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March 23, 2021
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■ Public radio news director’s father among those killed in Boulder shooting; 'I'm so thankful he could walk me down the aisle last summer ... I am now pregnant. I know he wants me to be strong for his granddaughter.' (Erika Mahoney); Mahoney worked at a Boulder radio station as a high school student and then as an anchor and reporter (KAZU/WBNG) / 'This isn’t my first time designing the front page for a mass shooting, but it is my first time designing the front page for a shooting in my own community. My heart is broken.' (Annika Mueller) / ‘I've been a reporter in Colorado for 11 years (including four in college) and this is at least the fifth shooting I've covered where more than four people have been shot.’ (Jesse Aaron Paul) / ‘Today, I worked on a segment about one mass shooting that had to be postponed due to breaking news on another mass shooting. At one point, I said to a friend "I'm not sure if this will air since we are in a different shooting now…” This is not okay.’ (Kim Berryman) / Fox News did not cover Boulder shooting, 7th mass shooting in 7 days in the US, during primetime (Salon) / Covering the Atlanta massacre from inside the Korean community (Columbia Journalism Review) 
Today’s journalists need to check more than their facts. In this cut-and-paste digital world, journalists also need to check their rights. Join the National Press Club Journalism Institute for an overview of copyright perils and solutions, presented by three lawyers with the Media & Entertainment Law Group from the Washington, D.C. office of Ballard Spahr LLP: Chuck Tobin, Alia Smith and Mara Gassmann.

Participants will leave the program with: 

  • Best practices for the “fair use” of unlicensed work
  • Tips to calibrate how much is too much when quoting or using someone else’s work 
  • Ways to quickly determine rights to an image and how to license it, even via social media

Registration is now open for this program, which will take place online from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, March 31, 2021. The program is free to attend; donations will support the Institute’s programs.
Jill Geisler, Bill Plante Chair in Leadership & Media Integrity at Loyola University Chicago and Freedom Forum Fellow in Women’s Leadership, on the cost of incivility, bullying and all those bad behaviors that aren’t illegal but tear people down or drive them away.
Will the use of artificial intelligence save journalism, be the end of news as we know it, or live somewhere in between? Francesco Marconi, who has led the development of the Associated Press and Wall Street Journal’s use of AI in journalism, offers a practical perspective on the potential of these technologies. 

Join the National Press Club Journalism Institute and the National Press Club’s communicators team for a program featuring Marconi, who will explain how journalists and communication professionals can avoid pitfalls while taking advantage of the possibilities AI provides to develop new ways of telling stories and connecting with audiences.

Registration is now open for this program, which will take place online from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. ET on Friday, March 26, 2021. The program is free to attend; donations will support the Institute’s programs.
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This newsletter is written & edited by the National Press Club Journalism Institute staff: Beth Francesco, Holly Butcher Grant and Julie Moos. Send us your questions and suggestions for topics to cover.

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