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Wednesday
, August 13
Meeting Room 12, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown
9:00am •
IRE's Watchdog Workshop
LIMITED
Meeting Room 13, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown
9:00am •
International Reporting: Making Your Way Abroad (Presented by Columbia Journalism School)
LIMITED
11:00am •
INSTAGRAMANIA
Meeting Room 14, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown
10:00am •
Follow the Money (Presented by the Sunlight Foundation)
LIMITED
NPR, Studio 1
10:00am •
Day of Data (Presented by AAJA, hosted by National Public Radio)
LIMITED
Renaissance Ballroom, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown
6:00pm •
Opening Reception
The Washington Post, Meeting Rooms 1 and 2
10:00am •
Learn to Code (Presented by AAJA, Hosted by The Washington Post)
LIMITED
Thursday
, August 14
Grand Ballroom, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown
9:00am •
Career Fair & Expo
10:00am •
Speed mentoring 101
11:00am •
Early career roundtable
3:00pm •
Ask the recruiters
4:00pm •
Breakout session: Journalism education
Meeting Room 10, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown
10:00am •
Charts and maps and tables! Oh, my! The basics of graphics and data visualization
11:00am •
Conquer the world of data with these simple tools
2:00pm •
Polling and stats 101 - don't be fooled
3:00pm •
What newsroom leaders can learn from data science
4:00pm •
Breakout session: Technology
Meeting Room 12, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown
10:00am •
Creating the perfect online portfolio
2:00pm •
Data demo: How to jailbreak data from a PDF
4:00pm •
Breakout session: Regional/Local
Meeting Room 13, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown
10:00am •
How to pull off an interactive project
12:15pm •
North Korea: Secret society through Instagram by David Guttenfelder
2:00pm •
Starting a photography freelance career
3:00pm •
From Tiananmen to Toishan, a Chinese-American photographer's wanderings through the Sinosphere
4:00pm •
Breakout session: Longform
Meeting Room 14, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown
10:00am •
Handy tricks for your best writing for the web
11:00am •
Using web analytics for mobile
2:00pm •
Data demo: Make a map in two hours
4:00pm •
Breakout session: Visual journalism
Meeting Room 17, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown
2:00pm •
Organizing your investigation
3:00pm •
How to data-enable your stories with Census Reporter
4:00pm •
Breakout session: Media diversity advocacy
Meeting Room 2, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown
10:00am •
Pitching to the public radio network
11:00am •
Making it to the Network
2:00pm •
What newsrooms can learn from web-only models
3:00pm •
Social media reporting & ethics
4:00pm •
Breakout session: Sports journalism
Meeting Room 3, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown
10:00am •
Crisis Reporting Abroad
11:00am •
Writing long for the web
12:00pm •
Membership Meeting
3:00pm •
How to change the ratio from the top
Meeting Room 7, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown
9:00am •
NewU: Am I really an entrepreneur?
10:00am •
NewU: I'm just getting started, what do I do?
2:00pm •
Lean startup methodology
3:00pm •
NewU: Design Thinking for Entrepreneurs
4:00pm •
Breakout session: Audience engagement/content strategy
5:00pm •
NewU: Pitches
Renaissance West B, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown
10:00am •
Freelance 101
11:00am •
Outside the newsroom
2:00pm •
All about the money
Friday
, August 15
Grand Ballroom, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown
8:00am •
Student Breakfast, Bagels at the Booth (Invite Only)
9:00am •
Career Fair & Expo
2:00pm •
Second pivot: You've made it, so now what?
3:00pm •
Newsroom to classroom
Meeting Room 10, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown
10:00am •
Data for everyone: How to get data projects integrated into the workflow of small newsrooms
11:00am •
Building things people actually use
2:00pm •
Optimizing for the medium
Meeting Room 12, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown
10:00am •
Hands on tutorial: Make your first web graphic
2:00pm •
MediaWatch: How to effectively respond to unbalanced news coverage
Meeting Room 13, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown
10:00am •
Recording history through the viewfinder
11:00am •
Photojournalist Michael Williamson of The Washington Post
12:15pm •
Multimedia/Photo resource vault
2:00pm •
Got #realtalk? Fostering meaningful reader engagement on touchy subjects
Meeting Room 14, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown
10:00am •
'Everybody's Got One': How to do opinion journalism that matters in an era of digital chaos
11:00am •
What's new in social media?
2:00pm •
Take your web reporting to the next level
3:00pm •
Intro to cyber security for journalists
4:00pm •
Lightning Talks
Meeting Room 17, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown
10:00am •
From the editor's desk
2:00pm •
Do it on a dime
3:00pm •
Vocal Training
Meeting Room 3, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown
12:00pm •
South Asian Women on Entertainment and News
Meeting Room 4, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown
10:00am •
AAJA Sports Task Force Kick-Off!
Meeting Room 5, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown
11:00am •
Race and the midterm elections
2:00pm •
From standups to social media: How to be a digital journalist on TV (sponsored by NBC)
3:00pm •
Why and how should we cover the Asian American community?
Meeting Room 8, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown
11:00am •
Power producing
2:00pm •
How to bring your newsroom into the digital future
3:00pm •
Managing yourself
Meeting Room 9, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown
9:00am •
NewU: Branding you and your company
11:00am •
NewU: What should my pitch deck look like?
2:00pm •
When VCs and media collide
3:00pm •
New media business models
Renaissance West, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown
6:00pm •
Silent Auction
Saturday
, August 16
Grand Ballroom, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown
7:00pm •
Gala Scholarship & Awards Banquet
9:30pm •
AAJA Annual Karaoke Night
Mount Vernon, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown
9:00am •
AAJA Summer Board Meeting
Sunday
, August 17
Mount Vernon, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown
9:00am •
Governing Board Meeting
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