In Person and on Zoom*
September 10, 2022 11:00 a.m.- 2:00 p.m.
Featured Speaker
Duffy Jennings
After his newspaper career, Duffy Jennings served as vice president of public relations for the San Francisco Giants baseball club for twelve years. He oversaw media relations, publications, business communications, community relations, and alumni relations. Following the Giants, Jennings ran his own public relations company for more than twenty years. He also launched and published Los Gatos Magazine. Jennings is the author of Reporter’s Note Book: A San Francisco Chronicle Journalist’s Diary of the Shocking Seventies, published in 2019 by Grizzly Peak Press.
Rewrite! A Journalist Turns Author
Duffy Jennings is an author and former prize-winning reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle in the tumultuous 1970s. His coverage included the City Hall murders of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, the Patty Hearst kidnapping, and the Zodiac and Zebra serial killings.
The newspaper submitted Jennings’s reporting on the murder trial of the City Hall killer, former supervisor Dan White, for Pulitzer Prize consideration. All told, Jennings’s byline appeared on more than five hundred articles for the Chronicle. Actor Adam Goldberg portrayed Duffy in the 2007 film, Zodiac.
What we will Learn:
- Why Being a Reporter Doesn’t Make You a Writer
- Get Into Their Head: How to Write Someone Else’s Memoir
- Agents, Publishers, and Self-Publishing
- Finding the Newspaper Archive in Your Computer
Writers Table – coming soon
Schedule
- 11:00 -11:15 – In-Person Check-in or join on Zoom
- 11:15 – 12:00 – Writers Table
- 12:00 – 12:25 – Lunch
- 12:25 – 1:00 – Business Meeting
- 1:00 – 2:00 – Speaker Presentation
REGISTRATION IS NOT YET AVAILABLE
Schedule
- 11:00 -11:15 – In-Person Check-in or join on Zoom
- 11:15 – 12:00 – Writers Table
- 12:00 – 12:25 – Lunch
- 12:25 – 1:00 – Business Meeting
- 1:00 – 2:00 – Speaker Presentation
CWC Mt. Diablo COVID-19 GUIDELINES FOR IN-PERSON MEETINGS
- CWC-Mt. Diablo Branch will abide by all state and local guidelines to ensure attendees’ safety.
- If you are not fully vaccinated, not feeling well, or are uncomfortable with in-person meetings, please do not attend.
- Proof of vaccination may be required at entrance to the restaurant.
- Masks are optional.
For complete information, see Contra Costa Health Department for new local health orders.
New For Mt. Diablo Members!
Guest Voucher Program
Give a friend $10.00 off a General Meeting or Workshop (Zoom or in-Person).
- Invite a guest who has never attended Mt. Diablo meeting
- Request a voucher for your guest for $10.00 off a Zoom meeting or workshop.
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Deadline to register for In-Person Attendees: Noon on June 8th.
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Cost increases to $30 for members who register after the deadline.
Prices do not increase for in-person guests and Zoom attendees.
