Join San Diego media peers on Tuesday, April 14 at 6 p.m. for a free, informative Zoom Q&A with local power media couple Jackie Bryant and Jesse Marx. Both are established journos who’ve been on staff and freelanced for various news outlets. Currently, the married couple teach and advise students at San Diego State University. They’ll talk about media career tracks, the evolving industry landscape, how to be inspired by journalism and when to pivot. Tune in for a lively discussion. Register today!
Learn ways to perfect your storytelling skills on Tuesday, July 18 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. PDT. This virtual event is part of the ongoing Press Club “Nuts and Bolts” professional development series and is designed to present learning opportunities based on industry trends.
Nailing it! will feature a discussion between award-winning freelance journalist Michele Bigley and San Diego Press Club Board Member Elaine Masters. The webinar will delve into the art of storytelling and share invaluable tips and techniques to help journalists and writers more effectively convey their narratives.
Bigley is an award-winning freelance journalist with bylines from CNN, NY Times, and San Diego Magazine among others.
She covers sustainable issues as a Muir College Writing Program Lecturer at the University of California, San Diego, and teaches writing classes at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the UCLA Extension Writer’s Program. Her environmental-solutions-themed writing courses focus on the intersection of place and climate solutions.
The event is on Zoom, open to the public and free to attend. To register, visit https://conta.cc/3CW7X2i
Every year, the San Diego Press Club gives away thousands of dollars in scholarships to deserving student journalists in our own community. And thanks to a special program with The San Diego Union-Tribune, we can focus on helping even more students in 2022!
The San Diego Press Club is partnering with the Union-Tribune on an exciting program that will give Press Club supporters an incredible discount on award-winning local news while helping to grow our student scholarships.
Here’s how it works:
Subscribe to the Union-Tribune through this special offer – $1.04 for 6 months of Sunday-only print delivery, plus all digital access – using this unique link SanDiegoUnionTribune.com/utsch001.
For each subscription we generate, the Union-Tribune will donate $20 to our scholarship fund. We need at least 50 subscriptions to qualify for the minimum donation of $1,000.
As journalism changes and evolves, so too do the tools we use to tell stories. Hear from three journalists who are complementing their publishing careers with, among other things, email newsletters. Learn how they build a paid following with new and emerging tools available online.
This free webinar was held Tuesday, May 3rd.
The evening’s panelists include:
Jackie Bryant: Bryant was recently named Managing Editor of San Diego Magazine. Prior to that, she was a San Diego-based freelance journalist reporting mostly on the cannabis beat. In addition to reporting for a variety of local, state and national digital and print publications, she also writes the Substack newsletter Cannabitch, formerly a weekly column at the now-defunct alt-weekly San Diego CityBeat, is a newsletter covering cannabis culture.
Jodi Ettenberg: A former lawyer, Ettenberg traveled the world for a decade, sharing stories on her award-winning website Legal Nomads. After a lumbar puncture left her disabled in 2017, Jodi now writes about curiosity, resilience and the challenges of big life changes.
Mike Sowden: A former pottery worker-turned-archaeologist-turned-barista-turned-storytelling consultant-turned-freelance travel writer, Sowden now writes a paid newsletter about the science of curiosity – and it all seems to fit together at last. Read his current writing at Everything Is Amazing and absurdly long sciencey Twitter threads here.
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