AAJA Poynter Fellow Bobby Calvan Shares His Thoughts on Narrative Writing Seminar
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March 18, 2009
Bobby Calvan, senior staff writer at The Sacramento Bee, attended a week-long Narrative Writing on Deadline course July 13-18, 2008 as an AAJA/Poynter Institute fellow. Calvan currently works as a Healthcare Industry writer and one of the things he learned from the course was the ability to put a human face on some very technical and complicated issues in the healthcare industry. Having primarily worked as a deadline writer, Calvan took the course to build skills of writing long narrative pieces that feature stories with a strong beginning, middle and end.
"There are a lot of talented people out there, but, even people who are veterans can benefit from going to one of these workshops. I use (the training) on a day to day basis. It has helped me tremendously in my writing."Calvan is an AAJA national advisory board member and a graduate of the 2008 AAJA Executive Leadership Program in San Francisco.
Applications are now available for Poynter Fellowships for 2009. The deadline to apply for programs in group 1 is April 1.
Read about 2007 Poynter Fellow Romy Varghese's experiences with a Reporting on Children program. Read about 2005 Poynter Fellow Kiyoshi Timono's thoughts attending a Leadership For TV News Anchors Poynter Fellowship.
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