Valley Journalists assemble at NAU School of Comm. to discuss the evolutionary cycle of media industry
By Nathan J. King, October 2009
States News Editor
(Flagstaff, Ariz.) Saturday, Sept. 19, kicked off the second Arizona Press Club Fall Workshop led by club president Sarah Fenske of the New Times and hosted in cooperation with Northern Arizona University’s School of Communication.
The free workshop started at 1 p.m. and ended at 5 p.m. and featured four core presentations:
1) social media and blogging,
2) media law and the journalist,
3) finding stories in public records,
4) photography for poets.
For the first hour of the workshop, Lily Leung, Arizona Republic reporter, and Michele Laudig, Phoenix New Times columnist, broke down the do’s and don’t’s of social networking in the current technological evolution.
After the conclusion of the first presentation, attorney Dan Barr, a partner at Perkins Coie Brown & Bain, discussed legalities surrounding the request of public records and Arizona’s history regarding the subject. David Cuillier, assistant professor at the University of Arizona’s School of Journalism, summarized the procedures for approaching public officials to request and obtain public records.
Reporters Rob O’Dell and Matt Wynn elaborated on the public record subject further. Their presentation focused on other means of procuring government reports and records and obtaining strategy.
The club meeting concluded with James Gregg, photo journalist of the Arizona Daily Star, and Jonathan McNamara, Web editor of the Phoenix New Times. Gregg recapped changes in the industry, giving tips to field reporters now turning into photographers. McNamara made note to suggestive conceptualizations of blog page formatting.
The four-hour event held in rooms 118 and 119 inside of NAU’s Communication Building seated roughly two dozen members and attendees. |
