36th Annual National Seminar for Student Journalists

The Jewish Student Press Service and the Azure Student Journals Project Present:

36th Annual National Seminar for Student Journalists
March 28 - 30 in New York City
www.newvoices.org/conference.html

The staff of New Voices magazine and the Azure Student Journals project of the Shalem Center are thrilled to announce the 2007 National Seminar for Student Journalists in New York City. Located in the intellectual and political center of the American Jewish community, the seminar will bring together the best and brightest young Jewish writers with the most prominent writers and thinkers shaping public opinion and policy today.

This year, New Voices is teaming up with journals at Columbia, Brandeis, Harvard, UPenn, Michigan, Toronto, and Princeton to build a community of young Jewish Americans engaged in the world of ideas and writing.

Cost is $100; Scholarships and travel aid are available; housing and meals included.

Featured Events and Panels:
- Screening of Arguing the World: The Legacy of the New York Intellectuals, roundtable discussion, reception.
- Tours of the New York Times, The Nation, Harper's
- Journalistic Ethics: What are they? What is the history of the concept? Are the obligations different for the New York Times than the Jewish Week?
- The Politics of Human Rights Coverage
- The Critics: How do critics become critics? What is the role of the critic? How do they have authority?
- Jewish Peoplehood: Does it exist? To what end?
- Inside the Editorial Board Room: How do decisions get made? How are ideas generated? Why does opinion journalism matter?
- Covering Israel: The good, the bad, and the ugly.
- History of Jewish Student Journalism and the Current State of Affairs

Tentative and confirmed speakers include:
Sam Freedman – NYTimes writer, author of Jew vs. Jew, Columbia Journalism school
Daphne Merkin – critic, novelist, NYTimes + NYTimes Book Review contributor
Yossi Klein Halevi – senior fellow at the Shalem Center, The New Republic contributing editor, Jewish student journalist veteran
Larry Cohler-Esses - Jewish Week Editor-in-Chief
Alisa Solomon – co-editor with Tony Kushner of Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Victor Navasky – publisher of The Nation
Alana Newhouse – Arts and Culture Editor of The Forward
Bret Stephens – opinion editor at The Wall Street Journal
David Hazony – editor-in-chief of Azure: Ideas for the Jewish Nation

Call or email to sign up! Space is limited.
Ilana Sichel
editor@newvoices.org
212-675-1168

www.newvoices.org/conference.html

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Ilana Sichel
Editor, New Voices Magazine

114 W. 26th St., Suite 1004
New York, NY 10001
212-675-1168
http://www.newvoices.org

New Voices is the only independent, national magazine written by and for Jewish college students. Published by the Jewish Student Press Service, New Voices features articles about Jewish community issues, politics, and cultural affairs.