JAWS CAMP 2025 Workshop: C-SPAN Video Resources Training

(WASHINGTON, DC) - Join us this year for JAWS CAMP 2025! JAWS’ 40th Anniversary Conference and Mentoring Program (CAMP) will be held September 5-7, 2025 at The Royal Sonesta Hotel in Washington, DC’s Dupont Circle neighborhood.

We are excited to announce our latest workshop: C-SPAN Video Resources Training. C-SPAN’s Media Relations Specialist, Robin Newton, will teach attendees how C-SPAN can serve as a resource for journalists. Learn about C-SPAN’S vast video library and how to access it as well as other valuable tools available online.

Robin will be joined be her colleagues, Rachel Katz and Molly Connors, who will share information about the history and mission at C-SPAN as well as other programming and offerings.

What happens at CAMP? This will be JAWS’ 40th CAMP. While the format and size have varied over the years, the goal has not: to bring women journalists together from different specialties, beats, demographics and geographies to share with, learn from and empower each other. There will be structured presentations and workshops, planned social events and free time for unstructured relationship-building and city exploration.

The CAMP Site Selection Committee chose Washington, D.C. based on feedback from members urging a balance between an urban setting allowing easier travel with access to a get-away-from-it-all vibe. The committee also took into account the venue’s capacity, support for conferences, cost and central location.

Stay tuned for more programming announcements and updated information on the CAMP page.

Robin Newton is the media relations specialist for C-SPAN, the public affairs network dedicated to providing Americans with unfiltered access to government proceedings. She joined the team in 2015 and serves as a liaison between C-SPAN and media professionals and organizations around the world. Robin brings awareness to C-SPAN’s programming, corporate projects and initiatives. She has secured hundreds of news placements and media features for the organization with top newspapers, television networks and radio stations around the country. 

Prior to joining C-SPAN, she worked as a public relations specialist for WTOP, Washington's all-news radio station known for traffic and weather on the 8's. Robin got her start in the media industry while still in college as a news intern for Black Entertainment Television (B.E.T.) and a copy editor for The Pendulum Newspaper.  

She currently volunteers as the Marketing and Communications Chair for The WICT Network DC/Baltimore chapter. Robin also enjoys mentoring youth in the Northern Neck of Virginia as Chair of the NNBA Millennial Alumni Council. 

Robin is a proud alum of Elon University where she graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s in broadcast communications.  She also holds a Master of Arts in communications from Trinity Washington University. 

Robin resides in the Washington Metropolitan Area and when she's not working or volunteering, she's traveling the world.

Rachel Katz joined C-SPAN in September 2007 and currently serves as the Affiliate Relations Manager. In this role she focuses on expanding distribution of the C-SPAN Networks across all platforms while also acting as a key liaison to C-SPAN's distribution and digital advertising partners. Her work supports both brand visibility for C-SPAN and its partners and the development of new revenue opportunities.  

Rachel is also frequently tapped for special projects that benefit from her deep institutional knowledge, organizational skills, and background in history. Her contributions include supporting the StudentCam documentary competition, editing and promoting C-SPAN's The Presidents, and helping lead C-SPAN's participation in the America 250 initiative. She also serves as the membership co-chair for the DC/Baltimore chapter of WICT. 

Before joining the Affiliate Relations team, Rachel spent nine years in the Marketing department. She began as a Marketing Representative traveling the country aboard the C-SPAN Bus and later served as a Marketing Specialist, where she helped grow the network's presence in local communities and collaborated closely with affiliates. 

Earlier in her career, Katz worked with children's literacy organizations, Reading Is Fundamental and First Book. A native of Dayton, Ohio, she holds a B.A. in History from the University of Michigan. 

Molly Connors is a fundraising and business development professional with over two decades of experience partnering with hundreds of mission-driven organizations, driving an average 35% annual revenue growth, and crafting stories that ignite support. From her Business Development role at Care2 and strategic consultancy at Further Digital to marketing and development leadership at PBS, she has focused on cultivating meaningful relationships for mutual impact through strategic communications, donor engagement, and digital fundraising innovation.

Hired in 2023 as C-SPAN’s first Development Manager, she grew individual giving revenue by 25% and donor retention by 15% in her first year, using segmented outreach and matched-gift campaigns to underscore the value of unfiltered government coverage and build long-term support for one of America’s most trusted names in media and democracy. 

Committed to transparency, she serves audiences with clarity, reports with integrity, and invites community engagement. She spotlights stories of those who rely on C-SPAN’s coverage, making the complexities of democracy unfiltered feel personal, urgent, and worthy of support.