Calendar of Events

Allan Loudell, DPA Program VP
Ph: 302-478-2700
E-mail: aloudell@wdel.com

2008

April     May     September

 

APRIL 2008

The 2008 High School Communications Contest Awards Luncheon will be held on Wednesday, April 23, in the Bill Frank Conference Room of The News Journal, 950 W. Basin Road, New Castle, Delaware. Award certificates will be presented to winners, and each participating school will receive a portfolio of winning entries and judges' comments. The luncheon will be preceded by an interactive discussion, “The Future of Journalism,” between the contest winners and News Journal Assistant Managing Editor/News Greg Burton.

For more information on the contest, co-sponsored by DPA and The News Journal, contact DPA Student Activities Director Barbara Roewe.

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Whether the subject is Gary Hart, Bill Clinton, Jim McGreevey or Eliot Spitzer, journalists have long had a tough time reporting political figures' moral indiscretions. Questions arise: What does the public want to know? What does the public need to know? How much is too much? And, especially, in the age of the Internet, blogs and even the old-style tabloids, if traditional journalism eschews such reporting in covering these sensitive and often sensational stories, do we make ourselves irrelevant?

Ronald Smothers, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism at the University of Delaware, will be putting all of this in perspective for us when he speaks about "The Character Issue in Political Coverage" at Delaware Press Association's Annual Meeting and Contest Awards Banquet at the University & Whist Club on Tuesday, April 29.

Smothers arrived at UD last September after a distinguished 35-year career as a reporter at The New York Times, where he often focused on the political scene. He covered national political campaigns, served as City Hall Bureau Chief in New York, covered state houses in Trenton and Albany and served as national correspondent and Southern Bureau Chief in charge of covering eight states in the Deep South.

Read more about Ron Smothers

Join us in The Ballroom at the elegant University & Whist Club, 805 N. Broom Street, Wilmington, on Tuesday, April 29, to help honor those who entered the 2008 DPA Communications Contest and to enjoy a display of the award-winning contest entries.

Social hour with cash bar begins at 5:30 p.m. with dinner at 6:30 p.m. Following dinner and our speaker, the communications contest awards will be announced, certificates will be presented to the contest award winners and cash prizes given to the contest sweepstakes winners.

There is a parking lot at the club (to the left and to the rear), as well as free on-street parking on adjacent streets should the lot be full. Valet parking is available at the front door, and there is a handicap access ramp into the club from the parking area at the rear of the building.

Directions to the University & Whist Club: From Pennsylvania Avenue (Route 52) heading south into Wilmington, turn right onto Broom Street (if heading north out of the city, turn left onto Broom). Landmark: The Church of the Holy City is on the SW corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Broom Street. After the turn onto Broom, go past Padua Academy (on right) to the next stop sign. Cross through the intersection and turn right into the University & Whist driveway (on the corner of 9th & Broom).

Cost: members $35; non-members $40.

For more information: contact Katherine Ward at DelawarePress@aol.com.

– Make a reservation –

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MAY 2008

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SEPTEMBER 2008

2008 NFPW / Media Network Idaho Communications Conference

The members of Media Network Idaho (MNI) will host “Kickin’ Back in Idaho,” the 2008 NFPW Communications Conference, September 11–13 in Idaho Falls. You can network with communications colleagues from across the U.S., enjoy speakers and panel discussions on a variety of topics and cheer for our 2008 Communicator of Achievement, Barbara Roewe, as she participates in the national COA competition. Click here for a schedule of speakers, workshops and activities.

There will be a three-day pre-conference trip, September 7–9, to Sun Valley, Idaho, Jackpot, Wyoming, Shoshone Falls and the Fort Hall Indian Reservation. Get pre-conference tour details, including info on getting to and from Idaho.

Plan to enjoy a post-conference tour of Yellowstone National Park (overnight at the Old Faithful Inn) and take a leisurely float trip down the Snake River in Grand Teton National Park (overnight in Jackson Hole, Wyoming), September 14–16. Click this link for post-conference tour details.

If you wish to take either or both of these tours, click the links above and sign up now because they are filling up fast.

The Shilo Inn, located on the scenic Snake River near the falls, will be the full-service site for most of the conference activities. The hotel has non-smoking guest rooms available, and the room rate, single or double, will be $89 for a street view room, $99 for a river view room. Call 208-523-0088 for your reservation and ask for the NFPW room rate.

The conference registration form will be available through the NFPW Web site this summer.

For more information, contact Katherine Ward: 302-655-2175 or DelawarePress@aol.com.

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