Regional Workshop

Greater Houston Journalism Workshop, Register Today

We look forward to a fun-filled day with journalism students from across the entire city. The college/high school workshop will be held Sept. 6 from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. at Rice University. This year’s event is co-hosted by The Rice Thresher and the Texas Association of Journalism Educators.

The keynote will be three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Lisa Falkenberg. the Houston Chronicle’s senior columnist.

All students must have a journalism teacher/adviser on site to attend the workshop. Teachers will need to submit the names of students attending one week prior to the workshop. Each school can bring a maximum of 15 students since spots are limited. If we have extra spots still available, those who request to be added to the waiting list will be the first contacted.

For those interested in attending, please complete the registration.

For those interested in speaking at the workshop, pitch your session.

For those interested in having a vendor table at the workshop or make a donation, complete the form.

Read more on our keynote: Lisa Falkenberg is the Houston Chronicle’s senior columnist. A three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Falkenberg formerly led the Chronicle’s editorial board as vice president and editor of opinion. In May, Falkenberg shared a Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing for a series on the dangers of stopped trains in Houston. In 2022, she led the editorial board to their first Pulitzer Prize for a series debunking the “Big Lie” of voter fraud and examining Texas’ long history of voter suppression.

Falkenberg wrote a metro column at the Chronicle for more than a decade and in 2015 was awarded the Pulitzer for commentary, as well as the American Society of News Editors’ Mike Royko Award for Commentary/Column Writing for a series that exposed a wrongful conviction in a death penalty case and led Texas lawmakers to reform a grand jury system ripe for abuse. She was a Pulitzer finalist in 2014 and 2023.

Raised in Seguin, Texas, Falkenberg is the daughter of a truck driver and a homemaker, and the first in her family to go to college. She earned a journalism degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000. She started her career at The Associated Press, first as a college student in Austin, helping cover the Legislature, and later in Dallas, covering everything from politics to capital murder trials. She joined the Chronicle’s Austin bureau in 2007 as a roving state correspondent.

Falkenberg is the mother of two teen daughters and a 5-year-old son. She owes much of her success to working at her high school newspaper, The Cricket Chirps.

Contact journalism adviser Megan Ortiz with any questions at [email protected].