"Educating Women: A Conference on the Status of Research on the Education of Girls and Women" will be held May 22-23 at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum in Chicago.

Northwestern University's Media Management Center is looking for a variety of sites and site features (about local, state and national races, and about particular issues) from a variety of sources (from news organizations to individuals to non-profits to candidate sites), for research it is conducting this spring with young people.

Want to break into freelancing or improve your chances of getting published? Come to AAJA's freelance workshop on Saturday, April 5 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at UC-Berkeley's North Gate Library. We'll discuss everything from developing story ideas to figuring out who best to approach with your pitches. We'll also go over some of the dos and don'ts of the trade. We have a great line-up of panelists so don't miss out!

The Annual East Coast Mini-Conference — co-sponsored by the National Press Club — is in the nation's capital this year with Len Downie, Executive Editor of The Washington Post, and Ken Paulson, Executive Editor of USA Today, as special guests in a conversation about the state of journalism.