| APME Update, Nov. 6, 2014 |
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APME UPDATE – Nov. 6, 2014
SAVE THE DATE Nov. 7 – Deadline for submitting entries for Great Ideas of the Quarter Dec. 10 – Deadline for submitting applications to host NewsTrain in 2015 Feb. 27 – Deadline for APME Journalism Excellence Awards _______________________________ APME Journalism Excellence Awards: Deadline Friday, Feb. 27 The deadline for the 2014 APME Journalism Excellence Awards is Friday, Feb. 27. The awards honor superior journalism and innovation among newspapers, radio, television and digital news sites in the United States and Canada. They seek to promote excellence by recognizing work that is innovative, well-written and incisively reported and has outstanding multimedia. A special award honors innovation by colleges and universities, and a new category recognizes news organizations that build strong ties to their communities. All awards will be presented for journalism published or launched between Jan. 1, 2014, and Dec. 31, 2014. A news organization can enter as many categories as it wants, but is limited to entering a specific body of work in no more than two categories. New this year is the Community Engagement Award. It will be given to news organizations that best demonstrate the ability to provide effective dialogue with their communities and/or seek partnerships that sustain the dialogue and encourage more community dialogue. Other categories include: 45th Annual Public Service Awards, 45th Annual First Amendment Awards and Citations, Innovator of the Year Award for newspapers, Innovator of the Year Award for college students, Innovator of the Year for radio and TV, Best Mobile Platform, Digital Storytelling Awards and International Perspective Awards. SEND US YOUR GREAT IDEAS Please share with APME’s "Great Ideas of the Quarter," your newsroom’s best and brightest ideas. Your Great Idea can be for print or digital. It can be something new and innovative or a fresh take on something you do every day. Past Great Ideas have featured ideas on audience engagement, multimedia, niche products/sections/sites, quick- turnaround packages, holidays’ coverage, revenue generators, social media, streaming live/broadcast, video, alternative story forms, database reporting, diversity and more. Click here for a form to submit entries and upload images to accompany your idea: http://www.apme.com/?page=GreatIdeasform The deadline to submit entries for this quarter is Friday, Nov. 7.
Questions: Please contact Alison Gerber, editor, Chattanooga Times Free Press BRING AFFORDABLE, CUSTOMIZED TRAINING TO YOUR REGION: Apply to host a NewsTrain workshop APME’s NewsTrain is looking for four lucky cities to host a NewsTrain workshop in 2015, its 12th year of providing high-quality, low-cost training to journalists where they live. Successful applicants help shape a one- or two-day workshop to the needs of journalists in their area. NewsTrain attendees return to their newsrooms energized, inspired and with skills they can use right away. As one attendee tweeted this year: “Thought I was crazy to drive through night to get to workshop…One presenter down: would have walked here.” What’s required to apply?
In addition to helping plan the program, the host committee secures a venue for the workshop, negotiates a discounted hotel rate, handles the catering and, most importantly, aggressively markets the workshop locally to achieve the attendance target of 100 journalists, journalism students and journalism educators. It receives $35 of each registrant’s $75 fee to cover its costs. APME’s NewsTrain staff does the rest, including engaging top-notch trainers, organizing the program, providing online registration, delivering all training materials and marketing the workshop nationally. For the topics NewsTrain workshops included this year, please see the slides and handouts at http://slideshare.net/newstrain. Your region’s workshop can include these topics or others your committee deems relevant. Questions? Visit http://bit.ly/HostNewsTrain or email Linda Austin, NewsTrain project director, at laustin.newstrain@gmail.com. Please send in your application by Dec. 10! Applicants will be notified early in 2015 of their status. FROM AP Beat of the Week:Talmadge, Wong, Pennington, Jakes Best of the States: Pearson WATCHDOG REPORTING AP Exclusive: Ferguson no-fly zone aimed at media Akron Beacon Journal: Candidates don’t answer charter school questions Arkansas Democrat Gazette: Outsiders funding U.S. Senate race in Arkansas Sacramento Bee: California lawmakers rack up credit card charges Baltimore Sun: Court ruling upends Mayland’s sex offender registry Minneapolis Star Tribune: Worst teachers are in the poorest schools USA Today: License plate data is big business EDITORS IN THE NEWS: Larson INDUSTRY NEWS Newseum CEO departs amid fundraising struggles Klamath Falls newspaper getting new publisher TV news is the bloodsucker of the moment at movies White House: Ferguson no-fly didn't restrict press Prosecutors: No deal with reporter in US leak case Williams: Seidel didn't relieve himself in snow Ohio newspaper asks for candidate’s ad to be pulled Sun-Times owner sells suburban papers to Tribune Massachusetts-based publisher wins national award Arias judge bars public from witness' testimony The View' now under ABC News as further revamping The New York Times shares decline on ad outlook Spain OKs 'Google Tax' demanded by news publishers Reporter's family urges Iran to release him Civil Rights Museum to honor Tom Brokaw Friends remember Ben Bradlee as lion of journalism IN MEMORIAM: Reyes, Foye, Hicks |
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