Register now to 'Connect With Readers' in Louisville
Remember to register for "Connecting With Readers," APME's annual conference Oct. 13-16 in Louisville."
The four-day conference is packed with programs and advice that attendees can put into practice, including the Great Ideas program, tips for election coverage, making tough calls in photojournalism, how to prepare for coverage of terrorism and how to juggle new initiatives. In addition, the Saturday session focuses on "Newsrooms of the Future: Blueprints for Editors and Readers." Readers and experts who are studying the future of our industry will help us brainstorm the design of the "new newsroom."
Registration is just $420 for APME Supporting Members and $495 for those who are not Supporting Sembers. Rooms at the Galt House Hotel & Suites are as little as $99 per night.
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CAPTIONS ARE CRUCIAL TO STRONG PHOTOJOURNALISM
While great pictures are the primary goal of newspaper photo departments, captions can sometimes trip up the best photojournalist. Walt Stricklin, director of photography for The Birmingham (Ala.) News, offers some thoughts and ideas about this: "Photographers aren't responsible for writing stories, but our words often are the first ones read in a newspaper: Our captions. Too often, though, we treat captions like an afterthought, like a word editor treats a picture. Hand the City Editor a picture. He or she will glance at it and then read and possibly reread the caption before going back to the picture. Give the same picture to a picture editor, and they will study it, and then quickly read the caption. There is little specific data on how much time readers take to process pictures and cutlines, but in 'Eyes on the News,' the Poynter Institute's study of how readers use a newspaper, photographs are processed 75 percent of the time and the captions 29 percent. When readers stop to look at a photograph, they are more likely to read the accompanying text, the study says. And guess what that accompanying text is? The caption. Our captions."
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CAPTION CARE DOESN'T END AT SPORTS
Who, What, When, Where and Why: These still matter in sports pictures and covering sporting events! The staff of The Birmingham (Ala.) News offers ideas about how to get it right -- not just the action from the game but the captions under those photos.
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NOMINATIONS SOUGHT FOR DIVERSITY LEADERSHIP AWARDS
Reminder that the deadline for nominations forr the third Robert McGruder Awards for Diversity Leadership is Sept. 3. The awards are a partnership of the Freedom Forum, the Associated Press Managing Editors and the American Society of Newspaper Editors. The awards go to individuals, newsrooms or teams of journalists who embody the spirit of McGruder, a former executive editor of the Detroit Free Press and relentless diversity champion. McGruder died of cancer in April 2002. Two awards are given annually: one for newspapers with a circulation of up to 50,000; one for newspapers with more than 50,000 circulation. Awards are presented at the APME convention Oct. 13-16 in Louisville, Ky. For more information on how to nominate click here.
This week's issue was compiled by Darrell Hoemann of the Associated Press Photo Managers.
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WE'VE MOVED!
The Associated Press Managing Editors Association joined the move of AP's corporate headquarters to new space in Manhattan. The new address for APME and its projects, the Credibility Roundtables and NewsTrain, is:
Associated Press Managing Editors
450 West 33rd Street
New York, NY 10001
E-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers stayed the same.
