Journalism workshop to feature top editors
Advertiser Staff
Online journalism, mining public records and non-traditional story forms are among the topics that will be addressed at a frontline-editors workshop Aug. 9 and 10 at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa.
Some of the editors leading "NewsTrain" are Michael Roberts, deputy managing editor of The Arizona Republic; Edward Miller, managing director of the Newsroom Leadership Group; Nora Paul, director of the Institute for New Media Studies at the University of Minnesota; and Walter Dean, broadcast training coordinator, Committee of Concerned Journalists.
Registration for the workshops is $35.
To register, send an e-mail to Dan Takamatsu at dtakamatsu@ap.org. Include your name, news organization, title and e-mail address.
Send checks, payable to APME NewsTrain/Hawaii, to: The Associated Press, 500 Ala Moana, Suite 7-590, Honolulu, HI 96813.
The $35 fee allows access to any or all of the workshops, which will be held at the university's School of Architecture, 2410 Campus Road.
For more information, contact Mark Platte, The Honolulu Advertiser editor, at mplatte@honolulu.gannett.com, or Lil Swanson, NewsTrain project director, at lswanson@ap.org, or visit www.newstrain.org/seminar_honolulu_register.html.
The two-day training session is being sponsored locally by The Honolulu Advertiser, the Associated Press/Hawai'i, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, the University of Hawai'i, Pacific Business News and the Maui News. It also is being sponsored by the Associated Press Managing Editors and the Committee of Concerned Journalists, and receives funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Correction: The ZIP code for The Associated Press office on Ala Moana boulevard is 96813. The ZIP code was incorrect in a previous version of this story.
