Sept. 24–27, 2009
Renaissance Riverview Plaza Hotel
64 South Water St.
Mobile, AL
National Newspaper Association
P.O. Box 7540
Columbia, MO 65205-7540
(573) 882-5800
(800) 829-4NNA (4662), option 2
Fax (573) 884-5490
www.nna.org
Mark your calendars now!
NNA’s 125th Anniversary Celebration
at the 124th Annual Convention
and Trade Show
Sept. 30-Oct. 3, 2010
Omaha Hilton and Qwest Center
Omaha, NE
And in 2011...
NNA's 125th Annual Convention
and Trade Show
The Hotel Albuquerque
Albuquerque, NM
Presentations
Community Building Symposium Presentations
- From campus to community: re-imagining news coverage, Jacqui Lowman
- Why wait for a disaster when your local college can arrange one? Dan Williams
- A citizen’s journalism experience: critiquing news media, Frank Garred
- Rethinking the reader’s role in community journalism, Susan Brockus
- Connecting with the community: Hiring the right “face” for the newspaper, Marshel D. Rossow
- That loathsome, little [anonymous] column: A case study, Carol Wilcox
- Connecting with readers: How newspapers in Kansas are using Web 2.0, Les Anderson and Amy DeVault
- New media options for on-line delivery: Attracting the under-35 reader by examining preferences, Sharon Stringer
- Community journalism and the community’s youngest readers: A study of newspaper content directed toward readers in grades 2 through 8, Anne Anderson and Jennifer Greer
- The cooperative membership model: Could it work for community newspapers? Patricia Jane Berg
- Bringing journalism back: Reviving a community newspaper in an age of retreat, Timothy Boudreau
- Selling in a buyer’s market: How to position your community newspaper for sale to maximize value in a down market, Jeffrey Potts
Educational Sessions
- Twelve ways to stay out of court: A self-help legal primer for community newspapers, Robert A. Bertsche
- Digital opportunities for community newspapers, Sara Weaver
- Digital opportunities for community newspapers, Marty Novak
- Building digital audiences, Sean Polay
- Doing more with less, Jerry Bellune
- Hot circulation ideas you can steal, Robert Bobber
Workshops
- Newspaper next: Making money the (15) new-fashioned way(s), Elaine R. Clisham