MEETINGS
So What's It Worth to You? Plenty
The January luncheon will detail IABC resources, with an overview of upcoming programs and discussions on becoming an accredited business communicator, the Bronze Quill awards and the online benefits available to members.
Time & date: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 4
Place: Petroleum Club, Carter-Burgess Plaza, 777 Main St., 39th floor
Parking: $2.50 in parking garage at Seventh and Commerce streets
Cost: $17 members, $25 nonmembers, $12 students
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Everything You Want to Know about PRSA, Without Even Asking
Kelly Albanese, national PRSA representative and chapter/district relationship coordinator, will explain "What PRSA can do for you" at the January GFW PRSA luncheon. Besides spotlighting PRSA's 2005 plans, she will tell how best to utilize national PRSA resources, including the variety of professional interest sections like Corporate, Employee and Financial Communications.
Tables at the meeting will feature representatives of the services and programs that the chapter offers its members. Those in attendance will learn more about the NuPros, Higher Education, Health Care and Creative Consultants SIGs as well as the chapter's newest group, the Masters, for PR pros with more than 15 years experience.
Time & date: 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 12, with an information fair from 11:30 a.m. to noon
Place: Petroleum Club, Carter-Burgess Plaza, 777 Main St., 39th floor
Parking: free valet in parking garage at Seventh and Commerce streets
Cost: $20 members, $23 nonmembers, $18 students
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Finding Time for Long-term Projects
Meet two journalists who do find the time: Nanci Wilson and Scott Streater. Both cover major beats but still do investigative work they consider vital to good journalism -- and to personal growth. They will share their tips at the January meeting for putting project time in your already busy daily schedule. You'll even go home with a handout.
Wilson, an investigative reporter for KEYE-TV in Austin, recently won the National Journalism Award and the Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting. While at the Pensacola News Journal, Streater won a 2002 Society of Environmental Journalists first place, the 2001 Waldo Proffitt Award for environmental journalism in Florida and the 2001 Edward J. Meeman Award for environmental reporting from the Scripps-Howard Foundation. He has produced close to 40 stories for the Star-Telegram since joining the paper in October 2003, including in-depth reports on "Byzantine" federal air quality regulations, obfuscation at the EPA and discarded prescription drugs trashing Texas waterways.
Date & time: Wednesday, Jan. 12; mingling and eats start at 5:30, program at 7
Place: Texas Land & Cattle Steak House, 2009 E. Copeland Road in Arlington, (817) 461-1500; from Dallas, exit Collins Street off I-30, cross the I-30 bridge and turn left (go east) on Copeland Road (immediately south of I-30); about a mile down the road, just past the Howard Johnson, turn left into the parking lot that both Texas Land & Cattle and On the Border share; from Fort Worth, exit Nolan Ryan Expressway off I-30 and turn left on to Copeland Road at the light
Cost: you decide -- order off the menu
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STRAIGHT STUFF
IABC/Dallas' seventh annual networking luncheon launches '05 in a business card and buffet sort of way Tuesday, Jan. 11. More here. ... Watch fortworthchamber.com/ for details on Anita Vanetti's Feb. 15 seminar on how to pitch to the media. ...
Ten student journalists will be selected to attend the 2005 Sports Journalism Institute, a training program for college sophomores and juniors (any major) interested in a sports journalism career, June 18-Aug. 13. Application deadline is Jan. 4. The students will receive an expenses-paid crash course in sports journalism at the APSE annual convention in Orlando, June 22-25; a seven-week paid internship in the sports department of a daily newspaper; and a $500 scholarship for those who return to school. More here. ...
Application deadline is Jan. 14 for the five-day Diverse Voices multicultural workshop pairing aspiring student journalists with AP writers and editors as mentors. The workshop, tentatively set for May 16-20, is open to full-time college sophomores or juniors; up to 12 will be chosen. The AP pays expenses. Send a résumé, at least three writing samples, a 500-word essay on why you'd like to participate and two letters of recommendation, at least one from a teacher or faculty adviser, to Robert Naylor, director of career development/news, The Associated Press, 450 W. 33rd St., New York, N.Y. 10001. More at ap.org/apjobs/diverse.html. ... Deadline is Jan. 28 to submit an entry illuminating diversity (broadly defined as "a point of respect in which things differ") in the AIGA World Day of Design poster competition. The competition is not limited to AIGA members or professional designers. Fifty winning posters will be exhibited in venues around the nation April 27. The next day, all posters submitted will be posted online. More at aiga.org/worlddayofdesign. ...
The International Women's Media Foundation invites applications for the Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship, a new program that supports women journalists who report on human rights and social justice issues. The fellowship combines research opportunities at MIT's Center for International Studies and other Boston-area universities with reporting at The New York Times and The Boston Globe. Application deadline is Feb. 25. More at iwmf.org/programs/neuffer. ... The East-West Center in Honolulu is accepting applications -- deadline Jan. 24 -- for its spring 2005 Jefferson Fellowships, a travel-study fellowship for mid-career journalists from Asia, the Pacific and the United States. Fellows spend a week at the East-West Center discussing regional issues with experts. The Americans then travel to Jakarta, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Beijing for 16 days, while the Asians and Pacific islanders go to Washington, D.C., Minneapolis and Dallas. More at eastwestcenter.org.
PRSA local update: NuPros coordinator Phil Beckman reports: "Hello, everyone, and Happy 'News' Year! I invite everyone to join NuPros on Wednesday, Jan. 19 (and every third Wednesday of the month), at Cafe Express, 1540 S. University Drive, for food, fun and networking. Note the new time: 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. It's a new year, and we have lots to talk about. Please e-mail me at pbeckman@star-telegram.com so that I have an approximate idea of how big a group we'll have. See you soon!" ... Dallas Morning News arts critic Tom Sime, Pat Porter with the Dallas Business Committee for the Arts and Michelle Bleiberg, PR director for the Dallas Museum of Art, will address "Even Beethoven, Picasso and Shakespeare Need PR: Promoting the Arts in Dallas" at the Dallas PRSA meeting Thursday, Jan. 13. More here.
