Tuesday Sessions
Loews Hollywood Hotel, Hollywood, CA
July 9 - 13, 2024
Our Tuesday sessions are open to members and non-members. Attendees have the option to register for an All-Day Climate and Environment Justice Coverage Workshop or choose between a set of half-day sessions. Tuesday sessions are free for conference attendees with full registration passes and all students. Following the sessions, NAHJ will host a free Town Hall Meeting for all to attend.
If you have already purchased a full conference registration, RSVP with the form below.
If you are a student, RSVP for free with the form below.
If you have not purchased a conference registration, purchase a single-day badge.
| TIME | HALF-DAY SESSIONS |
| 9:00 PM-12:00 PM | Introducción al periodismo de datos |
| 1:30 PM-4:30 PM | Introduction to data journalism |
| 1:30 PM-4:30 PM | Storytelling with Google News Tools and Beyond |
| 1:30 PM-4:30 PM | Be the Crowbar: Strategies for Prying Data from Reluctant Officials’ Grubbies |
FULL SESSION DESCRIPTIONS
9:00 am-12:00 pm — Introducción al periodismo de datos
Tres horas de taller sobre los fundamentos del análisis de datos.
Trainer: Laura Moscoso, Training director, Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE)
1:30 pm-4:30 pm — Introduction to data journalism
A three-hour deep dive into the basics of data analysis.
Trainer: Laura Moscoso, Training director, Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE)
1:30 pm-4:30 pm — Storytelling with Google News Tools and Beyond
This hands-on session will explore a variety of digital tools to help elevate your storytelling. We will look at advanced search, Google Trends, verification, data visualizations, mapping and more. Bring your laptop and follow along.
Trainer: Amara Aguilar, Professor, University of Southern California/RTDNA Google Tools Trainer
1:30 pm-4:30 pm — Be the Crowbar: Strategies for Prying Data from Reluctant Officials’ Grubbies
This hands-on training will provide practical tips for getting data out of reluctant government agencies so you can cover stories critical to your community, set your reporting apart from others, and propel your career to the next level. The session will offer dozens of datasets you can download for free, and the stories you can produce from them, and then cover strategies for finding and acquiring the data they don’t want you to have. The trainers also will provide tips for overcoming data denials, and suggestions for how to continue building your data-sleuthing skills long after the conference ends.
Trainer: David Cuillier, Director, University of Florida Brechner FOI Project
| TIME | ALL-DAY CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT JUSTICE COVERAGE WORKSHOP |
| 9:00 AM-10:00 AM | Climate and Environment Justice Coverage Training Part 1: Climate 101 & Covering Science |
| 10:15 AM-12:15 PM | Climate and Environment Justice Coverage Training Part 2: The Data Frame of Mind 101 & Covering Science |
| 12:30 PM-1:30 PM | Climate and Environment Justice Coverage Training Part 3: Building Your Brand on the Environmental Beat: How to Pitch Like a Pro |
| 1:45 PM-3:45 PM | Climate and Environment Justice Coverage Training Part 4: Mapping and Data Visualization with New York Times Editors |
| 4:00 PM-5:00 PM | Climate and Environment Justice Coverage Training Part 5: Working Together: How Reporting Collaborations Can Benefit Reporters, Newsrooms and Communities Alike |
Note: This will be an all day event with lunch included.
FULL SESSION DESCRIPTIONS
9:00 am–10:00 am — Climate Reporting 101
This crash course will cover the fundamentals you need to know to report on climate change and incorporate this boundary-crossing topic into all kinds of stories and beats. A panel of veteran environmental journalists will offer practical tips, real-world examples and resources to help you cover climate science, impacts and solutions with skill and confidence.
Speakers: Tony Barboza, Editorial Writer LA Times | Alejandra Borunda, Climate and Health Reporter, NPR | Sammy Roth, Climate Columnist, LA Times
10:15 am–12:15 pm — Environmental Justice Reporting, Developing a Public Record And Data Frame of Mind
This session will explore how data and public records can be used to deliver enterprise and investigative stories on the environmental justice beat, allowing you to build from reactive breaking news reporting of environmental disasters.
Speakers: Mario Ariza, Floodlight News | Peter Aldhous, UC Santa Cruz
12:30 pm–1:30 pm — Building Your Brand On The Environmental Beat: How To Pitch Like A Pro
In this lunch-hour panel discussion, seasoned professionals will share tips, tricks and techniques for crafting a pitch strategically, increasing the chances that your story idea gets picked up–and jumpstarts a partnership with a publication. They’ll include the secret ingredients of an irresistible subject line, tailoring a pitch to make a local story resonate with issues of national importance, and common mistakes to avoid.
Moderator: Louis Sahagun, Retired LA Times environmental reporter
Speakers: Angela Marie Hutchinson, Former Director of Engagement, Environmental Health Sciences | Dorany Pineda, Environmental reporter, The Associated Press
1:45 pm–3:45 pm — Mapping and Data Visualization
Come learn about great sources of climate and weather data, free tools you can use to show that data to your audience. We’ll go over our favorites and share the process for making a few stories you can do in your own newsroom, such as mapping demographic data with environmental issues and seeing floods from space. At the end, we’ll talk about *your* projects — so bring your data, mapping and graphics questions and ideas.
Speakers: Marco Hernandez, Graphics Editor, The New York Times | John Keefe, Weather Data Editor, The New York Times
4:00 pm–5:00 pm — Working together: How reporting collaborations can benefit reporters, newsrooms and communities alike
Collaboration between news organizations can offer creative solutions to environmental reporting challenges and community engagement. This session will highlight two groundbreaking projects: one a bilingual, multi-newsroom investigation of how petrochemical pollution disproportionately impacts Latino communities near Houston, revealing failures in the state’s air monitoring system. Another will focus on the power of local/national collaboration, and how networks of experts, journalists, and citizens can come together to improve and amplify reporting. Attendees will gain an appreciation for how teaming up across newsrooms can inspire better journalism, strengthen reporters’ skills and boost community engagement. They’ll leave with a virtual toolkit guiding them through successful collaborations that are responsive to community concerns.
Speakers: Autumn Spanne, Environmental Health Sciences, Manager of Newsletters & Bilingual Content | Matt Thompson, Editor of NYT’s Headway | Valeria Fernandez, Managing Editor, palabra.
| TIME | TOWN HALL (OPEN TO ALL) |
| 6:00 PM-7:30 PM | Election 2024: Empowering Hispanic Voters as AI Amplifies Misinformation, Sponsored by Univision |
FULL DESCRIPTION
Election 2024: Empowering Hispanic Voters as AI Amplifies Misinformation
The Hispanic population, comprising a significant and diverse segment of the electorate, faces distinct barriers to accessing accurate information and navigating the digital landscape. This session explores how misinformation campaigns target Hispanic communities through social media platforms, messaging apps, and other digital channels, often exploiting language and cultural nuances. We’ll show the impact of misinformation and the innovative techniques news organizations and community groups are using to counter it.
To RSVP for the event, click here.
Schedule is subject to change. For a look at our general workshop & training session schedule, visit here.
Be on the lookout of our 2024 Conference App announcement for a full look at session descriptions, instructors, and panelists. Register today!
Frequently Asked Questions
We have worked diligently to curate a robust conference curriculum that includes an array of sessions in both English and Spanish. While not all sessions are offered in both languages, we encourage attendees to explore the program schedule and find what workshops & trainings best suite their interests. Sessions in Spanish will be indicated by their title.
Many of our speakers & trainers are being finalized and are subject to change at any time. A full look at session descriptions, instructors, and panelists will be shared in our 2024 Conference App, which will be announced at a later date.
No, our Tuesday workshop & half-day sessions are only open to registered conference attendees. Single-day registrations will only give access to workshops & trainings on your specific day of attendance.
Other sponsored sessions put together by our conference partners may require pre-registration or an invitation prior to the event.
There may be an occupancy limit to certain sessions. All general NAHJ workshops & training sessions operate on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Each year, NAHJ is tasked with creating an all-new conference curriculum with engaging workshops and panel discussions surrounding the future of journalism and the media landscape. This year, we welcomed the return of track leaders to guide programming efforts. NAHJ received over 100 submissions following our call for sessions announcement. While your exact session may not have been chosen this year, we hope to offer a similar/alternative session within our 2024 conference curriculum.
Don’t see the session you wanted in our schedule? We want to make sure we are creating the best conferences possible for our members. To share your feedback with us, click here.
NAHJ will also share a separate survey post-conference to allow attendees to share their feedback on sessions they took part in.
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| TIME | OPTION 1 — ALL-DAY CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT JUSTICE COVERAGE WORKSHOP |
| 9:00 AM-10:00 AM | Climate and Environment Justice Coverage Training Part 1: Climate 101 & Covering Science |
| 10:15 AM-12:15 PM | Climate and Environment Justice Coverage Training Part 2: The Data Frame of Mind 101 & Covering Science |
| 12:30 PM-1:30 PM | Climate and Environment Justice Coverage Training Part 3: Building Your Brand on the Environmental Beat: How to Pitch Like a Pro |
| 1:45 PM-3:45 PM | Climate and Environment Justice Coverage Training Part 4: Mapping and Data Visualization with New York Times Editors |
| 4:00 PM-5:00 PM | Climate and Environment Justice Coverage Training Part 5: Working Together: How Reporting Collaborations Can Benefit Reporters, Newsrooms and Communities Alike |
Note: This will be an all-day event with lunch included.
FULL-DAY SESSION DESCRIPTIONS
9:00 am–10:00 am — Climate and Environment Justice Coverage Training Part 1: Climate 101 & Covering Science
PENDING DESCRIPTION
Speakers: Tony Barboza, Editorial Writer, Los Angeles Times | Alejandra Borunda, Climate & Environmental Reporter, NPR
10:15 am–12:15 pm — Climate and Environment Justice Coverage Training Part 2: The Data Frame of Mind
We’ll dissect some great examples of data-driven environmental justice reporting from recent years, discussing how the stories were framed and reported, the sources of data used, and the skills involved. We’ll also review some useful sources of data for environmental justice reporting and resources for technical training.
Speakers: Mario Ariza, Investigative Reporter, Floodlight News | Peter Aldhous, University of California, Santa Cruz
12:30 pm–1:30 pm — Climate and Environment Justice Coverage Training Part 3: Building Your Brand on the Environmental Beat: How to Pitch Like a Pro
PENDING DESCRIPTION
Moderator: Louis Saharan, Retired Environmental Reporter, Los Angeles Times
Speakers: Angela Marie Hutchinson, Former Director, Engagement Health Sciences | Dorandy Pineda, Environmental Reporter, AP
1:45 pm–3:45 pm — Climate and Environment Justice Coverage Training Part 4: Mapping and Data Visualization with New York Times Editors
Come learn about great sources of climate and weather data, free tools you can use to show that data to your audience. We’ll go over our favorites and share the process for making a few stories you can do in your own newsroom, such as mapping demographic data with environmental issues and seeing floods from space. At the end, we’ll talk about your projects — so bring your data, mapping and graphics questions and ideas.
Speakers: Marco Hernandez, Graphics Editor, The New York Times | John Keefe, Weather Data Editor, The New York Times
4:00 pm–5:00 pm — Climate and Environment Justice Coverage Training Part 5: Working Together: How Reporting Collaborations Can Benefit Reporters, Newsrooms and Communities Alike
Collaboration between news organizations can offer creative solutions to environmental reporting challenges and community engagement. This session will highlight two groundbreaking projects: one a bilingual, multi-newsroom investigation of how petrochemical pollution disproportionately impacts Latino communities near Houston, revealing failures in the state’s air monitoring system. The other, an innovative partnership investigating homelessness and housing affordability and its intersections with environmental justice. Attendees will gain an appreciation for how teaming up across newsrooms can inspire better journalism, strengthen reporters’ skills and boost community engagement. They’ll leave with a virtual toolkit guiding them through successful collaborations that are responsive to community concerns.
Speakers: Autumn Spanne, Manager of Newsletters & Bilingual Content, Environmental Health Sciences | Matt Thompson, Editor, The New York Times Headway | Valeria Fernandez, Managing Editor, Palabra
| TIME | OPTION 2 — HALF-DAY SESSIONS (MULTIPLE ROOMS) |
| 9:00 PM-12:00 PM | Introducción al periodismo de datos |
| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM | TBD |
| 1:30 PM-4:30 PM | Introduction to data journalism |
| 1:30 PM-4:30 PM | Storytelling with Google News Tools and Beyond |
| 1:30 PM-4:30 PM | Be the Crowbar: Strategies for Prying Data from Reluctant Officials’ Grubbies |
HALF-DAY SESSION DESCRIPTIONS
9:00 am-12:00 pm — Introducción al periodismo de datos
Tres horas de taller sobre los fundamentos del análisis de datos.
Trainer: Laura Moscoso, Training director, Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE)
12:00 pm-1:30 pm — TBA
1:30 pm-4:30 pm — Introduction to data journalism
A three-hour deep dive into the basics of data analysis.
Trainer: Laura Moscoso, Training director, Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE)
1:30 pm-4:30 pm — Storytelling with Google News Tools and Beyond
This hands-on session will explore a variety of digital tools to help elevate your storytelling. We will look at advanced search, Google Trends, verification, data visualizations, mapping and more. Bring your laptop and follow along.
Trainer: Amara Aguilar, Professor, University of Southern California/RTDNA Google Tools Trainer
1:30 pm-4:30 pm — Be the Crowbar: Strategies for Prying Data from Reluctant Officials’ Grubbies
This hands-on training will provide practical tips for getting data out of reluctant government agencies so you can cover stories critical to your community, set your reporting apart from others, and propel your career to the next level. The session will offer dozens of datasets you can download for free, and the stories you can produce from them, and then cover strategies for finding and acquiring the data they don’t want you to have. The trainers also will provide tips for overcoming data denials, and suggestions for how to continue building your data-sleuthing skills long after the conference ends.
Trainer: David Cuillier, Director, University of Florida Brechner FOI Project