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50th Newsroom Seminar

& Better Newspaper Contest Awards Luncheon

Saturday, December 3, 2016 ◆ Indianapolis Marriott North

ANNUAL HSPA

50th Annual HSPA Newsroom Seminar SponsorsThe Hoosier State Press Association & Foundation

extends a thank you to our 2016 sponsors George Garties & Steven Badger

Support the HSPA Foundation’s auction for a chance to win gift baskets

and more!

HSPA Foundation Auction

Cellist Martin Meyer is a 2016 graduate from Butler University and performs with the Columbus Philharmonic, Terre Haute Symphony, and Fort Wayne Philharmonic.

Registration – 8 a.m. Dec. 3Coffee and tea available

50th Annual HSPA Newsroom Seminar Meet the Newsroom Seminar speakers

Awards luncheon – Noon, Whitcomb BallroomBetter Newspaper Contest awards presentationThe awards presentation will follow lunch.

Jeanne Abbott is an associate professor of journalism and managing editor of the Columbia Missourian, the School’s working laboratory for students. She joined the Missouri School of Journalism in August 2007 as a fellow of the Knight Center for Editing Excellence. Formerly Abbott served as the assistant managing editor at the Des Moines (Iowa) Register. She earned four degrees from the University of Missouri: bachelor’s

degrees in English and journalism in 1967, a master’s degree in 1969 and a doctorate in journalism in 1988. Her professional experience includes stints at the Sacramento (Calif.) Bee and the Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News. Abbott has worked as an assistant professor at California State University in Sacramento and as an instructor at the Missouri School of Journalism.

David Haugh is a North Judson, Ind., native who played football at Ball State University and graduated with a degree in journalism and political science. He earned a master’s from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. His first job was covering Notre Dame football at the South Bend Tribune, where he spent 10 years -- the last eight as sports columnist. He came to the Chicago Tribune in 2003 and spent two

years as the Bears beat writer, two as an enterprise writer and three as the Bears columnist. Since 2009, he has written In the Wake of the News as the Tribune’s sports columnist. His wife, Allison, is a yoga instructor, and they have a son, Blair, and two dogs.

Robert Cohen is a community photojournalist for the the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He can be found in schools, at parades, in restaurants and on baseball fields, or wherever a story about St. Louis and its people asks to be told. Cohen’s images of unrest following the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., were part of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photogra-phy awarded to the photo staff. He has been a finalist for the prize twice - in 2010 for feature photography

for a body of work about suburban homelessness, and in 2009 for breaking news reporting as a member of the team covering a city hall shooting. He has been named eight times as Regional Photographer of the Year by the National Press Photographer’s Association and is a member of the Scripps-Howard Editorial Hall of Fame. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, he began his career at the tiny Sun-Tattler newspaper in Hollywood, Florida, now home to a Holiday Inn.

Luke Britt was appointed Indiana’s public access counselor by Gov. Mike Pence in 2013. He previously served as an attorney and operations manager for the Indiana State Department of Health and as an attorney for the Indiana Department of Child Services. Britt received his undergraduate degree in journalism from Franklin College and his law degree from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law. He has also completed course work toward a master’s of business

administration degree at the University of Indianapolis. As the public access counselor, Britt provides advice, assistance and education concerning Indi-ana’s public access laws to the public and government entities. The office also publishes advisory opinions on access law compliance.

Steve Key, HSPA’s executive director and general counsel, offers advice on legal questions to member news papers. Key also represents HSPA be fore the Indi-ana General Assembly, lobbying for the public’s free-dom of information rights and the interests of Indiana newspapers. Before earning a law degree, Key worked at newspapers for 13 years, including two as man-aging editor at the Noblesville Daily Ledger and three as assistant news editor at the Daily Journal (Franklin).

Denise Malan joined IRE as a training director in Au-gust 2016. Previously, she worked at the Institute for Nonprofit News in a joint position with IRE for three years. She spent the first two years helping nonprofit news organizations around the country collaborate on data projects, then served as interim executive director before becoming director of training and data services, overseeing INN’s training program that developed busi-ness skills among nonprofit news leaders. She was

a newspaper journalists for more than a decade, covering government, education, politics, the environment and more. She was data/investigative editor at the Corpus Christi Caller-Times in Texas.

Session I – 8:30-9:15 a.m., Hart/Shields Rm.What police must give you: The daily log requirement and police body camera video

Luke Britt, Indiana public access counselorSteve Key, Hoosier State Press Association

The Access to Public Records Act requires law enforcement agencies to provide certain information on crimes, arrests, and incarceration. APRA now also includes a process for you to appeal denials of requests for copies of police and cruiser camera video.

Session II – 9:30-10:30 a.m. Bulletproofing the Data Story, Hart/Shields Rm.

Denise Malan, Training Director - Investigative Reporters and EditorsThis session is designed to cover strategies, tips and techniques to ensure accuracy. Check the facts, assumptions and public records that underpin your story and make sure your reporting, including the visual components, say what you think they are saying.

Learning to Write From The Sports Page, Porter/Miller Rm.David Haugh, Chicago TribuneNancy Armour, USA Today

Two of the top sports journalists in America, discuss their experiences in the highly competitive world of national and international sports media and how the journalist principles of accurate, compelling and creative writing are paramount to all sections of the newspaper.

Capturing Moments In Time When Time & Moments Are More Fleeting Than Ever, Clark Rm.Robert Cohen, St. Louis Dispatch Community Photojournalist

Today’s visual journalists are pulled in so many different directions, that our core mission of reaching readers with captured moments of time is eroding. Robert will talk about wearing too many hats and the pitfalls of navigating that new reality.

Session III – 10:45-11:45 a.m. Data and Documents You Can’t Be Without, Hart/Shields Rm.

Denise Malan, Training Director - Investigative Reporters and EditorsMove beyond anecdotes and he-said, she-said journalism with data and documents. Advice on developing a documents state of mind, navigating public records, understanding records retention schedules, exploring key records on a variety of beats, and becoming familiar with key data sets to produce high-impact local stories.

Using Social Media Tools to Your Advantage, Porter/Miller Rm.Jeanne Abbott, Missouri School of Journalism

It can be challenging for newsrooms to keep up with the ever-changing social media landscape, but it can also be a key to building and retaining audi-ences. This session will cover best practices and advice about learning the importance of a strong internet presence and ways your publication can share content and grow its digital audience in simple ways.

Photo Panel of HSPA Photo Editors, Clark Rm.Justin Rumbach, Editor, Jasper Herald

Denny Simmons, Photojournalist, Courier Press (Evansville)

Robert Cohen, Photojournalist, St. Louis Dispatch

Darron Cummings, Photojournalist, Associated Press

Nancy Armour is a columnist for USA TODAY Sports. An award-winning journalist, she has been with USA TODAY since January 2014 after more than 20 years with The Associated Press. She has covered almost every major sporting event, including every Olympics since 1996 and the last five World Cups, and her assignments have taken her to every continent but Antarctica.

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Agenda

Don’t miss the iPad giveaway during the

awards luncheon!(Must be present to win)