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Schedule

Monday, Sept 19

Pre-Conference
8:30am - 4:00pm

Conference Starts
5:30pm
Opening Reception

Thursday, Sept 22

Conference Ends
4:30 pm

Key Dates

  • June 1, 2016 Early Bird Registration Opens
  • August 16, 2016 Conference Preview Released
  • September 1, 2016 Full Conference Agenda Announced
  • September 2, 2016 Early Bird Registration Closes
*subject to change

Registration

By September 2

  • $699 PRPD Member
  • $999 Non-member

After September 2

  • $999 PRPD Member
  • $1,299 Non-member
Cancellation Policy

Pre-Conference
Workshops

Creating and Sustaining Investigative Reporting

PRX and The Center for Investigative Reporting
Monday, September 19, 2016
8:30am-4:00pm
Hyatt Regency – Phoenix

Investigating reporting takes time, money, staff, and guts. It isn’t easy and not every station can do it. What does it take to cultivate, hire, sustain and generate great investigative reporting that can lead to changes in local communities? The Center for Investigative Reporting, one of the oldest nonprofit investigative newsrooms in the country, and PRX, the leader in audio innovation, will share what they have learned working with stations. The conference workshop with CIR staff and other practitioners will guide stations through sustainability, capacity building, editing, impact measurement, engagement and production of investigative news.

Who is it for:

  • PDs who have a good relationship with their News Directors
  • PDs who run news format shops
  • PDs who want to take the next strategic step in positioning themselves locally with investigative content
  • PDs who want a taste of the skill sets and initial steps to take local stories further
  • PDs concerned with impact and measurement

Pledge Drive Producer Workshop

John Sutton, Sonja Lee, Roger Gomoll
Monday, September 19, 2016
8:30am-4:15pm
Hyatt Regency – Phoenix

This pre-conference session focuses on developing skills that help pledge producers create, coach and deliver effective fundraising breaks that sound good too.

Join these three talented trainers for a one-day workshop that focuses on the building of strong presentation skills among all participants in on-air drives. Content leaders, managers and staff will learn radio and fundraising fundamentals, and how to coach and develop on-air talent to utilize best practices in those areas.

Through a combination of lectures, listening, discussion and one-on-one practice, the course participants will emerge from the course ready to bring a higher level of quality and efficiency to their stations.

  • $500 Workshop Only Non-member
  • $350 Workshop Only PRPD Member
  • $225 with Conference Registration PRPD Member
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Register for the workshops by themselves, or along with the conference.

Hotel

Hyatt Regency Phoenix

The Hyatt room block is now closed. If you need accommodations, please check the following hotels for availability:

Marketing and Sponsorship Opportunities

The Public Radio Program Directors Association represents more than 800 stations, networks, producers, and professionals dedicated to the art and science of public radio programming.

PRPD leads the content conversation in public radio and supports its professionals in providing their valued service to listeners. PRPD exists to lead, train, and provide resources to public radio program directors, producers, and executives.

Public radio professionals will gather for the only national meeting devoted solely to public radio’s content and programming issues – on air and through digital platforms.

Work directly with PRPD experts to customize your conference marketing experience to best present your business and service to more than 500 of the public radio system’s most influential decision-makers and content specialists.

Contact:

Dan Jensen
Jensen. Signature Events & PR
dan@jensensignature.com
612.791.5414

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