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JACC – Web Journalist Blog https://blog.webjournalist.org Tech. Culture. Journalism. Fri, 04 Apr 2014 11:36:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6.13 My keynote for JACC 2014 https://blog.webjournalist.org/2014/04/03/my-keynote-for-jacc-2014/ Fri, 04 Apr 2014 06:48:50 +0000 http://blog.webjournalist.org/?p=2722 Tonight I gave one of the most important talks I have ever given in my life.

In 1996, while a student at Pierce Community College, I attended my first journalism conference: Journalism Association of Community Colleges (JACC).

Now, nearly 20 years later, I returned to be its keynote speaker.

This was an intense, historical talk for me… and I knew I wanted to document it. So, while the audio isn’t perfect, I did a screen capture of my talk.

NOTE: The first 30 minutes is my talk, the second 30 minutes is the Q&A.

Thank you to JACC for inviting to speak.

And thank you to everyone who has changed my life. I mention many of you.

I did not do this alone.

The video (unedited):

Some of the pics from the event:

A ‘helfie’ as the students walked into the room for the keynote.

I apologized and warned the attendees that I would probably break down from the feels.

Great photo as I talked about my life where ‘stuff happened.’.

Someone sketched a cartoon of me during my talk.

I took a (forced) selfie with my first journalism professor Rob O’Neil. This man changed my life.

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