Links to handouts, blog stories
and other resources for sessions
at the Cleveland conference

A note regarding handouts: The presenters have graciously provided these handouts for you to read and, if you wish, to distribute in your newsroom or classroom. However, please give credit where credit is due.

If you were a 2006 ACES conference presenter or blogger and have a handout, story or other material related to a conference session that you'd like to see posted here, please contact Jeff Pierron (jpierron@ee.net). Thanks.


SESSIONS


AMERICA'S NEXT TOP COPY EDITOR
Jackie Jones (Jones Consulting), Ron Smith (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) and Doris Truong (Washington Post)

-- session handout
-- session story on Nicole Stockdale's blog

BEYOND HEADLINES
Lisa McLendon (Wichita Eagle)

-- session handout


BLOGGING FOR EDITORS

Douglas Fisher (University of South Carolina) and Nicole Stockdale (Dallas Morning News)

-- session handout
-- Douglas Fisher's "Common Sense Journalism" blog
-- Nicole Stockdale's "A Capital Idea" blog


THE BUSINESS OF NEWSPAPERS

Lauren Rich Fine (Merrill Lynch media analyst)

-- session story on Doug Fisher's blog


CAREER OPTIONS
Eric Hamilton (Farm and Dairy in Salem, Ohio), Clare Noonan (Modesto, Calif., Bee), Missy Prebula (New York Times) and Christine Steele (The Capital Group Cos. in Los Angeles)

-- session handout


DO YOU REALLY WANT TO BE THE BOSS?
Marline Bagley (New York Times), William G. Connolly (New York Times, retired), Sara Hendricks (Victoria, Texas, Advocate) and Scott Toole (Easton, Pa., Express-Times)

-- session handout


EDITING ALTERNATIVE STORY FORMS
Andy Bechtel (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

-- session handout
-- session PowerPoint (11MB)

FIRST-AND-10: BUILDING A WINNING GAME PLAN FOR SPORTS COVERAGE
Craig Lancaster (San Jose Mercury News)

-- session handout on breaking into management


HOW TO HIRE EDITORS
Susan Blair (TIME magazine, retired), William G. Connolly (New York Times, retired), Joe Grimm (Detroit Free Press) and Walter T. Middlebrook (Newsday)

-- session handout


HOW TO SURF LIKE A DUCK (INTERNET RESOURCES FOR JOURNALISTS)

Peter Zicari (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

-- session handout with resource links (html)
-- session handout with resource links (pdf)


IF YOU BUILD IT, YOU WILL BE ETHICAL (MAYBE)
Joe Marren (Buffalo State College)

-- session handout


INSIDE DICTIONARIES
Erin McKean (New Oxford American Dictionary) and Wendalyn Nichols (Copy Editor newsletter)

-- session story on Nicole Stockdale's blog


LESSONS FROM THE CITY DESK
Alex Cruden (Detroit Free Press)

-- session story on Nicole Stockdale's blog


MORALE: WHO NEEDS IT?
Arlene Schneider (New York Times) and Lew Serviss (New York Times)

-- session story on Nicole Stockdale's blog


OK, LISTEN UP, THIS IS SIMPLE (PRINCIPLES OF COPY EDITING)
Phillip Blanchard (Washington Post), J.A. Montalbano (Albuquerque Tribune) and Mary Ellen Slayter (Washington Post)

-- Phillip Blanchard's Testy Copy Editors forum
--
session handout


RELIGION IN THE NEWS
David Briggs (Cleveland Plain Dealer), Sister Mary Ann Flannery (John Carroll University) and Mary Gladstone (ReligionLink)

-- information about the Religion Newswriters Association's $5,000 scholarships for full-time journalists

SMALL PAPERS TRACK
Three sessions on Thursday, April 20

-- link to Gerri Berendzen's story on the ACES conference blog
-- session handout for "Training for Smaller Staffs"


SURVIVING AND THRIVING IN THE SLOT

Deirdre Edgar (Los Angeles Times) and Jeff Pierron (Columbus Dispatch)

-- session handout


TAKING IT BACK (TRAIN YOUR STAFF)

John Boogert (Rocky Mountain News) and Zoe Cabaniss Friloux (Rocky Mountain News)

-- session handout (1 of 2)
--
session handout (2 of 2)


WINNERS TELL ALL (HEADLINE WRITING TIPS)

Moderator Zoe Cabaniss Friloux (Rocky Mountain News) and panelists Judy Cramer (Los Angeles Times), Melissa Murdza (Stars and Stripes) and Jeff Verbus (Canton Repository)

-- session handout


WOMEN IN MANAGEMENT
Anne Ferguson-Rohrer (Washington Post), Leslie Guevarra (San Francisco Chronicle), Melissa McCoy (Los Angeles Times) and Teresa Schmedding (Daily Herald, suburban Chicago)

-- API's survey on women in newsroom management

RETURN TO THE MAIN CONFERENCE PAGE