UNITY 2012
Convention Highlights
Experience Great Content and Networking Opportunities

 

UNITY '12 Offers Aid to the Recently Unemployed

 

To provide further assistance to journalists who have been laid off,  UNITY Journalists is offering a special discounted rate to people whose jobs have been lost during newsroom reorganizations since Jan. 1, 2012.

 

The special registration rate for Recently Unemployed Journalists is $325 and is available until midnight Pacific on Friday, June 29.  

  

Pre-registration ends on Friday, June 29th!

Register now and save up to $200!

 

Have you booked your room at Mandalay Bay? Hurry the hotel is filling up quickly. Click here to reserve your hotel room. Rates are $164 per night at Mandalay Bay. Students may also book rooms for a reduced rate ($54 on Wednesday/Thursday and $114 on Friday/Saturday) at Luxor which is connected to Mandalay Bay.

 

 

Check out the convention website at www.unityconvention.org and click on Conference Program under General Information to view approved sessions.

 
Travel & Transportation

We have partnered with The ATC Travel Center to provide a one-stop for travel and transportation services so you can plan your trip more efficiently.

 

Book through the online travel portal provided by ATC and access UNITY discounts with American Airlines, Delta, and United Airlines.

 

 

Click here to book your flight or rent a car.  

 

Click here to book your one-way or round-trip airport shuttle. 

 

Click here for more information regarding travel and transportation.
New U 2012 Start-Up Camp
Deadline is tomorrow: June 20th!

Don't forget to register. Only six (6) spots are available for five (5) members of the Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) and one member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ).

  

New U: News Entrepreneurs Working through UNITY, a project funded by the Ford Foundation and supported by UNITY: Journalists. This project is designed to give journalists of color training in entrepreneurship, and support them as they develop their specific business concepts using the tools New U provides.

 

Those accepted as a New U Fellow become part of a unique team: each Fellow is assigned a direct mentor who has already launched a small business. Participants will also spend two and a half tightly-scheduled days listening to and learning from industry experts - venture capitalists, legal experts, marketing and communications professionals, writers and people who call themselves "serial entrepreneurs".

  • Number of fellowships to be awarded and attend: 6
  • Number of start-up grants to be awarded: 1
  • Application Deadline: June 20, 2012, 5:00 PM (EST)

 

Questions? Contact program directors Doug Mitchell and Alli Joseph

 

Click Here for more information regarding New U 2012.

 

2-day Training for Journalists at UNITY '12 

(limited fellowships available)

Don't forget to sign up for the Early Bird Registration!

Early Bird Deadline: Friday, June 22

 

Families USA is hosting a National Health Policy Training for Communities of Color on July 31 through August 1 at the UNITY Convention in Las Vegas. This training is designed to bring attention to health policy issues that affect communities of color and to ensure that journalists have the tools, resources, and information they need to report on these topics.

 

   

Click here to register