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Women, Action and The Media: covering it as press, what do you want to know?


I found out last week that I’ve been granted Press Credentials for Women, Action and The Media, aka WAM!2008. Helen Thomas is the keynote and I am praying that folks with press creds get to have some time with her!

There are several unique aspects of this conference, but here’s one that requires input:

Saturday’s Lunch Caucuses are an opportunity to gather, network and plan with people who share your interests. Lunch caucuses are called by Conference participants — if you’d like to convene a caucus, contact us with your idea at wam2008 at centerfornewwords dot org.

Lunch Caucuses are already planned for:
Radical Women of Color Bloggers
Feminist Organizing on Campus
Starting a Feminist Writing Group

If you were to suggest that I call a caucus, what would it be? Something around age? Maybe around how to be a woman in action and the media when you don’t have as much time as you want to do action or media? What are our greatest challenges and strengths that the group gathered at this event could help utilize?

The entire schedule looks great, but I’m very interested in the pre-conference networking/meet & greet chances too.

What should I do? Who should I see? And don’t you bet I should try to use CoverItLive and my new FLip?

FYI: it’s at MIT’s Stata Center which looks like what building designed by which architect? Even I could figure that out just from the picture:

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:45 pm March 15th, 2008 in Announcements, Blogging, Media, Women, Writing 

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6 Responses to “Women, Action and The Media: covering it as press, what do you want to know?”

  1. 1 Harold Thomas on March 15th, 2008 3:07 pm

    Probably not what you had in mind, but it looks like a cross between the Columbus Convention Center (in its odd angles) and the Wexner Center on the Ohio State University campus (for its round towers), both by the late Richard Trott.

  2. 2 Jill Miller Zimon on March 15th, 2008 5:04 pm

    Thanks for reading and guessing!

    It reminded me of the Case Weatherhead school of business building – designed by Frank Gehry. And in fact, the Stata Center was designed by Gehry as well.

  3. 3 JAMES RUGGIERO on March 15th, 2008 5:19 pm

    Helen Thomas is the best and probably last great journalist this country has ever had!

  4. 4 Carole Cohen on March 15th, 2008 6:00 pm

    I figured it was Gehry I was getting seasick LOL.

  5. 5 Jill Miller Zimon on March 23rd, 2008 9:27 pm

    Hi James – I’m glad to read that you feel that way! I’m a little worried about how good she’ll be at 88 – I don’t mean to be mean, but then again – Daniel Schor still does a great job and of course the 60 mins. guys. So we’ll see! I can’t wait.

  6. 6 Jill Miller Zimon on March 23rd, 2008 9:27 pm

    Not a Gehry fan, eh Carole? I’ll be sure to take some video of it!

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