MEETINGS
Lasso the Moon: Managing New Technology with Real People
Blogs. Wikis. Portals. What's next? More importantly, who's going to keep it all fresh? Bells and whistles don't do anything for an organization if they aren't managed with the same forethought that brought them in-house in the first place. A half-day seminar March 28 will explore legal issues and how to identify bottlenecks that may stifle creativity and great content.
Stacy Wilson, ABC, president of Colorado-based Eloquor Consulting, will lead the seminar and also speak at the chapter's regular monthly meeting on "Get a Seat at the Table: Become an Internal Communication Consultant." She will examine the skills needed to deliver precise strategic consulting to your own organization and teach how to measure your consulting success.
Time & date: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesday, March 28
Place: Petroleum Club, Carter-Burgess Plaza, 777 Main St., 39th floor
Parking: $2.50 in parking garage at Seventh and Commerce streets
Cost: seminar and lunch $70 members, $95 nonmembers
RSVP by noon March 24: Julie Trowbridge,
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Gone fishing. Actually, no, gone to the Southwest District Conference, participation in which replaces the luncheon and program this month. The regular schedule will resume in April.
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Censorship or Editing? Free-speech Strangulation or
Preparation for the Real World of Editors and Supervisors?
Margaret Hosty and her fellow editors took their fight over control of content in The Innovator, the student newspaper at Governors State University, all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. They were turned down, leaving intact an appeals court ruling that may imply that college administrators have as much authority over college journalists as high school administrators have over high school journalists -- which is considerable.
At the March SPJ meeting at UTA, co-sponsored by UTA Student Publications, Hosty will fly in from Illinois to talk about her legal battle. Organizers also will present an administration (UTA, not Governors State) perspective. Afterward, student journalists will network and get help on their résumés from editors who see lots of them.
Students from UTA, TCU, UNT, SMU, TCC, Texas Wesleyan and Arlington and Mansfield high schools have been invited.
Speakers: Margaret Hosty, plaintiff in Hosty v. Carter, and UTA President James Spaniolo, a former Knight Ridder executive and communications school dean
Time & date: mingling 5:30 p.m., pizza and program at 6, Wednesday, March 22
Cost: $15 members, $20 nonmembers, $5 students
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STRAIGHT STUFF
'59 TCU grad Bob Schieffer, interim "CBS Evening News" anchor and moderator of "Face the Nation"; Jill Abramson, managing editor of The New York Times; Larry Kramer, founder of Marketwatch.com and president of CBS Digital Media; Judy Woodruff, former anchor of CNN's "Inside Politics" and a correspondent for PBS's "NewsHour"; and Len Downie, executive editor of The Washington Post, will discuss the factors affecting the ways in which news is distributed and received at the TCU Schieffer School of Journalism's second annual Schieffer Symposium, "The Changing Communications Landscape," at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 5, in TCU's Brown-Lupton Student Center Ballroom. Tickets are $15; call (817) 257-5976. Area students will be admitted free with a student ID. ...
Fast times at Journalism High. The SPJ workshop for Fort Worth j-students will be Saturday, April 8, in the Student Center at Tarrant County College Northeast Campus. E- Mark Horvit at mhhorvit@yahoo.com. ...
Full-time newspaper people -- copy editors, page designers, editors, reporters, photographers -- are eligible for scholarships to attend any accredited college or university course in religion, online courses included, through the Religion Newswriters Association's Lilly Scholarships. Recipients receive up to $5,000 per course to cover tuition, books, parking and other expenses. Application deadlines are April 1, July 1 and Oct. 1. The RNA has $100,000 in scholarship funds available. See rna.org/scholarships.php, or call Amy Schiska at (614) 891-9001, ext. 3. ...
The National Academies' 2006 National Academies Communication Awards recognize excellence in reporting on science, engineering and medicine during 2005. Three $20,000 prizes will be awarded to a book author, print or online journalist and a producer or reporter in television or radio. Online nominations must be completed by April 7. See keckfutures.org/awards. ... The Scripps Howard Foundation's Roy W. Howard Collegiate Reporting Competition will select nine undergraduate j-students to participate in a 12-day tour of Japan and South Korea. Apply by March 31 at the foundation's web site.
IABC local update: A guide to IABC and its programs is available for members at iabc.com/members/pdf/membershandbook.pdf. ... Consultant and Bono pal John Bourke will present "Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High" at the Tuesday, March 14, IABC/Dallas luncheon. More here.
PRSA local update: The Independent Practitioners SIG will meet Friday, March 24, 11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m. at Central Market, I-30 and Hulen Street. ... Inspired by both African-American History Month in February and National Women's History Month in March, Greater Fort Worth PRSA will have an enhanced focus on diversity in 2006, under the banner of "Diversity: Understanding Your Target Audience." Diversity committee members Dora Tovar and Glenda Thompson are developing a presentation for an upcoming luncheon, as well as a diversity-themed professional development session. Information on diversity subjects will be available at the monthly chapter meetings throughout the year.
PRSA local update II: National PRSA is offering two one-hour teleseminars this month -- "The How of Wow: A Guide to Being a Great Speechmaker," 2 p.m. Thursday, March 9; and "Think Like a Reader and Get Read," 2 p.m. Thursday, March 16 -- and GFW PRSA will foot the bill and arrange a location if enough members express interest. E- mflake@tarrantcounty.com. Additional teleseminars may be offered in March through the chapter e-mail list.
SPJ national update: One of them is lying; and O'Waffly. Jack Abramoff said in correspondence made public Feb. 6 that President Bush met him "almost a dozen" times, disputing White House claims that Bush did not know the former lobbyist at the center of a corruption scandal. "The guy saw me in almost a dozen settings, and joked with me about a bunch of things, including details of my kids. Perhaps he has forgotten everything, who knows," Abramoff wrote in an e-mail to Kim Eisler, national editor for the Washingtonian magazine. The messages "reflect the feeling of frustration he has, not just with Bush but with all these guys claiming they didn't know him," said Eisler, who met Abramoff through a book he wrote about the Pequot Indian tribe. More here. ... Fox talker Bill O'Reilly now says that the United States should "hand over everything to the Iraqis as fast as humanly possible" because "[t]here are so many nuts in the country -- so many crazies -- that we can't control them." O'Reilly previously called those advocating immediate withdrawal from Iraq "pinheads" and compared them to Hitler appeasers. More here.
