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Thursday, July 11
2:30 pm
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4 pm
Time for some real talk: Your readers are getting older and grayer everyday. Who are the alternative news consumers of tomorrow? The same old formula isn't going to win them over. The first step towards finding your future readers is to take an honest look in the mirror and acknowledge what's really holding you back ... then blow it up.
Speakers:
Hiram Enriquez and Miranda Mulligan, Northwestern University
Room: Trade
AAN's lawyer, Kevin Goldberg will be available to discuss legal issues (but not give legal advice) free of charge; in the (unlikely) event that everyone is too shy to ask questions, Kevin has some issues at the ready to kick start the discussion.
Speaker:
Kevin Goldberg, Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth
Room: Brickell
So you're on Twitter. Now what? What's your strategy for building audience and how do you measure the effectiveness of your social media efforts? Social media isn't going away, so it's time to level up your game.
Moderator:
Jose D. Duran, Miami New Times
Panelists:
Daniel Victor, New York Times, Kevin Spidel, Voice Media Group and Gwynedd Stuart, Chicago Reader
Room: Sevilla
Friday, July 12
11:30 am
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12:30 pm
U.S. cities are shaking out into three camps these days: Many (mostly) coastal cities that are rapidly developing and pricing out the middle and working class, and other cities — many located in the Rust Belt — that are struggling to remain viable at all. Then there's a third group of mostly Sun Belt cities which are growing economically but in many ways have more in common with traditional "suburbs" in terms of their urban form than they do with what we think of as cities. The fate of an individual alt-weekly is inextricably tied to the economic health of its city. What can their divergent paths tell us about the future of the industry as a whole?
Speaker:
Sarah Goodyear, Atlantic Cities
Moderator:
Alexa Schirtzinger
Room: Brickell
2 pm
to
3 pm
Editors! Come shoot the bull during the Editors' Roundtable, led by Gambit editor Kevin Allman. As budgets tighten and we're expected to do more and more, alt-weekly editors are confronting many of the same challenges. How can you deliver a great paper under these circumstances without compromising your integrity or spending any more time and money — both of which are in short supply? The Editors' Roundtable will be a chance to ask questions, raise problems and see if some of your fellow editors have found useful solutions. If you attended the Editors' Roundtable in Detroit in 2012 (led by Rachael Daigle), or the digitally-focused Editors' Roundtable in San Francisco last January, this is the same format -- no speeches. We'll sit in a circle and just talk with each other. There will be treats. And Kleenex. No experts, just you and your fellow editors, sharing your hard-earned knowledge. And maybe a bit of bitching and whining.
Moderator:
Kevin Allman, Gambit
Room: Trade
3:30 pm
to
4:30 pm
Matt Taibbi may well be America's best muckraker. He pens regular articles for Rolling Stone on things like the great financial crisis. Don Van Natta is a top investigative reporter who wrote about Monica Lewinsky and Rupert Murdoch for the New York Times, has penned books about Hillary Clinton, presidential golf habits, and Babe Didrikson, and is now a senior writer at ESPN. Mike Sager is a bestselling author and Esquire superstar. The three will discuss long-form writing and literary success in both mainstream alternative worlds.
Moderator:
Chuck Strouse, Miami New Times
Room: Sevilla
4:30 pm
to
5:45 pm
Three writers who showed extraordinary enterprise in tracking down stories will talk about their reporting and adventures. Miami New Times editor Tim Elfrink penned stories on Biogenesis, the Coral Gables steroid clinic that allegedly provided performance-enhancing drugs to major leaguers including the Yankees Alex Rodriguez. John Maines was half of the reporting team at Fort Lauderdale's Sun-Sentinel that won this year's Public Service Pulitzer for showing that more than 800 police officers from a dozen agencies drove at average speeds of 90 to more than 120 miles per hour. They used data from highway tolls and GPS's. L.A. Weekly editor Sarah Fenske won the 2011 Livingston award for Young Journalists by revealing the housing director of Maricopa County, Ariz., was guilty of flagrant nepotism, cronyism and other corruption Her work forced his resignation and reorganization of the department.
Moderator:
Patricia Calhoun, Westword
Panelists:
Tim Elfrink, Miami New Times, Sarah Fenske, L.A. Weekly and John Maines, South Florida Sun Sentinel
Room: Trade
Saturday, July 13
9 am
to
10 am
Demand for eBooks is skyrocketing, and the tools to create them are so simple that even an alt-weekly editor can figure it out. You already have the content, so why not give it a broader audience -- while also generating some revenue? Hear from AAN members who have been there, done that.
Panelists:
Stephen H. Segal, Philadelphia Weekly, Nina Sachdev Hoffman, Philadelphia Weekly, Terrence McCoy, New Times Broward-Palm Beach and Andy Van De Voorde, Voice Media Group
Room: Trade
10:15 am
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11:15 am
Lawsuits can kill newspapers. Libel insurance covers almost nothing. Copyright laws have changed so radically that no one seems to know what images are legal to use on the web. Three of the the nation's most prestigious press lawyers -- including author Mark Sableman and Sanford Bohrer, the dean of Florida's journalism bar -- will discuss libel, copyright and pre-publication issues.
Panelists:
Steve Suskin, Voice Media Group, Mark Sableman, Thompson Coburn LLP and Sanford L. Bohrer
Room: Sevilla
11:30 am
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12:30 pm
With the U.S. Latino population booming in historically un-Latino states like North Carolina, Georgia, and Oklahoma, local media outlets in those markets face the challenge of covering their fastest growing community without the benefit of long-term cultural exposure to inform coverage. In this session, panelists will share insight on how journalists can fairly and accurately cover a demographic that Gustavo Arellano has dubbed "America's spiciest and largest minority."
Panelists:
Gustavo Arellano, OC Weekly and Mari Torres, Univision
Room: Trade
Pull up a chair and talk shop with your fellow web editors and social media managers.
Moderator:
Becca Sickbert, Colorado Springs Independent
Room: Merrick
1:15 pm
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2:30 pm
2:30 pm
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3:30 pm
Steal these ideas! Everyone will share stories they've done or want to do, with the aim of generating a list of stories attendees can take home and implement. Prizes will be awarded for the best stories.
Moderators:
Erin Sullivan, Orlando Weekly and Alexa Schirtzinger
Room: Trade