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2014 AAJA National Convention

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9:00am EDT

NewU: Am I really an entrepreneur? Meeting Room 7, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Career Fair & Expo Grand Ballroom, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown

10:00am EDT

Pitching to the public radio network Meeting Room 2, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Speed mentoring 101 Grand Ballroom, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Charts and maps and tables! Oh, my! The basics of graphics and data visualization Meeting Room 10, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Freelance 101 Renaissance West B, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown NewU: I'm just getting started, what do I do? Meeting Room 7, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Handy tricks for your best writing for the web Meeting Room 14, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Crisis Reporting Abroad Meeting Room 3, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown How to pull off an interactive project Meeting Room 13, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Creating the perfect online portfolio Meeting Room 12, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown

11:00am EDT

Making it to the Network Meeting Room 2, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Early career roundtable Grand Ballroom, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Conquer the world of data with these simple tools Meeting Room 10, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Outside the newsroom Renaissance West B, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Using web analytics for mobile Meeting Room 14, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Writing long for the web Meeting Room 3, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown

12:00pm EDT

Membership Meeting Meeting Room 3, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown

12:15pm EDT

North Korea: Secret society through Instagram by David Guttenfelder Meeting Room 13, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown

2:00pm EDT

Polling and stats 101 - don't be fooled Meeting Room 10, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Lean startup methodology Meeting Room 7, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Organizing your investigation Meeting Room 17, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Starting a photography freelance career Meeting Room 13, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown What newsrooms can learn from web-only models Meeting Room 2, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Data demo: How to jailbreak data from a PDF Meeting Room 12, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Data demo: Make a map in two hours Meeting Room 14, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown All about the money Renaissance West B, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown

3:00pm EDT

Ask the recruiters Grand Ballroom, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown How to data-enable your stories with Census Reporter Meeting Room 17, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown NewU: Design Thinking for Entrepreneurs Meeting Room 7, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown What newsroom leaders can learn from data science Meeting Room 10, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown How to change the ratio from the top Meeting Room 3, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown From Tiananmen to Toishan, a Chinese-American photographer's wanderings through the Sinosphere Meeting Room 13, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Social media reporting & ethics Meeting Room 2, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown

4:00pm EDT

Breakout session: Audience engagement/content strategy Meeting Room 7, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Breakout session: Journalism education Grand Ballroom, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Breakout session: Longform Meeting Room 13, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Breakout session: Media diversity advocacy Meeting Room 17, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Breakout session: Regional/Local Meeting Room 12, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Breakout session: Sports journalism Meeting Room 2, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Breakout session: Technology Meeting Room 10, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Breakout session: Visual journalism Meeting Room 14, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown

5:00pm EDT

NewU: Pitches Meeting Room 7, Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown