Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author Diana Henriques teams up with veteran editor and author Jane Isay to take the audience from the germ of an idea for a book through the thinking, the selling, the writing, the editing, and the publishing process.

Stories about LGBTQ communities are often relegated to the same issues. Activists call for more plurality in the voices presented, and for reporters to report on all issues as they affect LGBTQ communities, as well as the varied lived experiences of LGBTQ folks.

JAWS is an organization I have been honored to be a part of for many years, not just because it is led by women who broke down newsroom barriers for women but because it has provided me a safe space to vent about being a woman of color in mostly all-white and all-male workplaces for most of my career. Unfortunately, CAMP was not a safe space for many of us this year.

Solutions journalism is rigorous enterprise reporting in response to social problems. Solutions journalism is not advocacy, PR, “fluffy” good news or hero worship. It uses high journalistic standards to look critically at ideas and efforts to see if and how they’re actually working on the ground.

Hill said, “We cannot disturb the peace unless we face the uncomfortable truths about this business. It’s too white, too male, too elitist and it’s too corporate … It’s 2018. If you don’t know how to find Black and Latino people for your newsroom, it’s because you don’t care ...”

The Journalism and Women Symposium condemns President Donald Trump's recent attacks on members of the White House Press Corps, especially black women journalists and other reporters of color.

There is a fire-hose of information available out there when it comes to election money—dark money is called that for a reason but beyond that there is a lot of detail to glean from campaign finance reports and sites that have made that data searchable.

Rachel Jones has been a journalist for 32 years, starting at The St. Petersburg Time in 1986. She came to health reporting through personal experience. “I fell at a young age, cracked a tooth, and we couldn’t afford to go to a dentist,” she said.

In order to actually walk the walk on creating diversity and inclusion in your newsroom, you need to focus on retention, holding yourself to specific goals and broaden your ideas about and practices of hiring.

Science is the art of learning how NOT to fool ourselves, and can teach us a few tricks that come in especially handy for journalists. Just because you can’t see something, doesn’t mean it can’t make a difference.

Journalists who have reported abroad offered tips for how to find international work — and how to survive once you’re there. When reporting in other countries, be willing to lay down your assumptions about how you’ll be treated as a woman and where you’ll live. Learn the local norms and language. Be wise about which battles you choose to fight.

Melissa Ludtke's successful 1978 legal battle over access for female reporters covering baseball came from years of experiencing institutional sexism and working toward incremental changes. The story of her career provides lessons for women in journalism today, including the importance of networking, perseverance, creative solutions, defining your narratives, and simply doing the work, no matter how small the task.

I realize that many of you were not able to attend this year's Sunday night dinner at CAMP in Welches, Oregon. However, I believe it's important for all 680+ members to know what happened at dinner.

“Work-life balance” is a handy phrase for marketing self-help books, but the reality is,  it’s all life. And these two parts of life can’t help but impact each other. Elise Hu—former Korea  and Japan bureau chief for NPR and current staff reporter/host with NPR—walked us through those intersections in her JAWS CAMP 2018 keynote, framed as “all the ways I’ve failed to work for The Washington Post.”

Opportunities for investigative work are hiding in plain sight: in annual reports, budgets from every level of government and your keen observations about your surroundings, be they physical cues (crumbling infrastructure) or listening to the informed complaints of the local community (what is the one hospital locals don’t want to wind up in? That’s a good place to start.).

Personal branding for journalists needs to authentically reflect your personality and be dimensional. Your brand needs to establish your voice and how it sets you apart. A personal brand statement answers three things; your aspirations (what you are best at), your unique promise of value (what sets you apart), your audience (who you serve).

You only have a few moments to draw a listener into a story; you’d better make them count. From capturing background sound to equipment check, putting together the perfect audio story is no small feat.

At Conference and Mentoring Project (CAMP) 2018, Journalism and Women Symposium honored women journalists who sparked change, who embody our mission to work toward an accurate portrayal of women in society through their reporting and who are supportive mentors.

Join us in welcoming new officers and members to the 2018-2019 Journalism and Women Symposium Board of Directors.

Any attack on a newsroom or journalists, no matter the motive, is an attack on the free press and the public’s right to know. We stand in solidarity with the courageous staff of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland. The members of Journalism and Women Symposium (JAWS) mourn for the people killed or wounded, and we support the journalists covering the ongoing investigation.