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National Association of Science Writers
Fourth Annual Professional Workshops
Thursday, 21 January 1999

If you missed a session or the entire meeting, you can catch some of the action on audio tapes for sale at cost to NASW members. Print out this order form and send a check payable to NASW to Diane McGurgan, NASW, PO Box 890, Hedgesville, WV 25427-0890.

Thursday workshops were organized around three overlapping topics: Journalism, freelance and public information. The full program and notes can be viewed at the 1999 Anaheim NASW workshop page.

The tapes for each session are $10 (two sides of a tape), except for the longer embargo session, which sells for $12 (three sides). NOTE: Due to technical difficulties, the tape of the embargo session is missing about the first 10 minutes of the program.

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Plenary Session:
Hold for Release: Embargoed Science, Embattled System
NOTE:
Due to technical difficulties, this tape is missing about the first 10 minutes of the program.

Organizers: Rick Borchelt and Lynne Friedmann
Part 1:
David Perlman, science editor, the San Francisco Chronicle; Cristine Russell.
Part 2:
Participants: Lee Hotz, science reporter, The Los Angeles Times; Doug Levy, science reporter, USA Today; Susan Turner-Lowe, National Academy of Sciences; David Lewin, Journal of the National Cancer Institute; Laura Garwin, Nature magazine; Monica Bradford, Science magazine.

 

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$5
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Journalism:
Step-By-Step Through the Multimedia Maze

Organizer: Jane Ellen Stevens, multimedia science and technology journalist
Participants:
Andrea Meditch, executive producer, Discovery Channel Online; Charlene Laino, science producer, MSNBC.com; Sean Henahan, freelance; Ken Chang, science writer.

 

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Journalism:
Getting It Right

Organizer: Laura van Dam, senior editor, Houghton Mifflin Co.
Participants:
David Ansley, OnHealth.com (moderator); Jeff Black, managing editor, OnHealth.com; David Garcia, Fox News; Joel Greenberg, science and medicine editor, Los Angeles Times; Deborah Franklin, Health; Jon Franklin, Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer.

 

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Journalism:
Lies, Damned lies and statistics!

Organizer and participant: John Miller.

 

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Journalism:
Big Stories, Ambitious Projects

Organizer: Carol Morton
Participants:
Boyce Rensberger, MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowships director; Robert Logan, journalism professor, University of Missouri-Columbia; Scott LaFee, science writer, San Diego Union-Tribune.

 

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Journalism: Late-Breaking News Analysis

Organizer: Paul Raeburn, science editor, Business Week
Participants:
Glennda Chui, science writer, San Jose mercury News; Peggy Girshman, medical and science producer, Dateline NBC; Alex Witze, science writer, Dallas Morning News.

 

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Journalism:
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Lab: Using Humor in Writing About Science

Organizer: Karen Hopkin
Participants:
Marc Abrahams, editor of the Annals of Improbable Research; Rosie Mestel, Correspondent for New Scientist; Joe Palca, National Public Radio

 

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Public Information:
What Makes a Successful Public Information Office?: A User's View

Organizer: Seema Kumar, Whitehead Institute
Participants:
Carol Ezzell, Scientific American; Sue Goetinck, Dallas Morning News; Jay Ingram, Discovery Channel, Canada; David Perlman, San Francisco Chronicle.

 

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Public Information:
#3@&!@*##!...or Miss Manners' Guide to Dealing With Difficult Researchers

Participant: Joann Rodgers, Deputy Director of Public Affairs, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.

 

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Public Information:
PIOs Go Electronic: How to Take Advantage of the New Medium

Organizer: David Brand, Cornell University
Participants
: Roger Johnson, Newswise; Fred Golden, contributing editor, Time.

 

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Freelance:
Making Your Office Work

Organizer: Steve Hart
Participants: David Tenenbaum; Linda Roach Monroe; Blake Powers; Rani Lueder, President of Humanics ErgoSystems

 

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Freelance: Spinning A Specialty

Organizer: Kathryn S. Brown
Participants: Deborah Blum, freelance writer, prof of journalism, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Jim Kling, freelance writer (Bellingham, Wash); Jane Stevens, freelance multimedia journalist, (Sea Ranch, Calif)

 

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Freelance:
Best of the West: Meet the West Coast Editors

 Coordinator: Aries Keck , American Association for the Advancement of Science
Participants:
Max Benavidez, director, media relations, Caltech; Denys Horgan, director of editorial services, UC San Diego; Ken Chang, science writer, ABCNews.com; David Ansley, medical editor, OnHealth.com; Deborah Franklin, senior editor, Health Magazine; Andrea Meditch, executive producer, Discovery Online.

 

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Freelance:
Writing a Science Book: Recent Authors Tell How and Why They Did It

Organizer: Mary Miller
Participants:
Ted Anton, Joel Shurkin, Chris Curran.

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