NAHJ in Louisiana: New Orleans Town Hall Session and Baton Rouge Manual de Estilo Workshop

NAHJ in Louisiana: New Orleans Town Hall Session and Baton Rouge Manual de Estilo Workshop

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Association of Hispanic Journalists presents two media events in Louisiana during the first weekend of November.

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The weekend begins with a town hall session on the media's role in the Hispanic Community in New Orleans on Friday, Nov. 3. The daylong workshop for students and professionals who write and edit in Spanish is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 4.

The bilingual town hall session -- "The Role of the Media in the Hispanic community in Post-Katrina New Orleans" -- will begin at 7 p.m., Nov. 3 at Tulane University's Goldring/Woldenberg Hall 131, on the ground floor of the A.B. Freeman School of Business.

Guests are invited to attend a pre-Town Hall reception from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at The Latin American Library of Tulane University. Admission is free but attendees are asked to RSVP at (504) 865-5681 by Nov. 1, or via e-mail at mespinos@tulane.edu. Please ask about a parking pass for the reception when you RSVP.

The town hall panelists include Beth Fussell, a sociologist at Tulane University; Martin Gutierrez, executive director of the Hispanic Apostolate Archdiocese of New Orleans; Vanessa Oubre, general manager of WVUE Fox 8; Ernesto Schweikert, general manager of Radio Tropical KGLA 1540; Julio Guichard, host and producer of De Todo Un Poco, Cox 10; Bob Noonan, news director of WGNO ABC 26; and David Meeks, city editor of The Times Picayune.

News anchor Lucy Bustamante of WWL-TV Channel 4, will moderate the town hall.

The event is sponsored by NAHJ; The Latin American Library at Tulane University; and the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University.

Students and professionals who write and edit in Spanish can participate in an NAHJ stylebook session for Spanish-language media, which will be held on Saturday, Nov. 4, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Baton Rouge at Louisiana State University's Manship School of Mass Communication.

Professionals in media, public relations and advertising are encouraged to attend. Early registration is $15 for students; $30 for members of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists; and $45 for nonmembers. The early registration deadline is Oct. 30.

Each attendee will receive lunch and a free Manual de Estilo stylebook. After Oct. 30, participants must register on site. Register now by visiting http://www.nahj.org/.

Lilia O'Hara of Enlace, the Spanish-Language publication of the San Diego Union-Tribune, will lead the workshop. O'Hara, one of the authors of the Manual de Estilo, previously has conducted stylebook sessions in El Paso, McAllen and San Antonio, Texas.

For more information, contact NAHJ At-large officer Gary Pina of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram at gpina@star-telegram.com.

The stylebook session is sponsored by NAHJ and the LSU Manship School of Mass Communication.

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CONTACT: Marissa Silvera of National Association of Hispanic
Journalists, +1-202-662-7147, or msilvera@nahj.org

Web site: http://www.nahj.org/

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