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Red, White & JEA/NSPA Fall National High School Journalism Convention Nov. 12-15 , 2009 • TrueMarriott Wardman Park Washington,Red ,D.C. White& 3 Welcome True Welcome to Washington, D.C., where you will have more than 360 sessions at your fingertips, providing you with the opportunity to experience writing, design, broadcasting, prhotography, advertising, social media and personal and staff recognition in four days. 6 Special events From adviser receptions and curriculum exchanges to student contests and dances, JEA and NSPA offer convention attendees activities and programs to enhance the convention experience beyond Friday and Saturday sessions. The learning experiences will follow you back home to you staffs. 12Featured speakers Join speakers each day as they share their stories and offer advice and suggestions to you. More than 20 speakers, all specializing in various journalism-related fields, open up about their careers in journalism.

3 Local Welcome 16 Special Strands 4 Convention Welcome 26 Thursday at a Glance 5 Convention Officials 27 Thursday Sessions 6 Special Events 34 Friday at a Glance 9 Convention Rules 38 Friday Sessions 9 Sponsor Thanks 58 Saturday at a Glance 11 Keynote Speakers 62 Saturday Session 12 Featured Speakers 82 Speaker Biographies am so excited to welcome all of you to your nation’s capital as you enjoy your weekend of all that is Red, White and TRUE! The local committee and I, as well as the folks at JEA and NSPA, have done our best to make sure this convention will be oneI of the most exciting journalism experiences you’ve ever had — whether you’re an adviser or a student journalist.

In addition to wonderful keynote and featured speakers, more than 360 breakout sessions, timely issues seminars and incredible Write-off speakers, we think you will find something for everyone in your group at this convention. We have made a concerted effort to provide specialty strands for literary magazine staff members, cartoonists and photographers. Multiple sessions address convergence and the future of yearbooks.

From the Abraham Lincoln impersonator who will welcome you on Thursday to the vibrant student performers of Colours who will perform on Friday, you will experience all that is historical and contemporary about D.C. Advisers will want students to experience the White House, National Archives and D.C.’s newest museum, the Newseum, on Pennsylvania Avenue. Visit the Lincoln and Vietnam memorials and Washington Monument on Constitution Avenue.

Whether watching the sun rise over the Mall or walking among the monuments by moonlight, you will be living the vision of our Founding Fathers. One of the most often visited places in D.C. is a short walk from the Marriott Wardman Park. The National Zoo is home to our beloved pandas and thousands of other animals, including many endangered species.

Recently named the “hippest” city in America by The Wall Street Journal, D.C. offers a lively restaurant and theater scene. From Chinatown to Penn Quarter, you’ll find an old and new cuisine blend. People from many cultures and countries work in embassies and for the federal government, dine in Adams Morgan or visit hot spots where President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, love to get some fast food like Ben’s Chili Bowl or Five Guys Burgers and Fries.

While we certainly hope you have the opportunity to explore all that Washington, D.C., has to offer, more importantly we hope that you leave having learned a great deal about becoming better journalists and advisers, that you have grown together as a staff and that you return to your schools with an invigorated passion for student media. We want you to go back with an enthusiasm for seeking the TRUTH and reporting the stories of the people in your schools and communities.

al Kibler and the Washington, D.C., 2009 Local Committee V

Welcome to Washington, D.C. 3 Red, White&

What a great theme for this convention. The Red and White portion refers to the obvious patriotic reference to the nation’s flagTrue reminding us of the freedoms granted to all American citizens. One of those freedoms, the right to a free and unfettered press, has become an expectation often taken for granted — but not this weekend. Not at this national convention. Not with the more than 5,000 delegates who know the freedom of an unfettered press comes with an equally important responsibility. If we are to be part of the free press we must guarantee it is also a True press. Our mission as journalists is to find and present facts fairly and fully so those who depend on our media can find truth.

What better place to pursue that mission than the nation’s capital where there is so much truth to explore. Your pursuit might take you past the U.S. Supreme Court Building where student journalists were guaranteed First Amendment rights in the 1969 Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District case and where those rights were diminished with the 1988 Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier decision. Your pursuit can also take you by the National Archives building on the National Mall where you could see the real document, the Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution. And guess what. Our amendment is No. 1 — not four or seven or eight — it’s No. 1, because the founding fathers singled out the press and free expression as being important cornerstones of our democracy.

In this monumental city you are certain to be inspired by the memorials to those who had great vision and were willing to make great sacrifices to see them become reality. Whether you stroll the Mall, tour the White House, stop in to see your senator, visit the National Zoo or browse a different museum every day, history and heritage surround you. But that’s not all. The D.C. Convention committee has designed a program with you in mind. You’ll find it hard to separate learning from fun.

More than 360 breakout sessions, issue seminars on Marriage Equity, Covering Health Issues and Covering the Unthinkable, are certain to provide you with information and new ideas to keep your publications on the cutting edge for the rest of the year. We hope you’ll take advantage of visiting with media professionals at Break with a Pro and that you will exchange ideas and publications at the Friday night Swap Shops. Student dances will entertain you and on-site competitions will challenge you.

It’s a convention packed about as full as we could make it. There are 24 featured speakers and instructional strands for every topic from cartooning to photography to writing to leadership. This comprehensive instructional lineup certainly has something for everyone.

This weekend in Washington, D.C., we invite you to discover, to learn, to make friends and memories, to celebrate and to find your own Red, White & True.

LindaLinda S.S. Puntney, Puntney MJE Logan Logan Aimone, Aimone MJE JEA Executive Director NSPA Executive Director

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Val Linda Jack Ann Logan Al

Local Committee Chair JEA Executive JEA President JEA Past President and NSPA Executive President of NSPA Director ConventionOfficials Consultant Director Board of Directors

Officers Journalism EducationAd Hoc Association National Scholastic Jack Kennedy, MJE, president Javonna Bass Press Association Bob Bair, MJE, vice president Headquarters Staff Linda Drake, CJE, secretary Editor/Webmaster Logan Aimone, MJE, executive director Ann Visser, MJE, past president and Bradley Wilson, CJE, Periodicals and Web Site Marc Wood, communications director convention consultant Kathy Huting, contest/critique coordinator Liaisons Emily Griesser, member services director Regional Directors Candace Perkins Bowen, MJE, JEA Listserv manager Suzanne Taber, administrative assistant Tahera Mamdani, accountant Steve Matson, MJE, Region 1 Northwest Linda Barrington, MJE, NCTE assembly Ellen Austin, CJE, Region 2 Southwest Julie E. Dodd, MJE, scholastic press Gary Lindsay, MJE, Region 3 North Central association directors Board of Directors Albert R. Tims, Ph.D., president, University of Wayna C. Polk, Region 4 South Central Reginald Ragland, CJE, professional organizations Minnesota, Minneapolis Brenda W. Gorsuch, MJE, Region 5 Southeast Logan Aimone, MJE, NSPA David Therkelsen, treasurer, Crisis Connection, Tom Gayda, MJE, Region 6 Mid-Atlantic & Great Lakes Minneapolis Jane Blystone, MJE, Region 7 Northeast National Write-off Committee Co-chairs Timothy S. Dorway, Mayo High School, Rochester, Minn. Cindy Bandow Linda Drake, CJE, Chase County High School, Commission Chairs Carrie Faust, MJE Cottonwood Falls, Kan. Mark Newton, MJE, Certification Patricia Turley Monica Hill, CJE ,North Carolina Scholastic Media Norma Kneese, MJE, Multicultural Association, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill John Bowen, MJE, Scholastic Press Rights Headquarters Staff Chris Ison, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Lori Oglesbee, CJE, Development and Curriculum Linda S. Puntney, MJE, executive director Jane Kirtley, J.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Anita Marie Wertz, MJE, Junior High/Middle School Connie Fulkerson, administrative assistant/ Kathy Roberts Forde, Ph.D., University of bookstore manager Minnesota, Minneapolis Sharon Tally, office manager/bookkeeper Samuel Terilli, J.D., University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla. Pam Boller, office assistant/advertising manager Alan Weintraut, CJE, Annandale High School, Ashley Frey, intern/program designer Annandale, Va. Laura Widmer, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, Mo.

Local Convention Committee Sandy Woodcock Dara Padwo-Audick Marschalle Payne Promotions and On-Site Critiques Adviser Giveaways Outreach Academy Mary Kay Downes, MJE Theresa Poquis Zena Whitworth Valerie Kibler, CJE, Local Chair Bretton Zinger, CJE Sue Gill Artise Gill Peter Daddone, Maryland Rep. Swap Shops Courtney McGonnell Student Dances Reginald Ragland, CJE, D.C. Rep. Stephanie Axelrod Friday Advisers Luncheon Anthony Whitten Carol Lange, CJE, Past Chair Diversity Scholarships Karen Harden Eston Melton Becky Sipos, MJE, Past Chair Chris Waugaman Saturday Advisers Luncheon Student Volunteers Mike Spikes Jeanne Hobbs Niki Holmes Write-off Contests Felicidad Hunt-Branch Daryl Alston Middle School Strand Chad Rummel, CJE Issue Seminars Adviser Hospitality Room Patricia Hinman Meghan Percival Peter Daddone Naomi Dixon Literary Magazine Strand Mary Dolson Jennifer Seavey, CJE Beth Skaggs Carol Lange, CJE Tim Hibberd Curriculum Exchange Sharon Quick Speaker Gifts Break with a Pro/Featured Speakers Erin Harris Adviser Reception/SPLC Auction Fran Sharer, CJE Reginald Ragland, CJE Media Tours Gary Clites, CJE Student T-shirts Shay Taylor Alan Weintraut, CJE Trade Show Exhibits/College Booths/ Jacque Godwin Karen Hott Sightseeing Tours Advertising Sales Student Guide to D.C. Sarah Menke-Fish Lois Page Marge Craig

5 up at the Write-off desk. If you have not paid, Break with a Pro you must do so at this time. Noon Friday is Media professionals will share information the deadline for substitutions in preregistered about their work and backgrounds in an categories. No new entries will be accepted at informal setting. Tickets for this preregistered the convention. Lost tickets will be replaced for event will be in the school’s packet at $5. Broadcast contest entrants in Videography, registration. There will be two one-hour SpecialIn-camera Feature and BroadcastEvents Package First-Time Attendee blocks. Please check ticket for your assigned Orientation Meeting must have their contest ticket before the 8 a.m. time and table number. Students are Friday orientation meetings. encouraged to be prepared with questions Advisers attending their first JEA/NSPA Desk open: 1-7 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. convention should consider attending a short Friday, Registration Desk, Foyer on career preparation requirements, nature orientation meeting. A general overview and of work, salary-level expectations and job explanation of convention events and how to NSPA Best of Show availability. They may also inquire about how get the most out of them will be provided. Will your staff bring home the trophy this to handle issues or situations in their work as 6:45 p.m. Thursday, Marriott Ballroom student journalists. year? See how your publication fares against 9 and 10 a.m. Friday, Exhibit Hall B others represented at the convention. High Adviser Reception Honoring school publications are eligible if at least First-Time Attendees one student representative is attending the Adviser Hospitality Advisers who are first-time convention convention and junior high publications can Meet with your colleagues from across the attendees and outreach participants are the enter if the adviser is a registered delegate country in the adviser hospitality room, the hot guests of honor at this informal reception at the convention. Enter your newspaper, spot for advisers. Local committee members to meet the local committee, the JEA and newsmagazine, literary arts magazine, video, will be available to recommend sightseeing, NSPA Boards of Directors and staffs. The local Web site or yearbook at the Best of Show dining and entertainment options. JEA/NSPA convention committee will be recognized at desk. Winners will be announced at the NSPA and Ball State University will underwrite Friday this time. This informal reception will follow Awards Ceremony on Saturday. refreshments; and Friesen Yearbooks will the opening keynote. American Society of Desk open: 1-7 p.m. Thursday, and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., underwrite Saturday morning hospitality. Friday, Registration Desk, Foyer 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, and 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, News Editors is the sponsor of this event. Lincoln 3-4 9:30-11 p.m. Thursday, Delaware Suite JEA Bookstore Trade Show Exhibits Check out the new books, as well as popular Friday Adviser Luncheon Dozens of national and local vendors and bestsellers, at the JEA Bookstore. Nearly 300 Relax and dine with your colleagues in a colleges will educate and entertain during books relating to journalism are available, relaxed setting. Guest speaker DeNeen the trade show exhibit. Find out what’s new, including textbooks, curriculum development, Brown, award-winning Style section reporter chat with company representatives, pick up yearbook, newspaper, design, photography, for The Washington Post, will talk about information and have some fun. writing, desktop publishing, advertising, her life as a feature writer. Pre-registration 1-7 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Exhibit Hall A online and broadcast. Did you forget Write- required. Please bring your ticket. 11 a.m. to 12:50 p.m. Friday, Maryland AB off supplies? Check here to buy, dictionaries, Write-off Contest Check-in thesauruses, stylebooks, paper, pens, pencils, Friday Adviser Reception and If both your Write-off registration and JEA rulers and erasers. Supplies are limited, so shop early. Look for schedule of Meet the Author SPLC Benefit Auction membership fees have been paid, your Advisers are invited to this social gathering school’s Write-off packet containing student book signings throughout the convention. 1-7 p.m. Thursday; 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, and 8 a.m. to with a reception featuring entertainment from contest tickets, additional instructions and 3 p.m. Saturday, Lincoln 3-4 a live blues band and a fundraising auction contest room assignments may be picked to benefit the Student Press Law Center. The

6 local committee has collected a variety of On-site Critiques Saturday Adviser Recognition items, including signed sports memorabilia, Advisers and staffs who submitted Luncheon art, food, journalism-related items, gift baskets, newspapers, newsmagazines, yearbooks, JEA, NSPA and Dow Jones Newspaper Fund and autographed books. Items includes Mark videos and literary magazines for a critique will present their annual awards at this Harmon’s set-used “NCIS” script signed by should check appointment times posted at special event. New and renewing Certified 14 cast members; ABC World News Tonight the registration desk in the foyer. A schedule Journalism Educators and Master Journalism baseball cap signed by anchor Charlie Gibson; a will be posted near the critique area on Friday Educators also will be recognized. NSPA T-shirt with a photograph signed by “Pardon the and Saturday. Since critiques are only 30 Pioneers, DJNF Journalism Teacher of the Year Interruption’s” Tony Kornheiser, Michael Wilson minutes long, it is important to be on time. program winners and JEA Carl Towley, Lifetime and Tony Reali; a “Garfield” print signed by Jim 9-11 a.m. and 2:30-3:30 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m.-noon Achievement, Administrator of the Year, Medal Saturday, Exhibit Hall B Davis; and “This American Life Season One” of Merit and Friend of Scholastic Journalism DVD signed by host Ira Glass. Visa, Mastercard, honorees will be recognized. Speakers will check or cash will be accepted. Those who are Electronic Curriculum Exchange If you sent in materials for the electronic be John Hudnall, the Carl Towley Award judging Write-off competitions are especially curriculum exchange, your free CD of the winner, and Paul Kandell, Dow Jones National encouraged to attend after they finish judging. submitted items is in your registration packet. High School Journalism Teacher of the Year. Lifetouch is sponsor for this event. Preregistration was required. Please bring your 8:30-11 p.m. Friday, Delaware Suite ticket. Herff Jones has underwritten this event. Media Swap Shops for Students Noon to 2:20 p.m. Marrriot Salon 1 Live Radio Taping and Advisers Join Jane Hall and Deborah Roffman for a Newspaper, newsmagazine, yearbook, Awards Ceremonies special opportunity from American University literary magazine and broadcast swap shops Two award presentations will recognize and WAMU 88.5 for students to be involved in a are prime opportunities for preregistered students and their work. NSPA will honor live-to-tape radio event. Students, 16 and older, students and advisers to share useful ideas winners of Best of Show, Pacemakers and can be audience members for The American and concepts with others. Bring at least 10 individual awards at 3:30-5:30 p.m. Saturday Forum which will air at 9 p.m., Nov. 13. The samples of your newspaper, literary magazine in the Marriott Ballroom. JEA will announce forum will discuss Media and Sexuality, as the or one copy of your yearbook or video/DVD to winners of the Write-off competitions, Ryan media plays a big role in our decisions, more so show at your table. Each delegate attending a White Excellence in Journalism Awards and than we may think. Swap Shop must have a ticket, which will be Future Teacher Scholarships during the closing 2:30 p.m., Friday, Lincoln 2 in the school registration packet. Please check ceremony, 8:30-11:30 a.m. Sunday in the Lincoln the ticket for your assigned time. Student Evening Entertainment 8 and 9 p.m. Friday, Exhibit Hall B Rooms. JEA and NSPA encourage everyone to Dances for students on Friday and Saturday celebrate all winners. nights will have music provided by a DJ. Hands-on Computer Sessions This is a good time to enjoy the music and If you are interested in getting some hands-on Convention Survey dancing with other student journalists from computer experience, sign up and get a ticket Advisers have a chance to win $50, $25 or $15 around the country. Students must present at the registration desk for one or more of gift certificates to the JEA Bookstore if they fill their convention name badge to be admitted the scheduled sessions. There is a 34-person out and turn in a JEA convention exit survey. to the dances. SlingRocket.com sponsors limit so it’s first-come, first served. No more Surveys were stuffed into adviser bags. Drop Friday’s student entertainment. than two people per school per session may boxes will be available at the convention 9-11:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Washington Ballroom sign up, and only those with tickets may sit registration desk, awards ceremonies and in at a computer. Walsworth Publishing Co. has the JEA Bookstore (Lincoln 3-4). The drawing provided the lab. will be Sunday during the closing award Friday and Saturday, Wilson A ceremony. You need not be present to win.

7 Special Performance Colours 1 p.m. Friday, Marriott Ballroom

The Colours Arts in Education Program for 18 years has opened the door for youth to not just experience performing, but to develop into strong leaders in their communities. The Colours Program is based on an ensemble performing arts model that does not require students to audition. Students involved in Colours are dedicated to strengthening their academic, leadership, interpersonal and artistic skills through the ensemble method. Colours is on the go all year and works to raise awareness and even funds for domestic violence awareness, breast cancer awareness and research, students in the Delta Region, as well as the University of Maryland Incentive Awards Program. The group is here to educate, enlighten, and entertain through its presentation, “The Soul of America.” You are part of the show so please get up and sing, dance, and celebrate with Colours. Nick Clooney believes in the power of journalism and of young people to make a difference. In 2006, Clooney and his son, George, traveled to Darfur, Sudan and filmed a documentary, A Journey to Darfur, which was broadcast on American cable TV as well as in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and France. In 2008 it was released on DVD with the proceeds from sales donated to the International Rescue Committee to help the people of Darfur. Clooney became a strong activist for Dafur, speaking at high schools, public forums and participating in rallies to promote awareness. Last fall he joined the faculty at American University as American University School of Communication and Newseum Distinguished Journalist in Residence. At AU he taught Opinion Writing and Films that Changed Us. His career in journalism runs long and deep, but in 1994 he became a familiar face nationwide when he began introducing films on the American Movie Classics cable TV channel. He was already well Nick Clooney Nick known regionally in Ohio and Kentucky where he worked as a radio host, a TV news anchor, hosted a 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Marriott Ballroom TV talk show and wrote a column for the Cincinnati Post. He was the news director and anchor for WKRC-TV, then an ABC affiliate in Cincinnati. Under his direction the station pursued a hard news focus and became a solid No. 1 in the local news ratings dethroning the CBS affiliate. He covered the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire and its aftermath which covered several years. In 2004, Clooney ran as a democrat to represent Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District in the House of Representatives. He narrowly lost the election after a hard-fought campaign. He is the author of “The Movies that Changed Us: Reflections on the Screen.” Published in 2002, the book analyzes the significance of iconic American films including The Birth of a Nation, The Jazz Singer, Dr. Strangelove, The Graduate, Star Wars and Saving Private Ryan.

Speakers Keynote Peter Baker Susan Glasser 1 p.m., Friday,and Marriott Ballroom Peter Baker is the White House Correspondent for The New York Times. He was most recently White House correspondent for The Washington Post and has covered President George W. Bush and his administration since the November 2004 election, chronicling the second-term travails over the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina, Supreme Court nominations, midterm elections and other events. He also covered the White House during President Bill Clinton’s second term, co-writing the story that broke the Monica Lewinsky scandal and serving as the paper’s lead writer on the subsequent House impeachment battle and Senate trial. In between stints at the White House, Baker and his wife, Susan B. Glasser, were Moscow Bureau Chiefs for nearly four years, a period that coincided with the rise of Vladimir Putin and the latest political and economic transformation of Russia. Among other stories, Baker covered the Moscow theater siege, the Beslan school takeover and the war in Chechnya. During that time, Baker also covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and reported from throughout Central Asia and the Middle East. He was the first American newspaper reporter to enter Afghanistan after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and he embedded with the Marines’ commanding general on the road to Baghdad. Baker is the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton (Scribner, 2000), and with Glasser of Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the End of Revolution (Scribner, 2005). He appears frequently on television and radio public affairs shows. His work has also appeared in publications such as The New Republic and American Journalism Review. A native of the Washington area, he attended Oberlin College and worked at The Washington Times before joining The Post in 1988 as a Virginia reporter. He and Glasser live in Washington with their son, Theodore.

11 Scott Higham is a member of The Washington Post’s investigations unit. At The Post, his assignments have included an investigation of the deaths of children who were under the supervision of the D.C. child-protection system. It received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. He Featured Speakers has also examined the treatment of detainees held at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison and the U.S. camps at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Friday investigated allegations of waste, fraud and abuse in government contracts. Chris Assaf, a photojournalist with 20 The Chandra Levy Murder and the Media years’ experience, recently made the switch 11 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 2 to online, becoming the multimedia editor/ video for The Baltimore Sun. He covered the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on Sari Horwitz joined The Washington Mississippi’s gulf coast and the shootings at Post’s investigations unit in 2006 after Virginia Tech. Assaf is a product of Shawnee, 23 years at The Post, where she has Kan., where he started photographing reported on crime, homeland security, seriously during his junior year in high education and social services. She has school. He graduated from Kansas State been awarded the Pulitzer Prize three University with a journalism degree times. In 2003, she co-authored the and served as photo editor for both the book “Sniper: Inside the Hunt for the Collegian and the Royal Purple. Killers Who Terrorized the Nation.” She Visual Dyanmics of Storytelling was also among a team of reporters who won the 2008 Pulitzer 2:30 p.m. Friday, Washington 3 Prize for Breaking News for their coverage of the shooting rampage at Virginia Tech. Horwitz is now co-writing a book on the Chandra Levy murder investigation. Amy Eisman, director of The Chandra Levy Murder and the Media writing programs in the School of 11 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 2 Communication at American University in Washington, D.C., teaches reporting and writing for convergent media. She Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher, the created an online course, which explores editorial cartoonist for The Economist the influence of business, technology magazine of London and the Baltimore and audience on journalism. Eisman Sun, is also a leader in animated was an editor with Gannett for 17 years. commentary — from his senior thesis She moved to USA Weekend magazine, at Harvard, a 13-minute animated film where she became executive editor. She which featured characters from his was also a managing editor at AOL. weekly cartoon strip that ran in The The New Media Landscape (and What It Means to You) Harvard Crimson, to flash animation video 10 a.m. Friday, Wilson C for “Nightline” and CNN to 3D digital caricatures that can be animated in Real-time. Starting in October 2007, KAL teamed up with Chicago’s famous “Second City” comedy Sam Feist, political director and vice troupe for a touring show called “The Art of Satire.” president of Washington programming Cartoons and Satire are Drawn into the 21st Century for “CNN Worldwide,” oversees political 11 a.m. Friday, Delaware B news coverage and political programming, including CNN’s daily Washington newscast, Donna Leinwand covers the Justice “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,“ Department, major crimes, legal issues, and CNN’s Sunday interview program, disasters and terrorism at USA Today. She is “State of the Union with John King.” Feist also the president of the National Press Club. also oversees production of presidential Her reporting assignments have taken her addresses, presidential debates, primary to Hamburg, Germany — in the path of the nights, conventions and election nights for 9/11 terrorists; Jerusalem—in the wake of both CNN and CNN.com. Feist and his team suicide bombings; Baghdad—to cover the won an Emmy award for their coverage of war in Iraq; Indonesia and Thailand—in the the 2006 midterm elections and a Peabody award for their coverage of aftermath of the tsunami; and London— the 2008 elections, interviewing every major presidential candidate. during its subway bombings. Covering Politics in the 21st Century Why the World Needs Journalists 11 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 6 9 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 2

12 Featured Speakers Friday Toni Locy is the Donald W. Reynolds journalism careers for NAHJ and the California Chicano News Media Professor of Legal Reporting at Washington Association. During his 11-year reporting career, he was a two-time and Lee University in Lexington, Va. For winner of the Golden Mike Award for outstanding broadcast work. 25 years, she specialized in the coverage Making the News Look Like You of courts and law enforcement for major 2:30 p.m. Friday, Delaware A U.S. newspapers and she covered the U.S. Supreme Court and national legal Glenn Proctor, a journalist for affairs for the Associated Press. In 2008 a nearly four decades, is vice president and federal judge held Locy in contempt of executive editor of the Richmond Times- court because she refused to divulge the Dispatch. While at the Akron Beacon identities of several sources who provided Journal, Proctor was part of the team that information for stories she wrote for USA won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for coverage Today about the FBI’s investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks that of the Goodyear takeover. A mentor to killed five people. scores of journalists and other career Contempt for Reporters: One Journalist’s Fight to Protect professionals around the country, Proctor News Sources received the National Association of Black 2:30 p.m. Friday, Lincoln 5 Journalists Legacy Award in 2007. Truth, Access, Diversity Molly McCloskey, a lively speaker 11 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 5 who has traveled the U.S. working with schools to develop First Amendment Jamie Raskin, a Democratic state environments, serves as a director of senator in Maryland and a professor of Constituent Services at the Association constitutional law at American University, for Supervision and Curriculum founded and directs the Marshall-Brennan Development. She directs the Web Constitutional Literacy Project, which and public engagement components sends law students all over America into of ASCD’s Whole Child Initiative and public high schools to teach a course promotes school reform. She co- on the Constitution and Bill of Rights authored the ASCD Infobrief on “The Whole Child: A Framework for focused on the rights and responsibilities Education in the 21st Century.” of students. He is author of “Overruling Using Your Powers for Good: Student Voice and School Improvement Democracy: the Supreme Court versus the 11 a.m. Friday, Wilson B American People” and “We the Students: Supreme Court Cases for and About E. Ethelbert Miller, a writer America’s Students,” which has been of memoirs and poetry, editor of called “the bible of the new movement for anthologies and literary activist, has constitutional literacy in America.” He is a magna cum laude graduate of been director of the African American Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Resource Center at Howard University Harvard Law Review. since 1974. His 11 books include “First May We Pray and Read the Bible at School? Light,” “Fathering Words: The Making 9 a.m. Friday, Wilson B of an African American Writer,” “Where Our Public Schools: The Birthplace of Modern Democracy Are the Love Poems for Dictators?” and, 10 a.m. Friday, Wilson B most recently, “The 5th Inning.” Curator Meet the Author/Book Signing of the online exhibit, “All the Stories Are True,” he is also the editor 11 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 3-4 Foyer of “Synergy: An Anthology of Washington, D.C. Black Poetry” (1975), “Women Surviving Massacres and Men” (1977), and “In Search of Ann Telnaes, one of two women Color Everywhere” (1994) that received the 1994 PEN Oakland to receive the Pulitzer Prize for editorial Josephine Miles Award and was a Book of the Month Club selection. cartooning, takes stands on complex issues The 5th Inning: How to Write and Throw Into the Late Innings and affirms the power of editorial cartoons. 10 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 5 She recently ended her syndicated print Meet the Author/Book Signing work, but continues to contribute an 11 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 3-4 Foyer exclusive weekly editorial cartoon to Women’s eNews and occasionally for Kevin Olivas, director of the Parity The Guardian newspaper in London. Project for the National Association of Her training in fine arts and work at Walt Hispanic Journalists, has had a career in Disney Imagineering are the foundation radio and television. The Parity Project for her print work and for the animated aims to improve news staff diversity and editorial cartoons she posts every Monday, Wednesday and Friday on news coverage in diverse communities. washingtonpost.com. Eighty-one of her original drawings appeared in Previously, Olivas was responsible solo exhibition at the Library of Congress in 2004 and are in her book for overseeing scholarship funds “Humor’s Edge.” and educational programs as well as Cartooning on Humor’s Edge encouraging Latino students to pursue 10 a.m. Friday, Delaware B

13 page editor of the Emory Wheel in college, he is author or co-author of six books, including “First Freedoms: A Documentary History of First Amendment Rights in America” and “Finding Common Ground: A First Amendment Guide to Religion and Public Schools.” His column, “Inside the First Amendment,” appears in newspapers nationwide. Why Freedom Works 10 a.m. Saturday, Wilson B Creating Laboratories of Democracy Featured Speakers 11 a.m. Saturday, Wilson B

Charla Bear is an assistant producer for Saturday Caroline H. Little is the chief National Public Radio’s “Weekend Edition executive of Guardian News & Media’s Sunday” where she pitches story ideas, U.S. operation and former chief books guests, writes and edits news and executive officer and publisher of music interviews. She began her career at Washingtonpost.com and Newsweek NPR in 2007 as a production assistant for Interactive. She joined WPNI in 1997 as “Morning Edition.” She has produced stories general counsel and went on to serve for KQED-San Francisco and written for as chief operating officer and president. the San Francisco Examiner and Oakland Little became CEO and publisher in Tribune. Born in Fairbanks, Alaska, she is January 2004. Before joining WPNI, Little part Tanana-Athabascan, an Alaska Native. was deputy general counsel at U.S. News Talking Radio with Sound Reporting 10 a.m. Saturday, Delaware A & World Report, The Atlantic Monthly and Fast Co. Web Journalism: The New Revolution in Communications Lesli Foster is an Emmy award-winning 9 a.m. Saturday, Wilson C journalist who co-anchors 9NEWS NOW at 5 p.m., and is the solo anchor on 9NEWS Julissa Marenco, president of ZGS NOW at 6 p.m. She has covered influential Communications Station Group, oversees stories from the aftermath of the 9/11 the management of and provides strategic terrorist attack on the Pentagon to the 40th direction for 12 Telemundo stations and anniversary of the March on Washington. three radio stations across the country. Foster is a featured journalist in the book Prior to her current position, Marenco “Women Journalists at Ground Zero.” was appointed by the president to serve News IS a Community Service as a White House Fellow, a non-partisan 11 a.m. Saturday, Washington 4 program known as America’s most prestigious program for leadership and public service. She subsequently served as a special assistant to the Charles C. Haynes, Ph.D and administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. senior scholar at the First Amendment Barrier Breaking Broadcasting Saturday Center, writes and speaks extensively 1 p.m. Saturday, Wilson B on the First Amendment and religion in American public life. Best known for his work on First Amendment issues in Kevin Merida is national public schools, Haynes has helped schools news editor at The Washington and communities across the nation find Post and co-author of two common ground on conflicts involving bestselling books, one of which is religion and values. Co-editor of the “Obama: The Historic Campaign Beachcomber (for which he got into some in Photographs.” During a 30-year hot water) in high school and editorial career in journalism, Merida’s

14 Featured Speakers Saturday assignments have ranged from investigating organized dogfighting government in Haiti was on the verge of collapse. to covering the U.S. invasion of Panama. He has covered or LesliTalking Foster Radio with is an Sound Emmy Reporting award-winning journalist who co-anchors supervised the reporting of six presidential campaigns. Merida grew 9NEWS10 a.m. Saturday,NOW at 5Delaware p.m., and A is the solo anchor on 9NEWS NOW at 6 p.m. up in the D.C. area, where he worked on his high school newspaper She has covered influential stories from the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attack on the staff at Crossland H.S. in Prince George’s County, Md. Reginald Stuart, a veteran Pentagon to the 40th anniversary of the Being a Black Man: What I’ve Learned — and You Can Too — from newsman, is a corporate recruiter March on Washington. Foster is a featured My Years as a Journalist for The McClatchy Co., a newspaper journalist in the book “Women Journalists 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Washington 5 publisher and a provider of online news. at Ground Zero.” Featured Speakers A journalist for 41 years, he has worked News IS a Community Service for The New York Times, the Philadelphia Kurt Mutchler is the director of 11 a.m. Saturday, Washington 4 Saturdayphoto editing at National Geographic Daily News and Knight Ridder’s Washington Bureau. Stuart is author magazine heading is a an staff assistant of nine producer picture Charla Bear of “Bailout,” a book about the Chrysler editors.for National He has Public worked Radio’s at NGM “Weekend for 15 years Corporation. His writings for the former producingEdition Sunday” visual wherenarrative she journalism. pitches story His Emerge magazine about former federal recentideas, booksstories guests,include writesglobal andfood edits crisis, prison inmate Kemba Smith are largely Herodnews and the Great,music Bethlehem,interviews. China’sShe began Yellow credited with prompting former President Clinton to commute River,her career New Orleans,at NPR in and 2007 Nigeria as a production oil. He has Smith’s sentence to time served. taughtassistant photojournalism for “Morning Edition.” at the Corcoran She has College of Art + Design. Prior to NGM, he Knowing is Half the Battle produced stories for KQED-San Francisco 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Delaware B workedand written as the for photo the San and Francisco graphics editor Examinerat The Times-Picayune and Oakland in Tribune. New Orleans. Born inHe Fairbanks, was the photo Alaska, editor she of is thepart Tanana-Athabascan,St. Charles (Ill.) H.S. yearbook, an Alaska as wellNative. as the X-ray, the school’s newspaper. Sara Walsh, Sara Walsh is WUSA-TV9’s TalkingLiving and Radio Breathing with Sound Photography Reporting weekend sports anchor and also serves as 109 a.m. a.m. Saturday, Saturday, Washington Delaware A 4 the station’s Redskins reporter. She hosts “Operation Football” on Friday nights, and when the Redskins aren’t playing, hosts Elaine Quijano a general anchors News4 Lindsay Czarniak “Sports Plus” on Sunday nights. During assignmentSports and co-hosts correspondent “Gameplan,” for CNN News4’s football season, she has a blog at “Skins basedRedskins in Washington,show. Since coveringD.C., covers the the Uncensored,” which can be found on WhiteDolphins House, for the reporting NBC affiliate on the activitiesin Miami, Charles C. Haynes, Ph.D and wusa9.com. Walsh came to D.C. after an ofshe the has president been a pit and reporter the administration, covering senior scholar at the First Amendment award-winning stint at WKRN in Nashville domesticallythe ARCA racing and series internationally. for the SPEED Since Center, writes and speaks extensively where she won four Emmys in three years. 2000,Channel, Quijano NASCAR’s has filed Busch reports series foron suchNBC on the First Amendment and religion in While there, she also hosted a weekly radio storiesand NASCAR’s as the inauguration Sprint series offor President TNT. She American public life. Best known for his work on First Amendment issues show with former Titans (now Redskins’) defensive Albert Haynesworth Georgecovered W. the Bush 2006 and Olympics his 2005 from trips Turino to Asia in public schools, Haynes has helped schools and communities across and co-hosted “The Jeff Fisher Show,” featuring the Titans head coach. and Argentina,the 2008 Olympics the 9/11 from terrorist Beijing. attacks, the nation find common ground on conflicts involving religion and Before going to Nashville, Walsh was the sports director at WPGA in theDuring D.C.-area the Games, sniper she pursuit reported and capture live on values. Co-editor of the Beachcomber (for which he got into some hot Macon, Ga., for two years. Prior to her television work, she spent one year theas well NBC as networks the continuing and kept coverage News4 ofviewers the ongoing in the loop war withon terrorism. her video water) in high school and editorial page editor of the Emory Wheel in 9 a.m. Saturday, Delaware A working as a sports/feature reporter for the Beaches Leader Newspaper diaries. From Beijing, Czarniak hosted the first-ever Olympic coverage college, he is author or co-author of six books, including “First Freedoms: in Jacksonville, Fla. on the Oxygen network. Czarniak’s A Documentary History of First Amendment Rights in America” and Lakshmi Singh is midday “FindingSocial Media Common and Ground: Sports A Reporting First Amendment Guide to Religion and interest in the sports journalism stems Noon Saturday, Washington 4 newscasterdirectly from for her NPR. father, From Chet, comprehensive who Public Schools.” His column, “Inside the First Amendment,” appears in coveragecovered local of the sports sniper in shootingsthe Washington in the newspapers nationwide. D.C.area areafor years to in-depth before movingfeature reportingto USA Why Freedom Works onToday. immigration from both sides of the 10 a.m. Saturday, Wilson B border,From News Singh’s to Sports:stories reflectHow Technology the magic Creating Laboratories of Democracy ofis Changingradio. While Journalism in Haiti as a documentary 11 a.m. Saturday, Wilson B producer8 a.m. Saturday, for Soundprint, Delaware A (TIMEshe uncovered MAY compellingCHANGE) stories of women with HIV/ Caroline H. Little is the chief executive of Guardian News AIDS while their politically embattled & Media’s U.S. operation and former chief executive officer and

15 The First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the

freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Yearbook Future Coordinated by Martha Akers Friday of the Saturday The New Journal-ism, 9 a.m. Friday, Marriott Salon 1 Resources for Enhancing Digital Images, 8 a.m. Saturday Washington 3

What Are You Doing Right Now? 9 a.m. Friday,Washington 3 Today, Tomorrow – The Future of Yearbooks, 9 a.m. Saturday, Washington 3 Why Yearbooks and Yearbook Staffs Really Matter Now and Forever, 10 a.m. Friday, Marriott Salon 1 Yearbooks’ Future: The Scholastic Media Association, 10 a.m. Saturday, Maryland A What’s the Big Deal? 11 a.m. Friday, Washington 4 If All Your Friends Jumped off a Bridge, Would You?11 a.m. How Yearbook Can Impact Your Future, 11 a.m. Friday, Washington 6 Saturday, Virginia B

10 Things You Can Still Do to Sell Your 2010 Yearbook, noon Friday, When Dinosaurs Walked the Earth and Newspapers Flourished, 11 Virginia A a.m. Saturday, Washington 3

Yearbook Inc., noon Friday, Washington 4 Thinking Outside the Book, noon Saturday, Washington 3

Chicken Little is Still Wrong, 2:30 p.m. Friday, Washington 2 Convergent Media is Here to Stay, 1 p.m. Saturday, Washington 3

Setting Up an Online Presence, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Washington 3

Middle school students and advisers may Managing Your Newspaper Staff,10 a.m. Think Fun, 9 a.m. Saturday, Truman attend any sessions they choose, but these Friday, Park Tower 8209 especially may be of interest. Go Fish!, 10 a.m. Saturday, Washington 1 We Design with a Little Help from Our Friends, 11 a.m. Friday, Washington 5 Hidden in Plain Sight, 10 a.m. Saturday, Thursday Delaware B Middle Madness, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Survival Tips for the Struggling Adviser, Virginia A noon Friday, Park Tower 8218 Middle Schoolers Crazy for Write-offs (2 hours), 10 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8209 The Best of Newspaper Design, noon Friday Friday, Delaware A Writing a Paper Middle-School Students

School What Makes A Good Photo? 9 a.m. Friday, Will Read, noon Saturday, Park Tower 8226 Washington 5 Photojournalism ‘Rules,’ noon Friday, Washington 2 Music and Copyright: To Use or Not to Layering Your Theme, noon Saturday, Virginia B Use, 9 a.m. Friday, Delaware A Swap Shops, 8-10 p.m. Friday, Lincoln 2-3-4 You Can Quote Me on That, 1 p.m. Saturday, (ticket required) Jefferson Maggots, Rat Guts and Feeling Good About Throwing Up, 9 a.m. Friday, Saturday Portfolios for Junior High/Middle School, Washington 1 1 p.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8226 Make It Quick, 1 p.m. Saturday, Virginia B Shoot Sports Like the Pros, 10 a.m. Friday, Gold Coin Droppings: Headline and Lede Washington 5 Writing, 8 a.m. Saturday, Maryland B Middle

16 The First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government— The First Amendmentfor a redress of the Unitedof grievances. States of America

If you’re a rookie journalism teacher or adviser, come to these sessions to absorb knowledge from JEA mentors willing to share their expertise. Look through the program for other sessions specifically for advisers. Friday Saturday

Taming the Grading Monster, 9 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8210 No Deadline Dilemmas Allowed, 8 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony B What We Learned from Beginning Teachers, 9 a.m. Friday, Tyler People Images and Sports Photography, 8 a.m. Saturday, From the Mouths of Adviser Babes Come Words of Wisdom, Washington 1 9 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8209 Make Your Writing Practically Perfect, 9 a.m. Saturday, The Team Bonded and Everyone Gave 110 Percent, 10 a.m. Maryland A Friday, Tyler The At-Risk Adviser, 9 a.m. Saturday, Jefferson Leadership Development = Good Business, 10 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8206 Where’s That @#%! Picture? Managing Digital Workflow,9 a.m.

Advisers Saturday, Washington 5 JEA Mentoring: Triage for New Advisers, 10 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8212 10 Quick Ways to an Award-winning Publication, 10 a.m. Saturday, Washington 5 What I Wish I Had Known as a New Adviser, 11 a.m. Friday, Tyler Will Work for Food! 11 a.m. Saturday, Jackson Delights and Dilemmas of the Write-off Contests,11 a.m. Friday, Taylor Creating the Staff Manual,11 a.m. Saturday, Tyler New

Advising Students on First Amendment Rights, 2:30 p.m. Teaching Accountability: Basic Media Ethics, 2:30 p.m. Friday, Park Tower 8216 Saturday, Park Tower 8226

It’s Your Opinion, Get It Right, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Maryland B

Friday Saturday Cartoon

A Brush With History: America’s Cold War Combat Artist, 9 Cartooning with John Rose, 9 a.m. Saturday, Delaware B a.m. Friday, Delaware B Art to Die For, 10 a.m. Saturday, Washington 6 Cartooning on Humor’s Edge, 10 a.m. Friday, Delaware B Cartooning and Newspapers: Total BFF’s! 11 a.m. Saturday, Cartoons and Satire are Drawn Into the 21st Century, 11 a.m. Delaware B Friday, Delaware B Techniques and Critiques, 1 p.m. Saturday, Delaware B Evolution of a Cartoonist, noon Friday, Delaware B

The Art and Commentary of Cartooning, 2:30 p.m. Friday, Delaware B

17 A powerful group of teachers and professionals Saturday will provide a series of video, podcasting, Web and multimedia sessions. These sessions are brought to you Building the School Newsrooms of the Future, 8 a.m. Saturday, Park by JEA, NSPA and RTNDF. Tower 8216 Friday Your Newsroom: From Big Ol’ Mess to Techno Success, 8 a.m. Saturday, Truman Creating Video for the Web, 9 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8206 Video Storytelling for Broadcast News, 8 a.m. Saturday, Maryland C Jump Start Your Broadcast Career, 9 a.m. Friday, Virginia B Being Joe Palca: Writing Science Pieces for the Radio, 8 a.m. Saturday, Music and Copyright: To Use or Not to Use, 9 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 6 Delaware A The Path from High School to a Career, 9 a.m. Saturday, Delaware A The New Media Landscape (and What It Means to You), 10 a.m. Friday, Wilson C Moving Your Publication Online, 9 a.m. Saturday, Virginia A

Storytelling — From Good to Great, 10 a.m. Friday, Delaware A Web Journalism: The New Revolutions in Communications, 9 a.m. Saturday, Wilson C The Media World You Will Inherit, 10 a.m. Friday, Virginia B Create Literary Opportunities in the World Language Class, 9 a.m. How to Choose Online Training, 10 a.m. Friday, Truman Saturday, Park Tower 8209

Covering Politics in the 21st Century, 11 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 6 Starting a Broadcast Journalism Class, 9 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8206 Digital Media Digital Hands-on Podcasting (2 hours), 11 a.m. Friday, Wilson A Integrate Video and Your Newspaper, 9 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 6

You Can Do It — Should You?, 11 a.m. Friday, Virginia A The Death of Cute? Story Structure and Headline Writing on the Web, 10 a.m. Saturday, Wilson C Taking Your Daily Announcement Show to the Next Level, 11 a.m. Friday, Virginia B Maintaining and Broadening the Broadcast Journalism Class, 10 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8206 Sharing Solutions, 2:30 p.m. Friday, Park Tower 8209 Capturing and Captivating with Sound, 10 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 6 A Radio Journey, 2:30 p.m. Friday, Wilson B Talking Radio with Sound Reporting, 10 a.m. Saturday, Delaware A Broadcast vs. Print Writing, 2:30 p.m. Friday, Virginia B Taking the Broadcast Journalism Class Higher Levels, 11 a.m. Saturday, American Forum: Media and Sexuality, 2:30 p.m. Lincoln 2 Park Tower 8206

The Reporter’s Job, 11 a.m. Saturday, Delaware A Broadcast/

Creating Protocol for Free and Responsible Student News Media, 10 a.m. Administrators Friday, Jefferson The Importance of Sound Editorial Policies, 10 a.m. Friday, Marriott Balcony D

Friday Can’t We All Just Get Along? 10 a.m. Friday, Virginia A

Give and Take: Building a Healthy Relationship Between Your Media Using Your Powers for Good: Student Voice and School Improvement, Staff and Administration,9 a.m. Friday, Jefferson 11 a.m. Friday, Wilson B

Get Right with Copyright, 9 a.m. Friday, Taylor Proven Media Literacy Program for Students, 2:30 p.m. Friday, Lincoln 6 May We Pray and Read the Bible at School? 9 a.m. Friday, Wilson B Saturday Getting Along: Forging Relationships That Work, 9 a.m. Friday, Marriott Balcony C Introduction to Intensive Journalistic Writing, 8 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8219

Our Public Schools — the Birthplace of Modern American Democracy, Advisers and the Law, 8 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8212 10 a.m. Friday, Wilson B The At-Risk Adviser, 9 a.m. Saturday, Jefferson 18 Saturday Writing for the Web, 11 a.m. Saturday, Wilson C Getting Readers to Your Web Site, 11 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 2 Building the School Newsrooms of the Future, 8 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8216 Cheap and Easy Multimedia, noon Saturday, Lincoln 6 MagazineFriday Your Newsroom: From Big Ol’ Mess to Techno Success, 8 a.m. Saturday, Social Media and Sports Reporting, noon Saturday, Washington 4 Truman Save the Journalists, 9 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 5 Web Site Design Using iWeb, noon Saturday, Wilson C Video Storytelling for Broadcast News, 8 a.m. Saturday, Maryland C Using All Your Senses, 9 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8219 Reporting Sports Digitally, noon Saturday, Virginia C Being Joe Palca: Writing Science Pieces for the Radio, 8 a.m. Saturday, Super-Trendy, Ultra-Modern Design Time, 9 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 6 Secrets to an Award-winning Broadcast Program, noon Saturday, Washington 4 Delaware A The Path from High School to a Career, 9 a.m. Saturday, Delaware A Cartooning on Humor’s Edge, 10 a.m. Friday, Delaware B It’s Not an Interview; It’s a Conversation, 1 p.m. Saturday, Delaware A Moving Your Publication Online, 9 a.m. Saturday, Virginia A Magazine Design, 10 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8219 The Pros and Prose of Blogging, 1 p.m. Saturday, Virginia C Web Journalism: The New Revolutions in Communications, 9 a.m. The 5th Inning: How to Write and Throw Into the Late Saturday, Wilson C Planet Forward — A New Model for Content Distribution, 1 p.m. Innings, 10 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 5 Saturday, Lincoln 6 Create Literary Opportunities in the World Language Class, 9 a.m. Truth, Access, Diversity, 11 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 5 Saturday, Park Tower 8209 The Interview Process: Before During and After, 1 p.m. Saturday, Maryland C Poetry: The Synthesis of Hyacinths and Biscuits, 11 a.m. Friday, Starting a Broadcast Journalism Class, 9 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8206 Promote School Publications with Social Media, 1 p.m. Saturday, Wilson C Park Tower 8209

Integrate Video and Your Newspaper, 9 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 6 Barrier-Breaking Broadcasting, 1 p.m. Saturday, Wilson B Expanding Your Literary Magazine, 11 a.m. Park Tower 8212

The Death of Cute? Story Structure and Headline Writing on the Web, Musical Newscasting and Research — the NPR Way, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Q&A with the Magazine Editor, 11 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8219 10 a.m. Saturday, Wilson C Lincoln 6 It’s the Little Things, 11 a.m. Friday, Washington 1 Maintaining and Broadening the Broadcast Journalism Class, 10 a.m. Help Me Figure This Out! 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Maryland C Saturday, Park Tower 8206 We Design with a Little Help from Our Friends, 11 a.m. Friday, Tell Your Story Online and in Print, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Virginia A Washington 5 Capturing and Captivating with Sound, 10 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 6 Webify your Student Publication Today, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Wilson C Coaching Writers, noon Friday, Park Tower 8219 Talking Radio with Sound Reporting, 10 a.m. Saturday, Delaware A 10 Fingers of Videography, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Delaware A The Total Package, 2:30 p.m. Friday, Virginia A Taking the Broadcast Journalism Class Higher Levels, 11 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8206 A Designer’s Guide to What Works 9.11, 2:30 p.m. Friday, Washington 1 The Reporter’s Job, 11 a.m. Saturday, Delaware A Visual Dynamics of Storytelling, 2:30 p.m. Friday, Washington 3 Saturday

Breaking the Monotony: Designing the Lit Mag, 8 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony D Covering Controversial and Sensitive Issues, 9 a.m. Saturday, Wilson B Create Literary Opportunities in the World Language Classroom, 9 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8209 Why Freedom Works, 10 a.m. Saturday, Wilson B

Literary Magazines: Find the Right Printer, 9 a.m. Saturday, Tyler Why Consider JEA Certification?, 11 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8216 The Crucial Role of Magazine Design, 10 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 5 Ethics: A Strategy for Press Freedom, 11 a.m. Saturday, Washington 5 Narrative Writing Brings Stories to Life, 10 a.m. Saturday, Virginia C Creating Laboratories of Democracy, 11 a.m. Saturday, Wilson B Great Graphics and How to Generate Them, 11 a.m. Saturday, Censor-Proofing Your Publication, noon Saturday, Washington 5 Lincoln 5

How Anecdotes Could Save Your Writing, 11 a.m. Saturday, Working with Administrators to Prevent Censorship, 1 p.m. Saturday, Maryland B Marriott Balcony B

Adding More Dimensions to the Literary Magazine, 1 p.m. Teaching Accountability: Basic Media Ethics, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Park Tower Saturday, Truman 8226 How to Write a Great Profile, 1 p.m. Saturday, Washington 1 Help, I’ve Been Censored! 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Wilson B Magazine Mechanics, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Washington 2 19 26

At theNewseum Wilson C Wilson A Virginia C Virginia B Virginia A C Maryland AB Maryland Ballroom Marriott SessionsLincoln 6 Lincoln 5 Lincoln 3-4 Lincoln 2 Foyer Exhibit HallA Delaware Suite Cleveland 1&2 Buchanan ROOMS: Thursday Sessions in white in boxes Sessions Cartooning Broadcasting Advising JWire: Collaborating Online &Sharing JEA Board(8:30a.m.-3p.m.) Meeting :0am on1-5pm EVENING 1-5p.m. 8:30 a.m.-Noon are designed for general audiences or multiple areas of interest. of areas multiple or audiences general for designed are Using andDesign Illustration Maestro Project for Students Photoshop for Beginners for Better Publications Leadership Workshop Teaching the Maestro Writing for Broadcast (8:30 a.m.-4:30p.m.) Redesign Workshop Outreach Academy (9 a.m.-3:45p.m.) New Media Writing Workshop Leadership Law/Ethics Mentor Training Write-off Rooms (allday) Work Write-off Office (all day) Write-off Trade Show Exhibits(1-7p.m.) Best ofShow (1-7p.m.)Best Desk Registration/Write-off Desk/ Registration/Write-off JEA Bookstore (1-7p.m.) Photography Newspaper Magazine New Adviser Orientation 6:45 p.m. Adviser Reception Middle Madness Middle 9:30-11 p.m. 6:30 p.m. the Yearbookthe of Future Yearbook 7:30 p.m. Keynote Speaker 8:30 a.m. Thursday

MEETING intense day of interactivity and motivation MAGAZINE JEA Board Meeting will help editors produce some of the best Using Illustration and Design JEA board members meet to discuss ongoing publications and manage the best staffs ever. for Better Publications projects and other agenda items. Preregistration required. This mini-master class in illustration and Jack Kennedy, MJE, Rock Canyon High School, Highlands Sarah Nichols, CJE, Whitney High School, Rocklin, Calif. Ranch, Colo. 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Lincoln 6 design will help you think like an art director. 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Delaware Suite Topics include working with editors and

GENERAL AUDIENCE artists, developing a design or illustration, Maestro Project for Students selecting art and fonts, and polishing the Computer Sessions Students participating in the Maestro Project package. Washington-area professional Hands-on computer sessions will give will receive instruction about the concept illustrators, ad designers and art directors participants helpful tips on making media will guide the day’s hands-on activities. production easier, including use of InDesign, and then work in teams of three (writer, designer and photographer or videographer) Preregistration required. Photoshop, podcasting tools and other John Anderson, Human Resources Magazine, Alexandria, software applications. Advisers-only sessions to create actual story packages. This is not Va.; Mike Caplanis, Stephens City, Va.; Randy Mays, Silver are offered. Sign-up sheets and tickets will a contest. Students may need to come back Spring, Md.; Carol Lee Morgan, Washington, D.C., and Carol be at the convention registration desk in the after the 7:30 p.m. opening ceremony for final Porter, Silver Spring, Md. 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Virginia C lobby, beginning at 1 p.m. Thursday. As space editing of their projects. A Maestro Wrap-up is limited to 34 attendees per session, there session is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday. COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY is a limit of two individuals per school per Preregistration required. Photoshop for Beginners session. When you sign up for a session, you Jill Chittum, CJE, Blue Valley High School, Stillwell, Kan., will receive a ticket. You must bring the ticket and Amy DeVault, CJE, Wichita (Kan.) State University Learn to use Adobe Photoshop in this to the computer lab (Wilson A) at the assigned 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Maryland AB daylong workshop. Preregistration required. time. Only those with tickets will be able to Mark Murray, Arlington ISD, Arlington, Texas 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Wilson A sit at a computer (two per computer). If you ADVISING decide not to attend the session, you may offer Teaching the Maestro your ticket to someone else. You have heard of it but can’t figure how it can work for your staff. This session will teach you the hands-on basics of the Maestro Trade Show Approach. Maestro creator Buck Ryan and Dozens of national and localExhibits vendors and Electronic Curriculum journalism teacher Beth Fitts will team up to colleges will educate and entertain during If you sent in materials for the electronicExchange show you the amazing results of the Maestro. the trade show exhibit. Find out what’s new, curriculum exchange, your free CD of the Preregistration required. chat with company representatives, pick up submitted items is in your registration packet. Beth Fitts, CJE, Mississippi Scholastic Press Assn, University, information and have some fun. Miss., and Buck Ryan, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky. 1 - 7 p.m. Exhibit Hall A 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Maryland C

GENERAL AUDIENCE ADVISING Writing Workshop JEA Outreach Academy In this daylong interactive seminar, you will This intensive one-day program will include Best of Show analyze excellent writing and apply what you training in setting up, staffing and funding a Will your staff bring home the trophyDesk this year? See learn to your own work. The session will cover journalism program; teaching the basics of how your publication fares against others at the ledes, narrative and the use of literary devices journalism; design; press law; making sure convention. High school publications are eligible to tighten and strengthen your writing. your publication represents your student if at least one student representative is attending the convention, and junior high publications can Preregistration required. body; and cover issues pertaining to diversity. enter if the adviser is a registered delegate at the H.L. Hall, MJE Hendersonville, Tenn., and Kathy Craghead, Preregistration required. convention. Enter your newspaper, newsmagazine, MJE, Mexico, Mo. Steve O’Donoghue, California Scholastic Journalism literary arts magazine, video, Web site or yearbook at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Lincoln 2 Initiative, Sacramento, Calif.; Linda Shockley, Dow Jones the Best of Show desk. Winners will be announced at Newspaper Fund, Princeton, N.J., and Stan Zoller, CJE, the NSPA Awards Ceremony Saturday. NEWSPAPER Rolling Meadows High School, Rolling Meadows, Ill. Redesign Seminar 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Virginia A Desk open: 1-7 p.m. Foyer

This seminar will take students through ONLINE MEDIA a discussion of advanced packaging JWire: Collaborating and techniques, grid design, typography and Sharing Online infographics. Students should to bring their Some topics concern students everywhere: Write-off Contest own publications for sharing as well as the economy, the environment, and health If both your Write-off registrationCheck-In and JEA their three favorite professional magazines issues. What if you could share your ideas and membership fees have been paid, your school’s Write-off packet with student contest tickets, or newspapers. Participants are asked to collaborate with other student journalists bring scissors, glue, layout sheets and tape. additional instructions and contest room across the country? What if you could get the assignments may be picked up at the Write-off Preregistration required. help of newsroom pros to make your work Pete LeBlanc, Center High School, Antelope, Calif. desk. If you have not paid, you must do so at this 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Lincoln 5 better? What if you could post to an online time. Noon Friday is the deadline for substitutions site that others could see and use? Find out in preregistered categories. No new entries will GENERAL AUDIENCE how JWire is helping students do this. Share be accepted at the convention. Lost tickets will Leadership Workshop the tips those students have for being better be replaced for $5. Broadcast contest entrants in Leading the way for the best 2009-2010 you journalists and then think about joining us Videography, In-camera Feature and Broadcast Package must have their contest ticket before the can have starts now! This special session will online. Preregistration required. 8 a.m. Friday orientation meetings. give the new set of editors the chance to Marina Hendricks, NAA Foundation, Arlington, Va.; Wendy Wallace, The Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, Fla., and Jon Desk open: 1-7 p.m. Foyer learn not only what it means to be a good Wile, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio leader but also how to be a good leader. This 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Virginia B

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of writing for television and delivering news short orientation meeting to get a general MENTORS on camera. Participants will work in teams overview and explanation of convention Mentor Training to write and deliver a news broadcast and events and how to get the most out of them. JEA’s mentors will meet for training sessions critique each other’s work. Time is allotted to Ann Visser, MJE, Pella Community High School, Pella, Iowa Nick Ferentinos, Saratoga, Calif.; Bill Flechtner, Warner 6:45 p.m. Thursday, Marriott Ballroom Pacific College, Portland, Ore., and Peggy Gregory, CJE, explore the Newseum’s interactive theaters Glendale, Ariz. and galleries all devoted to five centuries of 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Wilson C news history. Preregistration required. Newseum staff, Washington, D.C. BROADCAST 9 a.m. - 3:45 p.m. Thursday, Newseum Keynote Writing for Broadcast Nick Clooney will be theSpeaker evening’s keynote speaker. Clooney has been a reporter, anchor, Students will spend the day at the Newseum MIDDLE SCHOOL, GENERAL AUDIENCE managing editor and news director during his with veteran broadcasters learning what Middle Madness time as a television newsman. He currenlty teaches makes effective broadcast writing zing and Middle and junior high school publications at American University and hosts specials at the how to do it well. This hands-on session will staffs and advisers: This session is a MUST! Newseum, both in Washington, D.C. teach students and advisers the key elements Test your knowledge about journalism, 7:30 p.m. Marriott Ballroom the convention city and trivia. (Hint: Be prepared to answer in the form of a JEA question.) We will offer insights about convention highlights, contests and Check out the newBookstore books, as well as popular Adviser bestsellers, at the JEA Bookstore. Nearly 300 competitions, Write-offs, team building and Advisers who are first-timeReception convention books relating to journalism are available, the latest trends in publication designs. attendees and outreach participants are the including textbooks, curriculum development, Mary Patrick, CJE, Maize South Middle School, Wichita, guests of honor at this informal reception to Kan.; Wendi Solinger, CJE, Alice Vail Middle School, Tucson, yearbook, newspaper, design, photography, Ariz., and Anita Wertz, MJE, Cesar Chavez High School, meet the local committee, the JEA Board of writing, desktop publishing, advertising and Stockton, Calif. Directors and JEA and NSPA staffs. The local broadcast. Did you forget Write-off supplies? 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Virginia A convention committee will be recognized at Check here to buy photo mounting boards, this time. This informal reception will follow dictionaries, thesauruses, stylebooks, paper, pens, ADVISING the opening keynote. American Society of pencils, rulers and erasers. Supplies are limited, so New Adviser Convention News Editors is the sponsor of this event. shop early. Look for schedule of Meet the Author Orientation 9:30-11 p.m. Delaware Suite book signings throughout the convention. Advisers attending their first JEA/NSPA 1- 7 p.m. Lincoln 3-4 convention should consider attending a You ConventionThank Sponsors

JEA and NSPA wish to thank the following organizations for their These guidelines are established to ensure all convention sponsorship and underwriting of participantsRules have a safe and enjoyable stay in convention events: Washington, D.C.

American Society of News • A midnight convention curfew will be in effect Wednesday through Editors Saturday. Students should be in their rooms, making no excessive Thursday new-adviser reception noise, at that time. The hotel reserves the right to remove any hotel guests who make excessive noise or create similar disruption. Advisers/chaperones will be responsible for enforcing the nightly Ball State University convention curfew. Friday adviser hospitality refreshments • No students will be admitted to the convention without a school- approved adviser/chaperone. At least one chaperone/adviser is required Friesens for every 12 students. It is understood that by the act of registering students for the convention, advisers assume responsibility for their Saturday adviser hospitality students’ behavior and well-being during the convention. refreshments • Chaperones should recognize they and their schools will be held liable Herff Jones for any damage to hotel/convention center facilities incurred by Name-badge lanyards and students under their supervision. Saturday adviser luncheon • Rudeness to hotel/convention center guests and employees; misuse of or reckless behavior on the elevators; excessive noise; Jostens destruction of property; or any other inappropriate behavior is not Adviser tote bags acceptable and can lead to expulsion from the hotel/convention center and/or criminal prosecution. Should individual students, Lifetouch advisers or delegations prove disruptive, JEA/NSPA officials reserve Friday evening reception the right to declare all fees forfeited and to send delegates home at their own expense.

Silver Communications • Breaking convention rules may result in disqualification from all Printing of convention contests and forfeiture of any awards won. registration booklet • Drinking or possessing alcoholic beverages, or possession/use of illegal SlingRocket.com drugs is absolutely prohibited. Friday student dance • All students are expected to wear their convention name badges at all times while in the convention hotel/convention center. Taylor Publishing Printing of convention program • When outside the hotel/convention center, travel in groups. Your personal safety is our concern. Walsworth Publishing Macintosh computer lab Sessions ROOMS: 7:15 a.m. 9 a.m. 10 a.m. 11 a.m. Noon 1 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 4 - 6 p.m. EVENING Buchanan (25) Write-off Office (8 a.m. - 5 p.m.) FridayCleveland 1 & 2 (50) Write-off Work Rooms (8 a.m. - 5 p.m.) Delaware A (175) JEA General Membership Music and Copyright: To Storytelling — From Asking Those Offbeat The Best of Newspaper Making the News Look Write-off Contest Meeting (8 a.m.) Use or Not to Use Good to Great Questions Design Like You Delaware B (175) A Brush With History: America’s Cartooning on Cartoons and Satire are Evolution of a Cartoonist The Art and Commentary Write-off Contest Cold War Combat Artist Humor’s Edge Drawn Into the 21st Century of Cartooning Exhibit Hall A Trade Show Exhibits (8 a.m. - 4 p.m.) Exhibit Hall B Break with a Pro and On-site Critiques On-Site Critiques

Foyer Registration (8 a.m. - 4 p.m.) Jackson (40) Public Relations: Another Side Come Join Us: Entering the Fact/Fiction: The Journalism From Good to Great Write-off Contest of Journalism World of College Journalism School Application Jefferson (40) Give and Take: Building a Healthy Creating Protocol for Free & More Than Blue in a Box of Effective Editing Begins with Write-off Contest Relationship Between Your Media Responsible Student Media Crayons Rapport Lincoln 1 (30) JEA State Directors Meeting CJE/MJE Certification Study Session Lincoln 2 (250) Why the World Needs Comprehensive The Chandra Levy Make Rick Reilly Proud American Forum: Write-off Contest Journalists Sports Writing Murder and the Media Media and Sexuality Lincoln 3-4 (350) JEA Bookstore/Adviser Hospitality Meet the Authors: Write for JEA’s Meet the Authors: Jamie Raskin Meet the Author: JEA Bookstore/Adviser Meet the Authors: Robert JEA Bookstore/Adviser Dave LaBelle & Magazine & E. Ethelbert Miller Hospitality (8 a.m. - 5 p.m.) Hospitality (8 a.m. - 5 p.m.) (8 a.m. - 5 p.m.) Carol Richtsmeier (10:15 a.m.) Kevin Kallaugher and Carol Greenman Lincoln 5 (350) Save the Journalists The 5th Inning: How to Write Truth, Access, Diversity Putting a New Face on an Contempt for Reporters: One Write-off Contest and Throw Into the Late Innings Old Story Journalist’s Fight to Protect News Sources Lincoln 6 (275) Issue Seminar: Marriage Equity in the Spotlight: Covering Politics in Getting the Power of Media Literacy Write-off Contest How to Report a Complex Diversity Topic the 21st Century Sports Story Program for Students Lobby Registration/Write-off Desk/Best of Show Desk (8 a.m. - 4 p.m.) Marriott Balcony A (120) What Color is Your Year? Shooting Photos with Managing Your Staffs Colors Stopping Power Marriott Balcony B (120) Top 10 Ways to Be Transforming Journalism: From Leaders are Made, Not Organized in Yearbook Information to Engagement Born Marriott Balcony C (90) Getting Along: Forging Deadline — A Not So A Question and Five More Relationships that Work Dirty Word Marriott Balcony D (90) We’ve Got You Covered Sound Editorial Policies Design Without InDesign Marriott Ballroom (4,200) Keynote Speaker Write-off Contest Marriott Salon 1 (700) Future of the Yearbook: The Future of the Yearbook: Why Off-the-Rack Designs New Journal-ism Yearbooks & Yearbook Staffs . . . Maryland AB (200) Dazzling Advertising Sales Adviser Luncheon Write-off Moderators Meeting DeNeen Brown: Life as a Feature Writer (2:45 p.m.) Maryland C (135) In a Nutshell: The Prep for Write-off Writing Big Ideas for Small Schools Yearbooks Sold Out! Great Idea! Now What? Write-off Contest Soft-Serve Writing Model Contests Park Tower 8205 (20) National Professional Learning Community Meeting Park Tower 8206 (50) Region 1/Northwest Meet, Creating Video Leadership Development Setting the Budget Stage Yearbooks No Longer Matters to Law in the Digital Era Write-off Contest Eat and Greet for the Web = Good Business Some Students: Participation . . .

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ROOMS: 7:15 a.m. 9 a.m. 10 a.m. 11 a.m. Noon 1 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 4 - 6 p.m. EVENING Buchanan (25) Write-off Office (8 a.m. - 5 p.m.) Cleveland 1 & 2 (50) Write-off Work Rooms (8 a.m. - 5 p.m.) Delaware A (175) JEA General Membership Music and Copyright: To Storytelling — From Asking Those Offbeat The Best of Newspaper Making the News Look Write-off Contest Meeting (8 a.m.) Use or Not to Use Good to Great Questions Design Like You Adviser Reception (8:30 p.m.) Delaware B (175) A Brush With History: America’s Cartooning on Cartoons and Satire are Evolution of a Cartoonist The Art and Commentary Write-off Contest Cold War Combat Artist Humor’s Edge Drawn Into the 21st Century of Cartooning Exhibit Hall A Trade Show Exhibits (8 a.m. - 4 p.m.) Exhibit Hall B On-Site Critiques Media Swap Shop (8 - 10 p.m.) Foyer Registration (8 a.m. - 4 p.m.) Jackson (40) Public Relations: Another Side Come Join Us: Entering the Fact/Fiction: The Journalism From Good to Great Write-off Contest of Journalism World of College Journalism School Application Jefferson (40) Give and Take: Building a Healthy Creating Protocol for Free & More Than Blue in a Box of Effective Editing Begins with Write-off Contest Relationship Between Your Media Responsible Student Media Crayons Rapport Lincoln 1 (30) JEA State Directors Meeting CJE/MJE Certification Study Session Lincoln 2 (250) Why the World Needs Comprehensive The Chandra Levy Make Rick Reilly Proud American Forum: Write-off Contest Journalists Sports Writing Murder and the Media Media and Sexuality Lincoln 3-4 (350) Meet the Authors: Jamie Raskin Meet the Author: JEA Bookstore/Adviser Meet the Authors: Robert JEA Bookstore/Adviser & E. Ethelbert Miller Kevin Kallaugher Hospitality (8 a.m. - 5 p.m.) and Carol Greenman Hospitality (8 a.m. - 5 p.m.) Lincoln 5 (350) Save the Journalists The 5th Inning: How to Write Truth, Access, Diversity Putting a New Face on an Contempt for Reporters: One Write-off Contest and Throw Into the Late Innings Old Story Journalist’s Fight to Protect News Sources Lincoln 6 (275) Covering Politics in Getting the Power of Media Literacy Write-off Contest the 21st Century Sports Story Program for Students Lobby Registration/Write-off Desk/Best of Show Desk (8 a.m. - 4 p.m.) Marriott Balcony A (120) What Color is Your Year? Shooting Photos with Managing Your Staffs Colors Stopping Power Marriott Balcony B (120) Top 10 Ways to Be Transforming Journalism: From Leaders are Made, Not Set up for Write-off Information to Engagement Write-off Contest Organized in Yearbook Born Contests Marriott Balcony C (90) Getting Along: Forging Deadline — A Not So A Question and Five More Relationships that Work Dirty Word Marriott Balcony D (90) We’ve Got You Covered Sound Editorial Policies Design Without InDesign Marriott Ballroom (4,200) Keynote Speaker Write-off Contest Marriott Salon 1 (700) Future of the Yearbook: The Future of the Yearbook: Why Off-the-Rack Designs New Journal-ism Yearbooks & Yearbook Staffs . . . Maryland AB (200) Dazzling Advertising Sales Adviser Luncheon Write-off Moderators Meeting Write-off Judges DeNeen Brown: Life as a Feature Writer (2:45 p.m.) Dinner and Judging Maryland C (135) In a Nutshell: The Prep for Write-off Writing Big Ideas for Small Schools Yearbooks Sold Out! Great Idea! Now What? Write-off Contest (6 p.m.) Soft-Serve Writing Model Contests Park Tower 8205 (20) Park Tower 8206 (50) Region 1/Northwest Meet, Creating Video Leadership Development Setting the Budget Stage Yearbooks No Longer Matters to Law in the Digital Era Write-off Contest Eat and Greet for the Web = Good Business Some Students: Participation . . . 9

33 Sessions ROOMS: 7:15 a.m. 9 a.m. 10 a.m. 11 a.m. Noon 1 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 4 - 6 p.m. EVENING Park Tower 8209 (50) Region 3/North Central From the Mouths of Babes Managing Your Poetry: The Synthesis of Adviser High School Sharing Solutions Write-off Contest FridayMeet, Eat and Greet Come Words of Wisdom Newspaper Staff Hyacinths and Biscuits Park Tower 8210 (50) Taming the Grading What’s Black and White Converging Classes and Publications Problems and Publications Boot Camp Write-off Contest Monster and Green All Over Media Solutions on a Shoestring Park Tower 8212 (50) Region 4/ South Central Meet, Forming Successful JEA Mentoring: Expanding Your Photo Porfolio Basics Yearbook from Red to Black Write-off Contest Eat and Greet Partnerships with the Pros Triage for Advisers Literary Magazine Park Tower 8216 (50) Region 5/Southeast Meet, Eat S.O.S. for New Advisers Advising Students on Write-off Contest and Greet First Amendment Rights Park Tower 8219 (50) Region 6/Mid-Atlantic and Great Using All Your Senses Magazine Design Q&A with the Coaching Writers Certification: Journalistic Write-off Contest Lakes Meet, Eat and Greet Magazine Editor Writing and AP Style Park Tower 8222 (50) Region 7/Northeast Raising a Lazarus: Focusing Your Focus Group Producing a Winning Journalist of the Year Portfolio Sunshine Week Celebration Meet, Eat and Greet Resurrect a Publication Park Tower 8226 (50) Region 2/Southwest Certification: Determining Certification: Role & Certification: Coverage, Survival Tips for the The First Amendment: Meet, Eat and Greet News Value History of U.S. Media Content and Writing Struggling Advisers First and Foremost Park Tower 8229 (20) Write-off Photo Judging Broadcast Mod., Broadcast Pkg. Broadcast Package Contest & Contest Turn-In Broadcast Mod., 40, 44 Broadcast Judging 45 Taft (40) Orientation 39, 42, 43 (12:30 p.m.) (6:45 p.m.) (7:30 a.m.) Meeting (8 a.m.) Taylor (40) Videography Orientation Get Right With Copyright Defining Moments Help Delights and Dilemmas of Meeting (8 a.m.) Teach the Basics the Write-off Contests Truman (40) In-camera Feature Your Friend, Research How to Choose Online That’s Not Plagiarism, or is It? Life after High School Write-off Contest Orientation Meeting 8 a.m. Training Journalism Tyler (40) What We Learned from The Team Bonded and What I Wish I Had Known Write-off Contest Beginning Teachers Gave 110% When I Was a New Adviser Virginia A (125) Great Photography is as Simple as Can’t We All Just Get You Can Do It — Future of Yearbook: 10 Things The Total Package TLC: Timing, Light & Composition Along? Should You? You Can Still Do to Sell Your Book Virginia B (125) Jump Start Your The Media World You Taking Your Daily Announcement Ka-ching! Broadcast vs. Broadcast Career Will Inherit Show to the Next Level Print Writing Virginia C (125) Take It From The Times Transitioning from High School Making the Best First Ms. Manners: Business Etiquette Snooping for Word Reporter to Pro. Journalist Impression Makes It Happen for Getting into College Crimes Washington 1 (290) Maggots, Rat Guts and Feeling Entertainingly Enough Beyond the Interviewing Basics Details of Theme Development A Designer’s Guide to What Write-off Contest Good About Throwing Up Works 9.11 Washington 2 (290) Dueling Design Divas Issue Seminar: Covering Health Issues: Photojournalism ‘Rules’ Future of Yearbook: Chicken Write-off Contest What to Know Before You Publish Little is Still Wrong Washington 3 (290) Future of Yearbook: What Are Theme: The Soundtrack Color by the Numbers Future of the Yearbook: Power of Visual Dynamics of Write-off Contest You Doing Right Now? to Your Year 10: Details! Details! Details! Storytelling Washington 4 (400) Super-Trendy, Readers are Hungry for Future of the Yearbook: Future of the Yearbook: Every Story Needs a Write-off Contest Ultra-Modern Design Time Great Narratives What’s the Big Deal? Yearbook Inc. Theme (or Two) Washington 5 (290) What Makes a Good Photo? Shoot Sports Like the Pros We Design with a Little Help What’s ‘Haute’ and What’s Yearbook Design: How to Write-off Contest from Our Friends ‘Naught’? Upgrade Designs & Win Awards Washington 6 (290) 10 Top Tips for Tip Top Is In-Depth Journalism Dead? Future of Yearbook: How Laugh Responsibly Covering the Unthinkable: What Write-off Contest Sportswriting Yearbook Can Impact Your Future Issues Need to be Addressed . . . Wilson A (34) Lab Troubleshooting InDesign InDesign Tips and Tricks Hands-on Podcasting Wilson B (110) May We Pray and Read the Our Public Schools: Birthplace Using Your Powers for Good: Friend Me A Radio Journey Write-off Contest Bible at School? of Modern Democracy Voice, School Improvement Wilson C (110) Photography Web Sites for The New Media Landscape Top 5 Trends Made Simple Lifting the Lid on Open Records Youth Civic Journalist Network Write-off Contest Teachers and Students (and What It Means to You)

2234 Advertising Cartooning New Media Photography Advising Law/Ethics Magazine Yearbook Broadcasting Leadership Newspaper Future of the Yearbook Sessions in white boxes are designed for general audiences or multiple areas of interest.

ROOMS: 7:15 a.m. 9 a.m. 10 a.m. 11 a.m. Noon 1 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 4 - 6 p.m. EVENING Park Tower 8209 (50) Region 3/North Central From the Mouths of Babes Managing Your Poetry: The Synthesis of Adviser High School Sharing Solutions Write-off Contest Meet, Eat and Greet Come Words of Wisdom Newspaper Staff Hyacinths and Biscuits Park Tower 8210 (50) Taming the Grading What’s Black and White Converging Classes and Publications Problems and Publications Boot Camp Write-off Contest Monster and Green All Over Media Solutions on a Shoestring Park Tower 8212 (50) Region 4/ South Central Meet, Forming Successful JEA Mentoring: Expanding Your Photo Porfolio Basics Yearbook from Red to Black Write-off Contest Eat and Greet Partnerships with the Pros Triage for Advisers Literary Magazine Park Tower 8216 (50) Region 5/Southeast Meet, Eat S.O.S. for New Advisers Advising Students on Write-off Contest and Greet First Amendment Rights Park Tower 8219 (50) Region 6/Mid-Atlantic and Great Using All Your Senses Magazine Design Q&A with the Coaching Writers Certification: Journalistic Write-off Contest Lakes Meet, Eat and Greet Magazine Editor Writing and AP Style Park Tower 8222 (50) Region 7/Northeast Raising a Lazarus: Focusing Your Focus Group Producing a Winning Journalist of the Year Portfolio Sunshine Week Celebration Meet, Eat and Greet Resurrect a Publication Park Tower 8226 (50) Region 2/Southwest Certification: Determining Certification: Role & Certification: Coverage, Survival Tips for the The First Amendment: Meet, Eat and Greet News Value History of U.S. Media Content and Writing Struggling Advisers First and Foremost Park Tower 8229 (20) Write-off Photo Judging Broadcast Package Contest & Contest Turn-In Broadcast Mod., 40, 44 On-Air Reporter and Broadcast Mod Mtg. Write-off Contest Broadcast Judging 45 Taft (40) Contest 41, 45 Radio News 45 after (12:30 p.m.) Broadcast Comm. Contest (2 p.m.) (2:45 p.m.) speech (6:45 p.m.) Taylor (40) Videography Orientation Get Right With Copyright Defining Moments Help Delights and Dilemmas of Broadcast Carry-in Contests (1:30 p.m.) Broadcast Judging Meeting (8 a.m.) Teach the Basics the Write-off Contests Truman (40) In-camera Feature Your Friend, Research How to Choose Online That’s Not Plagiarism, or is It? Life after High School Mod Mtg. Broadcast Carry-in Contests (1:30 p.m.) Write-off Contest Orientation Meeting 8 a.m. Training Journalism 1 p.m. Tyler (40) What We Learned from The Team Bonded and What I Wish I Had Known Broadcast Contest (if needed) Write-off Contest Beginning Teachers Gave 110% When I Was a New Adviser Virginia A (125) Great Photography is as Simple as Can’t We All Just Get You Can Do It — Future of Yearbook: 10 Things The Total Package TLC: Timing, Light & Composition Along? Should You? You Can Still Do to Sell Your Book Virginia B (125) Jump Start Your The Media World You Taking Your Daily Announcement Ka-ching! Broadcast vs. Write-off Photo Broadcast Career Will Inherit Show to the Next Level Print Writing Critiques Virginia C (125) Take It From The Times Transitioning from High School Making the Best First Ms. Manners: Business Etiquette Snooping for Word Reporter to Pro. Journalist Impression Makes It Happen for Getting into College Crimes Washington 1 (290) Maggots, Rat Guts and Feeling Entertainingly Enough Beyond the Interviewing Basics Details of Theme Development A Designer’s Guide to What Write-off Contest Good About Throwing Up Works 9.11 Washington 2 (290) Dueling Design Divas Issue Seminar: Covering Health Issues: Photojournalism ‘Rules’ Future of Yearbook: Chicken Write-off Contest What to Know Before You Publish Little is Still Wrong Washington 3 (290) Future of Yearbook: What Are Theme: The Soundtrack Color by the Numbers Future of the Yearbook: Power of Visual Dynamics of Write-off Contest You Doing Right Now? to Your Year 10: Details! Details! Details! Storytelling Student Dance 9 - 11:30 p.m. Washington 4 (400) Super-Trendy, Readers are Hungry for Future of the Yearbook: Future of the Yearbook: Every Story Needs a Write-off Contest Ultra-Modern Design Time Great Narratives What’s the Big Deal? Yearbook Inc. Theme (or Two) Washington 5 (290) What Makes a Good Photo? Shoot Sports Like the Pros We Design with a Little Help What’s ‘Haute’ and What’s Yearbook Design: How to Write-off Contest from Our Friends ‘Naught’? Upgrade Designs & Win Awards Washington 6 (290) 10 Top Tips for Tip Top Is In-Depth Journalism Dead? Future of Yearbook: How Laugh Responsibly Covering the Unthinkable: What Write-off Contest Sportswriting Yearbook Can Impact Your Future Issues Need to be Addressed . . . Wilson A (34) Lab Troubleshooting InDesign InDesign Tips and Tricks Hands-on Podcasting Teaching InDesign (2:30 p.m.) CJE/MJE Certification Testing (3:30 p.m.) Wilson B (110) May We Pray and Read the Our Public Schools: Birthplace Using Your Powers for Good: Friend Me A Radio Journey Write-off Contest Bible at School? of Modern Democracy Voice, School Improvement Wilson C (110) Photography Web Sites for The New Media Landscape Top 5 Trends Made Simple Lifting the Lid on Open Records Youth Civic Journalist Network Write-off Contest Teachers and Students (and What It Means to You)

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Region 3/North Central: Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, 7:15 a.m. South Dakota and Wisconsin ADVISING Gary Lindsay, MJE, John F. Kennedy High School, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Meet, Eat and Greet 7:15 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8209 (50) JEA invites teacher and adviser delegates to attend one of seven Meet, Eat and Greet sessions led by JEA regional directors. It’s a great way to Region 4/South Central: Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas network with others in your region and offer suggestions on how JEA Wayna Polk, CJE, Abilene High School, Abilene, Texas can better meet your needs as a journalism teacher. Those attending 7:15 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8212 (50) a JEA/NSPA convention for the first time are especially encouraged to stop by, as tips for getting the most from a national convention will Region 5/Southeast: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, be shared. If you are interested, you may be linked with a mentor. A South Carolina and Tennessee Brenda Gorsuch, MJE, West Henderson High School, Hendersonville, N.C. continental breakfast will be served at 7:15 a.m.; then you are invited 7:15 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8216 (50) to the JEA General Membership Meeting at 8 a.m. Region 6/Mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes: Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, Region 1/Northwest: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and Maryland, Michigan, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington, D.C. Wyoming. Tom Gayda, MJE, North Central High School, Indianapolis, Ind. Steve Matson, MJE, Charles Wright Academy, Tacoma, Wash. 7:15 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8219 (50) 7:15 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8206 (50) Region 7/Northeast: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Region 2/Southwest: Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, New New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont Mexico and Utah Jane Blystone, MJE, Mercyhurst College, Erie, Pa. Ellen Austin, CJE, Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, Calif. 7:15 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8222 (50) 7:15 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8226 (50)

CONTEST 7:30 a.m. JEA Write-off Photography Judging Check out the newBookstore books, as well as popular Judges for the photography contests will CONTEST bestsellers, at the JEA Bookstore. Nearly 300 books meet here throughout the day. Broadcast Moderators Meeting relating to journalism are available, including Bradley Wilson, CJE, North Carolina State University, Those moderating contests 39, 42 and 43 will textbooks, curriculum development, yearbook, Raleigh, N.C. 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Friday, Park Tower 8229 (20) meet here before the orientation meetings. newspaper, design, photography, writing, desktop 7:30 a.m. Friday, Taft (20) publishing, advertising and broadcast. Forget Write-off supplies? Check here to buy photo 9 a.m. mounting boards, dictionaries, thesauruses, 8 a.m. stylebooks, paper, pens, pencils, rulers and erasers. Supplies are limited, so shop early. Look On-site for schedule of Meet the Author book signings Advisers and staffs Critiqueswho submitted newspapers, throughout the convention. newsmagazines, yearbooks, videos and literary Trade Show 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Lincoln 3-4 magazines for a critique to should check Dozens of national and localExhibits vendors and appointment times posted in the registration area colleges will educate and entertain during in Exhibi Hall B. A schedule will be posted near CONTEST the trade show exhibit. Find out what’s new, the critique area on Friday and Saturday. Since chat with company representatives, pick up Broadcast Package Orientation critiques are only 30 minutes long, it is important information and have some fun. Meeting to be on time. 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Exhibit Hall A All students entered in the Broadcast 9-11 a.m. and 2:30-3:30 p.m. Exhibit Hall B Package contest will meet here for an orientation meeting and to get assignments Adviser for their contest. BROADCAST 8 a.m. Friday, Taft (20) Meet with your colleaguesHospitality from across the Music and Copyright: To Use or country in the adviser hospitality suite, the hot Not to Use spot for advisers. Local committee members CONTEST When and how can you legally use music to will be available to recommend sightseeing, Videography Contest “spice up” your video productions? What is dining and entertainment options. Refreshments Orientation Meeting fair use and what do you need to know about underwritten by Ball State University. All students entered in the Videography contest licenses? Many common class scenarios will 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Lincoln 3-4 will meet here for an orientation meeting and to be discussed with time for your questions. get assignments for their contest. Phillip Harris, Springfield, Va. 9 a.m. Friday, Delaware A (175) 8 a.m. Friday, Taylor (40)

MEETING CARTOONING JEA General Membership CONTEST In-Camera Feature Orientation A Brush With History: America’s Meeting Cold War Combat Artist JEA members and others interested in the Meeting All students entered in the In-Camera The long tradition of using an artist to cover a organization are invited to attend this meeting. Feature contest will meet here for an war is not dead. Chip Beck knows the difference You’ll learn about recent JEA board action, hear orientation meeting and to get assignments between a “combat artist” and a “military concerns and discuss future plans and goals. illustrator” and why photographers are not Jack Kennedy, MJE, Rock Canyon High School, Highlands for their contest. Ranch, Colo. 8 a.m. Friday, Truman (40) the end-all and be-all to visual reporting. Beck 8 a.m. Friday, Delaware A (175) will share illustrations and insights to events he covered as the “Cold War’s Combat Artist” 36 9 a.m. Friday in some 18 different conflicts, from Indochina so than ever before — the international GENERAL AUDIENCE, ADMINISTRATORS to Iraq, and more recently with regard to community needs a solid corps of Getting Along: Forging peacekeeping in Africa. dedicated, well-skilled members of the Relationships That Work Chip Beck, US State Department, Washington, D.C. Fourth Estate. Join a veteran adviser, a new adviser, 9 a.m. Friday, Delaware B (175) Donna Leinwand, Gannett News Service, Washington, D.C. student staffers and their principal for their 9 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 2 (250) unique perspectives on the ins and outs of NEWSPAPER, PUBLIC RELATIONS building and maintaining an award-winning Public Relations: MAGAZINES Save the Journalists media program. From sharing space to Another Side of Journalism recruiting students to handling controversy, Find out what goes into a press kit, how Learn the ins and outs for a future career a variety of issues will be covered. Be the materials are put together and the in journalism from a successful veteran. In sure to bring your own questions and/or journalist’s approach to dealing with public addition to tips, you will also learn how to experiences to share. relations account executives. garner ideas for stories that your school has David Clark, Kim Green, MJE, Rachel McCarver, CJE, Karen Thompson, Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy, La never seen before. Columbus North High School, Columbus, Ind. Canada Flintridge, Calif. Tom Shroder, The Washington Post Magazine, 9 a.m. Friday, Marriott Balcony C (90) 9 a.m. Friday, Jackson (40) Washington, D.C. 9 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 5 (350) YEARBOOk GENERAL AUDIENCE, ADMINISTRATORS We’ve Got You Covered Give and Take: Building a GENERAL AUDIENCE Is this an empty promise? Have you pushed Healthy Relationship Between What Color is YOUR Year? coverage to its limits by consciously covering Color matters. When making choices in your Your Media Staffs and the before, during and after of activities, events design, don’t just pick your favorite crayon out Administration and athletic contests? Bring a pencil and we the box! Thoughtful choices help make good Bridge the gap between your journalism will walk you through a tried-and-true method designs great designs. This session will address staff and your administration/school of extracting the most coverage opportunities the psychology of color and demonstrate how system. The president of Virginia of School from anything that happens at school. you can incorporate color into your publication Superintendents outlines tips for fostering a Judi Coolidge, Taylor Publishing Co., Avon Lake, Ohio, and in an effective and exciting way. Marilyn Scoggins, Taylor Publishing Co., Dallas, Texas responsible and thriving journalism program. Rhonda O’Dea, Walsworth Publishing Co., Richmond, Va. 9 a.m. Friday, Marriott Balcony D (90) Learn how to build a strong relationship with 9 a.m. Friday, Marriott Balcony A (120) your school administration and thus improve the content and coverage of your publication. YEARBOOk Donald Ford, Harrisonburg City Public Schools, Top 10 Ways to Be Organized in Harrisonburg, Va. Write-off Contest 9 a.m. Friday, Jefferson (40) Yearbook If both your Write-off registrationCheck-In and JEA Ever lost a photo or used one twice? membership fees have been paid, your school’s MEETING Forgotten to assign someone to cover the Write-off packet containing student contest JEA State Directors Meeting big game? Have different fonts on two tickets, additional instructions and contest All JEA state directors should attend this pages? Sent your pages in and realized room assignments may be picked up at the meeting to learn about upcoming events you were several spreads short? Nothing is Write-off desk. If you have not paid, you must and get helpful hints on how to make others more frustrating than a lack of organization do so at this time. Noon Friday is the deadline aware of the organization at the state level. affecting the quality of your yearbook. for substitutions in preregistered categories. No new entries will be accepted at the convention. Bob Bair, MJE, Blair High School, Blair, Neb. Learn 10 ways to organize your book and 9 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 1 (30) Lost tickets will be replaced for $5. Broadcast your class better and your life will be just a contest entrants in Videography, In-camera bit easier. This session will cover everything Feature and Broadcast Package must have FEATURED SPEAkER, GENERAL AUDIENCE from organizing photos to coming up with their contest ticket before the 8 a.m. Friday Why the World Needs Journalists the ladder, meeting deadlines on time, and orientation meetings. A reporter who has traveled the world grading students. Desk open: 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. Foyer to cover major news events and natural Mark Novom, Brentwood School, Los Angeles, Calif. disasters discusses why now — more 9 a.m. Friday, Marriott Balcony B (120)

GENERAL AUDIENCE Marriage Equity in the Spotlight: How to Report a Complex Diversity Topic (2 hours) This session will give the legal, ethical, political and personal aspects of same-sex marriage. The first hour begins as a press conference with one of the first couples to be married in San Francisco, who now live in Washington, D.C. Their union goes to the heart of legislation currently being proposed. Additional panelists will discuss development of human-interest stories and coverage of school debates, current events and the concerns of people from all angles in your community. In addition, this issue seminar will also provide research and legal advice on navigating through this emotional and controversial topic. 9 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 6 (275)

Michael Crawford, D.C. for Christopher Dyer, Office Michael Triplett, BNA Inc., James Packard-Gomez Kevin Walling, Marriage, Washington D.C. of GLBT Affairs Executive Arlington, Va. and Erwin Gomez Erwin Equality Maryland, Office of the Mayor, Gomez Salon and Spa, Baltimore, Md. Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Issue Seminar Issue 37 Friday 9 a.m.

ADVISERS ONLY, CONVERGENCE ADVISERS, ADMINISTRATORS Break with Creating Video for the Web Raising a Lazarus: How to Media professionals will sharea Proinformation Want to introduce Web video to your Resurrect a Fledgling Publication about their work and backgrounds in an newspaper or yearbook? A new, free online Two seasoned advisers share tips for injecting informal setting. Tickets for this preregistered course developed by RTNDF for NewsU will new life into a newspaper or yearbook program event will be in the school’s packet at help you. The course developers will cover that seem to be teetering on the brink of registration. There will be two one-hour blocks. story choice, equipment selection and extinction. Learn some tried and true methods Please check ticket for your assigned time and interviewing and shooting strategies. for adding vision, changing the culture, table number. Students are encouraged to be Julie Dodd, MJE, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla., and prepared with questions on career preparation Judy Robinson, CJE, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. improving the product, ensuring growth and requirements, nature of work, salary-level 9 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8206 (50) maintaining stability in publications. expectations and job availability. They may Sandy Hall-Chiles, Yavneh Academy of Dallas, Texas, and Carol Richtsmeier, CJE, Midlothian High School, Midlothian, Texas also inquire about how to handle issues or ADVISING 9 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8222 (50) situations in their work as student journalists. From the Mouths of Adviser 9 and 10 a.m., Exhibit Hall B Babes Come Words of Wisdom ADVISING Successful first- and second-year advisers talk What You Need to know to Be about the issues facing beginning advisers FUTURE OF THE YEARBOOk Certified: Determining News Value from their perspective while a veteran mentor Thinking about taking the CJE/MJE exam? The New Journal-ism adds her ideas based on her work with them Bloggers, Twitter, obsessive-compulsive Want a refresher on determining news value during the past year. within professional and scholastic publications ... Facebook, MySpace, text messages, Martha Rothwell, Statesville, N.C.; William C. Cutler, West inside stories... Telling the story has always Iredell High School, Statesville, N.Y., and Melanie Huynh- as it relates to print, broadcast and online been and continues to be at the heart of Duc, Northwest High School, Greensboro, N.C. media? This session will give you a good 9 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8209 (50) scholastic yearbook journalism. However, review of this topic and help you identify areas as journalism consumers change, yearbook to study before taking the exam. ADVISERS Brian Hayes, MJE, Ball State University, Muncie, Ind. staffs must explore new ways to uncover 9 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8226 (50) and relate the stories of the year, and Taming the Grading Monster Grading students on a publication is they must discover new way sto capture never simple. This session will give some LAW AND ETHICS and keep readers actively engaged. Thing suggestions on how to tame this continuing Get Right With Copyright readers, think journal-ism in concept, issue with some ideas one adviser has used. “I found the perfect photo on Google Images, content and design. Bill Flechtner, MJE, Warner Pacific College, Portland, Ore. but...” is the start of many a phone call to the John Cutsinger, Jostens, Ocoee, Fla., and Gary Lundren, 9 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8210 (50) Jostens, Minneapolis, Minn. SPLC attorney hotline. Learn what is and isn’t 9 a.m. Friday, Marriott Salon 1 (700) a permissible use of other people’s artwork, ADVISING photos, songs and videos, and some practical ADVERTISING, GENERAL AUDIENCE Forming Successful Partnerships tips to minimize your risk of being on the Dazzling Advertising Sales with the Pros wrong side of copyright. Learn great techniques to sell advertising How do you get professional news Adam Goldstein, Student Press Law Center, Arlington, Va. 9 a.m. Friday, Taylor (40) and build up the financial backbone of your organizations to work with your student publication. publication? Once you have a partnership, Beth Fitts, CJE, Mississippi Scholastic Press Association, what do you do? Learn how to get ADVISERS University, Miss. Your Friend, Research 9 a.m. Friday, Maryland AB (200) professional news organizations to help your publications and your students. Information Whether you’re working on master’s degree or you’re looking for research that can help you NEWSPAPER will be given on how to create a partnership In a Nutshell: The Soft-Serve and activities that can be implemented to improve your journalism program, this session Writing Model make it successful. is for you. Learn about scholastic journalism Kelly Gionti, Dr. Martin Luther King High School for Law, research that’s being conducted and discuss The summary lead works well for breaking New York, N.Y. new ideas for interesting research projects. news on your Web site, but it makes little 9 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8212 (50) Candace Bowen, MJE, and Mark Goodman, Kent State sense for your less frequent newspaper or University, Kent, Ohio, and Adam Maksl, CJE, University of ADVISERS Missouri, Columbia, Mo. yearbook stories. Using the “focus structure,” 9 a.m. Friday, Truman (40) you can turn that dry inverted pyramid S.O.S. for New Advisers story cone into a tasty feature treat that will New to newspaper advising? Wondering how to ADVISERS tempt your readers. Anecdotes, nut graphs grade, keep organized and survive the day-to- What We Learned from and other strategies will help you find and day chaos? Come to this session and join others Beginning Teachers maintain an engaging focus. asking the same questions. Casey Combs Henry, Mt. Lebanon High School, Pittsburgh, Pa. Mary Lou Nagy, MJE, Plymouth High School, Canton, Mich. We will show you how to use technology to 9 a.m. Friday, Maryland C (135) 9 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8216 (50) manage copy flow, teach grammar and style and encourage quality writing. We will help MAGAZINE MEETING you generate ideas for working with editors National Professional Learning Using All Your Senses and staff. Training and empowering your Community (2 hours) Focus on feature reporting and writing: how editors to be leaders eases your stress and This group will meet to discuss curriculum best to use relevant, descriptive detail and gives staff members the responsibility and and ideas for the PLC project. dialogue to paint a picture, improve interview control over their publications. Mark Newton, MJE Mountain Vista High School, Highlands techniques and develop observation skills. Linda Drake, CJE, Chase County High School, Cottonwood Ranch, Colo. Then, how do you get it published? Falls, Kan., and Mary Anne McCloud, CJE, Newton, Kan. 9 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8205 (20) Brad Jenkins, The Breeze, James Madison University, 9 a.m. Friday, Tyler (40) Harrisonburg, Va. 9 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8219 (50)

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PHOTOGRAPHY use at your school. We’ll view newspapers, you can quickly look professional. Sites Great Photography is as Simple as yearbooks and magazines. We can all learn discussed will have Web 2.0, print and sales, TLC: Timing, Light and Composition from each other. And if it’s a convention and storage options. The “scales” of photographic education, session with Tom and Kathy that can only Bryan Farley, Oakland, Calif. 9 a.m. Friday, Wilson C (110) these three core principles will make your mean one thing: prizes galore. photography better instantly. Tom Gayda, MJE, North Central High School, Indianapolis, Dave LaBelle, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky. Ind., and Kathy Habiger, CJE, Mill Valley High School, 9 a.m. Friday, Virginia A (125) Shawnee, Kan. 10 a.m. 9 a.m. Friday, Washington 4 (400) BROADCAST BROADCAST Jump Start Your Broadcast Career PHOTOGRAPHY Storytelling — From Good to Great This session will offer students options to What Makes A Good Photo? Great journalists are great storytellers. They It seems that everyone has a an opinion pursue as they prepare to complete their make information entertaining, compelling on what makes a good photo, but almost high school career and begin their collegiate and memorable. From interviewing to everyone can agree on some basic principles. experience. All students considering writing, this session will focus on tips to Check this session out and your images will broadcast journalism are invited. improve your storytelling and make your Anthony Moretti, Point Park University, Pittsburgh, Pa. never be the same. packages unforgettable. 9 a.m. Friday, Virginia B (125) Tim Morley, Inland Lakes High School, Indian River, Mich. Janet Kerby, Roane County High School, Spencer, W.Va. 9 a.m. Friday, Washington 5 (290) 10 a.m. Friday, Delaware A (175)

NEWSPAPER Take It From The Times NEWSPAPER FEATURED SPEAkER, CARTOONING Learn how to create and write compelling 10 Top Tips for Tip Top Sports Cartooning on Humor’s Edge articles for your paper using story ideas, Writing When viewing an Ann Telnaes editorial background material and writing styles from Do you get the sense that readers aren’t paying cartoon one is reminded of an Alexander The New York Times. much attention to your sports coverage? Is Calder sculpture — graceful in line and Nick Ferentinos, Saratoga, Calif., and Robert Greenman, your sports section dry and dull, full of dated powerful in impact on the viewer. One of Brooklyn, N.Y. game stories and incomplete statistics? Here two women to receive the Pulitzer Prize for 9 a.m. Friday, Virginia C (125) are 10 terrific ideas that will help make your Editorial Cartooning, Ann Telnaes will talk sports section come alive for readers. about Herblock — she’s a big fan of his work NEWSPAPER Karl Grubaugh, CJE, Granite Bay High School, Granite Bay, Calif. — and share her transition from print to 9 a.m. Friday, Washington 6 (290) Maggots, Rat Guts and Feeling animated editorial cartoons. Good About Throwing Up Ann Telnaes, Washington, D.C. Interviews are the heart of feature stories. COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY 10 a.m. Friday, Delaware B (175) Learn why and how interviews can make a Troubleshooting InDesign difference in your stories. Are there InDesign features you don’t GENERAL AUDIENCE Rhonda Moore, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas understand? In this hands-on session, you will Come Join Us: Entering the 9 a.m. Friday, Washington 1 (290) get handouts and answers to your questions. World of College Journalism (Sign up and get ticket for this session at the No matter what your high school media NEWSPAPER registration area. Limit 34.) experience and where you go to college, Dueling Design Divas Susan Roberts, MJE, LaPorte High School, LaPorte, Texas, your college newspaper, yearbook or Newspapers are still creating some awesome and Hal Schmidt, PS Graphics Inc., Kingwood, Texas broadcast station would love to have you! pages and telling some great stories. Come take 9 a.m. Friday, Wilson A (34) This session offers tips to work in journalism a look and vote for your favorites. And while when you go off to college and what you can you’re looking, be sure to jot down content and FEATURED SPEAkER, LAW AND ETHICS, ADMINISTRATORS May We Pray and Read the Bible do now to prepare. design ideas for your own publication. Sally Turner, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Ill. Cheryl Pell, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich. at School? 10 a.m. Friday, Jackson (40) Betsy Rau, Bay City, Mich. Have a conversation with Jamie Raskin 9 a.m. Friday, Washington 2 (290) about the separation of church and state LAW AND ETHICS, ADMINISTRATORS, ADVISERS at school. How does law govern religion at FUTURE OF THE YEARBOOk Creating Protocol for Free and school? Topics will include official prayers Responsible Student News Media What Are You Doing Right Now? in the classroom and on the football field, Let’s face it; you’ve probably already updated Get an update on and contribute to a Bible readings, theology classes, statutory your Facebook status or Twitter profile several project supported by the Illinois Press prohibitions on teaching Charles Darwin and times today. But when was the last time you evolutionary theory, mandatory teaching updated your yearbook? In this session we’ll of “creation-science,” meetings by religious explore ways yearbook staffs can and should Best of Show student groups after-hours, valedictorian shift to accommodate the changing wants and Will your staff bring home the trophyDesk this year? addresses on religious themes, and the needs of your readers. See examples and share See how your publication fares against others controversy over the words “under God” in the ideas about how to make your book more represented at the convention. High school Pledge of Allegiance. publications are eligible if at least one student interactive, customized and reader-relevant. Jamie Raskin, Washington College of Law, American representative is attending the convention and Casey Nichols, CJE, Rocklin High School, Rocklin, Calif., and University, Washington, D.C. junior high publications can enter if the adviser Sarah Nichols, MJE, Whitney High School, Rocklin, Calif. 9 a.m. Friday, Wilson B (110) 9 a.m. Friday, Washington 3 (290) is a registered delegate at the convention. Enter your newspaper, newsmagazine, literary arts PHOTOGRAPHY, ADVISING MAGAZINE, NEWSPAPER, YEARBOOk magazine, video, Web site or yearbook at the Best Super-Trendy, Ultra-Modern Photography Web Sites for of Show desk. Winners will be announced at the Teachers and Students NSPA Awards Ceremony on Saturday. Design Time Learn what photography Web sites are Desk open: 1-7 p.m. Lobby Let’s look at some great designs you can available for teachers and students so that 39 Friday 10 a.m.

Foundation and the McCormick Freedom many young writers. You will join him on a tradition. From yearbook editor to Jostens Museum to create protocol for nurturing journey into and through the writing life. president and CEO, Tim Larson shares free and responsible student news media. Miller will provide a path for creating scenes, how the very skills and leadership you are The protocol will include (a) proactive capturing memories and learning to “stretch experiencing today create tremendous strategies for building and maintaining the words, bend them, place them on a page, opportunities to make a difference. cooperative relationships among student and change them again.” Tim Larson, Jostens, Minneapolis, Minn. 10 a.m. Friday, Marriott Salon 1 (700) journalists, faculty news media advisers and E. Ethelbert Miller, Howard University, Washington, D.C. 10 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 5 (350) school administrators; (b) problem-solving framework for dealing with journalism issues NEWSPAPER, YEARBOOk PHOTOGRAPHY and controversies without jeopardizing Prep for Write-off Writing Contests student rights, adviser job security and Shooting Photos With Stopping Come find out how the Write-offs work and administrator pedagogical responsibilities; Power get useful hints to help you do your best in (c) principles of democratic education, Learn how to shoot photos for any event that your writing contest. stop readers on the page. These techniques Linda Mercer, Halifax, Va. journalism ethics and skillful leadership that 10 a.m. Friday, Maryland C (135) the school should inculcate and learners will have your student body drooling over your images. Come see real examples of and educators engage in; (d) procedures for ADVISING, BUSINESS/ADVERTISING evaluating application and effectiveness of coverage of typical events at any school. Beth Shull, Pulaski Academy, Little Rock, Ark., and Margaret Leadership Development = protocol; (e) checks and balances to inspire Sorrows, CJE, Bryant High School, Bryant, Ark. Good Business rehabilitation if protocol is breached or needs 10 a.m. Friday, Marriott Balcony A (120) The business aspects of your publications to be revised. offer opportunities to develop leaders, Randy Swikle, CJE, McHenry, Ill. NEWSPAPER, BROADCAST, ONLINE 10 a.m. Friday, Jefferson (40) expand the make-up of your staff and expand Transforming Journalism: From your program. This presentation will show NEWSPAPER Information to Engagement how one proven program works and offer a Comprehensive Sports Writing This session explores the Pulitzer Center’s chance for new advisers to ask their questions tranformative model — from global This session will deal with sports writing about the business side of publications. newsgathering focused on stories to Gary Lindsay, MJE, John F. Kennedy High School, Cedar coverage and writing strategies that underreported in U.S. media to award- Rapids, Iowa are designed to work regardless of your Noon Friday, Park Tower 8206 (50) winning educational tools to engage the next publication’s format or frequency. “Game” generation of citizens. Participants discover coverage, as well as feature writing, briefs ADVISING, MIDDLE SCHOOL, NEWSPAPER ways to encourage students to delve into coverage, opinion pieces and dealing with international topics, think critically about the Managing Your Newspaper Staff college and pro sports coverage will be Advisers will discuss strategies to facilitate the world and make global-local connections. discussed. Also, the session will devote time growth of young writers while maintaining a Multimedia-multiple news platforms and to obtaining professional credentials, training high quality publication. Topics will include the techniques are explored along with substance. a staff and looking at major issues facing high Ann Peters, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, writing process, how much younger students school sports writers. Washington, D.C. can handle, covering controversial issues Dean Hume, CJE, Lakota East High School, Liberty 10 a.m. Friday, Marriott Balcony B (120) and publication schedules. Handouts will be Township, Ohio 10 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 2 (250) provided to help in the classroom. NEWSPAPER, YEARBOOk Wanda Pletcher, Altoona Area Junior High School, Altoona Pa. Deadline — A Not So Dirty Word 10 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8209 (50) Learn several easy tips on how to make your deadlines less painful and easier to manage. ADVISING Meet the Time will be allowed for questions and answers. What’s Black and White and Dave LaBelle and CarolAuthors Richtsmeier Lori Keekley, CJE, Saint Louis Park High School, Saint Louis Green All Over? Dave LaBelle, author of “The Great Picture Hunt Park, Minn. Traditional and creative means of getting 2” and “I Don’t Want to Know All the Technical 10 a.m. Friday, Marriott Balcony C (90) plenty of greenbacks to pay for your Stuff ... I Just Want to Shoot Pictures,” will meet publication and staff needs will be discussed. with convention delegates and will autograph LAW AND ETHICS, GENERAL AUDIENCE, ADMINISTRATORS his books in the foyer outside the JEA Bookstore. The Importance of Sound Bring any questions or ideas for a balance Author, teacher and blogger Carol Richtsmeirer sheet that is in the black. will sign copies of her book, “How to Lose Your Editorial Policies Joe Pfeiff, CJE, Peoria, Ariz., and Carmen Wendt, CJE, Self of Steam & Other Lessons I Never Learned Correctly crafted editorial policies are one way Scottsdale, Ariz. 10 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8210 (50) from Professional Development.” to help your publications establish themselves 10 a.m. Lincoln 3-4 Foyer as designated forums for student expression. This session will discuss the strengths — and ADVISING weaknesses — of developing such policies, JEA Mentoring — Triage for New FEATURED SPEAkER, MAGAZINE and what should go into strong ones. Advisers The 5th Inning: How to Write John Bowen, MJE, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, and JEA-trained mentors are prepared to help Carrie Faust, CJE, Smoky Hill High School, Aurora, Colo. first- and second-year journalism advisers and Throw Into the Late Innings 10 a.m. Friday, Marriott Balcony D (90) who may feel they are likely to 1) live through He is soft-spoken, outspoken, curious, the experience; 2) die from the experience; 3) generous, uplifting. Historian Douglas Brinkley FUTURE OF THE YEARBOOk thrive, given appropriate help. Apply for a JEA calls E. Ethelbert Miller “one of the really great Why Yearbooks and Yearbook Staffs mentor. Find out how to assess your situation American poets.” Others admire his role as a Really Matter Now and Forever and locate the resources for survival, with or father to his children, to other writers, to words Be a part of an engaging session that without the help of a mentor. on the page. While Miller talks with you about highlights how yearbook staffs are at the Jo Ann Hagood, Jackson, Ala., and Marie Parsons, writing a memoir, you will meet the poet, the center of connecting today’s trends and University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala. memoir writer and the man who has nurtured technology to evolve the timeless yearbook 10 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8212 (50) 40 10 a.m. Friday Issue Seminar

GENERAL AUDIENCE Covering Health Issues: What You Need to know Before You Publish a Health-Related Story (2 hours) MRSA, H1N1 and prescription drug abuse: These are just a few of the complex health issues high school student have had to face and report on recently. A distinguished panel of scientists, print and broadcast reporters and student editors will talk about how to get the out so students will better understand service journalism’s communication of health information as well as the science and policy behind these hot topics. 10 a.m. Friday, Washington 2 (290)

Arvin Ahmadi, Thomas Richard Harris, Kate Harrison, Montgomery Elizabeth Preza, Dan Vergano, Timothy Condon, National Moderator: Jerald L. Jefferson High School for National Public Radio, County Public Schools Public Rockville High School, USA Today, Institute on Drug Abuse, Newberry, National Science and Technology, Washington, D.C. Information Office, Rockville, Md. McLean, Va National Institutes of Health, Education Association Alexandria, Va. Rockville, Md. Bethesda, Md. Health Information Network, Washington, D.C.

MAGAZINE ADVISING, ONLINE GENERAL AUDIENCE Magazine Design How to Choose Online Training Transitioning from High School Effective use of color, typography and Whether you want training for a specific Reporter to Professional Journalist photos creates an eye-catching magazine. kind of software, a basic overview course A young reporter and her former newspaper A magazine publisher and college media or a complete master’s degree online, more adviser talk about the training and adviser will also give tips on using sidebars and more options are available. But what experiences that young journalists can learn and breakouts to make stories more readable. should a teacher be looking for in Web- from their work on a school publication and Brad Jenkins, The Breeze, James Madison University, based instruction? Is it harder or easier than how those experiences can help in whatever Harrisonburg, Va. 10 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8219 (50) face-to-face options? Get some tips from career they choose. online instructors and students from various Marge Craig, CJE, Hayfield Secondary School, Alexandria, Va., and Sadia Latifi, Western Triangle, Raleigh, N.C. BUSINESS/ADVERTISING, GENERAL AUDIENCE institutions to see if this is a good idea for you. 10 a.m. Friday, Virginia C (125) Candace Bowen, MJE, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio; Focusing Your Focus Group Adam Maksl, CJE, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo., What does your audience want? Stop guessing and Aaron Manfull, MJE, Francis Howell North High School, NEWSPAPER Saint Charles, Mo. Entertainingly Enough and just ask them. In this session we will 10 a.m. Friday, Truman (40) discuss tips on running a focus group to get Review writing is often just a plot summary the most information out of your audience and YEARBOOk and a list of actors. Come to this session what to do with the information. The Team Bonded, and and learn how to make your reviews more Ashley Duchesneau, Taylor Publishing Co., Melbourne Beach, Fla. entertaining for your readers. Noon Friday, Park Tower 8222 (50) Everyone Gave 110% Rhonda Moore, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas Trite and generic are terms that could 10 a.m. Friday, Washington 1 (290) ADVISING be applied too many of our high school What You Need to know to be newspaper articles. Learn some tricks for YEARBOOk Certified: Role & History of Media preventing the boring, the mundane, the Theme: The Soundtrack to Your Year insipid and the redundant. Whether blaring powerfully or playing softly Planning to take the CJE test? Considering Ellen Kersey, CJE, Salem, Ore. it? Just wanting to be more familiar with the 10 a.m. Friday, Tyler (40) in the background, almost unnoticed, your history of media and their role in society? theme sets the tone for the book while This session is for you. Whether it’s knowing ADVISERS, ADMINISTRATORS helping you tell the year’s stories. In this the most important journalism milestones or Can’t We All Just Get Along? session we’ll look at theme layering and the subtle-and not so subtle-ways theme can understanding the varied roles media play in Building a relationship with your enhance your yearbook and make music to society, this is place to find out what’s essential. administration is critical for the high school Linda Barrington, MJE, Mount Mary College, Milwaukee, Wis. your readers’ ears. 10 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8226 (50) newspaper and yearbook. This session will Casey Nichols, CJE, Rocklin High School, Rocklin, Calif., and explore ways for advisers to strengthen that Sarah Nichols, MJE, Whitney High School, Rocklin, Calif. 10 a.m. Friday, Washington 3 (290) ADVISING relationship and create better publications. Jeanne Acton, University Interscholastic League, Austin, Texas Defining Moments Help Teach 10 a.m. Friday, Virginia A (125) NEWSPAPER, YEARBOOk the Basics Readers are Hungry for Great This teaching unit for advisers incorporates GENERAL AUDIENCE the basics of interviewing, telling a story The Media World You Will Inherit Narratives It’s easy to get caught up in the excitement through quotes, following directions, Take a look at the media, Web-dominated of new technologies of tweets and podcasts especially in attention to details, style and world that students will inherit — and the job and flash videos, but one of the glories of editing, composing on the computer, use of opportunities that will exist there. Bill Nichols, Politico, Arlington, Va. journalism is the writing that helps readers sidebars and much more. 10 a.m. Friday, Virginia B (125) Karen Flowers, CJE, University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. understand their world a bit better. That 10 a.m. Friday, Taylor (40) touches the hearts of readers. That lets readers lose themselves in a great story. This session offers examples of great narratives in all shapes and sizes and provides a few hints on how you 41 Friday 10 - 11 a.m. can rededicate yourself to narrative writing. GENERAL AUDIENCE Jack Kennedy, MJE, Rock Canyon High School, Highlands 10:15 a.m. Ranch, Colo. ADVISING More Than Blue in a Box of Crayons 10 a.m. Friday, Washington 4 (400) Write for JEA’s Magazine. Learn to use every color in your staff’s box of crayons. Identify your staff and school Interact. population and diversify the coverage of your PHOTOGRAPHY Click the link to JEA’s magazine, school community. Come and share your Shoot Sports Like the Pros Communication: Journalism Education Today, in Use these tips from the professionals to take staff’s ideas and challenges. person. Meet and munch with the copy editor Teddi Johnson, CJE, Oak Grove High School, North Little your publication’s sports photography to the about a capital idea in the Adviser’s Hospitality Rock, Ark., and Norma Kneese, MJE, Snake River High limit. Follow this adviser’s quest to be a member Suite between 10:15 and 11:30 a.m. Merit School, Blackfoot, Idaho 11 a.m. Friday, Jefferson (40) of the Sportsshooter online community. status as an adviser who writes for a national Tim Morley, Inland Lakes High School, Indian River, Mich. magazine — or shape future content with an 10 a.m. Friday, Washington 5 (290) FEATURED SPEAkER, GENERAL AUDIENCE inspired suggestion. Come with ideas and a The Chandra Levy Murder and NEWSPAPER, YEARBOOk volunteer spirit. Connect. Howard Spanogle, CJE, Asheville, N.C. the Media Is In-depth Journalism Dead? 10:15 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 3-4 How do you cover controversial, edgy, In 2001 a 24-year-old intern named Chandra important stories so well that you won’t be Levy was missing. Because a congressman disciplined and your adviser won’t be fired? was linked to her romantically, media Attend this session to find out! Included 11 a.m. coverage was constant — until Sept. 11. Six nuggets such as generating story ideas, years after Levy’s disappearance and death, how to do the reporting, and what kind Advisers two Washington Post investigative reporters of graphic elements, including photo revisited the case at the urging of their Relax and dine with your Luncheon editors. For Sari Horwitz and Scott Higham, it illustrations, help pull the whole thing colleagues in a relaxed together. If you want to publish the kinds would involve unraveling “the most famous setting. This luncheon will unsolved murder in modern Washington.” of significant stories that will help set honor the Washington, D.C., the agenda on your campus and in your local convention planning Hear how they investigated the case using community, this is the session for you. committee. Guest speaker many multimedia platforms and how their Karl Grubaugh, CJE, Granite Bay High School, Granite Bay, Calif. DeNeen Brown, award-winning “public accountability project” resulted in a 10 a.m. Friday, Washington 6 (290) Style section reporter for The Washington Post, 13-part series and their new book. will talk about her life as a feature writer. Pre- Scott Higham and Sari Horwitz, The Washington Post, registration required. Please bring your ticket. Washington, D.C. COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY 11 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 2 (250) InDesign Tips and Tricks 11 a.m. - 12:50 p.m. Maryland AB Look at trends in yearbooks and magazines, then view intermediate to advanced tips and NEWSPAPER, YEARBOOk tricks in InDesign to make your designing Asking Those Offbeat Questions Meet the experience more fun. (Sign up and get ticket for Learn how to interview by going a little bit E. Ethelbert Miller andAuthors Jamie Raskin Meet poet E. Ethelbert Miller who will this session at the registration area. Limit 34.) crazy when you ask questions that will make Kathryn Phillips, Walsworth Publishing Co., Arlington, Va. autograph his latest memoir, “The 5th Inning.” 10 a.m. Friday, Wilson A (34) the readers react to your writing. Learn how to Jamie Raskin will speak with convention make your readers laugh, cry, frown, grimace delegates and autograph his book “We the FEATURED SPEAkER, LAW AND ETHICS and shout “Hallelujah.” Go crazy folks, go crazy! Students: Supreme Court Cases for and About Kathy Craghead, MJE, Mexico, Mo., and H.L. Hall, MJE, America’s Students.” Our Public Schools — Hendersonville, Tenn. 11 a.m. Lincoln 3-4 Foyer the Birthplace of Modern 11 a.m. Friday, Delaware A (175) American Democracy Students have been involved in three FEATURED SPEAkER, CARTOONING Supreme Court cases — Barnett, Brown and Cartoons and Satire are Drawn FEATURED SPEAkER, GENERAL AUDIENCE Tinker — that established the key principles Into the 21st Century of modern American democracy: the right Meet one of the world’s top cartoonists as Truth, Access, Diversity Truth, access and diversity — these are to dissent, freedom of conscience, equality he presents lecture on the move of satirical three keys that will take our profession into of educational opportunity, racial justice and cartoons from lead pencil to digital pixel. KAL the next, best stage of existence. Even with freedom of democratic debate and discussion is lively as a “Second City” show and his works technology, we need to make sure that the (even in wartime). How are these democratic are refined as an exhibit at the Tate Gallery and edited medium -regardless of its platform — values doing in schools today? interactive and engaging as a 3D show. Jamie Raskin, Washington College of Law, American Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher, The Economist, Washington, D.C. is valued and respected by print readers and University, Washington, D.C. 11 a.m. Friday, Delaware B (175) online viewers. As America changes, access to 10 a.m. Friday, Wilson B (110) truthful information and being able to reach GENERAL AUDIENCE our varied, emerging diversities become even FEATURED SPEAkER, DIGITAL MEDIA Fact/Fiction: The Journalism more vital and relevant. The New Media Landscape Glenn Proctor, The Richmond Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va. School Application 11 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 5 (350) (and What It Means to You) Do you dream of taking your journalism skills to Take a quick tour of today’s media landscape a college campus? Are you planning to major in — from the role of Twitter to the challenges FEATURED SPEAkER, GENERAL AUDIENCE journalism? Explore the truths and myths with Covering Politics in the 21st Century facing news organizations. an admissions professional from a journalism Amy Eisman, American University School of CNN Worldwide’s political director Sam Fiest school. All class years are welcome to attend. Communication, Washington, D.C. discusses why America needs the mainstream 10 a.m. Friday, Wilson C (110) Allyson Hill, USC Annenburg School for Communication, Los Angeles, Calif. media more than ever. 11 a.m. Friday, Jackson (40) Sam Feist, CNN, Washington, D.C. 11 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 6 (275) 42 11 a.m. Friday

GENERAL AUDIENCE content, organizational management and ADVISERS Managing Your Staff’s Colors staff motivation. What You Need to know to be The collection of personalities on any Linda Drake, CJE, Chase County High School, Cottonwood Falls, Kan. Certified: Coverage, Content staff undoubtedly can cause friction. With 11 a.m. Friday, Maryland C (135) and Writing the aid of a personality test, participants Planning to take the CJE or MJE test? will learn how well they mesh with other YEARBOOk, BUSINESS/ADVERTISING Considering it? Or just wanting to be more staff members and how to avoid potential Setting the Budget Stage familiar with coverage, content and writing disasters at deadline. This new awareness Setting up a marketing plan for the year issues in student media? This is the session will help them build a cohesive and is essential to keeping your budget in the for you. Whether it’s learning how to improve cooperative staff. black. Learn how to put your marketing coverage in your school, fine-tuning the Michael Daly and Margaret Sorrows, CJE, Bryant High School, Bryant, Ark. strategy together for the year for selling content in your publications, or improving the 11 a.m. Friday, Marriott Balcony A (120) yearbooks and ads. writing process, here is the place to find out Carolyn Henderson, Walsworth Publishing Co., Matthews, what’s essential and how you can teach it. GENERAL AUDIENCE N.C., and Matt Wallace, Walsworth Publishing Co., Virginia Lizabeth Walsh, MJE, Reno High School, Reno, Nev. Beach, Va. 11 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8226 (50) Leaders are Made, Not Born 11 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8206 (50) If you have the desire and willpower, you ADVISING can become an effective leader. This session MAGAZINE is for editors and wanna-be editors. We will Poetry: The Synthesis of Delights and Dilemmas of the cover tips for developing leadership skills, Hyacinths and Biscuits Write-off Contests Get in inside scoop on Write-offs. Learn what resolving conflicts, maintaining a positive The title of this workshop comes from a it takes to be a judge. Get important tips from attitude and coaching writers: It’s all about definition of poetry hazarded by Carl Sandburg. seasoned Write-off lead judges. Get a packet people skills and communication. We will consider any poems containing biscuits Linda Barrington, MJE, Brookfield, Wis. of critique sheets for the contests to study and or hyacinths, as well as many other things. Bring 11 a.m. Friday, Marriott Balcony B (120) to use in your classroom. Ask questions. We’ll one or two poems to share and to talk about answer them if we can. (For advisers only.) GENERAL AUDIENCE selection for publication. Carla Harris, MJE, Hillsboro, Ore., and Patricia Turley, A Question and Five More Mike Janssen, Arlington, Va. Junction City, Ore., Sandy Jacoby, Salem, Wis. 11 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8209 (50) 11 a.m. Friday, Taylor (40) Boring stories? Predictable quotes? Learn how you or members of your staff can get to ADVISING LAW AND ETHICS the good stuff in your interviews and breathe Converging Classes and Media That’s Not Plagiarism! Or Is It? life into your writing. This interactive session Without giving up on print media, this The Internet provides journalists with tons of will change the way you work. session will explore ways to converge print information, along with substantial legal and Wendy Wallace, The Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, Fla. 11 a.m. Friday, Marriott Balcony C (90) and video content. ethical dilemmas. Learn what you can use Rod Howe, Omaha Westside High School, Omaha, Neb. from the Web and how attribution is the key 11 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8210 (50) YEARBOOk, ONLINE for some items but not others. This session will also cover how evaluating organizations Design without InDesign MAGAZINE Maybe you have thought about online are cracking down on plagiarism in contests. Expanding Your Literary Magazine Candace Bowen, MJE, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio yearbook creation, but feared losing Look at some examples of award-winning 11 a.m. Friday, Truman (40) precious design features. Now, come and literary magazines and discuss ways to improve see what is available online to design eye- your school’s publication, including fundraising ADVISING catching spreads and produce cool graphics ideas. What I Wish I Had known When I for your yearbook. Mark Murray, Arlington ISD, Arlington, Texas Brian Flamm, Walsworth Publishing Co., Crozet, Va. 11 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8212 (50) Was a New Adviser 11 a.m. Friday, Marriott Balcony D (90) Knowing some tricks, some do’s and don’ts, will help you and your staff produce a more MAGAZINE professional product. YEARBOOk Q&A with the Magazine Editor Ellen Kersey, CJE, Salem, Ore. Off-The-Rack Designs Bring your issues, questions, and concerns. 11 a.m. Friday, Tyler (40) Enjoy an up-to-the-minute review of the hottest Magazine publisher and college media titles on the newsstand. Visual inspiration lives adviser Brad Jenkins will offer advice or BROADCAST on the pages of modern magazines: They give critique your magazine, offering constructive You Can Do It — Should You? us fashion forward type, color and spatial cues. tips to make it better. How should student reporters and producers Brad Jenkins, The Breeze, James Madison University, make tough calls on deadline? Explore how Find out how to use your favorite publications Harrisonburg, Va. to bring new appeal to your pages. “This doesn’t 11 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8219 (50) professional journalists decide “the right look like a yearbook” is the highest compliment thing to do.” Learn how you can use the you will ever receive ... and here’s where you GENERAL AUDIENCE same techniques to balance responsibilities learn how to do it. Producing a Winning Journalist and rights. Steve Kent, Herff Jones Yearbooks, Roanoke, Va. Janet Kerby, Roane County High School, Spencer, W.Va., Noon Friday, Marriott Salon 1 (700) of the Year Portfolio (2 hours) and Carol Knopes, Radio-Television News Directors Examine winning portfolios in JEA’s Journalist of Foundation, Washington, D.C. 11 a.m. Friday, Virginia A (125) ADVISING, NEWSPAPER, YEARBOOk the Year scholarship competition and see how Big Ideas for Small Schools to win money for your college education. This Just because you’re in a small school doesn’t session will cover the scoring rubric and aspects BROADCAST mean you have to have a small journalism of the portfolio preparation and presentation. Taking Your Daily Announcement program. Learn how to make the most of Wayna Polk, CJE, Abilene High School, Abilene, Texas, and Lisa Van Etta, Cypress Falls High School, Houston, Texas Show to the Next Level small staffs and small budgets by using 11 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8222 (50) If you have two people who sit at a desk for big time ideas for fundraising, recruiting, 43 Friday 11 a.m. - Noon

your daily announcement show, then this NEWSPAPER, YEARBOOk, MAGAZINE NEWSPAPER, YEARBOOk, MAGAZINE workshop is for you. Michael Hernandez will We Design with a Little Help Top 5 Trends Made Simple discuss how the addition of packages and from Our Friends Do you ever look at great designs in public service announcements can make your From magazines to brochures to junk magazines and think, How did they do that? show more interesting. He will give pointers mail, ideas are everywhere. See how If you want to make your publications look on production efficiency, fundraising and to the professionals use photos, color and up-to-date, come to this session. First you’ll balance entertainment with news. graphics to create designs that inspire be shown trends in design used in current Michael Hernandez, Mira Costa High School, Manhattan magazines, newspapers and ads. Then Beach, Calif. those in student publications. Jill Chittum, CJE, Blue Valley High School, Stilwell, Kan.; you’ll learn how to duplicate them through 11 a.m. Friday, Virginia B (125) Mary Patrick, CJE, Maize South Middle School, Wichita, InDesign and Photoshop. Whether you’re in Kan., and Laura Schaub, Jostens, Commerce City, Colo. 11 a.m. Friday, Washington 5 (290) newspaper, literary magazine or yearbook, GENERAL AUDIENCE come see what you’re missing! Making the Best First Denise Croker, CJE, Harpeth Hall School, Nashville, Tenn. Impression Makes It Happen FUTURE OF THE YEARBOOk 11 a.m. Friday, Wilson C (110) You only get one chance to affect someone How Yearbook Can Impact positively right out of the gate. In this Your Future Noon competitive world, this one skill provides the Not that many yearbookers actually go on to become industry professionals, but ticket to success — in placing yourself apart NEWSPAPER from the crowd and at the head of the class. former editors often point to skills they learned in yearbook as keys to their success The Best of Newspaper Design In this interactive session, you will learn how This session will look at award-winning to conquer the fears we most often harbor in other fields. An array of former staffers now living and working in D.C. chat with newspapers to see what elements make them in order to be the one person others will so good. It is a terrific opportunity to examine remember — and become the one who gets yearbook adviser-turned-Herff Jones senior vice president Tom Tanton about life in the the details of their pages and get ideas for the callback or the nod. making your publication even better than it is Marcia Meskiel-Macy, Taylor Publishing Co., Melbourne yearbook room and beyond. Beach, Fla. Tom Tanton, Herff Jones Yearbooks, Charlotte, N.C. now. We will look at design elements, one by 11 a.m. Friday, Virginia C (125) 11 a.m. Friday, Washington 6 (290) one. Those who attend this session will also get a list of addresses for these publications for newspaper exchanges. YEARBOOk BROADCAST, COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY Linda Barrington, MJE, Mount Mary College, Milwaukee, Wis. Beyond the Interviewing Basics Hands-on Podcasting (2 hours) Noon Friday, Delaware A (175) For those who have mastered the basics Podcasting = iPod + broadcasting. Don’t be of interviewing, this session presents fooled — you do not need an iPod to podcast. CARTOONING questioning techniques that squeeze Many newspapers, radio stations and schools Evolution of a Cartoonist the most out of each of the five W’s and have podcasts. Do you know how to find Nate Beeler, editorial cartoonist for The H. You’ll also learn new strategies for them? We’ll teach you how to get podcasts Washington Examiner, started his cartooning eliciting specific types of responses from of all kinds — audio, enhanced and video. If career at his high school newspaper and interviewees and for interpreting their you want to know the difference between continued honing his skills while working response behaviors. This is a valuable all those join us for this hands-on session. for the student newspaper at American session for returning staff members. You’ll also learn how to make a podcast University. He will answer your questions Jon Reese, Decatur High School, Decatur, Ga. about cartooning and share a few techniques 11 a.m. Friday, Washington 1 (290) from recording, editing, adding podsafe background music, and then preparing that have worked for him. Bring your the final mp3 file. Don’t worry. We provide sketchpad to work along with Beeler and to test a few new lines and strokes. YEARBOOk free software and an easy-to-understand Nate Beeler, The Washington Examiner, Washington, D.C. Color by the Numbers approach to all terms, hardware and software Noon Friday, Delaware B (175) Whether your yearbook has eight pages of that you’d need. Bring your questions, color or has every page in color, learn how to curiosity and enthusiasm. Participants should NEWSPAPER strategically use this powerful and popular have basic computer use skills. Not restricted Make Rick Reilly Proud design tool to highlight and unify content. to broadcast students or advisers. (Sign up Sports columns are often the last consideration Trendy examples from yearbooks and and get ticket at registration area. Limit 34.) in high school publication sports sections. But Judy Robinson, MJE, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. professional publications will provide colorful 11 a.m. Friday, Wilson A (110) with the proper approach and some dogged ideas and creative inspiration. reporting, indeed, the sports column can Linda Ballew, Great Falls High School, Great Falls, Mont. rule the publication from month to month. 11 a.m. Friday, Washington 3 (290) Learn some key strategies toward not only FEATURED SPEAkER, LAW AND ETHICS developing some powerful and poignant opinion writing, but also driving your sports FUTURE OF THE YEARBOOk Using Your Powers for Good: Student Voice and School section toward insightful popularity. What’s the Big Deal? Dean Hume, Lakota East High School, Liberty Township, Ohio Memories that last a lifetime make the Improvement Noon Friday, Lincoln 2 (250) yearbook a big deal. Yearbook staffs work With freedom of expression comes both hard and it only makes sense that they work rights and responsibilities. Explore the role smart too. Trends in concept, coverage and of student voice and student-run media in Meet the design can be applied to the promotion and creating positive change for all. Molly McCloskey, ASCD, Alexandria, Va. kevin “kAL” kallaugherAuthor sales of the publication. Increase buy rate and 11 a.m. Friday, Wilson B (110) Meet cartoonist Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher to talk have an innovative time doing it. about his books and cartoon art. John Cutsinger, Jostens, Ocoee, Fla. Noon, Lincoln 3-4 Foyer 11 a.m. Friday, Washington 4 (400) 44 Noon Friday

NEWSPAPER ADVISING “Sell the Book” off your to-do list. This collection Putting a New Face on an Old Story Publications Problems and of tried and true sales campaigns can help your Prom. Homecoming. School policies. Not Solutions staff make sure that you’ve sold as many books exactly stories that rock your paper. The bottom This discussion will mirror some of the most as possible in advance. There’s nothing better line is — school newspapers have to cover common questions, problems and solutions than selling out before the books arrive! these events. But you don’t have to do it in the Maria Richardson, Herff Jones Yearbooks, Hanover, Md. presented on the JEA Listserv: decline in Noon Friday, Virginia A (125) same boring, old-news fashion. Come learn how newspapers, angry yearbook parents, staffing to put some new life into those old stories. and more. Bring your questions. Rod Howe, YEARBOOkBUSINESS/ADVERTISING Jeanne Acton, University Interscholastic League, Austin, Texas Omaha Westside High School, Omaha, Neb. Noon Friday, Lincoln 5 (350) ka-ching! Noon Friday, Park Tower 8210 (50) Need extra revenue? Discover some creative NEWSPAPER ways to supplement ad sales, buy new PHOTOGRAPHY Getting the Sports Story Photography Portfolio Basics equipment or fund a trip to a national convention. Be prepared to leave with ideas to Sometimes, nothing goes as expected when There is much more to creating a portfolio keep your publications program in the black. you are assigned a sports story. This session than simply “collecting your 10 best pictures.” will give you examples of how to recover and Jennifer Hanson, Satanta High School, Satanta, Kan. Know how a portfolio should look while Noon Friday, Virginia B (125) get the story you were assigned. Michael Doyle, CJE, Belvidere North High School, Belvidere, Ill. gaining tips to improve your photography. Noon Friday, Lincoln 6 (275) Bridge the gap between high school GENERAL AUDIENCE photography and college photography. Ms. Manners: Business Etiquette Bryan Farley, Oakland, Calif. and Mark Murray, Arlington YEARBOOk ISD, Arlington, Texas for Getting into College Yearbooks Sold Out! Noon Friday, Park Tower 8212 (50) Learn to put your best “foot” forward to Wouldn’t it be great to turn kids away at set yourself apart from the rest during this the end of the year because the yearbooks MAGAZINE interactive, do-it-yourself session. Topics were sold out? Follow our month-by-month Coaching Writers include initial contact info, dress for success plan to market and to sell your yearbook. This is a session for editors on how to get tips, email and phone etiquette. Discussions on Pick up ideas for sales fliers, mail and e-mail what they want from a story assignment. It building your portfolio, setting up your resume campaigns as well as the distribution event. means a lot of listening and coaching, starting — putting together your total “package.” Tracey McNulty, Potomac Falls High School, Sterling, Va., at the beginning of the process. Marcia Meskiel-Macy, Taylor Publishing Co., Melbourne and Kara Petersen, Herff Jones Yearbooks, Centreville, Va. Beach, Fla. Brad Jenkins, The Breeze, James Madison University, Noon Friday, Maryland C (135) Noon Friday, Virginia C (125) Harrisonburg, Va. Noon Friday, Park Tower 8219 (50) ONLINE MEDIA, GENERAL AUDIENCE YEARBOOk Yearbooks No Longer Matter to ADVISING Details of Theme Development Some Students: Participation Does Survival Tips for the A good yearbook theme ties an entire Sustainability (going green), social networks, Struggling Adviser yearbook together. Learn how to come up blogging, photo and HD video sharing In this session junior high and high school with a concept that you can then bring have already changed the publishing advisers will learn the top 10 tricks of the throughout your entire book-both visually game. Technology’s influence on culture, trade to survive in the classroom. The focus and verbally. Learn how to incorporate all communications and education has made will be on providing concrete ideas to the small details in the right places to make yearbooks irrelevant to some students. We’ll incorporate with your own yearbook staff. The your book’s theme and concept really flow highlight examples of new forms of online, first 50 attendees will get a CD with handouts throughout the entire book and feel unified. interactive, blended media and participatory Jennifer Trettner and Cortney Weisman, CJE, Ward Melville referenced in the session that will include High School, Setauket, N.Y. expression, community and identity that topics such as photography, deadlines, Noon Friday, Washington 1 (290) empower everyone to join in and connect as organization, grading and more. never before. Anastasia Harrison, Ponderosa High School, Parker, Colo., PHOTOGRAPHY Steven M. Howard, Screen 5ive, Atlanta, Ga. and Yvette Manculich, Powell Middle School, Littleton, Colo. Noon Friday, Park Tower 8206 (50) Noon Friday, Park Tower 8226 (50) Photojournalism ‘Rules’ If you have ever taken that “perfect” picture

ADVISING GENERAL AUDIENCE only to find that it is grainy and out of focus, Adviser High School Life After High School then this session is for you. You will not only Come to “school” and save yourself years of Journalism learn the rules of composition, but how your advising! This session will provide tips and tricks There is no reason to stop working on a camera (or any camera) actually works. Even to make your adviser life easier. Discussion will student publication just because you’ve if you have never taken a photography class include issues like dealing with community, graduated from high school. Students before, this session will help you improve involved in collegiate publications will tell you your photography skills. celebrating with your staff, handling deadline Kathy Daly, Parker, Colo. tragedies and utilizing the best resources and what it’s like and how they’ve helped finance Noon Friday, Washington 2 (290) technology. From art class to P.E., from math to their college educations. language arts, “students” will attend “classes” Student Publications Inc. staff members, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kan. YEARBOOk from an advising standpoint. Adviser — rookie Noon Friday, Truman (40) The Power of 10: Details! or experienced — will leave with new ideas to Details! Details! improve their advising life! FUTURE OF THE YEARBOOk Packed with idea-generating tips, this session Kristi Rathbun, Rock Canyon High School, Highlands Ranch, Colo. 10 Things You Can Still Do to will get your creative juices flowing to add Noon Friday, Park Tower 8209 (50) Sell Your 2010 Yearbook depth and variety to your yearbook coverage, Hopefully, you’ve already held your big sale for anchoring it specifically to this year while this year. But that doesn’t mean you can cross including more kids in the process! “Digest

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Design” is the cool new trend that will help 12:30 p.m. for critique session with the moderator. your staff get it all accomplished. 1:30 p.m. Friday, Truman (40) Kim Green, MJE, Columbus North High School, Columbus, Ind. Noon Friday, Washington 3 (290) CONTEST Broadcast Moderators Meeting 2:30 p.m. FUTURE OF THE YEARBOOk If you have volunteered to moderate Yearbook Inc. contests 40 or 44, please come to this FEATURED SPEAkER, GENERAL AUDIENCE Gone are the days when a yearbook would meeting to get instructions. Making the News Look Like You Kevin Olivas will share successful practices sell itself. Today, successful yearbook 12:30 p.m. Friday, Taft (20) from his organization’s Parity Project and why staffs know merchandizing their book is it’s important to include diverse voices in your as important as creating pretty designs school media coverage — be it yearbook, lit with effective white space and multiple 1 p.m. mag, newspaper or even its broadcast “voices.” layers of coverage. Yearbook is a business. Kevin Olivas, National Association of Hispanic Journalists, And, you’ll have an easier time generating Washington, D.C. revenue for your business if your central 2:30 p.m. Friday, Delaware A (175) philosophy is “coverage equals dollars.” Special Kids don’t buy books they’re not in. Let’s ColoursPerformance CARTOONING modernize yearbooks so they will continue The Colours Arts in Education Program for 18 The Art and Commentary of years has opened the door for youth to not to be relevant. Learn easy ways to boost just experience performing, but to develop Cartooning your coverage, increase sales and have a few into strong leaders in their communities. Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star editorial “wows” along the way. Students involved in Colours are dedicated cartoonist Clay Jones will share his Steve Kent, Herff Jones, Roanoke, Va. to strengthening their academic, leadership, recent work as he illustrates techniques Noon, Friday, Washington 4 (400) interpersonal and artistic skills through the and discusses the role of the artist as ensemble method. The group is here to educate, commentator. How much research and YEARBOOk enlighten, and entertain through its presentation, keeping up with the news goes into having What’s ‘Haute’ and What’s “The Soul of America.” You are part of the show so an opinion and expressing a point of view? please get up and sing, dance, and celebrate with ‘Naught’? Jones writes, “My cartoons do not tell readers See the latest looks in trendy yearbook Colours. Colours will be the pre-entertainment for the keynote speaker following the performance. what they should believe. I hope they simply design to help you develop your theme and 1 p.m. , Marriott Ballroom challenge people to think.” strengthen coverage in your book. Clay Jones, Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, Va. Laura Schaub, Jostens, Commerce City, Colo. 2:30 p.m. Friday, Delaware B (175) Noon Friday, Washington 5 (290)

EDITORS ONLY CONTEST GENERAL AUDIENCE Broadcast Commentary and From Good to Great Laugh Responsibly On-Air Reporter Contests Fall semester has begun; you have had some good days as the editor. How can you Real Southern women shouldn’t laugh out If you have registered for either of these turn them into great days? Come discuss loud my mother reminds me. She’s not here, contests, please bring the appropriate and share your comments about the daily and if you promise not to tell her, we’ll laugh supplies. You will get your assignments and routines of publications, staff organization, out loud as we examine satire and how to use an assigned time for taping. it in your publication. 1 p.m. Friday, Taft (20) photography, deadlines and other issues. The Lori Oglesbee-Petter, CJE, McKinney High School, book, Good to Great, reminds us about the McKinney, Texas levels of leadership and the callenges and Noon Friday, Washington 6 (290) CONTEST Broadcast Moderators Meeting the standards you need in the job. You’re the If you have volunteered to moderate contests editor, and this session is editors-in-chief. No GENERAL AUDIENCE 34, 35 or 36, please come to this meeting to advisers please. Limit 40. Friend Me Bonnie Blackman, Jostens, Ocean, N.J.; Linda Chambers, get instructions. Fairview Middle School, Fairview, Tenn., and Sheryl Fulton, Facebook and other social sites can give you 1 p.m. Friday, Truman (40) Jostens Printing and Publishing, Topeka, Kan. more than just the ability to connect with 2:30 p.m. Friday, Jackson (40) your friends. They’re also good ways to find story ideas. Come to this session to learn how 1:30 p.m. NEWSPAPER social networking can help you find stories Effective Editing Begins with and report for interesting stories. CONTEST Editor-Reporter Relations Rachel McCarver, CJE, Columbus North High School, Broadcast Commercial/PSA, The best editing begins even before the story is Columbus, Ind. assigned. How editors work with reporters has Noon Friday, Wilson B (110) Short Documentary, Podcast Contests a direct bearing on the quality of the journalism produced. This session, led by a professional LAW AND ETHICS If you entered any of these contests, please magazine editor, looks at the upsides and Lifting the Lid on Open Records bring your entry to this room. You must stay downsides of editor-writer relationships. A look at some examples of first-rate student for critique session with the moderator. Jay Goldman, The School Administrator Magazine, journalism using government records you 1:30 p.m. Friday, Taylor (40) Arlington, Va. can get in your community, and how to make 2:30 p.m. Friday, Jefferson (40) a successful open-records request that’ll get CONTEST you the answers you want. We’ll also look at Broadcast News and Broadcast ADVISING some online records databases every student Sports Contests CJE/MJE Certification Study should learn to use. If you entered either of these contests, please Session Frank LoMonte, Student Press Law Center, Arlington, Va. bring your entry to this room. You must stay Teachers who will be taking the JEA Noon Friday, Wilson C (110) 46 2:30 p.m. Friday certification tests today are invited to this university journalism school. Edmond Kwong, Homestead High School, Cupertino, Calif. pre-test study session. J.D. DiMattio, Ballou Senior High School, Washington, D.C.; 2:30 p.m. Friday, Park Tower 8212 (50) Mark Newton, MJE, Mountain Vista High School, Highlands Sam Ford, WJLA-TV, Arlington, Va., and Dorothy Gilliam, Ranch, Colo. George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 2:30 p.m. Friday, Lincoln 6 (275) ADVISING, ADMINISTRATORS, LAW AND ETHICS 2:30 p.m. Friday, Lincoln 1 (30) Advising Students on First

GENERAL AUDIENCE YEARBOOk Amendment Rights American Forum: Media and Great Idea! Now What? How do you advise your students to exercise Sexuality We bet you have page-spread topics on your their First Amendment rights? JEA mentors ladder that sounded great last summer, but will explain press law history and current From Web sites to television programs ... issues affecting day-to-day decisions that magazines ads to music videos ... teenagers are what about now? In the cold, dreary reality of a winter deadline, topics like student jobs or ensure students’ rights. surrounded by enticements to buy, fashions to Barbara “Babs” Erickson, CJE, Cherry Valley, Ill.; Kay Phillips, copy, music to dance to and graphic imagery passions are far more difficult. We have some MJE, Henderson, N.C.; Martha Rothwell, Statesville, N.C.; time-tested strategies to break down broad Randy Swikle, CJE, McHenry, Ill. online, often posted by themselves and/or 2:30 p.m. Friday, Park Tower 8216 (50) peers. So what this mean in terms of freedom topics and to uncover powerful, engaging of choice? Have you ever stopped to consider if stories people want to read. Dana Gorman, CJE, Herff Jones Yearbooks, Burke, Va., and ADVISING some of your behavior choices may owe more Kara Petersen, Herff Jones Yearbooks, Centreville, Va. What You Need to know to be to media than you might suspect? 2:30 p.m. Friday, Maryland C (135) Jane Hall, American University, Washington, D.C., and Deborah Certified: Journalistic Writing Roffman, The Park School of Baltimore, Baltimore, Md. LAW AND ETHICS, ONLINE MEDIA and AP Style 2:30 p.m. Friday, Lincoln 2 (250) Law in the Digital Era For teachers who are preparing for the CJE test, FEATURED SPEAkER, LAW AND ETHICS You’re expanding your student media, adding this session offers a brief review of writing and Contempt for Reporters: One Web sites, multimedia and broadcast. Do editing fundamentals. Differences among the Journalist’s Fight to Protect the same legal principles apply to the “new different print forms (news, feature, editorial) News Sources media” as they do to print or broadcast as well as broadcast and on-line are covered alone? Find out in this session of information along with various issues of Associated Press and question-answer with Knight Chair for style, grammar and mechanics. Joe Mirando, MJE, Christopher Picou and Cleo Stinson, Meet the Scholastic Journalism Mark Goodman and JEA Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, La. Scholastic Press Rights chairman John Bowen. 2:30 p.m. Friday, Park Tower 8219 (50) Robert and CarolAuthors Greenman John Bowen, MJE, and Mark Goodman, Kent State Robert and Carol Greenman, authors of “More University, Kent, Ohio LAW AND ETHICS, GENERAL AUDIENCE Words That Make a Difference” (both) and “Words 2:30 p.m. Friday, Park Tower 8206 (50) That Make a Difference” (Robert) will meet with Sunshine Week Celebration convention delegates and sign autographs at the Riverton High School is the only registered table outside the JEA Bookstore. school participant in the Freedom of BROADCAST, ONLINE MEDIA 2:30 p.m., Lincoln 3-4 Foyer Information Act/First Amendment Sharing Solutions celebration of Sunshine Week in March. Ever think there must be a better way to This is an opportunity to build good school produce your packages, handle equipment, and community relations and fend off prior What happens when public safety, rights organize a staff or work with administrators? restraint. Activities for the celebration and the of suspects and responsibilities of the A panel of experienced teachers and students workshop include right to information access press meet? Journalist and professor Toni will share their approaches. Bring your scenarios, a First Amendment quiz, art poster Locy shares her experience of being held problems and contribute your ideas. contest and scheduling of engaging speakers. in contempt of court when she refused Phillip Harris, Visual Communication, Springfield, Va.; Janet Kerby, Roane County High School, Spencer, W.Va.; and Aaron April Squires, Riverton High School, Riverton, Utah to divulge the identities of sources who Manfull, MJE, Francis Howell North High School, Saint Charles, 2:30 p.m. Friday, Park Tower 8222 (50) provided information for stories she wrote Mo.; and Liz Preza, Rockville High School, Rockville, Md. about the FBI’s investigation into the 2001 2:30 p.m. Friday, Park Tower 8209 (50) LAW AND ETHICS anthrax attacks. The First Amendment: First Toni Locy, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va. ADVISING 2:30 p.m. Friday, Lincoln 5 (350) and Foremost Publications Boot Camp on a The Indiana High School Press Association Shoestring hosts a First Amendment Symposium that has ADVISING, ADMINISTRATORS , GENERAL AUDIENCE This session will give advisers ideas of ways to Proven Media Literacy Program become an annual signature event for Indiana run a school-based summer journalism boot journalism students. Three of the people who for Students camp for new staffs on a minimal budget. have worked with the program will share It’s a one-of-a-kind team concept of Advisers of newspapers, yearbooks or literary their experiences and ideas to help advisers professional and college journalists magazines can adapt this model for in-class or and students develop similar initiatives for assisting high school media students and after-school programs. Presenter will provide their regions or states. advisers. Since 2004, George Washington online mentoring to advisers who attend. Diana Hadley, Indiana High School Press Association, Franklin, University’s Prime Movers Media Program has Jane Blystone, MJE, Mercyhurst College, Erie, Pa. Ind.Jim Lang, Floyd Central High School, Floyds Knob, Ind. demonstrated proven results of bolstering 2:30 p.m. Friday, Park Tower 8210 (50) Terry Nelson, Muncie Central High School, Muncie, Ind. 2:30 p.m. Friday, Park Tower 8226 (50) school journalism programs and inspiring a MAGAZINE new generation of responsible, media-literate YEARBOOk students, a many of whom had not previously Yearbook from RED to BLACk The Total Package Create a publication that is unified in look, considered such career before PMM. Learn Come hear about a yearbook adviser who has feel, theme and identity by using elements the benefits of high school media and how to taken a program “in the red” and turned it to that tie all the pages together from the get this innovative program instituted in your “rich black”. You will get a business perspective front cover to the endmark. Magazine district or to establish a partnership with your to apply to your yearbook operation and get ideas to help you generate a financial surplus. staffs, be ready to transform the way you 47 Friday Noon - 2:30 p.m. Issue Seminar GENERAL AUDIENCE Covering the Unthinkable: What Issues Need to be Addressed When Tragic Events Happen at Your School (1.5 hours) What do you do when you hear about a death in your campus community? When natural disasters, fires or intruders disrupt your campus? Dealing with privacy concerns, local law enforcement and grieving families can complicate your reporting. This distinguished panel of administrators, advisers and reporters will discuss the actual stories they have lived through as well as how to approach the unthinkable when you cover these stories in your school media. When a story needs revisiting, learn how to turn your focus to refresh the primary content. 2:30 p.m. Friday, Washington 6 (290)

Donald Ford, Kelly Furnas, Heidi Miller, Paul Regnier, Roxanne Roberts, Rachel Lienesch, Harrisonburg City Public Educational Media Co. Virginia Polytechnic Institute Fairfax County Public Schools, The Washington Post Thomas Jefferson High School Schools, Harrisonburg, Va. at Virginia Polytechnic and State University, School Administration Center, Magazine, for Science and Technology, Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va. Falls Church, Va. Washington, D.C. Alexandria, Va. Blacksburg, Va. approach design. today’ technology to keep it relevant for your School, Reno, Nev. Maire McArdle, Corocoran College of Art + Design, school community. 2:30 p.m. Friday, Washington 5 (290) Washington, D.C. Alex Blackwell, Walsworth Publishing Co., Kansas City, Mo. 2:30 p.m. Friday, Virginia A (125) 2:30 p.m. Friday, Washington 2 (290) ADVISING, COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY Teaching InDesign GENERAL AUDIENCE, BROADCAST FEATURED SPEAkER, MAGAZINE, NEWSPAPER, PHOTOGRAPHY This hands-on session for advisers only will Broadcast vs. Print Writing Visual Dynamics of Storytelling provide information on how to teach InDesign. This session invites students to consider some of Photojournalists have always been Hands-on experience, handouts and lists of the important differences between writing for storytellers, but their work is no longer resources to aid in teaching are provided broadcast and writing for print. Examples and bound to the printed page. The changes to in this session. (Sign up and get ticket at exercises will be offered. All students are invited. newspapers and magazines, caused by the Anthony Moretti, Point Park University, Pittsburgh, Pa. convention registration desk. Limit 34). Internet, have forced evolutionary changes Susan Roberts, MJE, LaPorte High School, LaPorte, Texas, 2:30 p.m. Friday, Virginia B (125) upon photographers. Expectations now and Hal Schmidt, PS Graphics Inc., Kingwood, Texas include making videos and creating audio 2:30 p.m. Friday, Wilson A (34) GENERAL AUDIENCE slideshows, requiring photographers to BROADCAST Snooping for Word Crimes become multimedia gurus. Word sleuths — that’s everyone on a Christopher Assaf, The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, Md. A Radio Journey publication staff. Your job: spot goofs on every 2:30 p.m. Friday, Washington 3 (290) Radio production has changed over the page. Smell and taste the clues to apprehend past 40 years and so has programming. The the offenders. Be licensed as a private eye for NEWSPAPER, YEARBOOk reporter has to think about Web presence — better words, from AP style to originality. Arrest Every Story Needs a Theme (or Two) tape, podcast, photographs and links — while word fraud 24/7. Rise to the top as a detective Certain stories grab our attention, and there’s maintaining journalistic integrity. National fixing copy that connects clues for readers. really no secret why. They touch on universal radio host Alyne Ellis shares audio examples Howard Spanogle, Asheville, N.C. themes — the very same themes we study of how radio programmers are grappling 2:30 p.m. Friday, Virginia C (125) in literature classes. In this session we will with merging the past and present into new examine a few sample news and sports formats and sensibilities. YEARBOOk, MAGAZINE Alyne Ellis, Prime Time Focus, Washington, D.C. stories, discuss the themes they touch on, 2:30 p.m. Friday, Wilson B (110) A Designer’s Guide to What and then look into how your reporting and Works 9.11 writing can improve when you find the basic GENERAL AUDIENCE, ONLINE MEDIA An up-to-date presentation of current themes that underlie the news. design and trends. Materials from mass Jack Kennedy, MJE, Rock Canyon High School, Highlands Youth Civic Journalist Network media, professional publications and Ranch, Colo. Information for student journalists about the 2:30 p.m. Friday, Washington 4 (400) yearbooks are presented as a guideline for Youth Citizen Journalist Network and how contemporary design. to post comments, “tweets,” blogs, articles, Rick Brooks, Jostens, Port Matilda, Pa. YEARBOOk opinions and videos to this international 2:30 p.m. Friday, Washington 1 (290) Yearbook Design: Upgrade Your network of young voices, using social networks. Designs and Win Awards The theme of YCJN is democracy and the FUTURE OF THE YEARBOOk If you are entered (or you have students importance of voting. The focus of the network’s Chicken Little is Still Wrong entered) in the Write-off contest yearbook content is the issues facing our nation in Calm down. The sky is not falling. College design categories of Cover and Endsheets; the months leading up to the 2010 National yearbooks may be experiencing problems, Theme; or Inside Pages, come to this Student/Parent Mock Election held in schools. but the high school community is still buying information coaching session that will help Claudio Alvarez-Dunn, Youth Citizen Journalism Network, Souderton, Pa., and Thomas Engleman, Youth Citizen books ... for now. What is it that high school you understand the elements and qualities Journalist Network, Souderton, Pa. students have always loved about yearbooks? the judges are looking for in these entries. If 2:30 p.m. Friday, Wilson C (110) What do we do better than anyone else? you are interested in learning about important Learn how to capitalize on the best qualities design concepts, this class will also help you. of the yearbook while taking advantage of Christy Briggs, CJE, and Lizabeth Walsh, MJE, Reno High 48 2:45 p.m. 6 p.m.

CONTEST Write-off Judges Dinner and Adviser Reception and Write-off Moderators Meeting Judging Advisers are invited to this social gathering. Those who have agreed to moderate JEA’s Those who have agreed to judge JEA’s Write-off The reception will feature entertainment from Write-off contests must attend this meeting contests are invited to dinner before judging. a liveSPLC blues band andBenefit a fundraising auctionAuction to to get instructions and supplies. Please check in at the table in the foyer to benefit the Student Press Law Center. The local Carrie Faust, CJE, Smoky Hill High School, Aurora, Colo., and receive a ticket and judging assignment. Patricia Turley, Junction City, Ore. committee has collected a variety of interesting 2:45 p.m. Friday, Maryland AB (200) 6 p.m. Friday, Maryland (300) items, including signed sports memorabilia, art, food, journalism-related items, gift baskets, event tickets and autographed books. A sampling of CONTEST the items includes Mark Harmon’s set-used “NCIS” Broadcast Moderators Meeting Media script signed by 14 cast members; ABC World If you have volunteered to moderate contests Newspaper, newsmagazine,Swap yearbook, Shops literary News Tonight baseball cap signed by anchor 41 or 45, please come to this meeting to get magazine and broadcast swap shops are prime Charlie Gibson; a T-shirt with a photograph signed instructions. opportunities for preregistered students and by “Pardon the Interruption’s” Tony Kornheiser, 2:45 p.m. Friday, Taft (20) advisers to share useful ideas and concepts Michael Wilson and Tony Reali; a “Garfield” print with others. Bring at least 10 samples of your signed by Jim Davis; and “This American Life 3:30 p.m. newspaper, literary magazine or one copy of your Season One” DVD signed by host Ira Glass. Visa, yearbook or video/DVD to show at your table. Mastercard, check or cash will be accepted. Those Each delegate attending a Swap Shop must have a who are judging Write-off competitions are ADVISING ticket, which are in the school registration packet. especially encouraged to attend after they finish CJE/MJE Certification Testing Please check the ticket for your assigned time. judging. Lifetouch is sponsor for this event. (2-1/2 hours) 8 - 10 p.m., Lincoln 2-3-4 8:30 - 11 p.m. Delaware Suite Advisers who have applied to take the CJE or MJE tests will do so at this time. Mark Newton, MJE, Mountain Vista High School, Highlands Ranch, Colo. Student 3:30-6 p.m. Friday, Wilson A (34) Dance for students on DanceFriday will have music provided by a DJ. This is a good time to enjoy 4 - 6 p.m. the music and dancing with other student Write-off Contests journalists from around the country. Students Please look at your copy of the Convention must present their convention name badge to Update to find contest room assignments. be admitted to the dances. SlingRocket.com will Students should arrive at the contest room sponsor Friday’s student entertainment. 10 to 15 minutes before the contest begins or 9 -11:30 p.m.Washington Ballroom risk being disqualified if late.

The local convention planning committee would like to thank these businesses, organizations and individuals for their contributions to the convention:

The Washington Post HSBJ.org/RTNDF American Forum – American University Holocaust Museum Washington Wizards and Mystics Newseum Herblock Foundation Silver Communications

You NPR: National Public Radio JS Printing Herff Jones (printing of the student guide to D.C.) Dan Storck, Fairfax County School Board — Abraham Lincoln impersonator Colours Cengage Learning Publishers USA Weekend

Diversity Scholarship Donations: Bias Studios University of Maryland The Hinman Group

Thank Kathryn Mangus George Mason University

49 Sessions ROOMS: 8 a.m. 9 a.m. 10 a.m. 11 a.m. Noon 1 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. EVENING Buchanan (25) Write-off Office (8 a.m. - 5 p.m.) SaturdayCleveland 1 & 2 (50) Write-off Work Rooms (8 a.m. - 5 p.m.) Delaware A (175) The Path from High Talking Radio with The Reporter’s Job Secrets to an Award-winning It’s Not an Interview; It’s 10 Fingers of Videography School to a Career Sound Reporting Broadcast Program a Conversation Delaware B (175) Get FREE Stuff for Your Cartoooning with Hidden in Plain Sight Cartooning and Building a Better Techniques and Knowing is Half the Publications John Rose Newspapers: Total BFF’s! Newsroom Critiques Battle Exhibit Hall B On-Site Critiques (9 a.m. - Noon) Foyer Registration (8 a.m. - 2 p.m.) Jackson (40) Digital Media Committee State Laws Protecting Press Celebrating Special Will Work for Food Convention Wrap Meeting Freedom Milestones JEA Suite JEA Certification Commission JEA Awards Committee Meeting (7:30 a.m.) Meeting

Jefferson (40) Multicultural Commission The At-Risk Adviser Travels with Students Landing a Job in Journalism — You Can Quote Me on Meeting Life after High School That Lincoln 1 (30) Curriculum Development Resources for the Commission Meeting Journalism Classroom Lincoln 2 (250) Through the Readers’ Nip/Tuck, Anyone? The Writing Lab Getting Readers to Your Designing with Time Photo Phabulous Eyes Web Site and Space Lincoln 3-4 (350) JEA Bookstore (8 a.m. - 3 p.m.)/ Meet the Author: Meet the Author: Meet the Authors: Adviser Hospitality (8 a.m. - Noon) Maryam Ahranjani John Rose Robert Russell & Suzette Martinez Standring Lincoln 5 (350) 10 Tips for Going Beyond The Pacemaker The Crucial Role of Great Graphics and How Secrets of Leadership Go With the Flow: Conducting Potluck Print Magazine Design to Generate Them and Team Building Fabulous Interviews Lincoln 6 (275) Being Joe Palca: Writing Science Integrate Video and Your Capturing and Giddy about Google Cheap and Easy Planet Forward — A New Musical Newscasting and Pieces for the Radio Newspaper Captivating with Sound Docs Multimedia Model for Content Distribution Research — the NPR Way Local Committee Suite Advisers from Maryland, D.C. and Virginia Meeting (7:30 a.m.) Marriott Balcony A (120) Things Editors Shouldn’t More Things Editors Administrators, Advisers and Yearbook Writing: The Creative Sports Alts in Publications Do Should Do Students: Getting Everyone on Chicken or the Egg? Designing the Same Page Marriott Balcony B (120) No Deadline Dilemmas Communication Skills for Microdetails from Brain It’s a Guide, Not a Mold Learn the Advertising Working with Allowed Interview A to Brain B Attitude Administrators Marriott Balcony C (90) You Be the Editor Shut Up! Journalism Isn’t Dead Meet this Press Open Forum on Press Rights Inventive Leads to Managing the Staff, Indulge Readers Minimizing the Drama Marriott Balcony D (90) Breaking the Monotony: Writing the Personal Column Outreach Opportunities — Military Communicators How to Survive Take It Out of the Box Designing the Literary Mag. Partnerships to Success Tell Their Stories (and Love) Editorship Marriott Salon 1 (630) Marriott Salon 2-3 (1,900) Maryland A (135) How to Produce an Make Your Writing Yearbooks’ Future: The 10 Easy Steps for Editing Can be a Word Women in Sports Media Making the Most of an Award-winning Yearbook Practically Perfect Scholastic Media Perspective Improving Editing Game Interview Maryland B (135) Gold Coin Droppings: Voiceless and Forgotton: Science/Medicine News How Anecdotes Could Save Managing by Color Captions: How to Explain It’s Your Opinion: Get It Headline & Lede Writing Hopefully Not by You Stories: Fact or Fiction? Your Writing Those ‘1,000 Words’ Right Maryland C (135) Video Storytelling Selling More Books Think Different Trends 2010 This Edition Took 2 Years Photographic Awesomeness The Interview Process: Before, Help Me Figure This Out! for Broadcast News During and After Advertising Cartooning New Media Photography Advising Law/Ethics Magazine Yearbook Broadcasting Leadership Newspaper Future of the Yearbook Sessions in white boxes are designed for general audiences or multiple areas of interest.

ROOMS: 8 a.m. 9 a.m. 10 a.m. 11 a.m. Noon 1 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. EVENING Buchanan (25) Write-off Office (8 a.m. - 5 p.m.) Cleveland 1 & 2 (50) Write-off Work Rooms (8 a.m. - 5 p.m.) Delaware A (175) The Path from High Talking Radio with The Reporter’s Job Secrets to an Award-winning It’s Not an Interview; It’s 10 Fingers of Videography School to a Career Sound Reporting Broadcast Program a Conversation Delaware B (175) Get FREE Stuff for Your Cartoooning with Hidden in Plain Sight Cartooning and Building a Better Techniques and Knowing is Half the Publications John Rose Newspapers: Total BFF’s! Newsroom Critiques Battle Exhibit Hall B On-Site Critiques (9 a.m. - Noon) Foyer Registration (8 a.m. - 2 p.m.) Jackson (40) Digital Media Committee State Laws Protecting Press Celebrating Special Will Work for Food Convention Wrap Meeting Freedom Milestones JEA Suite JEA Certification Commission JEA Awards Committee Meeting (7:30 a.m.) Meeting

Jefferson (40) Multicultural Commission The At-Risk Adviser Travels with Students Landing a Job in Journalism — You Can Quote Me on Meeting Life after High School That Lincoln 1 (30) Curriculum Development Resources for the Commission Meeting Journalism Classroom Lincoln 2 (250) Through the Readers’ Nip/Tuck, Anyone? The Writing Lab Getting Readers to Your Designing with Time Photo Phabulous Eyes Web Site and Space Lincoln 3-4 (350) JEA Bookstore (8 a.m. - 3 p.m.)/ Meet the Author: Meet the Author: Meet the Authors: Adviser Hospitality (8 a.m. - Noon) Maryam Ahranjani John Rose Robert Russell & JEA Bookstore (8 a.m. - 3 p.m.) Suzette Martinez Standring Lincoln 5 (350) 10 Tips for Going Beyond The Pacemaker The Crucial Role of Great Graphics and How Secrets of Leadership Go With the Flow: Conducting Potluck Print Magazine Design to Generate Them and Team Building Fabulous Interviews Lincoln 6 (275) Being Joe Palca: Writing Science Integrate Video and Your Capturing and Giddy about Google Cheap and Easy Planet Forward — A New Musical Newscasting and Pieces for the Radio Newspaper Captivating with Sound Docs Multimedia Model for Content Distribution Research — the NPR Way Local Committee Suite Advisers from Maryland, D.C. and Virginia Meeting (7:30 a.m.) Marriott Balcony A (120) Things Editors Shouldn’t More Things Editors Administrators, Advisers and Yearbook Writing: The Creative Sports Alts in Publications Do Should Do Students: Getting Everyone on Chicken or the Egg? Designing the Same Page Marriott Balcony B (120) No Deadline Dilemmas Communication Skills for Microdetails from Brain It’s a Guide, Not a Mold Learn the Advertising Working with Allowed Interview A to Brain B Attitude Administrators Marriott Balcony C (90) You Be the Editor Shut Up! Journalism Isn’t Dead Meet this Press Open Forum on Press Rights Inventive Leads to Managing the Staff, NSPA Awards Indulge Readers Minimizing the Drama Ceremony Marriott Balcony D (90) Breaking the Monotony: Writing the Personal Column Outreach Opportunities — Military Communicators How to Survive Take It Out of the Box Designing the Literary Mag. Partnerships to Success Tell Their Stories (and Love) Editorship Marriott Salon 1 (630) Adviser Luncheon (Noon - 2:20 p.m.) Marriott Salon 2-3 (1,900) Maryland A (135) How to Produce an Make Your Writing Yearbooks’ Future: The 10 Easy Steps for Editing Can be a Word Women in Sports Media Making the Most of an Award-winning Yearbook Practically Perfect Scholastic Media Perspective Improving Editing Game Interview Maryland B (135) Gold Coin Droppings: Voiceless and Forgotton: Science/Medicine News How Anecdotes Could Save Managing by Color Captions: How to Explain It’s Your Opinion: Get It Headline & Lede Writing Hopefully Not by You Stories: Fact or Fiction? Your Writing Those ‘1,000 Words’ Right Maryland C (135) Video Storytelling Selling More Books Think Different Trends 2010 This Edition Took 2 Years Photographic Awesomeness The Interview Process: Before, Help Me Figure This Out! for Broadcast News During and After Sessions ROOMS: 8 a.m. 9 a.m. 10 a.m. 11 a.m. Noon 1 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. EVENING Park Tower 8206 (50) Starting a Broadcast Maintaining and Broadening Taking the Broadcast Journalism Saturday Journalism Class the Broadcast Journalism Class Class to Higher Levels Park Tower 8209 (50) Junior High/Middle School Create Literary Opportunities in Middle Schoolers Crazy for Write-offs Scholastic Press Rights Commission Meeting the World Language Classroom Commission Meeting Park Tower 8212 (50) Advisers and the Law The New Adviser: So Much Using the New York Times as to Learn So Quickly Your Daily Journalism Textbook Park Tower 8216 (50) Building the School What You Need to Know to be Speed Journalism: One Why Consider JEA What You Need to Know to be Newsroom of the Future Certified: Design and Graphics Class, One Teacher, One Day Certification? Certified: Photojournalism Park Tower 8219 (50) Introduction to Intensive What You Need to Know to be Establishing a National PLC for Journalism Writing Certified: Managing Student Media Journalism Teachers & Advisers

Park Tower 8222 (50) Scholastic Journalism Scholastic Press Association Roundtable Using Critiques to Set Week Committee Meeting Publication Goals Park Tower 8226 (50) Getting Organized: The Key to a Successful Year Calling the Shots, Writing a Paper Middle-School Portfolios for Junior High/ Teaching Accountability: Editorial Leadership Students Will Read Middle School Students Basic Media Ethics Taft (40) NSPA Best of Show Judging Taylor (40) NSPA Best of Show Judging Truman (40) Your Newsroom: From Big Think Fun Maestro Wrap-up Learn Science Through Write, Rinse, Repeat Adding More Census in Schools for Ol’ Mess to Techno Success Media Production Dimension the 2010 Census Tyler (40) Multimedia 101 Find the Right Printer for Certified: Legal and Create a Staff Manual Your Literary Magazine Ethical Issues Virginia A (125) Creative Commons and the Moving Your Publication Picture Speaks 1,000 Advocacy and Intervention: The Importance of Every Picture Should Tell Tell Your Story Online Future of Sharing on the Web Online Words Making a Difference with Your . . . Networking a Story, Shouldn’t It? and in Print Virginia B (125) Think 3 Win! CMYK vs. RGB. JPEG vs. TIFF. Future of Yearbook: If All Your Layering Your Theme Make It Quick Crop It Like It’s Hot (2009) Which? Why? Friends Jumped off a Bridge . . . Virginia C (125) How to Get and Use Press Always Money in the Narrative Writing Brings Font Savant Reporting Sports The Pros and Prose of GOAALLL! Sports Credentials Banana Stand Stories to Life Digitally Blogging Coverage That Scores Washington 1 (290) People Images and Sports What’s the Alternative? Go Fish! Contemporary Coverage Coaching Writing: A How to Write a Great Find Your Voice Photography Better Way to Edit Profile Washington 2 (290) Make Your 2010 Yearbook Better, By Design There’s More to the Story Get Focused Inspiration Magazine Mechanics Amazing Washington 3 (290) Future of Yearbook: Resources Future of Yearbook: Today, The Nature of Color II Future of Yearbook: When Future of Yearbook: Future of Yearbook: Future of Yearbook: Setting Up for Enhancing Digital Images Tomorrow: Future of Yearbooks Dinosaurs Walked the Earth . . . Thinking Outside the Book Convergent Media is Here an Online Presence to Stay Washington 4 (400) Picture This Living and Breathing The Art of Newspaper News IS A Community Social Media and Sports How an Ombud Can Good Writers and Photography Column Writing Service Reporting Help Your Media Quitters Washington 5 (290) Personality Profiles Where’s that @#%! Picture? 10 Quick Ways to an Ethics: A Strategy for Censor-Proofing Your Being a Black Man: What I’ve Managing Digital Workflow Award-winning Publication Press Freedom Publication Learned — From Journalism Washington 6 (290) Motivational Games Trends in Coverage Art to Die For Got You Covered It’s the Little Things Hey, Mom, I’m in the Yearbook Wilson A (34) Lab Photoshop Basics for Advisers Beginning InDesign Photoshop Tips and Tricks InDesign Creativity Wilson B (110) Current Issues in Student Covering Controversial Why Freedom Works Creating Laboratories of Making Your Stories Barrier-Breaking Help, I’ve Been Free Press Law and Sensitive Issues Democracy Stand Out Broadcasting Censored! Wilson C (110) Revving Up Your Web Journalism: The New The Death of Cute? Story Writing for the Web Web Site Design Using Promote School Publications Webify Your Student Publication, Years 1-3 Revolution in Communications Structure & Headline Writing . . . iWeb with Social Media Publication Today Advertising Cartooning New Media Photography Advising Law/Ethics Magazine Yearbook Broadcasting Leadership Newspaper Future of the Yearbook Sessions in white boxes are designed for general audiences or multiple areas of interest.

ROOMS: 8 a.m. 9 a.m. 10 a.m. 11 a.m. Noon 1 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. EVENING Park Tower 8206 (50) Starting a Broadcast Maintaining and Broadening Taking the Broadcast Journalism Journalism Class the Broadcast Journalism Class Class to Higher Levels Park Tower 8209 (50) Junior High/Middle School Create Literary Opportunities in Middle Schoolers Crazy for Write-offs Scholastic Press Rights Commission Meeting the World Language Classroom Commission Meeting Park Tower 8212 (50) Advisers and the Law The New Adviser: So Much Using the New York Times as to Learn So Quickly Your Daily Journalism Textbook Park Tower 8216 (50) Building the School What You Need to Know to be Speed Journalism: One Why Consider JEA What You Need to Know to be Newsroom of the Future Certified: Design and Graphics Class, One Teacher, One Day Certification? Certified: Photojournalism Park Tower 8219 (50) Introduction to Intensive What You Need to Know to be Establishing a National PLC for Journalism Writing Certified: Managing Student Media Journalism Teachers & Advisers Park Tower 8222 (50) Scholastic Journalism Using Critiques to Set Week Committee Meeting Publication Goals Park Tower 8226 (50) Calling the Shots, Writing a Paper Middle-School Portfolios for Junior High/ Teaching Accountability: Editorial Leadership Students Will Read Middle School Students Basic Media Ethics Taft (40) NSPA Best of Show Judging Taylor (40) NSPA Best of Show Judging Truman (40) Your Newsroom: From Big Think Fun Maestro Wrap-up Learn Science Through Write, Rinse, Repeat Adding More Census in Schools for Ol’ Mess to Techno Success Media Production Dimension the 2010 Census Tyler (40) Multimedia 101 Find the Right Printer for Certified: Legal and Create a Staff Manual Your Literary Magazine Ethical Issues Virginia A (125) Creative Commons and the Moving Your Publication Picture Speaks 1,000 Advocacy and Intervention: The Importance of Every Picture Should Tell Tell Your Story Online Future of Sharing on the Web Online Words Making a Difference with Your . . . Networking a Story, Shouldn’t It? and in Print Virginia B (125) Think 3 Win! CMYK vs. RGB. JPEG vs. TIFF. Future of Yearbook: If All Your Layering Your Theme Make It Quick Crop It Like It’s Hot (2009) Which? Why? Friends Jumped off a Bridge . . . Virginia C (125) How to Get and Use Press Always Money in the Narrative Writing Brings Font Savant Reporting Sports The Pros and Prose of GOAALLL! Sports Credentials Banana Stand Stories to Life Digitally Blogging Coverage That Scores Washington 1 (290) People Images and Sports What’s the Alternative? Go Fish! Contemporary Coverage Coaching Writing: A How to Write a Great Find Your Voice Photography Better Way to Edit Profile Washington 2 (290) Make Your 2010 Yearbook Better, By Design There’s More to the Story Get Focused Inspiration Magazine Mechanics Amazing Washington 3 (290) Future of Yearbook: Resources Future of Yearbook: Today, The Nature of Color II Future of Yearbook: When Future of Yearbook: Future of Yearbook: Future of Yearbook: Setting Up for Enhancing Digital Images Tomorrow: Future of Yearbooks Dinosaurs Walked the Earth . . . Thinking Outside the Book Convergent Media is Here an Online Presence to Stay Student Dance Washington 4 (400) Picture This Living and Breathing The Art of Newspaper News IS A Community Social Media and Sports How an Ombud Can Good Writers and 9 p.m. Photography Column Writing Service Reporting Help Your Media Quitters Washington 5 (290) Personality Profiles Where’s that @#%! Picture? 10 Quick Ways to an Ethics: A Strategy for Censor-Proofing Your Being a Black Man: What I’ve Managing Digital Workflow Award-winning Publication Press Freedom Publication Learned — From Journalism Washington 6 (290) Motivational Games Trends in Coverage Art to Die For Got You Covered It’s the Little Things Hey, Mom, I’m in the Yearbook Wilson A (34) Lab Beginning InDesign Photoshop Tips and Tricks InDesign Creativity Wilson B (110) Current Issues in Student Covering Controversial Why Freedom Works Creating Laboratories of Making Your Stories Barrier-Breaking Help, I’ve Been Free Press Law and Sensitive Issues Democracy Stand Out Broadcasting Censored! Wilson C (110) Revving Up Your Web Journalism: The New The Death of Cute? Story Writing for the Web Web Site Design Using Promote School Publications Webify Your Student Publication, Years 1-3 Revolution in Communications Structure & Headline Writing . . . iWeb with Social Media Publication Today Saturday 7:30 - 8 a.m.

7:30 a.m. MEETING it is on the front page, on broadcast and online Digital Media Committee media and in the movies. It may be difficult to get the science right and communicate MEETING Meeting JEA Certification Commission This committee will meet to discuss goals and it well but science writing can be fun. By projects for the upcoming academic year. asking students to play the role of Joe Palca, Meeting Aaron Manfull, MJE, Francis Howell North High School, NEWSPAPERR radio’s science correspondent, Commission members will meet to discuss Saint Charles, Mo. they learn how to do good research, how to 8 a.m. Saturday, Jackson (40) JEA certification procedures. write concisely and effectively, and how to Mark Newton, MJE, Mountain Vista High School, Highlands Ranch, Colo. MEETING speak naturally and smoothly. 7:30 a.m. Saturday, JEA Suite Cathy Colglazier, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science JEA Multicultural Commission and Technology, Alexandria, Va. Meeting 8 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 6 (275) MEETING Commission members will meet to discuss A Gathering of Advisers from special projects and goals for the upcoming GENERAL AUDIENCE Virginia, Maryland and D.C. year. Things Editors Shouldn’t Do Local convention committee members Norma Kneese, MJE, Snake River High School, Blackfoot, Idaho The problem with being a publications editor would like to invite advisers from Virginia, 8 a.m. Saturday, Jefferson (40) is even if it’s not your fault things go wrong, Maryland and Washington, D.C., to join it’s still your fault. Pure trial and error has them for an informal continental breakfast MEETING shown this speaker what not to do, and you in the local committee suite. Please check Development/Curriculum can come listen to his trials so they don’t with a local committee member to learn the Commission Meeting become your errors. room number. This commission will meet to discuss projects Ryan Gunterman, CJE, Bloomington High School North, Val Kibler, CJE, Harrisonburg High School, Harrisonburg, Va. for the upcoming year. Bloomington, Ind. 7:30 a.m. Saturday, Local Committee Suite Lori Oglesbee-Petter, CJE, McKinney High School, 8 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony A (120) McKinney, Texas 8 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 1 (30) GENERAL AUDIENCE No Deadline Dilemmas Allowed NEWSPAPER, YEARBOOk No matter how many times you bribe them Adviser Through the Readers’ Eyes with pizza, students will not meet their Join your colleaguesHospitality from across the country Today’s students lead fast-paced lives. They deadlines until everyone realizes that walking in the adviser hospitality suite, the hot spot suffer from information overload. Flashy Web out of the classroom while the sun is still shining for advisers. Local committee members will be sites, slick magazines, action-packed video is something worth trying. Here are some new available to recommend sightseeing, dining games and movies compete for their attention. ideas to consider, along with a little reality check and entertainment options. Refreshments are to keep everyone on track and to give students underwritten by Friesens. Given the situation, publication staffs need to 8 a.m. - noon Lincoln 3-4 take a serious look at their publications from and adviser evenings and weekend OFF. the readers’ point of view. Are our newspapers Jolene Combs, El Camino College, Torrance, Calif. 8 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony B (120) and yearbooks as reader-friendly as they could be? Are they written and designed to compete NEWSPAPER, ETHICS JEA for the attention of our selective, reluctant Check out the newBookstore books, as well as popular readers? Come explore a number of writing You Be the Editor Join and active and participatory discussion bestsellers, at the JEA Bookstore. Nearly 300 books and design techniques that can help turn of handling some of journalism’s toughest relating to journalism are available, including students into readers. textbooks, curriculum development, yearbook, Brenda Gorsuch, MJE, West Henderson High School, calls — when to publish, when to wait and newspaper, design, photography, writing, desktop Hendersonville, N.C. when to look for a third way. publishing, advertising and broadcast. Look 8 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 2 (250) Joe Grimm, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich. for schedule of Meet the Author book signings 8 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony C (90) throughout the convention. CONVERGENCE 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Lincoln 3-4 10 Tips for Going Beyond Print MAGAZINE We hear the term convergence thrown Breaking the Monotony: around, but what does it mean for a Designing the Literary Magazine high school publications staff with few Take a look at one magazine’s approach to 8 a.m. technological resources and little tech design, with inspiration from professional GENERAL AUDIENCE savvy? Come to this session to learn 10 magazines adapted to a new format. We will Get FREE Stuff for Your quick and easy things you can do to pull follow with a round-table discussion of literary Publications your publication into the 21st century by magazine design issues and questions. using inexpensive and readily available Bretton Zinger, MJE, Chantilly High School, Chantilly, Va. Learn how to get free resources for your 8 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony D (90) technologies. publications from local and national sources. Adam Maksl, Ball State University, Muncie, Ind. Find out how easy it can be to get everything 8 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 5 (350) YEARBOOk from free printing to reporters’ notebooks. How to Produce an Award- Sample grant letters and a list of sources will BROADCAST winning Yearbook be provided. Being Joe Palca: Writing Science A top 10 list of things to do to produce an Kelly Gionti, Dr. Martin Luther King High School for Law, award-winning yearbook will be shared. This New York, N.Y. Pieces for the Radio 8 a.m. Saturday, Delaware B (175) Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks has said the session is for advanced staffs or a staff that most important journalistic writing of the future wants to take its yearbook to the next level. Kelsey Martin, CJE, McAllen Memorial High School, will be science writing. Today science news is no McAllen, Texas longer relegated to the back of the newspaper; 8 a.m. Saturday, Maryland A (135)

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NEWSPAPER, YEARBOOk ADVISING, ADMINISTRATORS school setting. Esther Wojcicki, Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, Calif. Gold Coin Droppings: Headline Introduction to Intensive 8 a.m. Saturday, Virginia A (125) and Lede Writing Journalistic Writing

If your headline doesn’t get the readers “in Strengthen your school’s English and YEARBOOk the tent,” then they’ll miss the circus. Once journalism programs by incorporating Think 3 in, will they be enticed enough by the lede journalism models and approaches into 3 Stooges. 3 Blind Mice. 3 Cheers. 3 Strikes. 3 to continue reading? Successful writing, your English class. The Intensive Journalistic Tenors. 3 R’s. All kinds of things gravitate to whether it is headlines, ledes or anything Approach (now approved through the 3. In a similar manner, yearbook writing and else, can be seen as gold coins dropped along Advanced Placement Audit) brings real design follow the Rule OF 3’s. the path used to further lure readers into the experience into the academic setting. Meet Judi Coolidge, Taylor Publishing Co., Avon Lake, Ohio; story. Successful headline and lede writing with teachers who will share IJW activities Mike Taylor and Marilyn Scoggins, Taylor Publishing Co., Dallas, Texas (and all kinds of good writing, for that matter) and answer your questions. 8 a.m. Saturday, Virginia B (125) require precision. Don’t be wasteful in your Brian Baron, CJE, Newton South High School, Newton Centre, Mass.; Carol Lange, CJE, Reston, Va.; Becky Sipos, word use. Come learn how to be precise, but MJE, Character Education Partnership, Washington, GENERAL AUDIENCE still manage to give the readers the gold coins D.C., and Alan Weintraut, CJE, Annandale High School, How to Get and Use Press they deserve. Annandale, Va. Riley Worth, Albert Lea High School, Albert Lea, Minn. 8 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8219 (50) Credentials 8 a.m. Saturday, Maryland B (135) Have you ever wondered how high MEETING school journalists cover major events like BROADCAST Scholastic Journalism Week inaugurations? This session will give you need- Video Storytelling for Committee Meeting to-know information on how to get everything A member of the SJW committee, or wanna from the Superbowl to the Grammys. Broadcast News Chase Snider and Leslie Orman, Kickapoo High School, A package with boring video is no fun to be? Stop by this session and help plan Springfield, Mo. watch. Learn how to be creative with your activities for the annual Scholastic Journalism 8 a.m. Saturday, Virginia C (125) camera work so that your packages are more Week, the last full week in February. New original, visually appealing, and show the advisers, veteran advisers and anyone in the PHOTOGRAPHY story to your viewers in easy-to-understand middle is welcome. This is your chance to get People Images and Sports and interesting ways. involved with JEA! Photography Christine Stricker, CJE, Clayton High School, Clayton, Mo. Tom Gayda, MJE, North Central High School, Indianapolis, Ind. People photography and action shots are 8 a.m. Saturday, Maryland C (135) 8 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8222 (50) the bread and butter of publications. This session includes effective tips on mug ADVISING, COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY MEETING Your Newsroom: From Big Ol’ shots, group shots and formal portraiture Junior High/Middle School within a variety of lighting situations. Mess to Techno Success Additionally, participants will learn the Commission Meeting Is organization not your strong suit? Looking Join together with other junior high/middle basics in mastering motion photography for ways to integrate technology into your including the freeze, the blur and the pan. school journalism advisers. Share ideas how classroom? Come explore different ways to to meet the needs of these young journalists Both student and professional examples enhance your publication’s organization, will be presented. and increase membership. coverage and public presence. We’ll talk Rick Brown, California Scholastic Journalism Initiative, Anita Wertz, MJE, Cesar Chavez High School, Stockton, Calif. Meadow Vista, Calif. 8 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8209 (50) about Wiggio, Flickr, Twitter, Ning, Wikis and probably a bunch of other Web sites that 8 a.m. Saturday, Washington 1 (290)

LAW AND ETHICS, ADVISING, ADMINISTRATORS aren’t even invented yet. Jesse McLean and Brian Wilson, Waterford Kettering High FUTURE OF THE YEARBOOk, PHOTOGRAPHY Advisers and the Law School, Waterford, Mich. Resources for Enhancing We know the First Amendment protects 8 a.m. Saturday, Truman (40) Digital Images students, but what are your rights as an Photographic standards remain the same, adviser — and how do you keep from GENERAL AUDIENCE but digital cameras are allowing more staffers becoming collateral damage in a censorship Multimedia 101 to capture the images the yearbook staff battle? Get the facts on protecting your Stories are more than just words. Learn uses. From gadgets and software to handy students, your publication and your career how to incorporate an array of design resources and blogs, you’ll learn about tricks when the principal comes knocking. techniques and multimedia elements to Adam Goldstein, Student Press Law Center, Arlington, Va. create packages that will tell stories that of the trade that will make the photography 8 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8212 (50) make a lasting impressions. in your publications pop. Kristina Deckert, Adam Griffiths,Trevor Ivan and Michelle Mike Simons, West High School, Painted Post, N.Y. Teece, Kent State Universtiy, Kent, Ohio 8 a.m. Saturday, Washington 3 (290) ADVISING, ONLINE MEDIA 8 a.m. Saturday, Tyler (40) Building the School Newsroom PHOTOGRAPHY of the Future GENERAL AUDIENCE Picture This As the physical structure of professional Creative Commons and the Publications use three primary kinds of newsrooms change, so too should student news Future of Sharing on the Web photos to tell stories: those that identify, facilities. Hear how one school’s state-of-the-art The session will discuss Creative Commons those that provide information and those new media center will embody principles of the licenses for sharing focusing on copyright with impact. Understanding how to design Next Newsroom. If there’s construction pending issues, digital publishing and participatory with each photo’s primary role clearly defined at your school, this session is for you. will add to visual impact. Paul Kandell, Palo Alto Senior High School, Palo Alto, Calif. learning as it relates to student journalism. Sherri Taylor, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y. 8 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8216 (50) The presenter is one of the recipients of a 8 a.m. Saturday, Washington 4 (400) MacArthur Award to study the impact on Creative Commons licensing in the high 63 Saturday 8 - 9 a.m.

GENERAL AUDIENCE 9 a.m. ADVISING Personality Profiles Resources for the Journalism Everybody has a story. Like Steve Hartman, Classroom the television reporter who throws a dart at a Come to this session to pick up ideas for map and chooses someone at random from On-site classroom materials that can add spark to the phone book to interview, you too can Advisers and staffs Critiqueswho submitted newspapers, your program or help in the advising process. randomly select people you don’t know and newsmagazines, yearbooks, videos and literary JEA Bookstore Committee members will offer turn them into someone you know. Find out magazines for a critique to should check appointment times posted in the registration insight into books, supplemental materials how it can work for any media. and Web sites. Advisers are invited to come Susan Newell, MJE, Northridge High School, Tuscaloosa, AL area in Exhibit Hall B. A schedule will be posted 8 a.m. Saturday, Washington 5 (290) near the critique area on Friday and Saturday. and offer suggestions on what materials have Since critiques are only 30 minutes long, it is worked (or haven’t worked) in their classrooms. Lori Oglesbee-Petter, CJE, McKinney High School, GENERAL AUDIENCE important to be on time. 9 a.m. - noon, Exhibit Hall B McKinney, Texas; Marsha Kalkowski, MJE, Marian High Motivational Games School, Omaha, Neb., and Connie Fulkerson, Journalism Sometimes we need a kick in the pants to Education Association, Manhattan, Kan. 9 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 1 (30) maintain a positive attitude, and sometimes GENERAL AUDIENCE we just need to be reminded that being on The Path from High School to a YEARBOOk staff is fun. Learn the “Camp Vicky” approach Career to keeping your staff motivated, happy and Nip/Tuck, Anyone? CNN’s soft-spoken but resourceful, general Give your yearbook copy an extreme makeover working as a team. Come to this session assignment reporter has covered some of the as Dr. 90210 gives you the tools to take your prepared to play! Vicky Wolfe, Herff Jones Yearbooks, Charlotte, N.C. decade’s most prominent news stories and stories from ugly to extraordinary. Isn’t it about 8 a.m. Saturday, Washington 6 (290) powerbrokers. But as a high school student, time for some — uh — enhancements? she had no idea of the winding path of her Crystal Kazmierski, Arrowhead Christian Academy, future. While goal setting is essential, she’ll Redlands, Calif., and Susan Massy, Shawnee Mission ADVISING Northwest HS, Shawnee, Kan. Photoshop Basics for Advisers share her personal story where old-fashioned 9 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 2 (250) (2 hours) virtues like hard work, determination and Come ask those questions you don’t want to especially open-mindedness and flexibility ask in front of the students. Learn tips and have been cornerstones that have taken her tricks that will amaze your students. Walk from covering campus news in Illinois to Meet the out of the class with skills to improve your being a respected fixture reporting 24/7 on Maryam AhranjaniAuthor photographs for your publication. Teachers/ the president of the United States. Meet professor and author Maryam Ahranjani Elaine Quijano, CNN, Washington, D.C. advisers only. (Sign up and ticket at the of American University’s Washington College 9 a.m. Saturday, Delaware A (175) of Law as she meets with convention delegates convention registration desk. Limit 34.) Mark Murray, Arlington ISD, Arlington, Texas and signs her books, “We the Students: Supreme 8 a.m. Saturday, Wilson A (34) CARTOONING Court Cases for and About America’s Students” Cartooning with John Rose and “Youth Justice in America.” 9 a.m., Lincoln 3-4 Foyer LAW AND ETHICS, GENERAL AUDIENCE After a brief discussion of his cartooning Current Issues in Student Free career, cartoonist John Rose will demonstrate Press Law techniques as he draws his characters for the audience and answers questions. Meet Snuffy GENERAL AUDIENCE This interactive session will include a review of Smith and Barney Google, who appear in 500 The Pacemaker Supreme Court cases related to the free press newspapers worldwide, as well as Pup and Since 1927, the Pacemaker has been the rights of student journalist and will ask audience editorial cartoon figures. Bring paper so you highest honor NSPA gives to its members members to participate in an exercise applying can follow along with him when he’s drawing. and one of the top honors in scholastic the current case law. Panelists include Marshall- John Rose, Harrisonburg, Va. journalism. Come and see a collection of the Brennan Fellows, law students who teach public 9 a.m. Saturday, Delaware B (175) finest publications in the country and how high school students their constitutional rights they are setting trends. We can’t promise you and responsibilities. LAW AND ETHICS Brooke Ericson, and Alex McCrary, Farhan Ali, American a Pacemaker after attending this session, but University, Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C. State Laws Protecting Press you should leave inspired and with a few new 8 a.m. Saturday, Wilson B (110) Freedom ideas to implement in your publication. Six states have laws that give rights to student Logan Aimone, MJE, National Scholastic Press Association, Minneapolis, Minn. ADVISING, NEWSPAPER journalists. Learn how those laws work and 9 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 5 (350) Revving Up Your Publication: how you can get one in your state. Mark Goodman, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio Years 1-3 9 a.m. Saturday, Jackson (40) CONVERGENCE Beginning journalism teachers, especially Integrate Video and Your in smaller schools, have a great need for ADVISING, ADMINISTRATORS Newspaper resources to attract students and to produce The At-Risk Adviser Learn the benefits of adding video to your a quality publication with a small staff often Examine the profile of the journalism advisers online newspaper (and how easy it is). Step while coaching a sport or club and/or teaching most at risk of quitting journalism (and into the world of convergence journalism and several preps. In this session we will explore a teaching) and take part in a discussion of how join the SchoolTube team as they lead you progressive set of development strategies for to best support them in their practice so they through the step-by-step process of adding the first three years to develop a strong staff stay in the profession. student-produced video. They will show you and a respected publication. Steve O’Donoghue, California Scholastic Journalism how to upload news videos, story packages, Katy Gray, Moffat County High School, Craig, Colo. Initiative, Sacramento, Calif. 8 a.m. Saturday, Wilson C (110) 9 a.m. Saturday, Jefferson (40) human-interest pieces and more. Jim Morrison, School Tube LLC, Saint Louis, Mo. 9 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 6 (275) 64 9 a.m. Saturday

GENERAL AUDIENCE pick up a few tips about how you can give a ADVISING More Things Editors Shouldn’t Do voice to the voiceless and recognition to the What You Need to know to be Even though editors stopped doing those forgotten population at your school. Certified: Managing Student Media things discussed in “What Editors Shouldn’t Riley Worth, Albert Lea High School, Albert Lea, Minn. 9 a.m. Saturday, Maryland B (135) Planning to take the CJE test? Considering Do,” they did other stuff to make their job it? Or just wanting to be more familiar harder than it has to be. So here are 20 more YEARBOOk, BUSINESS/ADVERTISING with the management aspects of your things all editors should avoid. role as student media adviser? This jam- Ryan Gunterman, CJE, Bloomington High School North, Selling More Books Bloomington, Ind. The best way to balance a yearbook budget is packed session is for you. We’ll examine 9 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony A (120) to sell more books. Find out ways to reach your advertising, finances, production/time target audience to increase your numbers. management, staff management and GENERAL AUDIENCE Kathi Hopkins, Taylor Publishing Co., Garden Ridge, Texas professional resources. In addition we’ll Communication Skills for 9 a.m. Saturday, Maryland C (135) discuss staff relationships as well as Interviewing building relationships with your printer, Great interviews aren’t just about asking ADVISING, BROADCAST administration, faculty and community. Starting a Broadcast Kim Green, MJE, Columbus North High School, Columbus, Ind. inspired questions. To get the real story, you 9 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8219 (50) have to be able to communicate effectively, Journalism Class with a focus accuracy and establish a solid Are you trying to decide what to teach ADVISING person-to-person relationship. Learn some of first, how to design your newscast or what Scholastic Press Association the basic communication skills that doctors, equipment to buy? Attendees will be lawyers and therapists use to quickly establish able to choose from a menu of these and Roundtable (2 hours) Frank LoMonte (Student Press Law Center), an in-depth connection to the people they other topics. Veteran teachers Janet Kerby Cheryl Pell (Michigan Interscholastic work with. and Phil Harris will serve up suggestions Tom Sivertsen, CJE, Redwood High School, Larkspur, Calif. customized to what the attendees want and Press Association) and Sandy Woodcock 9 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony B (120) need to hear. (Newspaper Association of America Phillip Harris, Springfield, Va., and Janet Kerby, Roane Foundation) will discuss organizational GENERAL AUDIENCE County High School, Spencer, W.Va. strategic planning. Shut Up! Journalism Isn’t Dead 9 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8206 (50) Julie Dodd, MJE, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.; Frank LoMonte, SPLC, Arlington, Va.; Cheryl Pell, MIPA, We’re tired of hearing that journalism is dying Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich., and Sandy or that it’s already dead. It’s not, we promise. MAGAZINE Woodcock, NAA Foundation, Arlington, Va. This session takes a look at how journalists Create Literary Opportunities in 9 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8222 (50) can keep media thriving and expanding in a the World Language Classroom time when all you hear is the negative. As students learn French, Spanish, Chinese ADVISING Sally Turner, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Ill., and and other languages, they could write poems, Getting Organized: The key to a Julie Turner, ESPNRISE.com, Bristol, Conn. short-short stories and travel journals to be 9 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony C (90) Successful Year (2 hours) compiled on a CD. Or create a DVD with a Learn about the importance of a yearbook student-created one-act play and original NEWSPAPER staff manual, making grading objective Writing the Personal Column musical compositions to accompany the using grade sheets for staffers/spreads, school literary magazine. finding the pictures you need, and living The strongest personal columns are those that Felicidad Hunt-Branch, Robinson Secondary School, to tell about it. This session will give you draw from the writer’s own experiences. Come Fairfax, Va. some helpful hints how a few minutes of and read some top examples and participate 9 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8209 (50) organizing can actually save you time and in some brainstorming activities to generate ADVISING premature signs of aging. column ideas from your own experiences. Renée Burke, MJE, Wm. R. Boone High School, Orlando, Fla. Bretton Zinger, MJE, Chantilly High School, Chantilly, Va. The New Adviser: So Much to 9-10:50 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8226 (50) 9 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony D (90) Learn So Quickly This will be a guide to the many facets of MIDDLE SCHOOL, YEARBOOk GENERAL AUDIENCE becoming professionally adept while keeping Think Fun Make Your Writing Practically Perfect education first. (Experienced advisers welcome.) Add pizzazz to your book and the school Learn to avoid the seven most common Karen Barrett, CJE, Wheeling High School, Wheeling, Ill., year by using thematic gimmicks and grammatical mistakes and the six most and Robert Greenman, Brooklyn, N.Y. 9 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8212 (50) goodies or simply by including off-the- common punctuation errors. wall, creative coverage ideas and special Kay Phillips, MJE, Henderson, N.C. 9 a.m. Saturday, Maryland A (135) ADVISING distribution day techniques. See how some What You Need to know to be schools have reinvented their books each NEWSPAPER year to keep the yearbook FUN! Certified: Design and Graphics Patricia Hinman, Robinson Secondary School, FAirfax, Va. Voiceless and Forgotten: Whether you’re planning to take the CJE, 9 a.m. Saturday, Truman (40) Hopefully Not By You exam or just want to learn more about Come hear about the work of Nicholas Kristof, principles of design and graphic elements, MAGAZINE Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New this session is for you. Learn about contrast, Literary Magazines: Find the York Times, who thrives on finding the world’s emphasis, rhythm, balance, proportion, Right Printer most forgotten populace and awakening us direction and unity with contemporary Despairing because you can’t afford to to their strife. Come hear about Rick Bragg examples from a variety of media. We’ll publish your “dream” literary magazine? and his ability to tell the stories of real-life also cover strategies for how to teach these Our printer helped make the dreams of people, and in so doing has provided a voice concepts to your students. the staff come true. Hear how our print to an otherwise voiceless sector of society. Sarah Nichols, MJE, Whitney High School, Rocklin, Calif. 9 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8216 (50) representative worked with us to solve Come hear about the advocacy journalism of problems and create a magazine befitting Kristof, Bragg, Alex Kotlowitz and others, plus 65 Saturday 9 - 10 a.m.

the creativity of the school. FUTURE OF THE YEARBOOk Robert Hankes and Mike McVitty, Big Spring High School, 10 a.m. Newville, Pa., and Jeff Zinn, Graphtech Printing, Harrisburg, Pa. Today, Tomorrow — The Future 9 a.m. Saturday, Tyler (40) of Yearbooks FEATURED SPEAkER, BROADCAST Learn the most effective methods to take Talking Radio with Sound ONLINE MEDIA your yearbook, yearbook experience and Reporting Moving Your Publication Online yearbook sales from average to amazing. Fred Perrin, Friesen Yearbooks, Altona Manitoba, Canada Do you know how to observe with your ears? Looking to make the jump online? Not sure 9 a.m. Saturday, Washington 3 (290) Or use music and the natural sounds around where to start? This session, taught by two you to enhance your storytelling? Come learn experienced Web advisers, will give you a FEATURED SPEAkER, PHOTOGRAPHY these skills and the elements of the unique plan so you make the move right away and Living and Breathing National Public Radio vibe in this interactive transition your publication smoothly to the Photography session on radio broadcasting presented by digital age. two of NPR’s rising stars. They’ll show you Aaron Manfull, MJE, Francis Howell North High School, Learn how picture taking can teach you about Saint Charles, Mo., and Jim Streisel, MJE, Carmel High your life and the world around you from how radio news is similar to telling stories to School, Carmel, Ind. the photo editor for National Geographic your friends. You’ll learn how to make words 9 a.m. Saturday, Virginia A (125) and who has been a staff photographer of a vivid without pictures. And be prepared for a major daily. He is also the proud father of two few hidden surprises. PHOTOGRAPHY Charla Bear and Lakshmi Singh, National Public Radio, former yearbook editors. Washington, D.C. Win! Kurt Mutchler, National Geographic, Washington, D.C. 10 a.m. Saturday, Delaware A (175) No, it’s not all about winning. But winning a 9 a.m. Saturday, Washington 4 (400) nice certificate, a scholarship or a medal sure YEARBOOk is nice. Come see what it takes to produce NEWSPAPER, YEARBOOk, PHOTOGRAPHY quality work (first) that will win awards Hidden in Plain Sight Where’s That @#%! Picture? If I see one more story about pets, siblings (second) in photography competitions. Managing Digital Workflow Bradley Wilson, CJE, North Carolina State University, or cell phones, I think I’m going to spit! Does Raleigh, N.C. Digital photography has done wonders for your staff cover the same old stories year after 9 a.m. Saturday, Virginia B (125) the yearbook and newspaper workroom. The year? Story ideas are lurking everywhere you biggest problem is finding the image that turn, if you know how and where to look. GENERAL AUDIENCE was taken last week when you need it for Come find new ideas to turn your yearbook Always Money in the Banana Stand this week’s paper. This session will help you coverage around. Aspiring student reporters and those mentoring organize your files so nothing is ever lost. Nancy Hastings, MJE, Munster High School, Munster, Ind. Wayne Dunn, CJE, Well Dunn Images, South Lebanon, Ohio 10 a.m. Saturday, Delaware B (175) their talents: hear advice and experiences from 9 a.m. Saturday, Washington 5 (290) three promising young journalists and recent college graduates who aren’t so far removed NEWSPAPER, YEARBOOk YEARBOOk Celebrating Special Milestones from their high school days. Topics will include Trends in Coverage the future of the industry, entrepreneurial spirit, of Your School Bored with the same old traditional honing your personal niche and turning your Is your school celebrating a special year organization? Tired of giving the four members social media interactions into a valuable skill set sometime soon? It could be 50, 75, 100 in the Harry Potter Book Club the same amount for the future. or something close. Come discover some of coverage as the Marching Band? Yeah, we Sean Blanda and Brian James Kirk, Technically Philly strategies to archive the past, record the present Philadelphia, Pa., and Christopher Wink, Philadelphia, Pa. are too. Come trade in those tired ideas for and anticipate the future in your yearbook, 9 a.m. Saturday, Virginia C (125) trends like topical coverage, chronological newspaper and broadcasting programs. organization and cross-referencing. Marsha Kalkowski, MJE, Marian High School, Omaha, Neb. GENERAL AUDIENCE Gary Bender, CJE, Butler High School, Matthews, N.C., and 10 a.m. Saturday, Jackson (40) Vicky Wolfe, Herff Jones Yearbooks, Charlotte, N.C. What’s the Alternative? 9 a.m. Saturday, Washington 6 (290) Alternative copy can help student journalists ADVISING find new ways to connect with their readers. LAW AND ETHICS, GENERAL AUDIENCE Travels with Students This session will explore the possibilities of Covering Controversial and Here sans students? Make plans for Portland communicating through alternative copy Sensitive Issues and other national conventions with the formats. Be prepared to participate! advice from a veteran adviser who has Kathy Daly, Parker, Colo. This session deals with strategies for 9 a.m. Saturday, Washington 1 (290) covering controversial and sensitive issues taken her charges to 17 cities across the and will cover legal aspects of student press nation. Learn to make plans with ease and confidence, as well as the verbiage to get YEARBOOk rights to help students and advisers work approval from administrators. Make Your 2010 Yearbook Amazing with their administrators. Mary Kay Downes, MJE, Chantilly High School, Chantilly, Va. John Tagliareni, Bergenfield High School, Bergenfield, N.J. We’ll start with 10 ways to make your 10 a.m. Saturday, Jefferson (40) 9 a.m. Saturday, Wilson B (110) yearbook great... and then talk about another 10 considerations for raising the bar even YEARBOOk, NEWSPAPER, ADVISING FEATURED SPEAkER, ONLINE MEDIA more. You’ll see hundreds of examples from The Writing Lab coast to coast as well as learning some Web Journalism: The New Revolution in Communications Think of this presentation as a greatest hits of specific guidelines that will help you set your three writing presentations. Style Imitation Caroline Little discusses the evolution of Web book apart. will help you practice the craft of writing Ann Akers, MJE, Herff Jones, Charlotte, N.C., and Paul Ender, journalism, what you are doing right now as through imitation and repetition. The 12-Step Palm Springs, Calif. journalism students that can prepare you for 9 a.m. Saturday, Washington 2 (290) Program is all about reporting. Rehabilitate a career in Web journalism, and how to get a your writing process by coming to the job in the new communications revolution. Caroline Little, Guardian News & Media, Washington D.C. realization that yearbook and newspaper 9 a.m. Saturday, Wilson C (110) writing is about reporting first and writing

66 10 a.m. Saturday second. Piece of Pie will give beginning GENERAL AUDIENCE GENERAL AUDIENCE writers a formula to create professional Meet This Press Think Different Trends 2010 feature copy. Lots of handouts. Meet key, local representatives of the four In journalism, just as in almost every other Pete LeBlanc, Antelope High School, Antelope, Calif. national ethnic-minority media organizations aspect of life, we are given rules we are 10 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 2 (250) that form UNITY-Journalists of Color Inc. and told to follow. These guidelines help to the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists move us in the right directions. As writers, Association for an extended Q-and-A photographers and designers, however, we Meet the panel discussion of tips, issues, insight and sometimes need to take creative liberties, John RoseAuthor motivation. From improving reporting and bending those rules to suit a certain project’s Meet with cartoonist John Rose who will speak editing skills, to handling “sticky” diversity mission or throwing a curve to help us tell with convention delegates and autograph his matters, becoming newsroom savvy and a better story. If you want to intentionally latest book of editorial cartoons, “Now This Is Where I Draw The Line!” and books from his Kids’ learning the many benefits of their student break the rules, you first have to effectively Home Newspaper activity page, memberships, it’s designed to enhance your understand the fundamentals, and then, you “Fun With Pup!,” “More Fun With Pup!” and growth as a student AND a journalist. must know the consequences resulting from “Christmas Fun With Pup!” Cristina Azocar, Center for Integration and Improvement your reasons for breaking the rules. Then, 10 a.m., Lincoln 3-4 Foyer of Journalism, San Francisco, Calif.; Jacqueline Grazette, Georgetown Day School, Washington, D.C.; Cheryl you take the plunge into the cutting edge Hampton, National Public Radio, Washington, D.C.; Diana and think differently. Marrero, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Arlington, Va.; Charles Linda Ballew, Great Falls High School, Great Falls, Mont. MAGAZINE Robinson, Maryland Public Television, Baltimore, Md.; 10 a.m. Saturday, Maryland C (135) Michael Triplett, BNA Inc., Arlington, Va., and Doris Truong, The Crucial Role of Magazine Design The Washington Post, Washington, D.C. Why aren’t our magazines communicating: 10 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony C (90) ADVISING, BROADCAST Not enough verbal-visual connections. From Maintaining and Broadening headline treatments to creative typography, GENERAL AUDIENCE the Broadcast Journalism Class the crucial role that great design plays in Outreach Opportunities — This is time for teacher talk and YOU will rewarding your readers. Partnerships to Success choose the topic from a “menu” that includes C. Bruce Watterson, Rome, Ga. curriculum design, grading techniques, 10 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 5 (350) This session will discuss ideas how you and your staff can develop outreach programs to student control of content, classroom and equipment management and more. Two BROADCAST, ONLINE MEDIA enhance not only your media, but enhance the scholastic journalism experience. veteran teachers will make sure this session Capturing and Captivating Stan Zoller, CJE, Rolling Meadows High School, Rolling addresses issues that concern THIS audience. with Sound Meadows, Ill. Phillip Harris, Springfield, Va., and Janet Kerby, Roane Take your audience on a journey by getting 10 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony D (90) County High School, Spencer, W.Va. 10 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8206 (50) evocative sound recordings on location and weaving them into your productions. The FUTURE OF THE YEARBOOk MIDDLE SCHOOL speaker will discuss and demonstrate how to Yearbooks’ Future: The get good recordings that will transport your Scholastic Media Association Middle Schoolers Crazy for listeners, whether it’s to an office down the Perspective Write-offs (2 hours) street or a rainforest around the world. Directors of national scholastic journalism Junior high and middle school students: Do Flawn Williams, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. organizations discuss their views about you want to find out what Write-offs at the 10 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 6 (275) the future of yearbooks, and how their national convention are all about? Come to this session to find out. Half the session NEWSPAPER, LAW AND ETHICS organizations will adapt their contests and critique services as technology changes. will be spent creating works of journalism Advisers, Administrators and that are part of the national Write-offs. The Students: Getting Everyone on Individualized content, on-demand printing, new media additions to yearbook coverage second half will be round-table discussions the Same Page are all issues staffs of the future may face. and critiques of your work. For your effort A high school newspaper adviser and Logan Aimone, MJE, National Scholastic Press Association, we’ll have awards and goodies. Carry-in work principal will provide practical strategies Minneapolis, Minn.; Linda Drake, CJE, Chase County is encouraged in the areas of photography, to ensure that the student publication High School, Cottonwood Falls, Kan.; Linda Puntney, MJE, Journalism Education Association, Manhattan, Kan.; design, layout and broadcast, just like in the is one in which all stakeholders can take Vanessa Shelton, MJE, Quill and Scroll, Iowa City, Iowa; and national Write-offs. pride. Emphasis will be placed upon the Edmund Sullivan, Columbia Scholastic Press Association, Jed Palmer, Sierra Middle School, Parker, Colo.; Mary establishment of a trusting relationship. New York, N.Y. Patrick, CJE, Maize South Middle School, Wichita, Kan.; 10 a.m. Saturday, Maryland A (135) Louis Plumley, Scott Johnson Middle School, McKinney, Al Leonard and Cindy Koon, South Pointe High School, Texas; Wendi Solinger, CJE, Alice Vail Middle School, Tucson, Rock Hill, S.C. Ariz.; and Anita Wertz, MJE, Cesar Chavez High School, 10 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony A (120) NEWSPAPER Stockton, Calif. Science/Medicine News Stories: 10 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8209 (50) GENERAL AUDIENCE Fact or Fiction? Microdetails: Getting from Brain In a good science story, the facts ought to speak ADVISING A to Brain B for themselves. Do they? Are the facts distinct Using The New York Times as Nearly every teacher whines about students from their interpretation(s)? This session will Your Daily Journalism Textbook not having enough detail in their work. But explore how various stories measure up in their How virtually every aspect of journalism, from do they ever tell them why? In this workshop, treatment of the science or medicine in their reporting and writing to ethics and the First find out what teachers often can’t tell you news reports, and will offer questions science Amendment, can be taught through the use about why certain details are so important to writers should ask themselves to help “diagnose” of the New York Times. a powerful story — and what you have to do their own and others’ writings. Nick Ferentinos, Saratoga, Calif., and Robert Greenman, Aliza Holtz, Touro College and Holtz Communications Inc., Brooklyn, N.Y. to captivate your audience when you write. 10 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8212 (50) Tom Sivertsen, CJE, Redwood High School, Larkspur, Calif. New York, N.Y. 10 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony B (120) 10 a.m. Saturday, Maryland B (135)

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ADVISING PHOTOGRAPHY award-winning columnists she interviewed Speed Journalism: One Class, CMYk vs. RGB. JPEG vs. TIFF. for her book The Art of Column Writing: One Teacher, One Day Which? Why? Insider Secrets from Art Buchwald, Dave Barry, Some high school students do not have The acronyms are daunting enough. But Arianna Huffington, Pete Hamill and Other the opportunity to have a newspaper or learning what they stand for and why to Great Columnist. Suzette Martinez Standring, GateHouse News, Milton, Mass. journalism courses offered in their district. use various file formats make producing 10 a.m. Saturday, Washington 4 (400) This basic session introduces participants to publications much more consistent and a series of 50-minute lesson plans designed enjoyable. Come learn about everything from NEWSPAPER, YEARBOOk for the non-journalism classroom. Participants PPI to RGB to JPEG to PDF. And be prepared to 10 Quick Ways to an Award- will have an opportunity to critique the debunk some commonly held myths. winning Publication “speed journalism” approach with its Bradley Wilson, CJE, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C. Have you been coming to conventions or developer and designer. 10 a.m. Saturday, Virginia B (125) George Daniels, MJE, The University of Alabama, sending your publication for evaluation Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Andrew Seaman, USA Today, and you aren’t doing as well as you would Washington D.C. NEWSPAPER, YEARBOOk, MAGAZINE like? This session offers 10 steps to quickly 10 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8216 (50) Narrative Writing Brings improving your publication so you, too, can Stories to Life be called out for an award. ADVISING High school students can write like Georgia Dunn, Well Dunn Images, South Lebanon, Ohio 10 a.m. Saturday, Washington 5 (290) Establishing a National PLC for professionals by using a narrative approach Journalism Teachers and Advisers for appropriate story topics. Such writing can OK, so you teach journalism and advise bring your stories and the people in them CARTOONING, GENERAL AUDIENCE student media all by yourself — but your to life for your readers. This session will offer Art to Die For principal wants you to be in a Professional students examples and advice for editors and Facing simple verbal harassment to Learning Community with the speech reporters. The session will include several assassinations, cartoonists are not often teacher. Come and help establish a PLC with hands-on exercises. seen as vulnerable journalists, but there other j-teachers across the county. We can Helen Fallon, Point Park University, Pittsburgh, Pa. are many in jail, under legal threat and in make it work! 10 a.m. Saturday, Virginia C (125) exile right now. Those interested in editorial Mark Newton, MJE, Mountain Vista High School, Highlands cartooning, journalism or the human Ranch, Colo., and Jim Streisel, MJE, Carmel High School, GENERAL AUDIENCE Carmel, Ind. rights movement should attend this highly 10 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8219 (50) Go Fish! entertaining and stimulating presentation. Using the philosophies inspired by the See the cartoons that got cartoonists into GENERAL AUDIENCE fishmongers at the Pike Place Market in trouble and hear the stories of how and Maestro Wrap-up Seattle, you will learn how to make student why they were attacked. journalism even more rewarding. If people Robert “Bro” Russell, Cartoonists Rights Network, Burke, Va. Students who participated in Thursday’s 10 a.m. Saturday, Washington 6 (290) maestro project are invited to this special working with raw fish can have fun in the cold and damp, then journalists can “Be session to review the results of their efforts. COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY Jill Chittum, CJE, Blue Valley High School, Stilwell, Kan.Amy There,” “Make Their Day,” “Play” and “Choose DeVault, CJE, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kan. Your Attitude.” Beginning InDesign (2 hours) 10 a.m. Saturday, Truman (40) Kathy Daly, Parker, Colo. Learn to create dynamic documents using 10 a.m. Saturday, Washington 1 (290) InDesign. This is a hands-on lab that will ADVISING cover the basic steps of using the program. What You Need to know to be YEARBOOk Handouts. (Sign up and get ticket at Certified: Legal & Ethical Issues Better, By Design convention registration desk. Limit 34.) Are you wanting to be more familiar with the These principles of design make the difference Susan Roberts, MJE, LaPorte High School, LaPorte, TexasHal Schmidt, MJE, PS Graphics Inc., Kingwood, Texas legal and ethical issues surrounding student between good yearbooks and great ones. See 10 a.m. Saturday, Wilson A (34) media? This is the session for you. Whether it’s how knowing what subtle changes to make knowing the important cases or defining libel can create a drastically different look in terms FEATURED SPEAkER, LAW AND ETHICS or understanding the importance of being of sophistication and polish. Why Freedom Works a forum, here’s the place to find out what’s Ann Akers, MJE, Herff Jones, Matthews, N.C.Paul Ender, Palm Springs, Calif. At a time when public schools urgently essential and how you can teach it. 10 a.m. Saturday, Washington 2 (290) need to take democratic freedom seriously, Candace Bowen, MJE, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 10 a.m. Saturday, Tyler (40) many schools are moving in the opposite PHOTOGRAPHY, YEARBOOk direction. Fortunately, a growing number

PHOTOGRAPHY The Nature of Color II of schools are giving students meaningful Picture Speaks 1,000 Words Learn the fundamentals of color theory and opportunities to exercise their rights and Wonder how professional photographers harmony as originally developed by Johannes responsibilities as citizens by creating a take those amazing photos for magazines Itten, and its application to outstanding school climate that encourages democracy and newspapers? Wonder how you can do yearbook photography and design. Each and freedom. Through shared decision- the same for your school publication? Learn session attendee will receive a color design kit. making, conflict resolution, a free student Fred Perrin, Friesen Yearbooks, Altona, Manitoba, Canada press, class and school meetings and other all the little things you can do that will make 10 a.m. Saturday, Washington 3 (290) a big difference and how to prepare to take means, these schools demonstrate that freedom works to create a safe learning great pictures that will help tell your stories. NEWSPAPER Edmond Kwong, Homestead High School, Cupertino, Calif. environment for all students. 10 a.m. Saturday, Virginia A (125) The Art of Newspaper Charles Haynes, Freedom Forum First Amendment Center, Column Writing Washington, D.C. Techniques and insights specific to 10 a.m. Saturday, Wilson B (110) newspaper column writing compiled from

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ONLINE MEDIA ONLINE MEDIA LAW AND ETHICS The Death of Cute? Story Getting Readers to Your Web Site Open Forum on Press Rights Structure and Headline Writing You have a site online, now you need to Members of JEA’s Scholastic Press Rights on the Web get people to go to it. Interaction with your Commission will field questions and discuss Packaging your articles for the Web requires audience is key. Learn how Facebook and issues with students and advisers on significant changes in how you structure Twitter can increase your hit count, as well as everything from print press rights to those on stories and write your headlines. Join Palo numerous other things you can do around the Internet. Alto High School students and their adviser your school that will create a buzz and get John Bowen, MJE, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, and members of the Scholastic Press Rights Commission for a discussion of the implications of more readers to your site. Aaron Manfull, MJE, Francis Howell North High School, 11 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony C (90) eye-tracking research and search engine Saint Charles, Mo. ` optimization for online news staffs. 11 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 2 (250) GENERAL AUDIENCE Paul Kandell and The Paly Voice staff, Palo Alto Senior High School, Palo Alto, Calif. Military Communicators Tell 10 a.m. Saturday, Wilson C (110) Their Stories Meet the Advisers and students are invited to learn about communications (journalism, Suzette MartinezAuthors Standring and 11 a.m. photography, videography and broadcasting) Robert “Bro” Russell in the military, to learn of the important roles BROADCAST Suzette Martinez Standring, author of “The Art of Column Writing: Insider Secrets from Art military journalists play in telling the stories The Reporter’s Job Buchwald, Dave Barry, Arianna Huffington, Pete of the American military forces. Military Sam Ford may be covering D.C. voting rights Hamill and Other Great Columnists” will meet communicators from each service, many who or parks, a police chase or new business, with convention delegates and sign autographs have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan Councilmember Marion Barry or events at a at the table outside the JEA Bookstore. Also and who are now serving as instructors at the local school. Have a conversation with Ford to meet with cartoonist Robert “Bro” Russell as he Defense Information School, will discuss their learn how he prepares to cover the day’s news discusses and signs his booklet “Art to Die For.” roles as journalists serving in the Armed Forces. 11 a.m., Lincoln 3-4 Foyer and works with the WJLA-TV cameraperson to Representatives of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps get the story on air. and Coast Guard Sam Ford, WJLA-TV, Arlington, Va. 11 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony D (90) 11 a.m. Saturday, Delaware A (175) MAGAZINE Great Graphics and How to NEWSPAPER, YEARBOOk CARTOONING, NEWSPAPER Generate Them 10 Easy Steps for Improving Editing Cartooning and Newspapers: See what happens when the lights come Learn how to improve copy editing (and Total BFF’s! on in the designers’ world! Get a thrill out of coverage) on your school’s publication. The fates of journalism and cartooning are illustrating great pieces of prose and poetry. This hands-on session will highlight some joined at the hip — even as both struggle Examples from nationally award-winning different approaches to copy editing as well. to stay hip. publications will be used as illustrations. Lori Keekley, CJE, St. Louis Park High School, St. Louis Park, Minn. Michael Cavna, The Washington Post, Washington, D.C. C. Bruce Watterson, Rome, Ga. 11 a.m. Saturday, Maryland A (135) 11 a.m. Saturday, Delaware B (175) 11 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 5 (350)

MAGAZINE, NEWSPAPER, YEARBOOk GENERAL AUDIENCE ONLINE MEDIA, ADVISING Will Work for Food! Giddy about Google Docs How Anecdotes Could Save Learn how to make money from your Using Google Docs in the newsroom saves Your Writing superior knowledge of spelling, grammar and paper, ensures writer accountablity and Learning how to localize a story is a surefire homonyms in the real world. improves the quality and efficiency of editing way to gain reader interest. Using an effective Konnie Krislock, Orange County High School of the Arts, and collaboration. Both editors and advisers can anecdote is one effective way to help to Santa Ana, Calif. localize a story. During this session students 11 a.m. Saturday, Jackson (40) benefit greatly from the Web 2.0 tool. Sue Skalicky, Century High School, Bismarck, N.D. will see examples of stories that utilizes 11 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 6 (275) this concept and will gain ideas for how to CAREERS implement this into their writing, taking their YEARBOOk Landing a Job in Journalism — writing from drab to fab. Life after High School Yearbook Writing: The Chicken April Moss, CJE, Pike High School, Indianapolis, Ind. You’re a great high school journalist, but or the Egg? 11 a.m. Saturday, Maryland B (135) what’s next? Two former Virginia High School Ever been confronted by a yearbook staffer Journalists of the Year share their tips to who says “no one reads the stories anyway, so GENERAL AUDIENCE landing an internship and a job. They both why bother?” Or an entire school that thinks This Edition Took 2 Years started at Annandale High School, and now this way? Come find out that people actually We’re not crazy. By beginning coverage of the they both work at POLITICO, the nation’s WILL read your copy … if it doesn’t stink. election of the 44th president of the United leader in covering national politics. Brian Wilson, Waterford Kettering High School, States during stumps speeches in 2007, we got Waterford, Mich. Josh Kraushaar and Katherine Lehr, POLITICO, Arlington, Va. 11 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony A (120) once-in-a-lifetime photographs only accessible 11 a.m. Saturday, Jefferson (40) with press credentials and access to political YEARBOOk figures when their guard was down (and even MEETING It’s a Guide, not a Mold met a few celebrities), found story ideas in JEA Awards Committee Meeting Learn how to use a plan for your yearbook unlikely places and utilized new technology. Committee members will meet to review pages to present the material in the best way, We’ll show you how you can do it, too, and do award applications. some great journalism along the way. Linda Drake, CJE, Chase County High School, not misuse the template concept and bore your readers or ruin the coverage. Ina Herlihy and Jovel Queirolo, Convent of the Sacred Heart Cottonwood Falls, Kan. High School, San Francisco, Calif. Linda Mercer, Halifax, Va. 11 a.m. Saturday, JEA Suite 11 a.m. Saturday, Maryland C (135) 11 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony B (120) 69 Saturday 11 a.m. - Noon

ADVISING other media to create connections between formulaic coverage plans that dictated Taking the Broadcast Journalism science and students’ lives. The group focused exactly how content would be divided and Class to Higher Levels on eight virology research topics to combine arranged in the yearbook. Once you know Are you looking for new student project ideas, their interest in science with the development the rationale behind the traditional coverage fundraising methods and bigger audiences? of their skills in science journalism. The guidelines, it’s easy to create a fresh new book Are you ready to increase quality and quantity process and their products will be shared. that answers the needs of the readers. There Janet Raddish, Omaha Bryan High School, Omaha, Neb. of your equipment? Attendees can choose are so many ways to tell the story of the year. 11 a.m. Saturday, Truman (40) Ann Akers, MJE, Herff Jones, Charlotte, N.C., and Paul Ender, from a menu list of these and other topics to Palm Springs, Calif. move your program to the next level. GENERAL AUDIENCE 11 a.m. Saturday, Washington 2 (290) Phillip Harris, Springfield, Va., and Janet Kerby, Roane County High School, Spencer, W.Va. Creating a Staff Manual 11 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8206 (50) Advisers and editors will learn the importance FUTURE OF THE YEARBOOk of having a staff manual and what should and When Dinosaurs Walked the ADVISING, ADMINISTRATORS should not be included. Earth and Newspapers Flourished Why Consider JEA Certification? Susan Everett, MJE, Jersey City, N.J. Yearbooks hoping to avoid a similar fate need 11 a.m. Saturday, Tyler (40) Advisers can demonstrate their to take a hard look at themselves rather than professionalism by earning Certified sticking their heads in the sand in avoidance. Journalism Educator status and even become PHOTOGRAPHY How can you avoid obsolescence? Let’s talk Master Journalism Educator. This session tells Advocacy and Intervention: Making about some possibilities. how the JEA certification works and how a Difference with Your Photography Sherri Taylor, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y. advisers can gain their CJE and MJE. Learn how you can use photography-related 11 a.m. Saturday, Washington 3 (290) Mark Newton, MJE, Mountain Vista High School, Highlands skills to intercede and help change the lives of Ranch, Colo. others for good. FEATURED SPEAkER, BROADCAST 11 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8216 (50) Dave LaBelle, Oak View, Calif. News IS a Community Service 11 a.m. Saturday, Virginia A (125) Being involved and “connected” to one’s ADVISING community can lead to invaluable reporting Using Critiques to Set FUTURE OF THE YEARBOOk insights and contacts, but is also fraught with Publication Goals If All Your Friends Jumped off a ethical considerations. Having cultivated This session is designed for newer advisers Bridge, Would You? respected civic involvement and reporting or those advisers just getting their feet wet Your whole school is on Facebook, and chops in D.C. and Baltimore, Foster will in the critique process. Two experienced your yearbook staff should be too. It’s not share anecdotes that have strengthened her judges, will discuss how to use critiques to enough to just cover Twitter madness and the reporting, observational skills and personal improve your publication, what judges really popularity of Facebook; you should be a part growth — and reassured her perspective that look for, whether the expenditure is really of it. Come learn tips for using social media to TV journalism is much more a public-service worth it, and how to interpret and apply the involve and communicate with readers, boost industry than a profit-making one. results, and what to do if you disagree. Learn yearbook sales and create an online presence Lesli Foster, WUSA-TV9, Washington, D.C. how to find the critique that is right for your for your yearbook staff. 11 a.m. Saturday, Washington 4 (400) publication, and how to use the critique Chad Rummel, CJE, Oakton High School, Vienna, Va. 11 a.m. Saturday, Virginia B (125) advice in your classroom and with your LAW AND ETHICS, NEWSPAPER students to set goals and objectives for the Ethics: A Strategy for Press Freedom year. Time will be set aside for a Q&A. YEARBOOk When students perform the way ethical Susan Benedict, MJE, Pacific High School, Pacific, Font Savant professional journalists do, this should be Mo.Michele Dunaway, MJE, Francis Howell High School, Do you have the yearn to kern? Yeah, me Saint Charles, Mo. a persuasive argument for press freedom. 11 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8222 (50) too. Come see some fresh faces for 2009 and Hear how the staff and advisers of The beyond. Learn how type sets a visual tone Spoke, award-winning newspaper edited by ADVISING for your verbal message, and where to find 2009 JEA Journalist of the Year Henry Rome, Calling the Shots: Developing inspiration. Let’s discuss hot-off-the presses prepare themselves to tackle tough stories Strong Student Editorial type treatments because good type makes despite censorship threats. And learn whether Leadership us happy... and your book so much more ethics can be both a useful publications Strong student editors don’t just happen; contemporary. strategy and a viable legal defense. Steve Kent, Herff Jones Yearbooks, Roanoke, Va. Thomas Eveslage, MJE, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa.; they are developed by advisers willing to give 11 a.m. Saturday, Virginia C (125) Susan Houseman, CJE, Cynthia Hyatt, Sanjana Bijlani and them the freedom and support to become Seth Zweifler, Conestoga High School, Berwyn, Pa. critical thinkers, thoughtful decision-makers YEARBOOk 11 a.m. Saturday, Washington 5 (290) and careful editors. Come discover some Contemporary Coverage ideas on how to move from publications YEARBOOk What’s the hot trend that every staff should Got You Covered control freak to supportive coach. work toward? More coverage. See how Nancy Freeman, MJE, Clayton High School, Clayton, Mo. Tired of the same old stories, same old topics? yearbooks use modular design and topical 11 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8226 (50) Find out new approaches to the old stuff coverage to effectively expand beyond the and get loads of ideas for new topics. We will GENERAL AUDIENCE, NEWSPAPER traditional copy block, giving their readers more also cover handling issues that concern high Learning about Science Through information, more angles and more appeal. Lynn Strause, East Lansing, Mich. school students and how to effectively cover Media Production 11 a.m. Saturday, Washington 1 (290) them in your book. ln July 2009, 16 journalism and science Missy Green, Walsworth Publishing Co., Maitland, Fla. 11 a.m. Saturday, Washington 6 (290) teachers and 16 science students worked with YEARBOOk professional journalists and scientists to study There’s More to the Story viruses and produce videos, audio essays and We’ve come a long way since the days of

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FEATURED SPEAkER, LAW AND ETHICS word of mouth to help spread the news there will be food!). We’ll focus on newspaper, Creating Laboratories of Democracy about your school’s yearbook program. but everyone is welcome. Charles Haynes will share how the First Dana Gorman, CJE, Herff Jones Yearbooks, Burke, Va. Laura Nelson, University of Southern California, Los Noon Saturday, Jefferson (40) Angeles, Calif. Amendment can serve as a civic framework Noon Saturday, Marriott Balcony D (90) for renewing the civic mission of schools. Schools become laboratories for democratic LEADERSHIP Secrets of Leadership and NEWSPAPER, ONLINE MEDIA, ADVISING freedom when students and all members of Editing Can be a Word Game the school community are given a real voice Team Building Learn how exercises resembling parlor in shaping the life of the school. Discover the secrets to motivating your staffs Charles Haynes, Freedom Forum First Amendment Center, and getting everyone moving in the same games and brainteasers can keep young Washington, D.C. direction. Find out how to problem solve and journalists engaged. 11 a.m. Saturday, Wilson B (110) Mike Grundmann, James Madison University, Harrisburg, Va. teach people to work together. Noon Saturday, Maryland A (135) Caitlin Burns, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kan. NEWSPAPER, ONLINE MEDIA Noon Saturday, Lincoln 5 (350) Writing for the Web NEWSPAPER, YEARBOOk, ADVISING ONLINE MEDIA Getting stories online can seem daunting, Managing by Color especially with a print newspaper still to Cheap and Easy Multimedia One requirement for effective student With a laptop and a $99 video recorder you produce. But the task isn’t as difficult as it publications: good communication skills. Join can have a fully functioning television studio appears. The trick? Work smarter, not harder. us to discover what we know about ourselves or even live — yes, live — coverage of your Learn some basics of online news writing as and how that will assist us in communicating school’s event. There’s no longer a reason to well as a few easy ways to get those stories to more effectively with others. be scared of incorporating multimedia into Lynn Pickett, Northeastern Wayne Jr.-Sr. High School, the Web with resources you probably already your media’s curriculum and/or Web site. Fountain City, Ind. Noon Saturday, Maryland B (135) have in place. Kelly Furnas, Educational Media Co., Virginia Tech, Jim Streisel, MJE, Carmel High School, Carmel, Ind. Blacksburg, Va. 11 a.m. Saturday, Wilson C (110) Noon Saturday, Lincoln 6 (275) Adviser Recognition NEWSPAPER Noon JEA, NSPA and Dow Jones NewspaperLuncheon Fund will Creative Sports Designing present their annual awards at this special event. BROADCAST Learn the process of making creative sports New and renewing Certified Journalism Educators Secrets to an Award-winning pages. Speakers will focus on how to work as and Master Journalism Educators also will be Broadcast Program a sports staff to come up with topics and how recognized. NSPA Pioneers, DJNF Journalism Teacher of the Year program winners and JEA Carl In this session, student staff members and to make appealing layouts. Students will learn in detail why the example pages shown are Towley, Lifetime Achievement, Administrator of the adviser of the award-winning Central the Year, Medal of Merit and Friend of Scholastic Intelligence will share secrets to a successful successful or not successful. Harinand Tyagi, Brown University, Providence, R.I. Journalism honorees will be recognized. Speakers broadcast media program. Included will be for Noon Saturday, Marriott Balcony A (120) will be John Hudnall, the Carl Towley Award organizing a staff, establishing deadlines (and winner, and Paul Kandell, Dow Jones National sticking to them), overcoming (and sometimes BUSINESS/ADVERTISING High School Journalism Teacher of the Year. inviting) controversy and simple technical Learn the Advertising Attitude Preregistration was required. Please bring your tips that can help your program stand out. ticket. Herff Jones has underwritten this event. Selling advertising is an attitude. Students Noon - 2:20 p.m. Marriott Salon 1 Examples of stories and shows will be shown. will learn the art of selling and leave with Lydia Berns and Nichole Lemmon, Central High School, Springfield, Mo. the attitude and enthusiasm to raise a lot of Noon Saturday, Delaware A (175) money for their journalism program. Nora Guiney, Walsworth Publishing Co., Riverview MI YEARBOOk, BUSINESS/ADVERTISING Noon Saturday, Marriott Balcony B (90) NEWSPAPER Marketing Your Book Building a Better Newsroom Go over easy steps for marketing your book NEWSPAPER including ideas on how to get the word out This is a workshop by teenagers for teenagers Inventive Ledes to Indulge that will focus on fostering harmony within a about book sales, selling the books and selling high school publication. Key skills discussed Readers to those who still haven’t purchased their book. Ashley Duchesneau, Taylor Publishing Co., Melbourne will include interpersonal skills, organization, Learn how to use varying types of ledes while eliminating clichés and hooking your reader. Beach, Fla. conflict management, layout-content Noon Saturday, Maryland C (135) synchronization and policy making. Relayed Following the instructional period, attendees will participate in a brief lede-writing contest by two former high school newspaper MIDDLE SCHOOL, NEWSPAPER where prizes will be awarded. editors-in-chief now involved with the Olivia Scott, Chapman University, Orange, Calif., and Writing a Paper Middle-School nation’s oldest collegiate daily newspaper. Jennifer Watson, Boston University, Boston, Mass. Students Will Read Alison Greenberg and Daniel Serna, Yale University, New Noon Saturday, Marriott Balcony C (90) Haven, Conn. Are middle-school students not reading your Noon Saturday, Delaware B (175) newspaper? Try out some of these ideas for NEWSPAPER, LEADERSHIP instant reader appeal. YEARBOOk How to Survive (and Love) Adrienne Forte, Robinson Secondary School, Fairfax, Va. Count Me In — Increasing Staff Size Editorship Noon Saturday, Park Tower 8226 (50) Is your yearbook program in need of more If you’re currently an editor, hope to become students to help share the workload? one or think the job may be for you, learn NEWSPAPER, YEARBOOk Explore ways to increase the enrollment to survive your year from an experienced Write, Rinse, Repeat numbers of your editors and staffers. Find editor-in-chief. We’ll discuss the practical This is a basic look at the writing process out how to use schoolwide messages, editor — preparation, expectations, advisers and beginning with interviewing and ending incentives, Back to School Night fliers and leadership traits — to the hilarious (and yes, with true revision. Session will include tips on

71 Saturday Noon - 1 p.m. interviewing and thinking on your feet. But can utilize those new communications tools to much more than recording the answer to a the largest focus will be place upon how to enhance your yearbook and why it’s important question. In this session, attendees will learn effectively revise the content of your writing. to remember that the first priority is to tell the how to preplan this conversation, to identify Anna Kearns, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kan. story of the year in a form that will last. the optimal location for that conversation, Noon Saturday, Truman (40) Nancy Y. Smith, Lafayette High School, Ballwin, Mo. research, and, ultimately, package together a Noon Saturday, Washington 3 (290) fabulous story. GENERAL AUDIENCE Don Goble, Ladue Horton Watkins High School, St. Louis, Mo. The Importance of Networking GENERAL AUDIENCE 1 p.m. Saturday, Delaware A (175) Education is much more than just going Social Media and Sports Reporting to class. Internships, workshops, contests, In the world of social media, Sara Walsh, the CARTOONING peer interaction are vital parts of a student’s weekend sports anchor and Redskins reporter Techniques and Critiques learning process. Six steps to maximizing your for CBS-station WUSA-TV9 is quite comfortably A line, a hatch mark, and negative space. educational experience will assist students in “on top of her game.” On a daily basis, she With editorial cartoonist Clay Jones learn their approach to college life and beyond. blogs, twitters and uses Facebook in her to look at today’s political leaders and Greg Cooper, Brooks Institute, Ventura, Calif. reporting/anchoring duties in D.C.’s busy pro- celebrities to draw the distinguishing Noon Saturday, Virginia A (125) and high-school sports market. She’ll share characteristics that identify the person and how to use — but not overuse — these techie YEARBOOk, MIDDLE SCHOOL make a visual statement. When do cartoonists tools and how they’ve have changed news, exaggerate features and use stereotypes? Layering Your Theme sports and broadcast coverage — not just in Your yearbook is more that just a great cover, an Bring a sketchpad and your own cartoons the recent years, in the recent months! to be critiqued and to discuss how certain opening, and some division pages. See how you Sara Walsh, WUSA-TV Sports, Washington, D.C. can create an attitude with your book through Noon Saturday, Washington 4 (400) techniques may strengthen your images. Clay Jones, Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, Va. fonts, designs and some fun gimmicks. Door 1 p.m. Saturday, Delaware B (175) prizes and contests are included. LAW AND ETHICS Mary Patrick, CJE, Maize South Middle School, Wichita, Kan. Censor-Proofing Your MIDDLE SCHOOL, YEARBOOk Noon Saturday, Virginia B (125) Publication You Can Quote Me On That Get tips and strategies from the SPLC about Is getting good quotes a problem for your ONLINE MEDIA Reporting Sports Digitally heading off a censorship issue before it starts. staff? The advisers of an award-winning We’ll discuss getting your paper designated a yearbook share some of their tricks for getting Let’s face it: Posting stories online before a “public forum,” building strategic alliances and a lot of good quotes and material that can be printed publication goes to press is so early crafting the message for that uncomfortable used throughout the year and all through the 21st century. In today’s sports journalism conversation with the principal. book. Learn how to write the questions so climate, if it’s not posted in minutes, it’s Frank LoMonte, Student Press Law Center, Arlington, Va. you get the answers you want. already history. Learn how to survive Noon Saturday, Washington 5 (290) Patricia Hinman, Robinson Secondary School, Fairfax, Va. and thrive to make yourself an effective, 1 p.m. Saturday, Jefferson (40) marketable sports journalist in today’s NEWSPAPER, MAGAZINE, ONLINE MEDIA 1,440-minute news cycle. Making Your Stories Stand Out YEARBOOk David Schwartz, Iowa High School Press Association, Attention spans are shorter, media outlets Designing with Time and Space Iowa City, Iowa Noon Saturday, Virginia C (125) are proliferating and there are a lot of stories Chronological yearbooks are the latest out there. But there are some simple ways to organizational craze, so now add modular GENERAL AUDIENCE make your work stand out — to your readers design as the tool to make sure your theme Coaching Writing: A Better and your editors — and get your stories is carried throughout your book. An arsenal Way to Edit the attention they deserve. We’ll talk about of mods can mark your path through the chronological maze. Put the red pen aside. Move beyond making interviewing, reporting, writing and rewriting, with some tips from the pros at the St. Carolyn Henderson, Walsworth Publishing Co., Matthews, N.Y. surface grammar corrections and learn how 1 p.m. Saturday, Lincoln 2 (250) to coach your writers to improve. Petersburg Times and The New York Times. Libby Nelson, Chronicle of Higher Education, Washington, D.C. Tamara Salisbury, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kan. YEARBOOk Noon Saturday, Wilson B (110) Noon Saturday, Washington 1 (290) Go With The Flow: Conducting

ONLINE MEDIA Fabulous Interviews YEARBOOk Web Site Design Using iWeb Are you tired of the same old copy with the Get Focused same old quotes year after year? It all stems This is not photography session. It is not a Get your publication online quickly, easily and without having to learn HTML. This session from the interview. Learn how to gather session on how to cope with ADHD. Learn to meaningful and unique information from better serve your student body by knowing covers the iWeb interface as well as design and layout basics, how to podcast audio and video even the most unlikely sources. their wants and needs. This session will lead Gracie MacDonell, Walsworth Publishing Co., Maryland you through the steps of organizing and content, hosting your site, and more. No prior Heights, Mo. facilitating focus groups. Come ready to experience with Web design required. 1 p.m. Saturday, Lincoln 5 (350) Michael Hernandez, Mira Costa High School, Manhattan participate. (Limited to 100 participants) Beach, Calif. Judi Coolidge, Taylor Publishing Co., Avon Lake, Ohio, and Noon Saturday, Wilson C (110) BROADCAST, ONLINE MEDIA Mike Taylor, Taylor Publishing Co., Dallas, Texas Planet Forward — A New Model Noon Saturday, Washington 2 (290) for Content Distribution 1 p.m. High quality, cheap recording and editing gear FUTURE OF THE YEARBOOk allow just about anybody to “make a movie.” Thinking Outside the Book BROADCAST But as a young filmmaker, you want to stand Technology is changing the way we It’s Not an Interview; It’s a out from that crowd. How are distribution communicate every day and yearbook staffs Conversation models changing because of the Web? And are taking notice. Come learn how your staff A good interview is a true conversation, 72 1 - 2:30 p.m. Saturday how can you use your talents to make your her experiences and answer your questions 1 p.m. Saturday, Virginia A (125) voice heard in a way that gets noticed by about being a woman in the sports world. NEWSPAPER, YEARBOOk, MIDDLE SCHOOL decision-makers? As a content-driven Web site Julie Turner, ESPNRISE.com, Bristol, Conn. Make It Quick 1 p.m. Saturday, Maryland A (135) with a national television show, Planet Forward Sometimes you don’t have the time, money offers a model to answer these questions. or talent you wish to give to all pages of your PHOTOGRAPHY Come hear from a national PBS producer what yearbook or newspaper. Learn some quick it takes to craft a piece that is seen by millions Captions: How to Explain Those strategies, handouts, design ideas and door and talked about by the people deciding our ‘Thousand Words’ prizes to make pages quickly and efficiently. country’s future. Yes, pictures are worth thousands of words, Mary Patrick, CJE, Maize South Middle School, Wichita, Kan. Chad Davis, Planet Forward Public Affairs Project, School of but you still need to name the people in 1 p.m. Saturday, Virginia B (125) Media and Public Affairs, Washington, D.C. the photo and explain their relationship to 1 p.m. Saturday, Lincoln 6 (275) what is happening. Yearbook and newspaper ONLINE MEDIA photos NEED specific details. Come and find The Pros and Prose of Blogging NEWSPAPER, YEARBOOk, MAGAZINE out how to make this a painless experience. More than ever, rapid interaction with your Incorporating Alts into Your Lynn Pickett, Northeastern Wayne Jr.-Sr. High School, readers is essential. A blog is the perfect way to Publications Fountain City, Ind. 1 p.m. Saturday, Maryland B (135) meet that need. From politics to pop culture, This session will focus on incorporating sports to fashion, no topic is off limits. And alternative story design into student here’s a bonus: Blogging even looks good on GENERAL AUDIENCE publications on an every-issue basis, making The Interview Process: Before, your college application. An introduction. it part of the architecture of how you present David Schwartz, Iowa High School Press Assn, Iowa City, Iowa information to your readers. Come learn how During and After 1 p.m. Saturday, Virginia C (125) one award-winning staff incorporates alts This introductory session will provide into its paper. students with insightful, practical and GENERAL AUDIENCE Matthew Schott, Francis Howell Central H.S., Saint Charles, Mo. informative suggestions for conducting How to Write a Great Profile 1 p.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony A (120) successful interviews. Do you find yourself writing the same old Paul Lazarovich, CJE, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass. profile pieces over and over again? This LAW AND ETHICS, ADMINISTRATORS 1 p.m. Saturday, Maryland C (135) presentation will highlight the differences Working with Administrators to between a mediocre profile and a great profile. Prevent Censorship MIDDLE SCHOOL, GENERAL AUDIENCE Techniques for interviewing, finding a focus Learn how to prevent censorship of Portfolios for Junior High/ and taking writing risks will be discussed. controversial school topics by working with Middle School Tamara Salisbury, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kan. school administrators. Successfully gather the 1 p.m. Saturday, Washington 1 (290) It is never too early for students to compile facts for a story and discover ways to develop a portfolio. Advisers and students are an open and trustful relationship with YEARBOOk encouraged to attend this session that administrators. Also discussed will be the First Inspiration will highlight how to compile a top-notch Amendment and student press rights. Take a deep breath because it is true. portfolio for the JEA Aspiring Young Journalist Harinand Tyagi, Brown University, Providence, R.I. There is nothing new. The components of 1 p.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony B (120) Award. See examples of winning portfolios. magazine, brochure, billboard, Web designs Learn how to make this portfolio part of your are outfitted with snazzy 2010 veneers and NEWSPAPER class. Topics covered will include resumes, repurposed for your yearbook spreads. cover letters, self-evaluations of work and Managing Staff while Great design is all about inspiration and Minimizing Drama overall presentation. Handouts provided. Anita Wertz, MJE, Cesar Chavez High School, Stockton, Calif. adaptation. See how it is done. Teaching through personal experience, 1 p.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8226 (50) Jeff Moffitt, Olympia High School, Orlando, Fla. Mike Taylor, these former co-editors will explain how Taylor Publishing Co., Dallas, Texas 1 p.m. Saturday, Washington 2 (290) to eliminate cliques and power trips while MAGAZINE working effectively with an adviser. They Adding More Dimensions to the FUTURE OF THE YEARBOOk will also cover how to create a friendly Literary Magazine Convergent Media is Here to Stay environment for open ideas. This session Tired of reading poem after poem, short story Create a student media powerhouse using include audience participation through after short story in the pages of your magazine? your online newspaper, print and electronic discussion and a Q-and-A period. Olivia Scott, Chapman University, Orange, Calif., and Discover how to jazz up the contents by yearbook, podcasts, photography and a few Jennifer Watson, Boston University, Boston, Mass. incorporating profiles, personal essays, point- new outlets. Learn how to set up a convergent 1 p.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony C (90) counterpoint pieces, and other prose into the program and ways to improve your readership standard mix of creative writing. The session in all publications with social media outlets. YEARBOOk also will offer tips on feature writing. Leland Mallett, Mansfield Legacy High School, Mansfield, Take It Out of the Box Grace Jean, National Defense Magazine, Arlington, Va. Texas, and Marilyn Scoggins, Taylor Publishing Co., Attend this session to get ideas for tip-ins, mini 1 p.m. Saturday, Truman (40) Dallas, Texas 1 p.m. Saturday, Washington 3 (290) magazines, extraordinary covers and endsheets PHOTOGRAPHY that will set your book apart from the rest. GENERAL AUDIENCE Missy Green, Walsworth Publishing Co. Maitland, Fla. Every Picture Should Tell a 1 p.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony D (90) How and Ombud Can Help Your Story, Shouldn’t It? Media Some pictures provoke, and others draw GENERAL AUDIENCE What the heck is an “ombudsman”? Learn attention. Some provide information, how the growing need of this unique, Women in Sports Media and some convey emotion. But real Come and talk about what it’s really like being insider-outsider media position can help your photojournalists do all that and more. Learn a woman in the locker room and how you can audience understand why you do what you how make your single and multiple pictures make a name for yourself in the sports world as do for them — warts and all. really tell a narrative with impact. Alicia Shepard, National Public Radio, Washington, D.C., a woman. Julie Turner from ESPN.com will share Jack Zibluk, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Ark. 73 Saturday 2:30 p.m. and David Meyer, University of Maryland, College Park, Md. Newspapers, sorts through the maze of Robert Goldstein and Laura Soto-Barra, National Public 1 p.m. Saturday, Washington 4 (400) Radio, Washington, D.C. advice on the information highway traffic 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Lincoln 6 (275) to offer clear-cut guidance on what young MAGAZINE, NEWSPAPER, ADVISING GENERAL AUDIENCE It’s the Little Things journalists need to learn and achieve to Making the Most of an Interview rise from high school news person to major It’s the little things that can make your If you’ve written your story and realized that you league professional. Stuart has recruited and publication more sophisticated. This session didn’t ask a question that would have provided mentored hundreds of journalists who work provides dozens of useful tips for editors a perfect quote, come to this session. We’ll talk in newsrooms across the nation and have had and advisers who are ready to take their about how to prepare for interviews and how to assignments in the Middle East and Africa. publications to the next level. Writing, layouts, Reginald Stuart, The McClatchy CoWashington Bureau, be the best interviewer on your staff. and staff — we’ll cover them all. Washington, D.C. Julie Turner, ESPNRISE.com, Bristol, Conn. Jon Reese, Decatur High School, Decatur, Ga. 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Delaware B (175) 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Maryland A (135) 11 a.m. Saturday, Washington 6 (290) NEWSPAPER COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY ADVISING It’s Your Opinion: Get It Right Photoshop Tips and Tricks Convention Wrap-up Session is on clear strategies for writing staff If you have seen cool trends such as new ways Attend this session with JEA’s officers and editorials. Step-by-step suggestions will be to use cut out backgrounds and illustrations in executive director to discuss praises and given with explanations for each step. yearbooks and magazines, this is the session to concerns about this and future conventions. Ron Bonadonna, CJE, GSSPA Past President, Mays Landing, N.J. see how those effects are done in Photoshop. Jack Kennedy, MJE, Rock Canyon High School, Highlands 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Maryland B (135) Kathryn Phillips, Walsworth Publishing Co., Arlington, Va. Ranch, Colo.; Linda Puntney, MJE, Kansas State University, 1 p.m. Saturday, Wilson A (34) Manhattan, Kan. , and Ann Visser, MJE, Pella Community High School, Pella, Iowa ONLINE MEDIA 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Jackson (40) Help Me Figure This Out! FEATURED SPEAkER, BROADCAST Major companies are using emerging and Barrier-Breaking Broadcasting PHOTOGRAPHY social media to connect to their audiences, A passionate advocate of public service Photo Phabulous and your publication should too. Get some and the power of the media, Marenco, Whether you are a photographer, photo helpful hints for connecting with your school a former White House Fellow, will share editor or adviser, you’ll pick up some helpful through Facebook, Twitter, the Web and her philosophies, strategies and business tips for improving the photography in your more. You’ll also hear of a few sites that can breakthroughs that helped her lead publication. Bring along some page designers make your newsroom more efficient and, Telemundo as the premiere Spanish-language so they can learn about using photography just maybe, more fun! broadcast station in Washington, D.C., while more effectively in their designs. Be prepared David Studinski, mtvU College Media Network, New York, N.Y. 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Maryland C (135) remaining true and responsible to its viewers. to see some pretty phabulous photos too. Julissa Marenco, ZGS Communications, Arlington, Va. Kathy Habiger, MJE, Mill Valley High School, Shawnee, Kan., 1 p.m. Saturday, Wilson B (110) and Amy Morgan, CJE, Shawnee Mission West High School, MEETING Overland Park, Kan. 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Lincoln 2 (250) JEA Scholastic Press Rights ONLINE MEDIA Commission Meeting Promote School Publications Members of this commission will meet to with Social Media YEARBOOk Potluck make plans and goals for the upcoming year. Social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Other advisers who are interested in being YouTube and MySpace can be powerful tools Not sure what you want to attend for your last session of the convention? Neither are we. But part of the commission are invited to attend. for student publications to gain readers and John Bowen, MJE, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio promote events, as well as to solicit story ideas, we promise to serve up ... something. It might 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8209 (50) sources and reader feedback. This session will be folded in a brown paper bag. Or wrapped show students and advisers how to utilize these in tin foil. Or tamped down in Tupperware. ADVISING and other social media resources to generate Who knows? We may even have something up What You Need to know to Be enthusiasm for school media programs. our sleeves! Take your chances on a surprise Certified: Photojournalism Kristy Roschke, CJE, Sunrise Mountain High School, session. We’ll give you a hint: It’s for yearbook Planning to take the CJE exam or just want to Peoria, Ariz. people and you’ll get to help us choose the learn more about principles of photojournalism, 1 p.m. Saturday, Wilson C (110) menu. Don’t miss out on ... something! Crystal Kazmierski, Arrowhead Christian Academy, this session is for you. Learn about the elements Redlands, Calif., and Susan Massy, Shawnee Mission of composition, camera techniques, file formats, 2:30 p.m. Northwest HS, Shawnee, Kan. photo management. We’ll also cover strategies 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Lincoln 5 (350) for how to teach these concepts to your BROADCAST students so they can become more proficient at 10 Fingers of Videography BROADCAST presenting the visual side of the story. Students will learn the basic rules of Musical Newscasting and Nancy Freeman, MJE, and Christine Stricker, CJE, Clayton High School, Clayton, Mo. videography using the 10 fingers for the Research — the NPR Way 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8216 (50) memory device. This workshop will be for Be it morning school announcements, a three- minute video stream or a 20-minute production, the beginning videographer and for teachers ADVISING, LAW AND ETHICS wanting to learn a quick lesson for students. put some attention-grabbing zip into your news Teaching Accountability: Bobbi Templet, Oldham County High School, Buckner, Ky. and information using Internet search engines 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Delaware A (175) to research and develop the right mix for your Basic Media Ethics reports. Learn professional search techniques This session is geared to new advisers who FEATURED SPEAkER, GENERAL AUDIENCE and tricks from NPR senior librarian Laura Soto- want to build programs where students knowing is Half the Battle Barra. Then take a musical journey with NPR learn sound reporting and editing practices, Reginald Stuart, veteran journalist music librarian Robert Goldstein and hear how and are held accountable for what they and corporate recruiter for McClatchy NPR incorporates music into its programming. publish or broadcast. This session will

74 2:30 p.m. Saturday - Sunday present essential elements of media ethics MAGAZINE COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY that student journalists must understand Magazine Mechanics InDesign Creativity before they begin their work. The happiest Looking for more ideas on funding, getting This session is for students and advisers who advisers are those with students who are submissions, improving the quality of work have some knowledge of InDesign but want ethically responsible. and supporting a student-run magazine? New to be more productive using this software Kathy Schrier, MJE, Washington News Council, Seattle, Wash. and veteran advisers and magazine staffs, program, and be more creative with their 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8226 (50) participate in a wide-ranging discussion and designs. (Sign up and ticket at the convention get example materials to take with you. registration desk. Limit 34.) GENERAL AUDIENCE Kathleen Dion, Annandale High School, Annandale, Va., Linda Drake, CJE, Chase County High School, Census in Schools for the and Emily Orser, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science Cottonwood Falls, Kan. and Technology, Alexandria, Va. 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Wilson A (34) 2010 Census 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Washington 2 (290) The census is the one civic moment that LAW AND ETHICS involves each one of us in the United States. THE FUTURE OF YEARBOOkS Through the Census in Schools program, Help, I’ve Been Censored! Setting Up an Online Presence The first step in fighting censorship is educators in about 118,000 schools in the Say it with me: Journalists are not computer understanding your legal rights (and limits), and U.S., Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the programmers. Getting your publication online how to assert them intelligently. We’ll take you island areas will have access to 2010 Census can be complex and frustrating, especially if through what you need to know about federal lessons. Student media may want to use this the delivery of your story gets bogged down and state law to make the most persuasive case information as a starting point for stories with “geek drama.” Broken links, non-functional to school administrators — and the public — if about this topic. streaming video and coding errors take your Renée Jefferson-Copeland, Public Information Office, a censorship controversy hits. Washington, D.C. staff’s focus off the important things. Many Adam Goldstein, Student Press Law Center, Arlington, Va. 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Truman (40) solutions available that will help put you on the 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Wilson B (110) Web quickly, easily and inexpensively ... without CONVERGENCE knowing a lick of HTML or PHP. This session will ONLINE MEDIA Tell Your Story Online and in Print help you avoid getting “tangled up in the Web.” Webify your Student Jake Palenske, NCompass Media LLC, McKinney, Texas Publication Today If a picture is worth a thousand words in one 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Washington 3 (290) language, multiple pictures, audio and video Using free and cheap online services tell can tell many stories in many languages. and options, learn about a dozen simple ADVISING It can be confusing. Learn the language of Good Writers and Quitters decisions you and your students can make multimedia journalism to help you keep your today to improve the dissemination and Feedback leads a student through the story straight and compelling. promotion of your student publication. editing process to create a stronger piece, Jack Zibluk, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Ark. These include how and why to choose a 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Virginia A (125) but the load of grading can interfere with the blog format, using social media and facing efficiency. These seven steps of revision keep PHOTOGRAPHY turnover in your student newsroom. feedback immediate and monitored. We’ll go Christopher Wink, Philadelphia, Pa. Crop It Like It’s Hot (2009) through the process step by step. 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Wilson C (110) ”It doesn’t fit the template.” Take your hand off Lori Oglesbee-Petter, CJE, McKinney High School, McKinney, Texas the mouse and step away from the keyboard. 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Washington 4 (400) Slowly. Photo appreciation for designers is key. NSPA Learn what makes impact photography, how FEATURED SPEAkER, GENERAL AUDIENCE NSPA will honorAwards winners ofCeremony Best of Show, professionals use it and some tips to achieve the Being A Black Man: What I’ve Pacemakers and other individual awards at wow factor. For anyone who loves photography, the Saturday award ceremony. JEA and NSPA and those who think they can butcher it any Learned-And You Can Too — encourage everyone to celebrate all winners. way. Learn why templates are not your friends. From My Years as a Journalist 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. Marriott Salons 2-3 Steve Kent, Herff Jones Yearbooks, Roanoke, Va. Part of the multi-awards-winning team of 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Virginia B (125) reporters and editors who produced The Washington Post’s “Being A Black Man” series in Student Saturday night’s dance for students will have music NEWSPAPER, YEARBOOk, ONLINE MEDIA Dance 2006, author and newsman Kevin Merida will provided by a DJ. This is a good time to enjoy the GOAALLL! Sports Coverage encapsulate his 30-years of news experience music and dancing with the high school journalists That Scores with a focus on preparing students in being your have met at the convention. Students must Let’s look at how we can spice up sports great newspeople for the challenging and present their convention name badge to be coverage in newspapers, yearbooks and relevant stories ahead in the 21st century. admitted to the dances. online. Will include plenty of examples. Kevin Merida, The Washington Post, Washington, D.C. 9 - 11:30 p.m., Washington Ballroom Joe Humphrey, CJE, Hillsborough High School, Tampa, Fla. 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Washington 5 (290) 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Virginia C (125) YEARBOOk YEARBOOk ’Hey, Mom, I’m in the Yearbook’ 8:30 a.m. Sunday Find Your Voice Yearbook staffers have a responsibility to To tell the story of a whole year, you need a include as many people as possible in their JEA Awards & strong voice. Find out how color, fonts and book. Learn tips on how to design spreads to JEA will announceClosing winners of theCeremony Write-off design style work together to create that include more coverage of events and people in voice in your yearbook and explore how to competitions, Ryan White Excellence in Journalism your school. See examples of how other schools Awards and Future Teacher Scholarships during make them work together to give your book make complete coverage appealing. the closing ceremony. JEA and NSPA hope you the voice you want it to have. Sandra Strall, Carlson High School, Gibraltar, Mich. have enjoyed your convention experience and will Lynn Strause, East Lansing, Mich. 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Washington 6 (290) 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Washington 1 (290) share the knowledge you have gained with the staff at home. Have a safe trip home. 8:30 - 11:30 a.m. Lincoln Rooms

75 Cagle Cartoons and to nearly 300 college publications by MCT Campus. He earned a journalism degree at American University in 2002. While there, Beeler won the three major college cartooning awards: the Charles M. Schulz Award, the John Locher Award and first place in the SPJ Mark of Speaker Excellence Awards. In 2007, he won the Golden Spike Award, as voted upon by members of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists at its 50th anniversary convention in Washington. The National Press Foundation awarded him Jeanne Acton is the director of the the Texas scholastic of journalism at San Francisco State University. She is the Clifford K. & James T. Berryman Award in 2008. press association. and the journalism director for the a past-president of the Native American Journalists Noon Friday, Delaware B University Interscholastic League. She is a former award- Association. Azocar has conducted more than 100 winning newspaper and yearbook adviser from Austin, presentations, workshops, talks and panels on the Gary Bender, CJE, has advised 12 yearbooks at three Texas. Acton went to the dark side and served as a high intersection of diversity and journalistic practice and has different schools. After five years at the middle-school school administrator. publishedBios in academic and professional journals. level, he moved to Westfield H.S., where he advised The 10 a.m. Friday, Virginia A, and noon Friday, Lincoln 5 10 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony C Guardian for nine years. The book earned multiple VHSL Trophy Class, CSPA Crown and NSPA Pacemaker Finalist Arvin Ahmadi is a senior at Thomas Jefferson H.S. for Science Bob Bair, MJE, has taught English and journalism at awards. He received VAJTA’s Douglas Freeman Award in and Technology in Alexandria, Va. He is the editor-in-chief of Blair (Neb.) High School since 1973. He has advised both 2001, the Virginia Gazette Award in 2005 and JEA Special his school newspaper, tjTODAY, and has previously served as yearbook and newspaper since 1974. JEA’s vice president, Recognition Adviser of the Year in 2009. a news editor. He has written and reported a number articles, he also has served JEA as North Central/Region 3 director 9 a.m. Saturday, Washington 6 including an in-depth story on the 2007 MRSA outbreak. and Nebraska state director. He is a past-president of Ahmadi has received accolades from the VHSL and the NSPA the Nebraska High School Press Association and serves Susan Benedict, MJE, has advised newspapers for his journalism. He served as the student representative to as NHSPA’s communications director. Bair was the 2000 and yearbooks for 19 years. In addition to teaching the Fairfax County School Board during his junior year, took recipient of NSPA’s Pioneer Award and received JEA’s Medal American literature and serving as chairperson of the part in a brief fellowship program with washingtonpost.com, of Merit in 2005. Communication Arts Department, she advises the and has interned for U.S. Congressman Gerry Connolly and 9 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 1 Tomahawk Times newspaper and the Warrior yearbook Virginia Delegate Chuck Caputo. at Pacific (Mo.) H.S. She is a member of JEA’s National 10 a.m. Friday, Washington 2 Linda Ballew has represented advisers as the 2005 DJNF Journalism Professional Learning Community and the National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year and JEA’s Development/Curriculum Commission. Maryam Ahranjani, Esq., is the academic coordinator of the 2006 national Distinguished Yearbook Adviser. She is JEA’s 11 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8222 Marshall-Brennan Fellowship Program, a program that trains Montana director. Ballew coordinates Montana Journalism law students to teach public high school students in the D.C. Education Association’s yearbook competition as a member of Lydia Berns is student news director for Central Intelligence area about their constitutional rights and responsibilities. MJEA’s executive board. At Great Falls (Mont.) H.S., she advises broadcast program at Central H.S., Springfield, Mo. 9 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 3-4 Foyer staffs of the award-winning Iniwa newspaper, Roundup Noon Saturday, Delaware A yearbook, an interactive CD and Web site. Logan Aimone, MJE, is executive director of the National 11 a.m. Friday, Washington 3, and 10 a.m. Saturday, Sanjana Bijlani is 2009-2010 managing editor of The Scholastic Press Association. He taught journalism at Maryland C Spoke student newspaper at Conestoga H.S. in Berwyn, Pa., Wenatchee (Wash.) H.S. and advised The Apple Leaf a suburb of Philadelphia. newspaper and Wa Wa yearbook before going to NSPA in Brian Baron, CJE, teaches AP English Language and 11 a.m. Saturday, Washington 5 2007. He is a past DJNF Distinguished Adviser and WJEA Composition and advises The Lion’s Roar at Newton South Adviser of the Year. He is co-author with H.L. Hall of the H.S. in Newton, Mass. Bonnie Blackman is a 2006 recipient of the CSPA Gold Key 2009 edition of the textbook “High School Journalism.” 8 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8219 Award. She is on the board of the Garden State Scholastic 9 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 5, and 10 a.m. Saturday Press Association, and received that organization’s 2002 Maryland A karen Barrett, MJE, advises the Spokesman, the student Golden Quill for contributions to journalism in the State newspaper of Wheeling (Ill.) H.S. She received JEA’s Rising of New Jersey. She works with schools throughout New Ann Akers, MJE, is Herff Jones Yearbooks’ educational Star Award in 2006. She is a member of the National Jersey and the New York City area. specialist. Formerly NSPA’s associate director, Akers has Journalism Professional Learning Community and the JEA 2:30 p.m. Friday, Jackson done stints as journalism teacher/publications adviser Press Rights Commission. and yearbook rep. She was the 2005 recipient of the Carl 9 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8212, and 11 a.m. Saturday, Alex Blackwell is Walsworth’s director of yearbook Towley Award, JEA’s highest honor, and has been awarded Marriott Balcony C marketing in Kansas City, Mo., overseeing all marketing CSPA’s Gold Key and NSPA’s Pioneer Award. and promotion, including the updated Web site. He began 9, 10 and 11 a.m. Saturday, Washington 2 Linda Barrington, MJE, who was a newspaper adviser for his career at Walsworth as a yearbook sales representative 17 years, now focuses on teacher education and mentoring in his native Virginia. Blackwell also has led Walworth’s Farhan Ali is a third-year law student at American new teachers. She is JEA’s liaison to the National Council of Customer Technology Department. University’s Washington College of Law who serves as a Teachers of English and is the summer workshop director 2:30 p.m. Friday, Washington 2 Marshall-Brennan Fellow and teaches constitutional law to for the Kettle Moraine Press Association. Barrington is high school students in the District of Columbia. He taught National Board Certified and teaches at Mount Mary Sean Blanda is an editor at Vital Business Media and a at Kennedy H.S. last year. College in Milwaukee, Wis. She is co-chair of JEA’s freelance Web designer based in Philadelphia. Named by 8 a.m. Saturday, Wilson B Mentoring Program committee. UWIRE as one of the top 100 young journalists in 2008, 10 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8226; 11 a.m. Friday, Marriott he is an Associated Collegiate Press Online Pacemaker Claudio Alvarez Dunn is a journalist with more than Balcony B, and noon Friday, Delaware A award winner. He has served as Web editor of several 30 years of international experience at different levels publications, including Philadelphia City Paper and of the media industry, including managing editor of a Charla Bear (see Featured Speakers) The Temple News. He has also been published in the newspaper in Puerto Rico. 10 a.m. Saturday, Delaware A Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer and the 2:30 p.m. Friday, Wilson C Wilmington News Journal. Chip Beck — soldier, sailor, artist, spy, peacekeeper. In 9 a.m. Saturday, Virginia C John Anderson, former art director of National the Navy and CIA, Beck experienced armed conflicts in Geographic Magazine, combines a journalism background 20 countries from Indochina to Iraq. In a turnabout, since Jane Blystone, MJE, has advised student publications with 3-D illustration skills to create resonant images that 2005, he has been the director of ACOTA, a peacekeeper for 33 years. She is Region 7 director for JEA and serves convey information and ideas. He has created hundreds of training program in Africa, working with 25 countries to on the JEA Scholastic Press Rights Commission. She images for magazines, newspapers, books and collateral transform conflict in Darfur, the Congo, southern Sudan, served as local chair for the JEA/NSPA Philadelphia for Fortune 500 companies. He is manager of publication Somalia, Ivory Coast. Beck has used his artistic talents to convention. A past president and current board member design for the Society for Human Resource Management. depict the people, places, events, wisdom, and folly that of Pennsylvania Scholastic Press Assocation, Blystone 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Virginia C he encountered around the world. Beck retired from the has received the JEA Medal of Merit and JEA Special CIA in 1993 and from the Navy in 1996, but returned to Recognition Yearbook Adviser award. Chris Assaf (see Featured Speakers) government service after 9/11, serving in Iraq and Africa. 7:15 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8222, and 2:30 p.m. Friday, 2:30 p.m. Friday, Washington 3 He still is recording events in his ever-present sketch books. Park Tower 8210, 11 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony C He recently completed his doctoral studies for a degree in Ellen Austin, CJE, is the adviser to the Viking, Palo Alto High organizational leadership and conflict resolution. Ron Bonadonna, CJE, is a retired educator living in Mays School’s new sportsmagazine. Previously, she advised the St. 9 a.m. Friday, Delaware B Landing, N.J. He advised a high school newspaper for 25 Paul Academy Rubicon, twice named Best Class A newspaper years. He is on the board of the Garden State Scholastic in Minnesota. Austin was named a 2006 JEA Rising Star and Nate Beeler has been the editorial cartoonist of The Press Association and is a JEA mentor. He has also judged serves on the SPLC advisory council steering committee. Washington Examiner since 2005. His award-winning and critiqued for the Columbia Scholastic Press Association 7:15 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8226 cartoons also appear in The San Francisco Examiner and and the National Scholastic Press Association. have been featured in USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Maryland B Cristina Azocar, Ph.D. and a member of the Upper CNN, The Arizona Republic, The Cincinnati Enquirer, The Mattaponi tribe, is director of the Center for Integration Indianapolis Star and many other publications. Beeler is Candace Perkins Bowen, MJE, established the Center and Improvement of Journalism and an assistant professor syndicated internationally to more than 800 newspapers by for Scholastic Journalism at Kent State University after 20

82 years of teaching and advising in high schools. She runs CSPA Gold and Silver Crowns. Chambers also teaches in the District. He’s on the editorial team for www.bilerico.com workshops, teaches and directs the new statewide Ohio English and history, is state director for Destination and a blogger at The Huffington Post. Crawford is a former Scholastic Media Association. She is JEA listserv manager, Imagination competition for Tennessee and is a yearbook associate field director for the Human Rights Campaign and a past JEA president, a former DJNF Journalism Teacher of workshop speaker. communications director for Energy Action Coalition. the Year and a JEA Carl Towley Award winner. 2:30 p.m. Friday, Jackson 9 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 6 9, 10 and 11 a.m. Friday, Truman; 10 a.m. Saturday, Tyler, and 11 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony C Jill Chittum, CJE, teaches journalism and advises Denise Croker, CJE, serves as JEA state director of publications at Blue Valley H.S. in Stilwell, Kan. She Tennessee. She is adviser to Logos, the award-winning John Bowen, MJE, is chair of JEA’s Scholastic Press Rights previously advised yearbook and newspaper at Derby newspaper of Harpeth Hall School in Nashville. She Commission and has been a member of the SPLC Board of (Kan.) H.S. She has also worked as a photographer and recently was named a DJNF Special Recognition Adviser. Directors. A former newsmagazine adviser at Lakewood photo editor at the Wichita Eagle. In her 15 years of advising, she has worked with yearbook, (Ohio) H.S., Bowen teaches at Kent State University. He 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, Maryland AB; 11 a.m. Friday, literary magazine and newspaper. was a DJNF Journalism Teacher of the Year and a JEA Carl Washington 5, and 10 a.m. Saturday, Truman 11 a.m. Friday, Wilson C Towley Award winner. He advised at one of the nation’s charter First Amendment Schools. David Clark, principal at Columbus (Ind.) North H.S., William C. Cutler is a second-year adviser to The War 10 a.m. Friday, Marriott Balcony D; 2:30 p.m. Friday, Park received the 2006 Courage in Student Journalism Award Cry newspaper at West Iredell H.S. in Statesville, N.C. Tower, 8206; 11 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony C, and and the 2007 IHSPA Louis Inglehart Friend of Scholastic The publication is a member of NCSMA and SIPA. Cutler 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8209 Journalism Award. is entering his second year of the JEA Mentor Progam 9 a.m. Friday, Marriott Balcony C with his mentor Martha Rothwell. He graduated from Christy Briggs, CJE, is the adviser of The Mirror literary Appalachian State University in May 2007 with a bachelor’s magazine and The Red & Blue newspaper at Reno (Nev.) Cathy Colglazier, a graduate of UCLA and University degree in English in secondary education and spent one H.S. She also has advised newspaper and yearbook at Reed of Tennessee, is English chair and Humanities Division year on The Appalachian student newspaper as well. H.S. in Sparks, Nev., and she teaches at yearbook camps in manager at Thomas Jefferson H.S. for Science and 9 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8209 the summer. She has judged yearbook design entries in Technology (Alexandria, Va.). Her marriage to a theoretical the Write-offs for many years. physicist has given her several adventures into the world John Cutsinger is an NSPA Pioneer, CSPA Gold Key 2:30 p.m. Friday, Washington 5 of science and technology, the most recent one a cruise in recipient, JEA Medal of Merit recipient and DJNF National Polynesia to witness the latest total solar eclipse. Journalism Teacher of the Year. During the past 25 years he Rick Brooks is the Northeast creative design manager 8 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 6 has advised state and national award-winning yearbooks, for Jostens. He has worked in the creative design and newspapers and magazines; has written yearbook publishing fields since 1986. He works with and designs Jolene Combs teaches journalism at El Camino College in curriculum and countless journal articles; and has spoken for numerous award-winning colleges and high schools, Torrance, Calif., and has advised student publications for at conferences and conventions across the nation. and teaches nationally. Brooks received the CSPA Gold more than 30 years. Prior to working at ECC, she taught 9 a.m. Friday, Marriott Salon 1, and 11 a.m. Friday, Key and the PSPA Keystone Award for service to student journalism at Rendondo Union H.S. She is an NSPA Pioneer Washington 4 journalism. He also sits on the Pennsylvania School Press Award winner, a member of the Community College executive board. Journalism Hall of Fame, was president of SCJEA and kathy Daly teaches at workshops and conventions around 2:30 p.m. Friday, Washington 1 several community college journalism associations, and the country. She also consults with Herff Jones Yearbooks. served on College Media Advisers executive board. Combs While an adviser, her yearbooks at Overland H.S. won CSPA DeNeen Brown, The Washington Post Style section mentors high school advisers with JEA’s support. Gold and Silver Crowns and NSPA Pacemakers. She has reporter, has covered the D.C. Metro area and has been 8 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony B received a CSPA Gold Key and NSPA Pioneer Award. In 1998 The Post’s Canada bureau chief. Her subjects have ranged she was selected JEA’s Yearbook Adviser of the Year. She from the poor who pay more, to Mr. Wonderful’s bus, Timothy P. Condon, Ph.D., serves as the deputy director received the JEA Medal of Merit in 2000 and its Lifetime Michelle Obama, and guns and children. She is a writer of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, where he provides Achievement Award in 2007. who captures the ordinary person with sensitivity and an leadership in developing, implementing and managing Noon Friday, Washington 2, and 9 and 10 a.m. Saturday, eye for detail. NIDA’s research programs and strategic priorities. Drawing Washington 1 11 a.m. Friday, Maryland AB (adviser luncheon speaker) on a lifetime of work in neuroscience, Condon guides the Institute in bringing science-based findings to community Michael Daly, NBCT, teaches AP Literature and Composition Rick Brown is an experienced adviser in both newspaper treatment settings. He has written numerous scientific and and Creative Writing at Bryant H.S. in Arkansas. He also and yearbook. He also has served as a high school district science policy reports and he has received multiple awards for collaborates with the journalism program. Daly is a frequent curriculum director and staff development coordinator. his leadership in setting science policy standards. judge in state literary magazine contests. 8 a.m. Saturday, Washington 1 10 a.m. Friday, Washington 2 11 a.m. Friday, Marriott Balcony A

Renée Burke, MJE, is a yearbook and newspaper adviser Judi Coolidge retired after 35 years at Bay H.S. in Ohio George L. Daniels, MJE, is an associate professor of at William R. Boone H.S. in Orlando, Fla. This is her 11th and and is now an educational specialist at Taylor Publishing journalism at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. 12th year advising the publications, respectively. She also Co. Yearbooks she advised won NSPA Pacemakers, CSPA A frequent speaker at scholastic journalism workshops, teaches national yearbook workshops. The 2006 yearbook Trendsetter and Crowns and a Publisher’s Industry Award. Daniels has experience as a television news producer earned a Gold Crown from CSPA and was a Pacemaker Coolidge received NSPA’s Pioneer Award, CSPA’s Gold Key in three media markets. He serves on the Society of finalist for NSPA. This year the newspaper is a Pacemaker and JEA National Yearbook Adviser of the Year. She was Professional Journalists Board of Directors. Finalist and it earned a Silver Crown in 2005. inducted into the Great Lakes Interscholastic Press Hall of 10 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8216 9-10:50 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8226 Fame and the Scholastic Journalism Hall of Fame. 9 a.m. Friday, Marriott Balcony D; 8 a.m. Saturday, Chad Davis is the director of production and program Caitlin Burns is editor-in-chief of the Royal Purple Virginia B, and noon Saturday, Washington 2 development for the Public Affairs Project, a part of George yearbook and DVD at Kansas State University. She is a Washington University’s Center for Innovative Media. His junior in hotel and restaurant management, with minors in Greg A. Cooper teaches full time in the visual journalism portfolio includes executive production of Planet Forward as leadership studies and business. She has had experience program at Brooks Institute, Ventura, Calif. After graduating well as the Conversation Series at GW. Prior to GW, Davis spent with yearbook, newspaper and literary magazine. from Western Kentucky University with degree in 15 years working at a variety of PBS stations including WGBH Noon Friday, Truman, noon Saturday, Lincoln 5 photojournalism and anthropology, he worked his way up in Boston and WETA in Washington, D.C. Most recently he was from intern to assistant picture editor at the Ventura County the director of content at KNME in Albuquerque, N.M. Mike Caplanis, a artist and Illustrator, has contributed Star. Later, he went to The Columbus Dispatch to work as the 1 p.m. Saturday, Lincoln 6 illustrations to The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Sunday picture editor. Cooper then returned to California to Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Yankee magazine, pursue a master’s degree in photography at Brooks Institute. kristina Deckert is a senior visual journalism student at American History magazine, The Oxford-American Noon Saturday, Virginia A Kent State University. Her journalism passions include magazine and other publications. He illustrated the newspaper design, photography and multimedia. She was book Drawn to the Civil War, a book of biographies and kathy Craghead, MJE and former adviser at Mexico (Mo.) the design director of the Daily Kent Stater for a year and is caricatures of Civil War heroes. H.S., is now Newspapers In Education director for the currently the multimedia editor for kentnewsnet.com. 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, Virginia C Mexico Ledger. She is a former member of the JEA Board of 8 a.m. Saturday, Tyler Directors, and a recipient of the NSPA Pioneer, JEA Medal Michael Cavna, a recovering syndicated cartoonist, of Merit and JEA Lifetime Achievement awards. She is the Amy DeVault teaches editing and visual communication writes and blogs about cartoons and comics culture 2003 National Yearbook Adviser of the Year. in The Elliott School of Communication at Wichita State for The Washington Post. His editorial cartoons, sports 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, Lincoln 2, and 11 a.m. Friday, University. She joined the faculty after nearly five years as a cartoons and comic strip Warped have been reprinted Delaware A visual journalist at The Wichita Eagle, where she designed internationally. His blog, Comic Riffs, features interviews the front page. DeVault earned a Society of News Design with such creators as Tim Burton, Aaron McGruder (The Marge J. Craig, CJE, has been teaching journalism and award of excellence and helped The Eagle win Kansas Boondocks), director-actor Jon Favreau (Iron Man), Joe English and advising newspapers for 20 years in Virginia Press Association’s best front page award. She taught high Quesada (Marvel Comics) and political cartoonist Signe and Florida. She is a former Florida Journalism Teacher of school journalism for three years. Wilkinson (Philadelphia Inquirer). the Year and a Gold Key recipient from CSPA. 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, Maryland AB, and 10 a.m. 11 a.m. Saturday, Delaware B 10 a.m. Friday, Virginia C Saturday, Truman

Linda Chambers advises the Falcon yearbook at Fairview Michael Crawford is director of online strategy for a J.D. DiMattio, Ph.D., is the broadcast media adviser at Ballou (Tenn.) Middle School. She has advised both high school national government watchdog group and co-chair of DC for H.S., Washington, D.C., and has taught media in the District and middle school books. Her staffs’ books have won Marriage, a grassroots building support for marriage equality Public Schools for more than 20 years. He’s the 2006 Teacher 83 of the Year for the Maryland-D.C. Scholastic Press Association. Washington, D.C. Dyer is the primary liaison to the GLBT Carrie Faust, CJE, advises the Summit yearbook and 2:30 p.m. Friday, Lincoln 6 community for the mayor and the administration and is the Express newspaper at Smoky Hill H.S. in Aurora, Colo. The lead adviser on GLBT policy for the city. He is the vice chair publications have earned local awards, All-American and kathleen Dion is the adviser for Annandale H.S.’s award- of the commission focusing primarily on crime prevention, Gold-Medal critiques, and a yearbook Pacemaker. The winning literary arts magazine, the Filament. She holds a development and parking challenges facing the community. book is a Crown Finalist this year. Faust was an ASNE fellow, master’s degree in secondary education and a bachelor’s Dyer also serves the city as a human rights commissioner. He serves on the JEA Press Rights Commission and is the degree in English, both from James Madison University. received the Gene Frey Award for Excellence in Volunteering president of the Colorado High School Press Association. Dion teaches English and creative writing. from Whitman Walker Clinic, and he was named a Capital 10 a.m. Friday, Marriott Balcony D, and 11 a.m. Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Washington 2 Pride Hero for his outstanding contributions to the Marriott Balcony C GLBT community. The Gay and Lesbian Activist Alliance Julie E. Dodd, MJE, is a professor of journalism at the recognized him with its Outstanding Service Award. Sam Feist (see Featured Speakers) University of Florida. She is the former director of the 9 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 6 11 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 6 Florida Scholastic Press and the Kentucky High School Press associations and was a high school journalism teacher and Amy Eisman (see Featured Speakers) Nick Ferentinos, the 1994 DJNF National High School adviser in two states. Dodd serves on the Quill and Scroll 10 a.m. Friday, Wilson C Journalism Teacher, works as mentor in the California board of trustees, is JEA’s scholastic press association liaison Scholastic Journalism Initiative. From 1976-94, he advised The and co-chair of JEA’s Mentoring Committee. Alyne Ellis is the host and producer of “Prime Time Epitaph newspaper at Homestead H.S. in Cupertino, Calif. He 9 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8206, 11 a.m. Friday, Wilson A Focus,” a radio show that airs on more than 500 stations holds the Gold Key and the Murphy Award from CSPA, the JEA and 9 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8222 nationally and runs on AARP.org/radio. A longtime editor Medal of Merit and the NSPA Pioneer Award. In 1993 he was at National Public Radio, she has edited many reporter selected for a Fulbright grant to teach scholastic journalism in Mary kay Downes, MJE, advises the national-award- pieces that have aired on “Morning Edition” and “All Things New Zealand. He was president of CSPAA from 1990-94. winning Odyssey yearbook at Chantilly (Va.) H.S. During her Considered,” worked in radio promotions and produced 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, Wilson C; 9 a.m. Friday, 19-year tenure, Odyssey’s students have won CSPA Gold several award-winning documentaries and a cell phone Virginia C, and 10 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8212 Crowns, NSPA Pacemaker awards, SIPA’s All Southern rating audio walking tour of D.C. As a former program director and VHSL’s Trophy Class award. The book was inducted to at two public radio stations, she has watched the medium Beth Fitts, CJE, is a recent NSPA Pioneer recipient and the NSPA Hall of Fame in 2004. A recipient of the CSPA Gold change over the years as electronic journalism has served as the 2003 DJNF National High School Journalism Key, the NSPA Pioneer Award, the VAJTA Douglas Freeman revolutionized the broadcast industry. Teacher of the Year. She is director of the Mississippi and Thomas Jefferson Awards, she was the JEA 2007 2:30 p.m. Friday, Wilson B Scholastic Press Association and the JEA Mississippi state National Yearbook Adviser of the Year. director. Fitts has received the NSPA Pioneer Award and 10 a.m. Saturday, Jefferson Paul Ender was adviser to the American yearbook at SIPA Distinguished Service Award and serves on the SIPA Independence H.S. in San Jose, Calif., for more than 25 Executive Board. She taught journalism for 27 years and Michael Doyle, CJE and NBCT, worked for 25 years as a years. A long-time special consultant for Herff Jones, advised six publications including The Charger newspaper, professional journalist writing sports, news and features for Ender’s personal honors include JEA Yearbook Adviser of which won top national awards. the Rockford Register Star before he became a teacher. He the Year, Northern California Yearbook Adviser of the Year, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, Maryland C, and 9 a.m. Friday, teaches journalism and advises the North View newspaper CSPA Gold Key, NSPA Pioneer Award and OIPA National Maryland AB and Equus yearbook at Belvidere North (Ill.) H.S. Doyle Scholastic Journalism Hall of Fame. His students’ books received KEMPA’s award for the newspaper adviser of the earned state and national awards. Brian Flamm is the central Virginia yearbook year in 2008. He is a member of the IJEA board and is a 9, 10 and 11 a.m. Saturday, Washington 2 representative for Walsworth Publishing Co. Having freelance columnist. Doyle wrote his first book on the killer experience both as a high school yearbook adviser and tornado that struck Belvidere in 1967. Tom Engleman is former executive director of the Dow as a representative, Flamm has been involved with the Noon Friday, Lincoln 6 Jones Newspaper Fund and former writer for the Dow publication process for 10 years. Jones online news services. 11 a.m. Friday, Marriott Balcony D Linda Drake, CJE, advises the award-winning yearbook 2:30 p.m. Friday, Wilson C and newspaper at Chase County H.S. in Cottonwood Falls, Bill Flechtner, MJE, is a JEA mentor, an Oregon Journalism Kan. Honors include National Yearbook Adviser of the Year, Barbara Erickson taught journalism for 33 years, mostly at Teacher of the Year, a Lifetime Achievement recipient, a Special Recognition and Distinguished adviser by JEA Jefferson H.S. in Rockford, Ill. Her newspaper and yearbook Medal of Merit recipient and a Dow Jones Distinguished and DJNF, KSPA Engel Award, and JEA Teacher Inspiration student team won the Illinois High School Association State Adviser. The newspaper he advised for 22 years is in the Award and Medal of Merit. Drake directs the Bethany Championship two years ago. Erickson received KEMPA’s NSPA Hall of Fame. He is currently a teacher educator at Publications Workshop. She was twice president of the award for yearbook adviser of the year and JEA’s Lifetime Warner Pacific College in Portland, Ore. Kansas Scholastic Press Association. She serves on the Achievement Award in 2007. She is now a JEA mentor. 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Wilson C, and 9 a.m. Friday, Park NSPA and JEA boards of directors. 2:30 p.m. Friday, Park Tower 8216 Tower 8210 9 a.m. Friday, Tyler; 11 a.m. Friday, Maryland C; 10 a.m. Saturday, Maryland A; 11 a.m. Saturday, JEA Suite, and Brooke Ericson is a second-year law student at American karen Flowers, CJE, is director of the South Carolina 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Wilson A University’s Washington College of Law who serves as a Scholastic Press Association and the Southern Marshall-Brennan Fellow and teaches constitutional law to Interscholastic Press Association. She also directs the Ashley Duchesneau is a full-time student majoring high school students in the District of Columbia. Carolina Journalism Institute. Previously, she advised for print journalism with a minor in TV production, and she 8 a.m. Saturday, Wilson B 28 years, the last 20 at Irmo H.S. in Columbia, S.C. Honors serves as editor-in-chief of the Mast yearbook at Palm include South Carolina Adviser of the Year, CSPA’s Gold Beach Atlantic University. In addition, she works part Susan V. Everett, MJE, retired in 2008 after a 35-year Key, NSPA’s Pioneer Award, distinguished service awards time as a yearbook publishing representative in Florida. teaching career. She advised The Dickinsonian newspaper from SCSPA and SIPA, and DJNF Special Recognition and While attending high school and community college, at Dickinson H.S. for 28 years. She is JEA’s New Jersey state Distinguished Adviser. she completed three yearbook internships and directed director, a Lifetime Achievement Award winner in 2008, and 10 a.m. Friday, Taylor, and 11 a.m. Saturday, Marriott summer journalism seminars. an officer in the Garden State Scholastic Press Association. Balcony C Noon Friday, Park Tower 8222, and noon Saturday, 11 a.m. Saturday, Tyler Maryland C Sam Ford, Washington, D.C., bureau chief and general Thomas Eveslage, MJE, is a Temple University journalism assignment reporter for ABC affiliate WJLA-TV, covers D.C. Michele Dunaway, MJE, is a 2009 JEA Medal of Merit law professor, a member of JEA’s Student Press Rights from the schoolhouse to the courthouse. Engaging and recipient. She advises the award-winning Howelltonian Commission and a former board member of the Student Press respected, Ford has worked with Prime Movers of George yearbook, Spotlight newspaper and www.fhhstoday.com Law Center and the Pennsylvania School Press Association. Washington University, working with broadcast journalism at Francis Howell High School in St. Charles, Mo. A past 11 a.m. Saturday, Washington 5 students at Ballou Senior H.S. Before ABC, Sam was a JEA board member, she is a member of the Development/ correspondent for CBS in Minneapolis, New York, Atlanta Curriculum Commission. Aside from judging for CSPA, she Helen Fallon has served as the chair of Point Park and Washington, D.C. writes for Harlequin Enterprises and has 21 published novels. University’s Journalism and Mass Communication 2:30 p.m. Friday, Lincoln 6, and 11 a.m. Saturday, 11 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8222 Department since 1999 and is starting her 23rd year as a Delaware A college professor. Last year she served as acting dean of Georgia Dunn, CJE, serves as JEA’s director and mentor Point Park’s new School of Communication. She worked Donald Ford, Ph.D., has been superintendent of schools in Ohio. She is in her sixth year of retirement from teaching for 11 years as a reporter, copy editor and editor for three for Harrisonburg City Public Schools in Virginia for the and advising. She and her husband (also a retired adviser) western Pennsylvania newspapers and a brief stint in health- past 12 years. Ford has taught and has had administrative own Well Dunn Images, a photography studio. care public relations. Fallon has worked as a part-time copy experience at the elementary, middle and secondary 10 a.m. Saturday, Washington 5 editor for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette since 1987. levels. He serves on the governing boards of the American 10 a.m. Saturday, Virginia C Association of School Administrators and the Regional Wayne Dunn, CJE, was the adviser to the award-winning Education Laboratory Appalachia. Ford is a member Lakota West H.S. Voice for seven years. He was named a Bryan Farley is a former teacher who worked for a leading of the Superintendent’s Leadership Advisory Council Dow Jones Distinguished Adviser and received the Gold Key photography and visual journalism college for several for Virginia’s Superintendent of Public Instruction and Award from CSPA. Last year JEA honored him with a Lifetime years. He has has completed a master’s of educational is past-president of the Virginia Association of School Achievement Award in Atlanta. He is a JEA mentor in Ohio. technology degree. Farley is a professional photographer Superintendents. In 2008, Ford was selected as the state’s 9 a.m. Saturday, Washington 5 who is working to develop a non-profit for high school Region 5 Superintendent of the Year and the Virginia State photography educators and their students. Superintendent of the Year. Christopher Dyer is the director for the Mayor’s Office 9 a.m. Friday, Wilson C, and noon Friday, Park Tower 8212 9 a.m. Friday, Jefferson, and 2:30 p.m. Friday, Washington 6 of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Affairs in

5884 Adrienne Forte teaches newspaper journalism to seventh the varsity baseball team and handles the public-address Day H.S., was the DJNF’s 2005 Special Recognition Adviser and eighth graders at Robinson Secondary School in announcing for all varsity men’s basketball games. After of the Year. The students she previously advised at St. Fairfax, Va. She has taught journalism to middle-school graduation from Bradley University, he spent three years Alban’s School in Washington, D.C., won JEA’s Student students for the past five years and under her direction the working for a CBS television and radio affiliate in Peoria, Ill. Journalist Impact Year Award and the Maryland-D.C. program has doubled in size. Helping students create a 1 p.m. Saturday, Delaware A Student Journalist of the Year. Grazette taught journalism newspaper that students look forward to reading is a major in China for the U.S.-China Policy Foundation. She focus of her journalism program. Jay P. Goldman serves as editor of a monthly magazine, recently was inducted into the Memphis City School Noon Saturday, Park Tower 8226 The School Administrator, that covers educational System’s Hall of Fame. Grazette founded and directed issues and trends for a school superintendent audience the African American Studies Center at the Smithsonian Lesli Foster (see Featured Speakers) nationwide. Since 1988, he has taught news writing and Institution, where she hosted a weekly program for 11 a.m. Saturday, Washington 4 editing at the University of Maryland College of Journalism several radio stations. and is a former high school journalism teacher and 10 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony C Nancy Freeman, MJE, teaches journalism and advises the newspaper adviser in Syracuse, N.Y. newspaper at Clayton H.S. in St. Louis, Mo. DUring her 23 2:30 p.m. Friday, Jefferson kim Green, MJE, advises student media at Columbus years of teaching, she also has advised yearbook, broadcast (Ind.) North H.S. where her students produce award- news and literary magazine. She has been a DJNF Special Adam Goldstein, Ethics and Excellence in Journalism winning newsmagazine, yearbook and broadcast Recognition Adviser and the Missouri Journalism Teacher Foundation attorney advocate from the Student Press Law programs. She is a 2006 DJNF Distinguished Adviser, a of the Year from Missouri Interscholastic Press Association. Center, graduated from Fordham University School of Law in 2009 JEA Distinguished Yearbook Adviser and a member She is the JEA state director for Missouri. She also serves on 2002. His undergraduate degree is in Internet journalism from of JEA’s Certification Commission. the JEA Certification Commission and is part of the pilot for Fordham College at Lincoln Center, where he was editor-in- 9 a.m. Friday, Marriott Balcony C; noon Friday, a National Journalism Professional Learning Community. chief of the FCLC Observer. For three years, Goldstein worked Washington 3, and 9 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8219 11 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8226, and 2:30 p.m. as a freelance producer and editor for FoxNews.com. Saturday, Park Tower 8216 9 a.m. Friday, Taylor; 8 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8212, Missy Green, Walsworth Publishing Co., has been a and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Wilson B yearbook representative for 34 years. She has worked Ashley Frey is a senior at Kansas State University, majoring in as a newspaper reporter, advertising copywriter and print journalism and public relations. She is also the JEA intern Robert Goldstein is NPR’s music librarian where he advises special events director prior to becoming a yearbook for 2009-2010. She designed the convention program. on the music used throughout NPR’s award-winning representative. In 2008 she was awarded the JEA Friend Noon, Friday, Truman programs and helps develop company-wide music assets of Scholastic Journalism award and in 2009 the Gold and services. He has recorded two albums for Warner Medallion from the Florida Scholastic Press Association. Connie Fulkerson is administrative assistant and Brothers Records and composed numerous scores for film, 11 a.m. Saturday, Washington 6, and 1 p.m. Saturday, bookstore manager for the Journalism Education television and the stage. Marriott Balcony D Association in Manhattan, Kan. She has worked for JEA 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Lincoln 6 since 1988. Before that, Fulkerson co-edited two weekly Alison Greenberg wrote for the Germantown Academy newspapers in western Kansas, worked at a printing Erwin Gomez and James B. Packard-Gomez formed the Edition newspaper in Fort Washington, Pa., all four years company in Nebraska and was production coordinator for non-profit Foundation for the Advancement of Civil Rights of high school, and contributed photos and prose to Kansas State University Student Publications Inc. after their much-televised wedding in San Francisco. Gomez her school’s literary magazine, The Academy Monthly. 9 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 1 is a prominent fixture on the international fashion scene Greenberg also writes and interviews for two.one.five who has worked with celebrities in television, publishing magazine, an arts and culture magazine in Philadelphia. She Sheryl Fulton is Marketing Services manager for Jostens and politics. Some of Gomez’s famous clients have included attends Yale University and is on staff at the Yale Daily News. Printing and Publishing in Topeka, Kan. Fulton formerly presidents Obama and Clinton, Secretary of State Hillary Noon Saturday, Delaware B taught at Fort Collins (Colo.) H.S., where she advised the Clinton, Nancy Reagan, Christie Brinkley and Jon Bon Jovi. Lambkin yearbook. She also advised the Archive yearbook He donates much of his time to charitable organizations that Robert Greenman taught high school and college English at St. Louis University. Her books won awards from NSPA, benefit underprivileged individuals with congenital ailments and journalism, and advised school publications, for more CSPA and Colorado High School Press Association. and AIDS/HIV-related causes among others. than 30 years. He is a newspaper-in-education consultant 2:30 p.m. Friday, Jackson 9 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 6 for The New York Times and the author of the curriculum guide, “Using The New York Times as Your Journalism kelly Furnas became editorial adviser for Educational Media Mark Goodman is a professor and the Knight Chair in Textbook.” He wrote “The Adviser’s Companion” (out of Co. at Virginia Tech in 2005 after working with newspapers Scholastic Journalism in the School of Journalism and print) and two vocabulary enrichment books: “Words That in Las Vegas and Tallahassee, Fla. Furnas trains and motivates Mass Communication at Kent State University. Goodman, Make a Difference”; and with his wife, Carol, “More Words staff members in the editorial departments of EMCVT’s a lawyer, was executive director of the Student Press Law That Make a Difference.” He contributes regularly to the newspaper, yearbook, radio, television, literary magazine and Center from 1985 until 2007. While there, he spoke to more Visual Thesaurus Web site. photography divisions. He is founder of First Amendment than 25 groups each year about legal issues confronting 9 a.m. Friday, Virginia C; 2:30 p.m. Friday, Lincoln 3-4 Week at Virginia Tech and coordinator of JCAMP, a summer the student press. Goodman has received many awards for Foyer; 9 and 10 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8212 journalism program for high school students. his work with the student press including the Carl Towley 2:30 p.m. Friday, Washington 6, and noon Saturday, Award, JEA’s highest honor. Peggy Gregory, CJE, is the new language arts specialist Lincoln 6 9 a.m. Friday, Truman; 2:30 p.m. Friday, Park Tower 8206; for a Dysart Unified School District. She taught English and 9 a.m. Saturday, Jackson, and 11 a.m. Saturday, Marriott journalism at Greenway H.S. in Phoenix for 35 years, where Tom Gayda, MJE, advises the student publications at Balcony C she founded the Demon Dispatch paper and Demonian North Central H.S. in Indianapolis. He is the 2007 Indiana yearbook. Gregory, a DJNF Distinguished Adviser, is the High School Press Association Ella Sengenberger Adviser Dana Gorman, CJE, has advised yearbooks for six years local co-chair of the 2009 JEA/NSPA convention in Phoenix. of the Year and a 2008 Ball State University Graduate of the — two at West Montgomery H.S. in Mount Gilead, N.C., and 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, Wilson C Last Decade award winner. He is JEA Region 6 director and four at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Va. The past-president of the IHSPA. LBSS yearbook has earned VHSL FIrst Place. Gorman enjoys Adam Griffiths is a senior visual journalism major at Kent 7:15 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8219; 9 a.m. Friday, teaching novice yearbook students at Gettysburg Yearbook State and is editor and art director of Fusion magazine and Washington 4; 8 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8222, and 11 Experience. She works as a Herff Jones yearbook sales art director of The Burr. He has interned for the Washington a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony C associate in Northern Virginia. Post, Harper’s Bazaar UK and Cleveland Magazine. 2:30 p.m. Friday, Maryland C, and noon Saturday, Jefferson 8 a.m. Saturday, Tyler Dorothy Gilliam is a former reporter and columnist for The Washington Post and founder/director of its Young Brenda W. Gorsuch, MJE, advises the newspaper and Joe Grimm is visiting editor in residence at Michigan State Journalists Development Program. She founded the yearbook at West Henderson H.S. in Hendersonville, University. He worked as a newsroom recruiter for almost Prime Movers Media program at The George Washington N.C. The publications have won CSPA Crowns and NSPA 18 years at the Detroit Free Press and spent a total of 32 University in 2004 and since, some 2,500 high school Pacemakers. She is a past chair of the SIPA executive years in newsrooms. He is the author of several books on students in D.C. and Philadelphia have participated in committee and a past president of the NCSMA. She was journalism and history, and he has a popular journalism the program with many of whom had not previously a JEA Distinguished Yearbook Adviser and the 2004 DJNF career strategies Web site. considered such careers before PMM. National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year. 8 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony C 2:30 p.m. Friday, Lincoln 6 Gorsuch is JEA’s Southeast regional director. 7:15 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8216, and 8 a.m. Saturday, karl Grubaugh, CJE, advises the award-winning Gazette kelly Gionti teaches 11th grade English and journalism Lincoln 2 newspaper at Granite Bay (Calif.) H.S. He is the 2008-09 at Dr. Martin Luther King High School for Law in New DJNF National High School Journalism Teacher of teh Team, York City. She advises the school newspaper, The katy Gray has taught 30 years in high schools; 24 of and he does some on-call copy editing at the Sacramento Advocate, and the yearbook. She successfully created them advising school newspaper staffs. Moffatt County Bee. He and his students have won a lot of awards over the partnerships between the school newspaper and The H.S. is a small one of fewer than 700 students in western years, but he’s perhaps best known on his campus for the Wall Street Journal. Colorado. Gray’s experience is in keeping the paper terrific (or cheesy, depending on your perspective) jokes he 9 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8212, and 8 a.m. Saturday, going in spite of cuts and changing administrative tells at the end of class. Delaware B policy. The focus has been in helping students develop 9 and 10 a.m. Friday, Washington 6 skills to either work a local newspaper or to move on to Don Goble is his school’s Broadcast Technology instructor, publishing and public relations careers. Mike Grundmann is an assistant professor of journalism at district video producer and the co-director of LHS-TV, 8 a.m. Saturday, Wilson C James Madison University. He spent 27 years in newspapers, the student-run news station that airs in classrooms most as an editor, culminating at the Los Angeles Times. throughout the school and on the Internet. He coaches Jacqueline Grazette, an English teacher at Georgetown Noon Saturday, Maryland A

5985 Nora Guiney has worked in sales for more than 30 years. rose to assistant managing editor. She moved to California education, the News Scholars program director and the Together with her daughter, Deanne, and husband, Bob, to join The Orange County Register and was deputy editor director of the Ball State Summer Journalism Workshops. they work with more than 100 schools in Michigan to help there when NPR lured her back to the East Coast. 9 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8226 them create a successful publication. 10 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony C Noon Saturday, Marriott Balcony B Charles C. Haynes (see Featured Speakers) Robert Hankes has co-advised the Big Spring H.S. 10 and 11 a.m. Saturday, Wilson B Ryan Gunterman, CJE, leads journalism, TV production, Charisma literary magazine for 17 years. He is the president and student publications at Bloomington (Ind.) H.S. North. of the Pennsylvania School Press Association. Carolyn Henderson’s yearbook journalism experience He is a former editor-in -hief of the Indiana University 9 a.m. Saturday, Tyler began in high school and continued as an award-winning student newspaper. He recently earned his master’s in yearbook adviser in Florida and then as a representative journalism from IU. His journalistic works have been Jennifer Hanson is the adviser of the Chieftain yearbook for Walsworth Publishing in North Carolina. Utilizing her published by Yahoo! Sports, NYTimes.com, and the at Satanta (Kan.) H.S. She serves as executive secretary of communications and journalism degrees, she inspires Bloomington Herald-Times, and he maintained a sports teh Kansas Scholastic Press Association and teaches at fall staffs to strive for creativity while meeting deadlines and blog for the Louisville Courier-Journal. Gunterman is a JEA conferences and summer workshops. making budget. Rising Star, DJNF Distinguished Adviser and past president Noon Friday, Virginia B 11 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8206, and 1 p.m. Saturday, of the Indiana High School Press Association. Lincoln 2 8 and 9 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony A Carla Harris, MJE, was the founding director of Northwest Scholastic Press, and is now involved in JEA’s new adviser Marina Hendricks is manager of the Newspaper kathy Habiger, MJE, teaches journalism and digital mentoring program. She advised high school publications Association of America Foundation in Arlington, Va. Her job photgraphy and advises the JAG yearbook and JagWire and taught journalism for 13 years before teaching involves oversight and support of Newspaper In Education, newsmagazine at Mill Valley H.S. in Shawnee, Kan. The journalism at Oregon State University. She chaired JEA’s youth editorial and scholastic journalism programs. She publications have earned many honors, including KSPA Certification Commission for four years. also supervises development of print and online products, All-Kansas and NSPA Pacemaker awards. Habiger is vice 11 a.m. Friday, Taylor and maintains the Foundation Web site. Before joining president of the JEMKC and serves on the KSPA executive the Foundation, Marina was a features writer and the teen board. She was named a Distinguished Yearbook Adviser Phillip L. Harris, author of “Television Production,” a editor at The Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette. She launched and a Special Recognition Yearbook Adviser. high school textbook, taught television production for FlipSide, a publication by teens for teens, in 1991. Under 9 a.m. Friday, Washington 4, and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, 34 years in Fairfax County, Va., before retiring in 2006. her guidance, FlipSide evolved into a full-fledged program Lincoln 2 As a consultant, he has helped to design curricula and that includes weekly content in the Gazette and a Web site, build production facilities in several states. His students plus the original tabloid magazine. Diana Hadley taught journalism and advised publications produced a 30-minute weekly magazine for Cox cable as 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. Thursday, Virginia B for 33 years. She has been executive director of the Indiana well as operated Digital Wave Productions, a school-based High School Press Association for the past five years. enterprise earning about $50,000 yearly to purchase new Casey Combs Henry is a former Associated Press writer Hadley has worked with other IHSPA members to develop equipment. Harris works closely with RTNDF and manages who has been teaching journalism at Mt. Lebanon H.S. First Amendment programs. its “Tips and Tricks” column. in suburban Pittsburgh for seven years. Henry is on the 2:30 p.m. Friday, Park Tower 8226 9 a.m. Friday, Delaware A; 2:30 p.m. Friday, Park Tower board of the Pennsylvania School Press Association and 8209; 9, 10 and 11 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8206 has taught journalism at Point Park University. The Devil’s Jo Ann Hagood advised award-winning newspapers Advocate and its student staff have won numerous for 30 years. Active in the Alabama Scholastic Press Richard Harris reports on science issues for NPR’s state and regional awards as well as earning Gold Medal Advisers Association, she served as president and won newsmagazines “Morning Edition,” “All Things Considered” critiques from CSPA. the Adviser of the Year Award. In 2000, Hagood became a and “Weekend Edition.” Harris, who joined NPR in 1986, 9 a.m. Friday, Maryland C JEA Certified Journalism Educator. Since retiring in 2006, has traveled throughout the world for NPR, reporting from she has worked with the new adviser and yearbook staff Timbuktu, the South Pole, the Galapagos Islands, Beijing Ina Herlihy is the editor-in-chief and a fourth-year staff at her former school. Hagood teaches English at a private during the SARS epidemic, Greenland, the Amazon rain member of The Broadview newspaper at Convent of the academy, where she is helping students to create an online forest and the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro (for a story about Sacred Heart H.S. in San Francisco. In January 2007, she newspaper. She completed JEA Mentor training in 2009. tuberculosis). Harris is an honorary member of Sigma Xi, obtained press credentials and began photographing and 10 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8212 the scientific research society. He has received numerous interviewing candidates who were stumping in the San honors for his reporting: the Sagan Award from Council Francisco Bay area. She used those credentials to secure a H.L. Hall, MJE, retired as executive director of the of Scientific Society Presidents; the American Medical ticket for Barack Obama’s inauguration. Herlihy has been Tennessee High School Press Association this year. Prior to Writers Association’s Walter C. Alvarez Memorial Award; featured in C:JET magazine and spoke at the 2008 JEA/ serving in that position, he advised high school publications the American Association for the Advancement of Science/ NSPA fall convention in St. Louis. for more than 30 years in Missouri and Kansas. He is the co- Whitaker Science Journalism Award; a Peabody Award; 11 a.m. Saturday, Maryland C author of two textbooks, “Junior High Journalism” and “High the Aviation/Space Writers Association Gold Award, School Journalism.” He was JEA’s first Yearbook Adviser of the and the Cindy Award from the Association of Visual Michael Hernandez has taught broadcast journalism Year and its first Teacher Inspiration Award recipient. He has Communicators. Harris is co-founder of the Washington, and video production for 10 years at Mira Costa H.S. also received JEA’s Carl Towley Award and NSPA’s Pioneer DC, Area Science Writers Association and past president of in Manhattan Beach, Calif. He earned his M.F.A. in film Award. He is also a former DJNF Adviser of the Year and a the National Association of Science Writers. production from Loyola Marymount University in Los CSPA Gold Key recipient. 10 a.m. Friday, Washington 2 Angeles and his B.A. in communication from Santa 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, Lincoln 2; 11 a.m. Friday, Clara University. He was recently selected as an Apple Delaware A, and 11 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony C Anastasia Harrison has been a yearbook adviser for five Distinguished Educator. years and a newspaper adviser for two years at Ponderosa 11 a.m. Friday, Virginia B, and noon Saturday, Wilson C Sandy Hall-Chiles is the adviser of The Bulldog Print H.S. in Parker, Colo. Her 2008 yearbook, Eques, was newspaper at Yavneh Academy of Dallas. She has been given an All American rating in the NSPA critique and Scott Higham (see Featured Speakers) advising newspapers for more than three decades. Her won first place in the CHSPA Sweepstakes in Colorado. 11 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 2 newspaper staffs have won CSPA Gold Crowns, NSPA The newspaper’s Web site, themustangexpress.net, was Pacemakers, ILPC Gold Stars and a host of individual nominated for an Online Pacemaker at the 2009 Phoenix Allyson Hill is assistant dean of admissions at the USC awards. Personally, she is the recipient of ILPC’s Edith Fox Spring Convention. Annenburg School for Communication which offers King Award and holds a Gold Key from CSPA. Noon Friday, Park Tower 8226 undergraduate majors in communication, print journalism, 9 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8222 broadcast journalism and public relations. kate Harrison, acting director of the Montgomery County 11 a.m. Friday, Jackson Jane Hall has an extensive journalism background. She Public Schools Public Information Office, has been a public is one of four regular pundits on the Fox News Channel information officer at MCPS in Maryland for 14 years. Her Patricia Hinman is a journalism teacher at Robinson program News Watch and frequently appears on The previous positions include research, development, and Middle School in Fairfax County, Va. As teacher and O’Reilly Factor. She is a Fox News Channel contributor. public relations responsibilities with PBS and public television adviser for 18 years, she has developed an extensive Hall is also an associate professor in the School of stations. She holds a master’s degree from the Annenberg middle school yearbook curriculum. The Sentry yearbook Communication at American University. She was editor- School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania. has won numerous CSPA Gold and Silver Crowns and in-chief of the business magazine View, a staff writer at 10 a.m. Friday, Washington 2 NSPA Pacemakers. She also teaches broadcast journalism TV Guide and an associate editor at People magazine. She and coordinates a weekly television newsmagazine, has published articles for Freedom Forum Media Studies, Nancy Hastings, MJE, advises the award-winning Paragon “Mondays in the Middle.” George magazine, and American Film. She has moderated yearbook and Crier newspaper at Munster (Ind.) H.S. A 9 a.m. Saturday, Truman, and 1 p.m. Saturday, Jefferson panels on issues in journalism at Columbia University and former Yearbook Adviser of the Year, Hastings is a frequent the Center for Communications in New York. speaker at state and national conventions and summer Aliza Holtz, Ph.D., is assistant professor of biology at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Lincoln 2 workshops. She serves as JEA’s Indiana state director. Touro College, teaching biology, nutrition, reproductive 10 a.m. Saturday, Delaware B endocrinology and research courses which include Cheryl I. Hampton is NPR’s director of journalism scientific/medical writing and information literacy. She is recruiting and a past president of the Journalism & Women Brian Hayes, MJE, is director of Secondary Education also a faculty editor of her school’s Science Journal. Holtz Symposium. While editor-in-chief of her high school’s Services in the Department of Journalism at Ball State heads Holtz Communications Inc., a biomedical consulting Norcom Gazette, she argued that school board meetings University. He has 13 years’ experience working as a firm in New York catering to the biomedical, pharmaceutical should be open to high school press. Her professional professional journalist, high school publications adviser and medical device industries, and, for 35 years, she has career began at the Syracuse Herald-Journal, where she and college instructor. In 2000, he received the first been developing educational programs and biomedical was a crime reporter and editor. After an award-winning Future Journalism Teacher Scholarship from JEA. At Ball writing workshops for professional and lay audiences. investigation into local health care, she was promoted and State, Hayes is the sequence coordinator for journalism 10 a.m. Saturday, Maryland B 6086 kathi Hopkins has been working with yearbook staffs in Newspaper, the LA Weekly, Retail Traffic magazine and Education at Kansas State University. She received a South Texas and the Coastal Bend for more than 19 years. public radio, including NPR. He also works for the Future bachelor’s degree in secondary education in May 2009. She She has helped staffs to balance their budgets and put out of Music Coalition, where he helps nonprofit organizations has taught at two previous national conventions. Kearns the best possible yearbooks. apply for radio frequencies. plans to begin teaching English and journalism at the high 9 a.m. Saturday, Maryland C 11 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8209 school level in fall of 2010. Noon Saturday, Truman, and noon Saturday, Truman Sari Horwitz (see Featured Speakers) Grace Jean is senior editor at National Defense 11 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 2 Magazine. She previously was a classical music critic Lori keekley, CJE, advises at St. Louis Park (Minn.) H.S. for The Washington Post and an assistant producer Previously she worked as the director of contests and Susan Houseman, CJE and co-adviser of The Spoke at for Dateline NBC. Jean holds a master’s degree from critiques at NSPA. The Echo has been a Gold Crown and Conestoga H.S. in Pennsylvania has been an adviser for Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism Pacemaker Finalist recipient, and students have won state seven years. The 2009 JEA Journalist of the Year, Henry and a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University. She is a and national awards for their work. Rome, was editor of The Spoke in 2008-2009. graduate of Chantilly (Va.) H.S. where she was co-editor-in- 10 a.m. Friday, Marriott Balcony C, and 11 a.m. Saturday, 11 a.m. Saturday, Washington 5 chief of The Purple Tide newspaper. Maryland A 1 p.m. Saturday, Truman Steven M. Howard is executive vice president for education Jack kennedy, MJE and JEA’s president, has been advising with Screen 5ive, a community publishing and converged Renée Jefferson-Copeland is the chief of the Census for 30 years and still thinks he has something left to say media interactive venture. With experience and ties to Bureau’s Census in Schools Program. She brings to this about high school publications. He and his students have advertising, marketing communications and yearbook position experiences as the project manager for major won lots of awards, but let’s not talk about the past. What’s publishing businesses, Howard and his partners are qualified surveys and analytical skills that she employed as a liaison cool about high school journalism is what’s next! to survey the publishing and interactive landscape. He is a for the Census Bureau’s state-level data dissemination and 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Delaware Suite; 8 a.m. Friday, 1974 NCTE award winner and noted speaker. national governmental partners. She has established and Delaware A; 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Friday, Washington 4, Noon Friday, Park Tower 8206 maintained partnerships with about 2,000 representatives and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Jackson of state and local governments and colleges and Rod Howe is a 27-year veteran of teaching newspaper universities throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, Steve kent helps staffs modernize their books. As a Herff and yearbook journalism. He was also a newspaper sports American Samoa, Guam and the Commonwealth of the Jones consultant in southwest Virginia, his schools have editor, sports writer and photographer for four years. Northern Marianas Island. earned Pacemaker Finalist designations, Crown awards and 11 a.m. and noon, Friday, Park Tower 8210 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Truman more than a dozen state championships from VHSL. He won Crowns and Pacemakers himself while editor of The Dean Hume, a former sportswriter, teaches journalism and Brad Jenkins, publisher of Shenandoah Living, a quarterly University of Alabama’s Corolla before working at leading advises the Spark newsmagazine at Lakota East H.S. Spark lifestyles magazine covering the Shenandoah Valley, is also New York men’s magazines and serving in executive creative has earned Pacemaker, Best of Show and Gallup awards. the general manager of The Breeze, the student newspaper positions in the corporate world. He is an Adobe Certified It was named Best Student Publication in Ohio by SPJ and at James Madison University. Before founding the Expert in InDesign and Photoshop. He teaches at workshops was recognized for excellence by Time magazine. Hume is magazine and coming to JMU in 2006, Jenkins spent seven throughout the U.S. and directs his own, Pica Planet. a DJNF Distiguished Adviser, a NOSPA Adviser of the Year years as a reporter and editor at the Daily News-Record 11 a.m. Friday, Marriott Salon 1; noon Friday, Washington and a member of the NOSPA Adviser Hall of Fame. in Harrisonburg, Va. While there, he served as features 4; 11 a.m. Saturday, Virginia C; and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. and noon Friday, Lincoln 2 editor and local news editor, leading the staff to numerous Virginia B honors and awards. Joe Humphrey, CJE, teaches journalism and English at 9, 10, 11 a.m. and noon Friday, Park Tower 8219 Janet kerby is a National Board Certified Teacher in Hillsborough H.S. in Tampa, Fla. He advises The Red & career and technical education specializing in broadcast Black newspaper, Hilsborean yearbook and Terrier TV. Teddi Johnson, CJE, teaches English and advises the journalism. Her extensive teaching experience at Roane He also serves a president of the Florida Scholastic Press yearbook at Oak Grove H.S. in North Little Rock, Ark. County (W.Va.) H.S. is the foundation for her current work Association. Prior to teaching, Humphrey worked as a She is an ad hoc board member for JEA, serves on the in teacher training. Kerby presents sessions for teachers newspaper reporter. Multicultural Commission and occasionally serves as Write- and students in conjunction with the Radio and Television 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Virginia C off judge. She is an active member of JEA, SIPA and her News Directors Foundation and as a private consultant/ state association. trainer. Janet has developed and is teaching an online Felicidad Hunt-Branch is a Spanish native speaker, middle 11 a.m. Friday, Jefferson graduate credit course, Teaching Broadcast Journalism, for and high school teacher who teaches 7th grade Spanish Kent State University. Immersion, Spanish IB (as a world language) and Spanish IB Clay Jones’ editorial cartoons appear daily in The Free 10 a.m. Friday, Delaware A; 11 a.m. Friday, Virginia A; 2:30 (for Spanish native and Spanish fluid speakers. She teaches Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va., as well as on Web sites p.m. Friday, Park Tower 8209; 9, 10 and 11 a.m. Saturday, at Robinson Secondary School in Fairfax, Va. including cagle.com and creators.com. Jones has won Park Tower 8206 9 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8209 numerous awards in Hawaii and Virginia for his work. In his spare time, he plays guitar in the local rock band 816. Ellen kersey, CJE, retired from Camarillo H.S. after teaching Melanie Huynh-Duc is in her third year advising the Check out his blog, Toon Talk. and advising newspaper and yearbook for more than 30 Northwest Horizons school newspaper at Northwest 2:30 p.m. Friday, Delaware B, and 1 p.m. Saturday, years. She served for six years as president of Southern Guilford H.S. in Greensboro, N.C. She is a member of Delaware B California Journalism Education Association, was JEA NCSMA and SIPA, and she received SIPA’s Freedom of Southwest Regional Director and Awards Committee co- the Press award in March 2009. This is also her second Marsha kalkowski, MJE, has been the journalism adviser chair. Now living in Salem, Ore., she is an adjunct English year as a mentee under Martha Rothwell with the JEA at Marian H.S., an all-girls Catholic school in Omaha, Neb., for teacher and advises the yearbook at Corban College. mentoring program. 13 years. She serves on the executive board of the Nebraska 10 and 11 a.m. Friday, Tyler 9 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8209 High School Press Association and is the JEA Nebraska state director. She has presented at past conventions and has Valerie J. kibler teaches at Harrisonburg (Va.) H.S., where Cynthia Hyatt has been co-adviser of The Spoke student assisted at various regional summer workshops. she advises the print and online newspaper. She is the local newspaper for three years at Conestoga H.S., Berwyn, Pa., in 9 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 1, and 10 a.m. Saturday, Jackson chair for the 2009 Washington, D.C., convention. suburban Philadelphia. One of her editors last year, Henry 7:30 a.m. Saturday, Local Committee Suite Rome, is 2009 JEA National High School Journalist of the Year. kevin “kAL” kallaugher (see Featured Speakers) 11 a.m. Saturday, Washington 5 11 a.m. Friday, Delaware B, and noon Friday, Lincoln 3-4 Brian James kirk is a freelance technology journalist living Foyer in Fairmount, Pa. He is an editor at MobileBurn.com, a Trevor Ivan is a graduate student at Kent State University Web resource covering the mobile phone industry and an where he conducts research for the Center for Scholastic Paul kandell, adviser to The Paly Voice (voice.paly.net) and adjunct journalism professor at Temple University. He co- Journalism and helps coordinate the Ohio Scholastic Verde magazine at Palo Alto H.S., has advised journalism founded Technically Philly, a news site covering technology Media Association. He also helps advise student media staffs since 1996. In the 1990s he worked as a stringer business in Philadelphia. at his former high school and has created curriculum out of Newsweek’s San Francisco bureau. A 2006 DJNF 9 a.m. Saturday, Virginia C materials for JEA. Distinguished Adviser, Kandell has led his Web staff to 8 a.m. Saturday, Tyler four straight Online Pacemakers, and in 2005, the site won Norma kneese, MJE, is adviser to the Print yearbook, a Webby Award. He is 2009 DJNF National Journalism the Prowl newspaper and the Pride literary magazine Sandy Jacoby, a JEA mentor and Wisconsin state director, Teacher of the Year. at Snake River H.S., Blackfoot, Idaho. Kneese chairs the advised yearbook at Tremper H.S. in Kenosha, Wis. Her 8 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8216, and 10 a.m. Saturday, JEA Multicultural Commission and Outreach Committee. students’ books won national awards including NSPA Wilson C Kneese was the 1997-98 IJAA Journalism Teacher of the Pacemaker Finalist, Best of Show and Quill and Scroll Year and teaches at summer workshops. Yearbook Excellence. A 25-year All American, the book is Crystal kazmierski teaches graphic design, yearbook 11 a.m. Friday, Jefferson, and 8 a.m. Saturday, Jefferson in the NSPA Hall of Fame. Jacoby is Kettle Moraine Press and drama at Arrowhead Christian Academy in Redlands, Association fall conference director. KEMPA named her Calif. Her students have earned CSPA Crowns and NSPA Carol knopes has led RTNDF’s High School Broadcast Adviser of the Year and 2004 Hall of Fame inductee. JEA Pacemakers for Wings. She was the 2000 JEA National Journalism (HSBJ) Project for five years. She was one of the honors include Special Recognition and Distinguished Yearbook Adviser of the Year. She received CSPA’s Gold Key first team of editors at USA TODAY. Knopes also worked Adviser, Medal of Merit and Lifetime Achievement Award. award in 2002 and NSPA’s Pioneer award in 2007. at the Philadelphia Inquirer, Detroit Free Press and the 11 a.m. Friday, Taylor 9 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 2, and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Newseum. She has led seminars at the Poynter Institute Lincoln 5 and also edited Death By Cheeseburger, an overview of the Mike Janssen is a freelance writer and editor in the state of high school journalism in the 1990s. Washington, D.C., area who has reported for Current Anna kearns is a graduate student in the College of 11 a.m. Friday, Virginia A 6187 Cindy koon was a 2006 American Society of Newspaper Paul Lazarovich, an associate professor at Wentworth his nine years on the faculty of the University of Arkansas. Editors fellow and participated in the Summer Institute at Institute of Technology in Boston, teaches news writing, His staffs received several Gold Crown and Pacemaker Kent State. She helped students start a school newspaper editing, public relations and mass communications classes Awards, and he received the CSPA Gold Key, NSPA Pioneer as a public forum at South Pointe H.S. in Rock Hill, SC, when and advises the school’s newspaper and radio station. Award, JEA Medal of Merit and was inducted into the it opened in 2005. She has advised newspapers and taught During his diverse media career he has been a public Scholastic Journalism Hall of Fame. journalism in South Carolina and in Alaska, including information officer, a communications coordinator, radio 9 a.m. Friday, Marriott Salon 1 starting a school newspaper in the remote Yup’ik village of talk show host/producer, a CCTV public affairs program Newtok in the Lower Kuskokwim School District. host, a radio newscaster and election night correspondent, Gracie MacDonell, a former teacher, is a yearbook 10 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony A a newspaper Q&A columnist, and writer and producer of representative for Walsworth Publishing Co. in the greater radio and TV commercials. St. Louis area. Her passion for helping students and Josh kraushaar is the congressional campaign 1 p.m. Saturday, Maryland C teachers drives her to make a difference every day. correspondent at POLITICO, where he’s been covering 1 p.m. Saturday, Lincoln 5 Senate and House races since February 2007. He also Pete LeBlanc is in his 17th year of teaching and 15th year covered the John Edwards and Mitt Romney campaigns advising publications. He is in his first year at the new Adam Maksl, CJE, is a doctoral student at the University during the 2008 presidential primaries, and reported Antelope H.S. in northern California where he advises of Missouri School of Journalism, where he studies new from both parties’ national conventions. He also the Titanium yearbook, The Titan Times newspaper and media, political communication and youth journalism. writes POLITICO’s Scorecard blog, which reports on Channel 5 Titan TV news. Previously, he was assistant director of workshops in breaking news and provides up-to-date analysis on the 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, Lincoln 5, and 10 a.m. the Department of Journalism at Ball State University, congressional campaign landscape. Saturday, Lincoln 2 where he helped coordinate various scholastic journalism 11 a.m. Saturday, Jefferson outreach programs and taught undergraduate courses katherine Lehr is the editor of POLITICO’s CLICK, the premier as an adjunct instructor. He also briefly worked as a high konnie krislock is a guest teacher and publications destination for news and gossip on D.C.’s social scene. Prior to school journalism teacher. adviser to yearbook and newspaper at Orange County H.S. joining the publication, she was the TV editor at The Hotline. 9 and 10 a.m. Friday, Truman, and 8 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 5 of the Arts. She previously spent 26 years as a salesperson In her 3 1/2 years there, she served as an intern, staff writer and area manager with Herff Jones Yearbooks. For and senior writer before editing the media coverage. Leland Mallett works with students at Legacy H.S. in two years she was the coordinator for the JACC spring 11 a.m. Saturday, Jefferson Mansfield, Texas, as the publications adviser. He speaks convention and writeoff in Fresno. She has been past at workshops, judges contests and wins awards. After 10 SCJEA president and vice president, California Journalism Donna Leinwand (see Featured Speakers) years’ advising student publications, Mallett’s new passion is High School Teacher of the Year and NSPA Pioneer. Krislock 9 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 2 building a creative and innovative student media program. was on the planning board for JEA/NSPA’s Anaheim 1 p.m. Saturday, Washington 3 Convention. She is now mentoring four new high school Nichole Lemmon is adviser of the nationally award- advisers in Orange County schools. winning Central Intelligence. Since 2002, C.I. has placed in Yvette Manculich has been a yearbook adviser for six 11 a.m. Saturday, Jackson NSPA Best of Show broadcast competition and was named years at Powell Middle School in Littleton, Colo. Her 2008 Best in Show in 2008. During the 2009 school year C.I. was middle school book, The Prowl, won a Pacemaker and Best Edmond kwong, after years in hi-tech marketing, decided to named the best biweekly show by the Student Television of Show at the 2009 Phoenix Spring Convention. work with young artists and future business leaders. His first Network at the fall and spring nationals. The Mid-America Noon Friday, Park Tower 8226 Pegasus yearbook staff at Homestead H.S. in Cupertino, Calif., National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awarded earned a National Pacemaker and a Silver Crown. His passion Central Intelligence with five Emmy awards for editing, Aaron Manfull, MJE, is the JEA Digital Media Committee for photography and design resulted in pieces published in videography, writing, cultural affairs and documentary. chair and media adviser at Francis Howell North H.S. in St. newspapers, magazines, brochures and Web sites. Noon Saturday, Delaware A Charles, Mo. There he oversees the Excalibur yearbook, 2:30 p.m. Friday, Park Tower 8212 and 10 a.m. Saturday, North Star newsmagazine, North Star Podcast and www. Virginia A Al Leonard II, Ph.D., has served as a principal at the FHNtoday.com. He is in his 12th year of advising and is a elementary, middle and high school levels and is the 2007 National Board Certified Teacher. Dave LaBelle is the former assistant managing editor recipient of the Southern Interscholastic Press Association 10 a.m. Friday, Truman; 2:30 p.m. Friday, Park Tower for photography at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Dr. Kay Phillips Administrator of the Year award and the 8209; 8 a.m. Saturday, Jackson; 9 a.m. Saturday, Virginia most recently, adviser for the award-winning University 2009 JEA National Administrator of the Year award. A; 11 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 2 of Kentucky Kernel. Previously, he worked for various 10 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony A newspapers and taught at Western Kentucky University. Julissa Marenco (see Featured Speakers) Seven of his former students have been on Pulitzer Prize- Rachel Lienesch has been a member of the tjTODAY staff 1 p.m. Saturday, Wilson B winning photo teams. LaBelle has written four books, since she was a sophomore. She was spread editor her including “The Great Picture Hunt” and “I don’t want to know sophomore year and news editor her junior and senior Diana Marrero is a Washington correspondent for all that technical stuff, I just want to to shoot pictures.” year. She has written two obituaries for the paper, one for a the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. She also serves as 9 a.m. Friday, Virginia A; 10 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 3-4 Foyer; graduate who was killed in a car accident last summer and president of the Washington, D.C., chapter of the National 11 a.m. Saturday, Virginia A the other for a member of the class of 2011 who lost his Association of Hispanic Journalists. She is a member of battle with cancer at the beginning of this school year. She the National Press Club and Investigative Reporters and Jim Lang is the newspaper and yearbook adviser at Floyd plans to study political science in college and write for the Editors and a volunteer mentor to college journalists Central H.S. in Indiana. He is also an adviser of the year newspaper at whatever school she attends. at Georgetown University. Previously, she has worked recipient. He has worked with other IHSPA members to 2:30 p.m. Friday, Washington 6 at Gannett News Service in Washington, the South develop First Amendment programs. Florida Sun-Sentinel, The Florida Times Union, the 2:30 p.m. Friday, Park Tower 8226 Gary Lindsay, MJE, is a past adviser to the Plain Brown Arizona Republic and the Miami Herald. She was editor Wrapper, Kennedy H.S.’s award-winning literary magazine. of her college newspaper, a member of her high school Carol Lange, CJE, co-wrote a four-course radio curriculum He teaches language arts, journalism and graphics arts, newspaper and yearbook staffs. for RTNDF, D.C. Public Schools and Prime Movers at and advises the school newspaper. 10 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony C George Washington University. Lange has done freelance 7:15 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8209, and 10 a.m. Friday, work for The Washington Post, the Freedom Forum First Park Tower 8206 kelsey Martin, CJE, has been teaching at McAllen Amendment Center and the Newseum. A former high Memorial H.S. for 17 years, and during this time she has school teacher and adviser, Lange has participated in or Caroline H. Little (see Featured Speakers) advised newspaper and yearbook. The Spur yearbook has directed Intensive Journalistic Writing Institutes since 1988. 9 a.m. Saturday, Wilson C received numerous national and state awards. Recently, the 8 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8219 yearbook was awarded a Bronze Star from ILPC in Texas. Toni Locy (see Featured Speakers) Martin also teaches desktop publishing and independent Tim Larson is a former high school yearbook editor and 2:30 p.m. Friday, Lincoln 5 studies in journalism. today is responsible for leading Jostens as president and 8 a.m. Saturday, Maryland A CEO. Larson started working with Jostens in 1992 as an Frank LoMonte joined the Student Press Law Center intern, training sales representatives, students and advisers as executive director in 2008 after practicing with the Susan Massy advises the Lair yearbook and the Northwest to create yearbooks using desktop publishing. As vice Atlanta-based law firm of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan Passage newspaper at Shawnee Mission Northwest H.S. president of e-business in the late 1990s, his vision shaped LLP. He was active in several volunteer legal organizations in Kansas, where she teaches newspaper, yearbook and Jostens’ leadership on the Internet resulting in Yearbook including the Georgia Asylum and Immigration Network, photojournalism. Both publications have earned CSPA Avenue and YearTech Online. Larson became senior vice which named him volunteer of the year for 2007. Before Crowns and NSPA Pacemakers. Massy was honored as the president and general manager of Jostens’ online memory law school, LoMonte was an award-winning investigative 1999 JEA National Yearbook Adviser of the Year. book business, which led to a long-term partnership with journalist and political columnist. 9 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 2, and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Lincoln 5 Disney World Resorts. Noon Friday, Wilson C; 9 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8222, 10 a.m. Friday, Marriott Salon 1 and noon Saturday, Washington 5 Steve Matson, MJE, teaches journalism at Charles Wright Academy in Tacoma, Wash., where he advises The Academy Sadia Latifi is a 2009 graduate of Columbia University and Gary Lundgren, a senior marketing manager for Jostens, Times newsmagazine and Crossings yearbook. He has an editor of the Columbia Daily Spectator and the Hayfield manages the company’s educational offerings including received JEA’s Medal of Merit, NSPA’s Pioneer Award, Secondary School Orange Peal in Alexandria, Va. She is Jostens Adviser University, the Gotcha Covered Look WJEA’s Adviser of the Year, and his journalism staff manual currently based in Chapel Hill, N.C., working as an education Book and Jostens Adviser & Staff magazine in addition received a JEA award for Innovative Instruction. Matson is and cops reporter at The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. to curriculum materials and online educational content. JEA’s Northwest/Region 1 director. 10 a.m. Friday, Virginia C Lundgren served as director of student publications and 7:15 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8206 director of the Arkansas Scholastic Press Association during Randy Mays, an illustrator, was a pioneer in the use of 88 computer graphics and Photoshop at The Washington University of Maryland, College Park. is also involved with curriculum development in Indiana. Post in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. His clients include 1 p.m. Saturday, Washington 4 11 a.m. Saturday, Maryland B The Washington Post, AARP, The Smithsonian Institution, The Magazine Group and American Journalism Review. In E. Ethelbert Miller (see Featured Speakers) Mark Murray serves as executive director of the Association addition, Mays creates the popular Second Glance picture 10 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 5, and 11 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 3-4 of Texas Photography Instructors and as coordinator of puzzle in The Washington Post Magazine. Foyer Technology Systems for Arlington ISD. He also is an Adobe 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, Virginia C Education Leader. Murray is the recipient of NSPA’s Pioneer Heidi Miller is a senior at Virginia Tech majoring in Award, CSPA’s Gold Key Award, TAJE’s Trailblazer Award, JEA’s Maire McArdle has 25 years of consumer magazine design international studies and geography with a minor in French. Medal of Merit and ATPI’s Star of Texas. and publication redesign to her credit. She is the founding She grew up in Harrisonburg, Va., and was on the staff of the 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, Wilson A; 11 a.m. and noon art director of Bethesda Magazine, now in its fifth year. In Harrisonburg H.S.l Newsstreak. While at Virginia Tech she has Friday, Park Tower 8212, and 8 a.m. Saturday, Wilson A addition to magazines, McArdle designs media packaging, worked extensively with an after-school French program for brochures, posters, logos and Web sites. She is an adjunct elementary students and other community service projects kurt Mutchler (see Featured Speakers) faculty member at the Corcoran College of Art + Design in the Blacksburg area. She was one of the students who was 9 a.m. Saturday, Washington 4 where she teaches Intro to Magazine Design and is a guest shot in the April 16, 2007, shootings at Virginia Tech. speaker and design consultant. 2:30 p.m. Friday, Washington 6 Mary Lou Nagy, MJE, has been teaching journalism and 2:30 p.m. Friday, Virginia A advising publications for 25 years. She advises the P-CEP Joe Mirando, MJE and Ph.D., is a professor of journalism Perspective newspaper at Plymouth-Canton Educational Rachel McCarver, CJE, advises the public relations and at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, La. He Park. She has presented sessions for new advisers at the literary/arts magazine staffs at Columbus North H.S. A has worked as a reporter or editor at four daily newspapers Michigan Interscholastic Press Association’s conferences. Ball State University graduate, McCarver worked on Ball and as a high school journalism teacher for five years. 9 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8216 Bearings, the online multimedia publication. She received He now serves as supervisor of a college program in the 2007 JEA Future Teacher Scholarship. journalism teacher education. Terry Nelson has been a high school journalism teacher 9 a.m. Friday, Marriott Balcony C, and noon Friday, Wilson B 2:30 p.m. Friday, Park Tower 8219 and publications adviser for 33 years. She has been an Indiana adviser of the year and a Dow Jones adviser of Molly McCloskey (see Featured Speakers) Jeff Moffitt is the yearbook and newspaper adviser at the year. She has worked with other IHSPA members to 11 a.m. Friday, Wilson B Olympia H.S. in Orlando, Fla. He also teaches journalism develop First Amendment programs. and has seen the program grow from 40 students to more 2:30 p.m. Friday, Park Tower 8226 Mary Anne McCloud, former journalism and photography than 100 in three years. He holds a bachelor’s degree in instructor at Newton (Kan.) H.S. for 22 years, retired from journalism from The University of Texas at Austin. Laura J. Nelson is a metro intern at the Los Angeles teaching in 2005. McCloud received the Jackie Engel 1 p.m. Saturday, Washington 2 Daily News and an editor at the University of Southern Award in 1994 and was inducted into the Kansas Scholastic California’s newspaper, the Daily Trojan. Under her Press Association Hall of Fame in 2006. She has taught Rhonda Moore is the newspaper and yearbook adviser editorship, the Shawnee Mission East Harbinger won a summer journalism workshops and has served KSPA as an at McCallum H.S. in Austin, Texas. She is a CSPA Gold Key Pacemaker and back-to-back Best in Show awards. area representative, committee chair, vice president and recipient and has been awarded Texas’ Edith Fox King Noon Saturday, Balcony D president. McCloud has been a mentor for USD 373 for two Award and Max R. Haddick Teacher of the Year Award. Her years, which included Mentoring Matters training. students have won NSPA’s Pacemaker, CSPA’s Silver Crown Libby Nelson is a government and politics reporter for the 9 a.m. Friday, Tyler and ILPC’s Silver and Bronze Stars. Chronicle of Higher Education. This summer, she worked 9 and 10 a.m. Friday, Washington 1 as a reporting intern for The New York Times. The 2005 Alex McCrary is a second-year law student at American National High School Journalist of the Year, she graduated University’s Washington College of Law who serves as a Anthony Moretti, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in from Northwestern University, where she majored in Marshall-Brennan Fellow and teaches constitutional law to the School of Communication at Point Park University. journalism, was editor of The Daily Northwestern and held high school students in the District of Columbia. He spent almost 13 years in the broadcast industry internships at several metro newspapers. 8 a.m. Saturday, Wilson B before entering higher education. He has a B.A. from the Noon Saturday, Wilson B University of Southern California, an M.A. from Ohio State Jesse McLean is a student teacher at Waterford (Mich.) University and a Ph.D. from Ohio University. Jerald Newberry is executive director of the National Kettering H.S. and is also a graduate student at Michigan 9 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Friday, Virginia B Education Association¹s Health Information Network, the State University. McLean received an undergraduate degree health division of the 3.2 million-member National Education in journalism from MSU in the spring of 2009. During her Amy Morgan, MJE, teaches journalism and advises the Association. He has raised more than $30 million used to college years, she worked for a semester as a sports intern at newspaper and yearbook at Shawnee Mission West H.S. in develop materials and training addressing a wide spectrum Fox 2 Sports and almost two years at NPR-affiliate WKAR as a Overland Park, Kan. The Epic has been a Pacemaker and CSPA of school-related health issues. Newberry co-authored NEA student reporter. This year, McLean is co-advising the Kismet Crown finalist, and both publications have consistently placed HIN’s “Can We Talk?/Conversamos?” program that promotes yearbook and The Murmer newspaper at Kettering. in Best of Show contests. Morgan is the vice president of the in-depth conversations between parents and their children 8 a.m. Saturday, Truman Journalism Educators of Metropolitan Kansas City. about healthy decision making. He also created NEA¹s “Safe 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. Thursday, Virginia C Schools Now” video series. The “Mind over Media” video Tracey McNulty teaches journalism and advises the Legacy was co-produced with Court TV and was designed to teach yearbook at Potomac Falls H.S. in Sterling, Va. Prior to Carol Lee Morgan had a 40-year career as a writer with students to analyze violent messages in the media. working there, McNulty managed several J.C. Penney stores the federal government and now devotes herself to 10 a.m. Friday, Washington 2 while working in sales, marketing and customer service. creative writing, watercolor, sculpture and performance in Noon Friday, Maryland C plays and readings. As a federal employee, she excelled in Susan G. Newell, MJE and NBCT, has advised school writing profiles of EPA and other officials to put a human newspapers and yearbooks for more than 25 years. Mike McVitty has co-advised the Charisma literary magazine face on government. Her freelance articles have been Publications she has advised have won SIPA All-Southern, for three years at Big Spring H.S. in Newville, Pa. He is vice published in Reader’s Digest and Parade. Best SIPA publication in Alabama, ASPA All-Alabama, NSPA president of the Pennsylvania School Press Association. 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Virginia C All-American and Best of Show, and CSPA Gold Medalist. 9 a.m. Saturday, Tyler Newell has served as an officer for ASPA, is JEA’s Alabama Tim Morley, CJE, advises the Nexus yearbook at Inland state director, and is on the SIPA executive board. She is the Linda M. Mercer, a CSPA Gold Key adviser and DJNF Lakes (Mich.) H.S. He is a trustee on the board of directors 2008 Adviser of the Year for Alabama. Fellow, advised Medalist and Silver Crown newspapers for the Michigan Interscholstic Press Association. In nine 8 a.m. Saturday, Washington 5 and yearbooks for 35 years in Halifax County, Va. She is a years of advising at this small, rural school, his staffs have founding member of the state advisers organization and taken the publication from a scrapbook to a Pacemaker, Mark Newton, MJE, the journalism teacher at Mountain served several terms as its first director. She judges for Gold Crown and multiple Spartan award winner. Vista H.S. in Highlands Ranch, Colo., is the adviser of CSPA, NSPA and teaches at workshops. 9 and 10 a.m. Friday, Washington 5 The Vista Vine newspaper and Aerie yearbook. He is the 10 a.m. Friday, Maryland C, and 11 a.m. Saturday, JEA Certification Commission chairman. While at Grand Marriott Balcony B Jim Morrison is a founding member of SchoolTube Junction H.S., The Orange & Black was consistently named and was involved in the design and development of the best large-school newspaper in Colorado by the kevin Merida (see Featured Speakers) the SchoolTube media-sharing service. He is now a Colorado High School Press Association. The Orange & 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Washington 5 conventions and programs manager, working with partner Black was inducted into the NSPA Hall of Fame in 2003. organizations and managing the convention activities for 9 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8205; 2:30 p.m. Friday, Lincoln Marcia Meskiel-Macy works with staffs on the east coast SchoolTube. Prior to his work with SchoolTube, Morrison 1; 3:30 p.m. Friday, Wilson A; 7:30 a.m. Saturday, JEA of Florida helping advisers build programs that meet the was a content and product development manager with Suite; 10 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8219 and 11 a.m. needs of the schools and challenge the students involved. LightSpeed Technologies, an online learning company Saturday, Park Tower 8216 A speaker at most major journalism conventions since active in the manufacturing industries. 1982, she combines her journalism expertise (University of 9 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 6 Bill Nichols has been managing editor of POLITICO since Iowa) with her communication savvy in a fun environment January 2007. He came to that post after more than two that involves the total person. April Moss, CJE, has been teaching journalism, decades at USA Today, where he was a White House 11 a.m. and noon Friday, Virginia C photojournalism, yearbook and newspaper for 10 years correspondent, State Department correspondent and at Pike H.S. in Indianapolis, the most racially diverse high senior Washington correspondent. He was a 2009 Pulitzer David Meyer is a 2008 graduate of Montgomery Blair H.S. school in Indiana. She has served on the Indiana High Prize juror and serves on the steering committee of the in Silver Spring, Md., and was ombudsman for its award- School Press Association board and has presented sessions Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. winning newspaper, Silver Chips. He now attends the on diversity and writing at area and national workshops. She 10 a.m. Friday, Virginia B 89 Casey Nichols, CJE, advises Tonitrus yearbook and The a Dallas-based converged media company. He co-directed from the Arizona Interscholastic Press Association and the Flash newspaper at Rocklin (Calif.) H.S. During his 25 years’ the 2006 JEA Austria and 2007 ATPI/TAJE European Exposure Lifetime Achievement Award from JEA. teaching, Nichols has advised award-winning publications workshops, and the 2008 and 2009 European Exposure 10 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8210 and has served as a frequent speaker at conventions and photography workshops. He’s an instructor and speaker at workshops He is a recipient of the NSPA Pioneer Award as scholastic journalism conventions and workshops across kay Phillips, Ph.D. and MJE, is a 2008-09 JEA mentor. well as JEA’s National Yearbook Adviser of the Year. the nation, including the Carolina Journalism Institute, Retired director of North Carolina Scholastic Media 9 and 10 a.m. Friday, Washington 3 the Association of Texas Photography Instructors summer Association, she won JEA’s Teacher Inspiration Award, Carl workshop, the Flint Hills Publications Workshop at Kansas Towley Award and Medal of Merit, and NSPA’s Pioneer Sarah Nichols, MJE, advises Details yearbook and State University, and the summer high school program at Award. SPLC honored her in 2000 for distinguished service The Roar newspaper at Whitney H.S. in Rocklin, Calif., The Poynter Institute. He recently received the SIPA Elizabeth on its Board of Directors. Phillips advised publications and where her students have won recognition such as NSPA B. Dickey Distinguished Service Award. broadcasting at Vance H.S., Henderson, N.C. Pacemakers and CSPA Crown awards. Nichols is president 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Washington 3 2:30 p.m. Friday, Park Tower 8216, and 9 a.m. Saturday, of JEA of Northern California, a delegate for the California Maryland A Journalism Education Coalition and a member of JEA’s Jed Palmer advises yearbook, newsmagazine, broadcast and Certification and Scholastic Press Rights commissions and photography at Sierra Middle School in Parker, Colo. He is a kathryn Phillips is a yearbook sales representative in Awards Committee. She was named an NSPA Pioneer in member of JEA’s Junior High/Middle School Commission. northern Virginia and Maryland for Walsworth Publishing 2008 and a JEA Distinguished Yearbook Adviser in 2006. 10 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8209 Co. She has been working with yearbooks since high 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, Lincoln 6, 9 and 10 a.m. Friday, school, giving her more than 10 years of experience. Her Washington 3, and 9 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8216 Marie Parsons retired in 2002 from The University of degree in graphic design helps her encourage and teach Alabama where she taught 19 years in the College of students to develop their own ideas. Mark Novom is the yearbook and newspaper adviser Communication and Information Sciences. As part of 10 a.m. Friday, Wilson A, and 1 p.m. Saturday, Wilson A at Brentwood School in Los Angeles, and is particularly a faculty teaching position, Parsons directed Alalbama passionate about organization. His students use an Scholastic Press Association and Minority Journalism Lynn Pickett teaches journalism and English at organization notebook as the yearbook bible. In his first Program. She continues to serve the programs as a Northeastern Wayne Jr.-Sr. H.S. in east central Indiana. year, the Aerie yearbook won a Pacemaker from NSPA. He consultant. Prior to an academic career, Parsons worked She advises the yearbook and the newspaper. Prior to previously taught English and theater for eight years. as a reporter for daily newspapers in three states. She becoming a teacher, she spent more than 20 years in the 9 a.m. Friday, Marriott Balcony B completed JEA Mentor training in 2009. business world and strives to bring the lessons that she 10 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8212 learned into the classroom. Steve O’Donoghue, director of the California Scholastic Noon and 1 p.m. Saturday, Maryland B Journalism Initiative, taught journalism for 27 years in Mary Patrick, CJE, teaches and advises the yearbook at Oakland, Calif., where he founded The Media Academy. Maize South Middle School in Wichita, Kan. The yearbook Christopher Picou is a senior speech education major at He was the 1990 DJNF National High School Journalism has won numerous awards including CSPA Crowns, NSPA Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, La. He Teacher of the Year and California High School Journalism Pacemakers, and it is a member of the Journalism Hall works with the drama program at Springfield (La.) H.S. Teacher of the Year. He has received the JEA Medal of Merit, of Fame. Patrick is a past chair of the JEA Middle School 2:30 p.m. Friday, Park Tower 8219 the NSPA Pioneer Award and the CSPA James F. Paschal Commission and is the Middle School liason for the Kansas Award and Gold Key. Recently, he worked to get the Scholastic Press Association. Wanda Pletcher, CJE, is a junior high newspaper adviser in California Adviser Protection Bill passed. 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Virginia A; 11 a.m. Friday, Altoona, Pa. She serves as JEA state director and sits on the 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Thursday, Virginia A, and 9 a.m. Washington 5; 10 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8209; noon board of the Pennsylvania School Press Association. Saturday, Jefferson and 1 p.m. Saturday, Virginia B 10 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8209

Rhonda O’Dea is the Northeast area sales manager for Cheryl Pell has been the director of Michigan Louis Plumley is the newspaper, broadcast and yearbook Walsworth Publishing Co. A frequent speaker at local, state Interscholastic Press Association and a faculty member at adviser at Scott Johnson Mddle School in McKinney, Texas. and national conventions, she has been doing yearbook for the Michigan State University School of Journalism since He was a 2008 recipient of the Rising Star Award, and his more than 20 years. 1987. She is a recipient of the JEA Medal of Merit, CSPA students have received NSPA Best of Show rankings, ILPC 9 a.m. Friday, Marriott Marriott Balcony A James F. Paschal award, NSPA Pioneer award and AEJMC Bronze Star Yearbook and numerous individual honors Scholastic Journalism Division Educator of the Year award. from ILPC, TAJE and ATPI. Lori Oglesbee-Petter, CJE and yearbook adviser at In 2007 she was inducted into the Michigan Journalism 10 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8209 McKinney (Texas) H.S., was named a distinguished adviser in Hall of Fame. A former high school newspaper adviser, she the 2004 National Yearbook Adviser of the Year competition now teaches design at MSU and is a faculty adviser to the Wayna Polk, CJE, advises the Flashlight at Abilene (Texas) and the Texas journalism teacher of the year in 2005. She is Society for News Design student affiliate. H.S. Her yearbook staffs have won Silver Crowns and the curriculum and development chair for JEA. Her yearbook 9 a.m. Friday, Washington 2, and 9 a.m. Saturday, Park Pacemakers, SIPA All Southern and ILPC Gold and Silver Star staffs have won Gold and Silver Crowns, Pacemakers, NSPA Tower 8222 awards. An NSPA Pioneer recipient, Polk has received JEA’s Best of Shows and Gold Stars. Her students have also won Medal of Merit and been a Distinguished Adviser and Special five UIL state championships in journalism events. Fred Perrin, a former Kodak professional photography Recognition Adviser in the YAOY competition. She is JEA Noon Friday, Washington 6; 8 and 9 a.m. Saturday, consultant and professional photographer, Perrin’s South Central Region director, the Scholarship Committee Lincoln 1, and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Washington 4 credentials include a B.S. and a Craftsman of chair and a member of the JEA Awards Committee. Photographic Arts (CPA). His photographs have appeared 7:15 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8212, and 11 a.m. Friday kevin Olivas (see Featured Speakers) in a variety of media, and his lithographs have been Park Tower 8222 2:30 p.m. Friday, Delaware A presented to 60 world leaders by the U.S. government. Perrin currently is the general manager at Friesen Carol Porter, a former staff art director/graphic designer Leslie Orman advises the yearbook and newspaper at Yearbooks. Formerly a director of marketing and director at The Washington Post, is a freelance designer and artist/ Kickapoo H.S. in Springfield, Mo. of new product development for two Fortune 500 painter. Porter gained experience in commercial television 8 a.m. Saturday, Virginia C companies, Perrin has consulted with corporations, book as a staff designer and art director in D.C., Chicago and publishers, professional photographers and universities/ Hartford. She then worked three years as an art director in Emily Orser has advised Threshold, Thomas Jefferson H.S.’s high schools to keep products relevant. He also is a advertising agency design. At The Washington Post she was magazine for the arts and sciences, for the past eight years. published author of young adult/teen novels. a designer, art director for Sunday Show (local /national arts She has a bachelor’s degere in English and a master’s degree 9 and 10 a.m. Saturday, Washington 3 and entertainment), Sunday Business, Outlook (the opinion in education from Wake Forest University. She teaches and commentary section), Health and Food sections. honors English and AP English Language and Composition. Ann Peters, Pulitzer Center development and outreach 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, Virginia C 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8206 director, reported for United Press International in the U.S., Middle East and Africa from the legendary Hunt-Helms Elizabeth Preza is a senior at Rockville H.S. in Rockville, Md. Mimi Orth has represented Herff Jones Yearbooks in the Senate race to the release of Nelson Mandela. A graduate Next year, she plans to attend a four-year university and Southern California area for the about 20 years, and her of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and major in communications and journalism. Since 2008, Preza schools regularly win national yearbook awards. She also Georgetown University Law Center, she also has worked for has covered politics for the Rampage. She is the opinion directs Yearbooks@theBeach, a summer workshop held Human Rights Watch and the Open Society Institute. The managing editor and has written a column titled “Poli-Ticks- at Cal State Long Beach. She is a former newspaper and Pulitzer Center is a 2009 Emmy Award winner. Me-Off” for several issues. She received a press pass to the yearbook adviser. 10 a.m. Friday, Marriott Balcony B Inauguration of President Barack Obama, and worked on the commemorative magazine, What We Saw. James B. Packard-Gomez and Erwin Gomez formed the kara Petersen began her yearbook career as a high-school 10 a.m. Friday, Washington 2 and 2:30 p.m. Friday, Park non-profit Foundation for the Advancement of Civil rights editor and, later, as editor of the Corks & Curls yearbook Tower 8209 after their much-televised wedding in San Francisco. at the University of Virginia. She then taught English and Packard-Gomez is the CEO of GoPac Industries Inc., the advised the Legend at Atlee H.S. in Mechanicsville, Va. In Glenn Proctor (see Featured Speakers) parent company of Erwin Gomez Salon and Spa in the those five years, the Legend earned a host of state and 11 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 5 heart of Georgetown, Washington, D.C. He also stays true national awards. Petersen now works as a Herff Jones to his roots in real estate development and in 2007 formed yearbook representative in northern Virginia. Linda Puntney, MJE, is JEA executive director, assistant In Your Face Media LLC, fusing beauty with outside-the- Noon and 2:30 p.m. Friday, Maryland C professor of journalism, director of Student Publications box marketing and strategic positioning. and adviser of the award-winning Royal Purple yearbook 9 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 6 Joe Pfeiff, CJE, retired after 34 years of teaching and at Kansas State University. Puntney directs the summer advising yearbooks and newspapers in Iowa, Illinois and Flint Hills Publications Workshop, JEA Advisers Institute Jake Palenske is president and CEO of NCompass Media, Arizona. He is the recipient of the Forest Martin Award and Yearbook Workshop and Idea Forum. Among her honors are the NSPA Pioneer Award, CSPA Gold Key and Susan Roberts, MJE, has taught journalism and advised and productions have won Pacemakers and Crown awards, in the JEA Carl Towley Award. publications for 30 years. Her students’ publications addition to top ratings from NSPA, CSPA and VHSL. 10 a.m. Saturday, Maryland A, and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, have won many awards. Roberts has received the ILPC 11 a.m. Saturday, Virginia B Jackson Edith Fox King Award and was the 1998 Max Haddick journalism teacher of the year. Roberts has been a Harris Robert “Bro” Russell, Ph.D., went into international Jovel Queirolo is the managing editor and a third-year staff County Journalism Steering Committee member, is former development work after a tour in the U.S. Peace Corps member of The Broadview newspaper at Convent of the president of the Texas Association of Journalism Educators in India. He is a career specialist in developing new and Sacred Heart H.S. in San Francisco. Queirolo focuses much and served JEA as Region 4 director. innovative organizations that serve critical human needs. of her work on in-depth storytelling such as a first-hand 9 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Friday, Wilson A, and 10 a.m. With a Sri Lankan cartoonist he started Cartoonists Rights account of a Salvation Army holiday kettle bell-ringer, but her Saturday, Wilson A Network in 1992. CRNI is the world’s only free speech willingness to chat up people anytime and anywhere landed and human rights organization dedicated exclusively to her unexpected interviews, including a celebrity traveling Roxanne Roberts has been a reporter and feature writer the monitoring and well being of political and editorial incognito in the back of a plane during a red-eye flight. with The Washington Post since 1988 and currently co- cartoonists who find themselves in danger because of the 11 a.m. Saturday, Maryland C authors the Post’s “The Reliable Source” column. She is also powerful impact of their work. a regular panelist on NPR’s award-winning quiz show “Wait 10 a.m. Saturday, Washington 6, and 11 a.m. Saturday, Elaine Quijano (See Featured Speakers) Wait ... Don’t Tell Me.” Lincoln 3-4 Foyer 9 a.m. Saturday, Delaware A 2:30 p.m. Friday, Washington 6 Buck Ryan, director of the Citizen Kentucky Project of the Janet Raddish worked as an education reporter for the Judy Robinson, CJE, is executive director of the Florida University of Kentucky’s First Amendment Center, is the Belleview (Neb.) Leader newspaper before accepting Scholastic Press Association and assistant professor of creator of the Maestro Concept, an innovative approach to a teaching job with the Omaha (Neb.) Public Schools. journalism at the University of Florida. She was a high story planning adopted by high school, college and metro Currently at Omaha Bryan H.S., she has taught journalism school English and media teacher and newspaper and daily newspapers nationally and newspapers in more than and advised newspaper and yearbook production yearbook adviser in Canada, a faculty member at the a dozen countries. He co-wrote “The Editor’s Toolbox: A classes since 1990. Raddish earned her master’s degree in University of Central Florida, and senior instructional Reference Guide for Beginners and Professionals,” with educational administration and supervision in 2001. designer in UF’s Academic Technology division. former Chicago Tribune colleague Michael O’Donnell. Ryan 11 a.m. Saturday, Truman 9 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8206, and 11 a.m. Friday, Wilson A also served as director of the School of Journalism and Telecommunications and executive director of the First Jamie Raskin (see Featured Speakers) Charles F. Robinson III, is an award winning journalist who Amendment Center at UK. 9 and 10 a.m. Friday, Wilson B, and 11 a.m. Friday, Lincoln works in television, radio, print and new media. He began his 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, Maryland C 3-4 Foyer journalism career by delivering the Baltimore Afro-American Newspaper while still in junior high school. Since 2001 Tamara Salisbury is in her third year as copy editor for kristi Rathbun is the adviser of the Black & Gold yearbook Robinson has served Maryland Public Television as a political the Royal Purple yearbook at Kansas State University. at Rock Canyon H.S. in Highlands Ranch, Colo., and JEA reporter for State Circle and business correspondent for She graduated in May 2009 with a bachelor’s degree in state director for Colorado. She is a frequent workshop Business Connection now called Your Money, and Business. secondary education and is now a graduate student in and convention speaker, and has worked with student He is Region II director for the National Association of Black curriculum and instruction. She plans to teach high school journalists for almost 15 years, helping staffs around the Journalists and is the former president of the Baltimore English and journalism. country achieve national and state recognition. Association of Black Media Workers. Noon Friday, Truman, noon and 1 p.m. Saturday, Noon Friday, Park Tower 8209 10 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony C Washington 1

Betsy Pollard Rau is a retired high school journalism Deborah Roffman’s work in the classroom and with parents Laura Schaub is a national creative accounts manager for adviser from HH Dow H.S. in Midland, Mich. Rau now has been featured in the New York Times, Baltimore Sun, Jostens. She was director of the Oklahoma Interscholastic teaches journalism at Michigan State and Central Michigan Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Press Association at Oklahoma University where she taught universities and also does some curriculum consulting. Times, Education Week, Teacher Magazine, USA Today, Parents design and photography. CSPA Gold Key recipient, past The Update, which she advised for 10 years, is an award- Magazine, an HBO Special on parenting, and on NPR. In Oklahoma Journalism Teacher of the Year and former DJNF winning newspaper. Rau recently was inducted into CMU’s December 2002, she appeared in a highly acclaimed segment Distinguished Adviser, she was inducted into the National Journalism Hall of Fame. on teenage sexuality on ABC’s “20/20” with John Stossel. Scholastic Journalism Hall of Fame in 1991 and served as 9 a.m. Friday, Washington 2 Roffman teaches human sexuality education (grades 4-12) at CSPAA president for two terms. The Park School of Baltimore and several other independent 11 a.m. and noon Friday, Washington 5 Jon Reese has taught journalism for 18 years at Decatur schools in the Baltimore/Washington, D.C., area. (Ga.) H.S. He advises the Carpe Diem newsmagazine 2:30 p.m. Friday, Lincoln 2 Hal Schmidt has been since 1984 co-owner of PS Graphics and The DEC monthly broadcast. His staffs have won Inc., a graphic design and printing company located in Pacemakers, Gold Crowns and Gallup Awards. kristy Roschke is newspaper and yearbook adviser at Kingwood, Texas. He has been involved with student 11 a.m. Friday, Washington 1 and 1 p.m. Saturday, Sunrise Mountain H.S. in Peoria, Ariz. She is finishing publications since 1987 and is a representative of Taylor Washington 6 her graduate studies in digital media at the Walter Publishing Co. Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication 9 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Friday, Wilson A, and 10 a.m. Paul Regnier, Ph.D., is coordinator of Media and Crisis at Arizona State. A member of the JEA Digital Media Saturday, Wilson A Communications for Fairfax County Public Schools, where Committee, she serves as contest coordinator for the he has worked since 1986. He has coordinated programs Arizona State Press Association. Matthew Schott is the publications adviser at Francis for internal and external communication, especially media 1 p.m. Saturday, Wilson C Howell Central H.S. in St. Charles, Mo. His publications have relations and crisis communications. He worked in the won top honors from the Missouri Interscholastic Press New York State Education Department between 1977 and John Rose is the cartoonist for King Features’ popular Association, and he has had students win Sweepstakes 1986 and taught high school English and history before Barney Google and Snuffy Smith comic strip. This long- awards in the Quill and Scroll international competition the that. He directed the Intellectual Life of Schools project running strip appears in 500 newspapers worldwide. past two years. Previously, Schott was a graphic designer with George Mason University from 1991 to 1999 and is Rose was an inking assistant to cartoonist Fred Lasswell for four newspapers around the country. a founding member of the National Council for History for 3 1/2 years and became the strip’s cartoonist in 2001, 11 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony C, and 1 p.m. Saturday, Education. He has published widely in educational and after Lasswell’s death. He is also the editorial cartoonist Marriott Balcony A literary topics, including The Superintendent of the Future for Byrd Newspapers of Virginia, based at the Daily News- with Robert R. Spillane (1998). Record in Harrisonburg, Va. Rose has written many books kathy Schrier, MJE, coordinates educational programs for 2:30 p.m. Friday, Washington 6 including three children’s activity books, “Fun With Pup!,” the Washington News Council. Prior to this, Schrier taught “More Fun With Pup!” and “Christmas Fun With Pup!” which journalism, newspaper and yearbook at Chief Sealth H.S. in Maria Richardson has represented Herff Jones Yearbooks are collections from his Kids’ Home Newspaper children’s Seattle. Shrier has earned the Medal of Merit from JEA, the in Central Maryland for 11 years. A former high school editor cartoon/activity page syndicated by Creators Syndicate. Pioneer Award from NSPA and the Fern Valentine Freedom and adviser, for the past seven years Richardson has been His latest book is a collection of his editorial cartoons titled of Expression Award from WJEA. co-director of Gettysburg Yearbook Experience, where more “Now This Is Where I Draw The Line!” 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8226 than 600 yerds train and plan for success each summer. 9 a.m. Saturday, Delaware B, and 10 a.m. Saturday, Noon Friday, Virginia A Lincoln 3-4 Foyer David Schwartz is executive director of the Iowa High School Press Association, the Iowa Summer Journalism Carol Richtsmeier, CJE, is publications adviser at Martha Rothwell advised the award-winning newspaper Workshops and a member of the adjunct faculty for Midlothian (Texas) H.S. She recently published her first at North Iredell H.S., Statesville, N.C. A past president of the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass book, “How to Lose Your Self of Steam & Other Lessons the North Carolina Scholastic Media Advisers Association, Communication. He previously worked professionally in I Never Learned From Professional Development.” She Rothwell teaches in the Association’s summer Institute. She print and online media for more than a decade. was the first teacher to receive the Courage in Student serves on the Executive and Finance committees of the Noon and 1 p.m. Saturday, Virginia C Journalism Award from the Newseum, SPLC and NSPA. Southern Interscholastic Press Association. Richtsmeier has been named a DJNF Special Recognition 9 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8209, and 2:30 p.m. Friday, Park Marilyn Scoggins advised the Hooker (Okla.) H.S. Adviser and ILPC’s Max Haddick Journalism Teacher of the Tower 8216 yearbook for 17 years. During that time her students Year, and she received ILPC’s Edith Fox King award. Her earned top state honors from OIPA as well as CSPA Gold staffs have won numerous awards. She also publishes a Chad Rummel, CJE, is the student media adviser at Oakton and Silver Crowns and NSPA Pacemakers. She was twice humorous education blog. H.S. in Vienna, Va. The Oakton Media Group (OMG!) includes a her district’s Teacher of the Year and is a CSPA’s Gold Key 9 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8222, and 10 a.m. Friday, newsmagazine, yearbook, online newspaper, DVD yearbook, recipient. Scoggins works for Taylor Publishing Co. as Lincoln 3-4 Foyer literary magazine and broadcast program. OMG publications education/workshop project coordinator and editor of Taylor Talk and Yearbook Yearbook. running suicide/crisis call centers, he earned a bachelor’s Sandra Strall has taught English and journalism at Carlson 9 a.m. Friday, Marriott Balcony D; 8 a.m. Saturday, degree in journalism from the University of Iowa and H.S. in Gibratar, Mich., for 29 years. She advises the Ebb Virginia B, and 1 p.m.. Saturday, Washington 3 a master’s degree in educational psychology from the Tide yearbook. Ebb Tide has earned Crowns from CSPA, University of California, Santa Barbara. He advises the Bark Pacemakers from NSPA and was named to the NSPA Olivia Scott was the co-editor-in-chief of Green Valley newspaper at Redwood H.S. in Larkspur, Calif. Yearbook Hall of Fame in 2006 and the MIPA Hall of Fame in H.S.’s six-year-running best newspaper as awarded by 9 and 10 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony B 2002. Strall was named a Distinguished Yearbook Adviser the Las Vegas Review Journal. She was an intern for both in 2003 and received CSPA’s Gold Key in 2008. CLASS! Magazine and the Las Vegas Review Journal’s Sue Skalicky, CJE, teaches English 10 and introductory 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Washington 6 R-Jeneration. She has won awards for her feature, sports journalism at Century H.S. in Bismarck, N.D. She also and news-feature writing. She attends Chapman University advises the Century Star newsmagazine and Century Lynn Strause retired in 2007 after advising 30 yearbooks, where she writes for the school newspaper. Spirit yearbook. In the past 22 years Skalicky has worked the last 13 at East Lansing (Mich.) H.S. While she advised Noon and 1 p.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony C as a medical photographer, a section editor/writer/ there, Ceniad earned 13 consecutive Spartan Awards from photographer of a weekly newspaper, a leadership MIPA; CSPA Gold and Silver Crowns; and NSPA Pacemakers. Andrew Seaman, news intern at USA Today, is a senior conference speaker and a freelance writer. She was named Michigan’s Adviser of the Year and JEA’s at Wilkes University. Seaman developed speed journalism 11 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 6 National Yearbook Adviser of the Year. Other honors lesson plans and is on the S PJ Board of Directors. include CSPA Gold Key, NSPA Pioneer Award and JEA 10 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8216 Nancy Y. Smith, MJE advises the newspaper, yearbook Lifetime Achievement Award. She currently consults and is and DVD at Lafayette H.S. in Wildwood, Mo. She has been first vice president and yearbook chair on the MIPA board. Daniel Serna was the editor-in-chief of Puyallup (Wash.) teaching journalism and advising publications for 23 years 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Washington 1 H.S.’s student newspaper, The Viking Vanguard, during the and is a frequent workshop and conference speaker. A 2008-09 school year. In addition to his tenure on The Viking member of the JEA Scholastic Press Rights Commission, Jim Streisel, MJE, is the HiLite newspaper and Web site Vanguard, Serna has been a guest columnist for and has she has been recognized as a DJNF Special Recognition adviser at Carmel (Ind.) H.S. Streisel’s textbook, “High written features for The News Tribune of Tacoma, Wash. He Adviser and as a JEA Special Recognition Yearbook Adviser. School Journalism: A Practical Guide,” published in 2007. is a freshman at Yale University and is on the staff of the She is the president of the Sponsors of School Publications 9 a.m. Saturday, Virginia A; 10 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower Yale Daily News. of Greater St. Louis. 8219, and 11 a.m. Saturday, Wilson C Noon Saturday, Delaware B 11 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony C, and noon Saturday, Washington 3 Christine Stricker, CJE, is in her ninth year advising school Vanessa Shelton, executive director of Quill and Scroll publications and teaching journalism at Clayton H.S. in Society, works with two high schools to conduct summer Chase Snider a reporter at Kickapoo H.S. in Springfield, St. Louis, Mo., and formerly at Park Hill H.S. in Kansas City, journalism academies for elementary and junior high Mo., has been a national correspondent for the Mo. She advises the Claymo yearbook, Greyhound News school students. Shelton previously was director of Iowa Inauguration of Barack Obama, MLB games, NFL Network school news show, and teaches photography and High School Press Association. Superbowl, stadium openings, political rallies and photojournalism. 10 a.m. Saturday, Maryland A campaign trails. He developed khsprairienews.com, and 8 a.m. Saturday, Maryland C, and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, operates as both a print and broadcast journalist. Park Tower 8216 Alicia Shepard is the ombudsman for National Public 8 a.m. Saturday, Virginia C Radio in Washington, D.C., the first U.S. broadcast news Reginald Stuart (see Featured Speakers) organization to create the ombudsman position. She is a Wendi Solinger, CJE, has been the adviser of the award- 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Delaware B former reporter and university professor. winning El Saguaro yearbook at Alice Vail Middle School 1 p.m. Saturday, Washington 4 in Tucson, Ariz., for the past 14 years. She has also advised David Studinski is community manager for mtvU’s College two high school yearbooks and newspapers in her 25-year Media Network, which serves 600+ college newspapers. A Linda Shockley is deputy director of the Dow Jones career. She is a member of the JEA Junior High/Middle former two-term editor-in-chief at Ball State University, he Newspaper Fund. School Commission. also served three years as president of the Indiana Collegiate 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, Virginia A 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Virginia A, and 10 a.m. Saturday, Park Press Association. Studinski has won many awards, including Tower 8209 an online news story Pacemaker and honors in the inaugural Tom Shroder, an award-winning writer for more than 30 UWIRE Top 100 College Journalists list. years, began his career as a journalist while attending the Margaret Sorrows, CJE, advises the yearbook and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Maryland C University of Florida from 1971-1974. After writing for the newspaper adviser at Bryant (Ark.) H.S. Her yearbooks have local paper, he went on to become the executive editor for won the All-Arkansas Award every year since 1995, Silver Edmund Sullivan is the executive director of professional The Miami Herald’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Tropic Magazine Crown, Pacemaker Finalist, NSPA Best of Show, All Southern prizes for the Columbia University Graduate School of where he edited humorist Dave Barry. Shroder then moved and SIPA Scoggins Award. Sorrows was 2007 Distinguished Journalism and the executive director of the Columbia to the D.C. area and edited the Sunday Style section of The Yearbook Adviser. Scholastic Press Association. His awards include the Washington Post and then The Washington Post Magazine. 10 and 11 a.m. Friday, Marriott Balcony A Laurence B. Johnson Award for Best Editorial Writing In addition to reporting and editing, he has also written from the Educational Press Association of America, several books including most recently “Old Souls: Compelling Laura Soto-Barra is the library director at National Public Distinguished Service Award from Community College Evidence from Children Who Remember Past Lives.” Radio, supervises a staff of 17 librarians. She has worked Journalism Association, the Reid Montgomery Service 9 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 5 in all types of libraries in Chile, Canada and the US. She Award from College Media Advisers, the Pioneer Award holds a masters degree in information sciences from the from the NSPA and the Gold Key from CSPA. He was Beth Shull teaches newspaper, yearbook and photography University of Toronto. inducted into the National Scholastic Journalism Hall of at Pulaski Academy in Little Rock, Ark. She got her start in 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Lincoln 6 Fame in 1998. He also served on the Student Press Law journalism as a staff writer for her high school newspaper Center Board of Directors from 1983 to 2000. and was the yearbook editor. Howard Spanogle, copy editor of Communication: 10 a.m. Saturday, Maryland A 10 a.m. Friday, Marriott Balcony A Journalism Education Today, formerly advised the Glenbard East Echo (Lombard, Ill.) and the Highland Park Randy G. Swikle, CJE, is Illinois director and a mentor Mike Simons, yearbook co-adviser at West H.S. Bagpipe (Dallas, Texas). Now located in Asheville, N.C., he teacher for JEA. He retired from Johnsburg H.S. in 2003 in Painted Post, N.Y., shares passions for digital has edited books and curriculum projects for Taylor and after 36 years of teaching and advising publications. He photography, digital post-processing, yearbooks and Lifetouch yearbook companies. Both Spanogle and his serves on the Illinois Press Foundation and the Northern working with high school students. He teaches at CSPA students have earned numerous state and national awards. Illinois Newspaper Association boards and on JEA’s and other conventions, workshops and camps including 10:15 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 3-4, and 2:30 p.m. Friday, Virginia C Scholastic Press Rights Commission. Swikle travels the the Boston Yearbook Academy and Gettysburg Yearbook country speaking on First Amendment issues. He has Experience. He also serves as assistant marching band April Squires has been the adviser of The Silver Scribe, won many personal awards including 1999 DJNF National director and teaches an honors information technology Riverton H.S., Utah, since 2000. From a staff of seven and a Journalism Teacher of the Year, NSPA’s Pioneer and All course and special education at West. beginning class of 13, the program now has two journalism American Adviser awards; JEA’s Lifetime Achievement 8 a.m. Saturday, Washington 3 classes and a staff ranging from 20-32. The newspaper has Award and Medal of Merit. won state and national awards and distinctions. Squires is 10 a.m. Friday, Jefferson; 2:30 p.m. Friday, Park Tower Lakshmi Singh (see Featured Speakers) a 2004 ASNE Fellow, is the Utah state JEA director and has 8216, and 11 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony C 10 a.m. Saturday, Delaware A presented workshops for district advisers. 2:30 p.m. Friday, Park Tower 8222 John Tagliareni serves on the JEA Student Press Rights Becky Sipos, MJE, just retired from 32 years of teaching, Commission and a past president of the Garden State most recently as the adviser of The Highlander newspaper Suzette Martinez Standring is a syndicated columnist Scholastic Press Association. He teaches English and at McLean H.S. in Virginia. The newspaper won Pacemaker with GateHouse News. She is the author of “The Art of journalism at Bergenfield (N.J.) H.S., where he advises the recognition and was inducted into the NSPA Hall of Fame for Column Writing: Insider Secrets from Art Buchwald, Dave award-winning Bear Facts newspaper. He was named a 10 years of All American ratings. Sipos has been recognized Barry, Arianna Huffington, Pete Hamill and Other Great DJNF Distinguished Adviser, given the CSPA Gold Key, the as a Dow Jones Distinguished Adviser and received the NSPA Columnists.” She is a past president of the National Society Charles R. O’Malley Award, the OIPA Lifetime Achievement Pioneer Award. She is now the director of communications at of Newspaper Columnists. Award and the Deadline Club Teacher Recognition Award the Character Education Partnership in Washington, D.C. 10 a.m. Saturday, Washington 4, and 11 a.m. Saturday, from SPJ of New York City. 8 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8219, and 11 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 3-4 Foyer 9 a.m. Saturday, Wilson B, and 11 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Marriott Balcony C Balcony C Cleo Stinson is a senior English education major at Tom Sivertsen, CJE, has been teaching and advising high- Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, La. Tom Tanton’s path to his current position as senior vice school journalists for 16 years. Along with his background 2:30 p.m. Friday, Park Tower 8219 president of Herff Jones Inc. and general manager of the 92 Yearbook Division demonstrates his ability to speak yearbook Leadership Program. Truong has been a guest faculty community. Walling also worked in the office of U.S. Sen. and his passion for the permanent record that preserves the member at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. Tom Carper of Delaware. events. A former UVA editor, Tanton served as a high school 10 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony C 9 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 6 yearbook adviser and a Herff Jones yearbook representative for a decade before accepting his first management position. Patricia Turley is a JEA mentor and national Write-off co- Lizabeth Walsh, MJE, advises the Re-Wa-Ne yearbook After an array of leadership successes, he returned to the helm chair. She recently retired from teaching at Junction City at Reno (Nev.) H.S. Her staffs have earned All-Columbian of Herff Jones’ Yearbook Division in 2007. (Ore.) H.S. Her favorite day of the week is Tuesday, when Honors and Gold Medals in CSPA evaluations as well as 11 a.m. Friday, Washington 6 she teaches journalism skills to fourth graders at small, rural Marks of Distinction, First Place and All-American ratings in Territorial Elementary. They publish the Territorial Tattler. NSPA evaluations. She is a member of the JEA Certification Mike Taylor, yearbook marketing/education manager 11 a.m. Friday, Taylor and Curriculum commissions, a teacher at yearbook camps for Taylor Publishing Co.,previously, taught yearbook, and a publication judge. newspaper and television production at Lecanto H.S. His Julie Turner is an associate editor for ESPN.com. A 11 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8226, and 2:30 p.m. Friday, students earned Crowns and Pacemaker awards. He is a graduate from the University of Missouri, Turner has been Washington 5 past president of Florida Scholastic Press Association. He with ESPN.com for three years, most recently working on received the FSPA Gold Medallion and JEA Medal of Merit. high-school sports coverage. Sara Walsh (see Featured Speakers) 8 a.m. Saturday, Virginia B, and noon and 1 p.m. 9 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony C; 1 and 2:30 p.m. Noon Saturday, Washington 4 Saturday, Washington 2 Saturday, Maryland A Jennifer Watson was the co-editor-in-chief of Green Sherri Taylor directs the Empire State School Press Sally Turner teaches journalism and advises the yearbook Valley H.S.’s six-year-running best newspaper as awarded Association and its summer School Press Institute at the S.I. at Eastern Illinois University. She is also the director of the by the Las Vegas Review Journal. She was an intern for Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse Illinois Journalism Education Association. She has worked both CLASS! Magazine and the Las Vegas Review Journal’s (N.Y.) University. She also teaches graphic design classes in in newspapers and has degrees from the University of R-Jeneration. She has won first-place awards for feature the Visual and Interactive Communications Department. Missouri, Central Missouri and Southern Illinois. article and for copy editing. Watson is attending Boston Taylor is a co-author of “Scholastic Journalism,” a high 10 a.m. Friday, Jackson, and 9 a.m. Saturday, Marriott University where she writes for the school newspaper. school textbook, and of “Get the Picture,” a Jostens Balcony C Noon and 1 p.m. Saturday, Balcony C photography curriculum. She holds the CSPA Gold Key and the NSPA Pioneer Award, and she received the Max Harinand Tyagi is a senior at Brown University where he is C. Bruce Watterson, a nationally-known lecturer, chairs Haddick Journalism Teacher of the Year award when majoring in chemistry and economics. Tyagi co-founded the Crown judging panel for CSPAA and has traveled to she taught high school journalism in Texas. She was Higher Education Outreach Association, a non-profit 46 states and multiple foreign countries training student a contributing author to the “21st Century Report on dedicated to teaching journalism to underrepresented journalists and publication designers. He teaches college- Scholastic Journalism” published by CSPA. high school students in Chicago and Providence, R.I. Tyagi level design and writing courses in Georgia and works for 8 a.m. Saturday, Washington 4, and 11 a.m. Saturday, is a former co-editor of the Voyager, Homewood-Flossmoor a non-profit center for abused children. His passion for Washington 3 H.S.’s student newspaper. design has earned him awards from scholastic, collegiate Noon Saturday, Balcony A, and 1 p.m. Saturday, Marriott and professional organizations. Michelle Teece is a senior at Kent State University. She Balcony B 10 and 11 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 5 is the general manager of TV2, Kent State’s student- run television station. She has produced and directed Lisa Van Etta who has taught high school journalism for Alan Weintraut teaches journalism, film and AP English at newscasts and live sports broadcasts. 26 years, advises four publications — two print, two online Annandale (Va.) H.S. He advises The A-Blast and The A-Blast 8 a.m. Saturday, Tyler — in addition to teaching broadcast journalism for Cypress Online. Weintraut mentors advisers and students through The Falls H.S. in Houston, Texas. Three of the last four Texas Washington Post’s Young Journalists Development Program. Ann Telnaes (see Featured Speakers) High Journalists of the Year were graduates of CFHS. Two of He was a Carnegie-Knight panelist at Harvard University to 10 a.m. Friday, Delaware B the winners, Marcelino and Alex Benito, went on to win the study youth consumption of the news. He was 2006 DJNF title of National High School Journalist of the Year and the National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year. Bobbi Templet has been teaching broadcast journalism third, Kendall Popelsky, placed in the top five at nationals. 8 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8219 for five years at Oldham County H.S. She, along with 11 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8222 several enthusiastic students, started the program with Cortney Weisman, CJE, is an art teacher and the yearbook one small camera and computer, and it has bloomed into Dan Vergano is the senior science reporter at USA TODAY, adviser at Ward Melville H.S. in Setauket, NY. The award- full program. She has earned National Board certification where he has worked since 1999. Previous reporting winning yearbook, Invictus, has received high honors at in language arts and is working on a second certification stints include Medical Tribune, HealthWeek (PBS) and both the national and state levels. in new media. Science News, as well as freelance reporting for Science, Noon Friday, Washington 1 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Delaware A New Scientist, Men’s Health, The Washington Post and others. In 2006, Vergano won the David Perlman Award Carmen Wendt, CJE, has been a teacher and adviser more karen Thompson advises the newspaper, yearbook and for Excellence in Science Journalism. He was a 2007-2008 than 30 years, advising both yearbook and newspaper staffs. literary magazine at Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy Nieman Fellow for Journalism at Harvard, where he studied She is a member of the Phoenix local committee, JEA Arizona in La Canada Flintridge, Calif., where she also writes for the intersection of science, politics and society. state director and is in the Arizona Adviser Hall of Fame. the alumnae magazine and does public relations and 10 a.m. Friday, Washington 2 10 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8210 marketing for the school. She was a business journalist for 20 years prior to earning a master’s degree in print Ann Visser MJE, has been advising yearbook and Anita Marie Wertz, MJE and JEA’s Junior High/Middle journalism from USC and beginning her teaching career newspaper at Pella (Iowa) Community H.S. for the past 26 School Commission chair, advises The Myth yearbook and more than 15 years ago. years. She is JEA’s past president/convention consultant. The Oracle newspaper at Cesar Chavez H.S. in Stockton, 9 a.m. Friday, Jackson She is also a past president of the Iowa High School Press Calif. Wertz has advised publications for 18 years. Association. 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Virginia A; 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. Jennifer Trettner is the chairperson for art and technology 6:45 p.m. Thursday, Marriott Ballroom, and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8209, and 1 p.m. Saturday, Park at Ward Melville H.S. in Setauket, NY. She teaches AP Studio Saturday, Jackson Tower 8226 Art and Advanced Advertising Art and is the business manager for the award-winning yearbook, Invictus. Prior Matt Wallace has had experience in the yearbook industry Jon Wile is a 2002 graduate of Kent State University and to her teaching career she was an art director and graphic for more than 10 years as a teacher and coach in Virginia. His lede A1 designer for The Washington Post. He is developing designer in corporate communications. education background has given him the knowledge and a design course for the online journalism educator master’s Noon Friday, Washington 1 resources to help motivate yearbook advisers to set goals and degree at Kent State University. create plans to meet them in the school setting. 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, Virginia B Michael Triplett is the assistant chief of correspondents at 11 a.m. Friday, Park Tower 8206 BNA Inc., a legal and policy publisher based in Washington, Flawn Williams, an award-winning sound recordist, D.C. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Wendy Wallace is director of the High School producer and teacher, has done studio and concert music National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association and Journalism Program at The Poynter Institute, a school and documentary work for NPR. He teaches at Georgetown has served as the president of the D.C. Chapter of NLGJA. for journalists in St. Petersburg, Fla. Wallace came to University’s Department of Performing Arts, and produces He spent eight years as a reporter covering the Supreme Poynter from the St. Petersburg Times, where in turns audio and video projects. Court, Congress, and the federal courts and won a 2006 she reported the news, wrote headlines, sold ads, ran 10 a.m. Saturday, Lincoln 6 National Press Club Award for a story on employment the creative marketing department and even delivered issues in the video game industry. the paper in the middle of the night. 9 a.m. Friday, Lincoln 6, and 10 a.m. Saturday, Marriott 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, Virginia B, and 11 a.m. Friday, Balcony C Marriott Balcony C Bradley Wilson, CJE, advises two newspapers, television, radio, magazine and yearbook. He is a frequent speaker at Doris Truong edits the Style section at The Washington kevin Walling , development and communications workshops worldwide on topics ranging from the ethics of Post. She formerly supervised the editing of its 13 weekly director for Equality Maryland, raises funds working digital photography to publications design. He is the editor suburban sections and worked on the paper’s National with donors and grant makers, along with crafting the of the publications for JEA. He has received highest awards desk, where she helped with the Abramoff investigative organization’s communications efforts. Walling also worked from JEA, NSPA and other journalism associations. reporting package that won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize. Truong in development and finance for the New Organizing 9 and 10 a.m. Saturday, Virginia B is AAJA’s national secretary and an active member of Institute, a progressive non-profit dedicated to expanding ACES. She is a 2006 Maynard Media Academy participant, the base of trained staff focused on online organizing, new a former AASFE fellow and a graduate of AAJA’s Executive media and voter technology for the greater progressive 93 Brian Wilson is the adviser of Kismet and The Murmur, the of America Foundation and oversees Foundation youth where he teaches English and journalism. A member of yearbook and newspaper at Kettering H.S. in Waterford, readership programs and the Youth Editorial Alliance, a JEA’s Multicultural Commission, he is an ASNE Fellow and Mich. Both publications have placed in Best of Show. Wilson group of professional media that oversee youth products is on the boards of the Illinois JEA and the Kettle Moraine is Michigan’s JEA state director, and treasurer and past- in the press. Prior to joining NAAF, she worked as a Press Association. president of the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association. newspaper journalist and a high school journalism teacher. 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Thursday, Virginia A, and 10 a.m. He teaches at workshops at Michigan State and Ball State. 9 a.m. Saturday, Park Tower 8222 Saturday, Balcony D 8 a.m. Saturday, Truman, and 11 a.m. Saturday, Marriott Balcony A Riley Worth, CJE, teaches journalism in Albert Lea, Seth Zweifler is 2009-2010 editor-in-chief of The Spoke Minn., and is adviser to the Ahlahasa, a high school student newspaper at Conestoga H.S. in Berwyn, Pa., a Christopher Wink is a multimedia freelance journalist, newsmagazine in its 95th year. Prior to teaching, Riley suburb of Philadelphia. blogger and online-news entrepreneur. The founder of worked at collegiate, weekly and daily newspapers across 11 a.m. Saturday, Washington 5 Technically Philly, a technology news site in Philadelphia, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Texas. He scribbled in his first Wink has reported for the Philadelphia Business Journal, reporter’s notebook at age 16 and has been hooked since. the Philadelphia Inquirer and has written for publications 8 and 9 a.m. Saturday, Maryland B including Sports Illustrated, Columbia Journalism Review and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. In 2008, Wink was named one John B. (Jack) Zibluk, Ph.D., associate professor of of the country’s 100 most promising young journalists by journalism at Arkansas State University is the primary college news service UWire. instructor for its photojournalism degree program. 9 a.m. Saturday, Virginia C, and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Zibluk, a writer, editor, photographer and designer for Wilson C newspapers, including the Memphis Commercial Appeal, Esther Wojcicki has taught journalism at Palo Alto (Calif.) worked for National Geographic magazine as its faculty H.S. for 24 years. The program produces the Campanile fellow. He has served as national vice president of the newspaper, Verde news magazine, Viking sports magazine, National Press Photographers Association, and has won InFocus television and Voice online. The publications have teacher-of-the-year honors from NPPA and the ASPA. won Pacemaker Awards, the Hall of Fame Award, and Gold 1 and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Virginia A and Silver Crowns. Wojcicki previously worked as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, the Glendale News Press and Bretton Zinger, MJE, is the adviser of The Purple Tide Time magazine. newspaper and the Andromeda literary magazine at 8 a.m. Saturday, Virginia A Chantilly (Va.) H.S., where he also teaches journalism and film. Zinger, edited University of Kansas yearbook and Vicky Wolfe, a yearbook enthusiast since middle school, taught photography in suburban Kansas City, Mo., before is the director of marketing for the yearbook division studying film production in London and freelancing in film of Herff Jones. She worked for 14 years as a yearbook and video production for several years. representative in northern Virginia, assisting advisers 8 and 9 a.m. Saturday, Balcony D and staffs as they achieved numerous Pacemaker and Crown honors. Wolfe co-directed the Gettysburg Yearbook Jeff Zinn is an account representative at Graphtech Experience summer workshop for seven years. She has Printing in Harrisburg, Pa., who has worked closely with Big received CSPA’s Gold Key. Spring H.S. co-advisers Robert Hankes and Mike McVitty on 8 and 9 a.m. Saturday, Washington 6 the last three literary magazine issues. 9 a.m. Saturday, Tyler Sandy Woodcock is director of the Newspaper Association Stan Zoller advises The Pacer at Rolling Meadows (Ill.) H.S. Marriott Wardman Park Maps