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Program Schedule

Welcome to the 2005 ASNE High School Journalism Institute at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. We have a great program of workshops, field trips and discussions to give you an understanding of how newspapers and journalists work and the tools to produce a successful school newspaper.

We want to thank the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, which funds the ASNE Institutes around the country, and especially program director Diana Mitsu Klos. We also want to thank the San Francisco Chronicle, the Associated Press San Francisco Bureau, the San Jose Mercury News and the Marin Independent Journal for sharing their time and staffs.

Week One

Sunday, June 5

5:30 p.m. – Registration (Pick up packets, keys, codes.)

5:30- 6 p.m. – Opening Reception

6 p.m. – Welcome by Marcia Parker and Diana Mitsu Klos

6:15 -7:15 p.m. – Dinner

7-8:30 p.m. – Keynote Speaker: Matt Wilson, Executive Editor, Marin Independent Journal

Monday, June 6

8-9 a.m. – Registration, Breakfast, Welcome

9-11:30 a.m. – Newspapers & Readers: Why Our Credibility Is On the Line. Keynote: Robert Rosenthal, Executive Editor, San Francisco Chronicle

11:45-12 p.m. – Program Overview: Review ASNE goals, websites, etc.: Diana Mitsu Klos, ASNE

12-1 p.m. – Lunch North Gate Courtyard

1:30-3 p.m. – Victor Merina, a former senior editor at the Los Angeles Times. Story Ideas That Matter.

3-3:15 p.m. – Break: Coffee, tea and snacks.

3:15-4:30 p.m. – J-School Newsroom & Computer Orientation: Scott Hacker, webmaster, UC Berkeley

4:30-5:30 p.m. – Digital Camera mini-workshop: Instructor: Scott Squire

5:30-6:15 p.m. – Dinner

7:30-9 p.m. – Plan the Launch of the UC Berkeley - ASNE High School Journalism Institute Newspaper: Led by Don Bott, Journalism Advisor, Amos Alonzo Stagg High School, Stockton, CA and Dow Jones Newspaper Fund’s National Teacher of the Year 2002

Tuesday, June 7

8:30-9 a.m. – Breakfast

9 a.m.-12 p.m. – Reporting Time assignments: Don Bott

12-12:45 p.m. – Lunch and reporting debriefing with Don

1 p.m. – Bus departs for AP in San Francisco, 303 2nd St., (415) 495-1708

2-4 p.m. – Field trip: Associated Press day. The Role of the AP. Reporting, developing sources and stories: Ken Chavez, Assistant Chief of Bureau, San Francisco; Bob Porterfield, Staff Writer, Projects, and Mike Warren, News Editor

4:30 p.m. – Drinks & Dinner in San Francisco. TBD.

Wednesday, June 8

8:30-9 a.m. – Breakfast

9 -11:30 a.m. – How to partner with your local newspaper: Frank Sotomayor, Assistant Editor, Hiring and Development, The Los Angeles Times. Tips for Advisors

12-1 p.m. – Lunch

2:30 p.m. on – Free time: Work on reporting and other assignments for the ASNE newspaper

6-9 p.m. – Working Dinner & Evening Workshop: Creating Lesson Plans That Work: Don Bott

Thursday, June 9

8:30-9 a.m. – Breakfast

9-11:45 a.m. – Workshop: Scholastic Press Freedom & the First Amendment: Mark Goodman, Executive Director, Student Press Law Center

12-1:30 p.m. – Lunch & Keynote: First Amendment Law and Libel: Thomas R. Burke, partner, Davis, Wright & Tremaine, San Francisco

2-3:45 p.m. – Workshop: Ethics, Privacy, Controversy: Speaker Don Bott

3:45-4 p.m. – Break: Coffee, tea and snacks

6-7 p.m. – Working Dinner

7-9 p.m. – Evening Workshop: Drafting Paper Policy: Don Bott and Marcia Parker

Friday, June 10

8:30-9 a.m. – Breakfast

9-11:45 a.m. – How to Survive Scholastic Journalism. Steve O’Donoghue, Director, High School Newspaper Support Program.

12-12:45 p.m. – Lunch

1-3 p.m. – Teaching Teens (and your administration and colleagues) Good Journalism: Don Bott,

3:15-3:30 p.m. – Break: Coffee, tea and snack

3:30-5 p.m. – Covering Sensitive Stories: From Sex to Race, Steve O’Donoghue

6:30-7:30 p.m. – Dinner in the Library

7:30-8:30 p.m. – Inspiring and Motivating Students: Angela Buenning, adviser to the award-winning Eastside Panther, the student newspaper at East Palo Alto's Eastside College Preparatory School. Several of her student journalists will talk about the challenges they face.

Free evening

Saturday, June 11 Free Day

Week Two

Sunday, June 12 Optional Field Trip: Napa Valley Wine Tour.

8:15 a.m. – Board bus at the Hotel Durant

8:30 a.m. – Bus departs - full breakfast on bus

5:30 p.m. – Return to Hotel Durant

Monday, June 13

8:30 a.m. – Breakfast at the Hotel Durant

9:15 a.m. – Bus departs for the San Francisco Chronicle, 901 Mission St.

10 a.m. – Field Trip: San Francisco Chronicle Day: Welcome by Robert Rosenthal, Vice President and Managing Editor

10:30 a.m. – Attend news meeting.

11 a.m.-1 p.m. – Working lunch and Narrative Writing workshop with Carolyn White, Deputy Managing Editor, Features; Steve Proctor, Deputy Managing Editor, News; and George Judson, Assistant Managing Editor, Enterprise

1:15-3:15 p.m. – Designing News Pages with Nanette Bisher, Creative Director

3:15-4:15 p.m. – Editorial Writing: John Diaz - Editor of the Editorial Pages

4:30-6 p.m. – Andrea Behr, Copy Editing Workshop

6:30 p.m. – Free night in San Francisco. Dinner.

Tuesday, June 14

8:30-9 a.m. – Breakfast

9-10:30 a.m. – Panel Discussion: Reaching Out to Youth: Panelists: Nishat Kurwa, Producer for Youth Radio, a radio show produced for and by youth in Berkeley; Youth Outlook (YO!) Editor Kevin Weston, a newspaper and wire service run by the Pacific News Service; and Elliot Rebhun, Editor, Upfront, a news magazine produced by Scholastic and the New York Times. Moderated by Marcia Parker

10:45-12:30 p.m. – Elective Workshops in Desktop Publishing:

Quark (in Greenhouse) and InDesign (in Upper Newsroom). Instructors: Don Bott (InDesign); Peter Orsi (Quark)

12:30-1:15 p.m. – Lunch

1:30-4:30 p.m. – Elective Workshops in Desktop Publishing (Photoshop)

4:30-6:30 p.m. – Bill Drummond, professor, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and personal trainer and Pilates instructor Kiran Haithcox. Relaxation: Mind & Body. (Workshop) at 234 Hearst Women’s Gym, UC Berkeley. Bring comfortable workout-type clothes and shoes.

7 p.m. – Free Dinner

Wednesday, June 15

8:30 a.m. – Bus departs from Hotel Durant for San Jose Mercury News in San Jose

10-11 a.m. – San Jose Mercury News Day: Welcome by Dave Satterfield, managing editor. How the Mercury News is looking to the future, and what you can do to help prepare your students.

11-11:15 a.m. – Building bridges between schools and professional newsrooms. Daniel Vasquez, director of MOSAIC, the Mercury News' summer workshop for high school journalists.

12-1 p.m. – Lunch

1-2:30 p.m. – Covering Sports workshop: Craig Lancaster, Sports Editor. A hands-on, how-to session on improving sports coverage.

2:30-3:30 p.m. – News Meeting and discussion with Page 1 decision-makers

3:30-4:30 p.m. – Newspaper Design: Kevin Wendt, A-Section News Design Editor

4:45 p.m. – Bus Departs: Back to UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

6-9 p.m. – Working Dinner/Work on the paper Don Bott

Thursday, June 16

8:30-9 a.m. – Breakfast

9-10:30 a.m. – Best Practices: Teacher to Teacher. Led by Brenda Gorsuch, 2004 Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year.

10:30-11:45 a.m. – Publishing Participant Paper

12-1 p.m. – Lunch

1-2:30 p.m. – Dissecting a story: Cynthia Gorney, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism associate professor and New Yorker writer

3 p.m. on – Finish ASNE participant paper, which goes live/to press tonight. Led by Don Bott

6 p.m. – Working Dinner

Friday, June 17

8:30-9 a.m. – Breakfast. (Please check out before you come to the school. The hotel will hold your bags until you leave for the airport.)

9-10 a.m. – Welcome and send off by Orville Schell, Dean, Graduate School of Journalism. Keynote: David P. Pearson, Dean, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education

10-10:30 a.m. – Seminar Evaluation

10:30-12 p.m. – Wrap up panel designed by and for participants

12:15 p.m. – Cabs depart for Chez Panisse in Berkeley

12:30-2 p.m. – Farewell Remarks by Marcia Parker, followed by Graduation Luncheon

2 p.m. – Conference ends