All sessions will be held at the Pyle Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, a 12-15 minute walk from the hotels and centrally located downtown. Street parking is available near the Pyle Center and the State Street Campus Parking Garage on Frances Street is a five-minute walk away.
Room 325/26 will host the main sessions and those listed in Breakout 1. Breakout 2 will be in Room 327.
Registration is available online here.
Tentative schedule, subject to change.
| Thursday, June 5 | |
| 4:30 p.m. | Welcome reception in the AT&T Lounge at the Pyle Center |
| 6:30 p.m. | Adjourn |
| Friday, June 6 | |
| 8:15 a.m. | Breakfast and mingling |
| 8:45 a.m. | Welcome and Introductions |
| 9:00 a.m. | Storytelling Exercise – Kajsa Dalrymple, Founder, Dalrymple Advising, LLC |
| 9:45 a.m. | Lessons Learned in Year 1 – Mariano Castillo and Flora Charner, Professors of Practice in Journalism, Texas A&M University |
| 10:45 a.m. | Break |
| 11:00 a.m. | Rural Journalism – Jason Begay, Associate Professor, University of Montana School of Journalism |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch and learn with career stage peers |
| 12:45 p.m. | How To Use Artificial Intelligence for Journalists – Katie Harbath, CEO, Anchor Change |
| 1:45 p.m. | Parser: A Case Study in How Journalists Use AI – Matthew DeFour, State Bureau Chief for Wisconsin Watch, Tom Kertscher, Reporter, Wisconsin Watch, and Sean Vanderaa, Technical Operations Manager, Gigafact |
| 2:45 p.m. | Break with coffee and popcorn |
| 3:00 p.m. | Seven AI Wonder Tools: Practical Magic for Busy Educators – Jeremy Caplan, Director of Teaching and Learning, CUNY Newmark Graduate School of Journalism |
| 4:00 p.m. | Rebuilding Trust in Communities Hesitant to Believe News Media – Kyndell Harkness, Minnesota Star Tribune Head of Culture and Community, and Sue Robinson, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication |
| 5:00 p.m. | Adjourn |
| Saturday, June 7 | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Breakfast and Day 1 Takeaways |
| 9:00 a.m. | “Don’t Bore Me” – Al Tompkins, former Senior Faculty for Broadcast and Online at The Poynter Institute |
| 10:30 a.m. | Break |
| 10:45 a.m. | Covering Trauma – Lisa Krantz, Assistant Professor, University of Montana School of Journalism, with former student, Owen Ziliak, Staff Photographer, Wisconsin State Journal |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:30 p.m. | Media Law in 60 Minutes – Frank LoMonte, Legal Counsel at CNN |
| 2:30 p.m. | Break and navigate to breakouts |
| 2:45 p.m. | Breakout 1, Room 325/36: Teaching Sports Reporting Beyond the Scoreboard – Nicole Kraft, Professor of Journalism Practice, The Ohio State University |
| 2:45 p.m. | Breakout 2, Room 327: Feedforward and Feedback – Todd Lundberg, Associate Director, Center for Teaching, Learning & Mentoring, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 3:45 p.m. | Break with coffee and cookies |
| 4:00 p.m. | Solving Your Teaching Problems – Katy Culver, Director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 5:00 p.m. | Adjourn |
| Sunday, June 8 | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Breakfast and Day 2 Takeaways |
| 9 a.m. | The Discussion Project: Deliberation Dinners – Emma Cabrera, Project Manager of the UW-Madison Deliberation Dinners |
| 9:45 a.m. | First, Photos: Visual Assignments for Non-visual Classes – Mark E. Johnson |
| 10:15 a.m. | Quick break |
| 10:20 a.m. | What Students Need to Know About Being Independent – Alex Garcia, Director/Founder, Three Story Media |
| 11:15 a.m. | 6 actionable items – Katy Culver and Mark E. Johnson |
| 11:45 a.m. | Farewells |