FW: Alumni Day Conference at the J-School: Saturday, April 10

[Kara Andrade]

Some great panels lined up for this event. Non-jschool alum are welcome for
$25.00.

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J-School Alumni Day Conference
Saturday, April 10, 2010
9:00 AM ­ 4:30 PM
Graduate School of Journalism
North Gate Hall
UC Berkeley
 
THE BERKELEY CONNECTION: JOURNALISM & INNOVATION IN THE BAY AREA
9:00AM ­ 9:30AM ­ Meet and greet continental breakfast
9:45AM ­ 11:00AM - Anatomy of a Story: Bay Area Investigative Reporting in a
Digital Age
Ever since traditional news organizations began cutting their investigative
reporting budgets, non-profit organizations, both established and new, are
trying to fill the void with funding from interested and concerned
individuals and philanthropies.  The Bay Area is a center of innovation for
these enterprises. Panelists will discuss the opportunities for deeper
investigative reporting and discuss the potential profitability and
sustainability of these models.
Moderator: Deirdre English, Director, The Felker Magazine Program, J-School
  Panelists:
Ryan Gabrielson, Investigative Reporting Program Fellow, Berkeley J-School
Lowell Bergman, Reva and David Logan Distinguished Professor of
Investigative Reporting, Berkeley J-School
Robert J. Rosenthal, Executive Director, The Center for Investigative
Reporting
Clara Jeffery or Monika Bauerlein, co-editors, Mother Jones magazine
(invited)
 
11:15PM-12:15PM: The iPad and its Progeny: Technology and Bay Area
Journalism
The Bay Area leads in developing new technology that profoundly changes the
way people get their news, reporters capture it, and producers display it.
In the age of multi-media story telling, what skills are required in
reporting the news and telling good stories? How does tablet technology and
multi-media content change reporting and narrative story telling? What is
the impact on magazines and newspapers? How are reporter¹s voices changing?
With increasing demand for immediate, hard-hitting opinion pieces, where is
the place for thoughtful narrative writing?
Moderator: TBD
  Panelists:
Damon Darlin, Technology Editor, The New York Times
Thomas Goetz, MPH Œ07, Executive Editor, Wired magazine
Todd Lappin,¹95, Media Product Strategist and Editor, CBS Interactive
Marcia Parker, West Coast Editorial Director, AOL¹s Patch.com
 
LUNCH 12:15 ­ 1:15 PM. Catered lunch and roundtable networking.
  Hosts:
David Gelles, Œ00, Reporter, The Financial Times
Jennifer Kahn, '00, J-School lecturer, feature writer and editor
Rachel Lehmann-Haupt, ¹97, freelance journalist, author and editor
Tim McGirk '74, former foreign bureau chief, Time magazine, just back from
Kabul
Speed Weed, screenwriter and executive story editor NCIS Los Angeles (CBS);
freelance science writer
 
Apple iPad Demo
 
1:30PM- 2:30PM: The Bay Area News Project: An Experiment in Situ
Moderator: Neil Henry, Dean, Berkeley J-School
  Panelists:
Lisa Frazier, CEO
Jonathan Webber, Editor- in-Chief 
The Bay Area News Project is a recently launched non-profit news
organization. Collaborating with the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism,
its mission is to foster civic engagement by providing original journalism
covering civic and community news in the Bay Area. The Project will also be
supplying news stories for the Bay Area sections of The New York Times and
creating opportunities for journalists to practice their craft in the Bay
Area.

2:45PM-3:30PM Retraining Opportunities for Reporters and Editors 
As technologies evolve, journalists must keep up and adapt to a changing job
market. Editors and reporters need to learn new skills and become adept at
using the technology (e.g. producing blogs, video, web sites, using
multi-media equipment and software). This panel will discuss the essential
new skills and the best ways of acquiring them.
Moderator: Kara Platoni, '99, J-School lecturer and editor, Oakland North,
freelance editor and science writer.
  Panelists:
Connie Hale, '90, author and former director of the Nieman Foundation
Program on Narrative Journalism at Harvard University
Carl Hall, Media Worker¹s Guild
Lanita Pace Hinton, Director, Knight Digital Media Center, J-School
(invited)
 
4:00 pm Reception
 
THIS EVENT IS  FREE TO ALL J-SCHOOL ALUMNI. PLEASE REGISTER BY EMAIL:
ucbj...@berkeley.edu
GUESTS: $25, payable at door, but please register to reserve a space.
[Checks payable to: UC Regents]
Please provide name, year of graduation (alumni), phone #, preferred email
address if different.
Thanks, and see you at the J-School on April 10.
We will be providing updates on program and speakers.