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Updated: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 Published: Tuesday, March 18, 2008

3100 Cleburne Street
Houston, TX 77004
Saturday, April 12, 2008

Sponsored by Hearst Newspapers

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Pre-registration - until March 19
Professional Member - $40
Professional Nonmember - $65
Student Member - $25
Student Nonmember - $40

Onsite - after March 19- (online registrations accepted until April 4)
Professional Member - $55
Professional Nonmember - $80
Student Member - $40
Student Nonmember - $65

To register by fax or mail, click here to download a PDF of the registration form. To register online, visit MyNABJ. Members can register with their NABJ member ID and password. Nonmembers can register by creating a new visitor registration log-in.

Mail and fax registrations will be accepted until March 31.
Online registrations will be accepted until Friday, April 4.
All other registrations will be processed onsite.

Lodging

Courtyard by Marriott
2900 Sage Road
Houston, TX 77056
For reservations, call 713-622-3611. Request National Association of Black Journalists rate of $99 per night or book online at www.marriott.com and use code abjabja. Please book by March 24, 2008.

For more information, contact Cindy George, Region V Director at cindy.george@chron.com..

Tentative Schedule

8:15 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

REGISTRATION

9:00 - 9:45 a.m.

OPENING PLENARY - “Keys to preserving your career”

Whether you want to stay with a major outlet, a regional resource or start your own thing, this plenary will teach you how to retool through the stories of people who have done it. Our panelists will show you how technology will keep you on the forefront.

Invited speakers include Neil Foote of the Tom Joyner Foundation, who was one of the founders of blackamericaweb.com.

10:00 - 10:45 a.m.

MODULE ONE

Workshop A – After the love is gone

Recovering from a bad first or second internship — or a difficult job experience.

Workshop B - Using the Internet in your reporting

In this workshop, some of the region's leading journalists will explain how the Web can make you a better reporter, writer and storyteller.

Workshop C - Print & Multimedia

Many print journalists aren't jumping on the multimedia train. This workshop, especially designed for print reporters, offers tips and tricks — like reporter narration — to get you started on the newest ways to tell stories.

11:00 - 11:45 a.m.

MODULE TWO

Workshop A - Doing it Quicker and Getting it Right

When news breaks, people don't wait to watch the television evening news. They use computers, iPods, cell phones, Blackberrys and messaging for instant news and communication. This workshop will teach you how to give readers and viewers what they want and need while staying sane.

Workshop B - Just Starting Out: Your First Five Years in Journalism

You’re fresh out of college with your first job. This workshop will teach you what you need to know. Whether you're in television, newspapers, magazines, online or radio, you need survival skills. Bosses are looking at Generation X and the Millennials to be the most tech-savvy journalists in the room.

Workshop C - Getting Ready for the Multimedia World of Journalism

It's not your grandmother's newspaper or broadcast station anymore. News organizations are delivering information on multiple platforms to a diverse audience. Local news organizations are quickly training reporters to become visual journalists by shooting stills and video, and copy editors are learning how to edit video for the Web. Learn how newsrooms are making the transition.

Noon - 1:45 p.m.

Lunch with Roland Martin, the ultimate multimedia journalist.

He’s a CNN commentator, radio talk show host, author and blogger whose work appears in Essence and on TVOne.

2:00 - 2:45 p.m.

MODULE THREE

Workshop A - When Disaster Strikes

How reporters across the region handled covering Hurricane Katrina, their local area's evacuees and the issues they’re covering now. Learn how to cover the big news story from Day One and beyond.

Workshop B - Teflon-proof Your Career with Blogging

It’s the new way to present those nuggets from your notebook that don’t make it into the story and launch an interactive experience with readers and viewers. For beat reporters and editors in particular, blogging is an opportunity for journalists who monitor certain issues, agencies and communities to dig deeper daily. Learn how to present what you know, expand your value as a watchdog, enlighten readers and engage in talkback that’s certain to improve your coverage.

Workshop C - The Presidential Campaign and Media Coverage

Like never before, the media has navigated mine fields of race and gender. This workshop discusses the Obama Factor and how - win or lose — this fresh politician has and will change our national conversation about race and how the media deals with it.

3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

POLITICAL TOWN HALL

The political talk continues with panelists who will discuss the 2008 presidential campaign and the impact of black and Hispanic constituencies. The public is invited to attend.

Invited speakers include U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee.