Spring Training for Journalists

One of his craziest and most irresponsible ideas.

Trump signals growing weariness with ‘social distancing’ and other steps advocated by health officials In tweets and retweets, the president argued that “WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF,” reflecting concerns about the impact on the economy.

Calling all freelancers! There's still time to enter our first-ever Freelance Journalism Awards -- follow the link for details!

GF launches 1st Freelance Journalism Contest | Guild Freelancers This contest is open to anyone – freelancer or staff writer – whose work was published on a freelance basis during calendar 2013 and who lives and works in California or Hawaii. The deadline to enter is March 17.

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Joining us tomorrow? Bring dollars, fives or quarters for parking ($6 all day, but the machines don't give change). Find our registration table on the third floor of the Humanities Building -- in the southwest quadrant of the map linked below.

San Francisco State University Camp Map Click on a quadrant for more details on campus facilities, services, and access information. To find a building, see the directory below.

Want to break into public radio? Don't be surprised if at first, you find writing for the ear a challenge. "The shock of hearing yourself on tape and of running out of breath can be paralyzing," says KQED news director Raul Ramirez. But "I have yet to meet a person who can’t get over the initial hump." Raul, KALW news editor Ben Trefny and freelancer Queena Kim tell how to make the transition at the Spring Training for Journalists.

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This just in: Two of our presenters, Mike Kepka and Carrie Ching, are nominated finalists for the 2013 Emmy Awards of Northern California!

http://www.emmysf.tv/images/emmy13%20nomination%20press%20release.pdf

Laurie Udesky has been reporting on health and social welfare for more than 15 years. As a foreign correspondent in Turkey, her work appeared in the Dallas Morning News, the San Francisco Examiner, the St. Petersburg Times, salon.com, Macleans magazine, National Public Radio and Consumer Health Interactive. She has written about health and safety hazards facing garment workers and the stigma of mental illness. She has won numerous awards – most recently, for her 2011 piece, “When Foreclosure Threatens Elder-Care Homes," in the New York Times. Udesky talks about niche reporting Saturday.

Are you an independent journalist who wants to dive into new media without a huge investment in equipment? Or a newsroom staffer who finds training and resources distinctly lacking at your workplace? Check out Saturday's workshop, "Multimedia on the Cheap," by Pulitzer-winning photojournalist Kim Komenich, part of "Spring Training for Journalists." A perennial favorite, this always-changing, fast-moving workshop is packed with information and will leave you brimming with ideas. Hope to see you there!

Do you struggle to find visual approaches to stories that don't seem to have them? Join us Saturday for a workshop from award-winning journalist Carrie Ching, who spent six years as a senior multimedia producer at Center for Investigative Reporting. "It’s like sugar-coating a vitamin," writes Ching, in this recent essay for the Poynter Institute. "Bringing to light serious, important issues is still the goal. But we can borrow from comedy, mystery novels, art—yes, even entertainment—to make it more appealing. We can’t just shovel out oatmeal and expect people to eat it."

How news can compete with cat videos: 6 lessons for multimedia journalists | Poynter. Breaking out of traditional journalism formats can be difficult—even unpleasant. New methods are often perceived as a threat. But you can’t just slap TV and newspaper stories onto the Web or mobile or tablets and call that “digital” journalism. The content itself needs to change.

Visit GuildFreelancers.org now and register for the Spring Training to take Ken Kobré's workshop on cell phone videography ... and much more.