MEETINGS
Every Picture Tells a Story
Internationally acclaimed location photographer Suzanne Salvo will tell how to "Increase Communication Effectiveness with Images" and offer tips to help non-photographers shoot like a pro at the February IABC meeting.
Suzanne and her husband, Chris, own Salvo Photography, an award-winning studio based in Houston. Location shooting for such clients as Lockheed Martin, Travelocity, the American Bureau of Shipping and ExxonMobil has taken Suzanne to nearly 50 countries.
A highly rated speaker at Ragan Communications and IABC regional and international conferences, she has conducted workshops on visual communications and digital photography throughout the United States and beyond. She is a past-president of IABC/Houston and served on IABC international's board of directors in 2003-04.
Time & date: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 28
Place: Petroleum Club, Carter-Burgess Plaza, 777 Main St., 39th floor
Parking: $2.50 in parking garage at Seventh and Commerce streets
Cost: $20 members, $25 nonmembers
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Live and Learn: The PR Blunders We've Made
Everyone knows that he should learn from his mistakes. Problem is, you have to make the mistake before you can learn from it. Chapter members will share their most memorable experiences (that's a nice way to put it) in the industry at the special Pro-Am Day meeting this month with PR students from PRSA affiliate universities.
Time & date: 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8
Place: Petroleum Club, Carter-Burgess Plaza, 777 Main St., 39th floor
Parking: free valet in parking garage at Seventh and Commerce streets
Cost: $25 members, $30 nonmembers, $15 students participating in Pro-Am Day, $20 students not participating in Pro-Am Day
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Where Have All the Journalists Gone?
Will we be paraphrasing Pete Seeger's "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" in a few decades? What's happening to newspapers and why? Knight Ridder may sell its papers. Major dailies are cutting staff. Circulation is down, and classified advertising is going to the Internet. Will there be jobs for print journalists in 10 years?
Longtime newspaper observer and researcher Jerry Grotta will address those questions at the February SPJ meeting at Joe T. Garcia's.
Grotta has worn many hats in the newspaper business over 50 years -- printer, writer, editor, photographer, editorial writer, page designer -- and three decades ago wrote an article predicting today's newspaper woes. For the last 30 years he has studied print media and their readers and advertisers. He has done research for The Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, Rolling Stone and other publications and has been a discussion leader more than 20 times for the American Press Institute.
He has taught at Idaho State U., Southern Illinois U. and the University of Oklahoma. He retired in 2000 from TCU but continues to teach part time in the Schieffer School of Journalism.
Time & date: mingling 5:30 p.m., eats at 6, then the program, Thursday, Feb. 23
Place: ballroom cantina at Joe T. Garcia's Mexican restaurant, 2201 N. Commerce St., Fort Worth
Cost: $15 members, $20 nonmembers, $5 students; cash bar; just to hear the program -- free
Menu: Joe T.'s legendary family-style enchilada dinner
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STRAIGHT STUFF
Postmark deadline is Feb. 18 to vie for Fort Worth SPJ's third annual First Amendment Awards. Everything one needs to know is here. If you're still feeling competitive, the Chicago Headline Club is seeking nominations for its annual Ethics in Journalism Award, with forms available at headlineclub.org; deadline is Feb. 10. Contact Casey Bukro with questions and nominations: cbukro@tribune.com or (847) 869-4193. ...
What do you call a Super Bowl party that's four days before the game? You call it a fiesta pep rally. The Dallas/Fort Worth Network of Hispanic Communicators and DFW Association of Black Communicators, both celebrating 25-year anniversaries, will greet and eat, mix and mingle at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 1, at La Calle Doce, 415 W. 12th St., Dallas. Admission is a $5 donation. Cash bar. Members of AAJA, NAJA, SPJ, AWA, etc. also are invited. For info call Gary Piña, (817) 390-7807, or Toya Stewart, (214) 977-8748. ...
The Network of Hispanic Communicators has posted its 2006 scholarship form at dfwhispanic.org. Applications deadline is March 3. The scholarhip brunch/reception will be Saturday, April 22, at Los Vaqueros restaurant in Fort Worth. ... To commemorate the organization's first 25 years, inductees will be added to the Hispanic communicators' Hall of Fame. Send nominations by Feb. 1 to Ana Barrera Waggoner at abarrera@dallasnews.com. ... The NHC's daylong workshop for young journalists will be Saturday, March 4, at UTA, and coming soon will be details on the annual high school writing contest. E- Michael Vega at michael_vega@sbcglobal.net. ...
The Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, in partners with the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, is accepting applications for an expenses-paid seminar March 26-31 at the University of California, Berkeley, that combines instruction in multimedia reporting with exploration of media convergence and other critical issues for online news. Apply at WKConline.org. Application deadline: Feb. 10. Questions: Lanita Pace-Hinton, (510) 643-7429 or pacel@berkeley.edu.
IABC local update: Stacy Wilson, ABC, president of Eloquor Consulting, a Colorado-based communications consulting firm, will speak at IABC/Fort Worth's regular monthly meeting and also lead a half-day seminar, both March 28, on how well-managed technology boosts the bottom line. The presentations will cover legal issues, offer tools to enable those in key communication technology roles, and help attendees identify bottlenecks that can stifle creativity and content. Details next month.
IABC local update II: Idil Cakim with Burson-Marsteller and James E. Lukaszewski, ABC, APR, Fellow PRSA, will present a virtual seminar from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22, on "Dark Sites: Using the Web in a Crisis." Info at krm.com/iabc.
IABC local update III: Former IABC chairman (and Hurricane Katrina survivor) Charles Pizzo will present "Cover Your Assets: Communication Planning for Disaster Recovery" at the Tuesday, Feb. 14, IABC/Dallas luncheon. More here.
