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Editors, Communicators, Countrypeople,<br><br>
When Lois Slavin kindly sent out the notice about the upcoming Nieman
Conference on Narrative <br>
Journalism at Harvard, I asked her if MIT has ever sent a group...it
costs less. She hadn't heard <br>
about this, but essentially said why not?<br><br>
So, I did a little inquiring and here is the scoop. We would have
to be a group of at least 8 or <br>
more that would sign up under one name/credit card before Nov. 1.
The resulting benefit would<br>
be a savings of $50 per person (each would cost $230).<br><br>
Would there be enough interested and if so on whose credit card could
this be charged? Is this <br>
a viable arrangement in such short order? Check out the website
below. <br><br>
Your interest and thoughts?<br><br>
Patsy Sampson<br>
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Dear Colleagues,<br><br>
I have attended this conference twice and have found it to be very useful
in terms of information and contacts.<br><br>
Details are below.<br><br>
Best wishes,<br>
Lois<br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Dear friend of narrative
journalism,<br><br>
You may have attended or heard about the Nieman Conference on
Narrative<br>
Journalism at Harvard. We'll convene our eighth annual session December
2-4<br>
this year. Weve just opened our Web site for online registration at<br>
<a href="http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/events/conferences/narrative2005/index.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/events/conferences/narrative2005/index.html</a>
.<br>
Were a bit late this year; and judging from the many inquiries in the past few<br>
weeks, we gladly anticipate a rush of registrations. We have always sold out in<br>
past years. And were offering a discounted feebut just until the end of<br>
October.<br>
The conference, as many receiving this note already know, gathers 1,000 savvy,<br>
midcareer journalists (editors, reporters, book writers, radio and TV<br>
documentary-makers) who choose from among many (74, this year) keynotes,<br>
breakouts, panel discussions, readings and workshops that explore the narrative<br>
process, start to finish. We'll cover such topics as story selection, fieldwork<br>
and interviewing, note taking and coding notes, drafting and redrafting,<br>
working with editors/writers, building narrative teams, coordinating with other<br>
parts of your organization, attracting agents and publishers, ethics, sourcing<br>
and reconstruction, and narrative in genres other than newspapers.<br><br>
Our 45 speakers are among the most experienced writers, editors and teachers in<br>
the field, including dozens of Pulitzer and other prize-winners and finalists.<br>
Our keynoters this year are the noted author Tom Wolfe; John Carroll, recent<br>
editor of the Los Angeles Times; Adam Hochschild, author of "King Leopold's<br>
Ghost" and Bury the Chains, a current National Book Award contender; and<br>
Jamaica Kincaid, New Yorker writer, author of "A Small Placeand much more.<br>
Our complete list of wonderful, wise, funny and much-decorated speakers<br>
includes Jacqui Banaszynski, Philip Gourevitch, Mark Singer, Roy Peter Clark,<br>
Randy Cohen, Tom French, Phillip Lopate, Sarah Lyall, Claudio Sanchez, Orville<br>
Schell, and Sree Sreenivasan and many morethe complete roster is roster is on<br>
our Web site.<br><br>
Reporters and editors regularly come to our conference from most of the major<br>
dailies in the United States and Canada, including The Boston Globe, The Miami<br>
Herald, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, National Public Radio, The New<br>
York Times, ABC News, The Toronto Globe and Mail, The Atlantic Monthly, The<br>
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles<br>
Times, among many hundreds of others, and from media in dozens of other nations<br>
as well.<br><br>
The Web site is the place to register. Early registrants, Nieman Alumni,<br>
Fellows, and Affiliates, and qualifying groups of 8 or more from the same<br>
publication or station have lower fees. Register early we sell out every<br>
year.<br><br>
It would be a great favor to us if you would forward this note to other<br>
reporters, editors, writers and film and radio folks in your newsroom, magazine<br>
or station, especially those who have a special fascination with narrative<br>
journalism. Wed also appreciate it if you would print this letter out and post<br>
it on a bulletin board at work!<br><br>
We hope to greet you in December.<br>
Mark Kramer<br>
Director and Writer-in-residence<br>
Nieman Program on Narrative Journalism<br>
(write nieman-narrative@harvard.edu for further information)<br><br>
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NCNJ mailing list<br>
NCNJ@calists.harvard.edu<br>
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</font><font size=2 color="#000080"><i>Patricia A. (Patsy) Sampson<br>
</font><font size=2 color="#808000">Electrical Engineering and<br>
Computer Science<br>
</font><font size=2 color="#000080">MIT Room 38-409G<br>
</font><font size=2 color="#808000">617 253-4642 phone<br>
617 258-7354 fax<br><br>
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