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Design Lightning Talks

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Event: SND2020 Virtual ConferenceDate: September 18, 2020 Fast-paced talks use an alternative presentation format that challenges the speakers to summarize their message into a bite-sized length — because they are limited to just 20 slides, each auto-advancing every 15 seconds. Each presentation is only 5 minutes long, and we’re letting…

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The Micro Design Studio: Your Secret Weapon For Remote Collaboration

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Event: SND2020 Virtual ConferenceDate: September 18, 2020 Design studios bring people with varied skill sets together to solve creative problems such as identifying what graphics or interactives will add a compelling visual dimension to a long form story. This session will describe how, even when we’re remote, designers, developers, and…

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Fireside Chat: What Makes Print Special In A Digital World

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Event: SND2020 Virtual ConferenceDate: September 24, 2020 We live in a digital world. We communicated and consume information across multiple digital formats. However, traditional print mediums have a powerful and important role in communicating and connecting communities. Publications such as SND World’s Best Winner, The New York Times, have created…

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Ground Zero: Photographers And Visual Storytelling At Heart Of Local Protests

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Event: SND2020 Virtual ConferenceDate: September 23, 2020 Photography is an essential form of communication that can connect a reader with a person, place or event. Photojournalists capture rare moments in time, often placing themselves in the heart of events that others can not. Photographers and visual leaders from Minneapolis, Seattle,…

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Let’s Eat, SND

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Event: SND2020 Virtual ConferenceDate: September 23, 2020 We’ll show you how to incorporate food as a way to connect communities. SESSION TAKEAWAYS By the end of this session, you will be able to: How to build engagement with visually arresting contentDemonstrate the ways food connects to every content platformHow to…

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Behind The Asterisk

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Event: SND2020 Virtual ConferenceDate: September 23, 2020 A conversation with the creative team behind The 19th*, a new nonprofit newsroom that aims to empower women, people of color, and those historically underserved by American media with the information, resources and community they need to be equal participants in our democracy.…

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The 2030 Plan

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Event: SND2020 Virtual ConferenceDate: September 22, 2020 How to build your skills and where to focus your efforts so that you can help journalism survive while gainfully employed. Watch the Replay We are currently working on editing all of our videos. Please check back soon. You can view the original…

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Panel: The (Remote) Internship

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Event: SND2020 Virtual ConferenceDate: September 22, 2020 Recent interns discuss what it was like to work for some of the world’s best news organizations without ever seeing them. Speakers:

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Innovation And Aging

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Event: SND2020 Virtual ConferenceDate: September 18, 2020 We continue to wait to pay attention to our aging realities, but what if your keys to aging well started with what you’re doing right now? The reality is, the world of aging impacts and touches everything, so even as we explore the…

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Remote Work: Wins, Losses, Challenges, Opportunities

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Event: SND2020 Virtual ConferenceDate: September 21, 2020 Since the onset of the global pandemic, many newsrooms and organizations have transitioned to a remote office structure for the safety of their employees. For many it created challenges for collaboration, technology and even onboarding of new employees. While many of have been…

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