Delaware Press Association - Conference Schedule

Monday, September 1
8:45 a.m.	Distinctly Delaware: Historial Highlights of the Colonial and Civil War Eras one-day tour departs.
Tuesday, September 2
8:00 a.m.	The du Pont Family Legacy: Black Powder & Blue Bloods one-day tour departs
Wednesday, September 3
8:00 a.m.	Arts and Flowers one-day tour departs
Thursday, September 4
7:45 - 8:45 a.m.	POPPS Meeting and Dutch Treat Breakfast
8:30-11:30 a.m.	NFPW Board Meeting
9:00-11:00 a.m.	Workshop - What’s the Big Idea, Roy Podorson, senior art director, MBNA America, Wilmington, Del. Workshop - Big Time Book Publishing: The Inside Story, Ed Dee, novelist, Lewes, Del. and Rachel Simon, novelist, Wilmington, Del.
11:00 a.m.	Book signing with Ed Dee and Rachel Simon
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.	Leadership Luncheon (invitation only)
1:45-4:15 p.m.	General Membership Meeting and Election of NFPW Officers
4:30-5:30 p.m.	Education Fund Board Meeting
	NFPW Breakouts (state contest directors; state membership chairs) Session - Organizing and managing a Successful Communications Contents Session - Membership Strategies: Getting and Retaining Members
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.	Market Street Walking Tour of Downtown Wilmington
4:30 - 6:30 p.m.	Readings by Delaware and NFPW Authors/sales and signings by authors
6:30-7:30 p.m.	Welcome Reception to Meet and Honor First Timers Entertainment: Strings Plus One
7:30-10:00 p.m.	Opening Banquet - Communicator of Achievement Awards Banquet - Greeting, Wilmington Mayor, James M. Baker; “Tales of Delaware,” Ed Okonowicz, storyteller, Elkton, Md.; I Just Naturally Lie, Julianna Baggott, bestselling author, Newark, Del.; affiliate COAs presented, NFPW COA named
10:00 p.m.	Book signing with Ed Okonowicz and Julianna Baggott
Friday, September 5
7:00-8:00 a.m.	Continental Breakfast
8:00-9:30 a.m.	Plenary Session - The Middle East: A Veteran Journalist’s View of the Missiles, Microbes and Madness, Keynote Speaker: Judith Miller, The New York Times, New York, N.Y.
9:30-10:15 a.m.	Reception and Book Signing with Judith Miller
9:30 a.m.	NFPW Past Presidents’ Annual Meeting
10:30-11:45 a.m.	Workshop - Surfing Smarter: Media in Cyberspace, Part I, Prof. Steven Ross, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York, N.Y.
	Workshop - How to be Your Own Writing Coach, John Sweeney, The News Journal Wilmington, Del.
	Workshop - How to Get Published in 30 Days or Less, John Riddle, Bear, Del.
Noon-1:30 p.m.	Luncheon - The Era of Media Globalization, Ralph Begleiter, Distinguished Journalist in Residence, University of Delaware, Newark, Del.
1:45-3:00 p.m.	Workshop - Surfing Smarter: Media in Cyberspace, Part II, Prof. Steven Ross, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York, N.Y.
	Workshop - Crime Beat: On the Mean Streets, George Anastasia, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, Pa.
	Workshop - The Art of the Interview, Allan Loudell, WILM NewsRadio and Mike Sigman, communications skills educator and coach, Wilmington, Del.
3:00-3:15 p.m.	Networking break
3:15-4:30 p.m.	Workshop - Investigative Reporting or Life as a Mole: Digging through Public Records, panel discussion, Rita Farrell, moderator, former Reuters correspondent, now Agence France Presse, Wilmington, Del.
	Workshop - Live! On the Net, Carin Dessauer, principal with mc² (Multi- Media, Creative Concepts), Washington, D.C.
4:45 p.m.	Buses start departing for Wilmington Riverfront.
5-9:30 p.m.	Tours & Dinner - Delaware Art Museum, the Tall Ship Kalmar Nyckel, Riverfront Market. Entertainment: The Uupbeats Dixieland Band; Delaware’s Troubadour, Crabmeat Thompson. Buses return as they’re filled.
Saturday, September 6
7-8 a.m.	High School Journalism Contest Directors’ Meeting
8-10 a.m.	Breakfast & President's Roundtable - Invitation to 2004 Conference U.S. Senator Joe Biden (D-Del.) Foreign Relations and the Media: Are We Well Enough Informed?
10:30-Noon	Workshop - The World As We See It: The Foreign Press in the US, Gautam Adhikari, Elaine Monaghan, Luis Costa Ribas, Washington D.C.
	Workshop - Time Management for Creative People, John Riddle, Bear, Del.
	Workshop - The New News Package: Using Multimedia to Enhance Your Story, Laura Sturaitis, Business Wire, Miami, Fla.
12:15-2:15 p.m.	Youth Luncheon and Press Conference - Meet the Press: Delaware’s Governor, Attorney General, and a Cabinet Member take questions from prize-winning students in a public press conference, Delaware Governor Ruth Ann Minner, Delaware Attorney General Jane Brady, Secretary of Youth, Children and Their Families Cari DeSantis
2:45-4:15 p.m.	Workshop - Mass Media: Through the Lens of Popular Culture, Jay Roewe, HBO, Hollywood, Cal., Sharon Baker, Teleduction, Inc., Wilmington, Del.
	Workshop - The Dynamics and Power of Opinion Polling, John Zogby, Zogby International, Utica, N.Y.
2:45-5:30 p.m.	Mid-town/Trinity Vicinity Walking Tour of Wilmington
6-7:15 p.m.	Reception at Delaware History Museum - Cash Bar Entertainment: Whirled Peas
7:30 p.m.	Communications Contest Awards Banquet - Talk Radio Today, Jim Bohannon, Washington, D.C.
10 p.m.	Farewell Reception – Hosted by the South Carolina Affiliate
Sunday, September 7
7:45 a.m.	Historic Philadelphia one-day tour departs