ITINERARY

TEXAS PRESS 2012 MIDWINTER CONFERENCE & TRADE SHOW
 

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 19

10:00 a.m.
TPA Registration Desk Opens

11:30 a.m. 
Legislative Advisory Committee Meeting

12:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Trade Show Exhibitors Set Up

1:00 p.m.
Texas Press Ad Managers Meeting

2:00 p.m.
Contest Committee Meeting

3:00 p.m.
TNF Board Meeting

3:30 p.m.
Convention Planning Committee Meeting

4:00 p.m.
TPA/TPS Board Meeting

6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Trade Show Reception
Sponsored by Mediaudience

8:00 p.m.
Officers & Past Presidents Dinner

8:30 - 11:00 p.m.
Reception
Sponsored by Sedgwick LLP
 

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 20

7:30 a.m.
TPA Registration Desk Opens 

7:30 a.m.
Trade Show and Silent Auction Begin
Sponsored by Mediaudience

8:00 - 9:30 a.m.
Breakfast

11:30 a.m.
Trade Show Closes

11:45 a.m.
Silent Auction Ends

12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Luncheon - The Drought of 2011-2012: Going from Bad to Worse
Speaker: Bob Rose, Chief Meteorologist for the Lower Colorado River Authority
Sponsored by the Branson/Lakes Area Convention and Visitors Bureau

1:30 - 4:30 p.m.
General Session
  1:30 p.m. Legislative Update
  Speaker: Doug Toney, TDNA/TPA Legislative Advisory Committee Chair
  2:00 p.m. Editing Print Stories and Headlines for Web
  Speaker: Griff Singer, Veteran Journalist and Journalism Instructor
  3:00 p.m. Create More Free Time
  Speaker: Russell Viers, Adobe Certified Instructor  

4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Reception
Sponsored by Jackson Walker LLP

6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
TNF Hall of Fame Dinner - Start the Presses: Journalism is Alive and Well in America's Small Towns!
Speaker: Judy Muller, Award-winning Broadcast Journalist

9:00 - 11:00 p.m.
President's Hospitality Suite
 

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 21

7:30 a.m.
TPA Registration Desk Opens 

8:00 - 10:00 a.m.
General Session 
  8:00 a.m. Publishers Roundtable
Co-moderators: Mark Engebretson, Publisher of the Lake Country Sun, Graford; Laurie Ezzell Brown, Editor of The Canadian Record
  9:00 a.m. Readership - Advertising - Growth
Speaker: Tony Casale, Veteran Journalist and CEO of American Opinion Research

10:30 - 1:00 p.m.
Closing Brunch - Beyond Libel: Legal Pitfalls in the Digital Age and How to Avoid Them
Speaker: Monica Dias, Litigation Attorney and Intellectual Property Attorney for Frost Brown Todd LLC
Sponsored by Newz Group

1:00 p.m.
Adjourn