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APME '07
Visit to new Newseum, UNITY partnership highlight APME/APPM conference
Don't miss this APME conference
Editors attending the 2007 Associated Press Managing Editors Conference in October will be treated to a VIP experience at the new Newseum, the Freedom Forum's interactive museum of news.
APME and its sister organization, the Associated Press Photo Managers, will open this year's conference at the Newseum on Wednesday, Oct. 3. Attendees will get special access to the 250,000-square-foot facility that afternoon, followed by a welcome reception at the site sponsored by the Freedom Forum.
The remainder of the conference, which boasts the theme "Fast Forward to the Future: 500 Great Ideas for Staying Ahead and Producing Great Journalism," will be at the J.W. Marriott Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Workshops and programming at the J.W. Marriott will begin Thursday, Oct. 4, and go through Friday, Oct. 5. The conference concludes on Saturday, Oct. 6.
"The Freedom Forum is offering our attendees a wonderful opportunity to be among the first to explore this fascinating and exciting museum," said APME Conference Chairman Andrew Oppmann, executive editor and general manager of The Post-Crescent in Appleton, Wis.
"This will be a strong start to a fabulous conference."
The Newseum set to open to the public at large this fall. It is located at the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and Sixth Street N.W. in the district, between the White House and the U.S. Capitol and directly across Pennsylvania Avenue from the National Mall.
2007 APME/APPM Conference At A Glance
► Wednesday, Oct. 3 — Newseum
2 p.m.: Welcome to Washington and the Newseum
3 p.m.: Newseum tours
5 p.m.: Freedom Forum program
6-9 p.m.: Freedom Forum reception
► Thursday, Oct. 4 — J.W. Marriott
9 a.m.: 10 Essential Skills of Frontline Editors – A partnership presentation from News University
9:55 a.m.: Making the Case for Quality Multimedia
11 a.m.: Innovations in Associated Press Coverage
Noon: AP Awards Luncheon – Live from Baghdad
1:30 p.m.: Newsmaker Interview, with USA Today's Ken Paulson
2:25 p.m.: Going from Theory to Practice: How to Get it Done
3:40 p.m.: Great Ideas Academy Concurrent Sessions
3:40 p.m.: Print Innovations in a Digital World
3:40 p.m.: Digging for Gold in Public Records
3:40 p.m.: One-hour Video Reporting Crash Course
3:40 p.m.: New Media Tools: Getting Ahead of the Curve
5:45 p.m.: Newcomers Reception for APME and APPM
7 p.m.: Celebrate APME in Style at the National Press Club
7 p.m.: APME Foundation auction, music, dancing
► Friday, Oct. 5 — J.W. Marriott
8:35 a.m.: APME Innovation Awards: You Are the Jury
9:25 a.m.: Taking News Credibility Online: New Answers to Big Questions – Partnership presentation with the Reynolds Institute
10:20 a.m.: Protecting the Right to Know in the 21st Century – Partnership Presentation with the National Press Foundation
11:10 a.m.: Multimedia Lessons from a National Tragedy – The Virginia Tech shootings
11:50 a.m.: The Robert McGruder Awards Presentation
12:10 p.m.: APME Awards Luncheon
1:30 p.m.: APME/UNITY Summit
2:25 p.m.: Election 2008: Get Ready ... It's Sooner than You Think
3:20 p.m.: American Press Institute Mini Seminar – Hidden in Plain Sight
5:30 p.m.: APME Membership Meeting and Journalism Today Work Sessions
6:30 p.m.: Wine and Words Reception
► Saturday, Oct. 6 — J.W. Marriott
9 a.m.: News, Improved: Make the Most of Newsroom Training
11 a.m.: Conference concludes – Experience Washington!
It will offer 14 major exhibit galleries and 15 theaters, including a high-tech 4-D experience. Highlights will include the News History Gallery, with its collection of 375 historic newspaper front pages and magazines; a First Amendment Gallery where the five freedoms and their importance will be explained and examined; a Berlin Wall gallery with the largest display of the wall outside Germany; the Today's Front Pages gallery with its daily display of 80 newspaper front pages; and a Pulitzer Prize Photographs gallery that includes the most comprehensive collection of Pulitzer Prize-winning photography ever assembled.
"When newspaper editors walk into the Newseum, they're going to feel like kids in a candy store," said Charles L. Overby, chief executive officer of the Newseum.
This year's APME/APPM conference will also highlight a unique partnership between APME and UNITY: Journalists of Color to explore new ways to improve retention of minority journalists.
The two organizations are conducting research on best practices outside the industry as well as a series of regional roundtables with people of color who work in newsrooms or who recently left the business. The retention roundtables are following a format similar to those used in APME's successful National Credibility Roundtables program. From 2001 to 2006, the program tackled credibility issues facing news organizations in every state.
"We believe our retention project will provide a logical update to years-old retention research that doesn't take into account the rapid change newsrooms have experienced in the last few years," said Karen Magnuson, president of APME and editor of the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, N.Y. "We are concerned about the number of people of color leaving our industry and hope to get a handle on any emerging trends. We won't make any real progress in growing diversity if we do not improve retention."
The project's findings will be published as a toolkit for editors and presented during a "retention summit" at the conference. The Newspaper Association of America is funding the project.
Other anticipated highlights of the APME/APPM conference include:
■ 500 Great Ideas: Providing practical tools and ideas for editors has long been a hallmark of APME's conference programming. This year's conference will feature an expanded focus on innovation, cumulating into a set of 500 ideas gleaned from general sessions, workshops and presentations at the gathering.
■ A night at the National Press Club: The APME Foundation's annual silent auction and entertainment will be showcased Thursday night during a reception at the historic Press Club. The building, a familiar backdrop for Washington newsmakers, is next door to the J.W. Marriott hotel.
■ New attitudes, new audiences: APME and APPM will explore the changing new media environment, including the rise of the new Information Center concept underway by the Gannett Co.; new citizen journalism concepts; transparency in the mainstream media; and advances in news-gathering, digital and image technology.
USA Today, the nation's largest circulation newspaper and one of the top news sites on the Web, and Gannett are the host institutions for the conference.
The host hotel, J.W. Marriott, affords conference-goers a unique opportunity to experience a premium facility at special rates. You can reserve hotel rooms and register for the conference by following links found at APME's Web site, www.apme.com.
The hotel is near many of the district's monuments, museums and cultural venues, including the White House, the National Theatre and the National Portrait Gallery. Its location near the National Mall makes many of the district's prime attractions within an easy walk. It is also one block from Washington's Metro system.
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