Nieman Schedule

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2005 Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism Draft Schedule Friday, December 2, 2005 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Registration 1:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. Welcome (Bob Giles and Mark Kramer) 1:15 p.m. - 2:25 p.m. Keynote Setting, Psychology and Mommy in Narrative Journalism (Tom Wolfe) 2:45 p.m. - 3:55 p.m. Breakout I • The Gift of Personal Stories (Tom French, Amy Ellis Nutt, Eddy L. Harris) • Writing for Multiple Cultures Without Reaching for the Least Common Denominator (Victor Merina) • On Character (Jamaica Kincaid, Mark Singer) • Bridging the Gap: Narrative in newsrooms (Robin Gaby Fisher, Laurie Hertzel, John Carroll, Chip Scanlan) • Which Story to Tell: Choosing the characters, details, strands, ideas and scenes to move from field notes to first draft (Jacqui Banaszynski, Mark Kramer, Adam Hochschild) • Write From Your Tent: Why it pays to put words down in the field (Marc Lacey) • Writing to Picture: Narrative in TV news stories (Beth Nissen) • *****Name of session to come (Presenter to come*****) 4:15 p.m. - 5:25 p.m. Breakout II • Engineering Mega-Narrative Projects (Gerald Boyd) • Using Narrative Elements to Make Hard Reading Easy (Roy Peter Clark) • Finding Stories in Everyday Life (Jacqui Banaszynski) • Three of My Most Effective Narratives and Why (Laurie Hertzel, Tom French, Beth Nissen) • Writing Workshop: When “hack” isn’t a four-letter word — five steps to make writing dreams happen and other time-management tips for writers (Chip Scanlan) • Why So Much News Narrative Comes Out Mawkish and What to Do About It (Mark Kramer) • Sports and Power (Sally Jenkins, Amy Ellis Nutt) • A Picture of What Happened: Maintaining credibility in the digital age (Michael Williamson) 5:45 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Readings 7:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Remarks Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers 7:30 p.m. Reception 9:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Café Sessions 2 2005 Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism Draft Schedule Saturday, December 3, 2005 7:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Registration 7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Keynote Panel How Must a Storyteller Be Fair? (Cheryl Carpenter, John Carroll, Philip Gourevitch, Mark Singer, Gerald Boyd, Orville Schell and moderator Mark Kramer) 10:20 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Breakout III • Putting Endings First: Nine ways to demolish default kickers and make your stories unforgettable (Chip Scanlan) • Immersion Reporting: Disappearing inside other worlds, other experiences (Tom French) • Community Journalism and Narrative (Cheryl Carpenter, Derrick Jackson, Doug McGill) • Whose Story Is It to Tell? Minorities on minorities (Gerald Boyd, Victor Merina, S. Mitra Kalita, Mirta Ojito) • Painting Scenes in Three Media (Marc Lacey, Claudio Sanchez, Michael Williamson) • “Trust Me”: Why the people you write about should (not?) do so (Mark Singer) • Managing Narrative Writers (Eugene Robinson) • How “I” Makes the Story (Eddy L. Harris) 11:45 a.m. - 12:55 p.m. Breakout IV • How to Improve the Climate for Narrative (Cheryl Carpenter) • Reporting on Your Own: Narrative from within communities (S. Mitra Kalita) • Telling the Hard Stories (Doug McGill, Orville Schell, Sheila Curran Bernard) • A Toolbox of Literary Skills for Nonfiction Writers (Phillip Lopate, Eugene Robinson, Eddy L. Harris) • 50 Writing Tools in 50 Minutes (Roy Peter Clark) • Narrative in Breaking News (Sarah Lyall, Tom French, Beth Nissen) • Covering the Country (Not the City) (Dale Maharidge, Mark Singer, Laurie Hertzel) • Getting Real: Beyond the heroic (sports) narrative (Sally Jenkins) 1:15 p.m. - 2:20 p.m. Lunch and Readings 2:40 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Keynote Ambitious Narrative Writing in Newspapers: An editor’s perspective (John Carroll) (Saturday continued on next page) 3 2005 Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism Draft Schedule Saturday, December 3, 2005 (continued) 4:05 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Breakout V • In the Beginning Was the (Right) Word: Ledes and nuts (Jacqui Banaszynski) • Global Narratives for Local Audiences (Doug McGill) • New Tech and New News: Does changing broadcast technology change what’s covered? (Beth Nissen, Claudio Sanchez, Sree Sreenivasan, Orville Schell) • Regular Guests: How to entertain week after week with your column (Randy Cohen, Derrick Jackson, Sally Jenkins) • Recasting History (Adam Hochschild, Philip Gourevitch) • From Journalist to Author: Making the transition successfully (Stuart Krichevsky) • How to be Funny Without Being Mean: Using (but not abusing) people you interview (Sarah Lyall) • The Reported Memoir: Going beyond memories to craft a personal story (Mirta Ojito) 5:30 p.m. - 6:45 p.m. Breakout VI • Fact is Stranger than Journalism: Why ‘the news’ stays tame while reality goes wild (Philip Gourevitch) • How Journalists Fail: Clumsiness vs. nastiness (Randy Cohen) • A Writer/Photographer Partnership that Works (Dale Maharidge, Michael Williamson) • Medical Stories (Mark Kramer, Diana Sugg, Amy Ellis Nutt) • What I Learned About Narrative From “Louie, Louie” (Roy Peter Clark) • In Praise of the Knife: The virtues of cutting (Adam Hochschild) • Narrative Writing 2.0: Using blogs (and whatever’s next) to tell better stories (Sree Sreenivasan) • Straight A’s Don’t Mean a Thing if you Don’t Have Common Sense (Derrick Jackson) 8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Café Sessions