In Indianapolis, SPJ combines its traveling skills program, JournCamp, with the annual regional conference to give you a day of in-depth training and networking to help your career.

In this daylong workshop, you'll get practical, skills-based professional development that will help you be a better journalist.

The program for the Region 5/Journcamp Conference is now available: https://www.spj.org/journcamp-r5.asp.

The topics and speakers are incredible:

• How To Really (And Substantively) Talk With Your Audience with Ellen Mayer, engagement consultant and former public media reporter for WBEZ’s Curious City.
• Smarter Video with Smartphones with Victoria Lim, multimedia journalist and trainer
• (Free) Google Storytelling and Research Tools for Journalists with Lara Salahi, multimedia journalist, health communicator and SPJ-Google News Lab trainer
• Narrative Storytelling: Dump the Inverted Pyramid No Matter Your Medium of Choice with Boyd Huppert, reporter for KARE-TV and producer of the weekly “Land of 10,000 Stories” segment.