How to cover a medical conference: Tips from the pros
- Time:
- Saturday, November 6th, 4:15 pm - 6:00 pm
- Location:
- Temple Room
- Speaker(s):
- Bob Finn
- Peggy Peck
- Eric T. Rosenthal
- Jim Sliwa
- Moderator(s):
- Bob Finn
- Organizer(s):
- Bob Finn
Designed for beginning through mid-career journalists and PIOs, this session will cover the nuts and bolts of medical conference coverage, including:
- finding local medical conferences.
- finding freelance clients who pay for conference news.
- sussing out the most newsworthy stories.
- which sessions you can safely avoid.
- making the best use of the meeting pressroom.
- little known but highly newsworthy medical conferences.
- for PIOs, how to get your researcher's study covered.
- pet peeves and annoyances, and how they can be overcome.
- best technology for covering conferences.
- and more.
