Workshops

UNITY '08 Workshop Sessions

Workshops are grouped by focus area, these include:

Audience, Digital, How To, Managing Your Career, Making News, Newsgathering/Storytelling, Spanish Language, and Alliance Partner Workshops.

Audience

More than ever, our newsrooms want to appeal to an audience that is changing at a fast pace. These workshops will help journalists gain a deeper understanding of new faces and new issues. 

•           Changing Faces: Representing Minorities in the Media

•           Citizen Media: Entrepreneurial Ventures Plug Gaps in Local News

•           Coalition or Demolition? The Impact of Immigration on Black-Latino Relations

•           Cultural Competency: Turning Theory into Action

•           Does the Color of Your Skin Matter: The Challenge of Race in the Locker Room

•           All the gays are white, all the people of color are straight, but some of us are brave: Lesbian, Gay Bisexual and Transgender People of Color

•           Presumption of Guilt: The Treatment and Coverage of Muslims in America

•           The Changing Face in Editorial Cartoons

•           The Journalist as Activist: Is Independence Still Valued

•           These Kids Today: Covering Teens, Young Adults, and the Whole Podcast Generation

•           Lighting the Way: How to Retire the “Dark Continent” Myth of Africa

Career Resource Center

Career expo workshops will provide journalists and students plenty of information. Then, attendees can get advice on career paths as well as professional counsel.

•           Who Moved My Pen?  How Getting Organized Helps You Get the Story, presented by Peggy Duncan, a personal productivity expert, speaker, trainer, consultant, coach, and author

•           Ask the Recruiter - Live!

•           Beat Up, Burned Out, But You Don't Have to Get Out ...

•           Best. Conference. Ever.

Digital

Quality matters online and multimedia has become more than just a concept. These sessions will provide journalists of color the tools they need to stay ahead and learn how to join the best of the traditional forms of media with the emerging forms of digital.

•           A Day in the Life of a Multimedia Journalist, sponsored by Time Inc.

•           Bloggers of Color: The Top Five Reasons Why the Blogosphere is NOT Diverse and What You Can Do About It!

•           Data: The New Way to Grab More Readers, sponsored by Gannett Co., Inc.

•           Dialogue vs. Diatribe: Fostering Civil Conversation in the Digital World

•           It's a Blog, Blog, Blog World, sponsored by Time Inc.

•           Monetizing Your Website, sponsored by Gannett Co., Inc.

•           Multimedia Storytelling on the Cheap Writing for Different Platforms, sponsored by Gannett Co., Inc.

Daylong

In-depth training and discussions on both coverage topics and skills for a dynamic time.  Please note these workshops will require pre-registration.  Pre-registration will be available later on the UNITY '08 website.

•           A Harmonic Convergence

•           Better Watchdog Workshop: Investigating Communities and Diversity

•           Final Cut Pro Hands-On Workshop

•           Immigration In Depth: The Next Big Stories

•           Increasing Diversity in Environmental Journalism, sponsored by Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A. 

•           Intermediate Flash

•           Introduction to Computer Assisted Reporting

•           Introduction to Flash

•           Leadership Institute, sponsored by Time Inc.

•           Multimedia Storytelling Workshop

•           Mini-Leadership Development Institute, presented by NAMME

•           Poynter TV News Bootcamp

•           Taking Charge of YOU!, sponsored by NBC Universal

•           Video Training for Newspapers - A Workshop, sponsored by Gannett Co., Inc.

How To

Back by popular demand! Take a hands-on approach to improving stories or skills training in broadcast and video journalism.

•           "I HATE MY VOICE!!" How to Improve One of Your Most Important Communication Tools

•           How Can You Improve a Story?  Just Ask the Editors

•           How to Deliver Compelling Live Shots

•           From Watchdog to Lapdog?  Protecting Investigative Reporting In The New Economy 

•           Solid Sound: Getting the Highest Quality Audio

•           Rip and Read or Break the Mold?  Innovative Writing for Radio News

Managing Your Career

Think about your career and prepare for a broad range of opportunities, no matter your experience level.

•           Ahead of the Curve: Negotiating Your Broadcast Personal Services Contract

•           Finding Stories and Jobs in a Web 2.0 World

•           Help Wanted: This Side of the Newsroom Too

•           How to Become a Foreign Correspondent

•           Mainstream Magazines and Journalists of Color

•           Making the Most Out of the Internship Process

•           Power and Office Politics: Ron Brown Talks Shop

•           Recruiting High School Journalists into College

•           Journalism Programs

•           Retention Through Reinvention, presented by UNITY

•           Students Meeting: Open Forum

•           The Path to the Publishers' Office

•           The Successful Freelancer

•           The Trade Press and Other Alternatives to Mainstream Media: How to Land on Your Feet in Today's Challenging Environment

Making News

Examine the critical issues in our diverse communities and participate in frank discussions centered on race and identity.

•           Incarceration Nation: Covering America’s Prison-Industrial Complex

•           Covering Climate Change: Why Non-White Communities Could Be Hit the Hardest 

•           Confronting Health Disparities in the Multicultural Community

•           Beyond the Fence: Covering Immigration Globally and Locally

•           Gays, Guns and God: The Presidential Race's Toughest Topics

•           Is Media Consolidation Marginalizing Minority Journalists?

•           Patriotism, Pandering and That Preacher Man: Minority Journalists and the Unpredictable, Unprecedented Presidential Campaign 

•           Charting Transformation: An Industry Blueprint for Change 

•           Unconscious Bias Theory and Its Impact on Race Coverage

•           What Is Race?

Newsgathering/Storytelling

Take time to explore the art and craft of storytelling.

•           Built In Diversity: Beyond the Black and White Rolodex

•           Cops and Court Reporting ABCs

•           Copy Editing: Make Your Headlines and Copy Sing

•           Covering Politics: From Watchdog to the Web

•           Get In and Get It Done

•           Gossip Reporting: Tricks of the Trade

•           IMHO: The Wondrous Art of Column Writing

•           International Reporting: Dangers and Challenges of Getting the Truth Told

•           Let's Do It Better! Covering Education to Make a Difference

•           Reporters of Color Covering Multi Ethnic Communities and Being a Journalist of Color

•           Starting Out in Business Journalism

•           Telling Stories: How to Write a Narrative

•           Tragedy, Grief and the Media

•           Writing and Creating Content for the Web

•           Writing Fast, Writing Well, Right on Time: Writing for Broadcast on Deadline

•           Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer

Spanish-Language Workshops

•           Broadcast - Tough Ethical Calls

•           90 Minute Session - TBA

•           Half Day Session - TBA

Panel Breakfasts and Lunches

Covering a variety of topics, these sessions will provide a continental breakfast, light fare or box lunch for you to enjoy while you learn.  All of the sessions below will require pre-registration, which will be available later on the UNITY '08 website.

•           Activism and Blogging Panel Breakfast, sponsored by General Motors

•           The Buying Power of People of Color Panel Breakfast, sponsored by The Coca-Cola Company

•           How to Get a Media Grant, sponsored by The Ford Foundation

•           The Diabetes Explosion: A Call to Action for Journalists of Color, sponsored by Novo Nordisk

•           Lunch workshop, sponsored by ABC, Inc.

Alliance Partner Workshops

AAJA

•           China Coverage - News Without Fear or Favor

•           How to Cover Arab Americans

•           Following the Money: The Issues in Covering India's and China's Economies

•           Survivors' Guide to Newsroom Politics

NABJ

•           From Employee to Employer: A Guide to Broadcast Ownership

•           I Am My Own Boss

•           Lessons of Jena Six

•           What Happens Now that the Pipeline is Shut Off?  Diversity in Tumultuous Times

NAHJ    

NAJA

•           A Journalist in a Political World

•           Power of the Word.  Revitalization of Native Languages

•           Reaching an Offline Audience in an Online World

•           Sovereignty and Citizenship