News Editors and Copy Desk Chiefs

July 30 - August 4, 2006

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Featured Discussion Leaders

Alex Cruden Chief Editor of the Copy Desks, Detroit Free Press Session: Copy Flow for Lean Times: Workloads increase, the staff doesn’t and the clock won’t slow down. What can a desk manager do to cope and still maintain quality? This discussion session will provide specific, job-tested tips.

Tom Linthicum President, The TDL Group Session: Challenge Your Challenging Staff: How to deal with difficulty and difficult people and still make deadline. Learn when and how to confront, how to have tough conversations and how to deal with people who always bring problems but never solutions.

John McIntyre Assistant Managing Editor, The Baltimore Sun Session: Making the Copy Desk a Force: Learn to address micro-editing issues (language and usage) and macro-editing issues (structure, clarity, credibility) in ways that allow colleagues to perceive common interests.

Kathy Schenck Assistant Managing Editor; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Session: Skeptical editing: Asking the questions that save your paper’s credibility. We’ll reaffirm why it’s essential for copy editors to take time to ask tough content questions.

Teresa Schmedding News Editor, The Daily Herald Session: Editing for Multi-Platform Editions: This session will focus on the difference between print and online headlines and how to teach your staffs to write headlines and edit for both platforms.

The copy desk is the place in the newsroom that feels change the most.

Change to a 48-inch Web and copy editors have to squeeze headlines into tighter columns. Redesign to add more decks to your headlines and copy editors have to write them. Add more features to your online edition and who edits them? Make the Web edition more timely and who edits (and often posts) those bulletins and updates? If a change doesn’t add to the workload, chances are that it diminishes the workforce. Doing more with less while keeping standards high is the daily challenge of the copy desk.

The American Press Institute offers help in meeting these challenges. Come to our News Editors and Copy Desk Chiefs seminar in Reston, Virginia. Spend a week learning from some of the best in the business about ways to deal successfully with a host of issues that news desks and copy desks face.

This seminar is a wonderful opportunity to give news editors, copy desk chiefs, or rising stars on your desk, inspiration and practical help to stay ahead of the changes.

Here are just a few of the topics it will cover:

• Editing for the Web
• Adjusting copy flow to work more efficiently
• Dealing with difficult staff members
• Managing performance
• Managing for the 24/7 news cycle
• Skeptical editing\

ACES, the American Society of Copy Editors, is a co-sponsor of this seminar.

Who should attend:

News editors, copy desk chiefs, and those being groomed for these key positions.

"A perfect balance of practical and motivational."
Thomas H. Mentzen, Deputy News Editor
Scripps Howard News Service, Washington, D.C

The Malcolm F. Mallette Fellowship covers tuition for a news editor or managing editor from a newspaper of circulation 50,000 or less to attend this seminar. Applications must be received by Nov. 18, 2005.

 

The Particulars

Please read:
:: API's Registration, Tuition and Hotel Policies
:: Special requirements for international members

 

Tuition: $ 1,875

Hotel/Meal Package: $995.
This charge is in addition to the tuition fee, and is paid directly to the hotel by the seminar member upon checkout.

Location: Reston, Virginia

(This seminar has already occured)