Cops, Courts and the Community

When: 9 a.m. to noon, Friday April 26, 2002. Schedule
Where: Oak Trust Credit Union, 1S450 Summit Avenue, Oakbrook Terrace. Directions
Cost: $25 for NINA members (newspaper or individual), $50 for non-members. Registration deadline is April 18. Register here

Copying down information from the police blotter each week can become quite routine. But what happens when the crime is out of the ordinary? When you become responsible for covering a court case? When the story grows beyond your expectations?

Attorney Don Craven, Burr Ridge police chief Herbert Timm (a late substitution) and Medill newspaper department chairman David Nelson will answer these questions and more at the NINA Spring Conference, “Cops, Courts and the Community.” Individually and as part of a panel, these three experts will address the libel, legal, ethical and practical issues of covering crime in your community. About the speakers

Schedule
9 to 9:15 a.m. - Registration and refreshments

9:15 to 11 a.m. - Don Craven, John Millner and David Nelson will speak.

11 to 11:15 a.m. - Break

11:15 to noon - Panel discussion

Program coordinator: Pam Lannom, NINA 2nd Vice President

Directions

Oak Trust Credit Union is on Summit Ave., just north of Butterfield Road. Map
From South and west: Take I-88 to the Midwest Road exit and head north. Midwest Road becomes Summit Avenue. The credit union is on the west side of the street, about a half-mile north of Butterfield Road.
From north and northwest: Take I-290 or I-294 south, to Route 83 south. Take Route 83 south to Butterfield Road. Turn west (left) on Butterfield, then north (right) on Summit.

About the speakers

Don Craven has been general legal counsel for the Illinois Press Association for 12 years. From 1978 to 1981, Craven taught legal writing and moot court cases while attending Southern Illinois University's School of Law in Carbondale. He was editor for the Southern Illinois University Law Journal.
He worked for five years for a Springfield law firm before joining his father, Judge James Craven, in 1986. Since that time he has concentrated his practice on all aspects of media law and the newspaper business. He now is a partner in the Springfield law firm of Craven & Thornton.

Chief Herbert Timm began his career with the Winnetka Police Department in October 1964. He became a patrol officer for the Chicago Police Department in 1966 and returned to Winnetka in 1971. After rising through the ranks, he was appointed chief of police in 1976, a post he held until he retired in 1993. He was appointed interim police chief in Burr Ridge in 1993 and in October of the same year was named chief. He holds a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is a 1973 graduate of the Northwestern University Traffic Institute Police Administration Program and a 1985 graduate of the FBI National Academy. He is a life member of the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police and the International Association of Chiefs of Police, serving on the legislative committee of the state association. He served as president of the North Suburban Chiefs Association, chairman of the North Shore Crime Prevention Unit, secretary and trustee of the Northern Illinois Police Crime Laboratory, president of the Greater Cook County Council of Police Chiefs and president of the Special Agents Association. He has received several awards, including the 1989 Excellence in Law Enforcement Award from the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry and the 1989 Award for Outstanding Achievement in Law Enforcement from the American Society for Industry Security.

David Nelson, chairman of the Medill Newspaper Department at Northwestern University, teaches media management, media ethics, newspaper and newsletter publishing and marketing, and undergraduate classes in news writing and reporting.
In industry, he served as senior publishing consultant to Media Advisors International of Dallas, providing editorial / marketing services to news organizations throughout the world. Nelson also conducts workshops on excellence in writing and reaching readers for the Inland Press Association and the Newsletter Publishers Association. He has been an active member of the New York Times Advisory Board since 1997.
Nelson worked as a reporter for the Milwaukee Sentinel and Miami Herald after earning his MSJ at Medill in 1968. As head of Time Inc.’s suburban newspaper division, he received the Suburban Journalist of the Year General Excellence award from Suburban Newspapers of America.
At Knight-Ridder in Miami, Nelson created the “Neighbors” concept of local-local news. He ran a 200-person newsroom, contributed to investigative reporting and served as Pulitzer Prize selection judge.

To register for the April 26 conference

E-mail Dana Ditrichs-Kunkel with the following information:
Name of newspaper
Address
Contact person and phone number
Names of those attending the conference
Total registration fee due ($25 each for NINA members, $50 for non-members)

Or, call Dana at (815) 753-1564.

Registration deadline is Thursday, April 18

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