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Schedule of Events
- Thursday, September 4
Highlights: national membership meeting and election of NFPW officers
for 2003-2005, workshops, walking tour of downtown Wilmington, readings
by Delaware and NFPW authors, Communicator of Achievement awards banquet
(entertainment: Strings Plus One; speakers: Ed Okonowicz and Julianna
Baggott).
- Friday, September 5
Highlights: Keynote address by CBS News correspondent Jim Axelrod,
workshops, panel discussions. Optional tours and dinner at the
Wilmington Riverfront (entertainment: Uupbeats Dixieland Band and
Crabmeat Thompson).
- Saturday, September 6
Highlights: Address by U.S. Senator Joe Biden (D-Del.), workshops, panel
discussions, national High School Journalism Contest awards luncheon,
press conference with Delaware Governor Ruth Ann Minner. NFPW National
Communications Contest awards reception and dinner (entertainment:
Whirled Peas; speaker: Jim Bohannon).
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4
7:45 a.m.-8:45 a.m.
POPPS (Parley of Past Presidents, State) Meeting and Dutch Treat
Breakfast
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
NFPW Board Meeting (national board members only)
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Thursday Morning Workshops
“What’s the Big Idea?”
Presenter: Roy Podorson
The big idea is what makes great advertising. More than a means of
moving merchandise, advertising increasingly has been recognized not only as
an art form all its own, but also as a central, defining element of popular
culture. In this seminar, MBNA’s art director, Roy Podorson, will examine
legendary big ideas, concepts that have made and saved companies, and TV
commercials that broke all the rules and all the records in sales.
Senior Art Director for MBNA America, Roy Podorson has worked for
major New York agencies such as Doyle Dane Bernbach and McCann Erickson,
where he assisted art directors who revolutionized the advertising industry.
“Big Time Book Publishing: The Inside Story”
Presenters: Ed Dee and Rachel Simon
How does an unknown author find an agent and get the attention of major
publishers? Is it necessary to have an agent? Once a book is published, how
much of a role does the author play in marketing? Ed Dee and Rachel Simon
will give the inside story about the opportunities and difficulties of
today’s publishing market.
Ed Dee retired as a lieutenant after 20 years with the
NYPD, then obtained a MFA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University.
His first novel, 14 Peck Slip was published in 1994 and named a
Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times that December. He
followed with Bronx Angel, Little Boy Blue, and Nightbird, all
published by Warner Books. Warner will release his latest novel The
Conman's Daughter in October 2003. His work has been featured in The Book
of the Month Club, The Mystery Guild, and published in Japanese, Dutch, and
French.
Rachel Simon has garnered national attention for her most
recent work, the memoir Riding the Bus with My Sister
(Houghton Mifflin 2002). Simon also has published a novel, The Magic
Touch (1994) and a book of short stories, Little Nightmares, Little
Dreams (1990) as well as an inspirational book for writers, The
Writer's Survival Guide (1997). She teaches fiction writing and creative
nonfiction at Bryn Mawr College.
11:00 a.m.
Book signing for Ed Dee and Rachel Simon
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Leadership Forum and Luncheon (Invitation Only)
For NFPW elected officers and appointed committee heads, plus all affiliate
presidents or one delegated representative from each affiliate. Lunch “on
your own” for all others.
1:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
General Membership Meeting and Election of NFPW Officers
All NFPW members are urged to attend.
4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
Thursday Afternoon Breakout Sessions, Meetings, Activities
NFPW Session, 4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
“Organizing and Managing a Successful Communications Contest”
NFPW Session, 4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
“Membership Strategies: Getting and Retaining Members”
Walking Tour, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Market Street Walking Tour of Downtown Wilmington
Like many cities, Wilmington developed up from its waterfront, and the
movement of the central business district can be charted by following the
migration of banks, dime stores, department stores and housing. On the
Market Street walking tour of Wilmington (founded in 1638), Susan Mulchahey
Chase, who works as a consulting historian for preservation associations,
museums, corporations and parks, will introduce participants to aspects of
the city’s history through architecture. As she invites them to look up and
“read” the buildings, she will suggest ways of seeing architecture from the
perspectives of changing use and historic preservation. Walkers depart from
the hotel lobby.
Susan Mulchahey Chase holds degrees in economics, American
studies, and labor relations and, in 1995, earned a Ph.D. at the University
of Delaware’s College of Urban Affairs and Public Policy. Her dissertation
was on Wilmington and the creation of its suburbs. She has shared her
interest in local history in a series of illustrated walking tours of local
parks and neighborhoods. She works as a consulting historian, doing “history
for hire” for such diverse groups as Preservation Delaware, Inc., Rockwood
Museum, the Friends of Wilmington Parks, Greater Brandywine Village
Revitalization, and IA Holdings Corporation.
Readings by Delaware and NFPW Authors, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Authors will read short selections from their works; sales and
signings by authors.
6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
Reception to Meet and Honor First Timers
As we gather for the opening reception of the 2003 NFPW Communications
Conference, we’ll greet those who are “first timers.” We will be entertained
with classical music selections from Strings Plus One at this kickoff
reception with cash bar.
7:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
Communicator of Achievement Awards Banquet
The Communicator of Achievement Awards Banquet begins with a welcome to
the City of Wilmington by Mayor James M. Baker, a key figure in
helping preserve and promote the city’s heritage and author of The
Genuine American Music. Then storyteller Ed Okonowicz, author of
the award-winning Disappearing Delmarva, will set the scene in
Delaware with a few animated tales about the First State. During dessert,
Julianna Baggott, author of three novels, including bestsellers Girl
Talk and The Miss America Family, will discuss her winding road
to publication, giving a glimpse of the current state of the New York City
publishing scene and how she juggles her more public role with what is
otherwise a quietly intense writerly life. The evening culminates when the
state affiliate Communicators of Achievement are presented and the 2003 NFPW
Communicator of Achievement is named.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2003
7:00 a.m.-8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m. Plenary Session
“The Middle East: A Veteran Journalist’s View of the Missiles,
Microbes and Madness”
Speaker: Judith Miller, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and senior
writer, The New York Times
One of the leading experts on the Middle East, Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist Judith Miller has interviewed heads of state, government
officials, leaders of Islamic movements, and the ordinary men and women
swept into the maelstrom of Islamic politics. Since 1993, she has covered
Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda network, and describes the latter as “a
holding company for terror,” largely because they have access to weapons of
modern warfare, including chemical and biological toxins. A former Times
bureau chief in Cairo, Ms. Miller will talk about her observations of the
tensions in the Middle East and whether advances in biology and technology,
and their suspected availability to nations such as North Korea, Iran, and
Iraq, could make genetically modified germs the twenty-first century’s most
debilitating and deadly weapons.
New York Times senior writer Judith Miller writes with authority
on national security, the Middle East, global terrorism, and germ warfare.
She won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting for her “informed
and detailed reporting” on the global terrorism network before and after the
September 11 attacks on the U.S. Ms. Miller has published four books, two of
which Topped The New York Times bestseller list. Her most recent
work, GERMS: Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War, written
with William Broad and Stephen Engelberg, reveals the proliferation of
biological weapons around the world. Ms. Miller, who was the Times’
bureau chief in Cairo and has worked in bureaus in Paris, Washington, DC,
and New York, is a frequent guest on CNN and CNBC.
9:30 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
Reception and Book Signing with Judith Miller
9:30 a.m.
NFPW Past Presidents’ Annual Meeting
10:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m. Friday Morning Workshops
“How to Get Published in 30 Days or Less”
Presenter: John Riddle
John Riddle, a freelance writer with 30 books to his credit, will tell
you how to get published in 30 days or less.
1. Learn the rules of the publishing game: more bylines; more checks
2. Use the Internet to market yourself as a writer
3. Get a book contract in 30 days
4. Create a freelance marketing plan
5. Freelance job boards: the good, the bad and the ugly
6. Websites: a gold mine of writing opportunities
John Riddle is the author of 30 books and the founder of I Love To
Write Day, a new holiday for writers that is celebrated every November 15.
With more than 30 years’ experience as a freelance writer, his byline has
appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and dozens of
other national and regional publications. He’s written for more than 200
websites, and successfully sells an e-book titled How I Made $66,270 in
9 Months Writing For Web Sites at his website,
www.ilovetowrite.com.
“Surfing Smarter: Media in Cyberspace” Part I
Presenter: Steven Ross
From e-mail contacts to full Web research, the journalist needs to know
what to trust and how to find information quickly and correctly online. This
workshop will be both conceptual and practical. In the morning session,
participants will hear about Steven Ross’s research and what it means to the
working journalist, then in the afternoon they will see some techniques that
will help them better search the Internet and assimilate the information.
Co-director of the Institute for Analytic Journalism, Professor Steven
Ross teaches new media and computer-assisted reporting at Columbia
University’s Graduate School of Journalism in New York. For the past nine
years, Prof. Ross and colleague Don Middleberg have authored the largest surveys
of how journalists use online services, including but not limited to the
Web. In 1999, the Pulitzer Prize Board asked Prof. Ross to study newspaper
websites and recommend awarding of prizes for online work.
“How to be Your Own Writing Coach”
Presenter: John Sweeney
Writing Coach John Sweeney examines ways to solve the dilemmas every
writer faces. For generations, writers and editors viewed writing as an
open-and-shut case. Some people wrote well. The rest of us struggled the
best we could. But we now know that’s not the whole story. This session
offers suggestions on how to master the writing process and use coaching
techniques on your own reporting and writing.
John Sweeney is the Public Editor and writing coach for The
News Journal in Wilmington, Delaware. He is a co-founder and current
director of the Wilmington Writers’ Workshop, forerunner of the National
Writers’ Workshops. Mr. Sweeney has published articles on ethics in the
textbook Media Ethics: Issues & Cases. In addition, he is co-editor,
with Dennis Jackson, of The Journalist’s Craft: A Guide to Writing Better
Stories (Allworth Press 2002).
Noon - 1:30 p.m. Luncheon
“The Era of Media Globalization”
Speaker: Ralph Begleiter
The turn of the new century, ushered in by the attacks of September 11
and the death of journalist Daniel Pearl, has witnessed an important change
in the nature of the news media. Journalists who once considered their
audiences and readers to be “at home” now realize their stories are being
read and seen worldwide via satellite TV, by international publication of
newspaper and wire stories or from publication on the Internet. Because
culture and journalism standards differ widely and often mean sharply
different interpretations of the same stories, how should journalists
confront their new global role? For which audience does today’s journalist
write? How do these changes affect questions of national security and
national interest?
In more than 10 years as CNN’s former world affairs correspondent,
Ralph Begleiter logged 1.5 million international miles, often traveling
in the company of US Presidents and Secretaries of State. For 20 years he
was based in CNN’s Washington bureau, where he wrote and produced news
reports and anchored special reports on “CNN International.” He is now the
Distinguished Journalist in Residence at the University of Delaware, where
he teaches communication, political science and journalism.
1:45 p.m.-3:15 p.m. Friday Afternoon Workshops
“The Art of the Interview”
Presenters: Allan Loudell and Michael Sigman
Radio anchor Allan Loudell and communications coach Michael Sigman, two
Delaware communicators who interview people every day, will examine
interview strategies and the differences between broadcast and print. How
should you pace an interview? Should you prepare your questions? When and
how do “softball” questions serve your purpose? Is there ever a dumb
question? If you started in journalism but you’re now in PR, what do you
need to know about being on the other side of the interview?
Allan R. Loudell is program manager and morning/midday news
co-anchor at 1450 WILM NEWSRADIO, Delaware’s nationally recognized all-news
and information station. He has interviewed or covered Presidents and
foreign leaders and maintains a network of journalists, government
officials, scientists, and economists from around the world for interviews
and live reports of breaking national and international stories including
some not otherwise available in the US media.
Michael Sigman, a communication skills educator and coach,
specializes in preparing business people for public presentations, including
speeches, briefings, voice mail and e-mail messages. He teaches corporate
executives how to cope with news conferences and reporters’ questions for
broadcast, print and web-based media. Mr. Sigman helped form I-Per Drive, a
company that offers professional skills courses at client worksites or over
the Internet.
“Crime Beat: On the Mean Streets”
Presenter: George Anastasia
Veteran Philadelphia Inquirer reporter and author George Anastasia
will discuss the ins and outs of covering crime—organized and
disorganized—and how to find the story behind the story in high profile
criminal cases. Anastasia has tracked the rise and fall of “the human
condition,” but the compelling story, he believes, is not “the who, what,
where and when,” but “the why.”
Philadelphia Inquirer reporter George Anastasia has specialized in
writing about organized crime for the past 15 years. He also has covered
Atlantic City, casino gambling and disorganized crime. He is the
award-winning author of four books of nonfiction, including Blood and
Honor, which Jimmy Breslin called “the best gangster book ever written.”
Other books include The Summer Wind about the Thomas
Capano-Anne Marie Fahey murder case, The Goodfella Tapes and
Mobfather.
“Surfing Smarter: Media in Cyberspace” Part II
Presenter: Steven Ross
See Friday morning 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
3:00 p.m.-3:15 p.m. Networking Break
3:15 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Friday Afternoon Workshops
“Investigative Reporting or Life as a Mole: Digging
Through Public Records” Panel Discussion
Journalists, investigators, and public activists tell how they dig for
information from public records and private sources.
Moderator:
Rita Katz Farrell, a Reuters correspondent for 15 years, is now a
correspondent for Agence France Presse and Variety. A former chemist, she
teaches college and freelances, most recently for The San Francisco
Chronicle and the Associated Press.
Panelists:
Randall Chase is the Associated Press correspondent for Delaware and
parts of Maryland, covering government, elected officials, and general news.
Colm Connolly, appointed U.S. Attorney for Delaware by President
George W. Bush in 2001, became a national figure after winning the
conviction of Thomas Capano in 1999 for the first-degree murder of the
missing secretary of Delaware's governor.
Jonathan Epstein covers Delaware's banking and financial services
industries for the (Wilmington, Del.) News Journal, a Gannett paper.
He also has led the paper's coverage of executive compensation and corporate
governance issues.
John Flaherty, staff assistant for U.S. Senator Joseph Biden of
Delaware from 1972 to 1995, has been a lobbyist for Common Cause in the
Delaware General Assembly since 1996.
Sharon Mittelman is the morning co-anchor for WILM
NEWSRADIO and a freelance reporter for PBS affiliate WHYY-TV. She is a
former anchor and reporter for Channel 2/First State News.
Jeff Montgomery covers environmental issues for the (Wilmington, Del)
News Journal, a Gannett paper. His frequent Freedom of Information
(FOIA) searches have revealed many problems in certain sectors of Delaware's
industrial operations.
Stephen Taylor has been the Court Administrator for the Delaware
Supreme Court since 1978 with the exception of a half year in 1999, when he
served as the clerk of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware.
“Live! On the Net”
Presenter: Carin Dessauer
Carin Dessauer, who produced the first-ever online interview with a sitting
president, President Bill Clinton, will address the power of the Web for
journalists and organizations as well as discuss the ways the Internet has
changed journalism. She will illustrate using her experiences as a
journalist and executive in print, television and the Internet. She
currently works as a consultant to businesses and organizations for
media-based strategies.
Carin Dessauer, a Washington, DC-based journalist and media
executive, is a principal with mc2 (Multi-Media, Creative Concepts), a media
and business strategic consulting company. Prior to a recent Shapiro
Fellowship at the George Washington University School of Media and Public
Affairs, she was the executive at CNN in charge of the Washington Bureau for
CNN Interactive, including all aspects of the record-setting and
award-winning coverage of the 2000 national election.
5:00 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
Rollin’ on the River: An Evening at the Wilmington Riverfront
Optional Outing — Price Per Person: $___
We’ll board a bus (beginning at 4:45 p.m.) for a short hop to the Wilmington
Riverfront, where the evening begins at the Delaware Art Museum, the
state’s premier fine arts institution. Enjoy distinguished collections of
American Art, including works by Church, Eakins, Hopper, Sloan and Calder;
an unrivaled collection of works by Howard Pyle and his students, among them
N.C. Wyeth; and the country’s most important collection of 19th-century
English Pre-Raphaelite art.
While at the museum we’ll enjoy a reception with cash bar and the music of
the Uupbeats Dixieland Band. Take some time to explore the
Shipyard Shops (catalog outlet stores, including L.L. Bean, Coldwater Creek
and Factory Brand Shoes) and then either take the bus or stroll along the
one-mile Riverwalk to the Harriet Tubman/Thomas Garrett Riverfront Park,
where captain and crew will give us a tour one of the most beautiful of all
the tall ships, the Kalmar Nyckel—a recreation
of the ship that brought the first settlers to Wilmington in 1638.
Next, we’ll walk three blocks to the Riverfront Market, where you’ll
crack some crabs and enjoy some Delmarvelous chicken (the broiler industry
was started by a Delaware woman in the 1920s) with all the fixin’s. We’ll be
entertained by “Delaware’s Troubadour,” folk poet and guitarist Crabmeat
Thompson, who mixes blues ballads with Irish folk tunes. Our bus will
take us back to the hotel after dinner, but those who wish to remain out on
the town, may call for the hotel van (655-0400) when ready to return to the
Wyndham.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6,
2003
8:00 a.m.- 10:00 a.m.
President’s Roundtable and Welcome to 2004 Conference in Kentucky
“Foreign Relations and the Media: Are We Well Enough Informed?”
Speaker: US Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
On Dec. 19, 2001, Senator Joseph R. Biden (D-Del) wrote: “Sept. 11
clarified the fact that the world is in transition from old Cold War
alignments to new patterns of conflict and cooperation. Managing such a
transition wisely will determine whether we take advantage of new
opportunities or whether we allow ideological zealotry to control strategic
doctrine.” As the Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
Senator Biden has been a frequent guest on national television news shows,
including “Meet the Press,” “Face the Nation,” “CNN’s Late Edition,” and
“Hardball.” He repeatedly has stressed the need to inform the American
people about the plans and consequences of US foreign policy, and most
recently as it applies to
Afghanistan, Iraq and North Korea. He will speak about these issues and
about the job he thinks the US news media are doing in reporting on them to
the public.
Senator Joseph Biden (D-Del.), now beginning his sixth term as US
Senator, is the Ranking Member and former Chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee. As such, he meets regularly with the President and the
National Security Adviser, with the Secretaries of Defense and State, and
with the FBI and intelligence agencies to monitor security issues. A leading
proponent of UN intervention in Bosnia, he has supported the use of US
advisors against Latin American political rebels and drug lords. In 1987, he
sought the Democratic nomination for president and is considering a run in
2004.
10:30 a.m.-Noon Saturday Morning Workshops
“The World As We See It: The Foreign Press in the U.S.”
Presenters: Gautam Adhikari, Elaine Monaghan and Luis Costa Ribas
With satellites, telephones and computers, the world is interconnected
as never before. Yet arguably, Americans get a much different world view
from their media—especially the popular media—than people in most other
countries. This panel of distinguished international journalists will
reflect on their jobs covering the US as well as on the world view we get,
or don’t get, from our media.
Gautam Adhikari is a global consultant on democracy, governance,
poverty reduction and media-related issues. Based in Washington, DC, he is a
consultant with the National Endowment for Democracy and with the World
Bank. He has been Executive Editor of The Times of India, a White
House correspondent, a United Nations correspondent and covered the World
Bank and IMF over several years. He is a frequent commentator on current
affairs on CNN International and BBC World Service.
Appointed the Washington correspondent for The Times of London in
October 2002, Elaine Monaghan covers stories ranging from
domestic politics to North Korea to the Middle East. While with Reuters for
nine years, she worked at the US State Department, traveling extensively
with Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell. She also covered the Northern
Irish peace from Belfast and reported on the fighting and the refugee crisis
in Albania and Kosovo.
Luis Costa Ribas is the Washington Bureau Chief for SIC Television,
Portugal’s number one television network, and manages offices in Washington,
New York and Toronto. He has covered civil conflicts, peace processes, and
elections on four continents. Mr. Ribas also teaches journalism seminars in
Africa and Central America, specializing in political relations between
governments and media institutions, media coverage of multi-party elections,
First Amendment and freedom of the press.
“Time Management for Creative People”
Presenter: John Riddle
John Riddle, author of 30 books, has written for more than 200 websites.
A writer who manages his time effectively, he’ll tell you how you can too.
1. Learn how creative people think
2. Why organizing and creating collide with each other
3. Power tools for creative people
4. Time management techniques for creative types
5. Ways to beat procrastination
6. Control your clock and calendar
For John Riddle’s bio, see Friday 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
“The New News Package: Using Multimedia to Enhance Your Story”
Presenter: Laura Sturaitis
Laura Sturaitis, VP New Media Development at Business Wire, will
demonstrate how print, broadcast and online journalists can tap into photos,
logos, graphics, slide shows, animations, audio and video assets to make a
story more eye-catching, understandable and memorable for readers, viewers
or the Web audience. She will show how media and media relations
professionals are working together to use technology to tell stories,
communicate information and report the news in new ways to new audiences.
Laura Sturaitis, is Vice President, New Media Development for
Business Wire, the international media relations wire service that
electronically disseminates full-text news releases simultaneously to the
news media, the Internet, online services and databases, and the global
investment community. She led the development, sales and marketing
initiative for Newstream, the first website to provide services to online
journalists, by giving them access to Business Wire’s Smart News Release for
free multimedia news content from corporations and organizations worldwide.
She is also product manager for ExpertSource, Business Wire’s service
matching BW members with journalists looking for sources to interview for
the stories they are reporting.
12:15 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
Youth Awards Luncheon and Press Conference
The 2003 NFPW High School Journalism Contest national award winners will
be honored. Meet the Press: Delaware’s Governor, Ruth Ann Minner, Attorney
General Jane Brady, and Secretary of the Department of Services for
Children, Youth and Their Families Cari DeSantis will take questions from
prizewinning students in a public press conference.
2:45 p.m.-4:15 p.m. Saturday Afternoon Workshops
“Mass Media: Through the Lens of Popular Culture”
Presenters: Sharon Baker and Jay Roewe
Film and television always have reflected popular culture . . . or is it
the other way around? HBO Vice President Jay Roewe and Emmy-winning
documentary filmmaker Sharon Baker will engage you in a lively discussion
about living in a culture saturated with media of all sorts that is largely
(some would say, nearly exclusively) entertainment spectacle. What passes
for “news” today in electronic media is many times, at best, perfunctory
reporting and, at worst, minimally researched “headline news” calculated to
engage audience fragments in an increasingly splintered market. In this age
of corporate conglomerates, it is no longer enough simply to watch the news
or movies or TV or to read books, magazines and newspapers without asking
“who owns who?” and what’s at stake in the telling of this story at this
time.
Sharon Baker, president of the Delaware-based production company
Teleduction, Inc., for 25 years, has written, produced and directed
documentary films and public affairs programs that have netted her seven
Regional Emmy Awards and numerous other honors. Her works have aired on PBS,
The A&E Network, The History Channel, House and Garden Television, and the
CBS Network and have appeared at many film festivals nationwide. Recent
productions include Whispers of Angels, a story of the Underground
Railroad; Central Casting, a history of the Hollywood Labor Movement;
and Bandstand Days, a history of pop phenomenon “American Bandstand.”
Jay Roewe, Vice President of HBO Films Production, has overseen all
aspects of physical production on HBO movie projects since 1994. Films
produced under his supervision include three-time Emmy Award-winning The
Gathering Storm, with Albert Finney and Vanessa Redgrave, the CNN drama
“Live from Baghdad” starring Michael Keaton, and Real Women Have
Curves, HBO Films’ first theatrically released feature. He has produced
more than 60 music videos and a number of television pilots and
feature-length films, including the pilot for “Beverly Hills 90210” and
Madonna’s feature film Truth or Dare.
“The Dynamics and Power of Opinion Polling”
Presenter: John Zogby
Internationally acclaimed pollster John Zogby will a review the uses and
abuses of opinion polling, and polling’s importance in our democracy. He
also will offer an inside look at polling results for Presidential
contenders in the Democratic primary and the 2004 election.
Known as “The Polltaker’s Poster Boy,” John Zogby, CEO of Zogby
International, has been a leader in the public opinion field in the
Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East for nearly two decades. In
addition to polling, Zogby offers market research, and strategic information
services worldwide. Zogby polls are used by Reuters, Gannett News Service,
USA Today, and Fox Television Network.
2:45 - 5:30 p.m.
Mid-town/Trinity Vicinity Walking Tour of Wilmington
Harmon Carey, Delaware’s Executive Assistant on African American Heritage,
will conduct an African American Heritage tour of Wilmington that will
include documented Underground Railroad sites. Deborah Haskell, head of
special projects for the Delaware Heritage Commission, will lead the tour on
to other places of historic interest, including the Trinity Vicinity, the
first Urban Homesteading Site in the
US. Walkers depart from the hotel lobby.
Harmon R. Carey, a public historian, is principal founder and
Executive Director of the Afro-American Historical Society of Delaware. He
is also Executive Assistant for African American Heritage in the Delaware
Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs. His principal focus is
educating the public about the history and heritage of African Americans in
and from Delaware.
Deborah Peek Haskell is the executive director of the non-profit
state agency, Delaware Heritage Commission, which promotes the history and
heritage of Delaware. A member of the Wilmington Trail Club, she is an avid
hiker and cross-country skier.
6:00-7:15 p.m.
Reception at Delaware History Museum
Enjoy a reception with cash bar at the Delaware History Museum, located in a
renovated art deco Woolworth store just two blocks from our hotel. Musical
group Whirled Peas will share their love of blues, bluegrass and folk music
while you explore the museum’s three galleries of changing, interactive
exhibits on Delaware history, including displays of rare items of everyday
life, costumes, children’s toys, regional decorative arts, and paintings.
The gift shop, specializing in Delaware handcrafted items and souvenirs will
remain open during the reception.
7:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
Communications Contest Awards Dinner
“Talk Radio Today”
Speaker: Jim Bohannon
In some circles, talk radio is cantankerous; in others, it provides the
one, provocative alternative to stale, predictable mainstream media. Either
way, one man has done it and seen it evolve longer than most. He is Jim
Bohannon, who replaced Larry King as the overnight talk show host on then
Mutual Radio, now Westwood One. Having interviewed scores of senators,
presidential candidates, foreign leaders and high profile celebrities, he
brings a unique perspective as a working journalist and a talk show host to
bear when broadcasting each night from the nation’s capital to hundreds of
radio markets in the US.
Calling himself “the voice of reason” and a “militant moderate,” Jim
Bohannon broadcasts an award-winning nightly radio talk show from
Washington, DC, to 1100 stations nationwide. “The Jim Bohannon Show”
features high profile personalities and calls from listeners. Recent guests:
authors Mary Higgins Clark and Tom Clancy, cartoonist Scott Adams, lawyer
Alan Dershowitz and political consultant Dick Morris. Bohannon has anchored
newscasts, political conventions, election-night coverage and, in 1993,
replaced Larry King as talk show host when King left to host the eponymous
CNN-TV talk show.
10:00 p.m. Farewell Reception
NFPW President’s Suite, hosted by the South Carolina Affiliate
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CLIMATE AND CLOTHING
Temperatures in Wilmington in late August/early
September range from a daytime average of 80° to an evening average of 65°.
Dress is business casual for the conference; something dressier for
the banquets. Casual clothing is recommended for the pre- and
post-conference tours, for Friday evening at the Wilmington Riverfront
(picking crabs) or should you choose to take either of the walking tours of
downtown Wilmington. Take at least one pair of comfortable walking shoes for
those activities. Pack a sweater or light jacket for tours and evening
activities. The hotel is air conditioned, and it may be cool in the meeting
rooms.
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION IS DUE AUGUST 4, 2003
Mail your registration to:
NFPW
PO Department 798
Alexandria, VA 22334-0798
Or fax it to:
703-534-5751
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