http://www.rra.org/blog The online home of the Regional Reporters' Association Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:35:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our snow-delayed event with H&R Block's Tax Institute has been rescheduled for Thursday, Feb. 26 9 a.m. McClendon Room, National Press Club Amy McArarney, the head of H&R Block's independent tax research arm, The Tax Institute, will speak with RRA members to share the implications of pending legislation and resources the group has to ... http://www.rra.org/blog/?p=40 The latest from our "share your stories" feature: Headline: Legislative sausage-making: How a bill does not become a law Description: At the height of the health care debate, I did a story about the amendments our senators had filed. I figured I'd pick one and journal it from inception to passage as ... http://www.rra.org/blog/?p=39 Yesterday we put our new rra.org design online, and one of the features is a page where members can submit their stories for the group to see. Since no one ever likes to go first, I thought I'd break the ice and share a piece of mine that ran today. Headline: Who ... http://www.rra.org/blog/?p=38   This program at the National Press Club might interest some regionals:  CIA informants gone bad. Terrorists who slip through security. What's the real risk? The National Press Club in Washington hosts two seminars to help you cover those and a host of other stories that involve risk. Plane crashes, food poisoning, climate change to terrorism, the ... http://www.rra.org/blog/?p=36 Wanted to point you out to a few stories that you might be interested in localizing for your own congressional delegation: Peter Urban (formerly of the Connecticut Post and now with Gannett) wrote about Minority Leader John Boehner's high-flying lifestyle by searching campaign filings to show that he had stayed, ... http://www.rra.org/blog/?p=35 The White House Media Affairs shop has agreed to join members of the Regional Reporters Association for a happy hour tomorrow, Tuesday, July 7, at the National Press Club. Your regional spokespeople have been invited, and I hope you can join us to chat off-the-record in a social environment. The board ... http://www.rra.org/blog/?p=34 A letter from RRA President Thomas Burr, following the annual meeting: Fellow regionals, At a general membership meeting today at the National Press Club, your entire slate of Regional Reporters Association officers and board members were re-elected to serve another term. A list of those elected by acclamation is below. I am again ... http://www.rra.org/blog/?p=33 Another quick reminder of the general board meeting and elections today at noon at the National Press Club. Please join us if you can. Free appetizers for those who can make it. General membership meeting and board and officer elections: Today, Monday, June 22 Noon National Press Club, Mezzanine, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, ... http://www.rra.org/blog/?p=31 Passing on from Diana Marrero, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: I recently attended a boot camp at the National Press Club to help prepare print journalists for television interviews. The boot camp was led by two longtime Washington, D.C.-area television journalists Andrea McCarren and Alisa Parenti. I thought I would share some of the things I learned ... http://www.rra.org/blog/?p=29 If you could not make the "Survival boot camp" Saturday at the National Press Club, the daylong program was well received by the 50 to 75 attendees, including several RRA members. The agenda included tips on reinventing yourself after a layoff, resume dos and donts, power networking, transitioning from old ... http://www.rra.org/blog/?p=28