Eric Adams will discuss “new frontier” of journalism.

Join us on Thursday, February 7, as KTUU web editor Eric Adams tells the story of KTUU.com,
which started out as a byproduct of the news. Today, the web site draws 45,000 visits a day, a bigger audience than Channel 2’s most watched newscast, the 10:00 p.m. “Late Edition.”

As the web site has grown, so has the job of managing content. Adams will talk about blazing the trail in this new frontier of journalism. One of the stops on the journey – a look at “Alaska Health Connections,” the station’s latest effort to grow its web audience and provide a public
service.

Luncheon Information
Thursday, February 7
11:30 a.m.
Golden Lion Hotel
1000 East 36th Avenue
Anchorage

Lunch: members $16; member guests $18, other $20

Make lunch reservations now:

1. RSVP and payment through PayPal. Please include your name in the comments section when checking out at the PayPal website.

2. Email: thetus at gci dot net

3. Call 274-4723 and leave a message, including a phone number where you can be reached. When calling or sending an email, please include how many people are coming and their names.

More about Eric Adams

Eric Adams first visited Alaska during college as a seasonal worker in the parks.
He fell for the beauty and natural quiet, as well as the independent moxie of its residents.

Eric caught the news bug attending California State University in San Francisco,
where he was mentored by some of the best and brightest in print, including several
Pulitzer winners and award-winning newspaper site designers for the Wall Street
Journal and San Jose Mercury News, among others. He graduated with a degree
in journalism and literature studies in 2002 and earned his chops working for the
San Francisco Bay Guardian, whose motto is to “Print the News and Raise Hell.”

After learning a great deal at the nation’s avant-garde alternative weekly,
Eric went to work on the 2004 presidential election campaign for Pew
Charitable Trusts. With that eye-opening experience behind him, he headed
out into the Pacific, where he relaxed on Maui for a few years, tossing the Frisbee,
sipping coladas and watching sunsets. He also occasionally covered cultural and
Hawaii Native issues for the Maui Time weekly, another great grassroots alt rag.

Eric returned to Alaska early in 2006, moved to Girdwood, and has worked
at Channel 2 News since. He began as a KTUU.com writer and was promoted
to Web editor and producer sometime during the cold, dark and bitter winter months
of early 2007. When he’s not chained to his desk, Eric is writing freelance around
town somewhere, hiking in the Chugach or traveling.

Related links:
KTUU.com

Thanks to the donors in our organization who buy door prize tickets at our monthly meetings, two $1000 scholarships are offered to Alaska residents who are college or university students planning a career in a communications field. If you know of eligible students, let them know about this scholarship.

To apply for a scholarship a student must be currently enrolled at a four-year college, so high school students must wait. Candidates are selected on the basis of promise in their chosen field, need for the scholarship, and scholastic achievement, in that order.

Applications must be submitted by Friday, March 21, 2008. Information is also available from scholarship coordinator, Connie Huff 550-8464 chuff@kska.org

The Memorial Scholarship began in 1981 and is presented in memory of members who have died. Their spirit lives on in the scholarship winners.

More information and scholarship application.

“Art’s long, though time is short.”

–Robert Browning

Time is indeed getting short for you who are thinking of entering the APC Communications Contest for 2008. It’s open to APC members and to nonmembers who are Alaska residents. Our contest has 78 categories in journalism, public relations, web writing, photography, literary work, and more.

Judges are out-of-state professionals who give feedback to each entry. First-place winners’ entries go to the National Federation of Press Women contest. (If you’re not a member and your entry wins at the state level, you must join APC to have your entry sent to the national contest; this is a NFPW rule.)

As of Jan. 10, we already have five entries!

DEADLINES

• Thursday, January 31 for books and related categories (72-78)

• Friday, February 8 for general entries (The APC luncheon on Feb. 7 would be an ideal time to hand your entry to a member of the contest committee)

Entries must be postmarked by the deadline date if mailed.

Forms and more info

Best of luck in the contest– your contest committee (feel free to contact any member of the contest committee with questions):

Carolyn Rinehart, coordinator, (907) 345-3961; ccrinehart at gci.net
Elise Patkotak
Kay Vreeland
Amy Murphy