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Expanding the conversation on good journalism and good writing.

Click here for the latest updates to the NWW/Ft. Lauderdale "Extending the Conversation" project...

National Writers' Workshop:
FT. LAUDERDALE

Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 2006
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Meet the Speakers: Round One (part two)

More from the speaker front:

Jacqui Banaszynski.

Jacqui Banaszynski

She's the Knight Chair in Editing at the University of Missouri and an editing fellow at. She's a former editor at The Seattle Times and a former reporter at the St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch. She won a Pulitzer Prize for her 1988 series, "AIDS in the Heartland."

Her session: "In the beginning was the (right) word: Ledes, nut grafs and other key elements"
Further reading:

"Sometimes You (Should) Feel Like a Nut : Nut Grafs Create Sanity," Media (2003)
"New Metaphors Needed for Changing Roles," Nieman Reports (Spring 2006)
"Jacqui Banaszynski's Six Paths to a Story," by Chip Scanlan (Poynter.org, 2002)

"AIDS in the Heartland"

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"Storytelling about AIDS: A duty of care," by Bob Steele (Poynter.org, 1998)

Gene Cryer. He worked as a journalist for 38 years -- 15 of which as editor and vice president at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel -- before retiring and continuing his focus on writing. Since he started work on his novel, he's been a professor (at Florida Atlantic University) and a workshop instructor (for the Florida Center for the Book) and is now president of the Writers' Network of South Florida.

His session: "Self-editing: The kindest cuts a writer can make"

-- Meg Martin, associate editor, Poynter Online

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