Convention Schedule

Thursday, Nov. 7

6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Kick-off party at The Post

Friday, Nov. 8

9 a.m. Coffee & doughnuts available

10 a.m. Keynote speaker

11:15 a.m. Breakout session 1

12:15 p.m. Breakout session 2

1 p.m. Lunch on your own

2:30 p.m. Breakout session 3

3:30 p.m. Roundtables

5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Happy hour at The Daily Pennsylvanian

7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Student trivia night at Smokey Joe’s

Saturday, Nov. 9

9 a.m. Coffee & doughnuts available

10 a.m. Breakout session 4

11 a.m. Breakout session 5

12 p.m. Breakout session 6

1 p.m. Afternoon free (tour the city, do homework, sleep, etc.)

7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Awards dinner at Xi West

Travel Information

Where to stay in Philadelphia

The convention will be held on the University of Pennsylvania campus which is in University City. Penn is located just across the river from Center City and adjacent to Drexel University. There are many lodging options in the city including hotels, bed and breakfasts, Airbnbs and hostels.

Hotel with a CMBAM discount

Homewood Suites, located five blocks from the center of campus, is offering CMBAM members a discount on king and double queen rooms. Homewood Suites Discounted Reservation Link (Deadline for dscounted registration is Oct. 12)

Additional Hotels

The Inn at Penn, located in the center of campus
Sheraton University City is located two blocks from main campus.
The Study is located four blocks from main campus.
Cornerstone Bed & Breakfast is located near Drexel’s campus and is a 15 minute walk to the center of Penn’s campus.
AKA University City sits just on the edge of University City and offers great views of the Philadelphia skyline.

Traveling to Philadelphia

By Air: The most direct way is to fly to Philadelphia International Airport (PHL).

By Train: You can take the Amtrak Northeast Extension to Philadelphia from every major city on the East Coast. The main train station in Philadelphia is William Gray III, 30th Street Station.

Getting from the Airport to your Hotel

By Train: Philadelphia’s public transit system is called SEPTA. You can take the Airport Line to University City or Center City directly from the Airport. The train runs every 30 minutes. The cost of a ticket is $6.75 if you buy a ticket on the platform or $8.00 if the ticket is purchased on the train.

By Uber/Lyft/Cab: You can schedule a ride share or just jump in a cab from the Airport. The cost of the trip (as of May 1) is $35.00 one way.

Shuttle/Van Services: You can reserve a van for you and your team to get from the Airport to Center City or University City through Super Shuttle.

Please contact Programming Director Katherine Ross with any questions.
Email: programming@cmbam.org
Phone: 215-422-4640

Keynote Speaker

David Boardman

David Boardman is the dean of the Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University in Philadelphia. Previously, Boardman was executive editor and senior vice president of The Seattle Times, the largest news organization in the Pacific Northwest. Under his leadership, The Times won four Pulitzer Prizes and produced 10 Pulitzer finalists. Before joining The Seattle Times in 1983, Boardman was a reporter and editor at several papers in the Northwest, and worked on a construction project in Liberia, West Africa

Since joining Temple in 2013, Boardman has led major strategic initiatives that have raised its profile, resources and standing. In 2022, he was named the Scripps Howard Administrator of the year by his peers in the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). In 2018, Klein College received the nation’s top Equity and Diversity Award from AEJMC. In 2022 and 2018, Temple University Television, an enterprise of the Klein College, was named the nation’s best college television station by the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System.

Boardman personally has been the recipient of numerous other major national awards, including the National Ethics Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Goldsmith Prize in Investigative Reporting from Harvard University, the Worth Bingham Prize in Investigative Reporting, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award and the Associated Press Managing Editors Public Service Award.

Boardman is founding chair of the Lenfest Institute for Journalism, the nonprofit that owns The Philadelphia Inquirer. He also chairs the nonprofit news site The Markup, which is focused on the nexus of technology and society; and Spotlight PA, a nonprofit site focused on public affairs. He is the immediate past chair of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and is a member of its executive committee. He also serves on the boards of the Solutions Journalism Network, the American Society of News Editors Foundation and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. He sits on the advisory boards of ProPublica, the New England Center for Investigative Reporting and Investigative Reporting Denmark. Boardman serves on the Accrediting Council for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and is its immediate past president.

Boardman also is a past president and board member of Investigative Reporters and Editors and of the American Society of News Editors, and served as chairman of the National Advisory Board of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. He is a Poynter Ethics Fellow. He is a former member of the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation Board and has served six times as a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes.

Boardman has conducted seminars for journalists in Austria, Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hong Kong, Israel, The Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, South Africa and Turkey.