Women in Journalism Workshop 2021
- Reynolds Journalism Institute
Bios | Schedule The Women in Journalism Workshop is an annual workshop that focuses on challenges, accomplishments and issues specific to women in the journalism industry today. We want to help build safer, more diverse and innovative newsrooms to serve our communities worldwide. You will learn how to innovate the way you cover stories, the management of newsrooms & teams and be trained in emerging skills and tools. Sessions this year will include how-to of data journalism, HEAT training, digital security, mobile tools and more! 2021 will be fully remote so we have lowered the registration fees! And we will be mailing you a swag bag ahead of the workshop so you can show your WIJ spirit during sessions. The event is full! Please email Kat Duncan if you’d like to be added to a waiting list. Questions Contact Director of Innovation & Founder of WIJ Workshop Kat Duncan at duncank@rjionline.org . Bios Susan Smith Richardson, CEO of the Center for Public Integrity Twitter: @susaneudora Susan Smith Richardson was previously the editorial director of Newsroom Practice Change at Solutions Journalism Network, a New York-based nonprofit that seeks to increase civic engagement and strengthen democracy. Prior to that, she was editor and publisher at The Chicago Reporter, a nonprofit investigative newsroom that focuses on race, poverty and income inequality. She has also served as managing editor at the Texas Observer, a venerable voice for independent journalism in the state. She has been an editor at the Chicago Tribune and the Sacramento Bee, where she led a team that reported on grassroots efforts to rebuild South Central Los Angeles after the 1992 unrest. She has appeared multiple times on the list of most powerful women in Chicago media. Laura Garcia, First Draft News Twitter: @lauragrb … Organizer: Reynolds Journalism Institute — https://rjionline.org/events/women-in-journalism-workshop-2021/ Date taken from RJI's coverage of the event.