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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
*This schedule is tentative and subject to change*
Friday, November 17, 2006
11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Registration is open! Pick up your name tag and registration packet.
1:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Welcome
Mark Kramer and NCNJ Sponsors
1:15 p.m. - 2:25 p.m.: Keynote Address
Thoughts of a Traveling Man
Calvin Trillin
2:40 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.: Breakout Session I
Brevity, Soul, Wit: A radio reporter's tips for cramming it all in
Nancy Updike
A Narrative Writer's Toolbox
Roy Peter Clark
Why Journalists Talk Funny
Mark Kramer
Writing About Children
Susan Eaton, Claudio Sanchez
The War Between Editors and Readers
Daniel Okrent
Beyond the Paycheck: Getting published in the best places
Wendy Strothman
It Began Like a Bad Date: The narrative writer-editor relationship
Connie Schultz, Stuart Warner
3:50 p.m. - 4:10 p.m.
Coffee Break
4:10 p.m. - 5:25 p.m.
Readings
5:40 p.m. - 6:50 p.m.: Breakout Session II
Comics and Journalism: Reporting conflicts with pen and ink
Joe Sacco
Filing from Far Away: How to make readers care about places they may not care about
Marc Lacey
Photojournalism Today: The use and misuse of photographs
Nubar Alexanian
Reveling in Fieldwork: Bringing home a notebook full of narrative
Mark Kramer, Calvin Trillin, Nancy Updike
Activist-Journalists: Where do you draw the line?
Stacy Sullivan
Why Shareholders Should Embrace Narrative
Stephen Buckley, Jack Hart, Daniel Okrent
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Reception
8:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.: Café Sessions
Writing Someone Else's Book: The ins and outs of "with," and "as told to" bylines
Sarah Wernick
Guided Readings
Jon Franklin
Note Management: Tools for your large projects
Trevor Corson
How to Make it as a Freelancer
Rebecca Skloot
Saturday, November 18, 2006
7:30 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
8:15 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Welcome
8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.: Keynote Panel
Time, Space, Cash and Guts: Have news outlets lost what it takes to do incisive, frank, reliable, comprehensive international narrative?
Molly Bingham, Marc Lacey, Joe Sacco, Stacy Sullivan, Tina Susman
10:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Coffee break
10:15 a.m. - 11:25 a.m.: Breakout III
Building a Trustworthy Blogosphere
Dan Gillmor
Structure, Structure, Structure
Adam Hochschild
Three Visions of Visual Journalism
Nubar Alexanian, June Cross, Joe Sacco
Faith and Journalism: Writing about religious communities
Mary C. Curtis, Sam Harris
Natural Narrative: Ecology as a storytelling device
Michael Pollan
Building Trust Between Reporter and Editor
Stephen Buckley, Marc Lacey, Rebecca Skloot
Working in the Aftermath: Covering stories everyone thinks are "over"
David Blum, Dele Olojede, Tina Susman
11:35 a.m. - 12:40 p.m.: Breakout IV
Gathering News from Outside the Box: Three non-traditional approaches
Sandy Close, Ole Soennichsen, Stacy Sullivan
Opus I: Variations on memoir
Suketu Mehta, Lonnae O'Neal Parker
From Angle to Story Arc: What makes a great narrative - and what doesn't
David Blum
Covering - and Un-Covering - God
Sam Harris
Bringing Forth Water from a Stone: Interviewing the powerful
Ndaeyo Uko
Your Eye Has It: Seeing uncovered angles in overcovered stories
Stephen Buckley
Moving from Possibility Toward Perfection: Revising your own work
Adam Hochschild, Mark Kramer
12:40 p.m. - 1:55 p.m.
Lunch
Readings
2:05 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.: Keynote Address
The Child is Not Mine: Telling stories of post-genocide Rwanda
Dele Olojede
3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Coffee break
3:30 p.m. - 4:40 p.m.: Breakout Session V
The Beat Dilemma: On not keeping athletes' secrets
Jackie MacMullen
Parachuting Well: Doing narrative in places you've never been
Tina Susman
Arts Journalism
Mary C. Curtis, Doug McGill, Michael Quintanilla
In Search of an American Identity
June Cross
Writing about Food: Is it sociology or politics or advocacy or journalism?
Michael Pollan, Rebecca Skloot
Can TV News Tell it Like it is?
Robert Krulwich
Finding an Agent: When, how, who, why
Geri Thoma
4:55 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.: Breakout Session VI
Is Healing a Mission of Journalism?
Doug McGill
A Demonstration with Dry Ice: Scene, plot and character in - yes - science stories
Rebecca Skloot
Short Narrative in (Almost) Every Medium
Robert Krulwich, Claudio Sanchez, Jan Winburn
Creative Approaches to Short Narrative
Diane C. Tennant
Grassroots Journalism: Where is narrative in future visions of the news?
Roy Peter Clark, Sandy Close, Dan Gillmor
Making the Big and Bureaucratic Intimate: Narrative for complex social topics
Susan Eaton
From Article to Book: Writing winning proposals
Samuel G. Freedman, Wendy Strothman, Geri Thoma
8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.: Café Sessions
Ethical Implications for the Real People we Call Characters
Dan Lehman, Joe Mackall
Making Your Story Sing
Phoebe Claggett, Dick Weiss
International Narrative: Is there a narrative movement in your country?
Julio Villanueva Chang, Beauregard Tromp, Takesato Watanabe
Managing Multiple Projects and Making the Bank Account Work
Peter Manseau
Sunday, November 19, 2006
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Continental breakfast
9:00 a.m. - 10:05 a.m.: Keynote Address
Why We Cannot Afford Communications Apartheid in a Global Society
Sandy Close
10:15 a.m. - 11:25 a.m.: Breakout VII
Building an Independent Narrative News Bureau and a National Narrative Movement: The case of Denmark
Ole Soennichsen
Writing Across Borders: Nonfiction with a novelist's nuance
Suketu Mehta
Pulpit or Porch: Tuning the tone of your column
Connie Schultz
Ten Tools of Narrative: Take-it-to-the-keyboard tips you can use tomorrow
Jack Hart
Not Getting Beat by the Beat: Keeping beat reporting fresh
Jackie MacMullan, Diane C. Tennant
First Pages
Samuel G. Freedman, John Radziewicz, Wendy Strothman, Geri Thoma, Sarah Wernick
The Advantages - and Perils - of Knowing Your Story's End at the Start
Jon Franklin, Adam Hochschild, Ilan Stavans
11:40 p.m. - 12:50 p.m.: Breakout VIII
The Intimate Point of View: How to crawl inside your characters' minds and bring the reader with you
Jon Franklin
Developing the Language of Narrative in the Newsroom
Stuart Warner
The Eye-Opening Narrative of a News Reader: Eye-tracking, focal groups and reader scans
Michael Haller
Braiding Character, Event, Theme and Place
Samuel G. Freedman
Covering the Law: Cops, crime and courthouse reporting
Susan Eaton, Dahlia Lithwick, Connie Schultz
Getting Close: Covering diverse communities with depth and complexity
Mary C. Curtis
On Dictionaries: Words and what they say about us
Ilan Stavans
1:00 p.m. - 2:25 p.m.
Lunch
Readings
2:30 p.m. - 3:40 p.m.: Breakout IX
Alien-Nation: Reporting and Writing Immigrants' Stories
Claudio Sanchez
Method Reporting: Empathy as a reporting tool
Lonnae O'Neal Parker
The Art of X-Ray Reading: How a narrative writer reads
Roy Peter Clark
The Advantages of Bringing Personality to Technical Subjects
Dahlia Lithwick
Serial Insanity: How to identify, report, write and manage a serial narrative, and why the form has the potential to save newspapers
Jane O. Hansen, Jan Winburn
Lightening Up: How mood makes the piece
Diane C. Tennant, Ndaeyo Uko, Nancy Updike
3:55 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.: Keynote Address
Confessions of a Former Disco Maniac: The write moves
Michael Quintanilla
5:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Farewell
Questions?
If you have questions about the conference, please call (617) 384-9903 or send an e-mail to
nieman-narrative@harvard.edu.
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