The Orlando Sentinel has won an award from the Society for News Design’s Best of Multimedia Design competition for an interactive graphic project completed by CFABJ member Tory Hargro and another multimedia artist.

See Tory’s award-winning project here.

Congrats, Tory!

Four years ago, UNITY organizers dared to dream they might have 10,000 registrants at the 2008 conference.

But as the conference grows closer, their dreams have been dashed by the side effects of industry turmoil and layoffs. As of 4 p.m. Friday, only 4,314 people had registered for the conference.

The conference meets July 23 to July 27 in Chicago. Are you planning to go? Meet up with CFABJers as well as local members of NAHJ and AAJA who also will be attending the conference at our July 17 pre-UNITY event.

Watch this space for more details.

If you know of Central Florida journalists of color who have been laid off, please let us know. We’d like to keep general track of these kinds of things.

E-mail names (and contact information, if you have it) to cfabj1[at]gmail[dot]com.

It seems you’re not alone.

PR Week reports on the phenomenon of journalists seeking more PR jobs than ever — and at earlier periods in their working lives than ever before.

Here are the latest job postings we’ve received:

WKMG/TV6, Orlando

• Temporary/part-time graphic artist
  Design experience preferred, Quantel Paintbox and AfterEffects experience helpful, Photoshop and Illustrator experience required
• Apply to Art Director, WKMG-TV, 4466 John young Parkway, Orlando 32804

WKMG/TV6, Orlando

• Broadcast IT specialist
• Minimum of five yers of recent experience in broadcast maintenance or computer maintenance
• Two-year electronics degree or equivalent, FCC license or SBE certification helpful
• MSCE or other computer network certification preferred
• Apply to Chief Engineer, WKMG-TV, 4466 John Young Parkway, Orlando 32804

WPTV/Newschannel 5, West Palm Beach

• Executive producer
• college degree required
• experience required: five years of experience as a producer in a large market or as an executive producer in a medium/small market
• must work well in high-pressure situations, be able to handle deadlines. Excellent writing and production skills needed, must demonstrate understanding of journalistic ethics and libel laws, be available for shift changes, night/weekends/holidays
• Apply to WPTV/Newschannel 5, 1100 Banyan Blvd., West Palm Beach, 33401

WPTV/Newschannel 5 - West Palm Beach

• Assignment editor
• bachelor’s degree preferred
• must have prior commercial television employment or internship as reporter/producer/assignment desk trainee
• must have knowledge of computers, two-way radios, police scanners
• Apply to Peter Roghaar, News Director, WPTV, 1100 Banyan Blvd., West Palm Beach, 33401

WPTV/Newschannel 5 also is still seeking a broadcast designer/animator, part-time studio technician, account executive and news investigative producer.

Preschoolers talk about their dads.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/video/?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=2589950

Our next meeting is Thursday, June 19 at 7 p.m. at the Orlando Sentinel.

We’ve got lots to discuss, so we hope to see you there.

As always, if you have any questions, contact the executive board at cfabj1[at]gmail[dot]com.

The committee meetings (fundraising and education forum) scheduled for tomorrow, Saturday, 06/07, now will be at the Orlando Sentinel, 633 N. Orange Ave., Orlando 32804

The fundraising committee meets from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., and the education forum committee meets from 11 a.m. to noon or thereabouts.

Message from our president, Kenya Woodard

The fundraising and forum committees will meet from 10 a.m to 12:30
p.m. this Saturday (June 7) at Channel 13 news station, 20 N. Orange
Ave, 2nd floor, Wachovia Bldg. Parking is available on street or you
may park in a nearby garage. 

The fundraising committee will meet from 10 to 11 a.m. and discuss
planning for our August Wine Sips for Scholarships event. The forum
committee will meet to plan an education forum scheduled to be held in
August.

Please come out and bring your ideas. CFABJ needs you

Meeting has been changed to Saturday, May 31, at 10 a.m.

As usual, it will be at the Orlando Sentinel, 633 N. Orange Ave., Orlando, 32804.

Questions? Comments? Contact a board member.