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Registration fees Hotel reservations Total attendees registered by Aug. 24 ______x $85 = $______Attendees can reserve a room Total attendees registered after Aug. 24 ______x $105 = $______at Indianapolis Marriott North for Total ICPA student registered by Aug. 24 ______x $50 = $______$141 plus tax for single or double occupancy. Total due: $ ______To make reservations online, use the special- rate link at HSPA.com Send form and check payable to HSPA To make reservations Mail: HSPA, Newsroom Seminar, 41 E. Washington St., by phone, call Suite 301, Indianapolis, IN 46204 (800) 228-9290. Email scanned copy to [email protected] Reserve rooms Sorry, we cannot refund for cancellations after Sept. 5. by Aug. 24 for the HSPA rate. If you do not receive email confirmation and directions by Sept. 7, please call HSPA at (317) 803-4772. Hotel location: 3645 River Crossing Questions? Contact Shawn Goldsby, [email protected]. Parkway, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46240 hspa.com 52th Annual HSPA Newsroom Seminar Ken Armstrong joined ProPublica as a Kelley Benham French came to IU senior reporter in 2017. He previously in the fall of 2014 after a career as a worked at The Marshall Project, the reporter and editor at Florida’s largest Schedule of Events & Speakers Seattle Times and the Tribune. newspaper, the . She His career has included, among other was a 2013 finalist for projects, a series on how death row “Never Let Go,” a three-part series on Registration: 8 a.m. 10:45-11:45 a.m. inmates were denied their chance to appeal, and a Coffee and tea available the birth of her extremely premature daughter, Juni- Breakout Sessions series on how Medicaid patients in one state were per, who was born at 23 weeks gestation. French is • Hunting & Gathering II: steered to a cheap painkiller linked to hundreds of the editor of three stories that were finalists for the Pu- 8:30-9:15 a.m. Reporting for scene, deaths. He won the for investigative litzer Prize and is the recipient of of national character and story reporting and the 2016 Pulitzer for explanatory report- awards, including SPJ’s Sigma Delta Chi Award and Questions? Ask the experts. ing. He is a graduate of Purdue University. Tom French and Kelley Benham French, Bronze Medallion, Scripps Howard’s Ernie Pyle Award Luke Britt, Indiana public access counselor Indiana University for Human Interest Writing and the Dart Award. Key, Hoosier State Press Association In a continuation of session one, Luke Britt was appointed Indiana’s public access counselor in 2013. He Not sure what your rights are in photo- this talk will focus on examples of Steve Key, HSPA’s executive director previously served as an attorney and graphing crime/accident scenes? Key and narrative tools you can utilize in your and general counsel, offers advice operations manager for the Indiana Britt will answer that and other questions news organization’s storytelling. on legal questions to member news­ State Department of Health and as about access to records and meetings. papers. Key also represents HSPA an attorney for the Indiana Depart- Law and Order: before­ the Indiana General Assembly, ment of Child Services. As public access counselor, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Local investigative lobbying for the public’s freedom Britt provides advice, assistance and education Breakout Sessions of information rights and the interests of Indiana Ken Armstrong, ProPublica & concerning Indiana’s public access laws to the public Christian Sheckler, South Bend Tribune newspapers. Before earning a law degree, Key and government entities. The office also publishes Hunting & Gathering I: The South Bend Tribune has partnered worked at newspapers for 13 years. Reporting for scene, advisory opinions on access law compliance. with ProPublica this year to investigate Ryan Martin is a public safety reporter Tim Evans is a consumer advocate character and story criminal justice in a local county. Tribune for IndyStar. He’s also a writer for The Tom French & Kelley Benham French, reporter Christian Sheckler and Pulitzer reporter for and Drop, a daily web show that wraps up Indiana University Prize winner Ken Armstrong of ProPublica has been a journalist since 1977. Evans the day’s most talked about stories This session will focus on how to will talk about their efforts, and lessons, has received numerous awards for with a dash of personality. Martin skillfully utilize narrative storytelling in uncovering how the actions of police, his work, including for excellence in moved to Indianapolis in 2015 after techniques in your reporting — in prosecutors and judges led to mistakes reporting on topics related to the First working as a journalist in northern Indiana. longform pieces and day-to-day coverage. and wrongful convictions. The collabora- Amendment, public service and social justice. He was tion is part of ProPublica’s Local Report- named the Society of Professional Journalists’ 2008 Eric Seals has covered many events Code of silence ing Network. Indiana Journalist of the Year. He received first place for the Detroit including in the 2010 Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism, five months in the war in Iraq and the Tim Evans & Ryan Martin, The Indianapolis Star From chaos to calm a national honor which recognizes exemplary report- Olympics in Rio and Beijing. In May Reporters Evans and Martin will discuss ing on children and families. 2008, Seals embraced video story- “Code of Silence,” a four-part series that Eric Seals, Detroit Free Press A photojournalist being asked to do video telling as the Free Press started the examined the 10-year criminal career is daunting and unfamiliar journey into the Thomas French, a Pulitzer prize-win- push for video online. He’s covered human interest of one of Indianapolis’ most notorious unknown. Seals will discuss and show how ning reporter, has spent the past quar- & social issues, short documentaries and other drug dealers as well as the heroic act of he’s learned to remain calm in the chaos ter century redefining the possibilities projects. Seals received a 2016 national Edward a citizen who testified in court and lost that is video storytelling. of journalistic storytelling, both in his R. Murrow award for video storytelling, a national his life. writing and in his teaching around Webby Award, multiple Press Photogra- Luncheon: Noon the world. French grew up in Indiana pher Association Multimedia Photographer of the My visual journey and attended journalism school at Indiana University, Year awards, several POY International awards and Eric Seals, Detroit Free Press Better Newspaper Contest where he was a Poynter scholar and editor-in-chief nine regional Emmys. Join the Michigan Press Photographers Luncheon & Awards Presentation at the Indiana Daily Student. He is now the Riley En- Association’s 2016 Multimedia The silent auction winners and awards dowed Chair in Journalism at IU. French spent 27 years Christian Sheckler worked at the Photographer of the Year for a presentation will follow lunch. Join us for a at the Tampa Bay Times specializing in narratives, News-Sentinel in Fort Wayne before presentation showcasing work from celebration and recognition of the excellent book-length stories published one chapter at a time. joining the South Bend Tribune in a 24-year career as a visual storyteller. journalism produced throughout the state. In 1998, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and a Sigma 2013 to cover police and public safety Delta Chi award for Angels & Demons, a series that stories. He serves as the lead reporter chronicled the murder of an Ohio woman and her two on the Tribune’s investigative initiative For more information or to register online, visit hspa.com teenage daughters as they vacationed in Tampa. with ProPublica. He is graduate of Grace College.