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Open House for Strategic Communication master's program - Monday, May 19, 5pm

All persons interested in the Turnbull Portland Center's Strategic Communication master's program and/or ongoing professional workshops are encouraged to attend the open house. The director of the UO Turnbull Portland Center, Dr. Al Stavitsky, will be on hand to to discuss the program and answer questions. He will be joined by several leading professors from Eugene including Dr. Kim Sheehan (advertising) and Dr. Pat Curtin (public relations). Current master's students will also be on hand to answer questions.

Details:
Open House for Strategic Communication master's program
Monday, May 19, 5-6pm
UO Turnbull Portland Center
70 NW Couch St. in Old Town / Chinatown
3rd floor (press "3R" on the elevator)
*We are in the White Stag Block building with the famous "Made in Oregon"
sign on the roof. The front door to the building is between Naito Parkway
and Second Ave. on NW Couch St.

Drinks and light snacks catered by Elephant's Deli.

Join us for the first Dixon Narrative Workshop at the Turnbull Center, Saturday, May 10

Learn the elements of nonfiction storytelling in a one-day intensive seminar led by narrative nonfiction author and magazine journalist Lauren Kessler (www.laurenkessler.com) More information and registration available here (jcomm.uoregon.edu/narrative)

 

NPR President Kevin Klose will be Keynote Speaker at Hulteng Conversations in Ethics event Friday, April 4

The event begins with the keynote at 9:00 a.m., followed by four panels. Registration is free, but space is limited.

The John L. Hulteng Conversations in Ethics, an annual one-day conference on the ethical issues facing journalists, will also serve this year as the kickoff event to celebrate the Turnbull Portland's Center's new home in the White Stag Block. In addition to Klose's keynote speech, the day includes four panels on the theme "Truth Under Pressure" from a variety of perspectives. The conference website, including a complete agenda, list of speakers, and registration information, is available here. (jcomm.uoregon.edu/hulteng)

Open House for Strategic Communication master's program

Monday, February 4, 5-6pm,
UO Turnbull Portland Center
722 SW Second Ave, second floor, suite 200
Drinks and light snacks provided

All persons interested in the Turnbull Portland Center's Strategic Communication master's program and/or ongoing professional workshops are encouraged to attend the open house. The director of the UO Turnbull Portland Center, Dr. Al Stavitsky, will be on hand to to discuss the program and answer questions. He will be joined by several leading professors from Eugene including Dr. Kim Sheehan (advertising) and Dr. Leslie Steeves, the Director of Graduate Studies for the UO School of Journalism and Communication.

Emerging issues in Journalism and Communication

The Turnbull Center is proud to be a place where leading journalists and communications practitioners meet to discuss the important issues that face us today. The following discussions are planned for the next year:

‘No Static at All’: Radio in the Digital Age

Wednesday, September 13, 4:00 p.m.: Join April Baer of OPB Radio; Dennis Constantine and Sheila Hamilton, KINK Radio; and SOJC advertising professor Dave Koranda as they discuss profound changes to the oldest electronic medium. Moderated by Al Stavitsky, associate dean of the School of Journalism and Communication and director of the Turnbull Center.

The oldest electronic medium is undergoing profound change. Broadcast radio is under siege from subscription-based satellite services, Internet audio channels and personal music players such as the iPod™. How is traditional radio responding to digital competition, and what are the implications for advertising, marketing, public relations and journalism professionals? Panelists will discuss new audio applications such as podcasting, HD Radio™, web streaming and mobile media.

This discussion is free and open to the public; registration (no later than Friday, September 8) is appreciated.

Cutting-Edge Marketing:  The Power of Social Network Marketing, YouTube & MySpace in Social Networks

Emerging issues Panel at Turnbull Center November 7

How and why do today's cutting edge marketers use social networks to build brands?  What is the role of online communities such as YouTube and MySpace in marketing today?  What are the ethical issues related to marketing to these communities?

On Tuesday, November 7, The Portland Advertising Federation and the Portland Metro Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) will join forces with the SOJC and the Turnbull Center to host a panel to discuss the rise of YouTube, MySpace and the role of community and social networks in marketing.

The event, which will be held at the UO Portland Center, begins at 8:30 a.m. and is free and open to the public. 

Panel members:
-- Dylan Boyd, Vice President of Sales & Strategy, eROI.  Boyd, a popular national speaker, leads business development and strategy in both online and traditional environments for a range of corporate and retail clients.
-- Steve Giannini, Managing Partner and Co-Founder, Alliance Network Group.  Giannini has worked at some of the country's top consulting firms and directed the Strategic Partnerships Group as Associate Vice President at CNET Networks.  Alliance Network Group specializes in online business strategy.   
-- Mason Yost, independent strategic consultant.  Yost is an account planner and consultant who develops strategy for a wide range of clients.  
-- Kim Sheehan, Ph.D, Associate Professor, UO SOJC.  Sheehan, a popular advertising professor, is currently writing a book on word-of-mouth advertising and consumer communities.  Sheehan will moderate the panel.

Details:
What:  Panel of experts explores YouTube, MySpace and the latest in Social Network Marketing
When:  Tuesday, Nov.7, 8:30am — 10am (doors open at 8am; buffet breakfast)
Where:  Turnbull Center,  inside the larger UO Portland Center, 722 SW Second Ave.  Click here for directions.
-- Parking / Transportation:  The UO Turnbull Center is along the MAX tracks.  Get off the train at the Yamhill District stop on the eastbound line, or at the Morrison/SW Third Ave. stop on the westbound line.  Parking is available on the street or in several nearby garages.
For more information about the Turnbull Center or the School of Journalism and Communication, contact Zanne Miller, communications director, at (541) 346-2519; zanne@uoregon.edu

The Climate Change Issue: Reporting Ahead of the Curve

Climate Change Experts, Journalists Coming to Portland for One-Day Seminar
The University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication, the Climate Leadership Initiative at the University of Oregon and the Society of Environmental Journalists are hosting a day-long seminar for journalists on one of the most pressing and debated issues of our time: climate change. Read More...

Audio Files: Keeping the Non in Nonfiction

Recently, some of the country's leading narrative nonfiction authors came to Portland to discuss their craft, and how they accurately and precisely combine the power of great journalism with the drama of great fiction.Listen Now...

THE HARDEST NEWS: TRAUMA, LOSS AND FEAR -- MAY 24

The Turnbull Center's Enduring Issues series continues on May 24 with: "The Hardest News: Trauma, Loss and Fear." This is an event by journalists, for journalists, and it is free.

Journalistic coverage of the recent campus shootings at Virginia Tech as well as the search for the stranded Kim family illustrated anew the ethical and logistical challenges of reporting fast-breaking stories with powerful emotional impact. Since those cases emerged, bomb scares in Eugene, Ashland and elsewhere have added tension to the news mix. Join a panel of leading Portland newspeople for a discussion of the issues.

Panelists include: Kevin Allen, managing editor for KXL Radio; Rod Gramer, news director for KGW-TV; and Peter Sleeth of The Oregonian, a member of the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team that covered the Kim search.

Professor Jim Upshaw, a former television journalist and the 2007 Edward L. Bliss award recipient for Distinguished Broadcast Journalism Education from the AEJMC, will moderate.

KEEPING THE NON IN NONFICTION -- FEBRUARY 9, 2007

A One-Day Event at The Governor Hotel With Four Bestselling Authors

Sign up now for a one-day event with four bestselling narrative nonfiction authors who will show you how to combine the power of great journalism with the drama of great fiction.

The February 9 event in downtown Portland features:

ERIK LARSON (New York Times bestselling author of Thunderstruck, Devil in the White City and Isaac's Storm, and former Wall Street Journal reporter) on finding and using documents to make stories come alive.

MARY ROACH (national magazine writer and New York Times bestselling author of Stiff and Spook) on how active observation and thinking-on-your-feet interviews net powerful factual material.

TED CONOVER (national magazine writer, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Newjack, author of Coyotes and Rolling Nowhere) on immersion and the extraordinary material a journalist can gather through participant observation.

LAUREN KESSLER (national magazine writer, author of Washington Post bestseller Clever Girl and Los Angeles Times bestseller The Happy Bottom Riding Club, director of the graduate program in literary nonfiction at the University of Oregon) on how writers cannot -- and don't need to -- sacrifice fact for drama.

DETAILS

This one-day event for journalists, nonfiction writers, editors and students features a keynote speech, lunch, sessions with the writers, and a panel moderated by Jack Hart, nationally known writing coach, author and Oregonian managing editor.

Day: Friday, February 9
Time: 10am to 3pm
Place: The Governor Hotel, Library Room, 614 SW 11th Ave., Portland
(MAX stop Galleria/SW 10th Ave.)
Cost: $50, lunch included

RSVP / REGISTRATION

Reserve your spot by Jan. 31
Payments can be made by Visa, MasterCard, check or cash

MORE ABOUT THE AUTHORS

ERIK LARSON

Erik Larson wrote Isaac's Storm (1999), about the experiences of Isaac Cline during the Galveston Hurricane of 1900; The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (2003), about the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and a series of murders that were committed in the city around the time of the fair; and Thunderstruck, which blends the story of Hawley Harvey Crippen with the story of Guglielmo Marconi and the invention of wireless communications. Thunderstruck was published in October 2006.

Larson is a former features writer for The Wall Street Journal and Time, where he is still a contributing writer. His magazine stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, among other publications. He is also the author of Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun (1994) and The Naked Consumer: How Our Private Lives Become Public Commodities (1992).

Larson has lived in Long Island, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Baltimore, and he now resides in Seattle. He studied Russian history at the University of Pennsylvania and completed his graduate work at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1978. Larson has taught non-fiction writing at San Francisco State and the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, and he speaks to audiences from coast to coast.

Erik Larson on writing: "I write to be read. I'm quite direct about that. I'm not writing to thrill colleagues or to impress the professors at the University of Iowa; that's not my goal. I sort of have the Steinbeck approach to writing: I want to be accessible and I want to convey something." (Source: Powells.com interview)

MARY ROACH

Mary Roach is the author of Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (2005) and Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003). She holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Wesleyan and lives in San Francisco. Roach is a former Salon.com columnist and has written for Vogue, The New York Times Magazine, Discover, Outside, Reader's Digest, GQ, and other magazines. Roach is well-known for her humor, and in November 2005 she appeared on The Colbert Report, a satirical news program on Comedy Central.

Mary Roach on writing: "Usually I go back and try to massage it a bit, make it stand and deliver. I'm very hard on my prose. It's got to earn its keep or out it goes. I so envy writers who just sit down and pour it straight out into the keyboard." (Source: Loaded Shelf)

TED CONOVER

Ted Conover is the author of Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes (1984), Coyotes: A Journey through the Secret World of America's Illegal Aliens (1987), Whiteout: Lost In Aspen (1997), and Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (2000). Conover is currently at work on a book about roads around the world, and he is a frequent guest on National Public Radio.

Conover specializes in immersion journalism; he will often immerse himself in a subculture as an active participant before writing a book. He first experimented with this anthropological technique in 1980 by riding freight railroads across the western United States with hobos. Conover is a graduate of Amherst College and a Marshall Scholar, and he is a distinguished writer-in-residence in the Department of Journalism at New York University.

Ted Conover on writing (immersion reporting): "By becoming an officer, I was able to experience something that a 'capital J' journalist couldn't, because journalists generally have to depend on the interview, and the interview has its limits. To get to participate is to borrow from anthropology and use another important tool to get the story." (Source: Blue Dog Press)

LAUREN KESSLER

Lauren Kessler is the author of ten books, including Clever Girl: Elizabeth Bentley, The Spy Who Ushered In The McCarthy Era (2003), Los Angeles Times best-seller and Oregon Book Award finalist The Happy Bottom Riding Club (2000), Full Court Press (1997), Stubborn Twig (1994), which won the Frances Fuller Victor Award for literary nonfiction, and After All These Years (1990). Her latest book, Dancing With Rose, is due in spring 2007.

Kessler's writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, O magazine, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Salon and The Nation, among others. She graduated from Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and has a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. The founder and editor of Etude, an online magazine devoted to new and emerging voices in literary nonfiction, she directs the graduate program in literary nonfiction at the University of Oregon.

Lauren Kessler on writing: "I want readers to experience time, place and character -- not read from a distance the way one would read a text. That means, when I write about times past and people who are no longer alive, I need to do not only deep research but the kind of research that allows a writer to construct a narrative, not just relate information. So I need to know how my characters speak, what they wore on a given day, how hot the room was, the sounds that could be heard through the window -- all those little details that cumulatively make it possible to write a scene, to make a person come alive. I have to develop and construct a clear picture in my head, a picture I can write from. I have to feel as much like an 'eye witness' as I possible can before I can animate the material." (Source: HarperCollins.com)