Join community leaders, nonprofit communicators and board members, mainstream and independent journalists, publishers, media experts and the general public to discuss getting our communities’ important stories told.
Come ready to sharpen your media relations and communications skills at workshops and panel discussions lead by the nation’s top media relations experts. You’ll meet journalists interested in your stories and network with peers.
A stellar team of volunteers will be live-blogging a number of Thursday’s break-out sessions. Since we cannot physically be two places at once, our live bloggers will make sure we can “virtually” be two places at once. So bring your laptop to the Conference and follow along with what’s happening in that session you can’t attend.
The following sessions on Thursday will be live-blogged:
9 to 9:30 a.m., Keynote Speaker Monica Davey, New York Times Midwest Bureau Chief
9:45 to 10:45 a.m., Global Chicago
11 to Noon, Cause Marketing
1 to 1:45 p.m., Keynote Speaker Colonel Tribune, Chicago Tribune
2 to 3 p.m., Funding Communications in an Age of Austerity
3:15 to 5 p.m., Social Media, News & Us
We’d also like to thank all our live bloggers for helping us put the Conference online.
The tools of journalism have changed, but the strongest methods for gathering news are constant, Chicago Sun Times editor-in-chief Don Hayner said in his speech at the Lisagor awards banquet (Jane Hirt, Tribune editor, spoke as well).
“Even though bloggers and citizen journalists can piss me off, I certainly see their value,” Hayner said. “Of course we have to embrace the many ‘platform’ changes we’ve seen. But a lot of those changes are about delivery of news, not the finding of it.”
The former metro editor said the best way to gather news was still to assign full time reporters to the primary listening posts such as local government (He praised Sun Times city hall reporter Fran Spielman, who received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the event). Journalists cultivate sources daily and work with experienced editors coordinating the information, Hayner said.
“Think of it, platoons of reporters all marching to the tune of news,” Hayner said. “This, of course, is the newspaper model. And in varying ways it’s the TV and radio model. And you know what? IT’S MAGNIFICENT.”
Hear more from Don at CMW’s Making Media Connections conference this June.
report by Workshop intern Christopher Brinckerhoff from Hayner’s comments
Join community leaders, nonprofit communicators and board members, mainstream and independent journalists, publishers, media experts and the general public to discuss getting our communities’ important stories told.
