Nieman Narrative Journalism Conference

Nieman Narrative Journalism Conference

November 30 - December 2, 2001
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

A Note about the Schedule:

A conference schedule remains a work-in-progress--a title or two may change or a speaker call in sick. But here's the program, and it's an exciting one. If you feel frustrated that each choice means giving up another good choice, we've done our job. However, we've contracted with a company to tape every session; tapes will be sold during the conference, and afterward, on our web site.

There is NO REGISTRATION NECESSARY FOR SPECIFIC SESSIONS this year. Just register for the conference and show up.

At our new location, the Hyatt Regency Cambridge, 575 Memorial Drive in Cambridge, you'll find it far easier to meet others attending, to discuss, network, share ideas, locate lunch and supper companions. The Nieman Foundation will provide attendees light breakfast and box lunch both Saturday and Sunday. Hors d'oeuvres Friday, too. Friday evening, and during lunches, there'll be readings (and films and radio pieces) by our speakers.

We've scheduled each speaker for a solo and a panel. And each day ends with a "cafe session" for late discussion.

We're looking forward to seeing you.


Friday November 30	2:30-5:30	Registration Lobby, Hyatt Hotel, Memorial Drive, Cambridge
	4:00-5:15:	Nora Ephron Telling the Story
	5:30-7:15	Readings Isabel Wilkerson Jill Lepore Nora Ephron Ilan Stavans Stan Grossfeld Mark Kramer
	7:15-8:15	Mixer: Cash Bar and hors d'oeuvres
	9:00-10:00	CAFÉ SESSION Bob Batz of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Angela Cara Pancrazio of the Arizona Republic Nuts and Bolts of Starting and Maintaining Narrative Journalism Writers Groups and News Letters


Saturday December 1	8:00-9:00	Registration and continental breakfast Lobby
	9:00-9:30	Welcome
	9:45-11:00	Gay Talese A New Journalist's Suggestions for Daily Journalists David Fanning The Narrator's Voice: Finding the Story in TV Documentary Mark Kramer Reporting Differently: How to Come Back with a Notebook Full of Narrative Jill Lepore Writing for History: Historical Writing and the Revival of Narrative Nan Talese and Stewart O'Nan How to Get the Most from your Editor; How to Get the Most from Your Writer: Frank Talk about Editing, Publicity, Deadlines, Style and Perfection
	11:15-12:30	Bruce DeSilva Endings: The Second Most Important Thing Rick Bragg Writing in Color Morgan Entrekin The Editorial Partnership: Peeling Down to the Story Steve Holmes Narrative Policy and Politics: Using Story to Approach Political Topics
	12:30-1:45	Box Lunch and Readings Gay Talese Emily Hiestand Steve Holmes Jim Collins Rick Bragg
	2:00-3:15	Jon Franklin Beginning, Middle and End: The Shape and Psychology of Story Emily Hiestand Henry James on Deadline: Big Ideas Hidden (Playfully) Adam Hochschild My First Great Lesson in Narrative Journalism: 6 AM, February 10, 1965 Nan Talese and Morgan Entrekin The Sorts of Books We Work On and How to Work on Them With Us
	3:30-4:45	Tom French Serial Narratives: The Mechanics of Unfolding Ilan Stavans The Narrative Writer as Intellectual Traveler Stewart O'Nan Not Stopping: Finding Ways to Continue with Creative Work While Still Engaged in the Busy World Stan Grossfeld and Steve Holmes Life Out of the Spotlight: Finding the News in Ordinary Lives Jacqui Banaszynski and Jim Collins Editing Narrative for Newspapers and Magazines
	5:00-6:15	Ira Glass Show Biz Values in Journalism
	8:00-9:00	CAFÉ SESSION Lee Gutkind, Joe Mackall and Dan Lehman Literary Magazines: What We Look For in Narrative Journalism


Sunday December 2	8:30-9:00	Registration and continental breakfast Lobby
	9:00-10:45	Keynote Panel: Excellence: What Makes Fine Narrative? Moderated by Bob Giles, Curator of The Nieman Foundation Jacqui Banaszynski, Ira Glass, Isabel Wilkerson, David Fanning, Chip Scanlan, Gay Talese, Rick Bragg and Mark Kramer
	11:00-12:15	Chip Scanlan Storyteller's Toolbox: Practical Ways to Manage Your Time, Your Stories, Yourself Nan Talese From Article to Book Stan Grossfeld Image and Narrative: How To Take Photos that Make a Difference Emily Hiestand, Tom French and Adam Hochschild Memoir: What Goes In and What Stays Out
	12:30-1:45	Box Lunch and Readings Ira Glass Tom French Chip Scanlan Stewart O'Nan Adam Hochschild
	2:00-3:15	Isabel Wilkerson Accelerated Intimacy: Working Well With Sources Jim Collins Between Editor and Writer: What My Best Writers Have Taught Me about Topic Selection, Reporting, Sentence Structure, and Voice Adam Hochschild, Jill Lepore and Ilan Stavans The Historian as Writer, the Writer as Historian Jon Franklin, Chip Scanlan and Bruce DeSilva It's the Story, Dummy; No, It's the Voice, You Fool; No, It's the Concept, You Buttonhead: A Love Fest on the Elements of Narrative
	3:30-4:45	Jacqui Banaszynski Wingwalkers and Storytellers: Defying the Bonds of Journalistic Convention
	4:45-5:00	Mark Kramer's Farewell

The Nieman Foundation Program on Narrative Journalism
Harvard University
E-mail: Nieman-narrative@harvard.edu
Web page: http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/narrative
Conference phone: (617) 496-4055

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University
Lippmann House, One Francis Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
telephone: (617) 495-2237
fax: (617) 495-8976
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