Houston conference schedule
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This is a schedule for the Houston conference, March
18-20, giving times and titles of sessions with their presenters. Some titles
are merely descriptive and will be replaced with formal titles of sessions.
Some adjustments may yet be made to accommodate the presenters’
circumstances, and a few additional sessions may be announced. A new feature this year is a sequence of four Friday
workshops labeled a “core curriculum” that focuses on the fundamentals of
editing. (Updated 3/4/04) |
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Thursday,
March 18 |
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9:30-11:00 a.m. |
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The Future Doesn’t Need Us: Weblogs and the End of Editing as We’ve Known It |
Tom Mangan, San Jose Mercury News |
How to Win |
Alex Cruden, Detroit Free Press Missy Prebula, Baltimore Sun |
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Headlines as Poetry |
Chris Wienandt, Dallas Morning News |
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Words Thou Shalt Not Print – Maybe |
Leslie-Jean Thornton, State University of New York, New
Paltz |
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Beyond the Daily Realm |
Victoria Forlini, Meredith Corp. |
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11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m. |
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Stock Language: Making the News Sound Like Olds |
John Rains, Fayetteville Observer |
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The Second Time Around: Polishing Headlines |
Joel Pisetzner, Newark Star-Ledger |
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Woman Shot in Lingerie Department: Hazards of Editing on
the Internet |
Scott Clark, HoustonChronicle.com Jeff Davis, DallasNews.com Shane Fitzgerald, Corpus Christi Caller-Times Jennifer Montgomery, HoustonChronicle.com |
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You Don’t Say! |
Hank Glamann, Glamann Consulting |
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Beyond the Copy Desk: Career Options |
Susan Bischoff, Houston Chronicle Brett Thacker, San Antonio Express-News Fred Zipp, Austin American-Statesman |
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Ethics in the Newsroom: How to Keep Your Newspaper, and
Yourself, Pure |
Douglas Backstrom, Miami Herald Teresa Schmedding, Daily Herald |
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2:15-3:15 p.m. |
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Opening plenary session |
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3:30-5:00 p.m. |
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Getting Back to the
Word |
John McIntyre,
Baltimore Sun |
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Evaluate With CPR: The
Chiefing Performance Review |
Mike Marino, Florida
Times-Union |
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The Rhythm Room |
Bill Chronister, St.
Petersburg Times |
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Editing: It’s Not Just Comma Sense |
Merrill Perlman, New York Times News Service |
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Firearms Errors Shoot Holes in Your Newspaper’s
Credibility |
John Rains, Fayetteville Observer |
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6:30-9:30 p.m. |
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Opening reception |
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Friday,
March 19 |
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9:30-11:00 a.m. |
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CORE
CURRICULUM: Secrets of Good Editing |
Paula LaRocque, Dallas
Morning News |
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Online Editing: Tips
and Theories |
Joe Marren, Buffalo
State College |
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10 Things I Wish I’d
Known About Copy Editing |
Ron Smith, Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel Teresa Schmedding,
Daily Herald |
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Editing Business Copy |
Henry Fuhrmann, Los Angeles Times Christine Glancey,
Wall Street Journal |
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What Jerk Wrote This? |
Frank Fee, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (moderator) |
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11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m. |
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CORE CURRICULUM: Make
the Cut: Improving Photo Captions |
Bob Howard and Lynn Orr, Atlanta
Journal-Constitution |
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Faces of Color, Voices
of Change |
Vada Crosby, Hartford
Courant |
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Ethics and Standards |
John Carroll, Los Angeles Times Allan Siegal, New York Times |
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From Courtside to
Courtroom: Crime in Sports |
Charles Crixell and Zoe
Friloux, Houston Chronicle |
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Mayhem Between the Quote Marks |
Bill Montgomery, Houston Chronicle |
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2:15-3:45 p.m. |
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CORE CURRICULUM: Editing Graphics |
Bill Cloud, University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
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Morale: Who Needs
It? |
Melissa McCoy, Los Angles Times Arlene Schneider, New
York Times |
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Bias and Accuracy (double session) |
Gregory Favre and Rosalie Stemer,
Committee of Concerned Journalists |
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Copy Chiefs’ Forum |
Paula Devlin, New
Orleans Times-Picayune (moderator) |
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You’ve Got a Job, Now Get a Life |
Scott Toole, Express-Times Henry Fuhrmann, Los Angeles Times Kathy Schenck, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Jana Zabkova, Wall Street Journal |
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What Reporters Need From Copy Editors |
Neil Holdway, Daily Herald (moderator) Paul Clark, Cincinnati Enquirer David Ellison, Houston Chronicle Laura Goldberg, Houston Chronicle Janette Rodrigues, Houston Chronicle |
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4:00-5:30 p.m. |
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CORE CURRICULUM: Hank on Heads |
Hank Glamann, Glamann
Consulting |
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“Jimmy’s World” |
William G. Connolly, New York Times,
retired |
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Reference Books’
Best-Kept Secrets |
Barbara Wallraff, Copy
Editor magazine |
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Bias and Accuracy (second half of
double session) |
Gregory Favre and Rosalie Stemer,
Committee of Concerned Journalists |
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You Need to Know This |
Deborah Gump, Ohio University (moderator) Janice Castro, Northwestern University Susan Keith, Arizona State University |
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6:30-10:00 p.m. |
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Banquet and keynote
address |
Fernando Dovalina,
keynote speaker |
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Saturday, March
20 |
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9:30-11:00 a.m. |
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Is That a Fact? Fact
Checking for Copy Editors |
Jim Sweeney, Government
Computer News |
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Skeptical Editing |
Kathy Schenck,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
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Seeing the Forest
Through the Trees |
John McIntyre,
Baltimore Sun |
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From Buddy to Boss:
Supervising Your Friends |
Douglas Backstrom,
Miami Herald Teresa Schmedding,
Daily Herald |
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To Write the Impossible Headline |
David Sullivan, Philadelphia Inquirer Jack Mulkey, Daily Breeze |
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Running Out of Gas |
Paul Davis, FACS (moderator) |
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11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m. |
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Inside Nonreaders’
Heads |
Alex Cruden, Detroit Free Press (moderator) with a panel of local
readers |
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“Jimmy’s
World” (repeated from Friday) |
William G. Connolly,
New York Times, retired |
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Rules That Aren’t Rules |
Bill Walsh, Washington Post |
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Rim Editors’ Forum |
Melissa Murdza, Stars and Stripes Tim Yagle, Marin Independent Journal |
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The Inside Story on Design |
Bill Sheehan, Los Angeles Times |
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When the Lights Go Out |
Paul Davis, FACS (moderator) |
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2:15-3:45 p.m. |
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What Chaps Readers’
Buns |
Yvette Walker, Kansas
City Star |
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Zing on Demand:
Creativity in Headlines |
Brian Throckmorton,
Lexington Herald-Leader |
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The Leadership
Challenge |
Anne Glover, St. Petersburg Times |
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OK, Listen Up. This Is Simple |
Phillip Blanchard, Washington Post |
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Wire We Here: A Philosophy of Wire
Editing |
Beryl Adcock, Knight Ridder Kate Carlisle, Los Angeles
Times-Washington Post News Service Linda Franklin, Associated Press Sara Hendricks, Victoria Advocate Pat Ryan, New York Times News Service |
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What You Should Know When Starting
Out |
Zharmer Hardimon, Lana Khawaja and
Jennifer Morehead, Houston Chronicle |
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4:00-5:30 p.m. |
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Newsroom Theater |
Joe Grimm, Detroit Free Press |
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Breaking In a New Boss |
Eric Grode, TV Guide Patrick Regan, Daily Herald Robin Thrana, Charlotte Observer |
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The
Past and Future of Editing |
John Russial,
University of Oregon Chris Wienandt, Dallas Morning News |
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What to Do When Stories Fall Short |
Warren Watson, API |
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5:30-6:00 p.m. |
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Closing plenary
session |
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6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. |
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Dinner and social event
at Treebeard’s restaurant at Market Square |
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