Category Archives: JAWS CAMP 2012

The Journalism & Women Symposium is happy to announce a partnership with the American Copy Editors Society. JAWS members will be able to register for ACES conferences and workshops, and to enter any ACES contests at ACES member rates. Equally, ACES members will be granted admission to JAWS conferences, workshops and member events at JAWS member rates.

Check out Nina Zacuto’s photographs from CAMP 2013!

Many of the panelists said that they felt that, as staffers, their work lives (and, by proxy, their personal lives) were under the control of their news organizations’ schedules, a sentiment shared by women in many other fields in the United States.

“I’m not giving up my torch. I’m using my torch to light everybody else’s torches. I think the key to it is not to worry about what we should say to [young women], and just listen to them. Say, ‘What’s unfair in your life, and how can I help you fix it?’ The only way we know we have something to say is if someone listens to us.”

Indians living in the sovereign nations, or self-ruled tribal communities have different laws that journalists must abide by, such as not taking photos in public places and getting special permission from the government.

The more data the better right? But instead of just shoving numbers into your stories engage your readers by using these tools to present it visually.

In the fourth and final Tech Training of JAWS Camp ’12, the speakers gave us speedy introductions on how the media tools Storify, Pinterest and Instagram can help expand journalists’ networks, share their stories and find new ones.

What the public should fear, Gaskins continues, is the effect that these ID laws actually have: the suppression of votes by people of color, the poor, veterans, the disabled and the elderly…

Gates described the two types of bargaining or negotiation that we can use to make our case for more money, more stories or more voice in the newsroom.

Less than 5 years ago, journalist and entrepreneur would not have even been in the same sentence. Today they are one and the same.

[View the story “Journalism and Women Symposium: Oct. 27 (Saturday)” on Storify]

Great career resource links.

Jobs and housing are two national themes that can often be localized.

Pulitzer Prize winner Sara Ganim sits down with award-winning journalist and JAWDESS, Judy Muller, to talk about how she broke the Penn State Sandusky child sex abuse scandal and what it’s like to do big stories in small towns.

There are two kinds of people in the world—the Twitter veterans and the Twitter newbies. The Twitter session at the JAWS CAMP tech training had space for both.

While staff reporters with larger budgets can afford pricier packages (see New York Times reporter and videographer Stephen Farrell’s kit for reporting from Tahrir Square), Spinner crafted her own set of equipment from solid, less expensive pieces.

In a Flash Technology panel Sandra Fish joined Digital First’s Mandy Jenkins and Breaking News’ Stephanie Clary in outlining the use of social media for research, reporting and getting eyeballs to a story.