[Editors] Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism at Harvard, Dec. 2-4, 2005

[Patricia Sampson]

Editors, Communicators, Countrypeople,

When Lois Slavin kindly sent out the notice about the upcoming Nieman 
Conference on Narrative
Journalism at Harvard, I asked her if MIT has ever sent a group...it costs 
less.  She hadn't heard
about this, but essentially said why not?

So, I did a little inquiring and here is the scoop.  We would have to be a 
group of at least 8 or
more that would sign up under one name/credit card before Nov. 1.  The 
resulting benefit would
be a savings of $50 per person (each would cost $230).

Would there be enough interested and if so on whose credit card could this 
be charged?  Is this
a viable arrangement in such short order?  Check out the website below.

Your interest and thoughts?

Patsy Sampson
___________________________________________________________________
Dear Colleagues,

I have attended this conference twice and have found it to be very useful 
in terms of information and contacts.

Details are below.

Best wishes,
Lois
______________________________________________________________
>Dear friend of narrative journalism,
>
>You may have attended or heard about the Nieman Conference on Narrative
>Journalism at Harvard. We'll convene our eighth annual session December 2-4
>this year. Weve just opened our Web site for online registration at
>http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/events/conferences/narrative2005/index.html .
>Were a bit late this year; and judging from the many inquiries in the past few
>weeks, we gladly anticipate a rush of registrations. We have always sold 
>out in
>past years. And were offering a discounted feebut just until the end of
>October.
>The conference, as many receiving this note already know, gathers 1,000 savvy,
>midcareer journalists (editors, reporters, book writers, radio and TV
>documentary-makers) who choose from among many (74, this year) keynotes,
>breakouts, panel discussions, readings and workshops that explore the 
>narrative
>process, start to finish. We'll cover such topics as story selection, 
>fieldwork
>and interviewing, note taking and coding notes, drafting and redrafting,
>working with editors/writers, building narrative teams, coordinating with 
>other
>parts of your organization, attracting agents and publishers, ethics, sourcing
>and reconstruction, and narrative in genres other than newspapers.
>
>Our 45 speakers are among the most experienced writers, editors and 
>teachers in
>the field, including dozens of Pulitzer and other prize-winners and finalists.
>Our keynoters this year are the noted author Tom Wolfe; John Carroll, recent
>editor of the Los Angeles Times; Adam Hochschild, author of "King Leopold's
>Ghost" and Bury the Chains, a current National Book Award contender; and
>Jamaica Kincaid, New Yorker writer, author of "A Small Placeand much more.
>Our complete list of wonderful, wise, funny and much-decorated speakers
>includes Jacqui Banaszynski, Philip Gourevitch, Mark Singer, Roy Peter Clark,
>Randy Cohen, Tom French, Phillip Lopate, Sarah Lyall, Claudio Sanchez, Orville
>Schell, and Sree Sreenivasan and many morethe complete roster is roster is on
>our Web site.
>
>Reporters and editors regularly come to our conference from most of the major
>dailies in the United States and Canada, including The Boston Globe, The Miami
>Herald, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, National Public Radio, The New
>York Times, ABC News, The Toronto Globe and Mail, The Atlantic Monthly, The
>Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles
>Times, among many hundreds of others, and from media in dozens of other 
>nations
>as well.
>
>The Web site is the place to register. Early registrants, Nieman Alumni,
>Fellows, and Affiliates, and qualifying groups of 8 or more from the same
>publication or station have lower fees. Register early ­ we sell out every
>year.
>
>It would be a great favor to us if you would forward this note to other
>reporters, editors, writers and film and radio folks in your newsroom, 
>magazine
>or station, especially those who have a special fascination with narrative
>journalism. Wed also appreciate it if you would print this letter out and post
>it on a bulletin board at work!
>
>We hope to greet you in December.
>Mark Kramer
>Director and Writer-in-residence
>Nieman Program on Narrative Journalism
>(write nieman-narrative at harvard.edu for further information)
>
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>NCNJ at calists.harvard.edu
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Patricia A. (Patsy) Sampson
Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science
MIT Room 38-409G
617 253-4642 phone
617 258-7354 fax


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