Posted on April 14th 2009 at 4:01 pm
by Chuck
The IFAJ Congress 2009 planning committee met for the last time face to face at the National Agri-Marketing Conference in Atlanta, GA today.
I interviewed Andy Atzenweiler, one of our committee members, and will post it when I get back to my room later. He says that the program is finalized and I got a copy of it. I’ll have the latest version posted here as soon as I get an electronic version of it. If you haven’t registered yet, please do since we’re in the last stages of getting all the arrangements finalized.
You can listen to my interview with Andy here:
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I hope to see a lot of you in Texas.
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Posted on April 09th 2009 at 7:20 pm
by Chuck
The 2009 IFAJ Congress in Fort Worth, Texas, will expand the scope of agricultural journalism conferences to the distant horizon – and beyond.
In addition to extensive tours of area agriculture, the traditional IFAJ delegate meeting, briefings from officials of the Texas Department of Agriculture (representing an $80 billion farm economy), hot Texas beef and cold Texas beer, IFAJ members will join in the professional development seminars and fun of the Agricultural Media Summit.
The Ag Media Summit draws hundreds of journalists, publishers, designers, public relations professionals and students from the United States and Canada for a rich program of professional development sessions and briefings from the day’s top newsmakers.
When the Summit ends on 5 August, post-conference tours will venture out across Texas, from the cattle and cotton of the dry Panhandle to the vast vegetable farms along the Mexican border.
You’ll go home with notebooks full of stories and gigabytes of photos. You’ll also return to work with new writing, photography and management skills, as well as countless new friends and contacts. (more…)
Posted on April 01st 2009 at 5:55 pm
by Diane
Haven’t registered for IFAJ Congress yet? Well this is your lucky day. Due to a couple of new deadlines, we are going to offer a grace period. We really appreciate everyone who has registered with the April 1 deadline, but if you still want to come to Fort Worth this summer for IFAJ Congress and the Ag Media Summit, we are going to allow you just a few more days to register and save up to $300. However, after April 13 the fees will go up — do not delay.
HERE’S A HINT: contact your credit card company or bank BEFORE you start your registration. Some of you are being protected by your credit card company, but it’s just making you go through some extra steps. So let them know that you are about to make a big transaction before you begin.
Click here to register.