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December
2,
2001
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Sunday,
Dec. 2
Sessions:
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9:45-11:00:
KEYNOTE PANEL
Keynote
Panel: Excellence: What Makes Fine Narrative?
Moderated by Bob Giles, Curator of The Nieman Foundation
Jacqui Banaszynski,
Ira Glass, Isabel Wilkerson, David Fanning, Chip Scanlan, Gay
Talese, Rick Bragg and Mark Kramer
11:00-12:15
Chip
Scanlan: Storyteller's Toolbox: Practical Ways to Manage Your
Time, Your Stories, Yourself
"Guess what? The Poynter Institute wants us to "lower
our standards!" Well, if not the Institute, at least Chip
Scanlan does." -- Miryam
Wiley
"Sure,
we talk about Capital-letter concepts like Narrative Journalism
and the restorative Power of Story, but when the party clears
and it's just us and the computer, there's that nettlesome voice
of self-doubt. You suck. You suck. You suck." -- Leslie
Haggin Geary
Nan Talese:
From Article to Book
Stan Grossfeld: Image and Narrative:
How To Take Photos that Make a Difference
"Several years ago,... I stumbled on a book so awesome
in breadth and so evocative in nature it made me, a grown man,
cry. No, let me correct that. I bawled. It was Stan Grossfeld's
book, Lost Futures: Our Forgotten Children." -- Seshu
Badrinath
Emily Hiestand, Tom French and Adam Hochschild: Memoir:
What Goes In and What Stays Out
2:00-3:15
Isabel
Wilkerson: Accelerated Intimacy: Working Well With Sources
"If ordinary people ever knew the consequences of speaking
to a reporter, they would never agree to it, Wilkerson said...
There is a real power differential between the reporter and the
person on the other side of the notepad."
-- Ellen Sung
Jim Collins:
Between Editor and Writer: What My Best Writers Have Taught Me
about Topic Selection, Reporting, Sentence Structure, and Voice
Adam Hochschild, Jill Lepore and Ilan Stavans: The Historian
as Writer, the Writer as Historian
Jon Franklin, Chip Scanlan and Bruce DeSilva: It's the
Story, Dummy; No, It's the Voice, You Fool; No, It's the Concept,
You Buttonhead: A Love Fest on the Elements of Narrative
3:30-4:45
Jacqui
Banaszynski: Wingwalkers and Storytellers: Defying the Bonds
of Journalistic Convention
4:45-5:00
Mark
Kramer's Farewell
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