CAJ Annual Conference 2010

We believe this year’s theme speaks volumes to the things you’ll hear and learn about at the 2010 conference on May 28 to May 30 in Montreal at the Grand Plaza Montreal.

The CAJ is focusing on the new realities journalists are facing, things like writers being told to shoot pictures, photographers being told to start shooting video, everyone having to file what they have as soon as they have it to websites and blogs. From there, this news is Twittered and Facebooked and, by the time you read this, maybe going to many more new social-media sites.

It’s why we’re thrilled to have Rob Curley as a keynote speaker. The self-described Internet nerd — and currently editor of the new-media division of the Las Vegas Sun and Greenspun Media Group — is one of those guys newsroom techies have been telling us in recent days they’d fly across the country to hear. As one of the first online newspaper editors in the U.S., he led the Lawrence Journal-World in such innovations that in 2004, Editor and Publisher called the Kansas newspaper one of 10 in the U.S. that “did it right,” with innovations “too numerous to list.”