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Penn State Institute for New Editors
June 27 - July 1, 1999
The Nittany Lion Inn
State College, Pennsylvania
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Introduction
The Penn State Institute for New Editors is designed to ease the
transition for journalists who are newly appointed to jobs in which they
work full time supervising the work of other journalists. Discussion
leaders, drawn from Penn State¹s faculty and from the industry, will
provide training in leadership and management topics as well as in current
journalism issues. The instruction and practical exercises should help
these new editors to develop skills they have never had to use
before‹managing the work of others and becoming mentors and coaches.
Tentative Agenda
These are among the topics to be discussed:
Taking responsibility for other people¹s work.
Providing leadership and building newsroom morale.
Coaching, counseling, and mentoring.
Setting and measuring goals for individuals.
Making sound, thoughtful decisions.
Making administration work for you instead of against you.
Turning ideas into great stories.
Planning the visual presentation of stories.
Taking care to be fair in news coverage.
Dealing with libel and privacy issues in coverage.
Benefits for participants in this institute:
Instruction and advice from experienced managers and journalists.
A personal action plan to take home and put these new ideas to work.
An opportunity to network with journalists who do similar jobs.
Institute Director
Gene Foreman (B.A.) joined the faculty of the College of Communications at
Penn State in the fall semester of 1998. As the college¹s Distinguished
Professional in Residence, he teaches undergraduate courses in editing,
newsroom management, and media ethics.
Foreman retired from the Philadelphia Inquirer in July 1998 after more
than twenty-five years of managing the paper¹s newsroom operations. In his
forty-one-year newspaper career, he served as the managing editor of three
newspapers: the Pine Bluff Commercial (Ark.), the Arkansas Democrat, and
the Inquirer.
He was president of the Associated Press Managing Editors in 1990 and was
on the board of the American Society of Newspaper Editors from 1995 to
1998.
He is a graduate of Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, which honored
him in 1990 as a Distinguished Alumnus.
Featured Speakers
Carl Sessions Stepp (B.A., M.A.) is associate professor of journalism at
the University of
Maryland, where he has taught since 1983. He is senior editor of American
Journalism Review. He is author of Editing for Today's Newsroom and the
forthcoming Writing as Craft and Magic.
Stepp has served as visiting writing and editing coach at some three dozen
newspapers,
including the Charlotte Observer, Indianapolis Star, Norfolk
Virginian-Pilot, Portland Oregonian, Providence Journal, Tampa Tribune,
Toronto Globe & Mail, USA Today, and Washington Post. He frequently
conducts writing and editing clinics for the American Press Institute, the
Poynter Institute for Media Studies, and other organizations.
He was a reporter and editor for twelve years with the St. Petersburg
Times, Charlotte Observer, and USA Today.
John McKissick (B.A., M.A.) is a faculty member of Management Development
Programs and Services at Penn State. Drawing on his twenty years of
management and consulting experience, McKissick provides organization and
management development interventions for a wide variety of industrial,
service, educational, and governmental organizations. A sampling of recent
clients includes AT&T, Airborne Express, General Motors, Hershey
Chocolates, and U.S. Steel.
In addition to being on the Management Development faculty, John works for
the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He has also done extensive consulting with
the Calkins program, located in the Pittsburgh area. McKissick received
his Bachelor of Arts in history from Dartmouth College and Master of Arts
in Middle East Area studies from the School of Oriental and African
Studies, University of London.
For More Information
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Gene Foreman
The Pennsylvania State University
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University Park PA 16802-5101
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E-mail: gc...@psu.edu
About registration
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The Pennsylvania State University
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