What kind of training would you like to see?

The Illinois Associated Press Editors Association has been offering a low-cost training seminar each year for the last four years. The day-long seminar is held in January and the cost is usually $25 for each participant, with a discount for multiple participants from a single paper. The cost includes lunch and the event is held at the Springfield Journal-Register.

The topics over the last four years have included political reporting, education reporting, business reporting and sports reporting. It's the goal of the editor's association to structure the seminar so participants from any size of newspaper will receive something from the training.

We're interested in what sort of training needs you have in your organization. Would you like to see a day-long seminar on investigative reporting that reporters can do while reporting on their beats? Or, is there another topic you'd be interested in?

The IAPEA board would like to hear from you.