PENNSYLVANIA PRESS CONFERENCE 2010
Headlines
- Open records: fighting the good fight
- SPJ honors winners in the 'Spotlight'
- Pulitzers: They don't come easy
- Virginia judges Keystones, winners announced Saturday
- Conference focuses on social media, evolving newsrooms
- Meet new PSNE president
- 'People drive politics, and politics drive people crazy'
- If you're going to get hyper, get local
- Social media advance to forefront
Saturday Events
- PSNE Silent Auction: Bidding ends at 6:30 p.m.
- Open Records — more than a year later, 9 a.m.
- Thinking Big While Going Hyper Local, 10:30 a.m.
- PWPA Annual Awards Luncheon, Noon
- Online Hyper Local, 1:45 p.m.
- Award Winners: Tapping the big stories in your backyard, 3:15 p.m.
- Keystone Press Awards Banquet, 6:30 p.m., with speaker Jacqui Banaszynski
Timely Topics
"How do you improve your online presence with your online edition of the newspaper?"
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"How does your newspaper use social networking?"
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"How does your newspaper use social networking?"
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Acknowledgements
Pennsylvania Newspaper Press Conference is sponsored by: Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, Pennsylvania Society of Newspaper Editors, Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors in Conjunction with the Pennsylvania Women's Press Association and the Society of Professional Journalists.
PSNE Online Reporter Internship staff: from left, Hai Do, The Philadelphia Inquirer; Aimee Morgan, Robert Morris University; Chelsey Klube, Gannon University; Samantha Kramer, Penn State University; Janet Bevan, Pennsylvania Newspaper Association; Jacqueline Lukas, Wilkes University; Elissa Hartmann, St. Joseph's University; Harry Funk, The Observer-Reporter; Sandra Long, The Philadelphia Inquirer; Daniel Victor, TBD.com.
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Ron Southwick
Jacqui Banaszynski
'We need to get better at asking questions'
By Chelsey Klube, Gannon University
According to Jacqui Banaszynski, there is no simple way to approach hyper-local.
"The risk is believing that we have all the answers," she said, "but we need to get better at asking questions."
Journalists should be asking themselves who they are including in their reporting, she said. More likely than not, she said, writers and editors need to work with the community more.
Though local includes the physical area surrounding an area, it is not limited to a particular neighborhood or block.
"Local is a state of mind and heart," she said. "It is not on a map. It's what you're interested in, what you're passionate about."
Banaszynski said that both Iraq and Arizona could be considered local for a Pennsylvania resident. Having a family member in Iraq or simply a vested interest in the immigration legislation in Arizona is all it takes for these distant locations to be considered "local."
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"The risk is believing that we have all the answers," she said, "but we need to get better at asking questions."
Journalists should be asking themselves who they are including in their reporting, she said. More likely than not, she said, writers and editors need to work with the community more.
Though local includes the physical area surrounding an area, it is not limited to a particular neighborhood or block.
"Local is a state of mind and heart," she said. "It is not on a map. It's what you're interested in, what you're passionate about."
Banaszynski said that both Iraq and Arizona could be considered local for a Pennsylvania resident. Having a family member in Iraq or simply a vested interest in the immigration legislation in Arizona is all it takes for these distant locations to be considered "local."
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PWPA: Internet's OK!
By Jacqueline Lukas, Wilkes University
Because of the ever-changing Internet, the Pennsylvania Women's Press Association has decided to increase its online presence with an option for online contest entries and a new website launching in the fall.
Recently, the PWPA began allowing members to enter their contest online; and with that, comes complications.
"What's interesting about the contest is that it really has evolved," said JoAnne Klimovich Harrop, president of PWPA and reporter at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. She said that having online contest entries adds many questions to the criteria of the contests that the PWPNA hosts.
"(Having online entries) comes with other things: well, if it just runs online and doesn't run in the paper, does that count?" Harrop said.
During the PWPA Annual Membership Meeting on Saturday, there was discussion about who should be able to enter the contests that the PWPA hosts. Only PWPA members can enter contests, but the discussion was focused on which articles could be entered.
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Recently, the PWPA began allowing members to enter their contest online; and with that, comes complications.
"What's interesting about the contest is that it really has evolved," said JoAnne Klimovich Harrop, president of PWPA and reporter at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. She said that having online contest entries adds many questions to the criteria of the contests that the PWPNA hosts.
"(Having online entries) comes with other things: well, if it just runs online and doesn't run in the paper, does that count?" Harrop said.
During the PWPA Annual Membership Meeting on Saturday, there was discussion about who should be able to enter the contests that the PWPA hosts. Only PWPA members can enter contests, but the discussion was focused on which articles could be entered.
Read full article
Last updated: June 8, 2010