By Roxanne Foster, JAWS operations director
You asked, we delivered: we have two exciting pre-conference workshops planned on podcasting and leadership skills.
In 2013, men hosted 70 percent of the 100 most popular podcasts in the world (Bitch Magazine) and the number of women leaders and employees has remained stubbornly flat since the nineties (ASNE).
All you trailblazers out there working to reverse those stats, these are for you.
Have you ever had a file crash or become unreadable? Have you ever lost published content when an online magazine you worked for went bust? If so, you’ve learned a hard truth about digital information: it’s easy to copy and easy to share, but it can be frustratingly hard to save. Digital files become corrupted; storage media become obsolete. Tight budgets at most publications mean that there are few resources to allocate towards formal preservation programs. Yet all the work journalists produce on a daily basis–from our reporting to our finished articles–continues to be valuable long after deadline and should be saved.
In case you haven’t heard, we have two leadership workshops planned for 2017 – one in the Bay Area (June 24) and one in New York (July 28). Jill Geisler and her team of veteran media leaders will share their collective wisdom, as well as offer personalized coaching throughout the one-day, interactive training. If you’ve been thinking about attending but haven’t registered for one in your area, now’s the time to do so. There are a limited number of seats at the table and we’ve started sharing the news about them far and wide. Don’t wait because we’d love to see you there!
By Andrea Stone, JAWS membership committee co-chair
The board of directors voted at their spring meeting to approve new membership categories and fees designed to keep up with the changing nature of our profession and to keep JAWS a viable organization.
One of the coolest things about our CAMP for me is meeting new women journalists – especially our fellows.
Each year, our fellowship committee selects a group of 10 to 14 women who might not otherwise be able to come to CAMP to receive these grants to attend.
This year we’re honored to add the Betsy Wade Legacy Fund Fellowship to the lineup, honoring the first woman copy editor at The New York Times. Wade and her women co-workers sued the Times in the 1970s for equal pay, and their settlement paved the way for better pay and advancement for the women who came after them.
Karen Michel’s primary work is with NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered, where she primarily files arts features.
2017 fellowship recipient
Lisa Thomson is a fellow at Al Jazeera in Washington, D.C.
2017 fellowship recipient
Amanda Woytus is a multihyphenate; by day, she’s an editor at Food & Wine magazine in New York City. By night (and on weekends, lunch breaks, and even family vacations), she’s the creator of a passion project, a podcast called Life TK.
2017 fellowship recipient
Nesima Aberra is a recent graduate from American University’s M.A. in international media.
2017 fellowship recipient
Yael Even Or is a journalist and radio producer based in Los Angeles.
2017 fellowship recipient
Bethany Denton is a producer and managing editor of the podcast Here Be Monsters on KCRW.
2017 fellowship recipient
Brooke Lewis currently lives in Houston, Texas, and is a breaking news reporter for the city desk at The Houston Chronicle.
2017 fellowship recipient
Often called the ‘new’ Orange Is the New Black, Chandra Bozelko is a writer and thought leader on all issues related to criminal justice reform.
2017 fellowship recipient
Monica Vendituoli is the night crime and breaking news reporter at the Fayetteville Observer newspaper in Fayetteville, N.C.
2017 fellowship recipient
Mia Warren is a production assistant for StoryCorps, working on its weekly NPR broadcast at StoryCorps headquarters in Brooklyn, N.Y.
2017 fellowship recipient
Corinne Boyer is a news reporter for Eugene Weekly. She covers human rights, civil rights, social justice, Congress and the Oregon Legislature.
2017 fellowship recipient
Christal Hayes works at the Orlando Sentinel as a breaking news reporter.
2017 fellowship recipient
Louise Dewast is a multimedia reporter based in Washington D.C. where she moved to cover the 2016 presidential campaign and election.
2017 fellowship recipient
Lauren McGaughy has covered state government for three regional newspapers, most recently handling LGBT issues and higher education at The Dallas Morning News’ Capitol bureau in Austin, Texas.
2017 fellowship recipient