WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS & SPEAKER BIOS Exploring Ethics: What You Need to Know to Protect Your Reputation and Do Right by the Public In this interactive workshop, student journalists will gain the necessary tools to make critical decisions pertaining to media ethics. Stephanie Stassel Bluestein teaches journalism at California State University, Northridge, after having taught journalism for several years at Pierce and Moorpark colleges. A former Los Angeles Times reporter, she wrote her master’s degree thesis on journalism ethics. Bluestein is a JACC Alumna out of L.A. Valley College. WHEN TO SEE IT: Friday, March 23, 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. – Academy Four Getting Started in Photojournalism Jim McNay teaches and writes about photography and photojournalism while based in California’s Central Coast.McNay was the first Visual Journalism program director at Brooks Institute. For 12 years he was the coordinator of the photojournalism sequence in the San Jose State University School of Journalism. While he was a working photographer McNay was a staff photographer and assistant director of photography at the Houston Post newspaper. Previously he worked as a reporter and photographer for the Daily Iberian in New Iberia, Louisiana. McNay is a past president of the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA). The National Geographic Society photography department selected McNay for its first ever summer fellowship awarded to a college instructor. In addition, he is a former Peace Corps Volunteer with three years service in Sierra Leone, West Africa where he taught high school history and after-school classes in government. Since 1993 McNay has served on the Black Team (logistics team) at the Eddie Adams Workshop. He is also a frequent contributor to the Sports Shooter website. WHEN TO SEE IT: Friday, March 23, 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. – Academy Two Having an Opinion: Writing Amazing Editorials Nothing teaches a journalist how to draw the line between news and opinion quite like having to come up with an opinion on news events multiple times per week. In this session, Jon Healey of the Los Angeles Times editorial board will talk about the nuts and bolts of writing editorials and other fare for the opinion section. He’ll also discuss how opinions creep into news stories, and why reporters don’t see the bias that the public does. Jon Healey is an opinion writer. He is a member of the editorial board at the Los Angeles Times, which means he is one of a nameless, faceless group writing screeds that, technically speaking, reflect the views of the publisher (whoever that happens to be at the time). His main contributions to the editorial page are pieces about intellectual property, technology, the economy, regulation and general business issues. He also created the Bit Player blog in 2006 as a way to write more about the collision of entertainment and technology. Prior to joining the board, he spent five years as a business reporter at the Times covering the entertainment-technology convergence. As a result, he spent the bulk of his time writing about lawsuits. Other career stops include stints at the San Jose Mercury News, Congressional Quarterly and the Winston-Salem Journal. WHEN TO SEE IT: Friday, March 23, 2 to 3:15 p.m. – Academy Four Getting Hired: Steps Interns and New Reporters Should Take to Get, and Keep, the Job Davis Barber has interviewed more than 50 students and reporters during the past two years and hired four. He will go over the strengths of those he’s hired, and why others were passed over. He’ll also present ten simple steps to ensure you get the job, and then keep it after you start. Davis Barber is the publisher of FullertonStories.com, the only daily and online newspaper serving Fullerton, CA. The publication has led the city through the tragic story of Kelly Thomas without the embellishments and hearsay widely reported by other media outlets, cementing it’s place as the journal of record in the city of 135,000 people. Previously Mr. Barber was a photo editor and photographer at The Daily Breeze in Torrance, California, an editor at Gannett Rochester Newspapers in New York, and a freelance contributor to editorial clients worldwide. He also teaches in the Communications Department at California State University, Fullerton. WHEN TO SEE IT: Saturday, March 24, 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. — Academy Four
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