Ethnic Media Workshop for Online Writing

Ethnic Media Workshop for Online Writing
Saturday, April 2, from 9AM to Noon
Community Media Workshop
218 S. Wabash 7th Floor
Chicago, IL

With: Pueng Vongs, Bay Area News Group

Ms. Pueng Vongs has two decades of experience in journalism. She is a online producer/editor for Bay Area News Group (MercuryNews.com, InsideBayArea/OaklandTribune.com and ContraCostaTimes.com).

What your eyes and your mind are doing right now is not what they do when you are holding a newspaper. Or listen to the radio. Or watch the TV. This Internet you are staring at has changed us, and so those of us who use it for a living, or who want to, need to know how to write differently. We also need to know a heap of other things about why the Internet has become the electronic megaphone of journalism. This free workshop will help you understand how to adjust your message for an online audience. We are greatly pleased to have a nationally recognized trainer, thanks to the Social for Professional Journalists (SPJ), Puen Vongs. She is an online producer-editor for the Bay Area News Group which produces online content for the Mercury News, Oakland Tribune and Contra Costa Times.

About the Presenter:

Ms. Pueng Vongs has two decades of experience in journalism. She is a online producer/editor for Bay Area News Group (MercuryNews.com, InsideBayArea/OaklandTribune.com and ContraCostaTimes.com), where she edits content for the web and leverages social media, multimedia, mapping and mobile tools. She has also worked in financial news at CBS.Marketwatch.com and Money magazine. Vongs’ stories have run in the Chicago Sun-Times, San Francisco Chronicle and NPR among other outlets.

She serves as the diversity chair for SPJ and has spent more than a decade reporting on minority communities, mainly at Pacific News Service/New America Media, the largest association of U.S. ethnic media.