Don't miss out on our next workshop, Interviewing Techniques, which will be held this Thursday, March 19, from 6:30 - 8 p.m.

Stephen Magagnini will be leading an interactive workshop on how to make the most out of interviews, which will help to improve the quality of your writing, whether it be for school, Sacramento Press or your career.

Magagnini has taught journalism, advanced composition, investigative reporting and narrative writing at UC Davis.

He continues to teach professional journalists how to do their jobs better as part of USC's Institute for Justice and Journalism and Health Journalism Fellowships, and the American Press Institute's seminars on compelling writing.

He's been teaching professionals for many years, and has done so at Columbia, Poynter, Harvard and USC. Arlene Morgan of Columbia University has called him “one of the finest teachers of beat reporting in the country,” and in 2001 Columbia gave him a Lifetime Achievement Award “for outstanding coverage of race and ethnicity in America.”

His stories have won numerous local, state and national awards, and his work appears in the anthologies Best Newspaper Writing 2001 and 2002.

We'll be serving food promptly at 6:30 p.m., and the workshop will start at 6:45 p.m., ending around 8 p.m.

Our office is located at 431 I Street, Suite 107 in the Amtrak Station. The parking spaces are not free, so try and find street parking if you can. If you are able to take light rail to our office, we will have passes to give you. We'll give you two - one to cover your ride here and one to cover your ride back.

Please RSVP by e-mailing colleen@sacramentopress.com, so we know how many people to expect. 

This article was written by Colleen Belcher of The Sacramento Press.