Are you hungry for a career in global news? Would you like to travel and report on some of the world's most important and exciting LGBT stories? Could you see yourself breaking international stories from a newsroom in London, Hong Kong, Boston, New York or Washington, D.C.?
I brought together a group of leading global U.S. media companies, human-rights activists and international journalists. They will crack open the world of international journalism as part of NLGJA's "Boston: Uncommon" 9th L...
Are you hungry for a career in global news? Would you like to travel and report on some of the world's most important and exciting LGBT stories? Could you see yourself breaking international stories from a newsroom in London, Hong Kong, Boston, New York or Washington, D.C.?
I brought together a group of leading global U.S. media companies, human-rights activists and international journalists. They will crack open the world of international journalism as part of NLGJA's "Boston: Uncommon" 9th LGBT Media Summit on Thursday, August 22, 2013 at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers.
"International Journalism Seminar on LGBT Issues and Story Coverage" assembles:
1) KEVIN DOUGLAS GRANT, a founding member of The GroundTruth Project and the Deputy Editor of Special Reports at GlobalPost;
2) MICHAEL LUONGO, a 2013 NLGJA Journalist of the Year Award recipient and author of "Gay Travels in the Muslim World" and "Frommer’s Buenos Aires"
3) CHARLES M. SENNOTT, the Vice President, Editor-at-Large and co-founder of GlobalPost;
4) BRUCE SHAPIRO, executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University (still pending);
5) JEB SHARPE, producer of the public radio program PRI’s The World, a radio news magazine; and
6) ROBERTA SKLAR, a veteran of social justice media campaigns and the Communications Director and Press Secretary of the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission.
The seminar will be led by RANDY GENER, the U.S. Editor of Critical Stages, the U.S. Correspondent for The Journalist.ie, and the recipient of the 2010 NLGJA Journalist of the Year Award for Excellence in Journalism.
The "International Journalism Seminar on LGBT Issues and Story Coverage" will explore practical information and theoretical knowledge essential for a career in the demanding, ever-changing field.
The seminar will also offer an "International LGBT Journalism Resource File and Tool Kit." This PDF file explains how to get advanced training and experience so that journalistic reports will bring fresh perspectives of the LGBT world to U.S. audiences. To download this "Resource File and Tool Kit," visit the link posted here: http://www.nlgja.org/2013/international-story-coverage.
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