former senior editor at Chicago magazine, where he focused on politics and media. He freelanced for five years prior to that, mostly for the Newsweek bureau in Chicago. He spent 18 months at the Chicago Tribune as a reporting resident after beginning his career at small newspapers in Florida and Iowa. He earned a journalism degree from the University of Minnesota, where he was managing editor of The Minnesota Daily. He later earned a self-designed master's degree in newspaper management and a certificate in telecommunications policy from Northwestern University, where he worked part-time at the Newspaper Management Center.
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Greensboro, N.C.
Christine Tatum
Christine Tatum is editor-in-chief of Infoition News Services, Inc., an innovative company that delivers highly customized news and information around the clock and on demand to world leaders, including White House officials, congressional lawmakers, Fortune 500 companies and high-profile law firms and nonprofit organizations. Tatum oversees Infoition's content department, staffed by more than 60 reporters and researchers, and leads the development of new editorial services. She has worked as a reporter and editor, covering technology and various industries, for The Denver Post and Chicago Tribune. Tatum served as SPJ's 2006-07 national president.
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Chicago, Los Angeles
Meg Tebo
Meg Tebo is a veteran lawyer and journalist who has served as president of the Chicago Headline Club, one of SPJ's largest chapters. As a reporter and editor, she has covered various aspects of law and education. Her work has appeared in several publications, including the ABA Journal, where she served on staff. Tebo also has contributed to textbooks and provided legal opinions for lay and specialized audiences. She teaches media law and ethics at Columbia College Chicago.
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Los Angeles
Gary C. Williams
Gary Williams was staff counsel for the Agricultural Labor Relations Board from 1976-79 and staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California from 1979-85. Williams was appointed assistant legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California in 1985, a position he maintained until joining the Loyola Law School faculty in 1987.
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Los Angeles
Leonard Witt
Leonard Witt is the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University and the chief blogger of PJNet. His academic interests include public and citizen journalism and how to get citizens' voices heard. He has spent most of his professional career as an award-winning journalist.
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Funding for this program is provided by the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation, a tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) public foundation organized for the purpose of supporting the educational programs of the Society of Professional Journalists and to serve the professional needs of journalists and students pursuing careers in journalism.
Questions?
Contact Amanda Mohl, at 317-927-8000 ext. 200 or via e-mail.
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Ernie Wiggins
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University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
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Ernest Wiggins is a tenured associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of South Carolina. He's the adviser to the campus chapter of SPJ, which he revitalized out of dormancy in 2004. For his efforts, Wiggins received the David Eshelman Oustanding Campus Adviser award from SPJ in 2005.
A former reporter and editor for The State (Columbia, S.C.) and the Columbia (S.C.) Record, Wiggins joined the faculty in 1993, returning to the school from which he'd earned both his bachelor's and master's degree. Wiggins has done additional postgraduate study in social strutures and social networks.
His areas of teaching and research specialization are newsgathering and reporting trends, media ethics, media literacy, newsroom operations, and mass media and social justice.
He's presented research at Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications national conferences and regional colloquia. His research has been published in "Framing Public Life: Perspective on Media and Our Understanding of the Social World."
He has been a guest columnist for The State and his work has been reprinted in Stein and Paterno's "The Newswriter's Handbook" and Kreml, et al., "College Writing: Reading, Analyzing, and Writing."
He's attended seminars in writing and new media and convergence at the Poynter Institute and American Press Institute and was selected to be one of two faculty members to attend the Medicine in the Media workshop at the National Institutes of Health in 2005.
Wiggins has been recognized for his teaching and is sought after to mentor students and direct student research.
In addition to SPJ, Wiggins is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Associaton of University Professors.
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