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Pressing Issues: Beyond George Floyd, Covering and Responding to Nationwide Civil Unrest

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Beyond George Floyd

Covering and Responding to Nationwide Civil Unrest

A Toledo Press Club Virtual Conference

July 15, 7:00 PM (RSVP pressclub@bex.net for login instructions)

The killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police has sparked the greatest civil unrest in a generation with nationwide protests calling for police reform and social justice. The Press Club of Toledo invites you to a Pressing Issues virtual conference on Wednesday, July 15 at 7 p.m. Hear from a panel of journalists on the front lines of the coverage and communicators charged with formulating responses for their companies and organizations. Together, we’ll explore:

  • The challenges faced by members of the media as they increasingly become targets of law enforcement or protestors while covering demonstrations.
  • The unique challenges facing black journalists and communicators.
  • The choices being made by companies and organizations as they consider how or if they should take a position and respond. Who did it well and who fell short? Does a lack of diversity in corporate communications and public relations hinder those efforts? Are we entering a new age of corporate activism?

Moderator-

Rhonda Sewell, Manager Governmental and External Affairs – Toledo Lucas County Public Library

 

Panelists-

Brandy Jones APR,  Vice President of External Affairs – Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority

Andrew Kinsey- News Anchor- WTOL 11

Precious Fondren- Features Reporter- Toledo Blade

Bri’on Whiteside- Education Reporter- Toledo Blade

Charles “Charlie Mack” Welch Radio Show Host and Program Director, WJUC FM 107.3

Dr. Nicole Kraft to Keynote Touchstone Ceremony

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We are excited to announce that Dr. Nicole Kraft will be the keynote speaker for the 2020 Touchstone Awards, scheduled for October 21.  As a working journalist, an author, and an educator, she is the perfect choice for our event, which recognizes excellence in local journalism and awards scholarships to local journalism students.

Dr. Kraft spent 25 years as an award-winning reporter, editor and magazine journalist, while working also in public relations for professional sports and government communications.

She joined the Ohio State School of Communication in 2010, and her areas of expertise include news, sports and feature writing, social media, sports communication, media law and ethics, and academic use of mobile technology. Her focus in teaching and research has been in utilizing technology in journalism and global education, as well as the intersection of sports and society. Her dissertation developed a grounded theory regarding academic use of mobile technology among student-athletes.

Dr. Kraft is co-director of Ohio State’s Sports & Society Initiative, and as part of the Global One Health Initiative she teaches annually in Ethiopia. In 2015 she was named an Apple Distinguished Educator, and consults with and trains athletic departments around the country in how to better engage student-athletes into academics using mobile technology.

She is also an active journalist, covering sports for the Associated Press and Columbus Dispatch. Her new book, “Always Get the Name of the Dog: A guide to media interviewing,” was released by Routledge in 2019, and in 2020 she authored the digital textbook, “Writing Fabulous Features.”

Touchstone 2020 Date Announced!

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The date for the 2020 Touchstone Awards has been announced.  The ceremony will take place on October 21, 2020.  More details to come…we’ll be announcing our speaker and community awards in the coming days and entries for the journalism awards will be open soon.

Virtual Town Hall a Success

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Thank you to everyone who attended our Pressing Issues/Virtual Town Hall last night. We were happy to have 40 people join the meeting, representing our region’s leading communicators and journalists. It was a robust conversation about the historic times we are living in. Two broad takeaways.

1. It was great to see everyone….we really do thrive on relationships.

2. Everyone in communications is doing vital work and the commitment to serving all of our stakeholders was heartening.

Press Club to Host Virtual Town Hall

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The Press Club of Toledo will be hosting a virtual Town Hall on the impact of the Coronavirus on media and communications in our region.  We will have representatives of our major media outlets as well as other community leaders.  This is a once-in-a-lifetime event and we urge you to participate.  

The event will be held from 7-9 PM on Wednesday, April 22.  Please email pressclub@bex.net for login information.