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Web Exclusives Daily Features Calling All Student Journalists! | Calling All Student Journalists! |
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| Written by Elizabeth Alpern | |||||||||||||
| Thursday, 20 March 2008 | |||||||||||||
Register now for the 37th annual National Jewish Student Journalism Conference, May 28-30 in New York City.
Presented by New Voices Magazine and the Jewish Student Press Service, the conference features workshops and panels on campus media, war reporting, and Jewish ideas. It will be held at the Bronfman Center in Manhattan. The conference opens with an evening event on May 28th and closes with a tour of the New York Times building on the afternoon May 30th. Confirmed speakers include Jay Michaelson, columnist for the Forward and founding editor of Zeek, NYU journalism professor and former Newsday reporter Mohamad Bazzi, Larry Cohler-Esses of the Jewish Week, Susan Weidman Schneider, editor-in-chief of Lilith, and more. Past presenters have included Ethan Bronner and Clyde Haberman of The New York Times and Nathan Glazer of Harvard University. 37th Annual Jewish Student Journalism Conference Tentative Schedule May 28-30 Wednesday, May 28
Barack Obama's candidacy has drawn criticism from certain segments of the Jewish community. In this panel, three leading journalists discuss this phenomenon and what it says about the state of the relationship between African Americans and Jews. *Event will be held at the Center for Jewish History. Open to public. Dessert reception to follow. Buy tickets now by clicking here . $10, general admission. $5, students and CJH members. FREE, conference participants.
Thursday, May 29 Past and present Forward editors on the processes behind the prestigious Jewish papers’ Arts and Culture section, now considered among the most influential in the Jewish media. Panelists: Alana Newhouse (Arts and Culture Editor, The Forward) and Gabriel Sanders (Associate Editor and former contributor to the Arts and Culture Section).
In the post-ideological, post-denominational era, how does the new Jewish media conceive of its readers? What can we make of the trend towards niche Jewish publications? Is there a future for the Jewish communal newspaper? Panelists: Jay Michaelson (Founding editor, Zeek, columnist, The Forward), Roger Bennett Publisher, Guilt and Pleasure), Izzy Grinspan (Managing Editor, Jewcy) and Sarah Chandler (Jewschool).
Getting Paid: How To Start Freelancing. Daniela Gerson (Former Editor, New Voices, has written for the Sun, WNYC, and others.) Investigative Journalism on a Shoestring Budget Larry Cohler-Esses (Editor-at-large, The Jewish Week)
War reporters on journalism in the combat zone. Panelists: Pulitzer Prize-winner Josh Freidman (Professor, Columbia University), Mohamad Bazzi (Professor, NYU Journalism School, formerly of Newsday), and Jessie Graham (BBC/PRI's The World, formerly of WNYC and The New York Post). 6:30 Dinner and Evening Event Think all the magazines on your campus are lame? Start your own. These people know how. Panelists: Daniel Sieradski (Founder, Jewschool.com, Director of Digital Media, Jewish Telegraphic Agency), Dylan Greif (The Public Journal), Susan Weidman Schneider (Founder, Lilith), Joanna Smith Rakoff (Editor, Nextbook).
How to Conduct an Interview Esther Kaplan, The Nation Institute and WBAI’S Beyond the Pale. Writing on Culture Staff of Nextbook.
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