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10.00am

Welcome: Jim Tucker (NZJTO); Venetia Sherson (WINTEC).

10.15am-11.30am

SESSION 1: Francis Till: National Business Review webmaster and NBR contributor on technology.

• Developing a search strategy. (Decide what it is you hope to find, then map out where and how to look for it).
• Generalist searches. (Learn how to structure requests and then refine them to get results).
• Specialist search engines.
• Investigative searches. (Discovering searchable data bases).
• Oblique searches. (Not quite hacking…).

11.30-11.45

Morning tea

11.45-1.00pm

SESSION 2: Eugene Bingham: Weekend Herald Review editor and senior investigative reporter.

• What every journalist should know about the Internet.
• Finding authoritative sources (accessing the experts you need).
• Useful sites for journalists.
• Finding story ideas on the Net.

1.00-1.30

Lunch

1.30–2.45pm

SESSION 3: Stephen Cornes, Companies Office: Everything you wanted to know about the Companies Office website.

2.45-3.00

Afternoon tea

3.00-4.00

SESSION 4: Panel Discussion: the perils and pleasures of computer-assisted reporting. Chair: Professor Stephen Tanner, Wollongong University, Australia, president of the Australian Journalism Education Association; NBR editor-in-chief Nevil Gibson; Weekend Herald reporter Eugene Bingham.

5pm

JEANZ AGM

8.45-9.30

Powhiri (Venue: Te Kakano a Te Kaahu)

9.30-10.00

“Building investigative journalism skills through the use of hypotheticals: technology as the teacher’s tool” Stephen Tanner, University of Wollongong

10.00-10.20

“Project-based learning: pleasures and pitfalls” Charles Riddle and Venetia Sherson, Wintec

10.20-10.40

"Journalism training: a personal reflection” Brian Joyce, Whitireia Polytechnic

10.40-11.00

Tea

11.00-11.20

“Community radio – agent of social change for women” Gaye Barton, Wintec

11.20-11.40

“By-lines and gender in the news room” Cathy Strong, Massey University

11.40-12.00

“Shorthand - paradox or paragon?” Bernie Griffin, Whitireia Polytechnic

12.00-12.20

12.20-1.20

Lunch

1.20-1.40

“Good writing and journalism” Annabel Schuler, Waiariki Polytechnic

1.40-2.00

“Mirror, mirror on the stand: a study of Listener covers 2000-2005” Stephen Olsen, Tertiary Education Commission

2.00-2.20

"Media and Te Tiriti o Waitangi: Implications for Journalism Educators" Frank Pega and Raymond Nairn, Kupu Taea Treaty Resource Centre

2.20-2.40

“The techniques of consumer journalism” Grant Hannis, Massey University

2.40-3.00

“The changing world of the sports reporter” Ed Mason, Unitec

3.00-3.20

Tea

3.20-3.40

“The language of the news room” Sue O’Dowd, WITT

3.40-4.00

“Journalistic ethics and the reporting of natural disasters” James Hollings, Massey University.

4.00-4.20

4.20-4.45

Wrap

6.30

Pre-dinner drinks. Conference dinner at Garden Terrace Restaurant, Hamilton Gardens. Guest speaker: Judge Robert Wolf, of the Hamilton District Court

9-10

Jim Tucker: Report on JTO restructuring - NZQA and TEC requirements, timelines, new training model, workplace assessment proposal, unit standard review, moderation review (including feedback on the recent SIT moderation procedure), data from the J School survey.

10-10.30

Discussion and Tea

10.30-12.30

Unit Standards review workshop. A preliminary discussion on the existing Level 5 unit standards, suggestions for changes and additions. Please bring a copy of the unit standards you deliver. A JEANZ unit standard review panel to be appointed to work with the JTO.

12.30-1pm

Closure