Campus Progress and The Nation Magazine's Journalism Conference

Center for American Progress, 1333 H St. N.W. 10th Floor Washington, D.C.

Student journalists from across the country will come together to meet with professional journalists and each other to hone their craft and learn first-hand how to make it in the field -- both on campus and off.

If you have already applied for the 2007 National Student Conference, click here to apply for the journalism conference. If you have not applied to the 2007 National Student Conference, click here to apply for the journalism conference.

Here's the schedule for the June 25 journalism conference. If you want to see the schedule for June 26 National Student Conference, click here.

Registration and Breakfast

Welcome

David Halperin, director, Campus Progress
Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher, The Nation

Covering Corruption

David Corn, Washington editor, The Nation
Helen Thomas, White House correspondent
Tara McKelvey, senior editor, The American Prospect
Ari Berman, contributing writer, The Nation
Moderated by Isaiah Poole, executive editor, TomPaine.com

Covering the Law, the Constitution and National Security

Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor, Slate
John Nichols, Washington correspondent, The Nation
David Cole, professor of law, Georgetown University Law Center and legal correspondent, The Nation
Moderated by Mark Lloyd, senior fellow, Center for American Progress and affiliated professor, Georgetown University Public Policy Institute

Lunch

Lunch Keynote

Barbara Ehrenreich, author, Nickel and Dimed

Workshop Session I

Digging Deep: The Ins and Outs of Investigative reporting

Jeremy Scahill, Puffin Foundation writing fellow, The Nation Institute
Betsy Reed, executive editor, The Nation

From Proust to Paris (Hilton): Covering Culture and the Arts

Richard Kim, associate editor, The Nation
Christine Smallwood, associate literary editor, The Nation

Workshop Session II

The Art and Act of Blogging

Ann Friedman, editor, Feministing.com
Chris Raab, editor, Afro-Netizen.com
Ezra Klein, writing fellow, The American Prospect and blogger, Ezraklein.typepad.com

Beyond the Beltway: Reporting from America

Laura Flanders, host, RadioNation, Air America Radio
Roberto Lovato, writer, New America Media

Closing Keynote Address

Eric Schlosser, author, Fast Food Nation