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UNITY ’08 Schedule at a Glance


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 Sunday, July 20
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM 
   Student Campus Boot Camp, funded by the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation  
   The UNITY News® Convergence Student Project  
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM 
   Student Orientation  
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM 
   Student Welcome Reception, sponsored by Nissan Motor Company  
 
 Monday, July 21
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM 
   Student Campus Boot Camp, funded by the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation  
   The UNITY News® Convergence Student Project  
12:00 PM - 5:30 PM 
   UNITY/ASNE Leadership Summit, funded by the Philip L. Graham Fund  
 
 Tuesday, July 22
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM 
   Student Campus Boot Camp, funded by the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation  
   The UNITY News® Convergence Student Project  
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM 
   AAJA ELP Advanced Session  
   Registration - Exhibitors and Sponsors Only  
8:30 AM - 5:30 PM 
   UNITY/ASNE Leadership Summit, funded by the Philip L. Graham Fund  
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM 
   Past President's Council Reception, by invitation only  
9:00 PM - 10:30 PM 
   President's Reception, by invitation only, sponsored by Chevrolet and Tribune Company  
 
 Wednesday, July 23
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM 
   Student Campus Boot Camp, funded by the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation  
   The UNITY News® Convergence Student Project  
7:30 AM - 8:45 AM 
   Retention Through Reinvention: Senior Managers and Recruiters Mitchell 
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM 
   UNITY/ASNE Leadership Summit, funded by the Philip L. Graham Fund  
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM 
   AAJA ELP Advanced Session  
   Registration  
   UNITY Photo Competition  
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM 
   Authors' Carousel  
9:00 AM - 11:30 AM 
581b    Final Cut Pro Hands-On Workshop Adcock 
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM 
417    Flash Forward: Introduction to Essential Media Long 
Ivey 
458    A Harmonic Convergence - Part I Ribadeneira 
Chang 
Haskins 
Mabry 
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM 
1007    The Magazine Leadership Playbook, presented by Time Inc. in partnership with the American Society of Magazine Editors and the Poynter Institute. Sponsored by Time Inc. Geisler 
Horwood 
1008    Taking Charge of YOU, sponsored by NBC Universal* Whitaker 
Schiavocampo 
Pitts 
Madison 
Coleman 
Hernandez 
1009    Telling the Full Story: Reducing Disparities, Improving Outcomes for Kids and Families of Color, sponsored by The Annie E. Casey Foundation Taylor Batten 
Spencer 
Hamilton Outtz 
Beavers 
Lubow 
Foster, Jr. 
Olivo 
McPherson 
Bayard 
Varner 
Howard 
Keilman 
Avila 
Lui 
258    Multimedia Storytelling Workshop: Mastering the Machines, presented by the Knight Digital Media Center Knight 
Pace-Hinton 
Rue 
Sugano 
Luckie 
Gayle 
Hernandez 
263    Immigration Storytelling: Keeping Ahead of the Fast-Changing Curve, presented by USC Annenberg's Institute for Justice and Journalism (IJJ) Koon 
Sotomayor 
Merina 
Holmes 
Bermudez 
Mendoza 
Suro 
Kowalski 
Roy 
Cose 
Gonzales 
Martinez De Castro 
Solis 
Montiel 
345    Video Training for Newspapers: A Day-Long Workshop, sponsored by Gannett Co., Inc. Michaelsen 
Mars 
Saul 
361    How Green is Your Beat? Journalists of Color and Environmental Reporting, sponsored by Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A. Carl 
Detjen 
Parke 
Askari 
Rodriguez 
Curwood 
Notoro Morgan 
369    Watchdog Reporting in a Diverse World: Digging In to Serve Your Community Horvit 
McBride 
Donald 
Houston 
Garcia 
Torres 
Chan 
Ferguson 
Hunt 
Papajohn 
392    Enter the Leadership Zone: Brand Yourself a Success, presented by NAMME Olmstead 
Laws 
Booker 
Smith 
534    Forward, March! TV News Bootcamp, presented by The Poynter Institute Tompkins 
Aguilar 
Lim 
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM 
   Career Fair & Media Expo  
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM 
   Digital Demo - Magazine Publishers of America, eZine  
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM 
   Authors' Carousel  
12:00 PM - 2:30 PM 
   AAJA ELP Networking Lunch, by invitation only  
12:00 PM - 4:30 PM 
   AAJA ELP Mentor Program  
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM 
367    Watchdog of a Different Color II: Introduction to Computer-Assisted Reporting Donald 
Loury 
Nixon 
Houston 
Torres 
415    Improving Your Flash Flair: Intermediate Horner 
Long 
Ivey 
458b    A Harmonic Convergence - Part II DeVigal 
O'Leary 
Miller 
Rosado 
Gonzalez 
ESP2    El Poder de la Imagen y La Voz Pineda 
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM 
581    *SOLD OUT* Final Cut Pro Hands-On Workshop Adcock 
Hinojosa 
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM 
   Digital Demo - The Poynter Institute, NewsU  
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM 
298    Best. Conference. Ever: Maximizing Your UNITY Experience Dade 
Aradillas 
Burgos 
Rodriguez 
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM 
   Authors' Carousel  
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM 
   Digital Demo - Associated Press Managing Editors  
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM 
   Mix 'n' Mingle in the Expo  
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM 
   Opening Ceremony Yu 
Perez 
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM 
   Opening Reception, co-sponsored by The Coca-Cola Company, entertainment sponsored by XM Satellite Radio  
 
 Thursday, July 24
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM 
   The UNITY News® Convergence Student Project  
7:00 AM - 7:00 PM 
   Registration  
7:30 AM - 8:45 AM 
BFAST1    Breakfast -- Activism and Blogging, sponsored by Chevrolet  
BFAST3    *SOLD OUT* Breakfast -- Building UNITY, presented by UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc. Sutton 
Lincoln Michel 
Tong 
Funabiki 
Gonzalez 
BFAST4    Breakfast -- Sports Keynote Breakfast, sponsored by ESPN, Inc. King 
Hill 
Bray 
Broussard 
Gomez 
Kim 
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM 
   AAJA ELP Mentor Program  
   UNITY Photo Competition  
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM 
   Authors' Carousel  
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM 
   Career Fair & Media Expo  
9:15 AM - 11:00 AM 
   Plenary Session: Is Change in the Air: 1968 to 2008 and Beyond, How Race has Changed America, co-sponsored by RiseUp Publications Trahant 
Pitts 
Zia 
Gutierrez 
Maynard 
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM 
   Digital Demo - Magazine Publishers of America, eZine  
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 
   Authors' Carousel  
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM 
   Authors' Carousel  
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM 
   Authors' Carousel  
LUNCH2    Lunch 'n' Learn Event -- The Diabetes Explosion: A Call to Action for Journalists of Color, sponsored by Novo Nordisk  
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM 
   Press Conferences  
LUNCH3    Lunch 'n' Learn Event -- How to Get a Media Grant, sponsored by the Ford Foundation Kebbel 
Sims 
   NABJ Hall of Fame Luncheon  
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM 
   Digital Demo - The Poynter Institute, NewsU  
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM 
   Town Hall Meeting, "What's Next for Generation Next in Education?", sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Golston 
Hall 
Izumi 
Murgia 
Williams 
Loew 
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM 
   Digital Demo - Associated Press Managing Editors  
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM 
   Mentorship Reception, sponsored by NBC Guerra 
Yang 
Blackman 
Burns 
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM 
   Media Receptions  
9:30 PM - 2:00 AM 
   NAHJ: Fiesta to the Chicago Beat  
 
 Friday, July 25
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM 
   The UNITY News® Convergence Student Project  
7:00 AM - 5:00 PM 
   Registration  
7:30 AM - 8:45 AM 
BFAST5    Breakfast -- International Women's Media Foundation O'Brien 
McGinnis 
Gross 
Bunyan 
Simpson 
BFAST6    Breakfast -- The New Wave of "Journalists", sponsored by McDonald's USA McHenry 
Canizares 
Hoxie 
Whitman 
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM 
   UNITY Photo Competition  
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM 
   Plenary Session: What the World Needs Now: Globalization, the New Economies and the Role of the Media, co-sponsored by Eli Lilly and Company LaDuke 
Makawa 
Suarez 
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM 
   Digital Demo - Online News Association  
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM 
   Authors' Carousel  
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 
1003    International Reporting: How to Cover the World in the Era of Media Changes Richburg 
Rajkumar 
Weiss 
Joshi 
138    Lurid or Luminous? The Art of the Live Shot Granda 
Klein 
Garcia 
Aguilar 
Dale 
Collura 
149    Who Moved My Pen? How Getting Organized Helps You Get the Story Duncan 
181    Donuts, Brass, and Bullets: Covering the Cop Shop Loury 
Santos 
Gest 
Rosario 
Dorfman 
199    Stepchild No More: Becoming a Successful Freelancer Robertson IV 
Collier 
Brown 
Tisdale 
246    Incarceration Nation: Covering America’s Prison-Industrial Complex Fears 
Richardson 
Gotsch 
Mauer 
Arboleda 
Fields 
257    From Watchdog to Lapdog? Protecting Investigative Reporting In The New Economy Garcia 
Ferguson 
Horvit 
Boardman 
314    Mining Diamonds in the Rough: Recruiting the Journalist of Tomorrow Mangino Hardy 
Brill 
Johnson 
Andrews 
Ford 
Smith 
330    Media Spotlight: Confronting the Nation's Most Pressing Health Issues Graham 
O'Brien 
Arroyo 
Alanis 
Moore 
Ida 
378    Get Your Blog On, sponsored by Time Inc. Sreenivasan 
Muhammad 
Kelly 
Gillingham-Ryan 
Walton 
Cox 
516    Cultural Competency: Turning Theory into Action, presented by NPR Magagnini 
Malik 
Norris 
Huang 
Azocar 
AAJA1    Survivors' Guide to Newsroom Politics, presented by the Asian American Journalists Association Olmstead 
Grimm 
Bui Barnett 
Joseph 
Fuentes 
Duron 
NAHJ1    Covering Cuba: Sin Pelos en la Lengua, presented by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Marx 
Martinez 
Serrano 
Vaisman 
Robles 
NAJA1    Who is an Indian? Your Guide to Covering Native Americans, presented by the Native American Journalists Association Briggs 
Jasper 
Garcia 
Echohawk 
Shannon 
Smith 
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM 
   Press Conferences  
11:00 AM - 5:30 PM 
   Career Fair & Media Expo  
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM 
   Authors' Carousel  
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM 
   Book Talk: The Future of the First Amendment: The Digital Media, Civic Education and Free Expression Rights in the Nation's High Schools, sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation  
FILM2    Prime Cinema: "Traces of the Trade, A Story from the Deep North," presented by the Ford Foundation  
LUNCH1    Lunch 'n' Learn Event -- Meeting the News Challenges of the 21st Century -- A Conversation with ABC News, sponsored by ABC News Bashir 
Vargas 
Claiborne 
LUNCH5    Lunch 'n' Learn Event - Retirement Realities Redefined - Past, Present and Future, sponsored by Prudential Financial Epperson 
Spruell 
Weller 
Marcks 
Rogers Alston 
LUNCH6    Lunch 'n' Learn Event -- HIV Prevention - What's on the Next Frontier? Dieffenbach 
del Rio 
Green 
Baker 
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM 
   AAJA Membership Meeting  
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM 
   Authors' Carousel  
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM 
   War Stories of Minorities in the Military Butler 
1    NABJ Plenary Session with Senegalese President Wade: Confronting Climate Change, An African Perspective, presented by the National Association of Black Journalists Wade 
Yearwood 
120    Premium Draft Politics: Cartooning the New Millennium Jackson 
Olu 
Sedalia 
Rogers 
168    Help Wanted: This Side of the Newsroom Too Nelson 
Butler 
Solomon 
Azocar 
Garcia 
182    Perception, History, Identity and Reality: Redefining "Race" In Media Coverage Robinson 
Narasaki 
Ford 
Moses 
237    IMHO: The Wondrous Art of Column Writing Arviso, Jr. 
John-Hall 
Early 
Do 
Rodriguez 
294    The Path to the Publishers' Office Olmstead 
Kellogg 
Quarles III 
Parrish 
307    Beat Up, Burned Out? How to Hang in, Rejeuvenate, and Thrive in Tough Times Salley 
Neal-Barnett 
Davis 
350    Step to the Mic: Ask The Recruiter – Live!, sponsored by Gannett Co., Inc. Solomon 
Garson 
Mason 
Grimm 
386    A Day in the Life: Adventures in Multimedia Journalism, sponsored by Time Inc. Mehta 
Hinojosa 
Epperson 
Vargas 
Hackett 
400    The Off-Field Advantage: Race and Gender Politics in Sports Coverage Aldridge 
Ready 
Lee 
Gutierrez 
Youngmisuk 
507    Writing Fast, Writing Well, Right on Time: How to Write for Air on Deadline, presented by NPR Keyes 
Bull 
Singh 
AAJA2    China Coverage -- News Without Fear or Favor, presented by the Asian American Journalists Association Lynch 
Chan 
Yuan 
Lui 
Worden 
ESP1    Guía práctica para búsqueda de datos en la Web Matos 
Alvarez-Dunn 
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM 
   Digital Demo - The Poynter Institute, NewsU  
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM 
   Authors' Carousel  
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM 
   Digital Demo - Associated Press Managing Editors  
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM 
151    Cooperation, Competition or Coopetition?: Black-Latino Politics in the Post-Southern Strategy Era Lovato 
Noguera, Ph.D. 
Wynter 
Marrero 
162    Patriotism, Pandering, and That Preacher Man: Minority Journalists and the Unpredictable, Unprecendented Presidential Campaign Whitaker 
Lui 
Gentry 
Montenegro 
DeBose 
192    Label at Your Own Risk: Covering Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People of Color Berry 
Marra 
Morales 
Plazas 
Avila 
333    Finding the Write Stuff: Essential Tools and Strategies for the Writer in You Clark 
346    Dynamic Data: Grabbing Readers with Solid Numbers, and Savvy Presentation, sponsored by Gannett Co., Inc. Nixon 
Shulyakovskaya 
LaFleur 
Thurston 
Towns 
362    Finding Your Voice: Improving Your Most Important Communication Tool Gartley 
Anchondo 
DeVito 
410    The Long and Longer of It: Breaking in to Magazines Edmond Jr. 
Kahan 
Aragon 
Sonnenberg 
Jue 
471    Tragedy, Grief and the Media Sardar 
Burqueroux 
Nelson 
477    Citizen Media: Tracking New Clues to the Future of Journalism McBride 
McBride 
Schaffer 
Aynte 
Koon 
AAJA4    From Iraq to Iowa: Covering Arab Americans – How to Get it Right on Deadline!, presented by the Asian American Journalists Association Audi 
Setrakian 
Ghoneim 
Ghannam 
Farhat Kassab 
El-Ghobashy 
NABJ1    Jeremiah Wright and Jena: Who Covered It and Who Got It Right? presented by the National Association of Black Journalists Deggans 
Martin 
Malveaux 
Izrael 
Joyner 
NAHJ3    Point of Origin: How to Achieve Three-Dimensional Coverage of Ethnic Communities, presented by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Hengemuehler 
Bridges 
Flores 
Garcia-Eckstein 
Hall 
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM 
   Digital Demo - Peggy Duncan  
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM 
   Mix 'n' Mingle in the Expo  
5:30 PM - 6:45 PM 
   AAJA Silent Auction Reception  
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM 
   Media Receptions  
5:30 PM - 10:00 PM 
   AAJA Silent Auction  
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM 
   NABJ Film Festival  
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM 
   AAJA Gala Scholarship and Awards Banquet Bashir 
   NAJA Banquet  
   NAHJ Hall of Fame Gala y El Gran Baile Banquet  
10:00 PM - 2:00 AM 
   NABJ Chocolate Jam  
 
 Saturday, July 26
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM 
   The UNITY News® Convergence Student Project  
7:00 AM - 1:00 PM 
   Registration  
8:30 AM - 9:45 AM 
329    Starting out in business journalism, sponsored by Freddie Mac Chasan 
Martin 
Torres 
Vara 
Jacobs 
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM 
152    Rip and Read or Break the Mold? Innovative Writing For Radio News Ramirez 
Hill 
Roswell 
Patel 
163    Charting Transformation: An Industry Blueprint for Change Blackwell Clark 
Posada 
Glick 
Roberts 
174    In Living Color: Representing Minorities in the Media Irons 
Ollison 
Loew 
Perez 
Kahn 
315    Ahead of the Curve: Negotiating Your Broadcast Personal Services Contract Wang-Lavelle 
Bradford 
White 
Ono 
Ososfky 
Cavallaro 
Talahongva 
Padilla 
339    Just the Basics: How to Produce Multimedia On a Tight Budget Contreras 
Henry 
426    The Re-Tooled You: Finding Stories and Jobs in a Web 2.0 World Hernandez 
Logan 
McCoy 
Dreyfuss 
Asakawa 
Kho 
432    Let's Do It Better! Covering Education to Make a Difference, presented by the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Carter Center Mental Health Program Cooper 
Cooper 
O'brien 
Morgan 
Banchero 
529    Covering Climate Change: Why Non-White Communities Could Be Hit the Hardest, presented by NPR Sierra 
Curwood 
DeMain 
Harden 
NABJ3    I Am My Own Boss, presented by the National Association of Black Journalists Foote 
Watts 
Estes Sumpter 
NAJA3    The Politically-Savvy Journalist: Getting it Right in a Political World, presented by the Native American Journalists Association Washines 
Two Shoes 
Briggs 
Arviso, Jr. 
Edmo Suppah 
Rave 
Trahant 
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM 
   Authors' Carousel  
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM 
   Press Conferences  
9:00 AM - 12:45 PM 
   Career Fair & Media Expo  
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM 
   Digital Demo - The Poynter Institute, NewsU  
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM 
   Authors' Carousel  
1005    The Score on Sports: Get In and Get It Done Mays 
Blackistone 
King 
Garcia-Ruiz 
Hoppes 
Morgan 
Hill 
Lee 
1010    Turbocharge Your Career With A Journalism Fellowship Goel 
Robles 
Garcia 
Roberts 
243    Beyond the Fence: Covering Immigration Globally and Locally Jordan 
O'Keefe 
Puente 
Do 
Thompson 
Mendieta 
Franklin 
350    Step to the Mic: Ask The Recruiter – Live!, sponsored by Gannett Co., Inc. Solomon 
Garson 
Mason 
Grimm 
351    Monetizing Your Web Site, sponsored by Gannett Co., Inc. Lovely 
Crotchfelt 
Easter 
Sucherman 
Miller 
423    Dialogue vs. Diatribe: Fostering Interactive Civility McBride 
Steele 
455    Insider/Outsider: Alternatives to The Mainstream Press Rios 
Edgell 
Yue 
Allen 
Galvan 
Corfman 
503    Gays, Guns, and God: Covering the Culture Wars in Presidential Politics Morales 
Melendez 
Monifa 
Avila 
Clay 
519    These Kids Today: Covering Teens, Young Adults, and the Whole Podcast Generation, presented by NPR, sponsored by Best Buy Ong 
Marcelo 
Jackson 
Williams 
596    Pump it Up or Play it Down? Improving Your Stories with Skill (An Ask the Editors Session) Coffee Hesselberg 
Fuhrmann 
Joshi 
AAJA3    Following the Money: The Growing Economic Footprints of India and China, presented by the Asian American Journalists Association in partnership with the South Asian Journalists Association Rajkumar 
Ingrassia 
Reddy 
Lev 
Baichwal 
Travelli 
Hajela 
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM 
1004    Copy Editing: Inside Readers' Heads Cruden 
Apea 
mercherson 
St. Germain 
Dreznes 
Rolf 
Ward 
Martinez 
Alfonso 
Lewton 
Jabczynski 
Pawlak 
Jarman 
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM 
   Digital Demo - Associated Press Managing Editors  
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM 
   Digital Demo - Peggy Duncan  
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM 
LUNCH7    *SOLD OUT* Lunch 'n' Learn Event -- Coverage of Violence in Communities of Color, sponsored by BET Caraway 
Lee 
Jackson 
Hopkinson 
Ransom 
Garcia 
Seals 
Lea 
Lewis 
Malette 
12:00 PM - 2:30 PM 
   NABJ Visual Task Force Auction  
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM 
183    Fade Out: What Does Media Consolidation Mean for Journalists and Consumers of Color? Adelstein 
Mago 
Lloyd 
Cyril 
Torres 
Gonzalez 
212    Paying it Forward: How to Maximize Your Internship Walker 
Miller 
Buford 
Grimm 
Mitchell 
Hilliard 
241    Presumption of Guilt: Improving Coverage of Muslims in America Shakir 
Rahman 
Rehab 
245    Uncovering Unconscious Bias to Improve Coverage of Race Simpson 
Dovidio 
Thomas 
Cornick 
Paterson 
353    Developing Multi-Platform Content, sponsored by Gannett Co., Inc. Agnew 
Crooke 
McFadden 
Hiraki 
Roig 
419    Beyond the E-Paper: Innovative Ways to Drive Website Traffic and Revenue Wilcox 
Cochran 
McGhee 
Post 
Lott 
422    How to Become a Foreign Correspondent Yang 
Richburg 
Lief 
Avila 
Killion 
424    The Journalist as Advocate: Identifying the Fine Lines McBride 
Steele 
517    Built In Diversity: Beyond the Black and White Rolodex, presented by NPR Kelley 
Sotomayor 
Martin 
Malik 
521    Solid Sound: Getting the Highest Quality Audio, presented by NPR Talahongva 
Arrieta 
Burketh 
NAHJ2    Beyond “Illegal Alien:” Toward Fair, Ethical, and Accurate Immigration Coverage, presented by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Cramer 
Rahman 
Sacchetti 
Gonzalez 
Nazario 
Ailworth 
NAJA4    Power of the Word. Revitalization of Native Languages and the 2008 Reading Red Report, presented by the Native American Journalists Association Sneve 
Pollard 
Azocar 
DeMain 
Edmo Suppah 
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM 
1006    Telling Stories: How to Write a Narrative Padilla 
Hayasaki 
Kiernan 
104    Web-o-Rama: Your Guide to Web Writing and Content-creation Nguyen 
Kwon 
Huang 
Saurez 
166    Lighting the Way: How to Retire the “Dark Continent” Myth of Africa Thompson 
Mulenga 
Ita 
Ward 
Asanaenyi 
Branch 
170    Students Meeting: Open Forum Nelson 
Al-Muslim 
255    Politics Non-Stop: Blogging, Covering, Investigating the Government Douglas 
Chan 
Grimaldi 
Chan 
326    Managing Up, Down, and In Between: Office Politics and You Norman 
Brown 
459    Color Me In: Building a Multi-Cultural Blogosphere that Matters Henderson 
Mosqueda 
Russell 
Rucker 
609    Broadcast - Tough Ethical Calls (en espańol), presented by RTNDF and the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation Escobar 
NABJ2    What Happens Now that the Pipeline is Shut Off?: Diversity in Tumultuous Times, presented by the National Association of Black Journalists Lloyd 
McQueen 
Klein 
Mitchell 
NAJA2    Reaching an Offline Audience in an Online World, presented by the Native American Journalists Association Levaldo 
Berryhill 
Lewis 
McAuliffe 
Red Elk 
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM 
   Media Receptions  
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM 
   UNITY Challenge Fund Benefit, by invitation only  
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM 
   NABJ Salute to Excellence Gala  
9:00 PM - 2:00 AM 
   Closing Parties  
 
 Sunday, July 27
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM 
   Presidential Candidates Forum, co-sponsored by CNN/TIME Magazine (Tentative Schedule)  
   The UNITY News® Convergence Student Project  
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM 
   Media Diversity Roundtable