Lunch with NPR News Anchor Jack Speer on Wednesday, October 26

With Some Tips on How to Pitch NPR and Reflections on His Career and the State of News Today

Presented by the PRSA-NCC Professional Development Committee

Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Time: 11:45 a.m. - 2 p.m.
11:45 a.m. Registration/Networking
Noon-12:30 p.m. lunch
12:30-2 p.m. Speaker followed up with Q&A

Location: Carmines Restaurant, 425 7th Street, NW (Penn Quarter), Washington, DC

Metro stops: Gallery Place, Archives, Judiciary Square

Cost: $40 PRSA, WWPR, BPRS members; $50/non-members; $40/students/retirees; $10 additional the door.

National Public Radio’s Jack Speer will talk about the news gathering operation of one of the country’s most important and influential broadcast news entities and he’ll give us a insider’s view of a day in the life of a news anchor.

He’ll talk about his career as a news reporter and assignment editor at local radio stations to his stint as a business reporter for WTOP/Washington Business Journal and then to NPR as business reporter and finally as NPR’s 5 p.m. news anchor. He’ll talk about the challenges he’s faced as a journalist and anchor -- perhaps because of new technology or deciding which stories get covered. He’ll also share tips on how best to interact with NPR journalists and the assignment desk.

About NPR:
In a time of media fragmentation and sound-bites, NPR has succeeded by focusing on its core: in-depth, quality news and has evolved from a secondary to an essential news source, with dozens of bureaus around the world and the nation. Drawing on more than 300 news staff (reporters, correspondents, newscasters, editors, producers hosts and bloggers) in the US and abroad-from Washington D.C. and New York to Shanghai and Baghdad, NPR has the capacity to stay on top of breaking news, follow the most critical stories of the day and track complex issues over the long-term.

NPR produces news, talk, music and entertainment programs, including the premier newsmagazines Morning Edition and All Things Considered, ranked #3 and #4 in the overall nationwide radio ratings. We also distribute programs produced by member stations and independent producers under the NPR brand. We look for high quality programs that add unique value to our member stations' service. NPR-distributed programs are presented alongside NPR's own programs on our digital platforms, including NPR.org, podcasts, and NPR Mobile.

NPR offer 26 programs, and a widely carried newscast service.

Register at:

http://www.prsa-ncc.org/option,com_events/task,view_detail/agid,433/year,2011/month,10/day,26/Itemid,0/