When: May 20-21, 2010

Where: McNamara Alumni Center, University of Minnesota

Visit the conference site for a full schedule, speaker information and additional registration information.

See Change is an annual gathering for communication professionals across the visual spectrum. It’s a variety show of sorts featuring talent who do remarkable work. It’s a visual scrapbook enabling concepts beyond our skill sets to cross-pollinate. It’s a think tank to recharge our abilities and thought.

Cost:

$75: Members of partner organizations (including SPJ)

$90: Non-members

$25: Students

Seating is limited! Reserve before May 12, 2010.

Please register online at the School of Journal & Mass Communication registration page.

What: CCE Headliners, December Edition featuring Nora Paul, Director of the Institute for New Media Studies at the University of Minnesota

When: Thursday, December 3 | 7:00 p.m.

Where: U of MN Continuing Education and Conference Center, 1890 Buford Ave., U of M St. Paul campus

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U of M partners with Minnesota Newspapers to help revitalize industry

Minnesota Job Skills Program grant will be used to retrain newspaper staff 

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL ( 2/24/2009 ) — The University of Minnesota School of Journalism & Mass Communication (SJMC), in partnership with the Duluth News Tribune and the St. Paul Pioneer Press, has received a $238,000 Minnesota Job Skills Program Grant to help newspapers revolutionize their business model and to thrive in an increasingly Internet-based industry. In addition, the university and the newspapers will contribute $469,330 in-kind funds, bringing the total project budget to approximately $700,000.

The project will offer a series of training programs for staff in the advertising and editorial operations of the newspapers, both of which have undergone considerable downsizing in the past year. It is believed to be the first job training grant to help the news industry with the assistance of a journalism school. The goal of the partnership is not only to train employees with new technical, computer-based skills, but also to reassess the way in which news and advertising is delivered.

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Mark your calendars for the SJMC Alumni Board’s annual Twin Cities Media Stars Quiz Bowl.

Teams from major Twin Cities media organizations will battle for the championship in the 5th annual Quiz Bowl organized by the Alumni Board of the University of Minnesota’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. More »

The National Press Club, the world’s leading professional organization for journalists, and the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication‘s Minnesota Journalism Center are teaming up to look at the future of the news media and how to protect its core values.

The Nov. 17 event will begin at 7:00 p.m. at the University’s Coffman Memorial Union on the east bank of the Minneapolis campus. The event is free and open to the public. Parking information is available at http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/maps/CMU/CMU-map.html.

This NPC Centennial Forum on The First Amendment, Freedom of the Press and the Future of Journalism will feature leading Minnesota journalists: Nancy Barnes, editor and senior vice president, Minneapolis Star Tribune ; Thom Fladung, editor and vice president, St. Paul Pioneer Press; Joel Kramer, chief executive officer and editor, MinnPost; and Nora Paul, director, University of Minnesota Institute for New Media Studies. The panel will be moderated by Alan Bjerga, a Bloomberg News correspondent, the Club’s treasurer, and a University of Minnesota alum. More »