Define your passion, refine your skills and find your voice as a travel journalist

Join the NW Journalism Conference this September at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Ore. Taught by a faculty of Pulitzer Prize and other award-winning expert journalists, the 2005 conference offers an expanded curriculum of 16 skills-based courses, a keynote address with Newsweek Contributing Editor and "The McLaughlin Group" Panelist Eleanor Clift, a Writer's Resource Center with journalism award applications, and a Media Job Fair.

This is the Northwest's premier writer's conference, dedicated to the advancement of education and knowledge among freelance, staff and student journalists. It marks the first event for the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication's new George S. Turnbull Portland Center, it's first Portland j-school campus. Conference admission includes entrance to a 5:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 17, private reception at UO's new Turnbull Center.

Click here to view your travel writing and story assignment opportunities.

Click here to visit the 2005 NW Journalism Conference homepage.

Click here to register for the 2005 NW Journalism Conference event.

Click here to also receive UO college credit for attending.

To interview any of the 17 instructors while in town for this conference -- including Washington, D.C., correspondent Eleanor Clift; five-time-Emmy-winner Sheila Hamilton; Pulitzer Prize-winner Tom Hallman Jr.; and People magazine's former senior editor Louise Lague -- please contact:

Jennifer Meacham, Director
NW Journalism Conference
3527 N.E. 15th Ave., #141
Portland, Oregon 97212 United States
http://www.JournalismConference.com
Jennifer@journalismconference.com