Where: Mechanic’s Institute, 57 Post St. (between Montgomery & Kearney), 4th Floor, San Francisco (BART/Muni Stop: Montgomery)
Date: Wed., July 20, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. (Discussion + Q&A: 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.)
Price: $5 for SPJ members, $10 for nonmembers
Snacks and drinks (alcoholic and nonalcoholic) will be provided.
No cash? Send entry fee in advance by PayPal to jredhage(at)gmail.com.
Is there life after journalism? Former journalists now working in the public, private and nonprofit sectors talk about their experiences transitioning to new fields. How did their journalism training aid them in their next career? What other careers are good fits for journalists? What are the advantages and disadvantages of exiting journalism? And is the move permanent?
Featuring:
Linda Strean, Associate Director of Communications at the nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank Public Policy Institute of California, who was metro editor and deputy managing editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, managing editor at the Santa Barbara News-Press and managing editor of nonprofit website GreatSchools.net.
Lisa Bowman, a civil rights plaintiff lawyer at Schneider Wallace Cottrell Brayton Konecky LLP in San Francisco, who worked for nearly 10 years as a reporter for news outlets including CNET News, the Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg and KQED Public Radio.
Joshua Peck, Senior Media Relations Manager at 700-attorney international law firm Duane Morris LLP, who reported for newspapers in Michigan and New York before working as press secretary for a Congressional campaign, press assistant in the New York State Senate and a lobbyist for the Jewish philanthropic organization UJA-Federation of New York.
Becky Bowman, Display Network specialist at Google Inc., who was a newspaper reporter at the Hearst Corporation, a fact-checker at Women’s Health magazine and a freelance writer for three years prior to joining the search giant as an optimizer in advertising sales.
Moderated by Jill Redhage, Staff Writer at the San Francisco Daily Journal and program committee member for the Society of Professional Journalists – Northern California Chapter.
Direct questions to jredhage(at)gmail.com.