National Editorial Conference
Chicago • July 21–23, 2010
Digital skills and ethics will be among the hot topics for discussion at ASBPE’s National Editorial Conference this summer.
Slated for July 21–23 at Chicago’s Hotel Sax, the conference will include an examination of the the Society’s latest original research about the state of editorial digital skills, training, and strategies. ASBPE teamed with the Medill journalism school at Northwestern University to develop comprehensive research into this important area. The research includes information on the skills and strategies editors believe will be important in the next 12 months.
Other conference sessions will examine:
- Becoming an entrepreneurial journalist
- Financial fact-finding online
- ASBPE/Medill survey: What the research shows about digital skills, training, strategies
- 20 free tools you can use online
- Keeping up with social networking
- How to take multimedia to the next level
- How do you stand out as a freelancer
- ASBPE Magazine of the Year case studies
- Monetizing online content
- Understanding and using analytics
- Negotiating freelance rates and right
- Bridging the digital/print gap
More about the 2010 conference
Digital Conference
San Francisco Nov. 6, 2009
Sessions at the Nov. 6 Digital Symposium in San Francisco included:
- Leveraging the power of B2B social communities
- Organizing print & online B2B editorial teams
- Writing for search, navigation & the B2B reader
- ASBPE Web Site of the Year case study
Plus, the
Digital Azbee Awards of Excellence Luncheon.
About the Conference
Each summer,
ASBPE holds a two-day National Editorial Conference
in a different U.S. city. The conference is an
opportunity for editors to meet their colleagues
from across the country and to keep up with
the latest on topics like doing editorial
research, improving readership, and more. As
part of the conference, the annual Azbee
Awards of Excellence are presented at a dinner
banquet. In addition, up to five U.S. and
two international editors each year can attend
the conference for free through our
Young Leaders Scholarship.
Starting in 2009, ASBPE will hold two
conferences: a two-day summer conference that focuses on
print and the intersection
of print and web, and a one-day fall conference devoted
entirely to digital media. The digital conference will
feature its own awards program.
Young Leaders Scholarship
Each year,
ASBPE’s Young Leaders Scholarship pays
the conference and hotel room costs for five
U.S. applicants to
attend the National Editorial Conference.
(Transportation
to
and from the conference, any nonconference
meals and other incurred costs are the responsibility
of the winners or their individual publishing
companies.)
Scholarship
winners will also attend the ASBPE National
Awards Banquet and will receive a free
one-year membership to ASBPE if they are
not already members.
In addition, ASBPE and Trade, Association Business Publications International jointly offer two scholarships for up to two international applicants. In addition to paying the conference and hotel costs, the International Young Leaders Scholarship also provides up to $500 toward transportation.
These scholarships
are open to all business editors under the age of 30.
Applicants
must meet the following qualifications:
- Must
be 30 years of age or younger.
- Must
have worked at least two years
as an editor of a business magazine or
the magazine’s associated Internet
publication.
- Candidacy
must be sponsored by their publication’s
Chief Editor.
- Must plan
to continue in the business press as a career.
- May not
be a past ASBPE Young Leaders Scholarship winner.
This year’s application
deadline for U.S.-based editors is March 15.
Download an application form (360K PDF).
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“I learned
a great deal about building my
magazine's editorial presence
and impact through
multimedia, as well as how to
cross-utilize the information
my editors get via the
print and Web products we publish.”
