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Detailed Saturday Schedule

8:00 a.m. | Check-in and Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m. | Region 2 Business Meeting
Meet Regional Director Brian Eckert and discuss Society business taking place in Region 2, made up of Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia.

9-10:15 a.m. | Sessions
Mobile News Reporting: Mobile consumers want news. This course goes beyond text messaging with an introduction to mobile apps, tips and techniques for recording, editing and uploading audio and video on your smartphone. You'll also learn how to post to your blog or social network and break news on Twitter from mobile devices that offer compatible applications. This session will be presented by Ron Yaros, assistant professor, Philip Merrill College of Journalism.

Sports Journalism: With the media landscape constantly changing and budgets constantly shrinking, what will sports journalism look like in the future? Three journalists from different media, at different points in their careers, will provide insight on the topic. Speakers in this session include Al Galdi, anchor & host of The Official Redskins Postgame Show, ESPN 980; Sebastian Driver-Salazar of Comcast SportsNet and George Solomon, retired asst. managing editor for sports, The Washington Post. This session will be moderated by Greg Toland, freelance sports anchor, Comcast SportsNet


10:30-11:45 a.m. | Sessions
Ethics: Social boundaries: Facebook, Twitter and other social media networks can be helpful for gathering and spreading news. They also can create pitfalls, as journalists might get too up close and personal. Should there be lines, and where do we draw them? Speakers will include Bryan Sears, political editor, Patuxent Publishing and Alicia Shepard, ombudsman, NPR and Sean Mussenden, Web developer and adjunct professor, Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Chris Harvey, University of Maryland, will serve as the moderator.

Student Press Rights: Session description coming soon. This session will be presented by Frank LoMonte, executive director, Student Press Law Center and Tim Chapman, James Madison University.

Noon-2 p.m. | Mark of Excellence Awards Luncheon
Keynote Speaker: Kevin Klose, dean and professor, The Philip Merrill College of Journalism.Read Bio

2:15-3:30 p.m. | Sessions
Developing and Protecting Sources: This panel will explore the best practices and pitfalls of using confidential sources to cover stories and explain what to do if you find yourself the focus of a court proceeding, subpoenaed by prosecutors or plaintiffs’ attorneys. Speakers in this session include Toni Locy, professor, Washington & Lee University and Lucy Dalglish, executive director, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

Can't We All Just Get Along?: This session will compare the relationship between campus media and campus administration at various schools. Should student editors have some kind of oversight? What are the legal ramifications of edited/unedited public comments? Speakers in this session include Sara Mitchell, editor-in-chief, Collegiate Times, Virginia Tech; Denise Brown, former newspaper adviser, Morgan State University; Ivoree Myles, executive editor, Spokesman Newspaper (Morgan State University); Frank LoMonte, Executive Director, Student Press Law Center; and Ivoree Myles, executive editor, Spokesman Newspaper (Morgan State University)

3:45-5:00 p.m. | Session
Where is the industry headed: The journalism industry has faced some hard times the past few years. Newsroom budgets have been slashed and lay-offs have been widespread. Hear from industry leaders on what to expect next. Speakers in this session include Toni Locy, professor, Washington & Lee University; Rem Rieder, editor and senior vice president, American Journalism Review and Glennwood Branche, chief of news operations, ABC Washington Bureau. This session will be moderated by Stephen Taylor, professor, George Mason University.

About the Speakers

Kevin Klose  Mark of Excellence Luncheon | Keynote Speaker
A former editor and national and foreign correspondent with The Washington Post, Kevin Klose is an award-winning author and worldwide broadcasting executive. Prior to joining NPR, Klose served successively as director of U.S. international broadcasting, overseeing the U.S. Government's global radio and television news services (1997-98) and president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), broadcasting to Central Europe and the former Soviet Union (1994-97). He joined RFE/RL in 1992 as director of Radio Liberty, broadcasting to the former Soviet Union in its national languages. Among his achievements, he relocated RFE/RL from Munich to Prague and helped devise and implement a strategy to refocus the mission of all U.S.-funded international broadcasting and update operations. Click to expand bio


Klose previously was an editor and reporter at The Washington Post for 25 years, serving as city editor, Moscow bureau chief, Midwest correspondent and deputy national editor.

Klose received a B.A., cum laude, from Harvard. A former Woodrow Wilson National Fellow, he serves on the board of Independent Sector in Washington, DC. He is the author of Russia and the Russians: Inside the Closed Society, the winner of the Overseas Press Club's “Cornelius Ryan Award” and is co-author of four other books.

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Tim Chapman
In October of 2008 Chapman and a fellow reporter were wrongfully charged for trespassing as they reported on a campus crime in a dorm. While the majority of the charges were dropped, the incident reflects a common problem of administrations and departments attempting to crack down on college journalists who are within their first amendment rights. Chapman is a senior at James Madison University and the editor-in-chief of The Breeze. He has interned with Al Jazeera English in Washington D.C. and with the Daily News-Record in Harrisonburg.

Lucy Dalglish
Prior to assuming the position of Executive Director in January 2000, Dalglish was a media lawyer for almost five years in the trial department of the Minneapolis law firm of Dorsey & Whitney LLP. From 1980-93, Dalglish was a reporter and editor at the St. Paul Pioneer Press. She was awarded the Wells Memorial Key, the highest honor bestowed by the Society of Professional Journalists, in 1995 for her work as Chairman of SPJ's national Freedom of Information Committee from 1992-95 and for her service as a national board member from 1988-91. She also was named to the inaugural class of the National Freedom of Information Act Hall of Fame in 1996. Dalglish earned a juris doctor degree from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1995; a master of studies in law degree from Yale Law School in 1988; and a bachelor of arts in journalism from the University of North Dakota in 1980.

Al Galdi
Al Galdi is an ESPN 980 anchor, providing D.C. SportsCenters weekday mornings. He also is the host of “The Official Redskins Postgame Show” on ESPN 980 and the Washington Redskins Radio Network. Galdi has done updates for ESPN 980 since August 2002. He did updates for Fox Sports Radio from December 2004-Januray 2009. Galdi began working at what is now ESPN 980 as a promotions intern in 1998. He served as producer of "The Sports Reporters" from October 2001 - June 2006 Galdi is a life-long resident of the D.C.-area. He graduated from Georgetown Prep High School in 1997 and the University of Maryland in 2001. He served as sports director for WMUC, Maryland’s student radio station, during the 2000-01 academic year and called men’s basketball, football and baseball games during his four years at the school.

Chris Harvey
Chris Harvey has worked as an online editor, a magazine editor, a newspaper reporter and a journalism teacher. She left her job as managing editor at American Journalism Review in August 2000 to help build the online curriculum at the College. She created and now edits the College's online newsmagazine, Maryland Newsline, which is staffed by students. She also teaches an introductory online journalism course. Before coming to AJR, Harvey worked as an associate Metro editor at washingtonpost.com. There, she led a content redesign of the Metro section and edited news and feature stories. She earlier taught reporting and editing at the College and ran the College's student-staffed Capital News Service print bureaus in Washington and Annapolis. She has held reporting and editing jobs at several newspapers, including The Washington Times, and has free-lanced for The Washington Post and Congressional Quarterly's "Politics in America."

Toni Locy
Toni Locy is the Donald W. Reynolds Professor of Legal Reporting at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Va. She was a journalist for 25 years, specializing in the coverage of courts and law enforcement. Locy was a reporter for the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, the Philadelphia Daily News and the Pittsburgh Press. She also covered the U.S. Supreme Court and national legal affairs for the Associated Press. Click to expand bio


In 2008 a federal judge held Locy in contempt of court for refusing to reveal the identities of confidential sources who provided information to her for stories she wrote for USA Today about the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks. The judge imposed fines of up to $5,000 a day on Locy, but a federal appeals court stayed the order pending her appeal. The Justice Department eventually settled the Privacy Act lawsuit brought by former Army scientist Steven Hatfill, and the contempt order against Locy was vacated.

Locy earned a Master's Degree in the Studies of Law from the University of Pittsburgh's School of Law in 2007. She graduated from West Virginia University in 1981 with a B.S. degree in journalism. Compact Bio

Frank LoMonte
Frank LoMonte, Executive Director, Student Press Law Center, is an experienced commercial litigation attorney who joined SPLC after practicing with the Atlanta-based law firm of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP and clerking for federal judges on the Northern District of Georgia and the Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. Before law school, LoMonte was an award-winning investigative journalist and political columnist in state Capitol bureaus in Florida and Georgia and in Washington, D.C., with the Morris newspaper chain. LoMonte graduated magna cum laude from the University of Georgia School of Law, where he was a senior editor of the Georgia Law Review.

Sara Mitchell
Sara Mitchell is the current editor-in-chief of the Collegiate Times, the independent student newspaper at Virginia Tech. She also has collegiate experience as a news reporter, copy editor and news editor. She will work as an intern in Fredericksburg, Va. with the Free Lance-Star. Sara is from Vienna, Va. and is a junior political science major.

Sean Mussenden
Sean Mussenden is a Web developer at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism and an adjunct professor of online journalism. Prior to joining the college, he was a multimedia correspondent and Web editor in the Washington bureau of Media General, a chain of newspapers and TV stations in the U.S. Southeast. He developed the bureau's social media strategy, blogged and produced interactive Web applications, online databases, videos and audio slideshows. He was previously a statehouse correspondent for the Orlando Sentinel. You can find him on Twitter @smussenden.

Rem Rieder
Rem Rieder is editor and senior vice president of American Journalism Review, a national magazine that covers all aspects of print, broadcast and online media. Rieder, who has edited the magazine since 1991, also writes columns on media issues for the magazine and its Web site (ajr.org). Click to expand bio


Rieder has held senior editing positions at a number of major newspapers, including the Washington Post (deputy metropolitan editor), Miami Herald (national editor and city editor) and Milwaukee Journal (assistant managing editor/news). He also has served as executive editor of States News Service in Washington D.C.; managing editor of the Trenton Times in New Jersey; reporter, Washington correspondent and deputy metro editor at the Philadelphia Bulletin; and reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Rieder has taught media industry reporting, journalism ethics, magazine editing and production, and advanced public affairs reporting as an adjunct professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. A Philadelphia native, he is a graduate of Harvard University and lives in Washington, D.C. Compact Bio

Bryan P. Sears
Bryan P. Sears is political editor for eight Baltimore County, Maryland community newspapers owned by Patuxent Publishing Co. and a weekly political contributor to Maryland's Morning News program on WBAL AM 1090. He has won awards for coverage of Maryland National Guard troops sent to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina in Gulfport, MS, investigative reports on malfeasance at a local community college system and a county health officer who was not licensed to practice medicine, coverage of state and local government and for coverage of a 2000 spree killing and four-day hostage standoff in eastern Baltimore County. He is also president of the Society of Professional Journalists Maryland Pro Chapter. He lives in Towson, MD.

Alicia Shepard
Alicia C. Shepard was appointed NPR's ombudsman in October 2007. In 2000, NPR was the first U.S. broadcast news organization to create an Ombudsman position. In this role, Shepard serves as the public's representative, and is responsible for bringing transparency to journalism decision-making processes. She responds to queries and comments from listeners, writes a blog, appears on NPR programs to discuss listener concerns and provides guidance on journalism practices to NPR Member stations. She sees her job as explaining NPR to listeners, and listeners to NPR. Click to expand bio


Before coming to NPR, Shepard spent four years teaching journalism and contributing to The New York Times, Washingtonian magazine, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The Newark Star Ledger and The Washington Post while working on a book. That book, Woodward & Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate (2006, Wiley), chronicles the lives of the two journalists during and after their landmark investigation. She is the co-author of Running Toward Danger: Stories Behind the Breaking News of 9/11 (2002), about how journalists covered the tragedy and the public roles they played.

In 2003, Shepard served as a Foster Distinguished Writer at Penn State. From 1993 to 2002, Shepard was a principal contributor to American Journalism Review on such topics as ethics and the newspaper industry. Her work was recognized three times with the National Press Club's top media criticism prize. She was a staff reporter with The San Jose (CA) Mercury News from 1982 to 1987. Shepard has also taught English in Japan.

Shepard holds a B.A. in English from The George Washington University and received a M.A. in Journalism from the University of Maryland.

She teaches a graduate-level course in Media Ethics at Georgetown University. Compact Bio

George Solomon
George Solomon was Assistant Managing Editor for Sports for The Washington Post from June 1, 1975 to June 1, 2003. Although he officially retired from The Washington Post on December 31, 2003, he continued to write a sports column through Jan. 1, 2009. He also became the first ombudsman for ESPN on July 1, 2005 — a position he held until April 1, 2007. He co-edited the book "All Those Mornings at the Post" — an anthology of the work of the late Washington Post columnist Shirley Povich. The book was published in 2005 by Public Affairs Press. Click to expand bio


Mr. Solomon began working at The Post in 1972, joining the staff as a reporter covering the Redskins, NFL and college sports. He is a 1963 graduate of the University of Florida with a bachelor of science in journalism. After graduation, he worked for one year in the publications department of the NCAA, was a news aide for one year for the New York Post and was a reporter, sports columnist and sports editor for the Fort Lauderdale News and Sun-Sentinel from 1965 to 1970. He joined the now-defunct Washington Daily News as a reporter and columnist before joining The Washington Post in June of 1972 after the closing of the Daily News.

He won the Red Smith award in 2003 from the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) for contributions to sports journalism and was honored that year by the National Association of Black Journalists and Association for Women in Sports Media. He is married to Hazel Solomon, who retired after 20 years working for the consulting firm, Booz Allen and Hamilton. The Solomons live in Arlington, VA. They have three children and six grandchildren.

Mr. Solomon has been a visiting professor at the College since 2003. He held the position of Shirley Povich Professor (Sept. 2007-June 2008), which was created at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism in 2007 to honor Shirley Povich, who was a sports columnist and editor for The Washington Post for 75 years. Mr. Povich died in 1998. Compact Bio

Steve Taylor
Steve Taylor, adjunct professor of communication at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., is a freelance writer, video producer and media relations consultant based in Arlington, Va. For twelve years Taylor was a correspondent for ABC News. He covered the White House as a correspondent for Unistar Radio Network and Satellite News Channel and also did White House reporting for National Journal’s CongressDaily and the PBS NewsHour. Click to expand bio


Taylor also has reported for CNN, CBS Radio and Mutual/NBC Radio. He has covered Congress, the Supreme Court, federal agencies and the last nine presidential campaigns. He was the first broadcast reporter to win the Merriman Smith Award for Presidential News Coverage from the White House Correspondents Association. For his reporting from New York on 9/11, he shared ABC’s Peabody and DuPont-Columbia Awards.

Taylor was a contributing writer to two books published in 2009: Latinos And The Nation’s Future, edited by former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry G. Cisneros, and Weathering Storms: Human Resources In Difficult Times, published by the Society for Human Resource Management. For five years he was host of Technogenesis, a Comcast television program about innovations in science and engineering. Taylor has a degree in economics from the University of Virginia. Compact Bio

Greg Toland
Greg Toland has over 20 years of television broadcasting experience and is currently a freelance sports anchor for Comcast SportsNet. From October 2000 to January 2009, he was the weekend sports anchor at WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C. and won an Emmy in 2002. Earlier in his career, he held positions in Pittsburgh and South Carolina. Toland graduated for the University of Maryland in 1984.

Ron Yaros
Yaros is an assistant professor in the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. For 2010, he teaches the new "I" series course Information 3.0 plus a graduate seminar in new media research. His professional experience spans twenty-five years as an Emmy award-winning broadcaster and President of a national software company. Publications include: Communication Research, Harvard's Nieman Reports, American Journalism Review, a chapter in Journalism and Citizenship: New Agendas, plus his Twitter and blog sites.