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Featuring ....

KEVIN NEWMAN

KATHERINE LANPHER

TERRY MILEWSKI

and ....

DAVID RADLER

CECIL ROSNER

KIRK LAPOINTE

DON GIBB

ERIC NALDER

MARGARET WENTE

TAMARA JONES

JOSH FRIEDMAN

ROY MACGREGOR

NICK RUSSELL

STEPHEN THORNE

SUSAN KELLEHER

TERRY GOULD

SCOTT RENSBERGER

JOHN MILLER

STEVE GIEGERICH

JIM TRAVERS

RAY FARKAS

Thanks to the Following Supporters:

TORONTO STAR

BCTV

SOUTHAM/HOLLINGER

TORONTO SUN

GLOBE AND MAIL

CANADA NEWSWIRE

JIM TRAVERS

CBC

CTV

ROGERS MEDIA

GLOBAL TELEVISION

BCTEL

LABATTS

CN

BCIT

CANADIAN MEDIA GUILD

CANADIAN AIRLINES

AIR CANADA

C.E.P.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

CATHAY PACIFIC

C.I.D.A.

NORTEL

Plus .... Saturday night CAJ Awards gala with host CBC's The National host Peter Mansbridge.

Workshops

Deadline '99 features full and half-day workshops on both Friday and Saturday. Space is limited and workshops are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Deadlines for submitting material for red pencils and brainstorming workshops, where stated, a re March 26.

FRIDAY FULL-DAY:

2. CAR DROP-IN - Want to know what computer-assisted reporting is? Or, maybe you're already a CAR convert looking for ways to improve your skills. Then this is the room for you. The drop in room will have its own schedule of events that run for the duration for the conference.

3. NUTS AND BOLTS OF COMPUTER ASSISTED REPORTING - Nuts and Bolts of Computer Assisted Reporting - You do it on a computer but it's much more than surfing the net. This session will teach you where to get and how to analyze raw data, then turn it into anything but a dry, numbers-driven tale. To be held off-site (limit 25)

FRIDAY MORNING:

3. LONG FORM FEATURE WRITING - Award-winning Washington Post writer Tamara Jones explores different narrative styles that can breathe new life into a newspaper feature.

4. BRUSHING UP ON THE BASICS - - CBC Winnipeg executive producer Cecil Rosner will provide tips and tools to TV-types just starting their careers about how to make their news stories compelling as well as informative.

5. TV THE WAY IT CAN BE... BUT NEVER IS - Emmy Award-winning U.S. TV journalist Ray Farkas believes in conversations, not interviews. The Farkas method is devoted to time, place and context. It's the little things, not big things, that TV can do b etter than any other medium, but seldom does. (Session repeats Sat. a.m.)
   1. JUST TELL THE STORY - Asbury Park Press writer, 1998 Pulitzer Prize finalist and Rutgers University lecturer Steve Giegerich believes the reporter has a sole duty - to tell a story. In this three-hour session, Giegerich will look at the craft of storytelling and how the cadence of good writing often mimics classical music. (abbreviated session repeats Sat. a.m.)

FRIDAY AFTERNOON:

6. TOP 10 WRITING TIPS - NNA winner and veteran Canadian Press reporter Stephen Thorne, author/journalist and Saturday Night contributing editor Terry Gould, and Orange County Register investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner Susan Kellehe r give their advice about how to make your copy sing. Macleans magazine reporter and former Ryerson journalism instructor Jennifer Hunter moderates the discussion.

7. ASKING QUESTIONS, FINDING FACTS - Pulitzer Prize winning Seattle Times investigative reporter Eric Nalder packs two of his most popular talks into this three-hour session. In the first half, Eric will tell you how to get anyone to tell you ever ything about anything. In Part Two, Eric will share his secrets for investigating companies and reveal the information they may not want you to know.
   1. THE VJ DILEMMA - Award-winning TV journalist and Washington, D.C.-based broadcast consultant Scott Rensberger asks this question: Can a one-man band rival a full production crew? Rensberger thinks so. Come find out why.

SATURDAY FULL DAY:

8. CAR DROP-IN - Want to know what CAR is? Or, maybe you're already a CAR convert looking for new ways to improve your skills. Then this is the room for you. The CAR drop-in centre will have its own schedule of events Saturday and Sunday.

9. WRITING RED PENCIL - Ryerson Polytechnical University Journalism Instructor Don Gibb and Canadian Press Vancouver bureau chief Jill St. Louis will give your stories the once-over in these one-hour private sessions. Send the CAJ national office duplicates of up to five samples of your work, plus a brief description of your biggest writing/reporting problem. Include contact information for scheduling purposes. Mark "Writing Red Pencil" on the envelope and send it no later than March 26. Space is limited.

10. TV RED PENCIL - Bring the best and the worst of your TV tapes for a critiquing session. Sign up will take place on the day of conference.Tapes must be in VHS format. Trainers will look at as many tapes as possible throughout the day.

11. HEART OF THE MATTER - This is a workshop for TV journalists whose days are normally spent crafting two-minute stories. Former CBC documentaries senior producer Daniel Gelfant, now a freelance Seattle-based producer, will teach you how to transm it insight to the viewer. You'll be challenged, stimulated and forced to think. Registration is limited to 20 and deadline is March 26. Please indicate experience level on registration form.

SATURDAY MORNING:

12. TV THE WAY IT CAN BE... BUT NEVER IS - Emmy Award-winning U.S. TV journalist Ray Farkas believes in conversations, not interviews. The Farkas method is devoted to time, place and context. It's the little things, not big things, that TV can do b etter than any other medium, but seldom does.

13. COVERING ETHNIC COMMUNITIES - Pulitzer Prize-winning Newsday reporter and Columbia University associate professor Josh Friedman will take a look at the stories hidden within the Canadian mosaic. Friedman will give hard-edge, specific advice on how to cover the communities that often go unnoticed by mainstream media.
    1. WRITING DOUBLE-HEADER - This three-hour session will be divided into two halves. In Part One you'll hear feature writing advice from Globe & Mail writer and multiple NNA winner John Gray. In Part Two, 1998 Pulitzer Prize finalist Steve Giegeric h from the Asbury Park Press will discuss the craft of storytelling.

    2. THE PAPER CHASE - The Vancouver Sun's Jeff Lee and Jim Bronskill from Southam News have broken many news stories using provincial Freedom of Information and federal Access to Information requests. This session will teach you how to effectively use these investigative tools so they yield profitable results.

SATURDAY AFTERNOON:

14. STRUCTURING A TV NEWS STORY - CBC Winnipeg executive producer Cecil Rosner will lead an advanced half-day session focusing on story, style and structure. Rosner will look at ways TV reporters and producers structure their stories and help them develop new forms of storytelling.

15. IRONING OUT THE BUMPS - Have you hit a creative roadblock? Bring your troublesome pieces to this brainstorming session lead by award-winning Washington Post staffer Tamara Jones for a go at group-think. As many as three current or past "problem " stories can be submitted to CAJ national office by March 26. Mark "Brainstorming" on the envelope. (Limit 15)

16. THE BIG STORY - In this two-part workshop, Orange County Register investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner Susan Kelleher will share the secrets she credits for taking her writing and research skills to the next level. Part One will foc us on keeping track of information, organizing team research and puzzling the pieces together to create a hard-hitting story. Part Two will look at how to deal with sources and whistle blowers in a way that will let you sleep at night and still get a good story.

SUNDAY MORNING:

17. BROADCAST INTERVIEWING - Ann Medina, veteran CBC interviewer, reporter, foreign correspondent and documentary filmmaker, will explore two types of broadcast interviewing formats. The first in which the answer is more important than the question ; the second, where the question counts as much as the answer.

PANELS & MINI WORKSHOPS:

Friday

• a 24-hour news - Is more really better? Tony Burman, CBC Newsworld; Bob Hurst, CTV National News; and Katherine Murray, communications professor, Simon Fraser University, discuss the proliferation of all news channels.

• Quotes - Ryerson School of Journalism instructor Don Gibb, CP Vancouver bureau chief Jill St. Louis and National Post writer Roy MacGregor take a look at the glue that holds stories together.

• Where have all the children gone? Newspapers and radio outlets are losing their young audience, that is, if they ever had them. What will it take to appeal to a generation raised on TV and fascinated by the internet? Panelists include CBC's Robert Ouimet, Vancouver Sun editor-in-chief John Cruikshank, and Ryan Bigg, former Adbuster editor and freelance writer for Shift and This magazine.

  Plus .... Parachuting in - Here's what to do when your flight leaves in the morning; The numbers game - Polling and public opinion; What's the future of radio talk?; The invisible nation - Will the Aboriginal Peoples TV Network ghettoize native news or provide a new window on first nations people.

Saturday

• One owner: one voice - Does the concentration of media ownership threaten journalism's democratic role? The panelists will explore the issue from varying perspectives. David Radler, president and chief operating officer of Hollinger Inc.; Lydia MiI jan of the Fraser Institute's National Media Archive; Tim Creery, former journalist and research director for the 1980 Royal Commission on Newspapers; Doug Underwood, University of Washington professor and author of When MBAs Rule the Newsroom.

• Sources - You got them to talk, but were your methods ethical? CBC reporter Terry Milewski, APEC student protester Craig Jones, and former Mulroney communications strategist Bill Fox discuss the dilemma.

• Interviewing - Radio host and former print reporter Katherine Lanpher looks at the similarities and differences between interviewing for radio and interviewing for print.

• Yesterday's News - Former Ryerson Journalism School chair John Miller takes a look at Canadian newspapers to examine if they're meeting the needs of readers.

  Plus ... Making a pitch your producer will buy; Decompressing - How to bounce back after covering traumatic stories; Making the switch; Sports writing; Column writing; Keeping your distance - Is arm's length possible at community newspapers?; Post-pepp er spray - Media coverage of the APEC hearings.

Sunday

• A Dangerous Profession - Indo-Canadian Times publisher Tara Singh Hayer lost his life doing his job. Others talk about what it's like to live under the shadow of a death threat. Panelists include the Vancouver Sun's Kim Bolan and CBC Radio One's Gr eg Rasmussen.

• The great J-school debate - Do you need to go to journalism school to become a journalist? Panelists include representatives from Ryerson, Carleton, Sing Tao and Langara Schools of Journalism.

FRIDAY EVENING RECEPTION:

CBC reporter Terry Milewski was at the forefront of one of the biggest journalism ethics issues of the year after he became part of the APEC story. The nature of his reporter/source relationship with student protestor Craig Jones has fired a cross-country ethics debate. CAJ members said they wanted to hear from Milewski and he's willing to talk. Come hear what he has to say.

SATURDAY LUNCH:

Katherine Lanpher, a broadcaster with Minnesota Public Radio, spent two decades as a newspaper reporter and columnist before making the switch to radio. So far, she's discovered some major differences between the world of print reporting and the live radi o interviews she does today, But in her keynote address to the CAJ's national conference in Vancouver she'll talk about the common thread she's discovered - the reporter as storyteller.

SUNDAY BRUNCH:

American television networks are full of Canadian talent - Kevin Newman is one of the bright lights. Promoted to the host's chair at Good Morning America over the summer, Newman just recently relinquished the high profile spot. In his keynote address, New man will talk about working in the major leagues of American TV news.

CLOSING PLENARY:

The Battle for Readership - The National Post. The Globe & Mail. The Toronto Star. The newsrooms' managing editors - Kirk LaPointe, Margaret Wente and Jim Travers will talk about the electric and competitive national newspaper market.

REGISTRATION

1. Select the appropriate fee category

   Full conference fees include all Friday and Saturday workshops, panels, the Friday night reception, Saturday lunch, the Saturday night awards banquet,and plenaries on Sunday. Please note that the Sunday brunch is a ticket event and is not included with re gistration. New or lapsed members can get the member rate by paying their membership fees now ($60 regular or associate members, $30 for journalists earning less than $25,000, and $20 for students). Please note early-bird deadline is March 26.

Full conference fees               Before March 26     After March 26
CAJ members                        $150                $175
Members earning less
than $25,000                       $95                 $130
Student CAJ members                $35                 $50
(no meals)
Non-Members                        $400                $400


Day session fees                   Before March 26     After March 26

Friday only (no meals)
Members                            $75                 $100
Non-members                        $150                $200
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Saturday only (no meals)
Members                            $75                 $100
Non-members                        $150                $200
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Sunday only (no meals)
Members                            $50                 $75
Non-members                        $100                $150

2. Sign up for your meals

   To ensure we have the right number of meals, please indicate which meals you will attend (they are included in the full registration fee, excluding students)

---------    Will attend the Friday reception
---------    Will attend the Saturday lunch
---------    Will attend the Saturday Awards banquet

Require ___________ extra tickets for the Friday reception at $15
Require ___________ extra tickets for the Saturday lunch at $32
Require ___________ extra tickets for the Saturday awards banquet at $47
Please indicate any meals for which you require vegetarian __________

Any special dietary needs _________________

3. Book your hotel

   Rooms at the Hyatt Regency are $130.00 per night for delegates. Book through toll free line 1-800-233-1234 or directly through the hotel at (604) 683-1234. Say you're part of the National CAJ convention. Reservations made by March 26 will be placed in a d raw and the winner will receive a complimentary guest room.

4. Select your workshops

   Workshops coincide with panels. Please note the timing of your choices and indicate (by workshop number) your preferences. Some workshops have limited attendance and are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Indicate the number of your first, second and third choice workshops

Friday:
1________________________
2________________________
3________________________

Saturday:
1________________________
2________________________
3________________________

To ensure "Heart of the Matter" meets your needs, indicate how
long you have been practicing journalism _______________

5. Sunday brunch. With Kevin Newman. Please note this is a ticket event and NOT included in the general registration.

Delegates $26, non-delegates $30
_______Need one ticket @ $26
Need ______  extra tickets @$30

6. Tally the charges

Registration fee __________________

CAJ membership fee (if applicable) __________________

Extra Friday reception tickets  __________________

Extra Saturday lunch tickets __________________

Extra Saturday banquet tickets __________________

Sunday brunch tickets __________________

Sub-total __________________

GST (7%) (R#131-683-518)  __________________

Grand total  __________________

7. Book your airline ticket

   Book your flight by calling Global Travel at 1-800-267-1264, mention it's for the CAJ convention and you will be eligible for a discount fare to Vancouver for the weekend of April 16-18.

8. Registration information

Name ________________________________________

Address ______________________________________

City ____________________ Prov ___________________

Postal code _________________

Phone: Home __________________  Work _________________

Fax __________________ Email _________________________

Employer/School ______________________________________

Roommate required? ___________________ (Please make roommate request by
March 19. We will contact you with further information.

9. Select method of payment

_______________ Enclosed is my cheque payable the the Canadian
                Association of Journalists.

_______________ Charge to my Visa

_______________ Charge to my Mastercard

Card No. _____________________________
Exp. Date ___________________
Signature _____________________________________

Have you completed all sections of the form? Send the completed application to

Canadian Association of Journalists
Algonquin College
1385 Woodroffe Avenue, B224
Ottawa, ON K2G 1V8
or fax to the CAJ at (613) 521-3904

For further information on Deadline '99, contact:

John Dickins, the CAJ's Executive Director
Phone - (613) 526-8061
Email - caj@igs.net