Category Archives: JAWS CAMP 2018

Do you want to brush up on the lessons you learned at CAMP 2018, or check out info from a session you missed? Thanks to our 2018 fellows who prepared tip sheets and interviewed our keynote speakers, presenters who shared resources and attendees live-tweeted, we have a collection of tip sheets, videos and other media here. We hope you find it helpful!

By Sana Malik

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Stories about LGBTQ communities are often relegated to the same issues. Activists call for more plurality in the voices presented, and for reporters to report on all issues as they affect LGBTQ communities, as well as the varied lived experiences of LGBTQ folks.

By Leezel Tanglao

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Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author Diana Henriques teams up with veteran editor and author Jane Isay to take the audience from the germ of an idea for a book through the thinking, the selling, the writing, the editing, and the publishing process.

By Ariel Worthy
Amy Westervelt, co-founder of Critical Frequency podcast network (@amywestervelt)

The lead

About 44 percent of Americans have listened to podcasts. That number is growing every year. In fact, most podcast listenership comes from women.

By Aysha Khan

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Solutions journalism is rigorous enterprise reporting in response to social problems.

By Jazmin Bailey

The Top Five

• • • “Artists are here to disturb the peace.” – James Baldwin
      • Hill said, “We cannot disturb the peace unless we face the uncomfortable truths about this business. It’s too white, too male, too elitist and it’s too corporate.
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By Shaya Tayefe Mohajer

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There is a fire-hose of information available out there when it comes to election money—dark money is called that for a reason but beyond that there is a lot of detail to glean from campaign finance reports and sites that have made that data searchable.

By Leezel Tanglao

The lead

Science is the art of learning how NOT to fool ourselves, and can teach us a few tricks that come in especially handy for journalists. Just because you can’t see something, doesn’t mean it can’t make a difference.

By Marina Fang

The lead

In order to actually walk the walk on creating diversity and inclusion in your newsroom, you need to focus on retention, holding yourself to specific goals and broaden your ideas about and practices of hiring.

By Amy Westervelt

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Rachel Jones has been a journalist for 32 years, starting at The St. Petersburg Time in 1986. She came to health reporting through personal experience. “I fell at a young age, cracked a tooth, and we couldn’t afford to go to a dentist,” she said. As one of ten kids, born into poverty, Jones didn’t go to a dentist until she was 13 and says even as a child she knew it was wrong that other people went to doctors when they were sick when her family couldn’t. “I was angry about it, I thought ‘this is wrong, I ought to be able to go the doctor,’” she says. “And that really underpinned my interest in social justice and access to healthcare.”

By Katie Jickling

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Journalists who have reported abroad offered tips for how to find international work — and how to survive once you’re there.

By Marina Fang 

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Melissa Ludtke’s successful 1978 legal battle over access for female reporters covering baseball came from years of experiencing institutional sexism and working toward incremental changes. The story of her career provides lessons for women in journalism today, including the importance of networking, perseverance, creative solutions, defining your narratives, and simply doing the work, no matter how small the task.

Presented by Amy Westervelt

“Work-life balance” is a handy phrase for marketing self-help books, but the reality is,  it’s all life. And these two parts of life can’t help but impact each other. Elise Hu—former Korea  and Japan bureau chief for NPR and current staff reporter/host with NPR—walked us through those intersections in her JAWS CAMP 2018 keynote, framed as “all the ways I’ve failed to work for The Washington Post.”

By Shaya Tayefe Mohajer

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Opportunities for investigative work are hiding in plain sight: in annual reports, budgets from every level of government and your keen observations about your surroundings, be they physical cues (crumbling infrastructure) or listening to the informed complaints of the local community (what is the one hospital locals don’t want to wind up in? That’s a good place to start.)

At Conference and Mentoring Project (CAMP) 2018, Journalism and Women Symposium honored women journalists who sparked change, who embody our mission to work toward an accurate portrayal of women in […]

By Ariel Worthy

The lead

You only have a few moments to draw a listener into a story; you’d better make them count. From capturing background sound to equipment check, putting together the perfect audio story is no small feat.

If you can’t make it to CAMP this year, you can still follow along from afar. We’re all journalists, so you can bet we’ll be tweeting interesting insights from our fabulous keynote speakers and breakout sessions. Monitor the hashtag #JAWSCAMP18 for live updates.

By Lindsey Anderson

The JAWS Conference & Mentoring Project isn’t a regular conference—it’s a cool conference. So leave your suits and collared shirts at home, and pack these things instead.

By Roxann Elliott

We hope you’re eager for our annual conference at Mt. Hood in Oregon. As we finish up preparations and so many of you are planning and packing for an awesome weekend, we’re here to remind you of our silent auction!

Each year at CAMP we hold an on-site auction, and we rely on contributions from our wonderful JAWdesses.