2013 DCSWA Professional Development Day |
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8 a.m.
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Breakfast and Registration |
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8:45 a.m. |
Welcome and Newsbrief Award Presentation Winner: Lauren K. Wolf, Ph.D., Chemical & Engineering News |
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9 a.m. |
Plenary Lecture (Room A) DCSWA and the DC Science Writing Community: Where Did This All Begin and Where Is It Going? Speakers: Joe Palca and Richard Harris
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10:15 a.m. |
Session 1 (Room B) New Ways of Journalism: Outreach Via Social Media
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Session 2 (Room C) Science, Pseudo Science, and Bad Science Speakers: Seth Shostak, SETI Chris Wanjek, Author Bad Medicine
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11:15 a.m.
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Coffee Break (Main Hallway)
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11:30 a.m.
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Session 1 (Room B) Pitch Slam! Speakers: Laura Helmuth, Slate Beth Quill, Smithsonian Magazine David Malakoff, Science
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Session 2 (Room C) How to Assess Medical Evidence Critically Speaker: Barnett Kramer, MD, MPH
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12:30 p.m.
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Lunch |
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1:30 p.m.
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Session 1 (Room A) Embargoes: Who Wants Them, Who Needs Them, Who Enforces Them? Speakers: Vincent Kiernan, Georgetown Univ. Mitch Waldrop, Nature Charles Day, Physics Today
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Session 2 (Room B) Writing a Book & Publishing a Book: Speakers: Sam Kean, Author Howard Yoon, Agent Ivan Amato, Agentless-author
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Session 3 (Room C) How to Interview and be Interviewed over the Web
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2:30 p.m.
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Concluding Lecture (Room A) Life as a Scientist, Journalist, Celebrity, and Alien Hunter Speaker: Seth Shostak
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3:30 p.m. |
End
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10:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. |
Resume Coach (Board Rom) BRING YOUR RESUME! Sign-up sheet at the registration table |
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