Free Photoshop CS3 Class -- Today!

If you are looking to enhance your career through digital imaging and multi-media productions, here is a free opportunity for you. Please come attend a free Career Development workshop at Colorado Technical University. Specifically, it is a free Digital Imaging Workshop using Adobe's latest digital Imaging tools(Photoshop CS3). The things to do include learning the ins and outs of photoshop, image restoration and graphics editing, image modification, photo effects, size and scale and much more. Again, this is a free workshop on Saturday December 8th, from 10 to 2 PM. Lunch is Included. Please call 888-287-0555 to reserve a seat(limited seating)

You can attend either at the CTU Denver South Campus or CTU Denver North Campus.
For directions, go to www.coloradotech.edu .

Good Luck to everyone!


George Bamu

Resuming Normal Blog Frequencies!

We've been down for a while due to technical difficulties. Please pardon the delay.

We're coming back with a vengeance, though.

First up, a long overdue post by Gloria Neal. Then an update on a new PBS-affiliate program hosted by CABJ member and former CABJ president Tamara Banks. Then an interview with Gina McCauley, creator of the What About Our Daughters blog. Gina has some interesting thoughts about 21st Century journalism and about the performance of journalists overall and about black journalists specifically. That post should be up early next week.

Career Boost: Get Recognized by Your Peers

Sometimes a little recognition from your peers can go a long way to raising your profile in the newsroom, snagging a plum assignment or being considered seriously for a coveted lateral move or promotion.

Here are few awards -- some large, some small -- to consider.

• Award for Excellence in Health Care Journalism, sponsored by the Association of Health Care Journalists. Contest information should be posted in October.
  
• Annual Awards Competition, sponsored by the North American Travel Journalists Association. Deadline: Oct. 15, 2007. Prizes donated by: Guam Tourism, Hotel Balzc (Paris), Palm Beach Gardens Marriott and more.
• Samter Journalism Award, sponsored by the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. Categories: consumer/trade print, radio, television. Deadline: Oct. 31, 2007.
• IRE Awards, sponsored by Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc. Recognizes "the best in investigative reporting by print, broadcast and online media." Deadline: Jan. 7, 2008.
  
• National Headliner Awards, sponsored by the National Headliner Club. Categories: paid circulation print, broadcast. Deadline: Jan. 11, 2008. Prize: $1,500
• Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Price, sponsored by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Awarded annually "to a writer and photographer in the formative or fieldword stages of a documentary project." Any topic eligible for consideration. Deadline: Jan. 31, 2008. Prize: $20,000
  
• NIHCM Foundation Journalism Awards, sponsored by the National Institute for Health Care Management Research & Educational Foundation. Recognizes excellence in print and broadcast journalism. Deadline: Feb. 29, 2008.
• Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism, sponsored by the Casey Journalism Center on Children and Families. Deadline: March 3, 2008. Recognizes "exemplary reporting on U.S. children and families, particularly the disadvantaged."
  

Online Training: Breaking into Sports Journalism

Let's face it. Sports journalism is one of those dream jobs almost all of us would like to try. Whether it's covering the Super Bowl, the World Series or a triple axel/triple toe/triple salchow at the Olympic Games ice skating finals, reporting sports news just sounds like a lot of fun.

And it is.

But guess what? It's also a lot of work.

If you're considering making the switch to sports journalism -- or if you're a seasoned sports journalist interested in a little refresher -- check out Breaking into Sports Journalism, a panel discussion about covering sports for television, newspapers, radio and blogs.

Panelists include Will Leitch, editor of Deadspin.com, Sam Walker senior special writer and sports columnist for The Wall Street Journal and several editors from ESPN The Magazine.

Since the seminar is an on-demand video, you can download it to your computer and watch it anytime. Cost: $20.

NOTE: To see a preview, click on the Breaking into Sport Journalism link in the body of this post. The picture above is a static image. You can't access the preview from there.

Your CABJ

Press Passes Available for Sunday Play

Stories on Stage has made a limited number of press passes available for second reading of Rendition, a play about wartime torture written by local playwright and Iraq War veteran Ryan Kelly.

The reading will be held at 2 pm on Sun., Sept. 16 at the DCPA Jones Theatre downtown. Tickets are usually $22.

To attend for free, either call Stories on Stage in advance at 303-494-0523 or present your press credentials at the ticket table when you arrive.

For More Information
Contact: Jan Thomas at 303-506-0198