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Don't just report the story.
Tell it like it is.
The Society of Professional Journalists invites early career reporters and front-line editors to step out of the inverted pyramid and into the art of storytelling! Through SPJ’s Narrative Writing Workshops, participants will learn options for reinvigorating the writing craft.
Join Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and reporter Tom Hallman, Jr., from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in one of five Narrative Writing Workshops for a day filled with tips for creating excitement in news stories.
The freestyle conversation with Hallman includes discussion on the following topics:
— Defining narrative writing
— Reporting for narrative
— Long form narrative storytelling
— How you can apply narrative techniques to your daily reporting
— Strategies for your newsroom
Have a special project in the works? Share it! Participants will have the chance to send Hallman a sample of their work in advance of the workshop. Tom will critique the work and discuss it with the rest of the class.
2009 Dates and Locations
Saturday, May 2
Chicago, Ill.
University of Illinois at Chicago
Student Center East, Room 302
750 South Halsted Street
Chicago, Illinois 60607
Register Online
Late registration fee of $20 will apply to registrations received after midnight on April 17.
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Saturday, June 13
Albuquerque, New Mexico
The University of New Mexico
Division of Continuing Education
Room C
1634 University Blvd., NE
Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87131
Register Online
Late registration fee of $20 will apply to registrations received after midnight on May 29.
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Saturday, June 20
Lowell, Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Alumni Hall
One University Ave.
Lowell, MA 01854
Register Online
Late registration fee of $20 will apply to registrations received after June 5.
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Saturday, July 25
Boise, Idaho
Boise State University
Student Union
1700 University Drive
Boise, Idaho 83725
Register Online
Late registration fee of $20 will apply to registrations received after midnight on July 10.
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Pricing (includes lunch)
Members: $60
Non-Members: $80
 About Tom Hallman, Jr.
Tom Hallman Jr., 52, is considered one of the nation's premier narrative writers. During his career, he has won every major feature-writing award, some for stories that took months to report, others less than a couple of hours. The stories range from the drama of life and death in a neo-natal unit, to the quiet pride of a man graduating from college.
A common thread in all of Hallman's stories is the exploration of the character's heart and soul. Hallman believes that every reporter — no matter how many years they have been in this business — can learn how to spot true stories and report and write them in ways that resonate with readers. The ability to write has less to do with pure talent, and more with the understanding of craft, vision and emotion.
He was born and raised in Portland and graduated from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa in 1977. He's worked at a car wash, a grocery store, a greyhound race track and was a volunteer at a VA hospital. He worked as a bartender for one week.
His first journalism job was in New York City as copy editor for Hearst Magazines Special Publications. He returned to Oregon as a reporter at The Hermiston Herald, a small weekly in Hermiston, Ore, before landing a job at the Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash. In 1980, he moved to The Oregonian in where he covered crime for 10 years. He is now a reporter with the Portland team.
He is a frequent contributor to Readers Digest, and his stories have appeared in Esquire, Best Life and Star magazine. One of his stories was made into a movie. His book, "Sam: The Boy Behind the Mask, was published in 2002." He writes a column on writing for Quill Magazine. Hallman has been a speaker at National Writer's Workshops and at papers across the United States. He has taught at USC, Notre Dame and Brown University.
His awards include:
Pulitzer Prize — feature writing
Pulitzer finalist — beat reporting
Pulitzer finalist — feature writing.
American Society of Newspaper Editors winner — feature writing
American Society of Newspaper Editors winner — feature writing
American Society of Newspaper Editors — finalist
National Society of Professional Journalists — feature writing
National Society of Professional Journalists — feature writing.
National Scripps Howard Journalism Award — Ernie Pyle Human Interest
Writing.
National Scripps Howard — Business Reporting.
National Headliner Award — Outstanding Feature Writing.
National Headliner Award — Outstanding Feature Writing.
Nixon National Writing Award
Penny Missouri, multiple awards.
Livingston Award for Young Journalists.
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George Daniels
Assistant Professor
University of Alabama
Box 870172
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
(205) 348-8618
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Bio (click to expand)
George L. Daniels is an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Alabama’s College of Communication and Information Sciences. He joined the UA faculty in 2003 after completing graduate studies at The University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. As a graduate student, Daniels participated in the University of Georgia’s SPJ Campus Chapter. But, his first experience with SPJ came when he received a scholarship from the Washington DC Chapter of what was then Sigma Delta Chi (SDX) in the early 1990s. In 2006, Daniels was selected as an SPJ Diversity Leadership Fellow.
At the University of Alabama, Daniels conducts research on media convergence and diversity in the media workplace. He teaches classes in scholastic journalism, media management and cross-media reporting and writing. Before moving into the academic arena, Daniels worked as a television news producer the Richmond, Va., Cincinnati, Ohio and Atlanta television markets. He is a cum laude graduate of Howard University.
“I am a member of SPJ because of its role as an umbrella organization concerned for all journalists and its emphasis on recognizing and encouraging young journalists and their continuing education.”
Mead Loop, vice chair
Associate Professor/
Chair, Journalism Dept
Ithaca College
Park Hall, Rm. 258A
Ithaca, NY 14850
Work: 607-274-3047
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Bio (click to expand)
Mead Loop is chairman and an associate professor of journalism at Ithaca (N.Y.) College. He has been a SPJ board member since 2002 and is co-chairman of the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation Grants Committee.
Loop’s scholarship has been published in Mass Communication & Society; Newspaper Research Journal; Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly; and Journalism and Mass Communication Educator.
Previously, he was an editor at the Nashville Banner, Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, and Kansas City Times and Star.
Loop has a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri at Columbia and a bachelor’s degree in television-radio from Ithaca College.
"My first contact with journalism issues on a national scale was with SPJ, and the more I become immersed with the Society, the more I learn about journalism today."
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