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Thursday, June 07
1 pm
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5 pm
The economy is still the biggest story going, and this workshop will equip you with the story ideas and skills you need to tackle economic stories on any beat. Economic inequality, the foreclosure crisis and joblessness all have social justice themes that resonate with the alt-media audience and lend themselves to long-form stories. Yet, alt-media journalists sometimes shy away from stories with economic angles. Get armed with the tools and understanding you need to tackle economic stories, including those on the labor and housing markets.
Presented by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism.
Speakers:
Marilyn Geewax, NPR and Josh Harkinson, Mother Jones
Marilyn Geewax is NPR's national economics correspondent and an editor of business news for the National Desk. In addition to assigning and editing business stories that are posted on NPR.org, Marilyn is regularly heard discussing economic issues on Tell Me More and Talk of the Nation and Weekend Edition. Her work contributed to NPR's 2011 Edward R. Murrow Award for Hard News for "The Foreclosure Nightmare." Marilyn worked with NPR reporter Chris Arnold on the foreclosure crisis was recognized with a 2009 Heywood Broun Award. Before to coming to NPR 2008, Marilyn was the national economics correspondent for Cox Newspapers' Washington Bureau for nearly a decade. Marilyn served for the Cox flagship paper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, first as a business reporter and then as a columnist and editorial board member. She got her start as a reported for the Akron Beacon Journal. In 2010, she went to China with a group of journalists to study the economy. From 2001 to 2006, Marilyn taught a business journalism class as an adjunct professor at George Washington University. She was a 1995 Nieman Fellow and studied economics and international relations at Harvard. Marilyn earned a master's degree at Georgetown University, focusing on international economic affairs. She earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from The Ohio State University.
Josh Harkinson is a reporter with
1 pm
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4 pm
This look at trends in social media will provide info on best practices across all digital media, how to use different platforms and how all of that helps the weekly product. We'll also include a few tricks and hints, look at good times to post, discuss management of accounts and much more.
Speaker:
Kelly Ferguson, Arkansas Times
Kelly Ferguson is the social and digital media director at The Arkansas Times. Her department currently manages the social media accounts of the newspaper and its affiliated publications. Kelly has a bachelor’s degree in Journalism with minors in both Speech Communication and Theatre Arts from Texas A&M University. She has worked as a reporter and as an editor for more than 15 years in daily newspapers. In 2008, she took on the role of web content coordinator in the marketing department at Tyler Junior College in Tyler, Texas, and created the school’s first social media campaigns. In January 2011, The Arkansas Times recruited Kelly via Twitter to come to Little Rock and build the department there.
Friday, June 08
9 am
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10:15 am
Matt Thompson will deliver a lively talk: Why the alternative press was invented for the Internet - Alternative Newsweeklies pioneered a voice and style that's come to reflect the best of digital culture - irreverent, authentic and passionate. Now, in the age of Wikileaks, what can the alts learn from the Awl, while retaining their mission and brand.
Then, get inspired by local activist Grace Lee Boggs. "Most Americans have a very short-range idea of history," Boggs said recently. The long-range perspective that Boggs brings is that of an activist-philosopher, who steps back to see mass production as a 100-year-old enterprise, capitalism as a few hundred years old, and a city like Detroit in the context of evolution. A one-time associate of Marxist philosopher C.L.R. James, a Detroiter for more than half a century, Boggs' books "Living for Change: An Autobiography" and more recently "The Next American Revolution" have energized activists to think about our cities in fresh ways, to ask how we "rebuild, redefine, and respirit them as models of twenty-first century, self-reliant and sustainable multicultural communities."
Speakers:
Matt Thompson, NPR and Grace Lee Boggs
Matt Thompson is an editorial product manager at NPR, where he's helping to coordinate the development of 12 niche, local websites in conjunction with NPR member stations. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the Poynter Institute, having completed a four-year term on the organization's National Advisory Board in 2010. He currently serves on the board of the Center for Public Integrity. Before coming to NPR, Matt served as an interim online community manager for the Knight Foundation. From 2008 to 2009, he was a Donald W. Reynolds Fellow at the Reynolds Journalism Institute; his explorations in building context into news websites have been widely cited in discussions about online journalism's future. He came to RJI from his position as deputy web editor for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, where he led the creation of the Edgie-award-winning, socially networked arts-and-entertainment website vita.mn, as well as managing other technology and interactivity-related projects for StarTribune.com. Matt moved to the Star Tribune after serving as the first online reporter/producer for the Fresno Bee, winning first- and third-place Best of the West awards in 2004 for his multimedia projects. At the Bee, he led an internal advisory committee exploring the paper's strategies for acquiring new audiences. He worked at the Poynter Institute from 2003-04 as the Naughton Fellow for Online Reporting and Writing. While at Poynter, he and his colleague Robin Sloan produced the Flash movie EPIC 2014, a picture of the media past set 10 years in the future, which was written up in the New York Times, Financial Times, USA Today, the Guardian, on MSNBC, and elsewhere. Matt graduated with honors in English from Harvard College in 2002, after writing his senior thesis on the television show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Outside of work, he blogs at Snarkmarket.com, has completed one Twin Cities Marathon, and is itching to get ready for another.
10:30 am
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11:15 am
Over the last year, AAN's Diversity Committee has been hard at work on two things this session will cover: the AAN Diversity Best-Practices Document, and the groundbreaking diversity/demographics survey of AAN members. This open discussion will tackle the survey's findings: What do they mean, and where should AAN and its members go from here regarding diversity efforts?
Moderator:
Jimmy Boegle, Coachella Valley Independent
Jimmy Boegle is the founding editor and publisher of the
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12:30 pm
The red state/blue state divide is not only simplistic, it's misleading. So says Dante Chinni of Patchwork Nation, a project that aims to tease out truth from America's crazy quilt of geographic and demographic diversity without hiding from its complexity. A journalist and author with two decades of experience, Chinni will explain how the true building blocks of this nation are communities, and how their unique perspectives on the economy and politics will play into the 2012 elections. Then, he will lead a discussion on how to use this information to do smart and innovative political stories in your community.
Speakers:
Dante Chinni, Patchwork Nation and Jeff Larson, ProPublica
Dante Chinni has been a journalist for some two decades now with stints at Newsweek, the Christian Science Monitor and the Project for Excellence in Journalism. He has also lived the freelance life with pieces appearing in outlets ranging from the Washington Post Magazine to The Economist to The New Republic. Although a card-carrying member of the East Coast Media Industrial Complex (bouncing between DC and New York), Dante’s roots are still firmly planted in the Industrial Midwest. He grew up outside Detroit and went to college at Michigan State University, where he studied journalism and history. Dante's work now centers on exploring the country through the lens of the 12 community types of 
Jeff Larson was the online director at The Nation where he coordinated the magazine's editorial and business activities on the web during the 2009 political season. Previously, he worked at W.W. Norton and as a film and video editor at an Emmy award-winning production company.
1:45 pm
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2:45 pm
Join the Sunlight Foundation's Bill Allison and Joshua Hatch to learn the ins and outs of government and election transparency and accountability. The session will cover everything from lobbying to super PACs, including where to find the latest data and what you can do with it.
Speakers:
Bill Allison, Sunlight Foundation and Joshua Hatch, Sunlight Live
Bill Allison is the editorial director at the 
Joshua Hatch is the online content manager of
2:15 pm
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2:45 pm
Information is the key to building political stability, stimulating economic growth, and supporting healthy societies. Empowering local media -- both citizen and professional, in television, radio, online print and mobile -- ensures that locally-relevant news and information reaches individuals and helps them make informed decisions for their families and their communities. For issues ranging from governance to environmental policy to health and education, media acts as a catalyst to help communities create and share the information they need to build better futures. Join Jeri Curry, SVP of global communications and private development at Internews, for a discussion on the importance of local media in developing countries around the world and an emphasis on engaging communities.
Speaker:
Jeri Curry, Internews
Moderator:
Hanaa Rifaey, Press Forward
Hanaa Rifaey is the founder of Press Forward, a boutique consulting shop specializing in nonprofit management, strategic planning, fundraising, and marketing. Previously, Hanaa served as the President and Publisher of The American Independent News Network. She has managed campaigns and programs in a variety of issue areas including civil rights, health care, and climate change. Hanaa received her undergraduate degree from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash., and her master's degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She lives in D.C. with her husband and their dog, two cats, and tiny human.
3:15 pm
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4 pm
Wayne Kramer, noted guitarist, songwriter and film and television composer will speak about the city of Detroit, music and community activism.
Speaker:
Wayne Kramer
Wayne Kramer is a songwriter whose reputation writing music for film and television now risks supplanting his legend as one of the world’s stellar guitarists. Rolling Stone lists him as one of the top 100 guitarists of all time.
4 pm
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5:30 pm
We'll recognize and honor the winners of the AltWeekly Awards and their work at an afternoon reception. Toast the winners and runners-up with an adult beverage -- and enjoy a light bite as well.
Open to all, but advance registration and separate fee of $10 gets you two drink tickets.
Saturday, June 09
10:15 am
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11 am
TED speaker and researcher at Harvard's Berkman Center Ethan Zuckerman will present innovative quantitative data on understanding media ecosystems, including how digital and analog are working together, questions of inclusion and exclusion in media dialog and ways to think about attention and influence.
Speaker:
Ethan Zuckerman, Center for Civic Media at MIT
Ethan Zuckerman is director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, and a principal research scientist at MIT's Media Lab. His research focuses on the distribution of attention in mainstream and new media, the use of technology for international development, and the use of new media technologies by activists.With Rebecca MacKinnon, Ethan co-founded international blogging community Global Voices. Global Voices showcases news and opinions from citizen media in over 150 nations and thirty languages, publishing editions in twenty languages. Through Global Voices and through the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, where he served as a researcher and fellow for eight years, Ethan is active in efforts to promote freedom of expression and fight censorship in online spaces. In 2000, Ethan founded Geekcorps, a technology volunteer corps that sends IT specialists to work on projects in developing nations, with a focus on West Africa. Previously Ethan helped found Tripod.com, one of the web's first "personal publishing" sites. He blogs at http://ethanzuckerman.com/blog and lives in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts, with his wife, son and a small, fluffy cat.
11:15 am
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12:15 pm
Comics journalism is inherently stylish, uniquely suited to sharing via social media, and popular as hell. During this panel, we'll share findings gleaned from editors, journalists and artists who have stretched the limits of comics to tell complicated stories in a variety of formats, and how they might fit in your newsroom.
Moderator:
Hanaa Rifaey, Press Forward
Panelists:
Darryl Holliday, McCormick Foundation and Erik Nelson Rodriguez, The Illustrated Press
Darryl Holliday has written for the Chicago Sun-Times, GapersBlock, The Columbia Chronicle and currently works with the McCormick Foundation's journalism program. He's also writer/reporter of The Illustrated Press: Chicago, an upcoming collection of comics journalism short stories with illustrator Erik Nelson Rodriguez. In addition to his work with comics journalism, Darryl is interested in data journalism, including the use of GIS to illustrate stories, and the use of new media tools to broaden the reach of community reporting. Both Darryl and fellow panelist Erik Nelson Rodriguez can be found on 
Erik Nelson Rodriguez is a graphic designer for The Columbia Chronicle and has directed the art in various city publications, including R_Wurd, a youth-journalism magazine based out of Columbia College Chicago. Erik has been drawing, literally, longer than he can remember. He's currently the illustrator for the The Illustrated Press: Chicago, an upcoming comics journalism book, with reporter Darryl Holliday. Both Darryl and Erik can be found on
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1:45 pm
2 pm
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3:15 pm
Newsroom staffing levels, freelance pay rates, page counts -- this session is about the nitty gritty. In advance of this third-annual editors-only session, AAN editors will have had the opportunity to fill out a survey that addresses various benchmarks, as well as queries about how they deploy their resources. The survey will ultimately be collated and available in the AAN resource library as an editorial standards document. The session will consist of a lively free-wheeling discussion about how editors are using their budgets and staffs with the goal of generating new ideas and inspiration.
Moderator:
Rachael Daigle, Boise Weekly
Join esteemed author and Detroit-native Thomas Sugrue as he discusses
his latest research on American politics, urban history, civil rights,
and race.
Speaker:
Thomas Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania
Thomas Sugrue -- A native of Detroit, Thomas J. Sugrue is David Boies Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches courses on race, civil rights, American cities, and twentieth-century American politics. His many books include "The Origins of the Urban Crisis," which won the prestigious Bancroft Prize in American History and several other awards; "Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North," which was a finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Award; and "Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race." His essays, op-eds, and reviews have appeared in The Nation, London Review of Books, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal; and in the Motor City’s Metro Times and Detroit Free Press. Sugrue is an award-winning teacher who has given hundreds of lectures worldwide.
3:30 pm
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5 pm
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