Panels/Workshops

Journalism, as we know it, is changing. How? It remains to be seen.

Speak to 10 different people and you just may get 10 different perspectives. Journalism, on most days, tends to work that way. As always, AAJA’s aim is to create convention programming that’s useful for you and your career. But more than ever, we want it to be relevant to our present and future.

To learn more, we sent around a survey asking about you and our craft. We asked you about the organization. We asked you about aspirations, questions and fears. The result: programming in Los Angeles for AAJA’s 2010 convention will be more targeted than ever, and built around all of us.

You want more hands-on workshops to learn new skills. We’ll have them. You want more ways to meet your colleagues, far and near. You’ll find those. You want to hear from experts and industry leaders, but you want pointed discussions that give you a sense of what’s coming around the bend. They’ll be there.

You want more focus on the troubles and promise of local news. You want to learn about multi-platform journalism and social media. You want to debate the merits of advocacy reporting, celebrity journalism and nonprofit outlets. You want to find out how you can build your own journalism shop.

You’re out of a job, but you’re not giving up. You’re afraid of losing your job and want to learn how to survive unemployment. You want to change careers, you want to start a career, or you question the very notion of a career. Let’s discuss all that. Let’s talk about what’s next.

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(Last updated 2/25/10)