Alaska Press Club Conference 2012
This year our Alaska Press Club Conference theme was “Ask” and sessions took place at the University of Alaska Anchorage, April 19 to 21. Get your conference merch!
AUDIO
We’ve uploaded audio from several sessions at J-Week including sessions with our keynote speaker, Neal Conan. (conference audio)
DROP-IN FEE
Need to pay for those conference sessions you dropped into? Please pay $5 for each conference session you attended if you are not a current member of the Alaska Press Club.
PRESENTERS
KEYNOTE: Neal Conan is the host of National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation.” He’s held many positions with NPR, including editor, producer and executive producer of “All Things Considered.” He’s served as NPR’s foreign editor, managing editor and news director. Conan has won several awards for his coverage of the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and the September 11th attacks.
Kimberly Dozier covers intelligence and counter-terrorism for the Associated Press. She worked for CBS in Baghdad for three years before being seriously injured in a car bomb attack. Her book — “Breathing the Fire, Fighting to Report- and Survive – the War in Iraq” — was published in May 2008.
Barbara Davidson is a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times. She spent nearly two years documenting victims of gang violence in South Los Angeles, Compton and Watts. The final project – “Caught in the Crossfire” – won her a Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.
Carolyn Ryan is the Metropolitan editor at The New York Times, overseeing one of the largest and most dynamic departments at the paper. Ryan helped lead The Times to a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the downfall of Eliot Spitzer when he was governor of New York. Earlier this year, a series overseen by Ryan that examined the treatment of the developmentally disabled in New York won the Scripps Howard Award for investigative reporting.
Jason DeRose is the Western Bureau Chief for National Public Radio. He’s worked as an oral history interviewer at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and as a journalism trainer at the International Center for Journalists. He got his start while in college nearly 20 years ago, running the board for a public radio station in Minneapolis, MN.
Anne Herbst is a video journalist for the Denver Post. After working in television for seven years, she made the switch to a new territory—solo video journalism for a newspaper website. She covers a little bit of everything, favoring features and kooky characters over all else…because she’s a kooky character herself. Anne is a national Murrow winner and a two-time regional photographer of the year for the National Press Photographers Association.
Howard Weaver was born in Anchorage and graduated from East High School. Fresh out of college, he started as a reporter at the Anchorage Daily News. He eventually became editor-in-chief and led the ADN to two Pulitzer Prizes. He went on to become vice president of News at The McClatchy Company. His book — “Write Hard, Die Free” — is due to be released this spring.
Ted S. Warren was selected to be a member of the AP’s video essay team in 2008, and began shooting and producing video stories in addition to his still-photo assignments. He has been active in AP’s training programs for many years, teaching video to still photographers, photography to reporters and writers, and multimedia slideshows to journalists from all formats.
David Hartman was the host of Good Morning America at its debut in 1975 and stayed with the show for 11 years. Following the U.S. bombing of Libya in April 1986, he conducted an exclusive interview with Muammar Kaddafi from the Libyan desert. Since then he’s been host, writer and producer of a wide range of documentary programming for network, cable and public television. He currently writes and hosts a series of documentary programs about the City of New York for public television.
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