Keynote speakers
George Floyd and racial reckoning
Presented live at 5 p.m. CT Tuesday, Nov. 9
with the recording available in the online platform starting Nov. 15
Minneapolis Star Tribune journalists Mark Vancleave, Andy Mannix and Abby Simons discuss their Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the killing of George Floyd and its aftermath, including the unrest and widespread racial reckoning that followed, up to the trial and conviction of ex-officer Derek Chauvin.
Abby Simons is the Star Tribune’s public safety editor. Her team covers crime and courts across the metro. She joined the Star Tribune in 2008 and previously reported on crime, courts and politics.
Simons is a 2004 graduate of Northwest Missouri State University, where she studied journalism. Before joining the Star Tribune, she was a reporter for the Des Moines Register.
Andy Mannix covers federal courts and law enforcement for the Star Tribune. He joined the paper in January 2016 and previously covered Minneapolis City Hall and statewide criminal justice/Department of Corrections.
Mannix teaches at the University of Minnesota journalism school, of which he’s an alumnus. He holds a master’s degree from University of California-Berkeley, where he focused on data-driven investigative journalism. His work for the Star Tribune includes reports about solitary confinement conditions in Minnesota prisons, the use of sedatives in police encounters and several high-profile officer-involved shootings.
Mark Vancleave is a photojournalist and video producer covering investigative projects, craft cocktails and everything in-between.
Vancleave joined the Star Tribune in 2013 and graduated from the University of Minnesota, where he now teaches photojournalism. His award-winning work includes investigations into abuses in Minnesota’s elder care system, working conditions for people with disabilities, access to medical marijuana and immigrant experiences.
More than words
Presented live at 5 p.m. CT Wednesday, Dec. 1
with the recording available in the online platform starting Dec. 1
New York Times graphics and multimedia journalist Larry Buchanan will share his process and inspire you to create visual stories for your publications.
Larry Buchanan is a graphics and multimedia editor and also writes, reports, makes charts and flies drones.
He joined The New York Times in 2013 and previously made interactive graphics for The New Yorker. Before that, he lived in a log cabin in Indiana.
As a part of the graphics desk at the Times, Buchanan has published hundreds of pieces of journalism in many different forms. He also serves as an adjunct at the School of Visual Arts, where he teaches a course on information graphics.
