Registration is now closed, so that catering and printing deadlines can be met.
Friday:
12:00 - 3:30 - Timberland Room: Board meeting
4:00-6:30pm Timberland Room: Scholarship Interviews
4:00-7:00 - Registration Opens
6:00 - 8:00 - Caterpillar Trail Room: Opening Reception with cash bar. Sponsored by Quincy Media Inc.
Saturday:
8:45 - 9:00 - Salon A Welcome to Spring Convention 2018
9:00 - 10:30 - Salon A Session A: How to turn data into stories
Ryan Denham, WGLT Radio
10:30-10:45 - Break
10:45 - 11:15 - Salon A Session B: Get Smart Quick: Immigration Issues
Sonny Garcia, Illinois People's Action
Kevin Keykendall, Immigration Attorney
11:15-11:50 - Salon A Session C: Get Smart Quick: Fact Checking, Misinformation
John Chase, Better Government Association
A. Jay Wagner, Bradley University
12:00 - 1:30 - Salon A for Lunch Sponsored by WMBD-TV
INBA General Membership Meeting
1:30 – 3:00 - Salon A Session D: Get Smart Quick: Election Prep:
Charlie Wheeler, University of Illinois-Springfield
Brian Mackey, NPR Illinois
Dan Shelley, RTDNA
3:30– 5:00 - State Room Session E: Student Critiques and News Director Roundtable
Lesley Van Ness, Quincy Media
Lon Lucas, WEEK/WHOI-TV
Shaun Newell, WMBD/WYZZ-TV
Eric Stock, WJBC-AM
Charlie Schlenker, WGLT-FM
3:30 - 4:30 - AP Meeting in Caterpillar Trail
3:30 - 4:30 - IPR Meeting in Timberland Room
4:30 - 5:30 - INBA Foundation Meeting in Timberland Room
6:00 - 7:00 - Northwoods Ballroom - Reception Cash Bar
7:00 - 10:00 - Northwoods Ballroom – Dinner, AP and SINBA Awards
Keynote Speaker: Dan Shelley, RTDNA/RTDNF
Sunday:
9:00 - 10:30 AM – Salon A Session F Surviving and Thriving in a Small Market
Brooke Brighton, WMBD-WYXX Meteorologist
Josh Morgan, WREX News Director
Jeff Burnett, WEEK Producer/Cumulus Media
10:30 - 11:00 - Break
11:00 - 12:00 – Salon A Brunch - Buffet from Childers, Final Resolution