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Events, Freelance Cafe West

If Not the Chronicle, Then What? SF Commonwealth Club event TONIGHT 3/24, 6pm

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Hey folks. Another media event for your perusal. This one is TONIGHT! Details below. – Mia

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https://tickets.commonwealthclub.org/auto_choose_ga.asp?area=1&shcode=1716

*If Not the Chronicle, Then What?*

*Location:* SF Club Office *Time:* 6 p.m. check-in, *6:30 p.m. program*, 7:30 p.m. networking reception *Cost:* $12 members, $20 non-members, $7 students (with valid ID)

*Jeff Hunt*, Editor, Muni Diaries *Brock Keeling*, Editor, SFist.com *Michael Maness*, VP of Innovation and Design, Gannett Co. Inc.; Director, The Bold Italic *Robin Sloan*, Media Partnerships, Twitter – Moderator

*New Faces of SF Media*

Sites like SFist.com and the Muni Diaries are doing more than just keeping San Franciscans in the know about the latest bar openings or bus brawls. They represent the shift to a new media model based on the interest and participation of the many; gatekeepers no longer decide what the masses want to see or hear, or who gets to give it to them. With heavy-hitting new media companies like Twitter, Yelp, Digg, Wikipedia and Flickr headquartered in the city, it’s no wonder that San Francisco is widely regarded as the home of new media. Get an insider’s perspective from the new leaders of media in SF.

Where do you go for your daily local news jolt? Whose writing is so fresh, witty, hilarious or gutsy that you savor each piece like it’s the last of the cake? After the panel, we are hosting up-and-coming media personalities of San Francisco, invitation provided by you. Tell us who just HAS to be there, then vote for who should be crowned king or queen of SF new media. Come to the party to meet, mingle and gush your fandom in person! Vote for your Fav by March 18th: Email mkim@commonwealthclub.org, or tweet your pick with #inforumsf. To check out the current nominees, go to Links below.

Cecilia Vega(Bio) *KGO-7 *

Brock Keeling http://sfist.com/staff.php *SFist *

Melissa Griffin http://sweetmelissa.typepad.com/ (Blog) *Blogger/SF Examiner*

Jaimal Yogis http://www.jaimalyogis.com/ (Bio) *San Francisco Magazine*

Markos Moulitsas Zתniga http://www.dailykos.com/ *DailyKos*

Michael Bauer http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mbauer/bios *SF Chronicle*

*MissionMission http://missionmission.wordpress.com/*

Mark Frauenfedler http://boingboing.net/markf.html *Boing Boing*

Lea Troeh http://theweekintro.blogspot.com/ (Blog) *The Week Intro*

Mac McClelland http://motherjones.com/authors/mac-mcclelland (Bio) *Mother Jones*

Andy Wright(Articles) *SF Weekly*

Vanessa Carr http://missionlocal.org/ *Mission Local*

Tana Ganeva http://www.alternet.org/authors/9078/ (Blog) *AlterNet.org*

*Laughing Squid http://laughingsquid.com/*

*Curbed SF http://sf.curbed.com/*

*Eater SF http://sf.eater.com/*

Dyanna Pure and JT Paradox http://www.thesfstyle.com/ *The SF Style*

Alexia Tsotsis *SF Weekly*

Joe Eskenazi http://www.sfweekly.com/content/result/author:613068 *SF Weekly*

Lois Beckett *SF Weekly*

Broke-ass Stuart http://brokeassstuart.com/about/ *brokeassstuart.com*

Jeff Hunt http://www.munidiaries.com/about-md/ *munidiaries.com*

Did we forget anyone? Email in with your choice! http://thechefspalate.com/

Events, Freelance Cafe West

SF Public Press Print-Raising Party, 4/3 6pm, SF

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*SF Public Press event coming up – details below. -mia *

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*Start the presses! — SF Public Press is going to print.*

Come to a print-raising party at Tonic on Saturday, April 3, and join the leading grassroots campaign to advance local, ad-free, public-interest journalism in San Francisco.

All tips collected during the event will help SF Public Press produce, print and distribute a pilot newspaper this spring. We hope you’ll contribute!

We’ll offer chances to win one-year Public Press memberships and free copies of McSweeney’s award-winning San Francisco Panorama!

*WHAT: SF Public Press Print-raising Party WHEN: Saturday, April 3, 6-9 p.m. WHERE: Tonic, 2360 Polk St. (at Union) in San Francisco* RSVP at eventbriteto help us plan accordingly.

Events, Freelance Cafe West

Let’s Bowl! Thursday, March 25, 7pm

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Instead of Happy Hour this Thursday, Freelance Cafe will be bowling instead. We’ll have our normal Happy Hour in early April in honor of a visit from our founder, Mia Lobel.  Keep your eye out for details soon.

As for Bowling Thursday, feel free to stop by and bowl with us or just socialize.  We’ll have a Freelance Cafe sign set up at the lane we get.  (or wherever we are waiting if we don’t get a lane right away).

Thursday, March 25, 2010 7:00pm – 9:00pm Yerba Buena Bowling Center 750 Folsom Street, San Francisco

The cost is $6/person/game or $35/lane/hour  so we’ll just do whatever is cheapest depending on how many bowlers we get.

See you there! -Rori 415-730-7380

Events, Freelance Cafe West

Pop-Up Magazine tickets on sale this week

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Very cool event from one of our members coming up soon. Check out the details below and help spread the word! -mia

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Friends:

Big week!

Tickets to the third installment of Pop-Up Magazine will go on sale *THIS THURSDAY, AT NOON*. As always, the show will be one night only: Friday, April 16th, at Herbst Theater, with the party after in their Green Room.

Tickets will be available through our web site: www.popupmagazine.com

It’s going to be a great night. Oscar-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, author and Harper’s contributor Rebecca Solnit, chef and food activist Bryant Terry, Radio Diaries creator Joe Richman, legendary music photographer Jim Marshall, and much, much more.

But I need your help.

The first two issues of Pop-Up Magazine sold out really fast. (Last time, 90 minutes!) So for this one, we’re trying out a much bigger theater. That means we need to work extra hard to spread the word. There are two things you could do that would make us really happy.

1) I just created a Facebook event for the show. If you think of Bay Area friends who might enjoy Pop-Up Magazine, you can click “Invite Other People to Come,” underneath the Pop-Up Magazine logo, and pass along the invite. This would be huge, huge help.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=107704215914351

2) If you like Pop-Up Magazine, tell your friends know about the next show. This could mean tweeting (we’re @popupmag), or forwarding the “On Sale Now!” e-mail we send out on Thursday, or passing along the link to our web site, or mentioning the next show on Facebook. Or best of all: making plans to go together! I promise fun for all.

Thank you! We’re so grateful for our amazing friends and contributors and fans!

Hope to see you at the show.

Cheers, Doug

Audio/Radio, Freelance Cafe West, Gigs

91.7 KALW-FM Local Public Radio, SF seeks Blogger-Reporter

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Hey all. I don’t usually post full time job opportunities, but there are a lot of friends of KALW on this list so I thought I’d make an exception. Job summary below, more details in the link. -mia

http://www.cpb.org/jobline/index.php?mode=print_listing&listing_id=7476

KALW is seeking a first-rate writer and communicator to lead a news web site focused on criminal justice-related issues in the San Francisco Bay Area—specifically focusing on San Francisco and Oakland.

The journalist-blogger leading the site will be charged with building a dedicated online following around coverage of criminal justice policy, police-community relations, how the courts are run, and other topics related to criminal justice. The position requires that you establish yourself as the area’s most authoritative voice on the issue, with a strong local profile and a national reach through NPR and the wider public broadcasting system.

Candidates should have subject-matter expertise and a solid journalistic track record befitting KALW’s reputation as a trusted local news source. Requires a demonstrated ability to cultivate sources, identify important trends in criminal justice and collect and verify information through a variety of online and offline channels. Candidates should be conversant with blogging and social media applications and a variety of multimedia tools. The strongest candidates also will have proven experience developing a successful niche news site, building audience, establishing a social media brand, and stoking community engagement. Candidate must have experience in feature radio production. Minimum five years journalism, including broadcast and online experience required.

Events, Freelance Cafe West, Musings

Spring Changes

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Thanks again to all of the folks who made it out to our last Happy Hour. It was great to unwind with beer and chat about the ups and downs of the media business.

And all that chatting got us thinking about our next steps for the Café. Thanks to our founder, Mia Lobel, the Café has been a great success and is definitely a fantastic online resource for many Bay Area media types.

But now, we’re thinking about changing things up with our monthly Happy Hour. How about rotating around the Bay for our meet up? What about making it earlier or on a new day?

As we approach the start of spring, we’d love to hear from all of ya’ll about improving/changing our monthly Happy Hour. We’d love to hear suggestions for locations in San Francisco, Oakland, and the South Bay. Preferably near BART and also that’s likely to be group friendly.

While you marinate on that, check out the image of Rori and I mugging for the camera at February’s meeting.

Freelance Cafe West, Musings

Health benefits from the Freelancer Media Workers Guild

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An important message from the Freelance Media Workers Guild. -mia

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I hear frequently from people whose top priority is medical coverage.

We are making excellent progress lining up dental and vision coverage for our members, and expect to have some other benefits lined up soon.

We are negotiating for a medical coverage plan that features maximum portability and affordability. To start getting bids, we need some very basic census data — from members of Guild Freelancers.

If you are interested in joining the health care pool, you MUST JOIN the freelance unit. We can ONLY amass the kinds of benefits and supports we seek with adequate numbers.

Joining the Freelance Media Workers discussion or announcements-only Google groups does NOT make you a member of Guild Freelancers.

We are not a support group, although we offer plenty of support. We are not a job service, although we provide comprehensive contacts for open journalism jobs. We are a labor union, and we seek to provide the same sturdy safety net that unions always have. By committing to the unit, you gain an unconditional commitment from the union to help secure solid, tangible supports and protections.

To join, log onto guildfreelancers.org right away and click on “Join Us.”

Membership fees are roughly equivalent to a double latte a week. You can pay by the year ($144), sign up for six months at a time ($72). Student fees are only $60 a year.

If you ARE a member, and you ARE interested in helping us secure the best health care bid possible, please shoot me a confidential email at rrosenlum@gmail.com that includes your zip code, gender and date of birth, and, if you wish, the number of dependents you might wish to add to your coverage.

Sincerely, Rebecca Rosen Lum Unit chair, Guild Freelancers rrosenlum@gmail.com

Audio/Radio, Freelance Cafe West

“Soup-to-Nuts” documentary storytelling workshop, April 17-18, Berkeley

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Hey all. My friend, mentor, and Freelance Cafe member Claire Schoen is offering her fabulous “Soup To Nuts” documentary storytelling workshop again in April. If you haven’t done this, you should. Details below. Best, Mia

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“From Soup to Nuts” A 2-day intensive on documentary radio production offered in the San Francisco Bay Area

Logistics: This seminar will be held April 17 and 18, 2010. Each day’s class will run from 10 am to 5:30 pm, including 6 hours of class work, plus lunch and breaks.

It will be held at Claire’s studio in Berkeley, California Class will be limited to 8 students. The cost of the 2-day seminar is $250.

The Course: Through lectures, group discussion, Q & A, written handouts, and lots of audio demos, this two-day class will explore the ins and outs of creating a long-form radio documentary. Designed to meet the needs of mid-level producers, this seminar will also be accessible to individuals who have little or no experience in radio production.

Compelling audio documentary incorporates a creative weave of elements including narration, interviews, music, vérité scenes, character portraits, dramatizations, performances, archival tape and ambience beds. Students learn how these elements serve to paint a picture in sound.

Emphasis will be put on the production process. To this end, the class will examine the steps of concept development, research, pre-production, recording techniques, interviewing, writing, organizing tape, scripting, editing and mixing required to create an audio documentary.

Most importantly, we will focus on the art of storytelling. We will discuss dramatic structure, taking the listener through introduction, development and resolution of a story. And we will explore how character development brings the listener to the heart of the story.

The Teacher: Claire Schoen is a media producer, with a special focus on documentary radio. As a producer/director, she has created over 20 long-form radio documentaries and several documentary films, as well as numerous short works. As a sound designer she has recorded, edited and mixed sound for film, video, radio, webstory, museums and theater productions. Her radio documentaries have garnered numerous awards including NFCB Golden and Silver reels, two Gracies, two Clarion awards and a New York International Festival Silver. She has also shared in both a Peabody and a DuPont-Columbia.

Claire has taught documentary radio production at U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. She has also taught radio scriptwriting and production at numerous venues including AIR’s mentorship program and the Third Coast Festival Conference.

To Register: Contact Claire Schoen cschoen@earthlink.net • 510-540-5106 • www.claireschoenmedia.com

pdf iconStoN’s Flier (April 10).pdf

Events, Freelance Cafe West

Pub Trivia Night

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Show ’em what brains it takes to be a freelancer. -m

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Many of you have expressed interested in creating a Freelance Cafe team for pub trivia. Let’s give it a try! We’ll meet at Rose & Crown Pub in Palo Alto at 7:45PM on Tuesday March 9th to grab a table/beer/food. Trivia starts at 9PM. The pub is within walking distance to the Palo Alto Caltrain Station. The address is 547 Emerson Avenue. Please bring id (they check). See you there! Rori 415-730-7380