MEETINGS
Better Writing = Better Publications
Good writing sets a publication apart. At the April 24 IABC meeting, learn from a journalism and writing professor the most effective techniques for boosting your writing, purging errors from your materials and avoiding those common mistakes that easily slip by.
Jacque Lambiase has taught technology, writing and PR at UNT since 1996. She advises students in the PR sequence, serves on the Women's Studies Program steering committee and occasionally pulls cable in the department's computer labs. She serves on the Southwest Education Council for Journalism and Mass Communication and is a member of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Time & date: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesday, April 24
Place: Petroleum Club, Carter-Burgess Plaza, 777 Main St., 39th floor
Parking: $2.50 in parking garage at Seventh and Commerce streets
Cost: members $20, nonmembers $25, students $18 (online sign-up add $1)
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Pressure? What Pressure?
Lyrics from a Billy Joel song summarize what many PR pros may feel at some point in their careers: You will come to a place where the only thing you feel are loaded guns in your face. Gather the resistance you'll need for such occasions by attending the Greater Fort Worth PRSA April 11 meeting, where humorist-motivational speaker David Wilk will present "Thinking on Your Feet," or how to remain cool under pressure.
Wilk is a founding member of Four Day Weekend, a Fort Worth improvisational comedy group, and a graduate of the Second City Conservatory in Chicago. He travels nationally creating his signature "Man on the Street" videos and facilitating team-building seminars for corporate clients.
The April meeting coincides with the chapter's annual Pro-Am Day where local students majoring in public relations shadow PRSA professionals that morning, then attend the lunch and a résumé/portfolio review session afterward. Additionally, the TCU Bateman Competition team will present its campaign for Family Caregiving 101.
Time & date: noon-1 p.m. Wednesday, April 11
Place: Petroleum Club, Carter-Burgess Plaza, 777 Main St., 39th floor
Parking: free valet in parking garage at Seventh and Commerce streets
Cost: members $25, nonmembers $30, students $20
RSVP: a Cvent invitation is electronically winging its way to members; nonmembers interested in the program, reply to chapter president Marc Flake at mflake@tarrantcounty.com
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STRAIGHT STUFF
Registration is $250 before April 15 and $275 after that for the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference of the Southwest, billed as the region's leading literary nonfiction gathering, July 27-29 at the Hilton DFW Lakes in Grapevine. More at mayborninstitute.unt.edu or from maybornconferenceinfo@unt.edu. ...
The Network of Hispanic Communicators will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 4, at the NBC 5/Telemundo studios, 3900 Barnett St. in Fort Worth, to discuss the upcoming Hispanic Communicators' 25th Annual Scholarship Awards Brunch as well as the NAHJ chapter proposal, high school writing contest and scholarship entries. The brunch will be from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 21, at the Latino Cultural Center, 2600 Live Oak in Dallas. Gilbert Bailon, publisher and editor of Al Dia, will be the keynote speaker, with NBC 5 sports anchor Derek Castillo the emcee. Buy tickets through PayPal at dfwhispanic.org. For more information, e- Gary Piña at gpina@star-telegram.com. ...
A leadership development workshop hosted April 16-18 by the Austin American-Statesman is designed to help editors cope with meeting rising reader expectations in an era of diminishing resources. The interactive sessions will focus on practical solutions to real problems in today's newsrooms. Cost is $385 and includes a "coaching kit," a management-training tool for establishing learning programs in a newsroom. More at newsroomleadership.com or from Edward and Cynthia Miller at miller@newsroomleadership.com or 770-402-1210. ...
Nominations are due April 15 for the National Academies Communication Awards for excellence in reporting and communicating science, engineering and medicine to lay audiences. More here. ...
SPJ and the Lewis family annually present the Robert D.G. Lewis First Amendment Award to a student SPJ member who has demonstrated outstanding service to the First Amendment through journalism. The $500 cash award must be used to attend the 2007 SPJ Convention and National Journalism Conference in Washington, D.C. More here. ...
The Newspaper Association of America is offering 16 minority fellowships for July through December 2007 designed to widen opportunities for ethnic professionals to enter or advance in newspaper management. April 30 deadline. More information and applications at the NAA web site. ...
