2023 WORKSHOP
This year's workship, held virtually, continues the interactive format designed to provide participants with multiple contacts with a professional coach. The program will build your interviewing, writing and story development skills! We continue the workshop tradition of one-on-one conferences with a writing coach and it is your chance to build relationships with experienced professionals and journalists facing similar challenges!
Registration fee: $75
Deadline: Thursday, September 21
Use discount code 23WW to be billed by the INA.
Meet the presenters
kick-off Program
8:45 a.m. Welcome and introductions
(KISS, as in Keep it Simple Stupid)
Presented by Randy Evans
Too many writers make their writing too complicated. Their sentences are too complicated. Their stories, rather than being straight forward, have too many twists and turns.
Presented by Vanessa Miller
A discussion on the growing importance of records in today’s media landscape, cluttered by pseudo journalism and bloggers with easy access to wide audiences. This session will evaluate what records are available via open records laws, which ones aren’t, and how to obtain both types in search of substantive journalism capable of performing the key journalistic role of shedding light and holding community, state, and national officials and leaders accountable. We’ll discuss what to do with records once you have them, how to navigate complex data, and ways to pull out stories. Using high-profile examples of open records challenges, failures, and fights, we’ll evaluate the growing need for investigative journalism and the role records play.
Presented by Kurt Helland
The main focus will be on the latest changes to the AP Stylebook. The session will stress how handy it is to use the online AP Stylebook rather than the hard-copy version. Besides always being up to date, there are many helpful tools in the online version.
11:45 a.m. Meet with coaches to discuss next steps
Follow-up dates
September 28 – This kick-off session is held online and includes breakouts and time for the coaches to get to know their students.
By Friday, October 13 – Students send 2-3 writing samples to their coach and coaches schedule sessions with their students for the following week.
Week of October 16 - Coaches hold sessions with their students (either remotely via Skype, google hangouts, etc.)
By Friday, October 27 - Students send second batch of 2-3 writing samples to their coach and coaches schedule sessions with their students for the following week.
Week of October 30 - Coaches hold sessions with their students (either remotely via Skype, google hangouts, etc.)
Program is completed by November 6. Participants to be awarded certificate of completion and recognized in the INA Bulletin.