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I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you down the road!
Leaders of UNITY’s member organizations debated whether the organization will continue in its current structure, amid concerns that it may have strayed from its core mission.
Not every journalist can stand up at a press association meeting with a 20-minute speaking limit and get away with speaking for an hour and 15 minutes.
The late veteran journalist Vernon Jarrett did.
This year’s UNITY convention offered 111 workshops for writers, editors and new media journalists.
But the host organization planned no workshops for copy editors, photographers, graphic artists and designers.
For those not on the job hunt, a convention serves as an opportunity to stock up on much more than business cards, and UNITY ’08 is no exception.
From the moment they register, conference attendees are greeted with goodies.
Chicago Sun-Times columnist Lacy Banks made history by becoming the first black sportswriter for his newspaper. Now, he is garnering attention by documenting his battle with prostate and brain cancer in a blog.
As the journalism industry grapples with job cuts, company sell-offs and a crippled U.S. economy, the revenue and registration numbers have dipped below those for the last UNITY convention.
Sen. Barack Obama addressed thousands of journalists at a live forum on the final day of the UNITY convention in his first appearance since returning to the U.S. after a spending a week overseas.
This year’s UNITY convention revenue and registration are not expected to significantly change compared with 2004 figures, according to UNITY officials.
Complimentary shuttle service is provided between McCormick Place West and the hotels listed below. Shuttle departs convention center on the hour and half-hour.
Does the ideal newsroom exist? It does once every four years in a selected city in the United States.
It includes hungry reporters and photographers, video editors, producers and camera people for print, web, radio and TV from all over the nation. You name it, we’ve got it. The UNITY News, that is our name, convergence and diversity is our game.
If you’re like me, you’re a little sad that the UNITY convention is coming to a close. On the bright side, you still have Saturday to make the most of your trip.
There are a few names you might not expect to see when you turn the corner at the career expo, such as Amtrak, World Wrestling Entertainment and Wal-Mart.
Freelancing can be a lucrative and stable source of income – if you know the tricks of the trade. The workshop called, “Stepchild No more: Becoming a Successful Freelancer," reveals those tricks and much more.
It’s not often reporters see their stories printed on the back of a T-shirt.
But for Howard Witt, the southwest bureau chief of the Chicago Tribune, this was his reality when protesters during a civil rights protest wore "Free the Jena Six" T-shirts featuring his story printed on the back.
Complimentary shuttle service is provided between McCormick Place West and the hotels listed below. Shuttle departs convention center on the hour and half-hour.
The room looks familiar. I've been here before.
Skilled technicians and hard-working journalists have turned a McCormick Convention Center into a newsroom with white-clothed tables weighed with dozens of computers and the hopes of students who want to do what I do, what my colleagues do, for a living: report the news.
As far as the number of participants who are concerned with security, UNITY "isn’t a big deal," says assistant director of McCormick Place, Fred Simon. Past events, which included such famous names as Sen. Barack Obama and former presidents, have had much more attendees at McCormick than what’s expected at UNITY.
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August 12th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you down the road!