…the 41st annual National Jewish Student Journalism Conference, May 20-22 @ the NYU Bronfman Center in NYC, to be exact.
It’s less than a month away and early-bird registration ends next Friday, May 4. After that registration goes up $10.
You should come.
Check it out on Facebook and get details here. Register and get more details here!
Some folks you’ll get to meet if you come:
- Jim Schachter, an associate managing editor of The New York Times who works on the Times’ online presence
- Ari Goldman, a Columbia Journalism professor who teaches the wildly popular course on writing about religion
- Rob Mahoney, the deputy director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, who will show a brief film and discuss what it’s like for journalists in Israel and the Territories today
- Eli Valley, an author, satirist and comic artist (he illustrated the image above!), who will discuss his controversial work
- Josh Nathan-Kazis, a staff writer for the Forward and former editor of New Voices, who will moderate a panel on Orthodox Jews and the press
- Naomi Zeveloff, a writer for the Forward who writes about gender, education and politics, including Israel 101, an ongoing series about Israel on campus
- Wayne Hoffman, the editor of “What We Brought Home,” a compilation about Birthright
- Alana Newhouse, the founder and editor of Tablet Magazine
- Kiera Feldman, a journalist and the author of a controversial article in The Nation that was sharply critical of Birthright
- And a bunch of other great people from all over the Jewish and journalistic worlds!
Register here!
