NPPA Business Blitz pre-conference workshop on freelancing at SND STL is open for registration now!
The National Press Photographer Association is partnering with SND STL and offering a pre-conference “Business Blitz” workshop on freelancing at the Renaissance Grand Hotel on Thursday, Sept. 29 in Ballroom D. It’ll be a ‘Ballroom Blitz‘ you could say. 
John Harrington and Craig Mitcheldryer are currently signed on as speakers with many more TBA. Registration is only $10 for NPPA members and $20 for non members. Jump on this great deal now!
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WaPo’s Levi Chronister & NPR’s Danny DeBelius lead the web design & development workshop at SND STL
Our next announcement is for a turbo-charged, all-day pre-conference workshop on Web Design and Development featuring two leaders from NPR and The Washington Post. Space is limited and has already been selling so, bust a move and sign up for the Pre-Conference Web Design workshop here.
Pre-Conference Web Design & Development Workshop
Translate your design skills to the Web by understanding the essential building blocks. In this two-day course we’ll demystify the Web 2.0 toolbox and help you build a compelling, news-driven package from scratch. We will focus on HTML/CSS (the foundation of the Web) and integrating widgets from Google, Twitter, Flickr and more. Flash will be discussed, but the focus is on the other 90% of tools that foster online storytelling—and strategies for getting stuff done.
This course is a good fit for anyone at the beginner level (and print designers looking to transition, in particular), so no worries if they are new ideas. Intermediate users are also welcome—a spectrum of topics will be covered and we can work one-on-one with you.
Trainers:
Levi Chronister
Levi Chronister is web journalism nerd who also is a producer for the Interactivity team at the Washington Post. Previously he was managing editor of special projects for the Las Vegas Sun and journalism technology specialist at the Washington Post and Naples Daily News. He currently lives in Washington, D.C., but his heart resides in Lawrence, KS.
Danny DeBelius
Danny DeBelius is the Senior User Experience Designer for NPR’s StateImpact project. He earned his journalism degree at the University of Colorado and has held online positions at the Las Vegas Sun and Rocky Mountain News before joining NPR.
- Are data visualization graphics more your style? Check out our pre-conference session in partnership with IRE.
- Are you a student with no money? Hit up the FREE student workshop.
- Just want to register for the main SND STL shindig? Mash this link now!
SND STL offers Data Visualization Graphics Workshop in partnership with IRE
We’re busting-at-the-seams excited to announce our next partnership and pre-conference workshop, a Data Visualization Graphics Workshop with the Investigative Reporters & Editors. The day-long workshop will take place on Thursday, Sept. 29th, before the SND STL conference begins. You can register for the Graphics workshop on the same page that you can register for the conference, right here. Also as part of the partnership with IRE, their members can now get $100 off registration for SND STL!
Data Visualization Graphics Workshop
This hands-on workshop will take you from soup-to-nuts in data manipulation and visualization. It’ll start off teaching where to find public data, how to clean, organize and prepare it, including some Excel training, then you’ll experiment with various tools and best practices for data visualization working with examples on your computer through the workshop. Required for participation: Bring your own laptop with Microsoft Excel installed.
Graphics Workshop Instructors:
Jaimi Dowdell
Jaimi Dowdell joined Investigative Reporters and Editors as training director in October 2008. Before that she was computer-assisted reporting editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for more than three years. Her duties included obtaining and analyzing data; training staff on CAR and investigative techniques; and maintaining the newspaper’s online data center. In addition to her work at the Post-Dispatch, she taught a CAR course for Washington University in St. Louis.
8/2 UPDATE:
Sarah Cohen
Sarah Cohen holds the Knight Chair at Duke University, specializing in creating and curating new tools for reporting through The Reporter’s Lab. She was previously a reporter and editor at The Washington Post, where she shared in the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Goldsmith Prize and other national journalism awards. She was elected to the Investigative Reporters and Editors’ board of directors in 2010. Cohen was a guest panelist at VisWeek in 2009 and 2010, and is a co-creator of TimeFlow, an interactive and visual timeline and chronology tool for investigators.
Derek Willis
Derek Willis is a member of the Interactive News group at The New York Times, where he builds political and congressional Web applications and contributes to Times reporting from the Washington bureau. He is currently working on The Times’ coverage of the 2012 elections. Previously he worked at washingtonpost.com and The Washington Post, where he helped build one of the first congressional votes Web applications by a news organization. Derek worked with a team at The Center for Public Integrity that developed the first comprehensive collection of data on so-called 527 political committees. Prior to the Center, Derek worked for five years at Congressional Quarterly covering campaign finance, elections and the House of Representatives. So at least he’s been consistent with this political stuff. He began his career as a research librarian at The Palm Beach Post. Website: http://blog.thescoop.org/
About IRE
Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. is a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of investigative reporting.
IRE was formed in 1975 to create a forum in which journalists throughout the world could help each other by sharing story ideas, newsgathering techniques and news sources.
Mission Statement
The mission of Investigative Reporters and Editors is to foster excellence in investigative journalism, which is essential to a free society. We accomplish this by:
- Providing training, resources and a community of support to investigative journalists.
- Promoting high professional standards.
- Protecting the rights of investigative journalists.
- Ensuring the future of IRE.
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Free SND STL Student Workshop focuses on “The 21st Century Visual Journalist: What You Need to Succeed”
We’re excited to offer a full day of free student training before the conference on Thursday, Sept. 29, thanks largely to the help of Jennifer George-Palilonis and our awesome team of panelists. There’s no fee for the workshop and no registration needed, just come join the party!
Student Workshop Schedule:
- 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m. - Panel “The 21st Century Visual Journalist: What You Need to Succeed”
- 11:30-11:45 a.m. – BREAK
- 11:45 a.m.-: 12:45 p.m. – Q&A session with panelists & lunch
- 1 p.m.-4 p.m. – Portfolio critiques (Professionals — If you’d like to help out with the student portfolio critiques, please contact Jenn at jageorge2 [at] bsu.edu.)
The 21st Century Visual Journalist: What You Need to Succeed
Panelists will discuss the future of visual journalism and give students advice regarding the concepts, software and storytelling skills they need to learn to succeed. Each panelist will give a 20-minute presentation on a topic related to their personal experiences and individual expertise. Then students will have a chance to engage in a Q&A session with panelists. We might also want to mention that lunch will be provided.
Panelists:
- Tyson Evans, New York Times
- Ryan Mark, Chicago Tribune
- Miranda Mulligan, Boston Globe
- Mike Swartz, Upstatement
- Yuri Victor, San Diego Union-Tribune
Moderator:
- Jennifer George-Palilonis, Ball State University
About Jennifer George-Palilonis
Jennifer George-Palilonis is the Society for News Design education director and the George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Multimedia Journalism at Ball State University. There, she is the journalism graphics sequence coordinator and teaches upper-level courses in multimedia storytelling, information graphics reporting, and interactive media design.
She is also a media design consultant and has worked on the redesigns of 30 print and online publications, including The Journal-Gazette, Portland Press-Herald, and Crain’s Chicago Business. Prior to joining the faculty at Ball State in 2001, George-Palilonis was the deputy news design editor at the Chicago Sun-Times and a news designer and business art director at the Detroit Free Press.
Her second book The Multimedia Journalist is forthcoming in early 2012 from Oxford University Press. Her first book, A Practical Guide to Graphics Reporting (Focal Press), was published in 2006. Her research on visual communications, multimedia teaching and learning tools, research-informed design, and information graphics in the multimedia age is regularly published in leading scholarly journals. She has spoken at more than 50 professional and academic conferences.
- Want to know more about Country Grammar? Learn more about Nelly’s home!
- Who else is presenting at SND STL? Check out some of our other announcements for SND STL!
- Need more information about traveling to St. Louis? Dig through our resources to get the best deal!
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