2009 schedule

Sunday, July 19
Looking for breaks? We’ll take them as time allows. (And whenever Barbara needs coffee.)
Afternoon session (1:30-5:30 p.m.)
1:30 p.m. Welcome. Pull out your notebooks and get ready to work.
1:30-2:10 p.m. The stories all around us.
2:10-3:20 p.m. Interviewing 101 and “Fresh Air.”
3:20-4:10 p.m. Writing exercise.
4:10-4:20 p.m. Regroup. Post mortem.
4:20-5:30 p.m. Writers roundtable. Budget meeting and budgeting.
5:30 p.m. Go forth and report.

Monday, July 20
Special today—First Amendment, start of publication critiques.
Morning session (8:45-10:40 a.m.)
8:45-9:15 a.m. Budget meeting.
9:15-10:15 a.m. Writers roundtable.
10:15-10:40 a.m. Using all the senses.
Afternoon session (1:15-5 p.m.)
1:15-2:15 p.m. Observation exercise and contest.
2:15-2:20 p.m. Awards ceremony.
2:20-3 p.m. The lede (and the middle and the end.)
3-3:30 p.m. First Amendment Jeopardy.
3:30-5 p.m. Go to work.
Evening session (6:30-9 p.m.)
6:30-7:15 p.m. Deconstructing the story.
7:15-8:50 p.m. Individual coaching and writing/reporting time.
8:50-9 p.m. Evening wrap-up, copy editing assignment and a bedtime story.

Tuesday, July 21
Special today—Convergence, more critiques.
Morning session (8:45-10:40 a.m.)
8:45-8:50 a.m. First stories due.
8:50-9:15 a.m. Morning budget meeting.
9:15-9:40 a.m. Review copy editing assignment. (Yeah, your English teacher might not be so crazy after all.)
9:40-10:15 a.m. Keys to reporting and writing a strong profile.
10:15-10:40 a.m. Individual coaching and writing/reporting time.
Afternoon session (1:15-5 p.m.)
1:15-2 p.m. Using the expanded tool box (in 140 characters or less).
2-3 p.m. Opinion writing/finding your voice.
3-3:20 p.m. Budget meeting.
3:20-5 p.m. Reporting, writing and coaching.
Evening session (6:30-9 p.m.)
6:30-7 p.m. “This American Life.”
7-8:50 p.m. Reporting, writing and coaching.
8:50-9 p.m. Wrap up and a sing-along.

Wednesday, July 22
Special today—Photography.
Morning session (8:45-10:40 a.m.)
8:45-8:50 a.m. Opinion/voice piece due.
8:50-9:05 a.m. Budget meeting
9:05-9:30 a.m. How to get it down on paper — the nut graph and other handy tools.
9:30-10:40 a.m. Alternative ways to tell the story.
Afternoon session (1:15-5 p.m.)
1:15-1:35 p.m. Coordinating with photographers.
1:35-2 p.m. It all adds up — or does it? Math for journalists./May sub this session with a hands-on lesson on using state data to report on your school.
2-5 p.m. Reporting, writing and coaching.
Evening session/production 6:30-9 p.m.
6:30-9 p.m. Writing, reporting, coaching, production.
9 p.m. Final story due.

Thursday, July 23
Special today-Final day.
Morning session (8:45-11:45 a.m.)
8:45-9 a.m. Budget meeting.
9-10 a.m. Writers roundtable.
10-11:15 a.m. Finish portfolios.
11:15-11:40 a.m. Ethics roundtable.
Afternoon session (1:45-3:30 p.m.)
1:45-2:30 p.m. Show and Tell.
2:30-3:30 p.m. Everything you always wanted to ask.