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Schedule of Events
This schedule is subject to change.
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Saturday, March 15, 2008
8:15 - 9 a.m. |
Breakfast |
9 - 9:15 a.m. |
Welcome |
9:15 - 10:30 a.m. |
Keynote Address
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Creating an Investigative Narrative: Walter Reed and beyond |
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10:30 - 10:45 p.m. |
Break |
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Breakout Session III
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Lives in 3-D: Writing profiles and biographies
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Blogging for Story: Telling tales in a format designed for the info-nugget  |
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Taking the Gray Ladies Online: Behind the screens at The New Yorker and The New York Times
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Whose Narrative is It? Wresting stories from political candidates More>>
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Interviewing for Story: Filling your notebook with the stuff of narrative |
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My, My Memoir: The promise, peril, and peculiar challenge of self-revelation
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Noon - 1:30 p.m. |
Box Lunch |
1:30 - 4:30 p.m. |
Practical Workshops
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Craft Round Robin: Successive small-group sessions on character, structure, and prose style, led by top writers and editors More>>
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50 Writing Tools in Three Hours: Writing exercises to transform your prose More>> |
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Newsroom Editing: Working with writers, wrestling with copy More>>
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Book Publishing, Soup to Nuts: How to get an agent, sell that proposal, promote your book … and start thinking about the next one More>>
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More Than Words Can Say: Building an audio slideshow with easy-to-use software and inexpensive equipment More>>
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Nonlinear Storyboarding: Crafting stories that exploit the nature of the Web More>>
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The Journalist as Entrepreneur: Career guidance for narrative journalists in today's media landscape
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4:30 - 5:30 p.m. |
Book Signings |
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 = Multimedia seminar |
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