I get to meet KK!

We have this program at work called “Strib U,” which is like an in-house professioanal development program.

We’re all required to go to a certain number of classes every year. They’re actually really interesting – David Halberstam came to teach a class, as well as the ombudsman for the Washington Post, and a few Pulitzer Prize-winners have given classes on writing and reporting techniques.

Clearly I didn't listen very much 'cause that paragraph was really poorly written.

Anyway, I have to go to a class this afternoon that everybody in the entire newsroom has to attend. There are tons of different sessions, but I happened to sign up for the one that Katherine Kersten is attending!

It’s called “Continuous News Training” and it’s some mumbo-jumbo about how our new online system is working and how we can be more of a 24-hour news organization.

Now, KK doesn’t show up in the office very often, or, more accurately, ever. I think she’s afraid she’ll get beaten up. I’m gonna try really hard to sit next to her.

Here’s one I’m supposed to go to on Thursday:

Reporting from Europe - and IraqMatt Schofield/McClatchy’s Berlin bureau
Thurs., July 27th 1:30-3:30 p.m., News huddle area

Schofield, whose Dad was a delivery boy for the Star, has been working on terror issues, immigration issues, and reform issues. He has also been for the past two years, the emergency bureau chief for the Baghdad operation, and since October the Iraqi staff writing coach. He has covered bombings in Madrid and London, Olympics in Athens, a World Cup in Germany, vampires in Romania, anti-Semitism in Paris, a Papal death, and a Papal election, youth unemployment issues and Nazis( both neo and old-school). He will have opening remarks, then take questions.