Registration & Continental Breakfast — 8:30-9 a.m.
PLENARY SESSION: What Now Journalism? 9-10:30 a.m.
Layoffs are affecting journalists, from recent grads to mid-career veterans. What do we do now, who’s hiring, where do we go from here? With Hagit Limor, investigative reporter, WCPO-TV ABC 9, Cincinnati; Laura McGann, managing editor, The Washington Independent, Center for Independent Media; and Jon Morgan, senior editor, The Project for Excellence in Journalism, Pew Research Center. Moderator: Steve Geimann, Bloomberg.
Hour-long Sessions 10:45 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
FREELANCING: The business side with Hazel Becker, publication consultant and freelance writer/editor, on taxes and record keeping; Stephenie Overman, freelance writer, workplace and health issues, on insurance; and Kristen King, Virginia copywriter and consultant, on marketing. Moderator: Bonnie Newman Davis, associate professor of Journalism at Virginia Commonwealth University, freelance writer.
POLITICS: How the new administration deals with the media, with Todd Gillman, Dallas Morning News; Prof. Stephen Farnsworth, George Mason University in Fairfax, author of Spinner-in-Chief: How Presidents Sell Their Policies and Themselves. Moderated by Steve Taylor, former ABC News correspondent.
ETHICS: The practical, legal and ethical sides of anonymous comments on news Web sites, with Maria Stainer, assistant managing editor The Washington Times; Andy Schotz, reporter for The Herald-Mail, Hagerstown, Md.; and Bob Becker, media attorney.
SPORTS: Keep your eyes, ears and j-skills on the ball in rapidly changing multi-media sports reporting, with Ken Rosenthal, baseball writer and reporter for Fox Sports and Jon DeNunzio, sports editor for washingtonpost.com.
SOCIAL NETWORKING in reporting, from finding sources to getting the news out, how we can best use Facebook, Twitter and other online social networks, with Frank LoMonte, executive director of the Student Press Law Center; and Tiffany Shackelford, online content and marketing specialist at Phase2 and ONA member. Moderated by Andy Schotz.
CONVERGENCE: ongoing transition to new media with online photos, videos, podcasts, with Elizabeth Jia, multimedia producer at WUSA-TV Channel 9; Ken Sands, head of interactive content at Congressional Quarterly and ONA member; and Ron Yaros, assistant professor at the University of Maryland College Park.