From CAMP 2023 Co-Chair Tanya Gazdik:

“Designed by a new JAWS member and student journalist, the 2023 CAMP logo
not only represents our host city, Chicago, it also offers a colorful nod to the
many powerful intersections we’ll explore Oct. 13-15.”

Logo designer and student journalist Madison Echlin is graduating this semester from Michigan State University with a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and two minors, one in leadership of organizations and the other in graphic design.

Read more about the logo design and the designer here.

This year, CAMP is on campus, with Communication Department at Columbia College hosting JAWS at the historic city landmark The Ludington Building at 1104 S. Wabash Ave. in the South Loop neighborhood in downtown Chicago.

Nearby hotels Hotel Blake, The Blackstone and Best Western Grant Park are extending the Columbia College rate to CAMP attendees. You need to call to get the rate.

For those opting to share rooms, the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Hostel may be an attractive choice, with multiple configurations and extremely affordable pricing. Check out the CAMP website for details.

Keep watching your inbox, the CAMP website and the JAWS Facebook page for more information in the next few weeks, including registration, keynote speakers, social events, program announcements and much more. There's a form on the website if you want to share your email and any CAMP comments to get a special email as soon as registration opens.

Dana Rubin is a consultant, speechwriter and speaker who promotes more diversity in the public conversation. She created the Speaking While Female Speech Bank, the world’s largest online archive of women’s speeches from around the world and across time, to broaden our understanding of the role of women orators in history.

Dana has uncovered dozens of these speeches by female journalists. Many are included in her new book, “Speaking While Female: 75 Extraordinary Speeches by American Women.” 

On June 22, she’ll join JAWS to celebrate the publication of this groundbreaking book on the contributions of American women speakers, most of whom have been almost completely overlooked by the history books. 

Speaking While Female also pays tribute to the rich diversity of American women’s voices, with speeches by Black, white, Indigenous, Latina and Asian American women, and by women of every background and class. Their stories also have lessons for today, when the work of women in journalism is more important than ever, and when women’s knowledge and expertise is crucial to the public conversation and a healthy democracy.

Dana will share her insights, followed by discussion.

The webinar is free and open to anyone. It will be recorded and available after to JAWS members on the Member Community site.

Thursday, June 22, 8 p.m. ET

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

JAWS President-elect Angela Greiling Keane, news director at Bloomberg Government, and Lottie Joiner, a former JAWS board member and Washington, D.C., regional director and now assistant managing editor of Verite News in New Orleans, will share their decision making on when to leave a job and when to stay.

They’ll also answer questions and facilitate discussion about how we make such decision.

The webinar is free and open to anyone. It will be recorded and available after to JAWS members on the Member Community site.

Wednesday, July 12, 7 p.m. ET

Past JAWS president Susy Schultz talks with Deborah Douglas, JAWS member, veteran journalist and advocate of Solutions Journalism.

“For me, Solutions Journalism is the missing piece of the inclusion puzzle that I always longed for, as a journalist who’s been practicing for three decades,” said Deborah, who just returned to Chicago to be director of the Midwest Solutions Journalism Hub at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism as well as a senior lecturer. 

The American Society of Journalists and Authors’ 2023 conference will be online June 13-15, and ASJA is offering discounts to JAWS members.

Find more info about the conference, including a schedule, here http://ow.ly/JPet50NY6TH

Please direct questions to Kristine Hansen, the ASJA conference committee member leading this year’s scholarship effort: kristinehansenwriter@gmail.com.

The Data Institute, a two-week intensive, hands-on workshop on how to use data, design and code for journalism, is back July 10-21 in Washington, D.C.

This free program is a collaboration between the Center for Journalism & Democracy and the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting that welcomes a small cohort of journalists at various stages of their careers — students, journalism educators, and working journalists — who are passionate about learning to tell stories with data.

Applications for the Data Institute are due on May 24. 

Are you hiring or is the media company for which you work? Share the positions and details under the Job Postings tab at https://members.jaws.org today!

You also can connect directly with other JAWS members; check out the member directory (only those who have created an account will appear in the directory); read JAWS Board of Directors minutes; watch JAWS webinars; participate in topic forum discussions and much more!

Complete your profile today! 

Address and Contacts