TENTATIVE AGENDA

 

Friday, March 14

 

7:30 a.m. — VPA Registration Desk Opens

 

8 a.m. —  VPA/VPS Board Breakfast and Meeting

 

8 a.m. - LATE — Virginia News Photographers Association Judging

 

Noon - 2 p.m. — Associated Press Luncheon

 

3 - 9 p.m. — VNPA Vendor Reception

 

4:30 p.m. — News Committee Meeting

 

5 p.m. — VPA Exhibits Open

 

5:30 p.m. — Past Presidents’ Reception

 

6:30 p.m. — Associated Press Reception

 

7 p.m. — AP Dinner/Virginian of the Year Banquet

Honoree: Hokie Nation

 

 

Saturday, March 15

 

7:30 a.m. — VPA Registration Desk Opens

 

8 a.m. - 5 p.m. — VNPA Programs

 

8 - 9:30 a.m. — Breakfast & VPA Business Meeting

 

8 a.m. — VPA Exhibits Open

 

10 a.m. - Noon — “Newspaper Next 2.0: Making the Leap Beyond ‘Newspaper Companies’”

Presenter: Steve Buttry, director of tailored programs, American Press Institute, Reston, VA

 

Noon - 1:30 p.m. — VPA Luncheon — The “Jena 6”

Speaker: Paul V. Carty, executive editor  

and local information center director,

The Town Talk, Alexandria, LA

 

Noon - 1:30 p.m. — VNPA Luncheon

 

2 - 4:15 p.m. — News Roundtable Clinic

Concurrent Sessions, 2 - 3 p.m. and repeating 3:15 - 4:15 p.m.

Past Best-in-Show winners will share with attendees how they developed their winning projects. Topics to be covered include writing, design and new media.

 

5:30 p.m. — Reception & Cash Bar

 

6:30 p.m. — VPA News/Editorial Awards Banquet

 

10 p.m. - 1 a.m. — After-Banquet Party

 

Agenda is subject to change. Updates will be available on www.vpa.net, in future postings of Virginia’s E-Press and in future editions of Virginia’s Press.