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Los Angeles and the Hollywood sign. Photo by Getty Images. TABLE OF Contents 2 Convention Officials 24 Friday at a Glance 3 Convention Sponsors 29 Write-off Rooms 4 Exhibitors/Advertisers 30 Friday Sessions 5 Keynote Speakers 46 Saturday at a Glance 8 Featured Speakers 51 Saturday Sessions #nhsjc / @nhsjc 10 Special Activities 67 Sunday 12 Awards 70 Speaker Bios 19 Thursday at a Glance 88 Hotel Floor Plan 20 Thursday Sessions

Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES — 1 CONVENTION JOURNALISM EDUCATION ASSOCIATION HEADQUARTERS STAFF OFFICIALS Kelly Furnas, CJE, executive director Connie Fulkerson, CJE, administrative assistant Pam Boller, office manager/advertising director Kate Dubiel, Web/database developer Lisa Terhaar, bookkeeper Kelly Furnas, CJE JEA Executive OFFICERS Director President: Mark Newton, MJE, Mountain Vista High School, Highlands Ranch, Colo. Vice President: Sarah Nichols, MJE, Whitney High School, Rocklin, Calif. Past President: Candace Perkins Bowen, MJE, Kent (Ohio) State University

DIRECTORS Educational Initiatives: Megan Fromm, CJE, Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, Colo. Scholastic Press Rights: John Bowen, MJE, Kent (Ohio) State University Mark Newton, MJE Director at Large: Carrie Faust, MJE, Smoky Hill High School, Aurora, Colo. JEA President Director at Large: Stan Zoller, MJE, Buffalo Grove, Ill.

STANDING COMMITTEE CHAIRS Awards: Casey Nichols, CJE, Rocklin (Calif.) High School Certification: Kim Green, MJE, Ball State University, Muncie, Ind. Contests: Nancy Y. Smith, MJE, Lafayette High School, Wildwood, Mo. Digital Media: Aaron Manfull, MJE, Francis Howell North High School, St. Charles, Mo. Nominations: Candace Perkins Bowen, MJE, Kent (Ohio) State University Professional Outreach: Jonathan Rogers, MJE, Iowa City (Iowa) High School Diana Mitsu Klos Publications/Public Relations: Evelyn Lauer, CJE, Niles West High School, Skokie, Ill. NSPA Executive Director NATIONAL SCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION

HEADQUARTERS STAFF Diana Mitsu Klos, executive director Laura Widmer, associate director Amber Billings, digital and design coordinator Ashley Tilley, administrative assistant Albert R. Tims, Mariah Keith, contest and critique coordinator Ph.D. Lexi Gusso, marketing intern NSPA President Selena Khori, marketing intern Julia Bauer, volunteer

BOARD OF DIRECTORS President: Albert R. Tims, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Treasurer: J. Keith Moyer, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Board Members: Jeanne Acton, University Interscholastic League, Austin, Texas Adriana Chavira, Peter Bobkowski, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan. MJE, Laura York Guy, Garden City (Kan.) Community College Local Team Chair Laurie Hansen, CJE, Stillwater (Minn.) Area High School Ron Johnson, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind. Valerie Kibler, CJE, Harrisonburg (Va.) High School Scott M. Libin, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Sara Quinn, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kan. Ann Visser, MJE, Pella, Iowa

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Tasha Beaudoin, Thousand Oaks High School, Thousand Oaks Linda Bowen, California State University, Northridge DIAMOND Adriana Chavira, MJE, chair, Daniel Pearl Magnet High School, Van Nuys Donn Cottom, South East High School, South Gate Karen Cusolito, Hollywood High School, GOLD Los Angeles Janet Ewell, MJE, retired, Huntington Beach Antonia Guzman, International Studies Learning Center, South Gate Elisia Harkins-James, Notre Dame High School, Sherman Oaks Lacey Hatfield, Diego Rivera Learning Complex, Los Angeles web offset Gaby Herbst, CJE, Beverly Hills High School, news Beverly Hills Michael Hernandez, Mira Costa High School, Manhattan Beach Alex Lau, University High School, Los Angeles SILVER Doug List, Diamond Bar High School, Diamond Bar Kim McCarthy, CJE, Mother of Divine Grace School, Ojai Kari McDaniel, CJE, Mayfair High School, Lakewood Kim Messadieh, CJE, El Camino Real Charter High School, Woodland Hills Gary Metzker, California State University, BRONZE Long Beach Kathy Neumeyer, retired, Harvard-Westlake School, Studio City Danielle Ryan, MJE, Carlsbad High School, Carlsbad Carol Strauss, retired, Newport Beach Greg Vieira, Rancho Dominguez Preparatory School, Long Beach Jessica Young, MJE, Orange Glen High School, Escondido Mitch Ziegler, CJE, Redondo Union High School, Redondo Beach Jo Zimmerman, retired, Thousand Oaks Nancy Zubiri, Venice High School, Los Angeles FRIEND Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES — 3 General Information

Exhibitors & Advertisers Convention Guidelines Arizona State University, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism — Booth 42 These guidelines are established to ensure that all convention Balfour — Booths 5P, 6, 7 and 8; Pages 23, 51 participants have a safe and enjoyable stay in Los Angeles. Ball State University Journalism • A midnight convention curfew will be in effect Wednesday through Saturday. Workshops, Booths 54P and 53 Students should be in their rooms, making no excessive noise, at that time. The hotel Brooks Institute — Booth 27P; Page 18 Colorado State University Journalism reserves the right to remove any hotel guests who make excessive noise or create and Media Communication — Booth similar disruption. Advisers/chaperones will be responsible for enforcing the nightly 46P; Page 52 convention curfew. Friesens — Booths 58P and 57; Page 61 FutureBook Yearbooks — Booths 63P and • No students will be admitted to the convention without a school-approved adviser/ 62 chaperone. At least one chaperone/adviser is required for every 12 students. It is Gardena Valley News — Booth 37P; Page 6 understood that by the act of registering students for the convention, advisers Goodheart-Willcox Publisher — Booth assume responsibility for their students’ behavior and well-being during the 55P Herff Jones — Booths 1-4, 15-18 and 19-22; convention. Pages 66, 84 • Chaperones should recognize that they and their schools will be held liable for any Ithaca College Park Scholar Program — damage to hotel facilities incurred by students under their supervision. Booth 49; Page 32, inside front cover • Rudeness to hotel guests and employees; misuse of or reckless behavior on the Jostens — Booths 12-14, 23-25 and 30-32; Pages 5, 44, back cover elevators; excessive noise; destruction of property; or any other inappropriate Journalism Education Association — behavior is not acceptable and can lead to expulsion from the hotel and/or criminal Pages 12, 76, 78, 82 prosecution. Should individual students, advisers or delegations prove disruptive, JS Printing/School Printing — Page 62 Kansas State University, A.Q. Miller JEA/NSPA officials reserve the right to declare all fees forfeited and to send delegates School of Journalism and Mass home at their own expense. Communications — Booth 35 • Breaking convention rules may result in disqualification from all contests and National Scholastic Press Association — forfeiture of any awards won. Pages 14, 76, 82, 87; Booth 43 New England Center for Investigative • Drinking or possessing alcoholic beverages, or possession/use of illegal drugs is Reporting — Page 39 absolutely prohibited. Northwestern University, Medill School • All students are expected to wear their convention name badges at all times while in of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications — Booth the convention hotel. 45P; Page 71 • When outside the hotel, travel in groups. Your personal safety is our concern. Picaboo Yearbooks — Booth 59P and 60, • Out of respect to instructors and the intellectual property of their sessions, please do Page 66 not record presentations without first asking permission from the speaker(s) to do so. Prep2Prep — Booths 47 and 48 Savannah College of Art & Design — Booth 33P; Page 28 School Paper Express — Booth 10P Mobile App School Publications Co. — Page 74 SNO Sites — Booth 9P; Page 42 Southern California JEA — Booth 44 Temple University School of Media and How to get the JEA/NSPA Communication — Booth 36P; Page 57 The King’s College — Booth 26 convention mobile app University of Colorado at Boulder, College of Media, Communication onto your device: and Information — Booth 38 University of Kansas, William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass 1. Download the free Guidebook Communication — Booth 11 app (available for iPhone, Android University of Maryland, Philip Merrill and other devices) College of Journalism — Booth 34; Page 41 University of Missouri School of 2. Search in the app for “JEA/NSPA Journalism — Booth 29 Spring 2016” University of Mississippi Meek School of Journalism and New Media — Booth 56 3. That’s it! University of Oregon — Booth 28P; Page 36 Walsworth — Booths 40P and 39, 51P and 52 and 52 and 50P and 41P; Page 16 4 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES — 5 YourYOUR Partner PARTNER In IN Education EDUCATION ForFOR 60 YEARS The Largest57 Printer OfYears School Newspapers In California

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6 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Jose Antonio Vargas Amara Aguilar 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 14 2 p.m. Friday, April 15 California Ballroom, 2nd Level Sacramento/San Francisco/San Jose, 2nd Level

Jose Antonio Vargas is a Pulitzer Prize- Amara Aguilar is an associate professor of winning journalist and filmmaker whose professional practice in digital journalism work centers on the changing American at USC Annenberg School for Communi- identity. He is the founder of Define cation and Journalism. American, a nonprofit media and culture organization that seeks to elevate the At USC, she developed and teaches conversation around immigration and journalism for mobile and emerging citizenship in America, and he is the platforms, and interactive media design founder and editor of #EmergingUS, for publishing, among other courses. a digital magazine focusing on race, She also teaches digital journalism in the immigration and identity in a multicultural America. graduate program. She collaborated with Annenberg Media faculty and In 2011, the New York Times Magazine published a students to develop JEDI (Journalism, Emerging, Digital, In- groundbreaking essay in which Vargas chronicled his life novation), which embraces innovation and experimentation in America as an undocumented immigrant. A year later, on emerging platforms. he appeared on the cover of TIME magazine worldwide with fellow undocumented immigrants as part of a In 2015, Aguilar was named an Apple Distinguished Edu- follow-up cover story he wrote. He then produced and cator for her academic leadership focusing on application directed “Documented,” a documentary feature film on his design, multimedia journalism and innovation in education. undocumented experience. In 2015, MTV aired, as part of its Look Different campaign, “White People,” a television special The California Journalism Education Coalition named her he produced and directed on what it means to be young its 2014 Journalism Educator of the Year in the two-year and white in contemporary America. @joseiswriting college division. @amara_media The Pulitzer Prizes Celebrating 100 Years of Excellence in Journalism and the Arts

• David Horsey: Editorial cartoons reborn in digital media, 10 a.m. Saturday, San Jose, 2nd Level • Jesse Katz and Robert J. Lopez: Life after journalism, 10 a.m. Saturday, San Gabriel C, Lobby Level In honor of the Pulitzer Prize’s centennial, • Rebecca Kimitch, Rob Kuznia, Toni Sciaqua and Frank Suraci: How school we are honored to coverage became a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation, 9 a.m. Friday, Avalon, 3rd include a number of Pulitzer Prize-winning Level journalists on our • Mary McNamara: “So you get paid to watch TV?” 9 a.m. Saturday, San Diego, 2nd Level convention program. • Patt Morrison: Typing in the trenches, 8 a.m. Saturday, Beaudry B, Lobby Level • Barry Siegel: The power of storytelling, Sacramento, 2nd Level • Luis Sinco: Working as a photojournalist for a metro newspaper, 10 a.m. Friday, San Diego, 2nd Level • Jose Antonio Vargas, Opening keynote address, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, California Ballroom, 2nd Level • Leo Wolinsky: News literacy: Teaching a vital 21st-century skill, 10 a.m. Friday, San Pedro, Lobby Level Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES — 7 FEATURED SPEAKERS SUSAN BLOOM of #wjchat and co-creator of the Diversify won a Pulitzer Prize for spot news coverage Susan Bloom received her Journalism Project. @webjournalist of the 1994 Northridge earthquake. He is master’s in film produc- Disrupting the newsroom through the a former adjunct faculty member at USC’s tion from the University classroom, 11 a.m. Friday, Santa Anita B Annenberg School for Communication of Texas, Austin, then she and Journalism. @LAJourno moved to Hollywood, DAVID HORSEY Life after journalism, 10 a.m. Saturday, San where she worked in post David Horsey is a two- Gabriel C production on TV shows, features and time Pulitzer Prize-win- documentaries. Her current documen- ning editorial cartoonist MARY MCNAMARA tary work is focused on invasive species and political commen- Mary McNamara is a eradication and native ecology restoration tator for the Los Angeles television critic for the Los on the California Channel Islands and Times. After graduating Angeles Times. A Pulitzer elsewhere. She has taught video and audio from the University of Washington, Horsey Prize winner in 2015 and production at Brooks Institute since 2009. entered journalism as a political reporter a finalist for criticism in Did you hear that? 11 a.m. Friday, Palos covering national political party conven- 2014, McNamara has won Verdes; Cue the violins, 1 p.m. Friday, Palos tions, presidential primaries, the Olympic various awards for criticism and feature Verdes Games, the Super Bowl, assignments in Eu- writing. She is the author of the Hollywood rope, Japan and Mexico, and two extended mysteries “Oscar Season” and “The Starlet.” LINDA DEUTSCH stints in Washington, D.C. @marymacTV Linda Deutsch is a trail- Editorial cartoons reborn in digital ‘So you get paid to watch TV?’ 9 a.m. blazer and role model media, 10 a.m. Saturday, San Jose Saturday, San Diego for women journalists. In 1992, the Associated JESSE KATZ PATT MORRISON Press named her a special Jesse Katz was an Patt Morrison is a long- correspondent, a title award-winning staff writer time columnist and writer bestowed on only 18 reporters in the news at Los Angeles magazine for the Los Angeles Times, service’s history. Deutsch covered some of and the Los Angeles Times where she has won nu- the most high-profile cases in American from 1985 to 2009. He was merous awards, including legal history, including those of Sirhan Sir- part of the Times’ Pulitzer a share of two Pulitzer han, Charles Manson, Patty Hearst, Daniel Prize-winning team for spot Prizes. Her work as a public broadcaster Ellsberg, O.J. Simpson, Michael Jackson news reporting for the coverage of the on television and radio has won her six and Phil Spector. She is the recipient of nu- 1994 Northridge earthquake. His work Emmys and 12 Golden Mike Awards. She merous awards including the University of regularly appears now in GQ and California has published a best-selling book on the MIssouri’s Honor Medal for Distinguished Sunday Magazine. Katz also is the author Los Angeles River. The Los Angeles Press Service in Journalism and the Internation- of a memoir, “The Opposite Field.” He now Club awarded her its lifetime achievement al Women’s Media Foundation Lifetime is an editor at O’Melveny & Myers LLP, an award — the first time in nearly a quar- Achievement Award. @LindaDeutsch acclaimed law firm of 700 lawyers in 15 ter-century that a woman had won the The future of journalism and justice, noon offices worldwide. @byjessekatz award. @pattmlatimes Friday, Avalon Life after journalism, 10 a.m. Saturday, San Typing in the trenches, 8 a.m. Saturday, Gabriel C Beaudry B ROBERT HERNANDEZ Robert Hernandez, aka ROBERT J. LOPEZ BILL PLASCHKE WebJournalist, has made Robert J. Lopez is the Bill Plaschke has written a name for himself as a executive director for for the Los Angeles Times journalist of the Web. His communications and since 1987 and has been primary focus is exploring public affairs at Califor- the Associated Press and developing the inter- nia State University, Los National Sports Columnist section of technology and journalism — to Angeles. Prior to that, he of the Year five times. He empower people, inform reporting and produced award-winning investigative and is the co-host of a 6 to 9 a.m. talk show storytelling, engage community, improve multimedia projects for the Los Angeles on Beast 980, an all-sports station. He is distribution and enhance revenue. He is Times, where he worked for 22 years. He a regular panelist on ESPN’s “Around the an associate professor at USC’s Annenberg was part of a team that received the 2011 Horn” talk show and has written five books. School of Communication and Journal- Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for exposing Plaschke also has had roles on the HBO ism. He has worked for seattletimes.com, government corruption in the city of Bell, series “Luck” as well as in the movie “Ali,” but SFGate.com, examiner.com and La Prensa a city southeast of Los Angeles. Lopez also his children are most proud that his name Gráfica. Hernandez also is the co-founder was part of a group of Times reporters that is found in a rap song, “Females Welcome”

8 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions FEATURED SPEAKERS by the artist Asher Roth. @billplaschke seven books, including four volumes of debate. Her career in broadcast journalism Write the miracle. Be the miracle, 11 a.m. narrative nonfiction and three novels set in spanned 40 years, which she recounts in Friday, Sacramento imaginary Chumash County on the central her memoir, “NewsLady,” published in 2011. coast of California. The unconventional She serves as Distinguished Journalism COURTNEY RADSCH narratives he wrote for The Times, many Professor at Emerson College in Boston. Courtney Radsch, Ph.D., about communities struggling with moral What’s all this about Black Lives Matter? is the advocacy director dilemmas, took him to all corners of the 9 a.m. Friday, Hollywood Ballroom at the Committee to nation and beyond — from the dirt-poor Protect Journalists and has towns of Donalsonville and Willacoochee LUIS SINCO experience as a journalist in Georgia to Callao, Peru, and Rio Frio, Cos- Luis Sinco is a photojour- in the Middle East and the ta Rica; from Charleston, South Carolina, to nalist with more than 20 United States. She worked for UNESCO’s the Amish region of southern Indiana. years of experience. He Section for Freedom of Expression, where The power of storytelling, 11 a.m. was a freelance photog- she coordinated strategy in the Arab Saturday, Sacramento rapher before joining region and for Freedom House’s Global the Los Angeles Times Freedom of Expression Campaign as a in 1997. Sinco was part of two Pulitzer senior program manager, where she led CAROLE SIMPSON Prize-winning teams for The Times — for advocacy missions to more than a dozen Carole Simpson, a three- coverage of the Northridge earthquake countries, U.S. bodies and the Internet time Emmy Award-winning and for the 2004 California wildfires. In Governance Forum. She writes frequently television journalist, is best 2003 and 2004, The Times assigned him about the intersection of media, technol- known as anchor of the to cover the war in Iraq. He was a Pulitzer ogy and human rights, with an emphasis weekend editions of ABC’s Prize finalist for his photo coverage of the on gender and the Middle East. She speaks “World News Tonight” for 15 battle of Fallouja. Arabic, French, English and Spanish. years, and the first woman Working as a photojournalist for a metro Journalist safety in the 21st century, 9 and minority to moderate a presidential newspaper, 10 a.m. Friday, San Diego a.m. Friday, Santa Anita B

LES ROSE ONE STORY Les Rose is a photojournalist for the CBS News bureau Follow the money. That’s what reporters at The Daily Breeze, a 63,000-cir- in Los Angeles. Prior to culation newspaper in Los Angeles County, did when they began digging joining the bureau in 1997, into the finances of a local high school district and found widespread Rose worked for 13 years corruption in a small, cash-strapped district. at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, City Editor Frank Suraci and reporters Rob Kuznia and Rebecca Kimitch and from 1984 to 1986, he were the main journalists who published more than 50 articles on the was with NBC News in Miami as a free- finances at the Centinela Valley Union High School District. lancer. His assignments are for “The CBS Evening News” with Scott Pelley (and Dan Some of the newspaper’s stories exposed the superintendent’s $633,000 Rather, Bob Schieffer and Katie Couric as annual compensation, which is high for an administrator leading a small well), “CBS Sunday Morning,” “60 Minutes,” school district serving some 6,300 students. “48 Hours” and “CBS This Morning.” Rose’s awards include a Murrow and a DuPont Other stories focused on construction spending and the awarding of with Steve Hartman, nine local Emmys and construction bids to companies that donated money to school board members. several more. True tales of TV news, 9 a.m. Friday, Their year-long investigation led into a series of stories that earned them a Hollywood Ballroom Pulitzer Prize in local reporting in 2015. The county district attorney’s office and the FBI launched investigations into the district’s finances and the BARRY SIEGEL superintendent, who was ultimately fired. Barry Siegel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning former For student journalists, this series on the school district finances is a lesson in a journalist’s role as the government’s watchdog. Students also national correspondent can learn how to research annual budgets and other paperwork in their for the Los Angeles schools or districts to see how and where money is being spent. Times, directs the literary journalism program at Links to the stories and lesson plans for teachers are available at University of California, Irvine, where he is la.journalismconvention.org. Meet the team from The Daily Breeze during a professor of English. He is the author of the session at 9 a.m. Friday, Avalon, 3rd Level.

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Lost tickets will be replaced for $5. After noon New and first-time attendee advisers will REGISTRATION AND Friday, come to International Room, 3rd Level, have a chance to meet the local convention for ticket replacement. team, plus JEA and NSPA board members and TRADE SHOW All broadcast contest entrants who meet staffs. Sponsor for this event is Northwestern Friday morning must pick up their contest ID University, Medill School of Journalism, Media, Media tour check-in labels before their contest begins. Integrated Marketing Communications. The media tour check-in table is located by the Desk open: 1-7 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m.-noon 9-10:30 p.m. Thursday, Plaza Pool Deck, 4th hotel’s Figueroa Street entrance. Please check in Friday, Pasadena Room, Exhibition Level Level at the designated media-tour time listed on the website and in the registration booklet. On-site critiques Adviser reception and SPLC fundraiser 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursday, Figueroa Street Advisers and staffs who submitted newspapers, Save room for dessert. Advisers are invited entrance, 2nd Level newsmagazines, yearbooks, videos, websites to this social gathering featuring a dessert and literary magazines for a critique should extravaganza and a silent auction to benefit the Convention check-in and registration check appointment times posted in the Student Press Law Center. Bid on a variety of In addition to the trade show and convention Pasadena Room. A schedule will be posted near items including California-related items, sports registration/check-in, turn in your Best of Show the critique area Friday. Since critiques are 30 memorabilia, signed books, food and gifts, art entries here. Speakers may pick up their name minutes, it is important to be on time. and other interesting items. Credit/debit cards, badges at a nearby table. Also in the exhibit 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday, Catalina Foyer, 3rd Level check or cash will be accepted as payment for hall is the lost and found, Write-off contest auction items. Those who are judging Write-off and on-site critique check-in and convention JEA Bookstore competitions are encouraged to attend after shirt distribution. Shirts not picked up by noon Check out the new books, as well as popular they finish judging. Sponsor of this event is Friday will be resold. best-sellers, at the JEA Bookstore. Nearly 300 Brooks Institute. 1-7 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, items relating to journalism are available, 8:30-11 p.m. Friday, Southern Hemisphere II, Pasadena Room, Exhibition Level; 8 a.m.-1 p.m. including textbooks, curriculum development, Ballroom Level Saturday, Sacramento Registration Booth, 2nd yearbook, newspaper, design, photography, Level writing, desktop publishing, new media, Adviser hospitality advertising and broadcast. Did you forget Write- Meet with your colleagues from across the Trade show exhibits off supplies? Check here to buy stylebooks, country in the adviser hospitality suite, a hot Dozens of national and local vendors and paper, pens, pencils, pencil sharpeners, flash spot for advisers. Local committee members colleges will educate and entertain during drives and erasers. Supplies are limited, so shop will be available to recommend sightseeing, the trade show exhibit. Find out what’s new, early. Students are welcome. dining and entertainment options. Friday chat with company representatives, pick up 1-7 p.m. Thursday, 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday and morning refreshments are sponsored by information and have some fun. 7:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Emerald Bay, 3rd Temple University School of Media and 1-7 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, Level Communication. Saturday hospitality is Pasadena Room, Exhibition Level sponsored by Picaboo Yearbooks. Publication exchange 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday and 7:30 a.m.-1 p.m. NSPA Best of Show Interested in seeing what kind of work other Saturday, Emerald Bay, 3rd Level Will your staff bring home the trophy this year? high schools around the nation are producing? See how your publication fares against others Stop by the publication exchange tables to see Saturday adviser recognition represented at the convention. High school the latest editions of high school news from luncheon publications are eligible if at least one student coast to coast. Feel free to drop off a few copies JEA will present spring awards at this special representative is attending the convention, and of your publication and pick up some you like. event. New and renewing Certified and Master 1 p.m. Thursday through 7 p.m. Saturday, junior high publications can enter if the adviser Journalism Educators will be recognized. Pasadena Foyer, Exhibition Level is a registered delegate at the convention. Enter Michele Turner, Broadcast Adviser of the Year, your newspaper, newsmagazine, literary arts and Renee Burke, Yearbook Adviser of the Year, magazine, broadcast production, website or will speak. Preregistration was required so bring yearbook at the Best of Show desk. Winners will ADVISER ACTIVITIES your meal ticket. This event is sponsored by be announced at the award ceremony Saturday. Herff Jones. Desk open: 1-7 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Noon-2:20 p.m. Saturday, Hollywood Ballroom, Friday, Pasadena Room, Exhibition Level New adviser convention orientation 3rd Level Advisers attending their first JEA/NSPA Write-off contest check-in convention should consider attending a short If both your Write-off registration and JEA orientation meeting to get a general overview membership fees have been paid, your school’s and explanation of convention events and how ADMINISTRATOR ACTIVITY Write-off packet containing student contest to get the most out of them. tickets, additional instructions and contest 6:45-7:15 p.m. Thursday, San Gabriel C, Lobby A conversation about scholastic media room assignments may be picked up at the Level JEA President Mark Newton invites all school Write-off desk. administrators to an informal discussion of the If you have not paid, you must do so at Adviser kickoff reception ultimate 21st century educational opportunity: this time. Noon Friday is the deadline for After the keynote speech, all advisers are journalism and student media. substitutions in preregistered categories. No welcome to attend this reception to socialize 4 p.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite F, 3rd Level new entries will be accepted at the convention. with new colleagues and relax with old friends.

10 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions Lunch with the JEA president week. Join us for a special concert with some STUDENT ACTIVITIES Ten students who have been selected for this of the hottest bands in the state. These bands event will meet with Mark Newton for lunch will make you want to stand up and dance. and a press conference in the JEA suite at the Students will need to show their convention National Journalism Quiz Bowl hotel. Participants will have the president’s name badge before they enter. Attendees A quiz bowl-style competition with questions attention for ideas and suggestions related must wear their convention name badge and related to current events, pop culture, to student and adviser needs in scholastic appropriate attire. journalism and civics is part of the learning and journalism. Students are encouraged to 9-11:30 p.m. Friday, Sacramento/San fun at this JEA/NSPA convention. Registered produce some kind of piece based on the Francisco/San Jose rooms, 2nd Level four-person teams will take a written qualifying interview for publication at home in their test at 8 a.m. Friday. The test scores will be used student media. JEA will promote the finished to seed the top teams that will compete in the pieces on the organization’s website and social live buzzer rounds 8-9:50 a.m. Saturday. The list AWARD CEREMONIES media accounts. of qualifying teams will be posted by 11 a.m. Noon-1:50 p.m. Friday, JEA Suite, Westin Friday in the JEA Bookstore in Emerald Bay and Bonaventure NSPA award ceremony at the registration desk in the Pasadena Room. Winners of the NSPA Best of Show, NSPA Test: 8 a.m. Friday, Beaudry B, Lobby Level; Pacemakers and national individual awards will Buzzer Rounds: 8-9:50 a.m. Saturday, San Media Swap Shops be honored at this ceremony. JEA and NSPA Gabriel B, Lobby Level Newspaper, newsmagazine, yearbook, literary encourage everyone to celebrate all winners. magazine, website and broadcast Swap Shops 3:30-5:30 p.m. Saturday, Friday, Sacramento/ Break with a Pro are prime opportunities for preregistered San Francisco/San Jose rooms, 2nd Level If you preregistered for this career-exploration students to share useful ideas and concepts event with media professionals, please with others. Bring at least nine samples of your JEA award ceremony newspaper, newsmagazine or literary magazine check your ticket for your assigned time and Winners of JEA Write-off contests and of the or one copy of your yearbook. Broadcast stories table number. Tickets will be in the school National High School Journalist of the Year and websites may be shared if students bring registration packet. competition will be recognized during the a laptop. Students are encouraged to develop closing ceremony. You also will get to see a Each delegate attending Swap Shops questions on career preparation requirements, slideshow of convention highlights. Pick up must have a ticket, which will be in the school nature of work, salary-level expectations and Write-off entries after the ceremony. Entries not registration packet. job availability. They also may inquire about picked up will be mailed. Contact JEA at staff@ 8 and 9 p.m. Friday, California Foyer, 2nd Level how to handle issues or situations in their work jea.org if you receive entries that don’t belong as student journalists. to your school. 9 and 10 a.m. Friday, California Foyer, 2nd Student concert 8:30-10:30 a.m. Sunday, Friday, Sacramento/ Level Nothing says Southern California like live San Francisco/San Jose rooms, 2nd Level music in a great indoor space any day of the

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Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES — 11 SPRING AWARD WINNERS To be awarded noon Saturday at the adviser luncheon in the Hollywood Ballroom, 3rd Level

H.L. HALL YEARBOOK BROADCAST ADVISER ADVISER OF THE YEAR OF THE YEAR Renee Burke, MJE, Michelle Turner William R. Boone High School, Washington (Mo. ) High School Orlando, Fla.

DISTINGUISHED YEARBOOK ADVISERS DISTINGUISHED BROADCAST ADVISER Erinn Harris, MJE, Thomas Jefferson High School for Gil Garcia, Austin (Texas) High School Science and Technology, Alexandria, Va. Michael Simons, MJE, Corning-Painted Post High To be awarded 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the opening ceremony in the School in Corning, N.Y. California Ballroom:

SPECIAL RECOGNITION YEARBOOK ADVISERS FIRST AMENDMENT PRESS FREEDOM AWARD Leslie Shipp, MJE, Johnston (Iowa) High School The Archer School for Girls, Los Angeles Sarah Verpooten, MJE, Lake Central High School, St. Chantilly (Virginia) High School John, Ind. Convent of the Sacred Heart High School, Laura Zhu, CJE, Toby Johnson Middle School, Elk Grove, San Francisco Calif. Felix Varela High School, Miami Francis Howell North High School, St. Charles, Missouri Harrisonburg (Virginia) High School RISING STAR AWARD Kirkwood (Missouri) High School Samantha Berry, Cypress Creek High School, Houston Mountlake Terrace (Washington) High School Kyle Carter, Richland Jr./Sr. High School, Essex, Mo. Smoky Hill High School, Aurora, Colorado Ashley Clark, East Bay High School, Gibsonton, Fla. St. Louis Park (Minnesota) High School Katie Frazier, Seven Lakes Junior High School, Whitney High School, Rocklin, California Katy, Texas To be announced 8:30 a.m. Sunday at the closing ceremony in the Rebekah Goode-Peoples, CJE, Woodward Academy, California Ballroom (winners unknown at press time): College Park, Ga. Patrick Johnson, CJE, Antioch (Ill.) Community High • NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL JOURNALIST OF THE School YEAR/SISTER RITA JEANNE SCHOLARSHIPS Kari Koshiol, Benilde-St. Margaret’s School, St. Louis • ASPIRING YOUNG JOURNALIST Park, Minn. • STUDENT JOURNALIST IMPACT AWARD Kevin Patterson, Oviedo (Fla.) High School Teresa Scribner, CJE, Cleveland STEM High School, To be awarded July 12 at the JEA Advisers Institute in Las Vegas: Seattle Emily Smith, CJE, Pittsburg (Kan.) High School LINDA S. PUNTNEY TEACHER INSPIRATION Barbara Tholen, CJE, Lawrence (Kan.) High School AWARD Leslie Thompson, CJE, Conifer (Colo.) High School Susan Hathaway Tantillo, MJE, McHenry, Ill. Leah Waters, CJE, Creekview High School, Carrollton, Texas

12 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions AND CERTIFICATION RECIPIENTS To be awarded noon Saturday at the adviser luncheon in the Hollywood Ballroom, 3rd Level

NEW CERTIFIED JOURNALISM EDUCATORS Kevin Smyth, Emerald Ridge High School, South Hill, Wash. Danny Barocas, Overland High School, Aurora, Colo. Desiree Tabor Carter, Dunwoody (Ga.) High School Elizabeth Nadine Basinger, ADM High School, Adel, Iowa Kristen Vesely, Inglemoor High School, Kenmore, Wash. Renee S. Belina, Walters Publishing, North Mankato, Minn. Kristin Weir, Forest High School, Ocala, Fla. Greg Bilbrey, Casey-Westfield High School, Casey, Ill. Sergio Luis Yanes, Lawton Chiles High School, Tallahassee, Fla. Randy S. Claybrook, Herff Jones, Akron, Ohio Dan Close, Wichita (Kan.) State University CJE RENEWALS Loren Collins, Jostens Inc., Acworth Ga. Hillary J. Aerts-DeVoss, Omaha (Neb.) North High School Charles W. Cook, Herff Jones, Davis, Okla. Whitney Baker, Balfour Yearbooks, Dallas, Texas Tara Cooper Weiss, Lawton C. Johnson Summit Middle School, Brad R. Bennewitz, Galesburg (Ill.) High School Summit, N.J. Dawnae Bunch, Ellsworth (Kan.) High School Karen R. Crane, McClintock High School, Tempe, Ariz. Teresa A. Lockhart, Coffee County Central High School, Stephanie Crichton, Hardin Valley Academy, Knoxville Tenn. Manchester, Tenn. Ronda C. Cullen, Herff Jones, Argyle, Texas Toni Mitchell, Frisco (Texas) High School Jessica Daniel, Herff Jones, Matthews, N.C. Sarah C. Neal Pritchard, Manteo (N.C.) High School Caren Demyen, Herff Jones, Cranford, N.J. Matthew D. Schott, Francis Howell Central High School, Michelle Gaskins Frakes, Herff Jones, Jacksonville, Fla. St. Charles, Mo. Joel Garver, Riley, Kan. Janelle Schultz, Gering (Neb.) High School Chelsea Jean Harlan, Jostens Inc., Denver Tara K. Stepanek, Parkway Central High School, Chesterfield, Mo. Samantha J. Hillery, Herff Jones, Indianapolis Shannon L. Sybirski, Tesoro High School, Rancho Santa Kurtis J. Hornby, Wausau (Wis.) East High School Margarita, Calif. Melanie Huynh-Duc, Northwest Guilford High School, Becky Tate, Shawnee Mission North High School, Greensboro, N.C. Overland Park, Kan. Deirdre J. White Jones, Eaton (Colo.) High School Anthony D. Whitten, Westfield High School, Chantilly, Va. Jason Kaiser, Jostens Inc., Minneapolis Rachel Kidder, Midlothian (Texas) High School NEW MASTER JOURNALISM EDUCATORS Pia I. Longinotti, Freeman High School, Rockford, Wash. Amanda C. Bright, Mattoon (Ill.) High School Georgia Mavromihalis, Benjamin N. Cardozo High School, Brenda Field, Glenbrook South High School, Glenview, Ill. Bayside N.Y. Erinn Reece Harris, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and R.J. Morgan, Mississippi Scholastic Press Association, Technology, Alexandria, Va. University, Miss. Anne M. Hayman, Arlington (Wash.) High School Greg W. Morrison, Herff Jones, Indianapolis Tracy Luke, Bishop Chatard High School, Indianapolis Dan Mueller, Herff Jones, St. Louis Margie M. Raper, Wakeland High School, Frisco, Texas Nora J. Neff, Mill Creek High School, Hoschton, Ga. Michael C. Simons, Corning-Painted Post High School, Ellie Marie Norwood, Arvada (Colo.) West High School Corning, N.Y. Katherine Patrick, Torrington, Wyo. Thomas A. Patrick, Palmer Ridge High School, Palmer Lake, Colo. Kara Petersen, Herff Jones, Centreville, Va. MJE RENEWALS Charlotte Strack Peyton, Battlefield High School, Haymarket, Va. Courtney L. Archer, Blair (Neb.) High School James Richard Phillips, Mineola (Texas) High School Jeff Moffitt, Balfour Yearbooks, Dallas Kathleen M. Plows, Malvern (Pa.) Preparatory School April van Buren, La Follette High School, Madison, Wis. David Porreca, Illinois Journalism Education Association, Charleston, Ill. Nina E. Quintana, Bernalillo (N.M.) High School Aaron Ramponi, Appleton (Wis.) North High School Jennifer Reiser, Washington (Ill.) Community High School Jayna Salk, Troy (Mich.) High School Betty Samples, Herff Jones, Crown Point, Ind. Teresa Scribner, Cleveland High School, Seattle Joelle Sexton, Herff Jones, Dekalb, Ill. Gina M. Shook, Carlyle (Ill.) High School Matthew Smith, Fond du Lac (Wis.) High School

Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES — 13 The Pacemaker has recognized outstanding student journalism since 1927. Entries in the 2015 NEWSPAPER PACEMAKERS presented on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015, in Orlando, Florida contest are judged on coverage and content, quality of writing and reporting, layout/design and photography, art and graphics. The Pacemaker recognizes the best in scholastic journalism. WINNERS Inklings The Talon Puma Press The Scroll Eagle Edition The CS Press Crown Point (Indiana) HS Rochester HS Univ. Prep HS The American School Episcopal School of Dallas Pacemaker finalists break new ground in student journalism and truly set the pace for other news organizations to emulate. Cactus Shadows HS Rochester Hills, Michigan Seattle, Washington in London Cave Creek, Arizona Crier Stampede Munster (Indiana) HS The Echo FINALISTS The Panther Burges HS The Town Crier St. Louis Park The Roundup Miami Palmetto HS El Paso, Texas 2015 YEARBOOK PACEMAKER FINALISTS Paul Revere Charter MS The Little Hawk (Minnesota) HS Brophy College Pinecrest, Florida presented on Saturday, April 16, 2016; national winners announced at that time Los Angeles Iowa City (Iowa) HS Preparatory School Raider Rumbler Globe Phoenix, Arizona The Portfolio Rouse HS Ingenium Titanian Paragon Daedalus The Hawk Sentry The Chronicle The Booster Redux Clayton (Missouri) HS Bak MS of the Arts Leander, Texas Greenfield Jr. HS San Marino (California) HS Munster (Indiana) HS Northeastern HS Pleasant Grove HS Robinson MS Harvard-Westlake School Pittsburg (Kansas) HS The Titan Times West Palm Beach, Florida Gilbert, Arizona Manchester, Pennsylvania Texarkana, Texas Fairfax, Virginia North Hollywood, The Quarterly Antelope (California) HS Prowler Prowler The Scrapbook California The Harbinger Rockhurst HS Black & White Stony Point HS Mesquite Roots Pioneer MS Westfield (Indiana) MS Lone Star The Quest Above & Beyond Shawnee Mission East HS Kansas City, Missouri The Panther Prowler Johnston (Iowa) HS Round Rock, Texas Mesquite HS Tustin, California James Bowie HS John Champe HS Robinson Secondary Verde Prairie Village, Kansas Newbury Park Gilbert, Arizona The Dragon Austin, Texas Aldie, Virginia School Palo Alto (California) HS The Kirkwood Call (California) HS The Express The Highlander Summit Johnston (Iowa) HS Fairfax, Virginia JagWire Kirkwood (Missouri) HS Blue Valley Northwest HS McLean (Virginia) HS Equus Smoky Hill HS The Vespa Techniques The Saratoga Falcon Mill Valley HS Gaucho Gazette Overland Park, Kansas Dobson HS Aurora, Colorado Indian Kealing MS Thomas Jefferson HS for Cavalier Classic Saratoga (California) HS Shawnee, Kansas North Star Casa Grande HS The Viking Vanguard Mesa, Arizona Shawnee Mission North HS Austin, Texas Science & Technology Carroll County HS Francis Howell North HS Petaluma, California The Rampage Puyallup (Washington) HS The Crusader Overland Park, Kansas Alexandria, Virginia Hillsville, Virginia Hi-Lights The Northwest Passage St. Charles, Missouri Rockville (Maryland) HS La Vista Castle Rock (Colorado) MS El Paisano William R. Boone HS Shawnee Mission Eye of the Tiger Altitude Mountain View HS Hauberk Westlake HS Nuntius The Buzzer Orlando, Florida Northwest HS Spark Roseville (California) HS Viewer Hanford HS Mesa, Arizona The Prowl Shawnee Mission East HS Austin, Texas Altavista (Virginia) Brookville HS Shawnee, Kansas Lakota East HS Mounds View HS Richland, Washington Powell MS Prairie Village, Kansas Combined School Lynchburg, Virginia J. Hop Times Liberty Township, Ohio The Bruin Voice Arden Hills, Minnesota Hornet Littleton, Colorado Carillon John Hopkins MS Silver Chips Bear Creek HS The Talisman Bryant (Arkansas) HS Lair Bellaire (Texas) HS Crag The Clan St. Petersburg, Florida Montgomery Blair HS The Fourcast Stockton, California KEQ Ballard HS Golden Images Shawnee (Kansas) Mission Turner Ashby HS McLean (Virginia) HS Silver Spring, Maryland Hockaday School Benilde-St. Margaret’s HS Seattle Titanium Chaparral HS Northwest HS The Lonestar Bridgewater, Virginia Spartan News Network Dallas Arapahoe Herald St. Louis Park, Minnesota Antelope (California) HS Parker, Colorado Vista Ridge HS Saga Lakewood HS The Lion’s Roar Arapahoe HS The Apple Leaf Stampede Cedar Park, Texas Lair Loudoun Valley HS St. Petersburg, Florida Newton South HS The Review Centennial, Colorado Rubicon Wenatchee Surfer Epic Maize South MS Lake Braddock HS Purcellville, Virginia Newton Centre, St. John’s School St. Paul Academy and (Washington) HS Coronado (California) MS Legend HS Wichita, Kansas Cornerstones Burke, Virginia Omega Massachusetts Houston The Standard Summit School Parker, Colorado Hockaday School Accolade Downers Grove (Illinois) American School in London St. Paul, Minnesota Cardinal Columns Nugget Fentonian Dallas Odyssey Cave Spring HS North HS The Hawkeye The Edge London, England Fond du Lac (Wisconsin) HS Cupertino (California) HS Eagle Eye View Fenton (Michigan) HS Chantilly (Virginia) HS Roanoke, Virginia Bloomfield Hills Pleasant Grove HS Dart Sierra MS Marksmen The HiLite (Michigan) HS Texarkana, Texas St. Teresa’s Academy Jamboree Parker, Colorado Le Flambeau St. Mark’s School of Texas The Guardian Theogony Carmel (Indiana) HS Kansas City, Missouri Toby Johnson MS Notre Dame de Sion Dallas Westfield HS Hidden Valley HS Elk Grove, California The Stampede Prep School Chantilly, Virginia Roanoke, Virginia J.W. Mitchell HS Kansas City, Missouri Hoofbeats Decamhian New Port Richey, Florida Burges HS The Cavalier Del Campo HS Pioneer El Paso, Texas George Washington HS 2016 ONLINE PACEMAKER FINALISTS presented on Saturday, April 16, 2016; national winners announced at that time Fair Oaks, California Legend Kirkwood (Missouri) HS Danville, Virginia William R. Boone HS The Tribute M-A Chronicle ProspectorNow The Tide Wingspan Harker Aquila Uncagednews.com Ursus Orlando, Florida The Legend Heritage HS Menlo-Atherton HS Prospect HS Richard Montgomery HS Liberty HS The Harker School Stockbridge (Michigan) HS Granite Bay (California) HS Lafayette HS Frisco, Texas Atherton, California Mount Prospect, Illinois Rockville, Maryland Frisco , Texas San Jose, California Fusion Wildwood, Missouri 2015 MAGAZINE The Rubicon Farrier Hagerty HS Buffalo Scot Scoop News Cutlass The Sagamore The Roar The Pearl Post St. Paul (Minnesota) Mirman School Oviedo, Florida Legacy Haltom HS PACEMAKER FINALISTS Carlmont HS Palatine (Illinois) HS Brookline (Massachusetts ) HS Leander (Texas) HS Daniel Pearl Magnet HS Academy and Summit presented on Saturday, April 16, 2016; Los Angeles Green Valley HS Haltom City, Texas national winners announced at that time Belmont, California Van Nuys, California School Renaissance Henderson, Nevada Niles West News Bearing News The Rider Online Wingspan Suncoast HS Specifics Shadows The Rambler Highlights Niles West HS Rock Bridge HS Legacy HS Foothill Dragon Press Flightline James C. Enochs HS Riviera Beach, Florida Nai’a Seven Lakes Jr. HS Cactus Shadows HS Sierra Canyon School Beverly Hills (California) HS Skokie, Illinois Columbia, Missouri Mansfield, Texas Foothill Technology HS Skutt Catholic HS Modesto, California Greenspun Jr. HS Katy, Texas Cave Creek, Arizona Chatsworth, California Ventura, California Omaha, Nebraska The Cobra Henderson, Nevada The HUB The Little Hawk The Kirkwood Call Tiger Times Online Rampages Coleman MS The Bolt Impressions Inkblot Davis (California) Senior HS Iowa City (Iowa) HS Kirkwood (Missouri) HS Texas (Texas) HS ODYSSEY Online Southwest Shadow Casa Roble HS Tampa, Florida Tesserae Central HS Bentonville (Arkansas) HS Kealing MS Clarke Central HS Southwest Career and Orangevale, California Corning-Painted Post HS Keller, Texas Austin, Texas The Carillon Black and White FHCtoday.com The Feather Online Athens, Georgia Technical Academy Excalibur Corning, New York Connotations Bellarmine College Prep Johnston (Iowa) HS Francis Howell Central Fresno Christian HS Las Vegas OIS Scenario Robinson HS The Bronco Fayetteville (Arkansas) HS Vibrato San Jose, California St. Charles, Missouri Fresno, California The Tom Tom Orinda (California) Tampa, Florida Pelican McKinney (Texas) Boyd HS Hockaday School The Harbinger Online Antioch Community HS Wingspan Online Intermediate School Pelham (New York) Footnotes Dallas CCNN Live Shawnee Mission East HS FHNtoday.com Harvard-Westlake Antioch, Illinois West Henderson HS The Masterpiece Memorial HS The Lion Haas Hall Academy Christopher Columbus HS Prairie Village, Kansas Francis Howell North HS Chronicle Hendersonville, North Wings Bak MS of the Arts McKinney (Texas) HS Fayetteville, Arkansas Inkblots Miami, Florida St. Charles, Missouri Harvard-Westlake School The Phoenix Chronicle Carolina Arrowhead Christian Academy West Palm Beach, Florida Westwind The John Cooper School Mill Valley News Online North Hollywood, California Phoenix Military Academy Redlands, California West Henderson HS The Talon The Mark The Woodlands, Texas RHStoday Mill Valley HS Eastside Online Chicago, Illinois The Eye Etruscan Hendersonville, North Hendrickson HS Menlo Atherton HS Robinson HS Shawnee, Kansas Cherry Hill (New Jersey) The Octagon Singapore American Details Glenbrook South HS Carolina Pflugerville, Texas Atherton, California The Talon Tampa, Florida HS East Sacramento (California) Clarion School Whitney HS Glenview, Illinois Woodberry Forest The Lamplighter Country Day School Riverside Brookfield HS Rocklin, California Miller Planonian (Virginia) School The Stampede Paul Laurence Dunbar HS Spoke.news Riverside, Illinois The Eagle’s Tale Pinnacle Yukon (Oklahoma) HS Plano (Texas) Sr. HS Metea Valley HS Lexington, Kentucky Conestoga The Broadview Canyon (Texas) HS El Cazador Carmel (Indiana) HS Aurora, Illinois Berwyn, Pennsylvania Convent of the Sacred Wayland Student Huntington MS Munhinotu Touchstone Manual RedEye Heart HS Press Network The Red Ledger San Marino, California Log Gresham (Oregon) HS Stony Point HS To view the list of 2015 Broadcast duPont Manual HS Coppell Student Media San Francisco, California Wayland (Massachusetts ) HS Lovejoy HS Columbus (Indiana) Round Rock, Texas Pacemaker Winners, go to Louisville, Kentucky Coppell (Texas) HS Lucas, Texas North HS nspa.studentpress.org/awards. 14 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions The Pacemaker has recognized outstanding student journalism since 1927. Entries in the 2015 NEWSPAPER PACEMAKERS presented on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015, in Orlando, Florida contest are judged on coverage and content, quality of writing and reporting, layout/design and photography, art and graphics. The Pacemaker recognizes the best in scholastic journalism. WINNERS Inklings The Talon Puma Press The Scroll Eagle Edition The CS Press Crown Point (Indiana) HS Rochester HS Univ. Prep HS The American School Episcopal School of Dallas Pacemaker finalists break new ground in student journalism and truly set the pace for other news organizations to emulate. Cactus Shadows HS Rochester Hills, Michigan Seattle, Washington in London Cave Creek, Arizona Crier Stampede Munster (Indiana) HS The Echo FINALISTS The Panther Burges HS The Town Crier St. Louis Park The Roundup Miami Palmetto HS El Paso, Texas 2015 YEARBOOK PACEMAKER FINALISTS Paul Revere Charter MS The Little Hawk (Minnesota) HS Brophy College Pinecrest, Florida presented on Saturday, April 16, 2016; national winners announced at that time Los Angeles Iowa City (Iowa) HS Preparatory School Raider Rumbler Globe Phoenix, Arizona The Portfolio Rouse HS Ingenium Titanian Paragon Daedalus The Hawk Sentry The Chronicle The Booster Redux Clayton (Missouri) HS Bak MS of the Arts Leander, Texas Greenfield Jr. HS San Marino (California) HS Munster (Indiana) HS Northeastern HS Pleasant Grove HS Robinson MS Harvard-Westlake School Pittsburg (Kansas) HS The Titan Times West Palm Beach, Florida Gilbert, Arizona Manchester, Pennsylvania Texarkana, Texas Fairfax, Virginia North Hollywood, The Quarterly Antelope (California) HS Prowler Prowler The Scrapbook California The Harbinger Rockhurst HS Black & White Stony Point HS Mesquite Roots Pioneer MS Westfield (Indiana) MS Lone Star The Quest Above & Beyond Shawnee Mission East HS Kansas City, Missouri The Panther Prowler Johnston (Iowa) HS Round Rock, Texas Mesquite HS Tustin, California James Bowie HS John Champe HS Robinson Secondary Verde Prairie Village, Kansas Newbury Park Gilbert, Arizona The Dragon Austin, Texas Aldie, Virginia School Palo Alto (California) HS The Kirkwood Call (California) HS The Express The Highlander Summit Johnston (Iowa) HS Fairfax, Virginia JagWire Kirkwood (Missouri) HS Blue Valley Northwest HS McLean (Virginia) HS Equus Smoky Hill HS The Vespa Techniques The Saratoga Falcon Mill Valley HS Gaucho Gazette Overland Park, Kansas Dobson HS Aurora, Colorado Indian Kealing MS Thomas Jefferson HS for Cavalier Classic Saratoga (California) HS Shawnee, Kansas North Star Casa Grande HS The Viking Vanguard Mesa, Arizona Shawnee Mission North HS Austin, Texas Science & Technology Carroll County HS Francis Howell North HS Petaluma, California The Rampage Puyallup (Washington) HS The Crusader Overland Park, Kansas Alexandria, Virginia Hillsville, Virginia Hi-Lights The Northwest Passage St. Charles, Missouri Rockville (Maryland) HS La Vista Castle Rock (Colorado) MS El Paisano William R. Boone HS Shawnee Mission Eye of the Tiger Altitude Mountain View HS Hauberk Westlake HS Nuntius The Buzzer Orlando, Florida Northwest HS Spark Roseville (California) HS Viewer Hanford HS Mesa, Arizona The Prowl Shawnee Mission East HS Austin, Texas Altavista (Virginia) Brookville HS Shawnee, Kansas Lakota East HS Mounds View HS Richland, Washington Powell MS Prairie Village, Kansas Combined School Lynchburg, Virginia J. Hop Times Liberty Township, Ohio The Bruin Voice Arden Hills, Minnesota Hornet Littleton, Colorado Carillon John Hopkins MS Silver Chips Bear Creek HS The Talisman Bryant (Arkansas) HS Lair Bellaire (Texas) HS Crag The Clan St. Petersburg, Florida Montgomery Blair HS The Fourcast Stockton, California KEQ Ballard HS Golden Images Shawnee (Kansas) Mission Turner Ashby HS McLean (Virginia) HS Silver Spring, Maryland Hockaday School Benilde-St. Margaret’s HS Seattle Titanium Chaparral HS Northwest HS The Lonestar Bridgewater, Virginia Spartan News Network Dallas Arapahoe Herald St. Louis Park, Minnesota Antelope (California) HS Parker, Colorado Vista Ridge HS Saga Lakewood HS The Lion’s Roar Arapahoe HS The Apple Leaf Stampede Cedar Park, Texas Lair Loudoun Valley HS St. Petersburg, Florida Newton South HS The Review Centennial, Colorado Rubicon Wenatchee Surfer Epic Maize South MS Lake Braddock HS Purcellville, Virginia Newton Centre, St. John’s School St. Paul Academy and (Washington) HS Coronado (California) MS Legend HS Wichita, Kansas Cornerstones Burke, Virginia Omega Massachusetts Houston The Standard Summit School Parker, Colorado Hockaday School Accolade Downers Grove (Illinois) American School in London St. Paul, Minnesota Cardinal Columns Nugget Fentonian Dallas Odyssey Cave Spring HS North HS The Hawkeye The Edge London, England Fond du Lac (Wisconsin) HS Cupertino (California) HS Eagle Eye View Fenton (Michigan) HS Chantilly (Virginia) HS Roanoke, Virginia Bloomfield Hills Pleasant Grove HS Dart Sierra MS Marksmen The HiLite (Michigan) HS Texarkana, Texas St. Teresa’s Academy Jamboree Parker, Colorado Le Flambeau St. Mark’s School of Texas The Guardian Theogony Carmel (Indiana) HS Kansas City, Missouri Toby Johnson MS Notre Dame de Sion Dallas Westfield HS Hidden Valley HS Elk Grove, California The Stampede Prep School Chantilly, Virginia Roanoke, Virginia J.W. Mitchell HS Kansas City, Missouri Hoofbeats Decamhian New Port Richey, Florida Burges HS The Cavalier Del Campo HS Pioneer El Paso, Texas George Washington HS 2016 ONLINE PACEMAKER FINALISTS presented on Saturday, April 16, 2016; national winners announced at that time Fair Oaks, California Legend Kirkwood (Missouri) HS Danville, Virginia William R. Boone HS The Tribute M-A Chronicle ProspectorNow The Tide Wingspan Harker Aquila Uncagednews.com Ursus Orlando, Florida The Legend Heritage HS Menlo-Atherton HS Prospect HS Richard Montgomery HS Liberty HS The Harker School Stockbridge (Michigan) HS Granite Bay (California) HS Lafayette HS Frisco, Texas Atherton, California Mount Prospect, Illinois Rockville, Maryland Frisco , Texas San Jose, California Fusion Wildwood, Missouri 2015 MAGAZINE The Rubicon Farrier Hagerty HS Buffalo Scot Scoop News Cutlass The Sagamore The Roar The Pearl Post St. Paul (Minnesota) Mirman School Oviedo, Florida Legacy Haltom HS PACEMAKER FINALISTS Carlmont HS Palatine (Illinois) HS Brookline (Massachusetts ) HS Leander (Texas) HS Daniel Pearl Magnet HS Academy and Summit presented on Saturday, April 16, 2016; Los Angeles Green Valley HS Haltom City, Texas national winners announced at that time Belmont, California Van Nuys, California School Renaissance Henderson, Nevada Niles West News Bearing News The Rider Online Wingspan Suncoast HS Specifics Shadows The Rambler Highlights Niles West HS Rock Bridge HS Legacy HS Foothill Dragon Press Flightline James C. Enochs HS Riviera Beach, Florida Nai’a Seven Lakes Jr. HS Cactus Shadows HS Sierra Canyon School Beverly Hills (California) HS Skokie, Illinois Columbia, Missouri Mansfield, Texas Foothill Technology HS Skutt Catholic HS Modesto, California Greenspun Jr. HS Katy, Texas Cave Creek, Arizona Chatsworth, California Ventura, California Omaha, Nebraska The Cobra Henderson, Nevada The HUB The Little Hawk The Kirkwood Call Tiger Times Online Rampages Coleman MS The Bolt Impressions Inkblot Davis (California) Senior HS Iowa City (Iowa) HS Kirkwood (Missouri) HS Texas (Texas) HS ODYSSEY Online Southwest Shadow Casa Roble HS Tampa, Florida Tesserae Central HS Bentonville (Arkansas) HS Kealing MS Clarke Central HS Southwest Career and Orangevale, California Corning-Painted Post HS Keller, Texas Austin, Texas The Carillon Black and White FHCtoday.com The Feather Online Athens, Georgia Technical Academy Excalibur Corning, New York Connotations Bellarmine College Prep Johnston (Iowa) HS Francis Howell Central Fresno Christian HS Las Vegas OIS Scenario Robinson HS The Bronco Fayetteville (Arkansas) HS Vibrato San Jose, California St. Charles, Missouri Fresno, California The Tom Tom Orinda (California) Tampa, Florida Pelican McKinney (Texas) Boyd HS Hockaday School The Harbinger Online Antioch Community HS Wingspan Online Intermediate School Pelham (New York) Footnotes Dallas CCNN Live Shawnee Mission East HS FHNtoday.com Harvard-Westlake Antioch, Illinois West Henderson HS The Masterpiece Memorial HS The Lion Haas Hall Academy Christopher Columbus HS Prairie Village, Kansas Francis Howell North HS Chronicle Hendersonville, North Wings Bak MS of the Arts McKinney (Texas) HS Fayetteville, Arkansas Inkblots Miami, Florida St. Charles, Missouri Harvard-Westlake School The Phoenix Chronicle Carolina Arrowhead Christian Academy West Palm Beach, Florida Westwind The John Cooper School Mill Valley News Online North Hollywood, California Phoenix Military Academy Redlands, California West Henderson HS The Talon The Mark The Woodlands, Texas RHStoday Mill Valley HS Eastside Online Chicago, Illinois The Eye Etruscan Hendersonville, North Hendrickson HS Menlo Atherton HS Robinson HS Shawnee, Kansas Cherry Hill (New Jersey) The Octagon Singapore American Details Glenbrook South HS Carolina Pflugerville, Texas Atherton, California The Talon Tampa, Florida HS East Sacramento (California) Clarion School Whitney HS Glenview, Illinois Woodberry Forest The Lamplighter Country Day School Riverside Brookfield HS Rocklin, California Miller Planonian (Virginia) School The Stampede Paul Laurence Dunbar HS Spoke.news Riverside, Illinois The Eagle’s Tale Pinnacle Yukon (Oklahoma) HS Plano (Texas) Sr. HS Metea Valley HS Lexington, Kentucky Conestoga The Broadview Canyon (Texas) HS El Cazador Carmel (Indiana) HS Aurora, Illinois Berwyn, Pennsylvania Convent of the Sacred Wayland Student Huntington MS Munhinotu Touchstone Manual RedEye Heart HS Press Network The Red Ledger San Marino, California Log Gresham (Oregon) HS Stony Point HS To view the list of 2015 Broadcast duPont Manual HS Coppell Student Media San Francisco, California Wayland (Massachusetts ) HS Lovejoy HS Columbus (Indiana) Round Rock, Texas Pacemaker Winners, go to Louisville, Kentucky Coppell (Texas) HS Lucas, Texas North HS nspa.studentpress.org/awards. Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES — 15 Photo by Tyler Williams Photo by Tyler We didn’t invent YEARBOOKS. We just made them EASIER. Walsworth invites you and your staff to our booth to be inspired by an amazing yearbook experience.

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Visit our booth to experience one of the most sophisticated cloud-based design applications in the world with a live demo and be entered for a chance to win a Chromebook or a Wacom artist tablet.

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See how Online Design 2016, our latest web-based yearbook creation program and our InDesign Enhancements, give you the power to know what to do and how to do it.

Visit our booth to experience one of the most sophisticated cloud-based design applications in the world with a live demo and be entered for a chance to win a Chromebook or a Wacom artist tablet.

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VISUAL JOURNALISM www.brooks.edu • [email protected] 888.276.4999 530118 — JEA/NSPAN. Ventura Spring Avenue, 2016 • LOS Ventura, ANGELES CA 93001 Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions THURSDAY AT A GLANCE See hotel floor plan on Page 88 ROOMS 8 a.m. Noon 1 p.m. 3 p.m. 5 p.m. Evening Pasadena Room, Convention check-in/registration, trade show, Best of Show registration (1-7 p.m.) Exhibition Level Write-off check-in, T-shirt distribution, on-site critique check-in, lost and found

Pasadena Foyer, Publication exchange drop tables Exhibition Level

Santa Anita A, Photoshop workflow Advanced InDesign (1-5 p.m.) Lobby Level (8:30 a.m.-noon)

Santa Anita B-C, Writers’ workshop (8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.) Lobby Level

San Gabriel A, JEA Outreach Academy (8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.) Lobby Level

San Gabriel B, JEA Mentor Forum (8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.) Lobby Level

San Gabriel C, In-depth legal training (9 a.m.-3 p.m.) Adviser convention Lobby Level orientation (6:45 p.m.)

Santa Barbara A-B, Redesign seminar (8 a.m.-5 p.m.) Lobby Level

Santa Barbara C, DSLR lighting Photo editor boot camp (1-5 p.m.) Lobby Level (8 a.m.-noon)

Beaudry A, Leadership seminar (8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.) Lobby Level

Beaudry B, SND QuickCourse (8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.) Lobby Level Composition and Palos Verdes, exposure Photo shoot management Lobby Level (8 a.m.-noon) 1-5 p.m.

San Pedro, Mobile video journalism boot camp (8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.) Lobby Level

San Fernando, Broadcast and video boot camp (8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.) Lobby Level

San Bernardino, Team storytelling (8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.) Lobby Level

Figueroa Street Media tour desk and bus drop-off (8 a.m.-2 p.m.) Entrance, 2nd Level California Ballroom, Opening ceremony, 2nd Level keynote (7:30-9 p.m.)

Emerald Bay, 3rd Level JEA Bookstore (1-7 p.m.)

Hollywood Ballroom, JEA board meeting (8 a.m.-3:30 p.m.) 3rd Level

International Room, Write-off headquarters 3rd Level Plaza Pool Deck, Adviser kickoff reception 4th Level (9-10:30 p.m.) n ADVISING/TEACHING n ENTREPRENEURSHIP n LEADERSHIP/TEAM BUILDING n NEWS LITERACY n CONTEST n KEYNOTE n MEETING n PHOTOJOURNALISM n DESIGN n GENERAL AUDIENCE n MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST n WEB n EDITING n LAW/ETHICS n NEWS GATHERING n WRITING

Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES — 19 8 a.m. Thursday what does it mean? PHOTOJOURNALISM NEWS GATHERING DSLR lighting Team storytelling CJE — Certified Journalism Educator With solutions from DIY hacks to speedlite Great storytelling combines good writing, CSPA — Columbia Scholastic Press Association DJNF — Dow Jones News Fund strobes and wireless triggers, this course good photos and good design. Behind it all is JEA — Journalism Education Association will cover lighting techniques used in DSLR good planning. In this team-based reporting MJE — Master Journalism Educator photography for publications. Emphasis experience, students will work in groups NBCT — National Board Certified Teacher will be on practical tips and tricks to use in of three to create real story packages. The NCTE — National Council of Teachers of English modifying light on an extremely limited budget workshop begins with instruction on planning NSPA — National Scholastic Press Association with instruction and suggestions (as well as packages with readers in mind, and then SIPA — Southern Interscholastic Press Association demonstrations) offered on where and how the students will go off-site to gather stories. SPLC — Student Press Law Center to make modest investments in hardware to Students will return to the convention site take students’ photography to the next level. to finish their packages. Preregistration was Students will need a DSLR camera for this required. Beginner badge: Session is suitable for session. Preregistration was required. EVALUATION CODE: 4556 beginners EVALUATION CODE: 4561 Kristin Baker, CJE, Derby (Kan.) High School l Special activity or event Mike Simons, MJE, Corning-Painted Post High 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, San Bernardino, School, Corning, N.Y. Lobby Level (54) 8 a.m.-noon Thursday, Santa Barbara C, Lobby Level (30) 8 a.m. MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST 8:30 a.m. Broadcast and video boot camp EVENT In this hands-on workshop, beginning l Media tour check-in LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING and intermediate students will learn the The media tour check-in table is located by Leadership seminar fundamentals of creating an effective news the Figueroa Street entrance, 2nd Level. Please package from the ground up. This includes Designed for publication editors, this daylong check in at the designated media-tour time videography, sound recording, editing and seminar will show participants more ways to listed on the website and in the registration story structure. Working in small teams, effectively lead the way with their publication booklet. participants will spend the morning developing staffs. Editors will work to better understand 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursday, Figueroa Street their videography skills and planning a story, their team and how to help individual members Entrance, 2nd Level and the afternoon shooting and editing that work together to solve problems and manage story. Participants must bring their own video time. They also will discuss self-assessment, MEETING cameras, tripods, microphones and laptops people interaction, project planning, project with editing software. Please test and become JEA board meeting management, goal setting, teamwork and familiar with your equipment before attending JEA board members meet to discuss ongoing motivation. Preregistration was required. the session. Preregistration was required. projects and other agenda items. EVALUATION CODE: 4560 EVALUATION CODE: 4566 Mark Newton, MJE, Mountain Vista High Lori Keekley, MJE, St. Louis Park (Minn.) High Michael Hernandez, Mira Costa High School, School, Highlands Ranch, Colo. School Manhattan Beach, Calif. 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Thursday, Hollywood 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Thursday, Beaudry A, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, San Fernando, Ballroom, 3rd Level (400) Lobby Level (60) Lobby Level (30) PHOTOJOURNALISM DESIGN MEETING Composition and exposure Society for News Design QuickCourse The two keys to every good photo are the SND brings its fast-paced workshop to JEA/ Mentor forum JEA mentors will meet to exchange ideas on composition and the exposure. This course NSPA. We start with the fundamentals of how to provide better assistance to new or will use a blend of presentation and hands-on print design and move into tips and trends, nearly new advisers. shooting that will show you how to capture with hundreds of ideas for designs, stories, EVALUATION CODE: 2056 a strong image for your publication that goes photos, graphics and typography. Taught by Bill Flechtner, MJE, Milwaukie, Ore.; Peggy beyond the simple snapshot. Bring your DSLR the president of the Society for News Design, and learn to control natural light through the Gregory, CJE, Dysart Unified School District, this session will benefit newspaper, magazine Surprise, Ariz., and Mary Anne McCloud, aperture, shutter speed and ISO settings on and yearbook staffers. Bring copies of your Newton, Kan. your camera. Students will leave the “classroom” publications and your designs, either print or 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, San Gabriel B, for a photo scavenger hunt to practice the rules PDF, for our critique. We’ll make you better. Lobby Level (60) of composition and exposure adjustments that Preregistration was required. will be taught. Each photographer will need EVALUATION CODE: 4559 ADVISING/TEACHING a DSLR camera for this session. Preregistration Sara Quinn, Kansas State University, was required. Manhattan, Kan. JEA Outreach Academy EVALUATION CODE: 4563 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Thursday, Beaudry B, Lobby Outreach Academy is a Journalism Education Jed Palmer, CJE, Sierra Middle School, Parker, Level (70) Association initiative to promote diversity Colo. in the journalism teaching profession. The 8 a.m.-noon Thursday, Palos Verdes, Lobby Outreach Academy is a free, intensive seminar Level (30) for publication advisers who need help teaching and advising students in journalism while dealing with issues surrounding diversity. The program is hands-on and focuses on 20 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions 8:30 a.m. Thursday practical information advisers need. It includes EVALUATION CODE: 4565 learn to improve every aspect of your writing discussions on teaching journalism to diverse Don Goble, Ladue Horton Watkins High as we discuss ledes, voice, narrative style and populations, diversifying school coverage, School, St. Louis literary devices to tighten and strengthen your engaging your staff and school community and 8:30 a.m. -5 p.m. Thursday, San Pedro, Lobby writing. Preregistration was required. understanding the resources and organizations Level (30) EVALUATION CODE: 4553 ready to help advisers. Preregistration was Dan Austin, Casa Roble High School, required. PHOTOJOURNALISM Orangevale, Calif. EVALUATION CODE: 4567 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday, Santa Anita B-C, Photoshop workflow Lobby Level (125) Anthony Whitten, CJE, Westfield High School, Participants will learn to use Adobe Photoshop. Chantilly, Va. The workshop will emphasize a basic workflow 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Thursday, San Gabriel A, DESIGN for preparing photographs for publication. Lobby Level (25) Participants must bring their own laptops with Redesign seminar Adobe Photoshop CS4 or later installed. Two Students in this intensive, hands-on design MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST attendees may share one laptop. Preregistration seminar will study advanced packaging Mobile video journalism boot camp was required. techniques including modular design, Become a citizen journalist using ​iOS​ to report EVALUATION CODE: 4554 typography, marriage of elements, negative on the world around you​. ​Students will learn Mark Murray, Arlington (Texas) ISD space and photo packaging. Time will be spent how to unleash the power of their iOS device 8:30 a.m.-noon Thursday, Santa Anita A, Lobby working on actual publication redesign. Laptop to develop high-quality news packages. This Level (50) computers with InDesign are preferred but workshop will teach students how to plan, students without a laptop will need supplies develop, shoot and edit a story. An iOS device WRITING to work on manual designs. Students should (iPhone or iPad) is required, and you will want to Writers’ workshop bring some of their favorite magazines and bring your charger as well. While microphones If you’re looking for ways to sharpen and supplies such as scissors, pencils and glue and tripods are ideal, they aren’t necessary. brighten your writing so others will clamor to sticks. Students also are encouraged to bring We’ll be using the apps iMovie and Paper by read it, this interactive seminar is for you. This their own publications for sharing and critique. FiftyThree, as well as collaborative apps such as seminar will entertain and inspire as we analyze Preregistration was required. Google Drive, Docs and Google Photos. Having excellent writing and apply the pros’ techniques EVALUATION CODE: 4558 Pete LeBlanc, Antelope (Calif.) High School Airdrop enabled on devices is recommended. to your own work. Whether you need to write a Preregistration was required. 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, Santa Barbara A-B, catchy headline or a 2,000-word feature, you’ll Lobby Level (75)

Write-off contest check-in Convention check-in If both your Write-off registration and JEA membership fees have been paid, your school’s Write-off packet containing student contest & trade show tickets, additional instructions and contest room assignments may be picked up at the Write-off desk. If you have not paid, you must 1-7 p.m. Thursday, Pasadena Room, Exhibition Level do so at this time. Noon Friday is the deadline for substitutions in preregistered categories. No new entries will be accepted at the convention. Lost tickets will be replaced for $5. Broadcast, online Convention check-in and registration or social media contests with early Friday contests must have their In addition to the trade show and convention registration/check-in, contest ticket before the contest begins. turn in your Best of Show entries here. Speakers may pick up their name badges at a nearby table. Also in the exhibit hall is the lost and On-site critique desk found, Write-off contest and on-site critique check-in, and convention Advisers and staffs who signed up for critiques of newspapers, shirt distribution. Shirts not picked up by noon Friday will be resold. newsmagazines, yearbooks, videos, websites and literary magazines should check appointment times posted at the registration desk in Trade show exhibits the Pasadena Room. Dozens of national and local vendors and colleges will educate and entertain during the trade show exhibits. Find out what’s new, chat Convention shirt distribution with company representatives, pick up information and have some If your school purchased the official convention shirts through online fun. registration, you may pick them up here. Large orders will be bundled together and should be picked up by the adviser. There may be extra Best of Show desk shirts to buy if you did not pre-order. Quantities are limited. Shirts See how your publication fares against others represented at the must be picked up no later than noon Friday. convention. High school publications are eligible if at least one student representative is attending the convention, and junior high Lost and found publications can enter if the adviser is a registered delegate at the The convention check-in/registration desk will house the lost and convention. Enter your newspaper, newsmagazine, literary arts found. If what you lost is not there, check to see whether someone magazine, broadcast, website or yearbook at the Best of Show desk. turned it in to the hotel security staff. Items not picked up by 1 p.m. Winners will be announced at the NSPA awards ceremony Saturday. Saturday will be turned in to the hotel’s security department.

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9 a.m. Let us know how we’re doing. Visit jea.org/eval and tell us what you LAW AND ETHICS think about the sessions you attend. In-depth legal training We want to know how helpful the sessions are during the JEA/NSPA Spring The Student Press Law Center wants you to go National High School Journalism convention. For each session listed under into your newsroom equipped to understand your rights, protect them — and, if possible, the session description, you’ll find an evaluation code listed. Please visit make them even better. This daylong workshop jea.org/eval on your computer or Web-enabled mobile device, enter that will cover free- peech and press rights in code and provide some feedback for each of the events you attend. schools, what the law does and doesn’t protect, and how students can organize and Thank you! campaign for better policies protecting their rights. You’ll learn to make the case for a free and uncensored press, with lessons from the successful recent campaign in North Dakota PHOTOJOURNALISM 6:45 p.m. that led to The New Voices Act, one of the Photo editor boot camp This course is for students who will hold a strongest student press rights laws in the U.S. ADVISER EVENT Preregistration was required. leadership position with their 2016-2017 EVALUATION CODE: 4557 publication, and will focus on skills and l New adviser convention Frank LoMonte, Student Press Law Center, techniques veteran photographers can use orientation Washington, D.C. to train and grow their staff and publication. Advisers attending their first JEA/NSPA 9 a.m. -3 p.m. Thursday, San Gabriel C, Lobby Emphasis will be on strategies for teaching convention should consider attending a short Level (30) DSLR fundamentals, development of resources orientation meeting to get a general overview including what equipment to invest in and and explanation of convention events and how why, and other advanced topics in portraiture, to get the most out of them. 1 P.m. staff management and more. This course is for EVALUATION CODE: 3282 veteran photographers only. Preregistration was Carrie Faust, MJE, Smoky Hill High School, PHOTOJOURNALISM required. Aurora, Colo., and Stan Zoller, MJE, Lake Forest Photo shoot management EVALUATION CODE: 4562 (Ill.) College Capturing an event with photos is more than Mike Simons, MJE, Corning-Painted Post High 6:45-7:15 p.m. Thursday, San Gabriel C, Lobby just controlling the camera. You need strategies School, Corning, N.Y. Level (128) and techniques for effectively managing a 1-5 p.m. Thursday, Santa Barbara C, Lobby photo shoot from start to finish. Participants Level (30) will learn about photo storytelling, equipment 7:30 p.m. organization, natural light management, EVENT photographer positioning and in-shoot l JEA Bookstore EVENT photograph management. The instructor Check out the new books, as well as popular l Opening ceremony/keynote also will teach concepts for shooting an best-sellers, at the JEA Bookstore. Nearly 300 address event with multiple cameras and/or multiple items relating to journalism are available, During the opening ceremony, Jose Antonio photographers. Preregistration was required. including textbooks, curriculum development, Vargas of Define American, will present the EVALUATION CODE: 4564 yearbook, newspaper, design, photography, keynote address, and the First Amendment Jed Palmer, CJE, Sierra Middle School, Parker, writing, desktop publishing, new media, Press Freedom Award winners will be Colo. advertising and broadcast. Did you forget Write- recognized. 1-5 p.m. Thursday, Palos Verdes, Lobby Level off supplies? Check here to buy dictionaries, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, California Ballroom, 2nd (60) thesauruses, stylebooks, paper, pens, pencils, Level (3,000) rulers and erasers. Supplies are limited, so shop DESIGN early. Students are welcome. Advanced InDesign 1-7 p.m. Thursday, Emerald Bay, 3rd Level 9 p.m. Take your design skills to the next level with this seminar that will show you how to use EVENT ADVISER EVENT the power of InDesign to streamline your l Publication exchange l Adviser kickoff reception publication production. The instructor will Interested in seeing what kind of work other After the keynote speech, all advisers are cover libraries, styles and other InDesign tricks. high schools around the nation are producing? welcome to attend this reception to socialize Participants must bring their own laptops with Stop by the publication exchange tables to see with new colleagues and relax with old friends. Adobe InDesign CS6 or later installed. Two the latest editions of high school news from New and first-time attendee advisers will students may share one laptop. Preregistration coast to coast. Feel free to drop off a few copies have a chance to meet the local convention was required. of your publication and pick up some you like. team, plus JEA and NSPA board members and EVALUATION CODE: 4555 Thursday, Pasadena Foyer, Exhibition Level staffs. Sponsor for this event is Northwestern Bradley Wilson, MJE, Midwestern State University, Medill School of Journalism, Media, University, Wichita Falls, Texas 1-5 p.m. Thursday, Santa Anita A, Lobby Level Integrated Marketing Communications. (36) 9 p.m. Thursday, Plaza Pool Deck, 4th Level

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Your yearbook: It’s the story of the school year. There’s your best no better match for your yearbook staff’s enthusiasm and commitment than Balfour’s innovative technology, classroom resources and attentive customer care. yearbook. We’re here to help you be your best yearbook. bt eYearbook BalfourTools BAL4.tv ImageShare Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc For more information, see your Balfour representative or visit us at balfour.com/yearbooks. JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES — 23 FRIDAY AT A GLANCE ROOMS 8 a.m. 9 a.m. 10 a.m. 11 a.m. Noon 1 p.m. 2 p.m. 4 p.m. Evening

Pasadena Room, Convention check-in/registration, trade show, Best of Show registration, lost and found, critique check-in (8 a.m.-4 p.m.) Convention check-in/registration, trade show, Best of Show registration (1-7 p.m.) Exhibition Level Write-off check-in, T-shirt distribution (8 a.m.-noon) Write-off check-in, T-shirt distribution, on-site critique check-in, lost and found

Pasadena Foyer, Publication exchange drop tables Publication exchange drop tables Exhibition Level Run your publication like a Using social media to expand Write-off contest 05: Review Beaudry A, Lobby Level start-up Let’s do a story about ISIS They said, ‘No!’ coverage The best of newspaper design writing

Journalism Quiz Bowl qualifying Yearbook: It’s all about inclusive It’s a human thing: Crafting Strategies for attention-grabbing Write-off contest 03: Feature Beaudry B, Lobby Level test Ideas from the professionals Beginning photojournalism coverage personal stories headlines writing

The yearbook is finished; now Write-off contests 20, 21: Los Cerritos, Lobby Level what? Make a new plan, Stan The best and worst of times Passing student press legislation Lit mag poetry, illustration

Building a strong student-focused Maximize your education by Write-off contest 08: Newspaper Los Feliz, Lobby Level Broadcast mini-lessons Editing with iMovie for iOS You can’t handle the truth team networking editing

Palos Verdes, Lobby The total package Power: Making the best Did you hear that? From sound bits to sound bites Cue the violins Write-off contest 17: Yearbook Level documentary ever layout: inside pages

San Bernardino, Lobby Generating advertising revenue Dropping the journalistic F-bomb Selling yearbooks by sharing more Engaging viewers beyond social Write-off contest 26: Graphic Level for yearbook on social media media design photo illustration

San Fernando, Lobby Music in multimedia storytelling Read me first: Headline hints The power of the ampersand in Write like you’re Snapchatting Show-stopping sidebars Write-off contest 24: Graphic Level media design infographics

San Gabriel A, Lobby Team-building games and Beyond the interviewing basics It’s the little things Learning from college journalism Leadership matters Level activities Adviser reception and SPLC benefit auction San Gabriel B, Lobby Reporting on sports in today’s How to be awesome 3.0 Makeover magic The power of light Build an award-winning portfolio 8:30-11 p.m. Level digital age Attend the general session/ keynote address in Sacramento/San Francisco/San San Gabriel C, Lobby We’re bringing sexy back with Boobie bracelets and censorship Beyond daily announcements: Covering controversy: Video Video journalism with your device Write-off contest 25: Graphic Level reporting — avoid it Video news stories for impact journalism, social responsibility Jose rooms design advertising

Covering protests: What are your News literacy: Teaching a vital Entrepreneurship and student Write-off contest 23: Graphic San Pedro, Lobby Level rights and responsibilities? 21st-century skill Is your home page dead? media For immediate delivery design logo

Santa Anita A, Lobby Super basic Adobe Illustrator Intro to code Photoshop secrets InDesign tips and tricks InDesign hacks Write-off contest 22: Literary Level magazine photography

Santa Anita B, Lobby Journalist safety in the 21st Let your voice be heard Disrupting the newsroom through Breaking rules: Can you? Should Design doesn’t end where type Level century the classroom you? begins

Santa Anita C, Lobby Theme: 4 steps to awesome Turn your staff into an editing Breaking news: You be the source Beyond controversy: Religion Stepping up sports coverage Write-off contest 04: Sports Level machine coverage at school writing

Santa Barbara A, Lobby AP style: Learn the basics It’s time to make a digital The Play-Doh process Learn to be a passionate leader It’s Trello time Write-off contest 07: Commentary Level portfolio writing

Santa Barbara B, Lobby JEA general membership meeting JEA state directors meeting Disaster prevention kit for editors 11 tips for improving photography All politics are local: Covering Risky conversations: Interviews Level elections

Santa Barbara C, Lobby For your info(graphic) Super design time: Content and PRESSure and the First Theme photography An evolution of copyright law for Write-off contest 16: Yearbook Level coverage Amendment photojournalists layout: theme

California Foyer, 2nd Break with a Pro (9 a.m. and 10 a.m.) Media Swap Shops Level Check your ticket for assigned time. (8 and 9 p.m.)

24 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions n ADVISING/TEACHING n ENTREPRENUERSHIP n LEADERSHIP/TEAM BUILDING n NEWS LITERACY n CONTEST n KEYNOTE/FEATURED SPEAKER n MEETING n PHOTOJOURNALISM n DESIGN n GENERAL AUDIENCE n MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST n WEB n EDITING n LAW/ETHICS n NEWS GATHERING n WRITING

ROOMS 8 a.m. 9 a.m. 10 a.m. 11 a.m. Noon 1 p.m. 2 p.m. 4 p.m. Evening

Pasadena Room, Convention check-in/registration, trade show, Best of Show registration, lost and found, critique check-in (8 a.m.-4 p.m.) Convention check-in/registration, trade show, Best of Show registration (1-7 p.m.) Exhibition Level Write-off check-in, T-shirt distribution (8 a.m.-noon) Write-off check-in, T-shirt distribution, on-site critique check-in, lost and found

Pasadena Foyer, Publication exchange drop tables Publication exchange drop tables Exhibition Level Run your publication like a Using social media to expand Write-off contest 05: Review Beaudry A, Lobby Level start-up Let’s do a story about ISIS They said, ‘No!’ coverage The best of newspaper design writing

Journalism Quiz Bowl qualifying Yearbook: It’s all about inclusive It’s a human thing: Crafting Strategies for attention-grabbing Write-off contest 03: Feature Beaudry B, Lobby Level test Ideas from the professionals Beginning photojournalism coverage personal stories headlines writing

The yearbook is finished; now Write-off contests 20, 21: Los Cerritos, Lobby Level what? Make a new plan, Stan The best and worst of times Passing student press legislation Lit mag poetry, illustration

Building a strong student-focused Maximize your education by Write-off contest 08: Newspaper Los Feliz, Lobby Level Broadcast mini-lessons Editing with iMovie for iOS You can’t handle the truth team networking editing

Palos Verdes, Lobby The total package Power: Making the best Did you hear that? From sound bits to sound bites Cue the violins Write-off contest 17: Yearbook Level documentary ever layout: inside pages

San Bernardino, Lobby Generating advertising revenue Dropping the journalistic F-bomb Selling yearbooks by sharing more Engaging viewers beyond social Write-off contest 26: Graphic Level for yearbook on social media media design photo illustration

San Fernando, Lobby Music in multimedia storytelling Read me first: Headline hints The power of the ampersand in Write like you’re Snapchatting Show-stopping sidebars Write-off contest 24: Graphic Level media design infographics

San Gabriel A, Lobby Team-building games and Beyond the interviewing basics It’s the little things Learning from college journalism Leadership matters Level activities Adviser reception and SPLC benefit auction San Gabriel B, Lobby Reporting on sports in today’s How to be awesome 3.0 Makeover magic The power of light Build an award-winning portfolio 8:30-11 p.m. Level digital age Attend the general session/ keynote address in Sacramento/San Francisco/San San Gabriel C, Lobby We’re bringing sexy back with Boobie bracelets and censorship Beyond daily announcements: Covering controversy: Video Video journalism with your device Write-off contest 25: Graphic Level reporting — avoid it Video news stories for impact journalism, social responsibility Jose rooms design advertising

Covering protests: What are your News literacy: Teaching a vital Entrepreneurship and student Write-off contest 23: Graphic San Pedro, Lobby Level rights and responsibilities? 21st-century skill Is your home page dead? media For immediate delivery design logo

Santa Anita A, Lobby Super basic Adobe Illustrator Intro to code Photoshop secrets InDesign tips and tricks InDesign hacks Write-off contest 22: Literary Level magazine photography

Santa Anita B, Lobby Journalist safety in the 21st Let your voice be heard Disrupting the newsroom through Breaking rules: Can you? Should Design doesn’t end where type Level century the classroom you? begins

Santa Anita C, Lobby Theme: 4 steps to awesome Turn your staff into an editing Breaking news: You be the source Beyond controversy: Religion Stepping up sports coverage Write-off contest 04: Sports Level machine coverage at school writing

Santa Barbara A, Lobby AP style: Learn the basics It’s time to make a digital The Play-Doh process Learn to be a passionate leader It’s Trello time Write-off contest 07: Commentary Level portfolio writing

Santa Barbara B, Lobby JEA general membership meeting JEA state directors meeting Disaster prevention kit for editors 11 tips for improving photography All politics are local: Covering Risky conversations: Interviews Level elections

Santa Barbara C, Lobby For your info(graphic) Super design time: Content and PRESSure and the First Theme photography An evolution of copyright law for Write-off contest 16: Yearbook Level coverage Amendment photojournalists layout: theme

California Foyer, 2nd Break with a Pro (9 a.m. and 10 a.m.) Media Swap Shops Level Check your ticket for assigned time. (8 and 9 p.m.)

Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES — 25 FRIDAY AT A GLANCE ROOMS 8 a.m. 9 a.m. 10 a.m. 11 a.m. Noon 1 p.m. 2 p.m. 4 p.m. Evening

Sacramento, 2nd Level Copy capers Motivate to survive the year Write the miracle. Be the miracle

Write-off contests 27-35: Free concert for students San Francisco, 2nd Level Capturing the moment General session/keynote address photography (all) (8-11 p.m.)

Getting the shot in sports Sports photography: Action and San Jose, 2nd Level photography reaction

10 must-have images of Working as a photojournalist for a Write-off contests 12-15: San Diego, 2nd Level photojournalism metro newspaper Head in the game Trends in yearbook Just your type Yearbook copy/caption (all)

How school coverage became a Design Quest 2017: Finding ideas The future of journalism and Write-off contests 01, 02: News Avalon, 3rd Level prize-winning investigation Don’t be basic: Advanced design for your next yearbook justice Seek professional help writing, editorial writing

On-site critiques (9 a.m.-3 p.m.) On-site critiques (9 a.m.-3 p.m.) Catalina Foyer, 3rd Level Appointment required Appointment required

Emerald Bay, 3rd Level JEA Bookstore and Adviser Hospitality (7:30 a.m.-5 p.m.) JEA Bookstore and Adviser Hospitality (7:30 a.m.-5 p.m.)

Hollywood Ballroom, 3rd What’s all this about Black Lives From ‘meh’ to ‘all right’ with just Improve your captions in 1, 2, 3 Write-off judges dinner and Level Matter? one light judging (6 p.m.-midnight)

Santa Monica A, 3rd Pinterest: A creative resource for Scholastic press training for Freedom of tweet? Internship intel: Beyond high Level design, photography, food administrators school journalism

Santa Monica B, 3rd Write-off contest 45: Broadcast newswriting (8-10 a.m.) Write-off contest 43: Online news package Write-off contest 43: Online news package Write-off contest 11: Press law Level and ethics

Santa Monica C, 3rd Photography contest judging Best of Show judging (4:30-8 p.m.) Level

Santa Monica D, 3rd Write-off contest 47: Videography Write-off contest 46: Broadcast package (8:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.) Broadcast judging (12:30-3:15 p.m.) CJE/MJE testing Level 46: Broadcast package (8:15 a.m.) 3:30-6 p.m.

Wilshire Suite A, 3rd Write-off contest 36: Broadcast Write-off contest 37: Broadcast Write-off contest 38: Broadcast Write-off contest 39: Commercial/ Write-off contest 41: Short Write-off contest 42: Video Broadcast contest judging Level news story sports story feature story PSA documentary package editing

Wilshire Suite B, 3rd Round table for online news site Newspaper adviser round table Yearbook adviser round table Advising multiple publications Round table for broadcast Write-off contest 10: Level advisers round table advisers Newsmagazine layout

Wilshire Suite C, 3rd Taming the grading monster Unraveling yearbook terms Legal and ethical issues for Role and history of media for CJE/MJE certification study Write-off contest 19: Literary Level advisers advisers session magazine layout

Wilshire Suite D, 3rd Editorial policy package builds foundations (2 hours) Write-off contest 40: Social media Teaching self-reflection to Team storytelling wrap-up Write-off contest 18: Yearbook Level reporting enhance collaboration cover/endsheets

Wilshire Suite E, 3rd Why consider JEA certification? Ethics: What we should do Get certified with style Accentuate the positive CTE = Creativity and Technology Write-off contest 09: Newspaper Level Evolution layout

Wilshire Suite F, 3rd Taping for contest 44 Taping for contest 48 A conversation about scholastic Level media

Wilshire Suite G, 3rd Write-off contest 44: On-air Starting a literary magazine Making your literary magazine The summer retreat they’ll never Write-off contest 48: Broadcast Giddy about Google Write-off contest 06: Editorial Level reporter pop forget commentary cartooning

International Room, Write-off headquarters, Quiz Bowl grading, broadcast contest judging Write-off headquarters Write-off lead judges check in (1-3:30 p.m.) Write-off headquarters 3rd Level

26 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions n ADVISING/TEACHING n ENTREPRENUERSHIP n LEADERSHIP/TEAM BUILDING n NEWS LITERACY n CONTEST n KEYNOTE/FEATURED SPEAKER n MEETING n PHOTOJOURNALISM n DESIGN n GENERAL AUDIENCE n MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST n WEB n EDITING n LAW/ETHICS n NEWS GATHERING n WRITING ROOMS 8 a.m. 9 a.m. 10 a.m. 11 a.m. Noon 1 p.m. 2 p.m. 4 p.m. Evening

Sacramento, 2nd Level Copy capers Motivate to survive the year Write the miracle. Be the miracle

Write-off contests 27-35: Free concert for students San Francisco, 2nd Level Capturing the moment General session/keynote address photography (all) (8-11 p.m.)

Getting the shot in sports Sports photography: Action and San Jose, 2nd Level photography reaction

10 must-have images of Working as a photojournalist for a Write-off contests 12-15: San Diego, 2nd Level photojournalism metro newspaper Head in the game Trends in yearbook Just your type Yearbook copy/caption (all)

How school coverage became a Design Quest 2017: Finding ideas The future of journalism and Write-off contests 01, 02: News Avalon, 3rd Level prize-winning investigation Don’t be basic: Advanced design for your next yearbook justice Seek professional help writing, editorial writing

On-site critiques (9 a.m.-3 p.m.) On-site critiques (9 a.m.-3 p.m.) Catalina Foyer, 3rd Level Appointment required Appointment required

Emerald Bay, 3rd Level JEA Bookstore and Adviser Hospitality (7:30 a.m.-5 p.m.) JEA Bookstore and Adviser Hospitality (7:30 a.m.-5 p.m.)

Hollywood Ballroom, 3rd What’s all this about Black Lives From ‘meh’ to ‘all right’ with just Improve your captions in 1, 2, 3 Write-off judges dinner and Level Matter? one light judging (6 p.m.-midnight)

Santa Monica A, 3rd Pinterest: A creative resource for Scholastic press training for Freedom of tweet? Internship intel: Beyond high Level design, photography, food administrators school journalism

Santa Monica B, 3rd Write-off contest 45: Broadcast newswriting (8-10 a.m.) Write-off contest 43: Online news package Write-off contest 43: Online news package Write-off contest 11: Press law Level and ethics

Santa Monica C, 3rd Photography contest judging Best of Show judging (4:30-8 p.m.) Level

Santa Monica D, 3rd Write-off contest 47: Videography Write-off contest 46: Broadcast package (8:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.) Broadcast judging (12:30-3:15 p.m.) CJE/MJE testing Level 46: Broadcast package (8:15 a.m.) 3:30-6 p.m.

Wilshire Suite A, 3rd Write-off contest 36: Broadcast Write-off contest 37: Broadcast Write-off contest 38: Broadcast Write-off contest 39: Commercial/ Write-off contest 41: Short Write-off contest 42: Video Broadcast contest judging Level news story sports story feature story PSA documentary package editing

Wilshire Suite B, 3rd Round table for online news site Newspaper adviser round table Yearbook adviser round table Advising multiple publications Round table for broadcast Write-off contest 10: Level advisers round table advisers Newsmagazine layout

Wilshire Suite C, 3rd Taming the grading monster Unraveling yearbook terms Legal and ethical issues for Role and history of media for CJE/MJE certification study Write-off contest 19: Literary Level advisers advisers session magazine layout

Wilshire Suite D, 3rd Editorial policy package builds foundations (2 hours) Write-off contest 40: Social media Teaching self-reflection to Team storytelling wrap-up Write-off contest 18: Yearbook Level reporting enhance collaboration cover/endsheets

Wilshire Suite E, 3rd Why consider JEA certification? Ethics: What we should do Get certified with style Accentuate the positive CTE = Creativity and Technology Write-off contest 09: Newspaper Level Evolution layout

Wilshire Suite F, 3rd Taping for contest 44 Taping for contest 48 A conversation about scholastic Level media

Wilshire Suite G, 3rd Write-off contest 44: On-air Starting a literary magazine Making your literary magazine The summer retreat they’ll never Write-off contest 48: Broadcast Giddy about Google Write-off contest 06: Editorial Level reporter pop forget commentary cartooning

International Room, Write-off headquarters, Quiz Bowl grading, broadcast contest judging Write-off headquarters Write-off lead judges check in (1-3:30 p.m.) Write-off headquarters 3rd Level

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Launch your creative career with a B.F.A. Interested in learning more about SCAD? in writing, graphic design, photography or Meet faculty and staff members at booth #33P at the another of the 40-plus majors offered at JEA/NSPA convention, and join us for a workshop: the Savannah College of Art and Design. AP Style: Learn the Basics Westin Bonaventure Hotel | Los Angeles Santa Barbara A, Lobby Level 9 a.m., Friday, April 15, 2016

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81455 - WRIT: JEA INSPA Conference ad Write-off Room Assignments Advisers: Check in at the Write-off desk in the Pasadena Room, Exhibition Level, to pick up students’ contest ID labels. Make sure they have their contest ID labels before their contests are scheduled to meet. Note the contests that begin early Friday. Students will need to pick up their tickets by tickets by 7 p.m. Thursday in order to enter their 8 a.m. contests. The Write-off desk is open 1-7 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m.-noon Friday. Name substitutions must be made by noon Friday. Between noon and 3 p.m. Friday, tickets may be picked up in International Room, 3rd Level. If a ticket is lost, replacement fee is $5. Students: Please note the assigned time and room for your contest. While most contests begin at 4 p.m. Friday, broadcast contests will meet earlier in the day. Bring required equipment and supplies, as explained in rules at jea.org, and contest ID label to the assigned room. Most contests/critiques will last two hours. Lead judges: Pick up material for contests 1-26 between 1 and 3:30 p.m. in International Room, 3rd Level. Photography Judges: 8 a.m., Santa Monica C, 3rd Level Write-off Judges’ Dinner/Judging: 6 p.m., Hollywood Ballroom, 3rd Level Verify rooms: Check your room assignment in the Convention Update flier in case there is a room change. 01 Newswriting...... 4 p.m., Avalon, 3rd Level 02 Editorial Writing...... 4 p.m., Avalon, 3rd Level 03 Feature Writing...... 4 p.m., Beaudry B, Lobby Level 04 Sports Writing...... 4 p.m., Santa Anita C, Lobby Level 05 Review Writing...... 4 p.m., Beaudry A, Lobby Level 06 Editorial Cartooning...... 4 p.m., Wilshire Suite G, 3rd Level 07 Commentary Writing...... 4 p.m., Santa Barbara A, Lobby Level 08 News Editing/Headline Writing...... 4 p.m., Los Feliz, Lobby Level 09 Newspaper Layout (online)...... 4 p.m., Wilshire Suite E, 3rd Level, stay for critique 10 Newsmagazine Layout (online)...... 4 p.m., WIlshire Suite B, 3rd Level, stay for critique 11 Press Law & Ethics...... 4 p.m., Santa Monica B, 3rd Level 12 Yearbook Copy/Caption: Sports...... 4 p.m., San Diego, 2nd Level 13 Yearbook Copy/Caption: Academics...... 4 p.m., San Diego, 2nd Level 14 Yearbook Copy/Caption: Clubs...... 4 p.m., San Diego, 2nd Level 15 Yearbook Copy/Caption: Student Life...... 4 p.m., San Diego, 2nd Level 16 Yearbook Layout: Theme (online)...... 4 p.m., Santa Barbara C, Lobby Level, stay for critique 17 Yearbook Layout: Inside Pages (online)...... 4 p.m., Palos Verdes, Lobby Level, stay for critique 18 Yearbook Cover/End Sheets (online)...... 4 p.m., Wilshire Suite D, 3rd Level, stay for critique 19 Literary Magazine Layout (online)...... 4 p.m., Wilshire Suite C, 3rd Level, stay for critique 20 Literary Magazine Poetry...... 4 p.m., Los Cerritos, Lobby Level 21 Literary Magazine Illustration...... 4 p.m., Los Cerritos, Lobby Level 22 Literary Magazine Photography...... 4 p.m., Santa Anita A, Lobby Level 23 Graphic Design: Logo (online)...... 4 p.m., San Pedro, Lobby Level, stay for critique 24 Graphic Design: Infographics (online) ...... 4 p.m., San Fernando, Lobby Level, stay for critique 25 Graphic Design: Advertising (online)...... 4 p.m., San Gabriel C, Lobby Level, stay for critique 26 Graphic Design: Photo Illustration (online)...... 4 p.m., San Bernardino, Lobby Level, stay for critique 27 Themed Photo (online)...... 4 p.m., Sacramento/San Francisco/San Jose, 2nd Level, stay for critique 28 Yearbook Sports Photography (online)...... 4 p.m., Sacramento/San Francisco/San Jose, 2nd Level, stay for critique 29 Newspaper Sports Photography (online)...... 4 p.m., Sacramento/San Francisco/San Jose, 2nd Level, stay for critique 30 Yearbook Student Life Photography (online)...... 4 p.m., Sacramento/San Francisco/San Jose, 2nd Level, stay for critique 31 Newspaper News/Feature Photography (online)...... 4 p.m., Sacramento/San Francisco/San Jose, 2nd Level, stay for critique 32 Photo Story (online)...... 4 p.m., Sacramento/San Francisco/San Jose, 2nd Level, stay for critique 33 Portfolio (online)...... 4 p.m., Sacramento/San Francisco/San Jose, 2nd Level, stay for critique 34 Photo Portrait (online)...... 4 p.m., Sacramento/San Francisco/San Jose, 2nd Level, stay for critique 35 First-year Photo (online)...... 4 p.m., Sacramento/San Francisco/San Jose, 2nd Level, stay for critique 36 Broadcast News Story (online)...... 8 a.m., Wilshire Suite A, 3rd Level, stay for critique 37 Broadcast Sports Story (online)...... 9 a.m., Wilshire Suite A, 3rd Level, stay for critique 38 Broadcast Feature Story (online)...... 10 a.m., Wilshire Suite A, 3rd Level, stay for critique 39 Broadcast Commercial/PSA (online)...... 11 a.m., Wilshire Suite A, 3rd Level, stay for critique 40 Social Media Reporting (online)...... 11 a.m., Wilshire Suite D, 3rd Level, stay for critique 41 Short Documentary (online)...... Noon, Wilshire Suite A, 3rd Level, , stay for critique 42 Video Package Editing (online)...... 1 p.m., Wilshire Suite A, 3rd Level, stay for critique 43 Online News Package (on-site)...... 10 a.m., Santa Monica B, 3rd Level 44 On-Air Reporter (on-site)...... 8 a.m., Wilshire Suite G, 3rd Level 45 Broadcast Newswriting (on-site)...... 8 a.m., Santa Monica B, 3rd Level 46 Broadcast Package (on-site)...... 8:15 a.m., Santa Monica D, 3rd Level. Turn in entry by 12:30 p.m. 47 Videography (on-site)...... 8 a.m., Santa Monica D, 3rd Level. Turn in entry by 10:30 a.m. 48 Broadcast Commentary (on-site)...... Noon, Wilshire Suite G, 3rd Level

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EVENT EVENT 36: Broadcast News Story — 8 a.m. Friday, l Publication exchange l Convention check-in and Wilshire Suite A, 3rd Level Interested in seeing what kind of work other 44: On-air reporter — 8 a.m. Friday, Wilshire registration, Best of Show, critiques Suite G, 3rd Level high schools around the nation are producing? Check-in to pick up name badges, programs 46: Broadcast package — 8:15 a.m., Santa Stop by the publication exchange tables to and school packets containing Swap Shop, Monica D, 3rd Level gander at the latest editions of high school Break with a Pro and luncheon tickets. Turn news from coast to coast. Feel free to drop off a in your Best of Show entries here and check few copies of your publication. critique time. Lost and found also is here. 9 a.m. All day Friday, Pasadena Foyer, Exhibition Level 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, Pasadena Room, Exhibition Level EVENT NEWS GATHERING ONE STORY l JEA Bookstore EVENT How school coverage became Check out the new books, as well as popular l Convention shirt distribution a Pulitzer Prize-winning best-sellers, at the JEA Bookstore. Nearly 300 If your school purchased the official convention items relating to journalism are available, shirts through online registration, you may pick investigation In 2015, the Daily Breeze was awarded including textbooks, curriculum development, them up here. There may be extra shirts to buy the Pulitzer Prize for local journalism for yearbook, newspaper, design, photography, if you did not pre-order. Shirts not picked up by its investigation into corruption at an writing, desktop publishing, new media, noon Friday will be resold. advertising and broadcast. Check here to buy 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, Pasadena Room, area school district, which led to an FBI stylebooks, paper, pens, pencils, rulers and Exhibition Level investigation. The editor and reporters erasers. Supplies are limited so shop early. who covered the story will discuss their 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, Emerald Bay, 3rd Level CONTEST approach. Journalism Quiz Bowl qualifying test EVALUATION CODE: 4921 ADVISER EVENT Frank Suraci, Daily Breeze, Torrance, Registered four-person teams will take a written l Calif.; Rob Kuznia, USC Shoah Adviser hospitality qualifying test with questions related to culture, Foundation, Los Angeles; Rebecca Meet with your colleagues from across the journalism and civics. The test scores will be Kimitch, Los Angeles News Group, country in the adviser hospitality suite, a used to seed the top teams that will compete in Monrovia, Calif.; and Toni Sciacqua, Los quiet oasis for advisers. Local committee the live buzzer rounds 8-9:50 a.m. Saturday. The Angeles News Group, Torrance, Calif. members will be available to recommend list of qualifying teams will be posted by 11 a.m. 9 a.m. Friday, Avalon, 3rd Level (400) sightseeing, dining and entertainment Friday at the convention Write-off desk in the options. Friday refreshments are underwritten Pasadena Room, Exhibition Level, and in the JEA by Temple University School of Media and Bookstore in Emerald Bay, 3rd Level. STUDENT EVENT Communication. April van Buren, MJE, LaFollette High School, l 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, Emerald Bay, 3rd Level Break with a Pro Madison, Wis. Kick off your morning with tailored, small- 8 a.m. Friday, Beaudry B, Lobby Level (220) group discussion sessions with journalism 8 a.m. professionals in traditional and specialized MEETING areas. Media professionals will share JEA general membership meeting information about their work and backgrounds. l Write-off contest check-in JEA members and others interested in the Preregistration was required. Please check your Your school’s Write-off packet containing organization are invited to attend this meeting. ticket for your assigned time. student contest tickets, additional instructions You’ll learn about recent JEA board action, hear 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. Friday, California Foyer, 2nd and contest room assignments may be picked concerns and discuss plans and goals. Level (500) up at the Write-off desk. If you have not paid, Mark Newton, MJE, Mountain Vista High you must do so at this time. Noon Friday is School, Highlands Ranch, Colo. EVENT the deadline for substitutions in preregistered 8 a.m. Friday, Santa Barbara B, Lobby Level l On-site critiques categories. No new entries will be accepted at (144) the convention. Lost tickets will be replaced Schools scheduled for critiques should bring up to three different issues of newspapers/ for $5. Write-off personnel will move to CONTEST International Room, 3rd Floor, at noon. magazines, or the most recent literary magazine 8 a.m.-noon Friday, Pasadena Room, Exhibition Photography contest judging or yearbook. Some staffs also choose to bring Those who agreed to judge photography Level mockups of the current yearbook. For broadcast entries for the JEA Write-off will meet. critiques, bring a thumb drive, DVD or upload to 8 a.m. Friday, Santa Monica C, 3rd Level (60) EVENT YouTube. For online critiques, exchange a URL. Since critiques are 30 minutes, it is important to l Trade show exhibits CONTEST be on time. Dozens of national and local vendors and Write-off contest 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday, Catalina Foyer, 3rd Level colleges will educate and entertain during Those entered in the following contests will the trade show exhibits. Find out what’s new, compete at this time. Contest ID label must be ENTREPRENEURSHIP chat with company representatives, pick up shown. Bring required equipment and supplies. information and have some fun. Run your publication like a start-up 45: Broadcast newswriting — 8 a.m. Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, Pasadena Room, Use the fast-paced Silicon Valley style to take Santa Monica B, 3rd Level Exhibition Level your staff to the next level. Learn ideas and 47: Videography— 8 a.m. Friday, Santa tactics from a 15-year startup veteran that will Monica D, 3rd Level transform your approach to everyday struggles 30 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions 9 a.m. Friday like budgets and deadlines, and turn your yearbook a paragon of journalistic excellence. WEB publication into the next big thing. Learn how to make copy sing a tune pleasant Reporting on sports in today’s EVALUATION CODE: 4959 to the ear of all readers by adhering to the rules Bill Miles, Picaboo Yearbooks, Hanover, N.H. of good writing. digital age Discover why it’s important to write more than 9 a.m. Friday, Beaudry A, Lobby Level (180) EVALUATION CODE: 4838 Mary Kay Downes, MJE, Chantilly (Va.) High just a game story or column to make an impact now. DESIGN School 9 a.m. Friday, Sacramento, 2nd Level (600) EVALUATION CODE: 4884 Ideas from the professionals Arash Markazi, ESPN, Los Angeles See how yearbook staffs use college viewbooks, 9 a.m. Friday, San Gabriel B, Lobby Level (159) magazines, television graphics and the Web as ENTREPRENEURSHIP inspirations for their books. Generating advertising revenue for NEWS GATHERING EVALUATION CODE: 5042 Laura Schaub, CJE, Lifetouch, Commerce City, yearbook We’re bringing sexy back with Students will learn the steps to confidently Colo. reporting create and execute a yearbook ad sales plan. 9 a.m. Friday, Beaudry B, Lobby Level (220) Is your writing in a rut? It all comes down to the They will walk away with proven tips to hit their interview. Learn techniques for having a natural yearbook advertising revenue goals. FEATURED SPEAKER, GENERAL AUDIENCE conversation to get the facts needed to write a EVALUATION CODE: 5032 great story. What’s all this about Black Lives Kane Belew, CJE, Walsworth Yearbooks, EVALUATION CODE: 4405 Birmingham, Ala. Matter? Justin Daigle, CJE, Brighton (Colo.) High 9 a.m. Friday, San Bernardino, Lobby Level An Emmy Award-winning television journalist School, and Carrie Hendrix, CJE, Lewis-Palmer (108) will attempt to explain why a “Black Lives High School, Monument, Colo. Matter” organization has been formed. What 9 a.m. Friday, San Gabriel C, Lobby Level (128) role have the police played in its formation? PHOTOJOURNALISM How has the media played the story? And will 10 must-have images of PHOTOJOURNALISM this exacerbate race divisions? photojournalism Getting the shot in sports EVALUATION CODE: 5067 You walk into a room with a photo assignment Carole Simpson, Emerson College, Boston in one hand and a camera in the other. photography 9 a.m. Friday, Hollywood Ballroom, 3rd Level Now what? This presentation will help you This presentation will center around getting (400) form a mental checklist of the images that those amazing sports photographs for your photojournalists seek, designers savor and publications. There will be very little discussion MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST readers appreciate. about equipment; instead, this will be focused Broadcast mini-lessons EVALUATION CODE: 4379 on tips from a former professional sports The student newsroom is quiet. Reporters Eric Thomas, MJE, University of Kansas, photographer. Location, angles, composition working in groups have some down time. Lawrence, Kan. concepts and selling your images will be What should students do to be productive? 9 a.m. Friday, San Diego, 2nd Level (700) discussed. This session will provide you with take home EVALUATION CODE: 4967 mini-lesson broadcast activities that you can MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST Michael Reeves, James Bowie High School, implement right away. Austin, Texas Music in multimedia storytelling 9 a.m. Friday, San Jose, 2nd Level (400) EVALUATION CODE: 4844 People appreciate music in their lives. They Don Goble, Ladue Horton Watkins High respond to music. They hear things more School, St. Louis LAW AND ETHICS deeply and they remember details more 9 a.m. Friday, Los Feliz, Lobby Level (68) clearly. Why wouldn’t that kind of hearing Covering protests: What are your and remembering be good for journalism – rights and responsibilities? DESIGN particularly multimedia feature stories? Learn Protests are flashing around the country, and The total package how to use it well. student journalists are covering them. This You have all the pieces of the puzzle: great EVALUATION CODE: 4883 session explores: What rights do they have to stories, photos that capture the moment and Kerry Benson, University of Kansas, Lawrence, gather news? How should they behave to avoid even solid design elements. Now the trick is Kan. harm to themselves and their subjects? Do they putting it all together to achieve storytelling 9 a.m. Friday, San Fernando, Lobby Level (120) have the right to record people in public? packages. At this session, we will look at using EVALUATION CODE: 5006 words and visuals together to make the largest LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING Jonathan Peters, University of Kansas, impact on our audiences. See how today’s most Team-building games and activities Lawrence, Kan. successful newspapers are using packages to Everyone knows that when a staff is having fun 9 a.m. Friday, San Pedro, Lobby Level (108) grab attention and preserve storytelling. and forming bonds, it produces better work. EVALUATION CODE: 5036 This session will give you fresh, fun and new DESIGN Kristin Baker, CJE, Derby (Kan.) High School ideas for team-building activities that are quick Super basic Adobe Illustrator 9 a.m. Friday, Palos Verdes, Lobby Level (122) and easy and can be done at any time. Adobe Illustrator is still a mystery to most high EVALUATION CODE: 4936 school journalists. Learn the basic tools and WRITING Katie Frazier, Seven Lakes Junior High School, how to use them to get professional graphics Katy, Texas Copy capers into your publication. If you want to leave with 9 a.m. Friday, San Gabriel A, Lobby Level (128) Opening and divider copy, traditional and powerful Illustrator tools — it’s all here. alternative stories: All play a part to make your EVALUATION CODE: 4995

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Brynda Everman, CJE, Balfour Yearbooks, EDITING write a really great story. You need a really great Azusa, Calif., and Jen Bladen, MJE, Tulsa, Okla. AP style: Learn the basics graphic to go with it ... or even take its place. 9 a.m. Friday, Santa Anita A, Lobby Level (128) The Associated Press Stylebook is a journalist’s Learn the ins and outs of creating infographics bible. It is the key style guide/usage manual that will appeal to today’s “non-readers.” FEATURED SPEAKER, GENERAL AUDIENCE for the news industry in the United States. EVALUATION CODE: 3626 Journalist safety in the 21st century This session will provide an overview of the Megan Palmer, CJE, Park Hill South High The past three years have been the most most common rules and help writers add an School, Riverside, Mo. 9 a.m. Friday, Santa Barbara C, Lobby Level dangerous ever for journalists according to the important skill: copy editing for style. (120) Committee to Protect Journalists, with record EVALUATION CODE: 4867 numbers imprisoned and killed for doing their Beth Concepción, Savannah (Ga.) College of jobs, and hundreds of others forced into exile. Art and Design CONTEST Why is this? What can we do about it? 9 a.m. Friday, Santa Barbara A, Lobby Level Write-off contest 37: Broadcast sports EVALUATION CODE: 4849 (120) story Courtney Radsch, Committee to Protect Students entered in this contest will meet for a Journalists, Washington, D.C. MEETING group critique. Contest ID label must be shown. 9 a.m. Friday, Santa Anita B, Lobby Level (136) JEA state directors meeting 9 a.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite A, 3rd Level (40) All JEA state directors should attend this GENERAL AUDIENCE meeting to learn about upcoming events and ADVISING/TEACHING Theme: 4 steps to awesome get helpful hints on how to make others aware Taming the grading monster Your next awesome yearbook theme is out of the organization at the state level. See one adviser’s approach to bringing some Sarah Nichols, MJE, Whitney High School, there. You just need to find it. This dynamic duo order out of chaos regarding the grading Rocklin, Calif. will show you specific examples and give you a dilemma in a publication’s classroom. Discover 9 a.m. Friday, Santa Barbara B, Lobby Level concrete plan to help you find your visual and some ways to evaluate every student on staff in (144) verbal voice. And it only takes four steps. a way that reflects individual responsibilities or EVALUATION CODE: 4299 assignments. Jed Palmer, CJE, Sierra Middle School, Parker, DESIGN EVALUATION CODE: 2054 Colo., and Nicole Arduini, CJE, Herff Jones For your info(graphic) Bill Flechtner, MJE, Milwaukie, Ore. Yearbooks, Parker, Colo. In our visual society, it’s no longer enough to 9 a.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite C, 3rd Level (20) 9 a.m. Friday, Santa Anita C, Lobby Level (163)

THE ROY H. PARK SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATIONS WOULD LIKE TO CONGRATULATE THE 2015 S’Park Media Mentor Award Winners

This award recognizes high school teachers and advisors who are committed to igniting a passion for media in their students. Visit ithaca.edu/rhp/community/sparkaward for more information.

LEFT TO RIGHT: Brett Myers, Youth Radio, Oakland, California • Tom Gayda, North Central High School, Indianapolis, Indiana • Michael Butler, Morristown High School, Morristown, New Jersey • Diane Gayeski, Dean of the Roy H. Park School of Communications • Christopher Lord, Pinkerton Academy, Derry, New Hampshire ithaca.edu/rhp

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ADVISING/TEACHING Don Goble, Ladue Horton Watkins High Round table for online news site 10 a.m. School, St. Louis 10 a.m. Friday, Los Feliz, Lobby Level (68) advisers DESIGN If you’ve recently begun advising an online Don’t be basic: Advanced design MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST news site staff or are struggling to find ways If you are bored with the same-old yearbook Power: Making the best documentary to keep the staff motivated to keep the site layouts that makes you yawn looking at them, updated and evolving, come to this informal come and be inspired. You will learn how to ever round-table session, led by one of JEA’s go beyond the basic principles of design, From “Nanook” to “SuperSizeMe,” the mentors. Share ideas and problem solve. photography and typography to make a truly documentary has evolved to mean different EVALUATION CODE: 4223 innovative yearbook. things to different filmmakers. With a camera Sheila Jones, CJE, Littleton, Colo. EVALUATION CODE: 4951 in every hand, the contemporary doc has 9 a.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite B, 3rd Level (20) Joyce Isleta, Walsworth Yearbooks, Torrance, no boundaries. How do we supervise/post a Calif. documentary that’s fair/tasteful and engaging LAW AND ETHICS 10 a.m. Friday, Avalon, 3rd Level (400) while keeping the shooting-ratio at 11-to-1? Editorial policy package builds Let’s talk. foundations (2 hours) NEWS GATHERING EVALUATION CODE: 4983 Valentine Estabrook, Valentine, West Tisbury, Members of JEA’s Scholastic Press Rights Let’s do a story about ISIS Mass. Committee will demonstrate how an editorial Bringing national issues into your publications 10 a.m. Friday, Palos Verdes, Lobby Level (122) policy can effectively interact with strong is a great way to keep your student body up to ethical guidelines and then both become date on current events. But can you do it in a the nucleus of a workable staff manual. We way that’s genuine? This session will focus on LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING will spend time with advisers’ policies, ethical localizing those large, national stories for your Motivate to survive the year guidelines and staff manual to help them own purposes. Advisers and editors will learn how to keep create or amend policies so they become an EVALUATION CODE: 4960 staff morale high while in the throes of interlocked three-part package to support R.J. Morgan, CJE, University of Mississippi, production. Learn how to keep your sanity, journalistically responsible student media. University, Miss. your sense of humor and your standards high Participants should bring copies of their 10 a.m. Friday, Beaudry A, Lobby Level (180) while performing what might to appear to be policies, ethical statements and staff manuals, thankless tasks. as well as a laptop. PHOTOJOURNALISM EVALUATION CODE: 4837 EVALUATION CODE: 4546 Beginning photojournalism Mary Kay Downes, MJE, Chantilly (Va.) High John Bowen, MJE, and Candace Perkins Bowen, School Learn how to use your camera to properly MJE, Kent (Ohio) State University, and Lori 10 a.m. Friday, Sacramento, 2nd Level (600) Keekley, MJE, St Louis Park (Minn.) High School expose, compose and focus so you can capture amazing, storytelling photographs. Bring your 9-10:50 a.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite D, 3rd Level LAW AND ETHICS (40) camera for hands-on learning. There is a lot to cover, but we will go at a pace to ensure you’ve Dropping the journalistic F-bomb ADVISING/TEACHING got it. Your mother says she loves you? Check it out. EVALUATION CODE: 4904 That can sometimes be a challenge and require Why consider JEA certification? Jim McCrossen, Blue Valley Northwest High a lot of digging. This session examines tools and The answer to this question is “Why not?” Learn School, Overland Park, Kan. procedures for accessing public records and the steps required to obtain JEA’s two educator 10 a.m. Friday, Beaudry B, Lobby Level (220) freedom of information – including those that certifications: Certified Journalism Educator begin with F — FOIA. and Master Journalism Educator. Ask questions EVALUATION CODE: 3318 about a unique opportunity to demonstrate ADVISING/TEACHING Stan Zoller, MJE, Lake Forest (Ill.) College you are a highly qualified journalism educator. The yearbook is finished; now what? 10 a.m. Friday, San Bernardino, Lobby Level Use those last few weeks of school between EVALUATION CODE: 2046 (108) Kim Green, MJE, Ball State University, Muncie, your final deadline of a spring delivery book Ind. and its actual delivery to improve the quality of FEATURED SPEAKER, PHOTOJOURNALISM 9 a.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite E, 3rd Level (20) your program. This class will provide an eight- week plan for advisers to implement in spring Working as a photojournalist for a GENERAL AUDIENCE and build for fall. metro newspaper EVALUATION CODE: 4981 A Los Angeles Times photographer who Starting a literary magazine Lizabeth Walsh, MJE, Reno (Nev.) High School This workshop aims at providing a base for worked on two Pulitizer Prize-winning teams, 10 a.m. Friday, Los Cerritos, Lobby Level (68) those wishing to start a high school literary shows examples of his work and answers magazine. This information includes tips for questions about covering assignments for a solidifying a theme, designing and copy editing MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST large metropolitan newspaper. your literary magazine. Editing with iMovie for iOS EVALUATION CODE: 5008 EVALUATION CODE: 5026 Capturing video on a device has become a Luis Sinco, Los Angeles Times Mary Van and Riot literary magazine staff popular form of storytelling for journalists, and 10 a.m. Friday, San Diego, 2nd Level (700) members, Century High School, Bismarck, N.D. iMovie for iOS is an app that makes it simple to 9 a.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite G, 3rd Level (60) tell your stories. Bring your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch to this session with iMovie installed. EVALUATION CODE: 4846

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WRITING NEWS LITERACY with employers looking for work examples or Read me first: Headline hints News literacy: Teaching a vital 21st- scholarship committees. Headlines are the jewelry of a news story. Learn EVALUATION CODE: 4768 century skill Becky Tate, CJE, Shawnee Mission North High how to write headlines that leap off the page to The session will explore why news literacy is engage readers in this active session. School, Overland Park, Kan. a survival skill in an Information Age and is an 10 a.m. Friday, Santa Barbara A, Lobby Level EVALUATION CODE: 4877 excellent foundation for student journalists. It (120) Barbara DeSanto, Kansas State University, will provide the tools for journalism educators Manhattan, Kan. to become news literacy ambassadors in their 10 a.m. Friday, San Fernando, Lobby Level LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING schools. (120) EVALUATION CODE: 5035 Disaster prevention kit for editors Packed with resources to help you with Leo Wolinsky, Hollywood, Calif. PHOTOJOURNALISM organizational tactics, staff management, 10 a.m. Friday, San Pedro, Lobby Level (108) Capturing the moment mentoring and deadline juggling, our kit will help prepare you today so that you can survive This professional sports photographer will WEB discuss the progression of his career from a tomorrow. yearbook photographer to shooting for the Intro to code EVALUATION CODE: 4899 NFL. He will share strategies for capturing those Get ready for an introduction to code in the Crystal Kazmierski, Arrowhead Christian Academy, Redlands, Calif.; Susan Massy, “priceless” moments. context of journalism. We’ll take a glimpse at Shawnee Mission Northwest High School, EVALUATION CODE: 4874 HTML and CSS, the building blocks of coding Shawnee, Kan.; and Jim Jordan, Del Campo Ric Tapia, TapiaPhoto, Los Angeles that can unleash the power of your storytelling. High School, Fair Oaks, Calif. 10 a.m. Friday, San Francisco, 2nd Level (767) Attendees should bring laptops installed with TextWrangler and Chrome browser, if possible. 10 a.m. Friday, Santa Barbara B, Lobby Level (144) NEWS GATHERING Both are free. EVALUATION CODE: 4994 Beyond the interviewing basics Jennifer de la Fuente, University of Southern GENERAL AUDIENCE “Duh” questions get lifeless responses. Discover California, Los Angeles Super design time: Content and techniques that are sure to elicit powerful 10 a.m. Friday, Santa Anita A, Lobby Level (128) anecdotes, useful stats and charged reactions. coverage Great design means nothing without awesome You’ll also hear the best three words to start WRITING any interview. Bonus: Learn to decipher your content and coverage. This session will look interviewee’s body language! Let your voice be heard at all three concepts and how you can wow Have an opinion? Between editorials, reviews EVALUATION CODE: 2113 readers no matter the platform. Jon Reese, CJE, Decatur (Ga.) High School and columns, there are plenty of opportunities EVALUATION CODE: 4941 Tom Gayda, MJE, North Central High School, 10 a.m. Friday, San Gabriel A, Lobby Level (128) for you to develop your voice and share your thoughts with others. This will be a writing Indianapolis, and Kathy Habiger, MJE, Mill workshop, so come prepared to work as we go Valley High School, Shawnee, Kan. GENERAL AUDIENCE from start to finish in learning how to create 10 a.m. Friday, Santa Barbara C, Lobby Level How to be awesome 3.0 opinion pieces. (120) Ever wonder how student publications are EVALUATION CODE: 5093 awesome and produce great digital and print Michele Dunaway, MJE, Francis Howell High DESIGN stories? Find out here as we analyze award School, St. Charles, Mo. Pinterest: A creative resource for winning layouts, designs, photos, multimedia 10 a.m. Friday, Santa Anita B, Lobby Level (136) stories and show how being AWESOME isn’t design, photography, food We will explore a variety of ways to use that hard. EDITING EVALUATION CODE: 4745 Pinterest in the journalism/graphic arts Jonathan Rogers, MJE, Iowa City (Iowa) High Turn your staff into an editing classroom. From design ideas to photography School, and Matthew Schott, CJE, Francis machine to deadline snacks, this app can be an adviser’s Howell Central High School, St. Charles, Mo. Part of a successful production system is lifeline or a student’s best resource. 10 a.m. Friday, San Gabriel B, Lobby Level (159) teaching how to edit at various levels, from EVALUATION CODE: 4398 story angle and structure down to word choice Linda Drake, MJE, Chase County Jr./Sr. High School, Cottonwood Falls, Kan. LAW AND ETHICS and punctuation. This session will explore the components and how to implement them. 10 a.m. Friday, Santa Monica A, Lobby Level Boobie bracelets and censorship — (90) We’ll discuss style guides, checklists, reads and avoid it coaching techniques. CONTEST Silicone bracelets emblazoned with “I EVALUATION CODE: 4924 (heart) boobies” resulted in acts of censorship Shari Adwers, MJE, Grosse Pointe North High Write-off contest 43: Online news and court cases. Come share your experiences School, Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich. package with censorship and take away some ideas on 10 a.m. Friday, Santa Anita C, Lobby Level (163) If you registered for this contest, bring your how to nip censorship in the bud and how to Write-off ticket so you can get your assignment. fight it. GENERAL AUDIENCE Read the rules so you will know what EVALUATION CODE: 4928 It’s time to make a digital portfolio equipment to bring to prepare your entry. Genelle Belmas, University of Kansas, You’ve created beautiful designs, photos and 10 a.m. Friday, Santa Monica B, 3rd Level (110) Lawrence, Kan. stories while in high school. Now it is time to 10 a.m. Friday, San Gabriel C, Lobby Level (128) create a digital portfolio you can easily share

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CONTEST wrong more often than right. This session will Write-off contest 38: Broadcast 11 a.m. teach you how to be accurate in a world of constantly changing and looming deadlines. feature story DESIGN EVALUATION CODE: 4262 Students entered in this contest will meet for a Design Quest 2017: Finding ideas for Brad Lewis, MJE, St. Teresa’s Academy, Kansas group critique. Contest ID label must be shown. City, Mo. 10 a.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite A, 3rd Level (40) your next yearbook This session will stimulate your thinking for next 11 a.m. Friday, Los Feliz, Lobby Level (68) ADVISING/TEACHING year. Where do the great yearbook designers get all those great ideas? Come see what the MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST, FEATURED SPEAKER Newspaper adviser round table professionals are doing and see how you might Did you hear that? If you’re new to advising a newspaper and need adapt them to next year’s book. Sound is at least half our experience of any tips on organization, lesson planning, grading EVALUATION CODE: 2615 video project. What do you need to know to or staff management, come to this informal Jim Jordan, Del Campo High School, Fair Oaks, improve your audio production techniques? session to ask questions, solve problems and Calif. A short course in sound and gear behaviors. benefit from the experience of JEA mentors. 11 a.m. Friday, Avalon, 3rd Level (400) Because not everything can be fixed in post. EVALUATION CODE: 4219 EVALUATION CODE: 4939 Linda Barrington, MJE, Mount Mary University, ENTREPRENEURSHIP Susan Bloom, Brooks Institute, Ventura, Calif. Milwaukee, and Kay Locey, CJE, Puyallup, 11 a.m. Friday, Palos Verdes, Lobby Level (122) Wash. They said, ‘No!’ 10 a.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite B, 3rd Level (20) Tired of hearing the same excuses every year for why your peers can’t buy a copy of the WRITING, FEATURED SPEAKER ADVISING/TEACHING yearbook you just spent so many months Write the miracle. Be the miracle. Unraveling yearbook terms working on? This session will cover 10 of the Only in journalism can our words mean so most frequently used excuses and ways to much. In journalism can we use those words to Folio design? Verbal/visual connection? respond to them. change the world? Alternative coverage? If you hear these terms EVALUATION CODE: 4954 EVALUATION CODE: 4868 or see them on your critiques, but would like a Matthew LaPorte, CJE, Southwest Career and Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times better understanding of what they are and how Technical Academy, Las Vegas 11 a.m. Friday, Sacramento, 2nd Level (600) to incorporate them into the next edition of 11 a.m. Friday, Beaudry A, Lobby Level (180) your yearbook, then this is the session for you. ENTREPRENEURSHIP EVALUATION CODE: 4922 NEWS GATHERING Matthew LaPorte, CJE, Southwest Career and Sell yearbooks by sharing more on Technical Academy, Las Vegas Yearbook: It’s all about inclusive social media 10 a.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite C, 3rd Level (20) coverage Come and learn ways to market and sell your Looking for ideas? Come gather new ideas publication the entire year. Best practices and LAW AND ETHICS and share your successes to build all-inclusive marketing/PR ideas will be shared for achieving Ethics: What we should do yearbooks. We’ll discuss how to handle the goal of selling more ads and books with Plenty has been written about journalism historical reference aspects, including pros/cons traditional, guerrilla and social media marketing. ethics, but it is easier said than done. Journalists of senior quotes, missing students, makeup EVALUATION CODE: 4956 constantly find themselves in situations photos and not-pictured lists, plus strategies for Lisa Llewellyn, CJE, Walsworth Yearbooks, in which ethical behavior requires a lot of organizing group photos, and more. Dallas discipline and courage. This session will focus EVALUATION CODE: 4980 11 a.m. Friday, San Bernardino, Lobby Level (108) on those tough situations and how to handle Lizabeth Walsh, MJE, Reno (Nev.) High School, them ethically. and Frank Ortiz, Balfour Yearbooks, Redlands, WRITING EVALUATION CODE: 3706 Calif. Joe Mirando, MJE, and Amber Narro, 11 a.m. Friday, Beaudry B, Lobby Level (220) Head in the game Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Tired of unexciting headlines? Come learn how La. ENTREPRENEURSHIP to write and design headlines that will grab the 10 a.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite E, 3rd Level (20) Make a new plan, Stan readers’ attention and make them want to read A business plan, that is. This isn’t “50 ways to your story. DESIGN leave your lover,” but specific plans for selling EVALUATION CODE: 4619 ads to raise money for your publication. Learn Mike Taylor, Walsworth Yearbooks, Mansfield, Making your literary magazine pop and Renee Burke, MJE, Boone High School, This workshop will include tips for producing the skills you’ll need in whatever career you Orlando, Fla. a higher-level literary magazine and honing choose: the ability to sell something and to 11 a.m. Friday, San Diego, 2nd Level (700) the details. This includes the importance of provide customer service. consistent theme and design, copy editing, EVALUATION CODE: 4801 GENERAL AUDIENCE and organization, as well as highlighting the Linda Barrington, MJE, Mount Mary University, importance of team dynamics. Milwaukee The power of the ampersand in media EVALUATION CODE: 5027 11 a.m. Friday, Los Cerritos, Lobby Level (68) Too often journalists settle for “less than” in Mary Van and Riot literary magazine staff, interviewing, writing, photography and design. Century High School, Bismarck, N.D. LAW AND ETHICS Explore the power of the simple ampersand to 10 a.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite G, 3rd Level (60) You can’t handle the truth layer your coverage and draw you into more In a world of instant media, the public is now meaningful storytelling. wary of the media and feels we get the story EVALUATION CODE: 4870

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Casey Nichols, CJE, Rocklin (Calif.) High School MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST WEB 11 a.m. Friday, San Fernando, Lobby Level (120) Beyond daily announcements: Video Is your home page dead? With the rise of social media websites, home GENERAL AUDIENCE news stories for impact Learn how to turn your daily announcements pages are becoming less important. This It’s the little things show into a full newscast by integrating video session will show examples of how student Come to this session to hear almost three news packages into your program. The staff publications are using Snapchat, Twitter, dozen specific suggestions aimed at improving and adviser of Pacemaker-winning Mustang Instagram and Facebook to drive traffic to their your reporting, design and staff dynamics. Morning News will show examples of different website without using the home page. Adjusting some of the little things may types of news packages and discuss crew roles EVALUATION CODE: 4744 be all it takes to transform your paper or and workflow. Jonathan Rogers, MJE, Iowa City (Iowa) High School, and Evelyn Lauer, CJE, Niles West High newsmagazine. EVALUATION CODE: 4898 EVALUATION CODE: 2111 Michael Hernandez, Mira Costa High School, School, Skokie, Ill. Jon Reese, CJE, Decatur (Ga.) High School Manhattan Beach, Calif. 11 a.m. Friday, San Pedro, Lobby Level (108) 11 a.m. Friday, San Gabriel A, Lobby Level (128) 11 a.m. Friday, San Gabriel C, Lobby Level (128) FEATURED SPEAKER, WEB DESIGN PHOTOJOURNALISM Disrupting the newsroom through the Makeover magic Sports photography: Action and classroom Beautiful yearbook spreads don’t have to be reaction Discover how experimentation with new boring, cluttered or over-designed. Come see You’ve been assigned to photograph sports, technologies can help save journalism ... from how even just a few subtle changes can take the toughest assignment of all. Need to freeze itself. In this talk we’ll look at platforms like pages from ordinary to extraordinary in this action? Zoom in on the reaction? Get the best AR, VR and more, plus look at practical ways before and after demonstration. angle? Figure out the best ISO and shutter to infuse experimentation in journalism, both EVALUATION CODE: 4900 speed? Then you need to attend this session! inside and outside the classroom. Crystal Kazmierski, Arrowhead Christian EVALUATION CODE: 4997 EVALUATION CODE: 4869 Academy, Redlands, Calif. Kathy Daly, KDaly Photography, Denver Robert Hernandez, USC Annenberg, Los 11 a.m. Friday, San Gabriel B, Lobby Level (159) Angeles 11 a.m. Friday, San Jose, 2nd Level (400) 11 a.m. Friday, Santa Anita B, Lobby Level (136)

Telling Stories that Matter

Ducks flock to stories that demand telling. Innovation and curiosity lead us south, north, or wherever. We ask “if,” but we also ask “why” and “how” and “who.”

Sometimes, we ruffle feathers. We’re okay with that. See, each answer leads to a new question, so, we follow the crumbs that lead us to the truth.

Because above all, Ducks value truth. And crumbs. But mostly truth.

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PHOTOJOURNALISM Liana Lum and Kendra Harvey, Convent of the test takers and students who want to brush up Photoshop secrets Sacred Heart High School, San Francisco on the basics of AP style. These virtually unknown features of Photoshop 11 a.m. Friday, Santa Barbara C, Lobby Level EVALUATION CODE: 4856 (120) will save you hours, produce more consistent Joe Humphrey, MJE, Hillsborough High School, results, and just plain make you look like a Tampa, Fla. GENERAL AUDIENCE 11 a.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite E, 3rd Level (20) genius. Both beginners and experts will learn something new. You will leave with powerful Scholastic press training for LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING Photoshop tools — it’s all here! administrators EVALUATION CODE: 4999 The JEA Principals Outreach Committee has The summer retreat they’ll never Jen Bladen, MJE, Tulsa, Okla., and Brynda put together resources and training materials forget Everman, CJE, Balfour Yearbooks, Azusa, Calif. for administrators. Come see how JEA can Get your staff prepared for the upcoming year 11 a.m. Friday, Santa Anita A, Lobby Level (128) help start the conversation between principals by throwing a summer retreat that includes and the student press. Students, advisers and training, team building and special guest NEWS GATHERING administrators are all welcome. speakers. The speakers share registration Breaking news: You be the source EVALUATION CODE: 4934 packets, agendas and training tips to menus, Learn how to be ready for the unexpected, Carrie Faust, MJE, Smoky Hill High School, team-building activities and supply lists. then swing into action, post minute by minute, Aurora, Colo. EVALUATION CODE: 4754 compete with local professional news outlets 11 a.m. Friday, Santa Monica A, 3rd Level (90) Wendy Connelly and Nicole Morote, Amador and follow up in print so you can be the first Valley High School, Pleasanton, Calif. and most reliable source when news happens CONTEST 11 a.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite G, 3rd Level (60) at your school. Write-off contest 39: Commercial/PSA EVALUATION CODE: 5004 Students entered in this contest will meet for a Joelle Keene, CJE, Shalhevet High School, Los group critique. Contest ID label must be shown. Noon Angeles 11 a.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite A, 3rd Level (40) 11 a.m. Friday, Santa Anita C, Lobby Level (163) FEATURED SPEAKER, GENERAL AUDIENCE CONTEST The future of journalism and justice EDITING Write-off contest 40: Social media Linda Deutsch will discuss her celebrated half- The Play-Doh process reporting century career covering high-profile trials for the Associated Press from Charles Manson to Good writing is a work of art. Attend this Students entered in this contest will meet for a O.J. Simpson and beyond. She also will reflect session and learn how to sculpt your writing critique. Contest ID label must be shown. on the future of legal journalism in the Internet into a perfect masterpiece. We’ll practice with 11 a.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite D, 3rd Level (40) age. Play-Doh and you’ll walk away with an arsenal EVALUATION CODE: 4895 of tools to use on your next writing assignment. ADVISING/TEACHING Linda Deutsch, Los Angeles EVALUATION CODE: 5011 Yearbook adviser round table Noon Friday, Avalon, 3rd Level (400) Jess Young, MJE, Orange Glen High School, If you’re new to advising a yearbook and need Escondido, Calif. tips on organization, lesson planning, grading NEWS GATHERING 11 a.m. Friday, Santa Barbara A, Lobby Level or staff management, come to this informal (120) session to ask questions, solve problems and Using social media to expand benefit from the experience of JEA mentors. coverage PHOTOJOURNALISM EVALUATION CODE: 4220 Most students use social media to promote and 11 tips for improving photography Bill Flechtner, MJE, Milwaukie, Ore., and Joy share, but are you putting social media to work Bring home these 11 tips for improving your Lessard, Ellensburg, Wash. for you to enhance coverage of the activities photography and watch your photos (and 11 a.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite B, 3rd Level (20) and students in your school? This session your attitude) improve. This session goes to 11. will include ideas and tips for engaging your Spinal Tap would approve. ADVISING/TEACHING community to help gather content ideas. EVALUATION CODE: 4985 EVALUATION CODE: 4963 Legal and ethical issues for advisers Margie Raper, MJE, Wakeland High School, Kathy Habiger, MJE, Mill Valley High School, Do you plan to take the CJE or MJE test or just Shawnee, Kan., and Amy Morgan, MJE, Frisco, Texas want to be more familiar with legal and ethical Shawnee Mission West High School, Overland Noon Friday, Beaudry A, Lobby Level (180) student media issues? If you want to know Park, Kan. landmark cases or understand the importance 11 a.m. Friday, Santa Barbara B, Lobby Level WRITING (144) of your publication being a forum, find what is essential here. It’s a human thing: Crafting personal EVALUATION CODE: 2164 LAW AND ETHICS stories Candace Perkins Bowen, MJE, Kent (Ohio) State If you think no one’s reading your yearbook PRESSure and the First Amendment University copy, you might be right. But readers are With great freedom comes great responsibility. 11 a.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite C, 3rd Level (20) hungry for stories. Just look at the success of Two private school editors will talk about their “Humans of New York.” Together, we’ll find experiences in handling content selection and EDITING inspiration to tap into curiosity and look at finding the balance between school climate, Get certified with style stories that grab readers’ attention. administrators and student voice, while Bring your phone to this interactive session that EVALUATION CODE: 4937 honoring the First Amendment. helps prepare applicants for the AP style section Ava Butzu, Grand Blanc (Mich.) High School EVALUATION CODE: 4901 of the CJE exam. 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PHOTOJOURNALISM WEB MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST From ‘meh’ to ‘all right’ with just one Engaging viewers beyond social Covering controversy: Video light media journalism and social responsibility When that kit lens isn’t cutting it and you Learn unique ways your online site can keep Follow Pacemaker-winning Mustang Morning need a help in the dark hallways and spaces your readers engaged once they visit your site. News staff and adviser through case studies in your school, you need to see the LIGHT Hear about the creative audience engagement of how they’ve succeeded — and sometimes — a speedlite, that is. Learn how a modest techniques our student staff uses in stories. failed — to report on topics that people in the investment in lighting equipment can change VOX, the news site for this international web- community don’t want to see the light of day. everything for you. based school, gets thousands of page views We’ll share tips and advice so your broadcast EVALUATION CODE: 4976 each month. program can cover controversy. Mike Simons, MJE, Corning-Painted Post High EVALUATION CODE: 4714 EVALUATION CODE: 4897 School, Corning, N.Y. Kim McCarthy, CJE, Mother of Divine Grace Michael Hernandez, Mira Costa High School, Noon Friday, Hollywood Ballroom, 3rd Level School, Ojai, Calif. Manhattan Beach, Calif. (400) Noon Friday, San Bernardino, Lobby Level Noon Friday, San Gabriel C, Lobby Level (128) (108) STUDENT EVENT ENTREPRENEURSHIP l Lunch with the president DESIGN Entrepreneurship and student media JEA President Mark Newton will have a press Trends in yearbook Entrepreneurship and student media go conference and lunch with 10 preselected See how yearbook staffs across the country hand in hand. Successful programs intertwine students to discuss JEA and scholastic create trendsetting designs to expand their journalism curriculum along with marketing journalism. Preregistration was required. coverage and ultimately sell more books. and sales. In an increasingly digitized world EVALUATION CODE: 3664 EVALUATION CODE: 5041 student media sometimes struggle to maintain Mark Newton, MJE, Mountain Vista High Laura Schaub, CJE, Lifetouch, Commerce City, circulation. Learn how to harness the power School, Highlands Ranch, Colo. Colo. of social media to maintain and increase Noon Friday, JEA Suite Noon Friday, San Diego, 2nd Level (700) circulation. EVALUATION CODE: 4847 LAW AND ETHICS WRITING Jessica Latoni, G. Holmes Braddock Senior The best and worst of times Write like you’re Snapchatting High School, Miami This session reviews the importance of student Ten seconds. Snapchats, while short, Noon Friday, San Pedro, Lobby Level (108) media rights from the perspective of an adviser communicate stories. This unique form of who was fired and rehired. We will discuss the storytelling is done quickly and requires a DESIGN recent student rights legislation that passed response. When writing, we struggle with the InDesign tips and tricks in North Dakota and address how students/ “overview” and not the story itself. This session Attendees will learn cool things like changing advisers can improve their programs through will examine storytelling and share how to tell photos to black and white, custom shapes, how strengthening policies. raw and personal stories. to make a grid two different ways, compound EVALUATION CODE: 5028 EVALUATION CODE: 4860 paths and more. A laptop with InDesign Jeremy Murphy, West Fargo (N.D.) High School Andrew Ross, Walsworth Yearbooks, Arvada, installed on it is recommended. Noon Friday, Los Cerritos, Lobby Level (68) Colo. EVALUATION CODE: 4919 Noon Friday, San Fernando, Lobby Level (120) Casandra Workman, CJE, Centennial High LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING School, Las Vegas Building a strong student-focused GENERAL AUDIENCE Noon Friday, Santa Anita A, Lobby Level (128) Learning from college journalism team GENERAL AUDIENCE Learn how to empower student editors to build What can high school student media learn a team, communicate, and take ownership of from college media? The 2015 National High Breaking rules: Can you? Should you? the success of your media program. School Journalist of the Year will discuss her If you want your publication to progress to EVALUATION CODE: 4882 experiences in college student media and how the next level, you have to know which rules Justin Raisner, Sarah Schisla and Taran Sun, high school students can apply these lessons to to follow and which to break. From design to Carlmont High School, Belmont, Calif. their own publications. coverage, staff organization and more, we’ll look Noon Friday, Los Feliz, Lobby Level (68) EVALUATION CODE: 4893 at some of the rules that can make or break a Julia Poe, University of Southern California, Los publication. MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST Angeles EVALUATION CODE: 4970 Noon Friday, San Gabriel A, Lobby Level (128) Carrie Faust, MJE, Smoky Hill High School, From sound bits to sound bites Aurora, Colo.; Meghan Percival, CJE, McLean Pull back the curtain and see how filmmakers PHOTOJOURNALISM (Va.) High School; and Erinn Harris, MJE, and journalists draw the best responses from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and their interview subjects. Learn how sound bites The power of light Improve your photographs by seeing light Technology, Alexandria, Va. are constructed in the edit, with real-world, in a different way. Discuss the qualities and Noon Friday, Santa Anita B, Lobby Level (136) behind-the-scenes examples. You’ll never shoot directions of light and the impact they have on NEWS GATHERING an interview the same way again after this. imagery. Beyond controversy: Religion EVALUATION CODE: 4842 EVALUATION CODE: 4886 Gil Garcia, Austin (Texas) High School coverage at school Mark Murray, Arlington (Texas) ISD Noon Friday, Palos Verdes, Lobby Level (122) Increasingly, religion seems to be a part of every Noon Friday, San Gabriel B, Lobby Level (159) news story on the world stage. Learn how to 38 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions Noon Friday

help your readers untangle the web of reality, EVALUATION CODE: 4925 Bradley Wilson, MJE, Midwestern State misunderstanding and prejudice, sacred text vs. Renee Burke, MJE, Boone High School, University, Wichita Falls, Texas interpretation, etc., through proactive news and Orlando, Fla. Noon Friday, Santa Barbara C, Lobby Level (120) feature coverage in your school media. Noon Friday, Santa Barbara A, Lobby Level EVALUATION CODE: 5003 (120) CONTEST Joelle Keene, CJE, Shalhevet High School, Los Write-off contest 41: Short Angeles GENERAL AUDIENCE documentary Noon Friday, Santa Anita C, Lobby Level (163) All politics are local: Covering Students entered in this contest will meet for a group critique. Contest ID label must be shown. LAW AND ETHICS elections Elections — whether they be the school board Noon Friday, Wilshire Suite A, 3rd Level (40) Freedom of tweet? or the presidential race — affect your students. How much can schools regulate what their Learn practical tips for covering elections, ADVISING/TEACHING students post on social media? Can schools hosting a mayoral debate, and engaging your Advising multiple publications make students turn over their social media readership on political topics. passwords or look inside their smartphones? EVALUATION CODE: 4992 round table The answers may surprise you — and may Kathleen Mills, Bloomington (Ind.) High School If you’re new to juggling both a yearbook and depend on where you live. Hear the latest on South a newspaper, and need tips on organization, First Amendment rights in digital media and Noon Friday, Santa Barbara B, Lobby Level lesson planning, grading or staff management, learn how to protect free-speech rights online. (144) come to this informal session to ask questions, EVALUATION CODE: 5050 solve problems and benefit from the Frank LoMonte, Student Press Law Center, PHOTOJOURNALISM experience of JEA mentors. Washington, D.C. EVALUATION CODE: 4218 Noon Friday, Santa Monica A, 3rd Level (90) Themed photography Carol Strauss, Newport Beach, Calif. This year, JEA started a new photography Noon Friday, Wilshire Suite B, 3rd Level (20) LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING Write-off contest — Themed Photo. Come look at some of the images that have received ADVISING/TEACHING Learn to be a passionate leader recognition in this contest and learn how to Discover key components of what it takes to be compete effectively in such a contest. Role and history of media for advisers a successful leader and how to be motivational EVALUATION CODE: 4864 For teachers who are preparing for the CJE test, through passion and communication. this session offers a brief review of the most

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COM_NECIR_HighSchoolJourProg_HalfPage_Final.indd 1 9/4/14 12:12 PM Noon Friday important events and individuals in journalism School, Glenview, Ill. GENERAL AUDIENCE history and the functions of the mass media in 1 p.m. Friday, Avalon, 3rd Level (400) Maximize your education by modern American society. Sample questions will be discussed if time permits. DESIGN networking Education is much more than just going to EVALUATION CODE: 2178 The best of newspaper design Joe Mirando, MJE, Southeastern Louisiana class. Internships, workshops, contests and peer We will look at award-winning newspapers interaction are vital parts of a student’s learning University, Hammond, La. to see what elements make them so good, Noon Friday, Wilshire Suite C, 3rd Level (20) process. Six steps to maximize the educational examine their pages and get ideas for making experience will assist students in their approach your publication even better. Those who LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING to college life and beyond. attend this session will also get access to the EVALUATION CODE: 3583 Teaching self-reflection to enhance presentation to download for themselves. Greg Cooper, Brooks Institute, Ventura, Calif. collaboration EVALUATION CODE: 2300 1 p.m. Friday, Los Feliz, Lobby Level (68) Journalism staffs confront constant change, Linda Barrington, MJE, Mount Mary University, routinely turning over up to a third of their Milwaukee FEATURED SPEAKER, MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST leaders every year. Come experience a method 1 p.m. Friday, Beaudry A, Lobby Level (180) Cue the violins of reflection and individual counseling that WRITING SFX, music, voices, backgrounds: There are so leads to individual student learning and growth many audio elements in every video project, as well as enhances collaborative work. Strategies for attention-grabbing each one placed at a specific moment to evoke EVALUATION CODE: 4911 headlines a particular response. What are the best and Sue Skalicky, MJE, Legacy High School, You have to hook readers and make them want easiest ways to think about and organize sound Bismarck, N.D. to keep reading, but you only have so much design around human perception? Noon Friday, Wilshire Suite D, 3rd Level (40) room. Learn to pack a lot of information into a EVALUATION CODE: 4938 small space for meaningful and eye-catching Susan Bloom, Brooks Institute, Ventura, Calif. ADVISING/TEACHING headlines. We’ll review the basics, explore 1 p.m. Friday, Palos Verdes, Lobby Level (122) Accentuate the positive brainstorming strategies, then talk word choice, This session for new newspaper advisers style and creative flair. DESIGN will provide insight into a positive approach EVALUATION CODE: 4940 Just your type Shari Adwers, MJE, Grosse Pointe North High to advising that will stress giving students Typography can make or break your yearbook. School, Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.; Ava Butzu, ownership and responsibility for their Learn the basic rules of typography to create a Grand Blanc High School, Grand Blanc, Mich. production. The basis will be 25 years of readable look; then learn how and why to break 1 p.m. Friday, Beaudry B, Lobby Level (220) advising and participation in the JEA mentoring the rules to “visually speak” your message. program. EVALUATION CODE: 5043 EVALUATION CODE: 2469 WRITING Laura Schaub, CJE, Lifetouch, Commerce City, Ron Bonadonna, CJE, Mays Landing, N.J. Improve your captions in 1, 2, 3 Colo. Noon Friday, Wilshire Suite E, 3rd Level (20) The most-read copy in your publication usually 1 p.m. Friday, San Diego, 2nd Level (700) gets the least attention: captions. We’ll highlight CONTEST a straightforward strategy for developing solid, GENERAL AUDIENCE Write-off contest 48: Broadcast journalistic captions that do service to the story Show-stopping sidebars of the year and will be valuable to your readers When it comes to student publications, the commentary decades from now! Those entered in the broadcast commentary difference between good versus great often EVALUATION CODE: 4974 comes down to coverage. Learn our formula contest will meet here to first do their writing, Mike Simons, MJE, Corning-Painted Post High developing the best angles for sidebars, then taping. Contest ID label must be shown. School, Corning, N.Y. infographics and mods, as well as hot design Noon Friday, Wilshire Suite G, 3rd Level (60) 1 p.m. Friday, Hollywood Ballroom, 3rd Level techniques that will deliver a yearbook or (400) newsmagazine that wows. EVALUATION CODE: 4659 1 P.m. LAW AND ETHICS Jennifer Freeman Thompson, CJE, Picaboo DESIGN Passing student press legislation Yearbooks, Hanover, N.H., and Jaima Lynn Seek professional help Come learn what is working in state capitals Finn, Picaboo Yearbooks, Santa Rosa, Calif. across the nation and discuss options for your 1 p.m. Friday, San Fernando, Lobby Level (120) Now is the time to begin the conceptual state. Get ideas on how to get legislators to development of your 2017 yearbook. And the sponsor freedom of expression legislation so LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING place to start looking for fresh, creative theme student voices can be heard. ideas is from professionals in the “real world” EVALUATION CODE: 4848 Leadership matters where innovation thrives. Explore verbal and John Bowen, MJE, Kent (Ohio) State University; Journalism students receive a uniquely real- visual prompts from branding materials, retail Stan Zoller, MJE, Lake Forest (Ill.) College; world training. In this class, we’ll talk about the marketing, magazine advertising and more that Kathy Schrier, MJE, Washington JEA, Seattle; similarities between a high school journalism will inspire you to think and rethink a theme Janet Ewell, MJE, Huntington Beach, Calif.; experience and the business world, how to be concept that will best characterize next year’s Jim Ewert, California Newspaper Publishers great leaders, and how to sell your skills when book. Association, Sacramento, Calif.; Sue Skalicky, college-admission or job hunting. EVALUATION CODE: 4957 MJE, Legacy High School, Bismarck, N.D. EVALUATION CODE: 4973 John Cutsinger, CJE, Jostens, Ocoee, Fla., and 1 p.m. Friday, Los Cerritos, Lobby Level (68) Sara Sausker, CJE, Jostens, Bloomington, Minn. Brenda Field, MJE, Glenbrook South High 1 p.m. Friday, San Gabriel A, Lobby Level (128) 40 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions 1 p.m. Friday

PHOTOJOURNALISM he said/she said or Q&A formats. Learn how to with libraries, set character and paragraph Build an award-winning portfolio adapt alternative formats to add coverage. styles, exporting color swatches, packaging There is much more to creating a portfolio than EVALUATION CODE: 4377 files to preserve links as well as using keyboard Martha Akers, Loudoun Valley High School, simply “collecting your 10 best pictures.” Know shortcuts and other timesaving tips for Purcellville, Va., and Mike Taylor, Walsworth how a portfolio should look while gaining tips InDesign CS5 and later. Yearbooks, Mansfield, Texas to improve your photography. Bridge the gap EVALUATION CODE: 4955 1 p.m. Friday, San Pedro, Lobby Level (108) between high school photography and college Lisa Llewellyn, CJE, Walsworth Yearbooks, photography. Dallas DESIGN EVALUATION CODE: 4885 1 p.m. Friday, Santa Anita A, Lobby Level (128) Mark Murray, Arlington (Texas) ISD Design doesn’t end where type begins 1 p.m. Friday, San Gabriel B, Lobby Level (159) With endless options for typography, never PHOTOJOURNALISM settle for printing your copy in columns Stepping up sports coverage MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST of bland text. Add color, weight, size and Students will receive an experienced Video journalism with your device purposeful layout so that copy blocks tell a photojournalist’s views of some of the most story in both words and design. Come see A full video production studio resides within an accessible locations with the best lines of sight samples from the pros and current yearbooks. iOS device. Learn ways advisers and students in which to photograph sports. We also will EVALUATION CODE: 4685 can leverage the power of mobile video. Simple cover the appropriate settings for each sport Carrie Faust, MJE, Smoky Hill High School, ideas and free apps will guide our learning. and how to differentiate between what settings Aurora, Colo.; Meghan Percival, CJE, McLean to use. EVALUATION CODE: 4843 (Va.) High School; and Erinn Harris, MJE, EVALUATION CODE: 4841 Don Goble, Ladue Horton Watkins High Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Kyle Carter, Richland R-1 School, Essex, Mo. School, St. Louis Technology, Alexandria, Va. 1 p.m. Friday, Santa Anita C, Lobby Level (163) 1 p.m. Friday, San Gabriel C, Lobby Level (128) 1 p.m. Friday, Santa Anita B, Lobby Level (136) LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING WRITING DESIGN For immediate delivery InDesign hacks It’s Trello time In this “I want it now” world, yearbook staffs are Learn how you can utilize Trello, Slack, Google Managing your publication specifications with Drive and Dropbox to help manage and meet learning to deliver stories in many compelling tips on how to set up grids, create and work forms. The story might work best in all quotes, deadlines.

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EVALUATION CODE: 4926 NEWS GATHERING CONTEST Renee Burke, MJE, Boone High School, Risky conversations: Interviews Write-off contest 42: Video package Orlando, Fla. You know that awkward feeling when you 1 p.m. Friday, Santa Barbara A, Lobby Level editing abruptly go from one question to another in (120) Students entered in this contest will meet for a your reporter’s notebook? Let’s discuss how to group critique. Contest ID label must be shown. gather storytelling quotes and vital information GENERAL AUDIENCE 1 p.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite A, 3rd Level (40) from interviews. It starts by remembering how Internship intel: Beyond high school to have a great conversation: by taking a risk. ADVISING/TEACHING journalism EVALUATION CODE: 4888 Learn how to land an internship and build your Eric Thomas, MJE, University of Kansas, Round table for broadcast advisers news media career in college and beyond. You’ll Lawrence, Kan. If you’re new to advising a broadcast program, receive tips on getting in the door and mistakes 1 p.m. Friday, Santa Barbara B, Lobby Level want to start one or need ideas to make your you should avoid once you’re there. Advice (144) program even better, come to this informal will be given on attitude, ethics and character session to ask questions, solve problems and you’ll need to succeed in the changing media LAW AND ETHICS benefit from the experience of a JEA mentor. workplace. An evolution of copyright law for EVALUATION CODE: 5029 Mike Riley, CJE, Cody, Wyo. EVALUATION CODE: 5097 photojournalists 1 p.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite B, 3rd Level (20) Paul Glader, The King’s College, New York, N.Y. Laws evolve. In the last year, the copyright 1 p.m. Friday, Santa Monica A, 3rd Level (90) law, as it is applied to photojournalists, has ADVISING/TEACHING evolved. Come discuss copyright laws from a CONTEST CJE/MJE certification study session photojournalist’s perspective. Your images are Teachers who will be taking the JEA certification Write-off lead judges check-in your legacy. Learn how and why to protect that tests today are invited to this pre-test study Lead judges for JEA’s Write-off afternoon legacy. session. contests must check in between 1 and 3:30 EVALUATION CODE: 4863 EVALUATION CODE: 2045 p.m. to get instructions and supplies. Bradley Wilson, MJE, Midwestern State Kim Green, MJE, Ball State University, Muncie, 1-3:30 p.m. Friday, International Room, 3rd University, Wichita Falls, Texas Ind. Level (90) 1 p.m. Friday, Santa Barbara C, Lobby Level 1 p.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite C, 3rd Level (20) (120)

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NEWS GATHERING Team storytelling wrap-up 3:30 p.m. 8 p.m. Students who participated in Thursday’s team ADVISING/TEACHING STUDENT EVENT storytelling workshop are invited to this special session to review the results of their efforts. Certification testing for CJE and MJE l Media Swap Shops EVALUATION CODE: 3673 candidates Swap Shops are prime opportunities for Kristin Baker, CJE, Derby (Kan.) High School Advisers who have applied to take the Certified preregistered students to share useful ideas 1 p.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite D, 3rd Level (40) Journalism Educator or Master Journalism and concepts with others. Bring at least 10 Educator tests will do so at this time. This is a 2 samples of your newspaper, newsmagazine or ADVISING/TEACHING ½-hour test session. Please bring your laptop. literary magazine or one copy of your yearbook. CTE = Creativity and Technology Kim Green, MJE, Ball State University, Muncie, Broadcast stories and websites may be shared Ind. if students bring a laptop. Each delegate Evolution 3:30 p.m. Friday, Santa Monica D, 3rd Level (90) attending Swap Shops must have a ticket, Funding for your program is just one benefit which will be in the school registration packet. of teaching through Career and Technical Check the ticket for your assigned time. Education. Find out how pathways, clusters, 4 p.m. 8 and 9 p.m. Friday, California Foyer, 2nd Level competencies and certification can enhance your program’s mission of teaching 21st century ADMINISTRATORS STUDENT EVENT skills through projects that are instructional as A conversation about scholastic media l well as fun. Free concert for students Journalism Education Association President EVALUATION CODE: 5098 Nothing says Southern California like live Kristy Nyp, CJE, and Debra Kidd, Manhattan Mark Newton invites all school administrators music in a great indoor space any day of the (Kan.) High School to an informal discussion of the ultimate 21st week. Join us for a special concert with some 1 p.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite E, 3rd Level (20) century educational opportunity: journalism of the hottest bands in the state. These bands and student media. will make you want to stand up and dance. ADVISING/TEACHING EVALUATION CODE: 4278 Students will need to show their convention Mark Newton, MJE, Mountain Vista High name badge before they enter. Giddy about Google School, Highlands Ranch, Colo. 8-11 p.m. Friday, Sacramento, San Francisco, Google is more than a search engine — it’s a 4 p.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite F, 3rd Level (20) San Jose rooms, 2nd Level (2227) journalism teacher’s dream come true. Learn how to organize your program’s workflow using CONTEST Google Docs and Sheets, transform your classes 8:30 p.m. with Google Classroom and take the pain out of Write-off contests Categories 1-35 will meet at this time. Those testing with Google Forms. ADVISER EVENT EVALUATION CODE: 5051 who uploaded photography, layout or graphic Samantha Berry, Cypress Creek High School, design entries online will meet for a required l Adviser reception and SPLC Houston critique session. Contest ID label must be benefit auction 1 p.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite G, 3rd Level (60) shown to enter the room. Don’t forget required Save room for dessert. Advisers are invited to contest supplies, such as paper and pens. Arrive this social gathering featuring a fundraiser early. Latecomers will be disqualified. to benefit the Student Press Law Center. The 2 p.m. 4-6 p.m. Friday, See Page 29 for room auction will feature sports memorabilia, signed assignments. books, Los Angeles-related food and gifts, art EVENT and other interesting items. Credit/debit cards, l General session/keynote address 6 p.m. check or cash will be accepted as payment for Amara Aguilar from the USC Annenberg School auction items. Those who are judging Write-off contests are especially encouraged to attend for Communication and Journalism will give the CONTEST keynote address. after they finish judging. Sponsored by Brooks 2 p.m. Friday, Sacramento/San Francisco/San Write-off judges dinner and judging Institute. Jose rooms, 2nd Level (2,227) Those who have agreed to judge JEA’s Write-off 8:30-11 p.m. Friday, San Gabriel A-B, Lobby contests are invited to dinner before judging Level (270) begins. Please check in at the door. Nancy Y. Smith, MJE, Lafayette High School, Wildwood, Mo., and Priscilla Frost, Lindbergh High School, St. Louis 6 p.m. Friday, Hollywood Ballroom, 3rd Level

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VISIT THE JOSTENS BOOTH Learn more about Monarch and our other technology innovations, play games to win prizes and take a look at award-winning yearbooks.

44 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions Adobe, the Adobe logo, InDesign and Photoshop are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. ™ Join the Innovation Revolution

ONE YEAR AGO MONARCH™ BY JOSTENS ARRIVED, UNLEASHING YEARBOOK CREATIVITY THROUGH AN EXCLUSIVE BROWSER-BASED INDESIGN AND PHOTOSHOP SOLUTION.

JOSTENS SALUTES OUR CURRENT YEARBOOK INNOVATORS AND LOOKS FORWARD TO INSPIRING OUR NEXT.

JOSTENS INNOVATIVE YEARBOOK TECHNOLOGIES

As the latest innovation in yearbook creation, Whether planning or creating, selling or learning, ReplayIt is the best way for students, parents, teachers, School Way is a messaging app for safe, one-way Monarch hosts full versions of Adobe InDesign and Jostens Yearbook Avenue is the perfect companion for club advisers and community members to capture and school communication. Schools can send the same Adobe Photoshop in a browser. Monarch’s cloud-based everything yearbook. Our robust, all-in-one platform makes the share photos, allowing them to collaborate with the yearbook notification to multiple mediums simultaneously. It offers file management system makes it easy for staff members whole yearbook creation and management experience easy. staff and help celebrate moments that matter. At the end of schools full visibility of all messaging. It’s also free. to remotely access pages and images anywhere, anytime. the year, all of the content is sealed into a digital time capsule that students can access for years to come.

VISIT THE JOSTENS BOOTH Learn more about Monarch and our other technology innovations, play games to win prizes and take a look at award-winning yearbooks.

Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES — 45 Adobe, the Adobe logo, InDesign and Photoshop are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. SATURDAY AT A GLANCE 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. SUNDAY

Pasadena Foyer, Publication exchange drop tables Publication exchange drop tables Exhibition Level

Tips for creating award-winning Beaudry A, Lobby Level Could I have a word with you? What good photographers know Show your true colors God and the newsroom Phone photography images

Beat reporting trumps opinion Game changers: Women in sports Covering creativity: Arts and Photography: Working with what LGBTQ journalism: Getting beyond Beaudry B, Lobby Level Typing in the trenches every time journalism culture journalism you have Transgender 101 the letters

Manage your staff using a social Effectively coordinate your Los Cerritos, Lobby Level contract Becoming 5-tool sports journalists yearbook photography process Design smarter, not harder Online workflow AP style from A to Z Thriving, training in cyberspace

Diversity Committee Literary magazine connections: Rethinking journalism: Digital- Journalists, PR people help each Los Feliz, Lobby Level meeting Workshop and critique only publications Hello, Trello Thrill them with theme copy other Figuring out what is needed

Palos Verdes, Lobby Everyone is weird; dig for the Healing headline headaches Cover sports like a pro It belongs to the students Sports live streaming and play- You mean I have to talk to people? Only human Level details by-play commentary

San Bernardino, Lobby Blogging for a better publication Writing for the Web Credibility and the news website Ready ... set ... lede! Storytelling in and with social iPhone pro tips Level media

San Fernando, Lobby Diversity decisions on deadline Does your business plan make Making money with photography TV media and sports Engage and connect with social Covering the hard stuff: Disability, Step into the Global Student Level sense? media illness and death Square

San Gabriel A, Lobby Make it live with innovative Video news package chalk talk Theme fit Humans of your school: The video Video techniques from start to Producing a successful Multimedia storytelling: There’s Level broadcasting techniques finish documentary an app for that

San Gabriel B, Lobby Journalism Quiz Bowl Cover more, sell more, be more Take your theme beyond the Putting online first Photo 251: Lighting techniques Level basics

San Gabriel C, Lobby Caption-writing ease Photo composition and more Life after journalism Tell the story through Plays well with others Bare essentials of design Questions, anyone? Level environmental portraits

Top advisers discuss yearbook One year: First publication to It’s not about the money (yes, San Pedro, Lobby Level Yearbook: Trending now True color or off color trends ‘Let’s investigate the school’ Pacemaker it is)

Santa Anita A, Lobby Photoshop for advisers (2 hours) 5 fast fixes with Photoshop and Branding in a snap How’d they do it? Yearbook Using InDesign to streamline your Level InDesign InDesign tricks yearbook

Santa Anita B, Lobby Exploring criminal justice issues How to cover the death of a Staff motivation: Work hard, play Taste the rainbow: True colors Social media magic Write like a moviemaker Level within the school system student or teacher hard

Santa Anita C, Lobby Confessions of a fontaholic Creating coverage that counts Sports photographers: Stand here Stalking the feature story, HONY Photojournalism nuts and bolts The image as your hook Level style

Santa Barbara A, Lobby The great news debate Reporting mobs: Covering an The art and craft of headline Don’t forget your cape When pens fly Level event from all angles writing

Santa Barbara B, Lobby Seize the story Photo packaging in the 21st The writing lab Yearbook: Opening matters Level century

Santa Barbara C, Lobby Survival of the fittest May the Force be with you f/8 and be there How to build staff morale Level

Sacramento Registration Convention check-in/registration, lost and found (8 a.m.-1 p.m.) Convention check-in/registration Booth, 2nd Level

46 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions n ADVISING/TEACHING n ENTREPRENEURSHIP n LEADERSHIP/TEAM BUILDING n NEWS LITERACY n CONTEST n KEYNOTE n MEETING n PHOTOJOURNALISM n DESIGN n GENERAL AUDIENCE n MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST n WEB SATURDAY AT A GLANCE n EDITING n LAW/ETHICS n NEWS GATHERING n WRITING 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. SUNDAY

Pasadena Foyer, Publication exchange drop tables Publication exchange drop tables Exhibition Level

Tips for creating award-winning Beaudry A, Lobby Level Could I have a word with you? What good photographers know Show your true colors God and the newsroom Phone photography images

Beat reporting trumps opinion Game changers: Women in sports Covering creativity: Arts and Photography: Working with what LGBTQ journalism: Getting beyond Beaudry B, Lobby Level Typing in the trenches every time journalism culture journalism you have Transgender 101 the letters

Manage your staff using a social Effectively coordinate your Los Cerritos, Lobby Level contract Becoming 5-tool sports journalists yearbook photography process Design smarter, not harder Online workflow AP style from A to Z Thriving, training in cyberspace

Diversity Committee Literary magazine connections: Rethinking journalism: Digital- Journalists, PR people help each Los Feliz, Lobby Level meeting Workshop and critique only publications Hello, Trello Thrill them with theme copy other Figuring out what is needed

Palos Verdes, Lobby Everyone is weird; dig for the Healing headline headaches Cover sports like a pro It belongs to the students Sports live streaming and play- You mean I have to talk to people? Only human Level details by-play commentary

San Bernardino, Lobby Blogging for a better publication Writing for the Web Credibility and the news website Ready ... set ... lede! Storytelling in and with social iPhone pro tips Level media

San Fernando, Lobby Diversity decisions on deadline Does your business plan make Making money with photography TV media and sports Engage and connect with social Covering the hard stuff: Disability, Step into the Global Student Level sense? media illness and death Square

San Gabriel A, Lobby Make it live with innovative Video news package chalk talk Theme fit Humans of your school: The video Video techniques from start to Producing a successful Multimedia storytelling: There’s Level broadcasting techniques finish documentary an app for that

San Gabriel B, Lobby Journalism Quiz Bowl Cover more, sell more, be more Take your theme beyond the Putting online first Photo 251: Lighting techniques Level basics

San Gabriel C, Lobby Caption-writing ease Photo composition and more Life after journalism Tell the story through Plays well with others Bare essentials of design Questions, anyone? Level environmental portraits

Top advisers discuss yearbook One year: First publication to It’s not about the money (yes, San Pedro, Lobby Level Yearbook: Trending now True color or off color trends ‘Let’s investigate the school’ Pacemaker it is)

Santa Anita A, Lobby Photoshop for advisers (2 hours) 5 fast fixes with Photoshop and Branding in a snap How’d they do it? Yearbook Using InDesign to streamline your Level InDesign InDesign tricks yearbook

Santa Anita B, Lobby Exploring criminal justice issues How to cover the death of a Staff motivation: Work hard, play Taste the rainbow: True colors Social media magic Write like a moviemaker Level within the school system student or teacher hard

Santa Anita C, Lobby Confessions of a fontaholic Creating coverage that counts Sports photographers: Stand here Stalking the feature story, HONY Photojournalism nuts and bolts The image as your hook Level style

Santa Barbara A, Lobby The great news debate Reporting mobs: Covering an The art and craft of headline Don’t forget your cape When pens fly Level event from all angles writing

Santa Barbara B, Lobby Seize the story Photo packaging in the 21st The writing lab Yearbook: Opening matters Level century

Santa Barbara C, Lobby Survival of the fittest May the Force be with you f/8 and be there How to build staff morale Level

Sacramento Registration Convention check-in/registration, lost and found (8 a.m.-1 p.m.) Convention check-in/registration Booth, 2nd Level

Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES — 47 SATURDAY AT A GLANCE 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. SUNDAY

Sacramento, 2nd Level Top 10 photo tips Behind the scenes at Variety The power of storytelling

International Documentary Association presents: Hot topics in photography NSPA awards ceremony JEA awards ceremony San Francisco, 2nd Level Can you ever tell the full story? (2 hours) 3:30-5:30 p.m. 8:30-11:30 a.m.

Amazing photo tips everyone Editorial cartoons reborn in digital San Jose, 2nd Level 5 tips for high impact design can use media Covering controversy

Humor writing for print and San Diego, 2nd Level ‘So you get paid to watch TV?’ broadcast media

Avalon, 3rd Level Now that’s a concept Yearbooks A-Z I should have caught that Finding your voice True tales of TV news

JEA Bookstore and Adviser Hospitality (7:30 a.m.-1 p.m.) JEA Bookstore and Adviser Emerald Bay, 3rd Level The art of writing: JEA One-Book discussion (9 a.m., hospitality area) Hospitality

Hollywood Ballroom, 3rd Adviser award luncheon Level

Santa Monica A, 3rd How to light for videos How to interview and profile Taking your website to the next Level celebrities level

Santa Monica B, 3rd Turn your classroom into an Journalism’s deadly sins Writing the staff editorial Marketing an iconic car museum Picture speaks 1,000 words Photography: Basic to fantastic Level episode of ‘TMZ’ after a major redesign

Santa Monica C, 3rd Best of Show judging Level

Santa Monica D, 3rd Working with administrators 3 essentials for understanding The free speech generation gap Beyond text and photos: Making Stories that matter Incidental advantages for What is a data desk? Level copyright law dynamic digital stories academic success

Wilshire Suite A, 3rd Digital Media Committee meeting Oh, JOY: Preparing a digital Use broadcast scriptwriting to California adviser meet-up Online and legal: What should How NOT to libel someone Level portfolio teach anything we know?

Wilshire Suite B, 3rd How to grow your journalism Scholastic press association round table (2 hours) JEA Awards Committee meeting JEA board followup Level program

Wilshire Suite C, 3rd One word When, what, where, why, website California free press law Designating your publication as a Level public forum

Wilshire Suite D, 3rd Scholastic Press Rights Committee Make sure your stories are all in Presentation of MJE projects Scripts, rules and rubrics Assuring all voices are heard Shopping the second-hand store: Unleashing New Voices Level meeting (7:30 a.m.) VAIN What you can ‘borrow’ online

Wilshire Suite E, 3rd JEA Certification Committee Cultural life skills from newspaper Blackfish, Murrow, Time Warner Things I learned my first year Now what? After the final All together now Level meeting (7:30 a.m.) ... oh my! teaching broadcast deadline

Wilshire Suite F, 3rd Southern California informational Starting a program in the inner Help for new advisers Teaching journalism and civics No repeat staff? No problem Level meeting city is magic

Wilshire Suite G, 3rd Intro to sports broadcasts The student press Panic Button Learning from our dirty laundry Yearbook sales: Corner the market How to prevent World War III How the Beatles teach writing: Level Sgt. Pepper

International Room, Write-off headquarters Write-off headquarters Write-off committee meeting Write-off headquarters 3rd Level

48 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions n ADVISING/TEACHING n ENTREPRENEURSHIP n LEADERSHIP/TEAM BUILDING n NEWS LITERACY n CONTEST n KEYNOTE n MEETING n PHOTOJOURNALISM n DESIGN n GENERAL AUDIENCE n MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST n WEB SATURDAY AT A GLANCE n EDITING n LAW/ETHICS n NEWS GATHERING n WRITING 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. SUNDAY

Sacramento, 2nd Level Top 10 photo tips Behind the scenes at Variety The power of storytelling

International Documentary Association presents: Hot topics in photography NSPA awards ceremony JEA awards ceremony San Francisco, 2nd Level Can you ever tell the full story? (2 hours) 3:30-5:30 p.m. 8:30-11:30 a.m.

Amazing photo tips everyone Editorial cartoons reborn in digital San Jose, 2nd Level 5 tips for high impact design can use media Covering controversy

Humor writing for print and San Diego, 2nd Level ‘So you get paid to watch TV?’ broadcast media

Avalon, 3rd Level Now that’s a concept Yearbooks A-Z I should have caught that Finding your voice True tales of TV news

JEA Bookstore and Adviser Hospitality (7:30 a.m.-1 p.m.) JEA Bookstore and Adviser Emerald Bay, 3rd Level The art of writing: JEA One-Book discussion (9 a.m., hospitality area) Hospitality

Hollywood Ballroom, 3rd Adviser award luncheon Level

Santa Monica A, 3rd How to light for videos How to interview and profile Taking your website to the next Level celebrities level

Santa Monica B, 3rd Turn your classroom into an Journalism’s deadly sins Writing the staff editorial Marketing an iconic car museum Picture speaks 1,000 words Photography: Basic to fantastic Level episode of ‘TMZ’ after a major redesign

Santa Monica C, 3rd Best of Show judging Level

Santa Monica D, 3rd Working with administrators 3 essentials for understanding The free speech generation gap Beyond text and photos: Making Stories that matter Incidental advantages for What is a data desk? Level copyright law dynamic digital stories academic success

Wilshire Suite A, 3rd Digital Media Committee meeting Oh, JOY: Preparing a digital Use broadcast scriptwriting to California adviser meet-up Online and legal: What should How NOT to libel someone Level portfolio teach anything we know?

Wilshire Suite B, 3rd How to grow your journalism Scholastic press association round table (2 hours) JEA Awards Committee meeting JEA board followup Level program

Wilshire Suite C, 3rd One word When, what, where, why, website California free press law Designating your publication as a Level public forum

Wilshire Suite D, 3rd Scholastic Press Rights Committee Make sure your stories are all in Presentation of MJE projects Scripts, rules and rubrics Assuring all voices are heard Shopping the second-hand store: Unleashing New Voices Level meeting (7:30 a.m.) VAIN What you can ‘borrow’ online

Wilshire Suite E, 3rd JEA Certification Committee Cultural life skills from newspaper Blackfish, Murrow, Time Warner Things I learned my first year Now what? After the final All together now Level meeting (7:30 a.m.) ... oh my! teaching broadcast deadline

Wilshire Suite F, 3rd Southern California informational Starting a program in the inner Help for new advisers Teaching journalism and civics No repeat staff? No problem Level meeting city is magic

Wilshire Suite G, 3rd Intro to sports broadcasts The student press Panic Button Learning from our dirty laundry Yearbook sales: Corner the market How to prevent World War III How the Beatles teach writing: Level Sgt. Pepper

International Room, Write-off headquarters Write-off headquarters Write-off committee meeting Write-off headquarters 3rd Level

Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES — 49 Balfour Great Shot Photo Contest , Caressa Cook, Dixie Hollins High School , St. Petersburg, Fl Petersburg, St. Dixie Hollins High School , Caressa Cook, Balfour Great Shot Photo Contest ,

The first truly interactive The premier yearbook plug-in Extend yearbook coverage Easy-to-use photo upload yearbook viewable on a for Adobe™ InDesign that and transform the way app that allows the school computer or mobile device integrates seamlessly with students remember school community to share Adobe™ Creative Cloud™ with links to multimedia snapshots of the yearbook

For more information, see your Balfour representative or visit us at balfour.com/yearbooks. 50 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions 7:30 a.m. SATURDAY

repeat themselves too and write the dreaded 7:30 A.m. 8 A.m. “overview.” This session will explore narrative writing and how to gather the specifics dying EVENT EVENT to be shared. l Publication exchange l Convention check-in and EVALUATION CODE: 4861 Interested in seeing what kind of work other registration Andrew Ross, Walsworth Yearbooks, Arvada, high schools around the nation are producing? Those needing to register for the convention Colo. 8 a.m. Saturday, Palos Verdes, Lobby Level Stop by the publication exchange tables to or pick up their school packets or adviser (122) gander at the latest editions of high school luncheon tickets should stop here. This also is news from coast to coast. Feel free to drop off convention lost and found. Items not picked PHOTOJOURNALISM a few copies of your publication and pick up up by 1 p.m. will be turned over to the hotel those you like. security department. Top 10 photo tips 7:30 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday, Pasadena Foyer, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Sacramento Looking to improve the quality of your images? Exhibition Level Registration Booth, 2nd Level This course breaks down the top 10 tips for making good photography. No matter if you EVENT DESIGN are a photographer or a staff-member with a l JEA Bookstore Now that’s a concept camera, or lack proper equipment, you’ll learn Check out the new books, as well as popular It’s more than a theme. It’s more than color, how to make publishable images. best-sellers, at the JEA Bookstore. Nearly 300 type, shapes, texture and “identifiable” elements. EVALUATION CODE: 4984 items relating to journalism are available, Don’t forget that the verbal message and Greg Cooper, Brooks Institute, Ventura, Calif. including textbooks, curriculum development, coverage choices are important factors in 8 a.m. Saturday, Sacramento, 2nd Level (600) yearbook, newspaper, design, photography, anchoring and developing the ideas that set writing, desktop publishing, new media, this year’s book apart from the others. WRITING advertising and broadcast. EVALUATION CODE: 2260 Blogging for a better publication 7:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Emerald Bay, 3rd Ann Akers, MJE, Herff Jones, Charlotte, N.C. This workshop explores how blogging can Level (400) 8 a.m. Saturday, Avalon, 3rd Level (400) be used to enhance your publication by generating story ideas. Whether it is a news ADVISER EVENT FEATURED SPEAKER, GENERAL AUDIENCE story, an opinion piece or a feature idea, l Adviser hospitality Typing in the trenches personal blogging can create great pieces for Meet with your colleagues from across the A longtime Los Angeles Times writer and your newspaper, yearbook or video segment. country in the adviser hospitality suite, a hot columnist discusses real-life journalism and the EVALUATION CODE: 5056 spot for advisers. Local committee members tools to do it. It’s a matter of getting it right or Karen Crane, CJE, McClintock High School, will be available to recommend sightseeing, getting out of the way of people who can. Tempe, Ariz. 8 a.m. Saturday, San Bernardino, Lobby Level dining and entertainment options. Saturday EVALUATION CODE: 5053 (108) morning refreshments are underwritten by Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times Picaboo Yearbooks. 8 a.m. Saturday, Beaudry B, Lobby Level (220) 7:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Emerald Bay, 3rd EDITING Level (400) LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING Diversity decisions on deadline Manage your staff using a social On deadline, editors often show a lapse in MEETING judgment, which leads to decisions – and Scholastic Press Rights Committee contract outright bad choices – that are biased, meeting Learn how to effectively reduce and/or resolve discriminatory, insensitive and unfair. To gain conflict and manage your staff using a social a checklist of how to avoid such issues, attend Members of this commission will meet to make contract. The best part is you can empower plans and goals for the upcoming year. Other this session and learn from controversial media your staff to implement this proactive content. advisers who are interested in being part of the management system. commission are invited to attend. EVALUATION CODE: 5066 EVALUATION CODE: 4935 Kimetris Baltrip, Kansas State University, John Bowen, MJE, Kent (Ohio) State University Katie Frazier, Seven Lakes Junior High School, 7:30 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite D, 3rd Level Manhattan, Kan. Katy, Texas 8 a.m. Saturday, San Fernando, Lobby Level (40) 8 a.m. Saturday, Los Cerritos, Lobby Level (68) (120)

MEETING MEETING JEA Certification Committee meeting MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST JEA Diversity Committee meeting Make it live with innovative Committee members will meet to discuss JEA Members of the committee will discuss goals certification procedures. and projects for the upcoming year. broadcasting techniques Kim Green, MJE, Ball State University, Muncie, Stan Zoller, MJE, Lake Forest (Ill.) College Learn how to plan, set up and produce live Ind. 8 a.m. Saturday, Los Feliz, Lobby Level (68) events such as school assemblies, sporting 7:30 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite E, 3rd Level events with commentary, large venue events, (20) NEWS GATHERING and corporate video productions. Students will Everyone is weird; dig for the details learn innovative broadcasting techniques like building multi-camera shoots and creating a Everyone has something great to share. Jumbotron effect. Each year, high school repeats itself, but with different faces and trends. Student journalists EVALUATION CODE: 4857 Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES — 51 8 a.m. SATURDAY

Colby Ripsam, Fossil Ridge High School, Fort WRITING Mark Murray, Arlington (Texas) ISD Collins, Colo. Caption-writing ease 8-9:50 a.m. Saturday, Santa Anita A, Lobby Level (128) 8 a.m. Saturday, San Gabriel A, Lobby Level All photos in your yearbook need identification. (128) Learn how to write perfect captions for every DESIGN kind of photo. STUDENT EVENT EVALUATION CODE: 4977 Confessions of a fontaholic l Journalism Quiz Bowl Margaret Sorrows, CJE, Alexander, Ark. With thousands of fonts available for use in our Four-person teams will compete in the live 8 a.m. Saturday, San Gabriel C, Lobby Level (128) publications, it’s easy to become a font fanatic. buzzer rounds. Come cheer on your school as a Learn how to make the most of your type to member of the audience. GENERAL AUDIENCE strengthen your designs while avoiding font EVALUATION CODE: 2861 faux pas. Check out the seven-step program to April van Buren, MJE, LaFollette High School, Yearbook: Trending now cure your font addictions. Designing a yearbook spread with “wow” has Madison, Wis. EVALUATION CODE: 2397 less to do with special effects and more to 8 a.m. Saturday, San Gabriel B, Lobby Level Lynn Strause, CJE, East Lansing, Mich. do with great photography (and cropping), (159) 8 a.m. Saturday, Santa Anita C, Lobby Level effective and readable type design, and telling (163) DESIGN a great story. We’ll look for inspiration from the pros and talented yearbook staffers. WRITING 5 tips for high impact design EVALUATION CODE: 4968 Make your design more powerful by Mimi Orth, CJE, Herff Jones, Altadena, Calif. Seize the story focusing on these five techniques taken from 8 a.m. Saturday, San Pedro, Lobby Level (108) We will cover techniques for reporting, professional and student magazines, yearbooks interviewing and storytelling. Learn how to and newspapers. Learn to turn your design PHOTOJOURNALISM get the most out of your interview and how up a notch with effective type, compelling to make your readers care with a story that is photography, color use, design trends and Photoshop for advisers (2 hours) unique to the year. attention to detail. Bring your laptops and spend some time EVALUATION CODE: 4961 EVALUATION CODE: 4948 learning tips for using Photoshop with your Heather Nagel, CJE, Christ Presbyterian Linda Puntney, MJE, Manhattan, Kan. publications. Ask questions you don’t want to Academy, Nashville, Tenn. 8 a.m. Saturday, San Jose, 2nd Level (400) ask your students. For advisers only. 8 a.m. Saturday, Santa Barbara B, Lobby Level EVALUATION CODE: 4887 (144)

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NEWS GATHERING MEETING NEWS GATHERING Turn your classroom into an episode Southern California informational Beat reporting trumps opinion every of ‘TMZ’ meeting time Most news staffs spend time during the week SCJEA is the organization in Southern California Exacting beat reporters have never been more discussing story ideas for their publication. This that works with schools and advisers to develop important. The proliferation of social media and speaker will show you how to create a dynamic journalism on their campus. We offer many Web publishing has made it easier for anyone pitch session using online tools and rewards. opportunities for programs to learn and grow. to “report” — and for companies to spread Students will learn to bring their best ideas and This session will introduce new and returning misinformation. The speaker will explain how will be literally applauded for doing so. members to new developments in the to cover a beat, using stories from professional EVALUATION CODE: 5065 organization. experience. Annette Deming, CJE, Don Antonio Lugo High Lacey Hatfield, Public Service Community EVALUATION CODE: 4910 School, Chino, Calif. School, Los Angeles Lucas Shaw, Bloomberg News, Los Angeles 8 a.m. Saturday, Santa Monica B, 3rd Level 8 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite F, 3rd Level (20) 9 a.m. Saturday, Beaudry B, Lobby Level (220) (110) MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST ADVISING/TEACHING LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING Intro to sports broadcasts The art of writing: JEA One-Book Working with administrators This class will give good basic advice for people discussion Do you have school administrators who interested in broadcasts. It will tell the audience Come for coffee. Stay for book club. In the prevent your staff from tweeting, posting online what equipment we use and tell how to fast-paced world of 24-7 journalism, good or hosting comments on your newspaper successfully run a sports broadcast. storytelling sometimes gets forgotten. To website? The adviser and staff of The Optimist EVALUATION CODE: 5057 celebrate the art of writing, join us in the will offer tips on working with administrators to Dow Tate, Ellis Nepstad and William Hembree, Adviser Hospitality area as we discuss the spring achieve greater press freedoms. Shawnee Mission East High School, Prairie 2016 JEA One Book, “All the Light We Cannot EVALUATION CODE: 4879 Village, Kan. See” by Anthony Doerr. Kathleen Mills, Bloomington (Ind.) High School 8 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite G, 3rd Level (60) EVALUATION CODE: 4918 South Evelyn Lauer, CJE, Niles West High School, 8 a.m. Saturday, Santa Monica D, 3rd Level (90) Skokie, Ill., and Rachel Rauch, CJE, Homestead 9 A.m. High School, Mequon, Wis. MEETING DESIGN 9 a.m. Saturday, Emerald Bay, 3rd Level (400) Digital Media Committee meeting Yearbooks A-Z This committee will meet to discuss goals and In a whirlwind of examples and ideas, we’ll see WRITING projects for the upcoming academic year. hundreds of yearbooks from coast to coast Becoming 5-tool sports journalists Michelle Harmon, MJE, Borah High School, and learn how these most recent volumes set Sports journalists often refer to successful Boise, Idaho the standards and raised the bar for coverage, baseball players as “five-tool players.” Here, we 8 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite A, 3rd Level (40) concept, design and more. An overview of will discuss what it takes to be a five-tool sports yearbook awesomeness, we’ll identify 26 ideas writer – reporting in depth, writing for print and GENERAL AUDIENCE that can help you make your book even more Web, incorporating audio and video, interacting How to grow your journalism program amazing. on social media and using advanced statistics. Come see how, in fewer than five years, one EVALUATION CODE: 3981 EVALUATION CODE: 4310 school turned a small newspaper class into Paul Ender, Herff Jones, Palm Springs, Calif., Scott Duncan, Columbus (Ind.) East High a large program that produces eight 16- and Ann Akers, MJE, Herff Jones, Charlotte, School page newspapers, runs a biweekly newscast, N.C. 9 a.m. Saturday, Los Cerritos, Lobby Level (68) manages a fully interactive news website, films 9 a.m. Saturday, Avalon, 3rd Level (400) the school TEDx and runs a live-stream sports EDITING program. WRITING Literary magazine connections: EVALUATION CODE: 5012 Could I have a word with you? Wendy Connelly, Amador Valley High School, Stop word abuse … NOW! The most likely read Workshop and critique Pleasanton, Calif. stories on the spread oftentimes are the least Get together with other literary magazine 8 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite B, 3rd Level (20) refined. Headlines and captions deserve the staffers to network, swap publications and get utmost respect as well as brilliant verbal and valuable feedback. Get information on how ADVISING/TEACHING visual development. In this didactic session, we to run effective critiques and review valuable cover both what is and what could be. Writers writing and design criteria for literary magazine. One word EVALUATION CODE: 5023 Test out this quick and easy workshop you and designers alike will appreciate these words to the wise. Mary Van and Riot literary magazine staff, can do with your students (both writers and Century High School, Bismarck, N.D. EVALUATION CODE: 4923 photographers) to help with organizing their 9 a.m. Saturday, Los Feliz, Lobby Level (68) thoughts, generating creative content and John Cutsinger, CJE, Jostens, Ocoee, Fla., and Shari Adwers, MJE, Grosse Pointe North High practicing peer editing. School, Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich. WRITING EVALUATION CODE: 5055 Beth Lee, Hope International University, 9 a.m. Saturday, Beaudry A, Lobby Level (180) Healing headline headaches Headlines can sometimes hurt to write and Fullerton, Calif. design. You’ll leave this session with easy tips 8 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite C, 3rd Level (20) for crafting verbally and visually appealing

Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES — 53 9 a.m. SATURDAY headlines without the headaches. EVALUATION CODE: 5018 and know how to present the facts while EVALUATION CODE: 4964 Daniel H. Birman, University of Southern remaining sensitive to those in grief. Look to the Kristi Rathbun, CJE, Rock Canyon High School, California, Los Angeles, and Matt Pearce, Los professional model of how to handle death in Highlands Ranch, Colo. Angeles Times print. 9 a.m. Saturday, Palos Verdes, Lobby Level 9-10:50 a.m. Saturday, San Francisco, 2nd Level EVALUATION CODE: 4858 (122) (767) Kathleen Neumeyer, Harvard-Westlake School, Studio City, Calif. WEB MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST 9 a.m. Saturday, Santa Anita B, Lobby Level Writing for the Web Video news package chalk talk (136) Writing for the Web is a new way of telling a What are the key elements that make video story. Readers want the news immediately, in a news package interesting and engaging? In this DESIGN clear and easy format. Write in blocks, use lists, session, we will cover sound bites, b-roll, natural Creating coverage that counts use sidebars, use pull quotes, use less copy, use sound, finding those “golden nuggets,” and the We think our readers want to know about our visuals. Learn how to make stories Web friendly. basics of telling a great video story. pretty covers and our cool designs. What they EVALUATION CODE: 4990 EVALUATION CODE: 4845 really want to know is “Am I in it?” Take a look Kim McCarthy, CJE, Mother of Divine Grace Don Goble, Ladue Horton Watkins High at a wide range of coverage ideas to get more School, Ojai, Calif. School, St. Louis people in the yearbook. 9 a.m. Saturday, San Bernardino, Lobby Level 9 a.m. Saturday, San Gabriel A, Lobby Level EVALUATION CODE: 4912 (108) (128) Lynn Strause, CJE, East Lansing, Mich. 9 a.m. Saturday, Santa Anita C, Lobby Level GENERAL AUDIENCE, FEATURED SPEAKER PHOTOJOURNALISM (163) ‘So you get paid to watch TV?’ Photo composition and more Pulitzer-prize winning TV critic Mary McNamara Getting great photos for your publications is GENERAL AUDIENCE describes her career path, discusses the nature all about composition and visual variety. Learn The great news debate of criticism in the digital age and how, defying composition and how to use those photos on What’s more important in 2016: Long, well- all predictions, television became the premiere spreads. written stories or powerful, quick reads that art form of the new century. EVALUATION CODE: 4978 deliver relevant information? Let’s discuss what EVALUATION CODE: 5073 Margaret Sorrows, CJE, Alexander, Ark. readers want and how we can best serve the Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times 9 a.m. Saturday, San Gabriel C, Lobby Level needs of students living in an Internet age. 9 a.m. Saturday, San Diego, 2nd Level (700) (128) EVALUATION CODE: 4942 Tom Gayda, MJE, North Central High School, ENTREPRENEURSHIP PHOTOJOURNALISM Indianapolis Amazing photo tips everyone can use 9 a.m. Saturday, Santa Barbara A, Lobby Level Does your business plan make sense? (120) Your yearbook program is a business so you Knowing what to look for in a compelling can’t just make it up as you go along. Pick up storytelling photograph will do much to make DESIGN tips and strategies for budgeting, increasing your publication a standout. Whether you are a revenue, boosting advertising sales and photographer or designer, this session will help Photo packaging in the 21st century participation, and holding senior ad design you improve the visuals of your publication This session will introduce you to several nights from a program with a proven business without delving into complicated technical tangible design tools and techniques you can model. terms. use to bring your photo-packaging skills into EVALUATION CODE: 4975 EVALUATION CODE: 4949 the 21st century. That in turn will give your Mike Simons, MJE, and Abby Allard, Corning- Linda Puntney, MJE, Manhattan, Kan. publication the contemporary look you and Painted Post High School, Corning, N.Y. 9 a.m. Saturday, San Jose, 2nd Level (400) your audience deserve. 9 a.m. Saturday, San Fernando, Lobby Level EVALUATION CODE: 3459 (120) DESIGN Pete LeBlanc, Antelope (Calif.) High School, True color or off color and Dan Austin, Casa Roble High School, MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST Orangevale, Calif. No single visual element has more effect on a 9 a.m. Saturday, Santa Barbara B, Lobby Level International Documentary viewer than color. Color gets attention, sets a (144) Association presents: Can you ever tell mood, sends a message. But what colors are the right ones? Using some basic principles, LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING the full story? (2 hours) learn how to use color to enhance rather than A majority of today’s journalists are mandated detract from your designs. Survival of the fittest to move quickly through the news cycle and From missing photos to constant deadlines, EVALUATION CODE: 4429 always be on the look out for breaking news. organization provides the keys to a product Mimi Orth, CJE, Herff Jones, Altadena, Calif. Documentary filmmaking, on the other hand, staff. This session will offer tips to help yearbook 9 a.m. Saturday, San Pedro, Lobby Level (108) is a long-form journalistic process that allows and newspaper staffs stay organized and on a filmmaker to get deeper into a story and deadline, while advisers maintain their sanity. NEWS GATHERING the historical nuance. As we consider today’s EVALUATION CODE: 4687 headlines about gun violence, do you wonder How to cover the death of a student or Nancy Hastings, MJE, Highland, Ind. who and what is missing from the story? Some teacher 9 a.m. Saturday, Santa Barbara C, Lobby Level of today’s top journalists, documentarians and When tragedy strikes in a close-knit school (120) leading voices will answer these questions and community, it is a challenge for student share their storytelling secrets. journalists to maintain professional standards

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GENERAL AUDIENCE EVALUATION CODE: 4987 Journalism’s deadly sins Michelle Harmon, MJE, Borah High School, 10 A.m. We’ll share our list of journalism’s deadly sins, Boise, Idaho DESIGN aka things our students do (or don’t do) that 9 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite C, 3rd Level (20) drive us crazy. We’ll also take suggestions for I should have caught that NEWS LITERACY additions to the list. Come ready to contribute. If you’re an editor who’s working toward EVALUATION CODE: 4986 Make sure your stories are all in VAIN competitive excellence, this session’s guidelines Kathy Habiger, MJE, Mill Valley High School, It seems simple, but news consumers expect and checklists will remind you of some of the Shawnee, Kan.; and Amy Morgan, MJE, you, or at least your stories, to be VAIN so they small details that help the great books rise Shawnee Mission West High School, Overland know your reporting is independent and above the excellent ones. A lot of examples of Park, Kan. transparent. This session will discuss some basic great books and solid solutions will help you 9 a.m. Saturday, Santa Monica B, 3rd Level principles of news literacy and why they are avoid that moment when your book is printed (110) more important than ever. and in your hands and you realize that crucial EVALUATION CODE: 4406 info is missing from your title page or that your LAW AND ETHICS Stan Zoller, MJE, Lake Forest (Ill.) College indexing plan was less than perfect. 3 essentials for understanding 9 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite D, 3rd Level (40) EVALUATION CODE: 4552 copyright law Paul Ender, Herff Jones, Palm Springs, Calif. ADVISING/TEACHING Ann Akers, MJE, Herff Jones, Charlotte, N.C. Is your staff violating copyright law? Is your 10 a.m. Saturday, Avalon, 3rd Level (400) audio, text and design authentic and original? Cultural life skills from newspaper Advisers will get advice about answering the By understanding three areas — fair use, PHOTOJOURNALISM inspiration versus imitation and Creative question “What “ cultural life skills can students Commons — you’ll learn the basics of learn from reading and engaging with the What good photographers know It’s not always the BIG moment that creates copyright law and how to stay out of trouble. newspaper?” We will share ideas about student the best picture. Quiet moments help tell the EVALUATION CODE: 4662 journalism and its relationship to lifelong skills Megan Fromm, CJE, Colorado Mesa University, from big picture ideas to specific journalism story of life as a student. Through examples and Grand Junction, Colo. skills. tips, learn to get the picture that best tells each 9 a.m. Saturday, Santa Monica D, 3rd Level (90) EVALUATION CODE: 4743 story. Michael Reeves, James Bowie High School, EVALUATION CODE: 4903 LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING Austin, Texas Susan Massy, Shawnee Mission Northwest 9 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite E, 3rd Level (20) High School, Shawnee, Kan.; Dow Tate, Oh, JOY: Preparing a digital portfolio Shawnee Mission East High School, Prairie Are you thinking of applying for the Journalist Village, Kan.; and Becky Tate, CJE, Shawnee ADVISING/TEACHING of the Year contest? This session will go over Mission North High School, Overland Park, the basics of applying for this contest, the keys Starting a program in the inner city is Kan. to creating the winning portfolio, and tips and magic 10 a.m. Saturday, Beaudry A, Lobby Level (180) tricks to help you leave a last impression on This session will focus on helping new advisers the judges. Recommended for high school start or restart a newspaper at an inner-city GENERAL AUDIENCE sophomores and juniors. school. We will explore where to go for help Game changers: Women in sports EVALUATION CODE: 4889 and resources available to get you started. Rebecca Pollard, MJE, Heritage High School, journalism EVALUATION CODE: 4851 Helene Elliott, Jill Painter Lopez and Lisa Nehus Frisco, Texas, and Julia Poe, University of Lacey Hatfield, Public Service Community Saxon will join a panel discussion to discuss the Southern California, Los Angeles School, Los Angeles battles women sports journalists waged to gain 9 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite A, 3rd Level (40) 9 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite F, 3rd Level (20) equal access and equal pay — and the work that remains unfinished. MEETING GENERAL AUDIENCE EVALUATION CODE: 4855 Scholastic press association round The student press Panic Button Moderator: Gary Metzker, California State table (2 hours) ... Where to find it; when to push it; what will University, Long Beach, Calif. Join the discussion of scholastic press happen when pushed. Upset readers? Angry Panelists: Lisa Nehus Saxon, Palisades Charter association directors and those involved in administrators? When the unexpected happens, High School, Pacific Palisades, Calif.; Helene scholastic press organizations in their states. the JEA Scholastic Press Rights Committee has Elliott, Los Angeles Times, and Jill Painter Candace Perkins Bowen, MJE, Kent (Ohio) State your back. Learn about resources (including Lopez, Fox Sports West, Los Angeles University a real live Panic Button) to guide you through 10 a.m. Saturday, Beaudry B, Lobby Level (220) 9-10:50 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite B, 3rd tricky dilemmas. Level (20) EVALUATION CODE: 4909 ADVISING/TEACHING Kathy Schrier, MJE, Washington JEA, Seattle, Effectively coordinate your yearbook ADVISING/TEACHING and Lori Keekley, MJE, St. Louis Park (Minn.) photography process When, what, where, why, website High School 9 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite G, 3rd Level (60) This session is for new yearbook advisers to Learn and discuss tips for managing both a learn how to organize photographers. Basics traditional print journalism staff and a school in teaching photojournalism skills, camera news website presence with the size of staff checkout, creating weekly photo assignments, you have now. Learn why going online first will grading, cataloging photos for easy access and help both your news website and your print tips on how to purchase a variety of cameras publication. will be covered. Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES — 55 10 a.m. SATURDAY

EVALUATION CODE: 4368 your school. GENERAL AUDIENCE Joy Lessard, Ellensburg, Wash. EVALUATION CODE: 5007 5 fast fixes with Photoshop and 10 a.m. Saturday, Los Cerritos, Lobby Level (68) Stacy Short, Annabel Thorpe and Caleb Miles, Argyle (Texas) High School InDesign Learn five things you can do with Adobe WEB 10 a.m. Saturday, San Fernando, Lobby Level (120) Photoshop and five with Adobe InDesign to Rethinking journalism: Digital-only help become your staff’s software guru. These publications WRITING simple tips can help increase your productivity Trying to use print publication cycles and and creativity. timelines in a digital environment doesn’t Theme fit EVALUATION CODE: 4958 Find a theme that fits your school and covers always work. The editors and adviser of the Brian Martinez, CJE, Jostens, Austin, Texas, and the year in a way that’s unique and all your Oracle will share how they rethought their Jason Kaiser, CJE, Jostens, Minneapolis own. We’ll explore why and how theme systems, crafted a new publication cycle and 10 a.m. Saturday, Santa Anita A, Lobby Level development and copy are so important to created an award-winning digital news site. (128) telling that story and ways to find the voice that EVALUATION CODE: 5009 Kristin Taylor, Syd Stone and Sarah Wagner, carries it through. LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING The Archer School for Girls, Los Angeles EVALUATION CODE: 4715 Tamra McCarthy, CJE, James Enochs High Staff motivation: Work hard; play 10 a.m. Saturday, Los Feliz, Lobby Level (68) School, Modesto, Calif. hard 10 a.m. Saturday, San Gabriel A, Lobby Level Kick-start your yearbook program right. Get NEWS GATHERING (128) your students to be vested in being a part of a Cover sports like a pro highly productive, fun and motivated team. Dynamic and consistent sports content is a FEATURED SPEAKER, GENERAL AUDIENCE EVALUATION CODE: 4979 great way to attract traffic to your publication’s Life after journalism Jill Chittum, MJE, Walsworth Yearbooks, Bella Vista, Ark., and Jim Straub, Walsworth website. See how you can incorporate a beat Two award-winning journalists have moved on Yearbooks, Galesburg, Ill. system, as well as features, game stories, social from newspaper journalism, finding fulfilling 10 a.m. Saturday, Santa Anita B, Lobby Level media, apps, digital storytelling techniques, and careers in jobs where their journalism skills are (136) more, to cover sports like a pro. crucial to their success. Jesse Katz works as EVALUATION CODE: 4965 an editor in a law firm, and Robert Lopez is a Bill Rawson, Pascack Valley High School, PHOTOJOURNALISM communications director. Hillsdale, N.J. EVALUATION CODE: 4920 Sports photographers: Stand here 10 a.m. Saturday, Palos Verdes, Lobby Level Robert J. Lopez, California State University, Los Location is critical, especially in sports (122) Angeles, and Jesse Katz, O’Melveny & Myers photography. Come learn the best spots to get LLP, Los Angeles the best shots at the field, on the court or near DESIGN 10 a.m. Saturday, San Gabriel C, Lobby Level the course. We will look at professional and Behind the scenes at Variety (128) award-winning photos as a guide to find your The influences, ideas, decisions and the “green zone.” arguments that go making Variety magazine FEATURED SPEAKER, GENERAL AUDIENCE EVALUATION CODE: 4969 every week ... and what it’s like to hang out with Editorial cartoons reborn in digital Jed Palmer, CJE, Sierra Middle School, Parker, people like Jennifer Lawrence. Colo. EVALUATION CODE: 4854 media 10 a.m. Saturday, Santa Anita C, Lobby Level Chris Mihal, Variety, Los Angeles David Horsey, the Los Angeles Times’ Pulitzer (163) 10 a.m. Saturday, Sacramento, 2nd Level (600) Prize-winning cartoonist and columnist, puts on a show of his cartoons that demonstrates how GENERAL AUDIENCE NEWS GATHERING old-fashioned political cartoons are getting a reboot in the new world of online journalism. Reporting mobs: Covering an event Credibility and the news website EVALUATION CODE: 5002 from all angles Presentation discusses the use of collaborative David Horsey, Los Angeles Times This session will take a look at how one school teamwork, multiple source reporting and social 10 a.m. Saturday, San Jose, 2nd Level (400) covered the homecoming football game with media in the newsroom to provide quality, 70 student journalists and followed that up with accuracy and speed when posting to student DESIGN an all-out winter sports attack. Find out how the news websites. Top advisers discuss yearbook trends planning took place, what happened the night EVALUATION CODE: 4914 of the coverage and what the end result was. Join a panel of honorees in JEA’s 2015 National Mark Storer, Camarillo (Calif.) High School EVALUATION CODE: 3023 Yearbook Adviser of the Year competition for a 10 a.m. Saturday, San Bernardino, Lobby Level Tom Gayda, MJE, North Central High School, far-reaching discussion and Q&A session. (108) Indianapolis EVALUATION CODE: 4309 10 a.m. Saturday, Santa Barbara A, Lobby Level Moderator: Margaret Sorrows, CJE, Alexander, ENTREPRENEURSHIP (120) Ark. Making money with photography Panelists: Renee Burke, MJE, Boone High An adviser and staff members will discuss the School, Orlando, Fla.; Mike Simons, MJE, WRITING techniques and tactics that go into making Corning-Painted Post High School, Corning, The writing lab money with photography. The Talon News has N.Y.; and Erinn Harris, MJE, Thomas Jefferson Think of this presentation as a “greatest hits” of raised more than $10,000 from photo sales over High School for Science and Technology, three writing presentations. Style Imitation will the past four years through its successful Go Alexandria, Va. help you practice the craft of writing through Photo program. Learn how to implement this at 10 a.m. Saturday, San Pedro, Lobby Level (108) imitation and repetition. The 12-Step Program 56 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions 10 a.m. SATURDAY is all about reporting. Rehabilitate your writing WRITING LAW AND ETHICS process by coming to the realization that How to light for video interviews The free speech generation gap yearbook and newspaper writing is about The nuts ‘n’ bolts of doing the staff editorial for Millennials say they are more progressive than reporting first and writing second. Piece of Pie your newspaper are reviewed in this step-by- other generations, but a recent Pew survey will give beginning writers a formula to create step presentation. Selecting topics, working revealed that 40 percent of people 18 to 34 professional feature copy. A lot of handouts. with editorial boards and researching to believe that offensive speech about minorities EVALUATION CODE: 2628 analyzing the form and techniques of writing should be punishable. This session explores the Pete LeBlanc, Antelope (Calif.) High School, a clear, strong staff editorial will be discussed. First Amendment implications of such changes and Dan Austin, Casa Roble High School, in public opinion. Orangevale, Calif. EVALUATION CODE: 2458 10 a.m. Saturday, Santa Barbara B, Lobby Level Ron Bonadonna, CJE, Mays Landing, N.J. EVALUATION CODE: 4906 (144) 10 a.m. Saturday, Santa Monica B, 3rd Level Jonathan Peters, University of Kansas, (110) Lawrence, Kan. 10 a.m. Saturday, Santa Monica D, 3rd Level MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST (90) How to light for video interviews LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING In this session, you’ll see a live demonstration May the Force be with you ADVISING/TEACHING of different methods a broadcast journalist Empower your staff! Staffs that share Use broadcast scriptwriting to teach uses when lighting interview subjects. One responsibility produce better yearbooks and lucky audience member’s face will be projected happier people. We will discuss proven ways to anything on the screen as the speaker uses everything delegate, develop confidence and teach others This will be a hands-on workshop for students from a bounce disc to a light kit to show you how to lead. and teachers alike. Using the principles of different lighting techniques that you can EVALUATION CODE: 3038 two-column scriptwriting, we’ll explore how incorporate into your productions. He will Heather Nagel, CJE, Christ Presbyterian we’ve successfully used broadcast research and discuss gels and diffusion and offer other tips. Academy, Nashville, Tenn. writing as the basis for instruction in not just EVALUATION CODE: 5091 10 a.m. Saturday, Santa Barbara C, Lobby Level broadcasting but in language, science, public Gil Garcia, Austin (Texas) High School (120) speaking and other classes. Bring your laptop to 10 a.m. Saturday, Santa Monica A, Lobby Level get the full experience. (90) EVALUATION CODE: 4644

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Karen Davis, Miami (Fla.) Country Day School Ocoee, Fla.; and Margaret Sorrows, CJE, ADVISING/TEACHING 10 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite A, 3rd Level Alexander, Ark. (40) Help for new advisers 11 a.m. Saturday, Beaudry A, Lobby Level (180) Advisers who have been mentored as a part LAW AND ETHICS of the JEA Mentoring Program share their DESIGN California free press law experiences in the program. Learn about Design smarter, not harder California was the first state to protect student the advantages of having an experienced Good design isn’t about smothering your press freedom for public school students and journalism mentor guide you through your first spreads with graphics or knowing every is the only state to protect students at private years of advising. complicated design trick. Good design is smart schools. Learn how the Education Code applies EVALUATION CODE: 4180 design. Become an intelligent designer and Mentors: Linda Barrington, MJE, Mount Mary to your student media and how you can take learn how creative thinking, clever design University, Milwaukee, and Bill Flechtner, MJE, advantage of your rights. Milwaukie, Ore. decisions and unique approaches to layout can EVALUATION CODE: 4944 Mentees: Erika Quick, Cody (Wyo.) High help you create advanced designs that wow! Mark Goodman, Kent (Ohio) State University School; Jennifer Young, Roosevelt High School, EVALUATION CODE: 4753 10 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite C, 3rd Level Honolulu, Hawaii; Leslie Cheret, Rigby (Idaho) Sabrina Schmitz, CJE, Walsworth Yearbooks, (20) High School; Kate Morgan, Mountain Ridge Tampa, Fla. High School, Highlands Ranch, Colo., and Erin 11 a.m. Saturday, Los Cerritos, Lobby Level (68) ADVISING/TEACHING Amrein, Newton (Kan.) High School Presentation of Master Journalism 10 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite F, 3rd Level (20) GENERAL AUDIENCE Educator projects Covering creativity: Arts and culture NEWS GATHERING The presenters will be teachers who recently journalism earned JEA’s Master Journalism Educator Learning from our dirty laundry Writers actively working in arts journalism will status and thus joined the ranks of an elite Learn how one staff uses failure as a learning discuss reporting on the diverse and evolving group of teachers. The new MJEs will present tool. A former editor-in-chief and adviser will Southern California arts and culture scene. their MJE projects, followed by a Q&A time. show how the staff improved during the year Panelists will touch on many subjects including Projects include “NISPA Yearbook Critique Rubric by learning from every painful, yet useful, their roles within the journalistic branch, Revision,” “Production Journalism Portfolio and mistake. freelancing, and the use of social media. EVALUATION CODE: 5037 Performance Review,” “A High School Journalist’s EVALUATION CODE: 4913 Guide to Interviewing,” “JEA Journalist of the Year Lori Keekley, MJE, St. Louis Park (Minn.) High Melody Soto, KCET, Burbank, Calif., and Digital Portfolio Tutorials” and “Journalist2Go: School, and Peter Johnson, Occidental College, Carribean Fragoza, KCET, Burbank, Calif. The Evolution of a Journalism Classroom.” Los Angeles 11 a.m. Saturday, Beaudry B, Lobby Level (220) EVALUATION CODE: 3897 10 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite G, 3rd Level (60) Moderator: Joe Mirando, MJE, Southeastern LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING Louisiana University, Hammond, La. Hello, Trello! Presenters: Brenda Field, MJE, Glenbrook 11 A.m. Trouble with staff member communication, South High School, Glenview, Ill.; Anne Hayman, MJE, Arlington (Wash.) High School; WRITING managing workflow and accountability? Doreen Picozzi, MJE, Lincoln (R.I.) High School; Say hello to Trello and learn why this free, Finding your voice flexible and visual collaboration tool is perfect Rebecca Pollard, MJE, Heritage High School, Learn powerful strategies for developing a Frisco, Texas; and Margie Raper, MJE, Wakeland for publication staffs. Hear from the editor strong visual and verbal voice so your yearbook High School, Frisco, Texas and adviser of Haltom High School’s Buffalo content will sing for the readers. From thorough 10 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite D, 3rd Level yearbook, and see how our simplified system analysis and planning your stories to making (40) helped improve communication, increase sure you don’t “lower the bar” once the work accountability and empower editors to manage begins, there’s plenty you can do to create an NEWS LITERACY our publication independently. amazing volume. Blackfish, Murrow, Time Warner ... oh EVALUATION CODE: 5090 EVALUATION CODE: 2208 Emily Pyeatt Arnold, CJE, and Danielle my! Paul Ender, Herff Jones, Palm Springs, Calif., Robinson, Haltom High School, Haltom City, Media literacy is necessary in the classroom. and Tamra McCarthy, CJE, James Enochs High Texas Journalism classes tend to focus heavily on School, Modesto, Calif. 11 a.m. Saturday, Los Feliz, Lobby Level (68) writing. That’s all good, but a solid six-week 11 a.m. Saturday, Avalon, 3rd Level (400) lesson/curriculum plan on media literacy can LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING help your group understand the bias, history DESIGN It belongs to the students and genres of mass media. Show your true colors Come learn about the importance of staff EVALUATION CODE: 4258 Color is a powerful communication and relations and production management. Gain Annette Deming, CJE, Don Antonio Lugo High branding tool. The response to color is often some strategies and tips and tricks to help School, Chino, Calif. emotional. Learn how to effectively employ balance the vision of the leaders and the 10 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite E, 3rd Level color in your print and digital media in this happiness of the staff. (20) session presented by Jostens educational team EVALUATION CODE: 4931 in collaboration with the experts at the Pantone Rebecca Chai and Maxwell Zhu, Walnut (Calif.) Color Institute. High School EVALUATION CODE: 5005 11 a.m. Saturday, Palos Verdes, Lobby Level Jeff Moffitt, MJE, and Gary Lundgren, Jostens, (122) Minneapolis; John Cutsinger, CJE, Jostens,

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FEATURED SPEAKER, WRITING technical elements, and tips for producing ENTREPRENEURSHIP The power of storytelling creative, high quality interviews. Branding in a snap Once upon a time … something happened EVALUATION CODE: 4896 Want to make a name for your media program? … what happened? … and what happened Michael Hernandez, Mira Costa High School, Learn how to use Illustrator to create graphics next? Those are the questions that drive Manhattan Beach, Calif. that will make your publication stand out, from 11 a.m. Saturday, San Gabriel A, Lobby Level narrative and lure readers. On almost any custom Snapchat filters to custom logos. (128) subject, you could offer an angry argument, an EVALUATION CODE: 4878 investigative denunciation or a grand sweeping Jill Burns, MJE, Walsworth Yearbooks, ENTREPRENEURSHIP geopolitical chronicle, but the most effective Germantown, Md., and Isabel Hanewicz, way to make your point, and reach readers, is by Cover more, sell more, be more Robinson High School, Tampa, Fla. telling a story. A Pulitzer Prize-winning former Join us for strategies to boost audience 11 a.m. Saturday, Santa Anita A, Lobby Level national correspondent will talk about narrative engagement, sales and readership as we look (128) writing and literary journalism. at professional and scholastic examples and EVALUATION CODE: 5031 how these concepts fit together. Keeping your LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING Barry Siegel, University of California, Irvine, publications relevant makes all the difference in Taste the rainbow: True colors Calif. who reads them, buys them and wants to help Are you an orange? A green? A blue-gold? 11 a.m. Saturday, Sacramento, 2nd Level (600) produce them. Your staff is made up of a variety of different EVALUATION CODE: 4871 personality types and understanding each Sarah Nichols, MJE, Whitney High School, WRITING person’s strengths, weaknesses and learning Rocklin, Calif. styles can drastically increase productivity, Ready ... set ... lede! 11 a.m. Saturday, San Gabriel B, Lobby Level harmony and unity. Come taste the rainbow Got a good story? Make sure it gets off to (159) a good start. An effective “lede” is essential and learn your true colors. EVALUATION CODE: 4787 in bringing your audience into the story. PHOTOJOURNALISM This session will examine the lede-writing Jess Young, MJE, Orange Glen High School, Tell the story through environmental Escondido, Calif. fundamentals. 11 a.m. Saturday, Santa Anita B, Lobby Level EVALUATION CODE: 3753 portraits (136) Stan Zoller, MJE, Lake Forest (Ill.) College If a picture is worth a thousand words, an 11 a.m. Saturday, San Bernardino, Lobby Level effective environmental portrait is worth a short NEWS GATHERING (108) story. This session will offer tips and techniques for capturing your subject in the best light Stalking the feature story, HONY style NEWS GATHERING using the best poses. This session details how students can use TV media and sports EVALUATION CODE: 4998 “Humans of New York” as an inspiration and Kathy Daly, KDaly Photography, Denver model for generating feature stories. Learn why This session will focus on newsgathering 11 a.m. Saturday, San Gabriel C, Lobby Level feature writing requires a unique approach and of live sporting events and evolution of the (128) fearless attitude, and go from impersonal to medium through the explosion of social media personal in the span of a single question. platforms. NEWS GATHERING EVALUATION CODE: 4661 EVALUATION CODE: 4881 Megan Fromm, CJE, Colorado Mesa University, Mario Solis, NBC4 Sports, Universal City, Calif. Covering controversy Grand Junction, Colo. 11 a.m. Saturday, San Fernando, Lobby Level How should journalists approach controversial 11 a.m. Saturday, Santa Anita C, Lobby Level (120) topics? Learn how to decide whether topics are (163) newsworthy and how to approach information PHOTOJOURNALISM gathering, including selecting the correct Hot topics in photography sources. While the First Amendment will be WRITING addressed, more attention will be given as to Come join in as we explore a variety of current The art and craft of headline writing how to create unbiased news stories and how topics in photography from gear and resources Headline writing should be more than to self-edit/spot check your stories for accuracy to trends in portraiture and lighting with just a “title” or last-minute addition to your and balance. Come prepared to interact. examples from pros and scholastic journalism publication. Session includes hands-on practice EVALUATION CODE: 5092 alike. Bring questions for this open discussion. on how to write accurate, tone-appropriate Michele Dunaway, MJE, Francis Howell High headlines. Lesson materials will be shared. EVALUATION CODE: 4756 School, St. Charles, Mo. Mike Simons, MJE, Corning-Painted Post High EVALUATION CODE: 4853 11 a.m. Saturday, San Jose, 2nd Level (400) School, Corning, N.Y., and Jed Palmer, CJE, Julie Kuo, CJE, Lexington (Mass.) High School Sierra Middle School, Parker, Colo. 11 a.m. Saturday, Santa Barbara A, Lobby Level 11 a.m. Saturday, San Francisco, 2nd Level NEWS GATHERING (120) (767) ‘Let’s Investigate the school’ How many people get suspended in your GENERAL AUDIENCE MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST district every year for weapons or fighting? Are Yearbook: Opening matters Humans of your school: The video the school buses safe to ride? Public records This session will deal exclusively with the all- The staff and adviser of Pacemaker-winning hold the answer, and you’re entitled to see important opening section of your yearbook. Mustang Morning News will discuss how you them. We’ll help you figure out how. First impressions are important, both visually can produce a video version of “The Humans EVALUATION CODE: 5049 and verbally. You will leave this session with Frank LoMonte, Student Press Law Center, of New York.” We’ll show examples and discuss several tangible tools that will help you write Washington, D.C. the production process, including story and contemporary opening copy and produce an 11 a.m. Saturday, San Pedro, Lobby Level (108) Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES — 59 11 a.m. SATURDAY eye-opening — ahem! — opening section. WEB ADVISING/TEACHING EVALUATION CODE: 4798 Beyond text and photos: Making Things I learned my first year teaching Pete LeBlanc, Antelope (Calif.) High School, Antelope, Calif., and Dan Austin, Casa Roble dynamic digital stories broadcast High School, Orangevale, Calif. Ever wonder how the New York Times gets Nothing makes you feel like a first-year teacher 11 a.m. Saturday, Santa Barbara B, Lobby Level moving photos on their digital feature like taking on a prep like Broadcast Journalism 1 (144) stories? This session will provide examples of even after 16 years’ advising. Here are 10 things the best digital journalism that goes beyond I’ve learned about teaching broadcast and how PHOTOJOURNALISM words and photos to tell stores through .gifs, I overcame the challenges. podcasts and other multimedia elements. It EVALUATION CODE: 4996 f/8 and be there also will give tips on creating .gifs, immersive Sandra Coyer, MJE, Puyallup High School, This is a beginner’s course in photography, images and setting up a podcasting studio. Puyallup, Wash. explaining the three things photographers can EVALUATION CODE: 5088 11 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite E, 3rd Level control (f/stop, ISO and shutter speed) and the Jonathan Rogers, Iowa City (Iowa) High School (20) three major settings they use to control them 11 a.m. Saturday, Santa Monica D, 3rd Level (manual, aperture priority and shutter priority). (90) ADVISING/TEACHING EVALUATION CODE: 4840 Kyle Carter, Richland R-1 School, Essex, Mo. Teaching journalism and civics MEETING A year ago, more than 900 journalism students 11 a.m. Saturday, Santa Barbara C, Lobby Level participated in a study about journalism and (120) California adviser meet-up Come and meet with your fellow California civics. In this session we’ll go over the results of the study and concentrate on the standards- NEWS GATHERING advisers and JEA members for an informal discussion of common issues, concerns and aligned lesson plans on opinion writing How to interview and profile statewide initiatives. developed from the research. celebrities Beatrice Motamedi, CJE, Global Student EVALUATION CODE: 4605 Get tips on how to interview and profile the Square, Oakland, Calif. Jim McCrossen, Blue Valley Northwest High top actors, writers, directors and producers on 11 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite A, 3rd Level School, Overland Park, Kan. television and how you can use those tips to (40) 11 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite F, 3rd Level interview those who are celebrities on your (20) campus. MEETING EVALUATION CODE: 4907 JEA Awards Committee meeting ENTREPRENEURSHIP Kathleen Neumeyer, Harvard-Westlake School, Committee members will meet to discuss Yearbook sales: Corner the market Studio City, Calif. award procedures. Think outside the box to drive your yearbook 11 a.m. Saturday, Santa Monica A, 3rd Level Casey Nichols, CJE, Rocklin (Calif.) High School sales. Discover some creative strategies for (110) 11 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite B, 3rd Level marketing your book. We also encourage you to (20) bring ideas of you own. EVALUATION CODE: 4908 LAW AND ETHICS Rebecca Pollard, MJE, Heritage High School, Frisco, Texas, and Brian Martinez, CJE, Jostens, Designating your publication as a Austin, Texas public forum 11 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite G, 3rd Level (60) Courts say the forum status of student publications makes all the difference in your press rights. Learn how to determine whether Noon Petersen Automotive Museum your publication qualifies — you may be surprised at the answer — and how to work FEATURED SPEAKER, NEWS GATHERING ENTREPRENEURSHIP toward a public forum policy that matters. True tales of TV news Marketing an iconic car museum after Evaluation code: 4675 Sometimes the best stuff of the story never Mark Goodman, Kent (Ohio) State University makes it on the air. You’ll get 38 years of TV a major redesign 11 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite C, 3rd Level news coverage ... in a LOT less time. Hear Hear how this iconic car museum decides what (20) favorite stories and strange encounters, and a message it wants to get out to bring in visitors. bit of why covering celebrities can be beyond Most important, how does the museum reach ADVISING/TEACHING dull or a disaster. those visitors after being closed for a year of Scripts, rules and rubrics EVALUATION CODE: 4880 renovations? Now, about six months after Student journalists have to learn so much so Les Rose, CBS News, Los Angeles Bureau, reopening, learn how the Petersen Automotive fast in order to produce quality, ethical content. Studio City, Calif. Museum is measuring its marketing success. Brain science tells us that scripts, rules and Noon Saturday, Avalon, 3rd Level (400) EVALUATION CODE: 5013 rubrics can prevent mistakes that get in the Moderator: Kim McCarthy, CJE, Mother of GENERAL AUDIENCE Divine Grace School, Ojai, Calif. way. An adviser with 12 years of mistakes under Panelists: AJ Gordon and Leslie Kendall, her belt will help you not to repeat them. God and the newsroom Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles EVALUATION CODE: 5072 Can you be a serious journalist and devout 11 a.m. Saturday, Santa Monica B, 3rd Level Kelly Wilkerson, Davis (Calif.) Senior High in your religion? At secular high schools or (110) School colleges, you wonder how to fit in without 11 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite D, 3rd Level (40) Continued on Page 63 60 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions we rub shoulders with some impressive company. of course, we don’t let it go to our heads.

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In Jill Burns, MJE, Walsworth Yearbooks, Paul Glader, The King’s College, New York addition, they will discuss the art of play-by- Germantown, Md., and Tanner Huffman, Noon Saturday, Beaudry A, Lobby Level (180) play announcing using personal methods and Walsworth Yearbooks, Little Rock, Ark. experiences. The presenters also will include Noon Saturday, San Gabriel B, Lobby Level (159) PHOTOJOURNALISM tips and tricks from professional sportscasters during the presentation. LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING Photography: Working with what you EVALUATION CODE: 5094 have Josh Schaefer, Matt Boerner and Brian Plays well with others Not everyone can afford an expensive SLR and Lamborn-Herzberg, El Camino Real High Whether working with the surly veteran, know- studio lighting. We will focus on understanding School, Woodland Hills, Calif. it-all editor, protective reporter or overzealous light and tricks to get the best photos with your Noon Saturday, Palos Verdes, Lobby Level publisher, knowing how to collaborate in the phone, point-and-shoot camera or SLR. This is (122) 21st century is vital to sustaining, maintaining for beginner photographers. and succeeding in the media marketplace. Join us in learning how to build a harmonious EVALUATION CODE: 4972 WRITING Elana Sacino, Walsworth Yearbooks, Escondido, Humor writing for print and broadcast communications environment. Calif. EVALUATION CODE: 4892 media Michael Malcom-Bjorklund, River City Science Noon Saturday, Beaudry B, Lobby Level (220) We want to talk about newspaper writing, Academy Innovation, Jacksonville, Fla. comic strip and editorial cartoon writing and Noon Saturday, San Gabriel C, Lobby Level ADVISER EVENT about our experiences writing in television and (128) l Adviser award luncheon film. JEA will present awards at this special event. EVALUATION CODE: 4891 PHOTOJOURNALISM New and renewing Certified Journalism Lalo Alcaraz, La Cucaracha, Whittier, Calif., and Educators and Master Journalism Educators Gustavo Arellano, OC Weekly, Santa Ana, Calif. Photojournalism nuts and bolts An adviser and photo editor share workflow will be recognized. Speakers will include Noon Saturday, San Diego, 2nd Level (700) and essential tips of their photojournalism Renee Burke, Yearbook Adviser of the Year, and team. Learn to choose the right gear, Michelle Turner, Broadcast Adviser of the Year. ENTREPRENEURSHIP schedule your time, process, edit and publish Preregistration was required. Please bring your Engage and connect with social media efficiently. Know how to maximize your time as ticket. Herff Jones has underwritten this event. Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, photojournalists. Noon Saturday, Hollywood Ballroom, 3rd Level Facebook and more: Use social media to EVALUATION CODE: 5062 (400) build momentum for the great content Kori Friesen and Kylie Bell, Fresno (Calif.) you’re already producing for your school’s Christian School WEB journalistic enterprises. Presenters will share Noon Saturday, Santa Anita C, Lobby Level Online workflow tips and techniques to help you tell powerful (163) Join adviser and editors to discuss strategies on stories, drive traffic and manage meaningful organizing a digital newspaper platform. Take conversations. PHOTOGRAPHY the guesswork out of workflow. Includes tips EVALUATION CODE: 5001 Picture speaks 1,000 words to organize articles and integrate both online Suzette Heiman, Missouri School of Wonder how professional photographers take media and social media. Journalism, Columbia, Mo. those amazing photos for magazines and Noon Saturday, San Fernando, Lobby Level EVALUATION CODE: 5058 newspapers? Wonder how you can do the Greg Stobbe, Rees Roggenstein, Chloe Mueller (120) same for your yearbook and school publication? and Joshua Carter, Fresno (Calif.) Christian Learn all the little things you can do that will High School MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST make a big difference and how to prepare Noon Saturday, Los Cerritos, Lobby Level (68) Video techniques from start to finish to take great pictures that will help tell your The session will discuss the different types of stories. WRITING documentaries, how to prepare for production, EVALUATION CODE: 2651 Thrill them with theme copy production techniques, post-production Edmond Kwong, Homestead High School, Your readers deserve the details that make your editing, and interview tips and tricks. We will Cupertino, Calif. school and year unique. Learn how to avoid discuss interview techniques and how to target Noon Saturday, Santa Monica B, 3rd Level (110) the generic pitfalls of theme writing, and craft specific audiences. compelling opening copy that will hook readers EVALUATION CODE: 5010 NEWS GATHERING from the first spread. Annabel Thorpe, Argyle (Texas) High School Stories that matter EVALUATION CODE: 4145 Noon Saturday, San Gabriel A, Lobby Level Learn how student journalists research, report Emily Pyeatt Arnold, CJE, Haltom High School, (128) and write stories that “monitor power” and “give Haltom City, Texas Noon Saturday, Los Feliz, Lobby Level (68) DESIGN voice to the voiceless” – the two highest aims of journalism. You’ll leave with concrete ideas for Take your theme beyond the basics stories to pursue on your campus. Sure, theme shows up on your cover and EVALUATION CODE: 5071

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Grace Richey, Scripps College, Claremont, EVALUATION CODE: 4915 reporting and verify what you find. Calif., and Kellen Browning, Davis (Calif.) High Casandra Workman, CJE, Centennial High EVALUATION CODE: 4894 School School, Las Vegas Kim Bui, reported.ly, Los Angeles Noon Saturday, Santa Monica D, 3rd Level (90) 1 p.m. Saturday, Beaudry A, Lobby Level (180) 1 p.m. Saturday, San Bernardino, Lobby Level (108) WEB, LAW AND ETHICS GENERAL AUDIENCE Online and legal: What should we Transgender 101 MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST know? After a largely hidden history, transgender Producing a successful documentary True, much Web staffs should know about law people are increasingly part of the national This workshop will cover the basics of this and ethics is the same as it is with any student discussion. Myths still prevail, however, demanding and underpaid art form, from the media. But online publications have a few more especially in the media – even among allies personal to the practical. We’ll go through all pitfalls and a few different concerns than their and those with good intentions. This session, the stages of documentary planning, from pre- print brothers and sisters. Learn what should featuring an open and anonymous Q&A, hopes production to filming to promotion. concern you when you’re on the Web. to try and end that. EVALUATION CODE: 4583 EVALUATION CODE: 5083 EVALUATION CODE: 5045 Robert Adanto, Nova Southeastern University, Candace Perkins Bowen, MJE, and John Bowen, Bethany Grace Howe, University of Oregon, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. MJE, Kent (Ohio) State University Eugene, Ore. 1-2:20 p.m. Saturday, San Gabriel A, Lobby Noon Saturday, Wilshire Suite A, 3rd Level (40) 1 p.m. Saturday, Beaudry B, Lobby Level (220) Level (128)

LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING EDITING GENERAL AUDIENCE Assuring voices are heard AP style from A to Z Covering the hard stuff: Disability, This session is a case study describing current Give your publication a professional feel illness and death efforts in how student-based leadership is by using AP style. Session includes hands- Student journalists frequently face issues that promoting news literacy by developing student on practice on how to apply the bible of challenge even the wisest professionals. This publications. journalism to your publication and creating an interactive session helps staffs think through EVALUATION CODE: 5069 internal stylebook. Materials will be shared. and prepare to cover these serious and Eliza Lafferty, The Bishop’s School, La Jolla, EVALUATION CODE: 4852 sensitive issues. Calif. Julie Kuo, CJE, Lexington (Mass.) High School EVALUATION CODE: 4656 Noon Saturday, Wilshire Suite D, 3rd Level (40) 1 p.m. Saturday, Los Cerritos, Lobby Level (68) Janet Ewell, MJE, Huntington Beach, Calif. 1 p.m. Saturday, San Fernando, Lobby Level (120) ADVISING/TEACHING NEWS GATHERING Now what? After the final deadline Journalists, PR people help each other WEB Unclear what to do with your yearbook staff The best way to get information from public Putting online first after your final deadline? The plan is all here! relations people? Build a respectful relationship Want to run a website but need help getting Let us help you with project ideas, assessment with them. This session shows you the steps started or improving your publication? Learn strategies, leadership training and more. in developing and maintaining open, effective how RHStoday.com went from updating EVALUATION CODE: 5000 channels. monthly to Pacemaker in one year with 10 Brynda Everman, CJE, Balfour Yearbooks, EVALUATION CODE: 4876 staffers. Get tips on how to organize, write for Azusa, Calif., and Jen Bladen, MJE, Tulsa, Okla. Barbara DeSanto, Kansas State University, online and use interactives to enhance the site. Noon Saturday, Wilshire Suite E, 3rd Level (20) Manhattan, Kan. EVALUATION CODE: 4947 1 p.m. Saturday, Los Feliz, Lobby Level (68) Jill Burns, MJE, Walsworth Yearbooks, GENERAL AUDIENCE Germantown, Md., and Isabel Hanewicz, How to prevent World War III NEWS GATHERING Robinson High School, Tampa, Fla. How do you ensure your print and online 1 p.m. Saturday, San Gabriel B, Lobby Level You mean I have to talk to people? (159) newspaper publications function together This session will emphasize the importance of smoothly? We’ll cover how to involve your staff the face-to-face interview to capture more than DESIGN in aspects of both publications and how to just quotes. There is no replacement for being make them work together as one. there and observing the sights, sounds, feeling Bare essentials of design When your design seems more like “Old Mother EVALUATION CODE: 4991 and tone of an event and/or an interview. Tommy Sherk, Michael Kraske and Joe Hubbard,” it’s time to get creative and start EVALUATION CODE: 4943 McLiney, Shawnee Mission East High School, Susan Gillam, CJE, Walsworth Yearbooks, collaborating. We’ll discuss ways on how to get Prairie Village, Kan. Wynnewood, Pa., and Sarah Messmann, from Point A to Point B with a limited pallet Noon Saturday, Wilshire Suite G, 3rd Level (60) Walsworth Yearbooks, Bellevue, Ohio through tips, tricks and techniques that will fill 1 p.m. Saturday, Palos Verdes, Lobby Level (122) your cupboard. EVALUATION CODE: 4929 1 p.m. NEWS GATHERING Michael Malcom-Bjorklund, River City Science Academy Innovation, Jacksonville, Fla. PHOTOJOURNALISM Storytelling in and with social media 1 p.m. Saturday, San Gabriel C, Lobby Level Explore how reported.ly and other social media (128) Phone photography reporting ventures use social media for more Learn about how to take better pictures with than tweeting stories, and instead are building your phone and what apps can help make community and finding the stories within social pictures dazzling. networks. Learn to start using social media for

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GENERAL AUDIENCE EVALUATION CODE: 5054 LAW AND ETHICS One year: First publication to Beth Lee, Hope International University, Shopping the second-hand store: Fullerton, Calif. Pacemaker 1 p.m. Saturday, Santa Barbara A, Lobby Level What you can ‘borrow’ online This session, presented by editors and the (120) It’s never been easier — or more risky — to adviser of the Quarterly, will offer insight on “help yourself” to photos, videos or songs from what we learned through our first year of LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING other people’s websites. We’ll show you some publication, including the individual and team How to build staff morale safe places to find copyright-free material you successes, mistakes, opportunities, challenges can republish, and warn you away from the How do you get your staff to work as a team? and “If-I-knew-nows” learned along our most dangerous places where you should How do you build staff morale? How do you 12-month path to a Pacemaker. never borrow material without consent. create a welcoming environment? This will be EVALUATION CODE: 4890 EVALUATION CODE: 5048 a dynamic and engaging experience. Come Daniel Hrdlicka, Jack Franke and Ciaran Molloy, Frank LoMonte, Student Press Law Center, prepared to learn new ideas and to share your Rockhurst High School, Kansas City, Mo. Washington, D.C. own best ideas. 1 p.m. Saturday, San Pedro, Lobby Level (108) 1 p.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite D, 3rd Level (40) EVALUATION CODE: 4859 Cindy Renaud, Harborside Academy, Kenosha, DESIGN ADVISING/TEACHING Wis. How’d they do it? Yearbook InDesign 1 p.m. Saturday, Santa Barbara C, Lobby Level How the Beatles teach writing: tricks (120) Sgt. Pepper We’ll learn how to recreate eye-popping This multimedia lecture shows advantages designs you see in magazine spreads and on WEB of using Beatles music to teach the craft of popular Pinterest pins using InDesign. This Taking your website to the next level critical writing, using Sgt. Pepper as an example session will include an open forum, so please At the heart of successful journalism is strong for an interpretive essay. Deconstructing the bring samples and questions. (Only InDesign storytelling, but online journalism requires more record using historical context, authorship questions, please). than just publishing your great stories online issues, group dynamics, production elements, EVALUATION CODE: 4946 and hoping the masses will come running. songwriting concerns, performance details and Nicole Gravlin, Walsworth Yearbooks, San Jose, Come and learn about some exciting tools to conceptual framework allows students to think Calif. make your site great. more clearly. 1 p.m. Saturday, Santa Anita A, Lobby Level EVALUATION CODE: 4746 EVALUATION CODE: 4873 (128) Danielle Ryan, MJE, Carlsbad (Calif.) High Tim Riley, Emerson College, Boston School 1 p.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite G, 3rd Level (60) ENTREPRENEURSHIP 1 p.m. Saturday, Santa Monica A, 3rd Level (90 Social media magic From Starbucks to REI, strong social media PHOTOJOURNALISM 2:30 p.m. campaigns have transformed brands to being Photography: Basic to fantastic PHOTOJOURNALISM memorable, innovative and catchy. In this Understanding the exposure triangle and session, we’ll take a look at how to embrace working with lighting will help you capture the Tips for creating award-winning social campaigns in yearbooks and newspapers, moment with great looking results. Learn how images bringing together print and digital for a more you can use photography basics to produce This session explores the practical tips to taking powerful campaign. fantastic images for your publication with what contest-worthy photos. Hear how judges really EVALUATION CODE: 4953 you have in your camera bag. decide the winners, their advice for contestants Jason Kaiser, CJE, Jostens Inc., Minneapolis EVALUATION CODE: 3533 and the do’s and don’ts of the craft. 1 p.m. Saturday, Santa Anita B, Lobby Level Edmond Kwong, Homestead High School, EVALUATION CODE: 4875 (136) Cupertino, Calif. Leah Waters, CJE, Creekview High School, 1 p.m. Saturday, Santa Monica B, 3rd Level (110) Carrollton, Texas PHOTOJOURNALISM 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Beaudry A, Lobby Level The image as your hook GENERAL AUDIENCE (180) In a world where multiple visual platforms Incidental advantages for academic lead the social media industry, the photo success GENERAL AUDIENCE plays a more critical role then ever before. A Research demonstrates higher academic LGBTQ journalism: Getting beyond the professional photographer/co-adviser teaches achievement for scholastic media students – letters key elements to choose and capture images without explaining possible reasons for this Whether in a liberal school or conservative one, that will be your story hook. finding. This session explores some specific learn how to cover LGBTQ topics with fairness. EVALUATION CODE: 5061 transferable skills practiced in high school A transgender student, teacher, journalist and Kori Friesen, Fresno (Calif.) Christian School media that may be incidental advantages for occasional activist shows what to do – and 1 p.m. Saturday, Santa Anita C, Lobby Level academic success. what not to – as someone who’s been on every (163) EVALUATION CODE: 5039 side of the interview. David Thompson, Kennesaw (Ga.) State EVALUATION CODE: 5046 LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING University Bethany Grace Howe, University of Oregon, Don’t forget your cape 1 p.m. Saturday, Santa Monica D, 3rd Level (90) Eugene, Ore. Get your pep talk here. You’ll be reminded of 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Beaudry B, Lobby Level why your role, no matter what it is on staff, is (220) the most important job on campus. Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES — 65 2:30 p.m. SATURDAY

WEB LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING NEWS GATHERING Thriving, training in cyberspace Figuring out what is needed Step into the Global Student Square The Feather Online editors discuss how to Publications programs tend to change every From ISIS to climate change and migration, effectively train a staff and future editors year as new leadership takes over. Come find today’s news clearly is global. Come and hear from summer workshop to day-by-day steps, out how to build a lasting, positive environment student correspondents from Indonesia, Korea, producing and sustaining a fun and interactive amid the stresses of deadlines and assignments. France and California describe stories they’ve online publication. Maybe building the right environment is the covered for GSS, including #ParisAttacks, EVALUATION CODE: 5059 key to meeting those deadlines. endangered orangutans in Bali, Islamophobia in Greg Stobbe, Rees Roggenstein, Chloe Mueller EVALUATION CODE: 4930 the U.S., and social media crackdowns in Asia. and Joshua Carter, Fresno (Calif.) Christian Rebecca Chai, Walnut (Calif.) High School EVALUATION CODE: 4988 High School, Fresno, Calif. 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Los Feliz, Lobby Level (68) Beatrice Motamedi, CJE, Global Student 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Los Cerritos, Lobby Level Square, Oakland, Calif. (68) NEWS GATHERING 2:30 p.m. Saturday, San Fernando, Lobby Level (120) PHOTOJOURNALISM Only human Six years and millions of followers strong, MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST iPhone pro tips “Humans of New York” epitomizes why we want Newspapers are outfitting their journalists with to be journalists — a strong belief everyone has Multimedia storytelling: There’s an smart phones with the expectation that they a story. We will discuss HONY’s ability to build can transmit images/video from the scene to app for that rapport with strangers and how this will adapt Whether it’s for a journalism class or any class be published right away on the Web. Learn how to your own storytelling. across the curriculum, multimedia apps are your to use mobile devices, apps and equipment EVALUATION CODE: 4164 best friend for interactive stories or projects. Go with a minimal cost yet create professional Margie Raper, MJE, Wakeland High School, home with a Top 10 list of free apps and sites to quality work. Frisco, Texas boost your multimedia game. EVALUATION CODE: 4917 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Palos Verdes, Lobby Level EVALUATION CODE: 4872 Greg Cooper, Brooks Institute, Ventura, Calif. (122) 2:30 p.m. Saturday, San Bernardino, Lobby Rachel Rauch, CJE, Homestead High School, Level (108) Mequon, Wis. 2:30 p.m. Saturday, San Gabriel A, Lobby Level (128)

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PHOTOJOURNALISM just starting your first student council roundup and teachers can join, or start, a campaign to Photo 251: Lighting techniques or polishing off a long investigative piece. protect campus journalism against censorship. Modeled after a 200-level college studio class, EVALUATION CODE: 4927 EVALUATION CODE: 5047 this session explores light in photography using Brian Baron, CJE, Newton South High School, Frank LoMonte, Student Press Law Center, Newton Centre, Mass. in-class examples and real-world applications. Washington, D.C. 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Santa Anita B, Lobby Level 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite D, 3rd Level Techniques range from using natural light (136) (40) to DIY studio modifiers. You are required to understand basic camera functions beforehand LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING ADVISING/TEACHING (ISO, shutter speed, aperture, etc.) EVALUATION CODE: 4962 When pens fly All together now Evert Nelson, Kansas State University, We’re journalists — passionate, headstrong, Hear how a veteran adviser united separate Manhattan, Kan. outspoken, among other things. Sharing a print and broadcast journalism classes to form 2:30 p.m. Saturday, San Gabriel B, Lobby Level newsroom, working together and creating an a more diverse, energetic and responsive (159) environment and teams that can work together, convergence media crew. And it’s Career Tech. well under pressure can be difficult. Let’s talk And IB. Successful? Come be the judge. NEWS GATHERING about creating winning teams and a winning EVALUATION CODE: 4966 Questions, anyone? environment. Jon Reese, CJE, Decatur (Ga.) High School 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite E, 3rd Level The quality of the answers you get from EVALUATION CODE: 5060 Beth Lee, Hope International University, (20) a source depends upon the quality of the Fullerton, Calif. questions you ask. Learn how to ask different 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Santa Barbara A, Lobby ADVISING/TEACHING types of questions based on the information Level (120) you seek. No repeat staff? No problem Discover how two award-winning yearbook EVALUATION CODE: 4902 NEWS GATHERING Susan Massy, Shawnee Mission Northwest advisers handle the challenges and benefits of High School, Shawnee, Kan. What is a data desk? 100 percent turnover in their staff every year. 2:30 p.m. Saturday, San Gabriel C, Lobby Level A brief tutorial on how a team of nerds at the Advice covers what to teach first, carrying on (128) Los Angeles Times turn databases into news — traditions, staff organization and more. Both and vice versa. middle and high school advisers are welcome. ENTREPRENEURSHIP EVALUATION CODE: 5095 EVALUATION CODE: 4316 Ben Welsh, Los Angeles Times Allie Staub, Westfield Middle School, Westfield, It’s not about money (yes, it is) 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Santa Monica D, 3rd Level Ind., and Laura Zhu, CJE, Toby Johnson Middle This workshop discusses all the basics of (90) School, Elk Grove, Calif. planning and executing successful fundraisers, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite F, 3rd Level such as how to keep your fundraiser organized, LAW AND ETHICS (20) relevant and a joyous occasion for all. Fundraising topics include business relations, How NOT to libel someone event creation/organization (specifically Libel is a danger to any journalism or media 3:30 p.m. creative writing/performances), and advertising. professional. You can get hit with big-time damages! So learning what libel is, how it EVALUATION CODE: 5022 EVENT Mary Van and students, Century High School, works, and how you can avoid it – these are all critical to your career, even as a student l NSPA award ceremony Bismarck, N.D. Winners of the NSPA Best of Show, NSPA 2:30 p.m. Saturday, San Pedro, Lobby Level journalist. Pacemakers and national individual awards will (108) EVALUATION CODE: 4341 Jonathan Peters, University of Kansas, be honored at this ceremony. JEA and NSPA Lawrence, Kan. encourage everyone to celebrate all winners. DESIGN 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite A, 3rd Level 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Sacramento/San Francisco/ Using InDesign to streamline your (40) San Jose rooms, 2nd Level (2,227) yearbook Learn about libraries, styles and master pages MEETING and how to use them to keep your yearbook JEA board followup Sunday design consistent and save time. Please have The JEA board will meet to discuss items that InDesign installed on your laptop for this need resolution before the convention ends. EVENT session. Best for advanced staff members. Mark Newton, MJE, Mountain Vista High l JEA awards ceremony EVALUATION CODE: 4945 School, Highlands Ranch, Colo. Winners of JEA Write-off contests and the Nicole Gravlin, Walsworth Yearbooks, San Jose, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite B, 3rd Level National High School Journalist of the Year Calif. (20) scholarship recipients will be recognized 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Santa Anita A, Lobby Level during the closing ceremony. You also will see (128) LAW AND ETHICS a slideshow of convention highlights. You may Unleashing New Voices pick up Write-off entries after the ceremony. WRITING There’s a movement sweeping America to pass Entries not picked up will be mailed. If you Write like a moviemaker state laws protecting student press freedom, receive entries from other schools in your Zoom in, zoom out – learn how to apply and it all started around a lunchroom table in envelope, contact JEA at [email protected]. the storytelling techniques of your favorite Jamestown, North Dakota. Hear the latest on 8:30 a.m. Sunday, Sacramento/San Francisco/ blockbusters to your writing, whether you’re the New Voices campaign and how students San Jose rooms, 2nd Level (2,227) Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES — 67 YOUR HONORS. Revered on campuses from coast to coast for their creativity and innovation, their great story telling, design and photography, these 47 yearbooks were selected as 2015 NSPA Pacemaker Finalists because of their excellence in yearbook journalism. We’re delighted that so many knowing, caring advisers and staffs choose to work with Herff Jones and we’re honored to be here to celebrate their work. Stop by our booth to see these great books and others, and to have some serious yerdly fun. OUR PRIDE.

68 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions YOUR HONORS. Revered on campuses from coast to coast for their creativity and innovation, their great story telling, design and photography, these 47 yearbooks were selected as 2015 NSPA Pacemaker Finalists because of their excellence in yearbook journalism. We’re delighted that so many knowing, caring advisers and staffs choose to work with Herff Jones and we’re honored to be here to celebrate their work. Stop by our booth to see these great books and others, and to have some serious yerdly fun. OUR PRIDE.

Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES — 69 of the Tesserae yearbook at Corning-Painted successes. She serves on the Kansas Scholastic Post H.S. in Corning, New York. A starter on the Press Association board and is a proud founding speaker bios varsity lacrosse team, she has signed to play member of Wichita Area Journalism Educators. with Ursuline College in Ohio, where she will In her free time, she writes for Splurge! ROBERT ADANTO’S “The Rising Tide,” study marketing and public relations. magazine in Wichita, Kansas. explored the explosive Chinese contemporary 9 a.m. Saturday, San Fernando 8:30 a.m. Thursday, San Bernardino; 9 a.m. art scene. “Pearls on the Ocean Floor” examines Friday, Palos Verdes; 1 p.m. Friday, Wilshire the lives and works of Iranian female artists ERIN AMREIN is the journalism adviser at Suite D working in and outside the Islamic Republic. His Newton (Kansas) H.S. She attended Kansas State latest film, “City of Memory,” explores Hurricane University, majoring in secondary education KIMETRIS BALTRIP is in her 11th year in Katrina’s impact on the lives of visual artists with an emphasis in journalism while working the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass from New Orleans. Adanto earned his M.F.A. at the The Collegian and Manhattan Minutes. Communications at Kansas State University. from New York University’s Tisch School of the Amrein is a wine connoisseur and a passionate She has worked as a copy editor at the Houston Arts. Wildcat fan. She enjoys helping her students Chronicle and The New York Times. She has 1 p.m. Saturday, San Gabriel A produce quality publications for newspaper, nearly 15 years of experience in coaching and yearbook and broadcast while adding her own teaching collegiate journalists. Her background SHARI ADWERS, MJE, teaches at Grosse style to journalism curriculum. includes working in public relations and Pointe North H.S. in Michigan. She advises the 10 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite F producing content for print and digital media. North Pointe newspaper and Valhalla yearbook. 8 a.m. Saturday, San Fernando Her students have won top state and national NICOLE ARDUINI, CJE, has a degree awards. Adwers is first vice president of the in journalism and more than 13 years of BRIAN BARON, CJE, chairs the English Michigan Interscholastic Press Association and experience in yearbook publishing with Herff Department and coordinates student the JEA curriculum leader for editing. With Jones. After working as a graphic designer for publications at Newton (Massachusetts) South a focus on mentoring young journalists, she four years, Arduini was excited to return to her H.S. He is also the executive director of the embraces challenges, emphasizes student passion — yearbook publishing. Several of her Massachusetts Scholastic Press Association. leadership and maximizes talent. schools have received awards ranging from Best 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Santa Anita B 10 a.m. Friday, Santa Anita C; 1 p.m. Friday, in State to national awards such as CSPA Gold Beaudry B; 9 a.m. Saturday, Beaudry A Crowns and NSPA Pacemakers. LINDA BARRINGTON, MJE, is the graphics 9 a.m. Friday, Santa Anita C adviser for the student magazine at Mount AMARA AGUILAR (Keynote speaker — see Mary University. Her professional focus is on Page 5) GUSTAVO ARELLANO is the editor of OC mentoring new teachers. She is the executive 2 p.m. Friday, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Weekly, an alternative newspaper in Orange director of the Kettle Moraine Press Association, Jose rooms County, California, author of Orange County: A vice president of the Wisconsin College Media Personal History and Taco USA: How Mexican Association, a JEA mentor and the Mentor ANN AKERS, MJE, is Herff Jones Yearbooks’ Food Conquered America, and lecturer with Program chair. Barrington has been a DJNF educational products manager. Formerly NSPA’s the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department special recognition adviser and has been associate director, Akers has done stints as a at California State University, Fullerton. He awarded CSPA’s Gold Key, NSPA’s Pioneer Award journalism teacher/publications adviser and writes the nationally syndicated column “Ask a and JEA’s Towley Award. a yearbook representative. She was the 2005 Mexican!” in which he answers questions about 10 a.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite b; 11 a.m. Friday, recipient of the Carl Towley Award, JEA’s highest America’s spiciest and largest minority. Los Cerritos; 1 p.m. Friday, Beaudry A; 10 a.m. honor, and has been awarded CSPA’s Gold Key Noon Saturday, San Diego Saturday, Wilshire Suite F and NSPA’s Pioneer Award. 8, 9 and 10 a.m. Saturday, Avalon EMILY PYEATT ARNOLD, CJE, teaches KANE BELEW, CJE, is a representative of journalism, photojournalism, yearbook and Walsworth Yearbooks. His career in sales started MARTHA AKERS, 2005 JEA Yearbook Adviser professional communications and advises as a student at The University of Alabama of the Year, advises yearbook at Loudoun Valley student media at Haltom H.S. in Haltom City, working at The Crimson White newspaper. In H.S. Her students’ yearbooks have earned Texas. In her seventh year advising, she loves addition to helping students create awesome NSPA’s Pacemaker, CSPA’s Gold Crown and seeing her students develop a passion for yearbooks, Belew shares yearbook sales tips VHSL’s Trophy. Akers has received CSPA’s Gold storytelling and enjoys teaching at workshops with students to attain revenue goals with Key, NSPA’s Pioneer Award, VHSL’s Lifetime and conventions. confidence. Achievement Award, VHSL’s Torch Award 11 a.m. and noon Saturday, Los Feliz 9 a.m. Friday, San Bernardino and SIPA’s Distinguished Service Award. She is in VHSL’s Hall of Fame and OIPA’s National DAN AUSTIN advises the Rampages and KYLIE BELL, senior photo editor for The Scholastic Journalism Hall of Fame. the Casa Chronicle for Casa Roble H.S. in Feather Online, manages the daily nuts and 1 p.m. Friday, San Pedro Orangevale, California. His students have bolts for the photojournalism team. Bell has garnered many national awards, including been developing her photography skills LALO ALCARAZ is a satirist, editorial cartoonist several Gold Crowns and Pacemakers. JEANC since 2011 and has recently launched her and creator of the syndicated daily comic strip, named him Adviser of the Year in 1992, and JEA professional career. As photo editor she plays a La Cucaracha, seen locally in the Los Angeles named him a Distinguished Yearbook Adviser in crucial role in connecting the two publication Times and other papers nationwide. Alcaraz 2000. He is the 2006 National Yearbook Adviser teams. is a consulting producer and writer at Fox of the Year. Noon Saturday, Santa Anita C Television’s animated show, Bordertown, which 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Santa Anita B-C; 9, 10 and debuted in January. He also is a consultant for 11 a.m. Saturday, Santa Barbara B GENELLE BELMAS teaches media law and Pixar, for the 2017 film “COCO.” ethics at the William Allen White School of Noon Saturday, San Diego KRISTIN BAKER, CJE, advises yearbook, Journalism and Mass Communication. Her newsmagazine and a website at Derby (Kansas) research interests include scholastic journalism, ABBY ALLARD is the senior business manager H.S. She is proud of her students’ publication the law of flags, and the intersection between 70 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions law and ethics. and remains on the board of the Garden State 10 a.m. Friday, San Gabriel C Scholastic Press Association. Bonadonna has judged numerous scholastic newspapers for speaker bios KERRY BENSON teaches the entry-level both state and national press associations. writing course and a presentation skills course Noon Friday, Wilshire Suite E; 10 a.m. for Walsworth Yearbooks in the Montgomery at the University of Kansas journalism school. Saturday, Santa Monica B County, Baltimore and D.C. area. She was Before teaching at KU, Benson worked in a media adviser for 11 years. She advised advertising, public relations, print and broadcast CANDACE PERKINS BOWEN, MJE, is broadcast, print and online newspaper and journalism. Outside the classroom, Benson associate professor at Kent (Ohio) State yearbook. Her staffs have earned numerous coaches writing and consults on brand strategy University and directs its Center for Scholastic awards, including the first Online Pacemaker for and presentation skills for regional and national Journalism. Previously, she was a high school Florida and an All American with four marks of clients. journalism teacher/media adviser in Illinois distinction for their most recent yearbook. 9 a.m. Friday, San Fernando and Virginia. She is a former DJNF High School 11 a.m. Saturday, Santa Anita A; noon and 1 Journalism Teacher of the Year. Bowen started p.m. Saturday, San Gabriel B SAMANTHA BERRY advises newspaper and JEAHELP while JEA president, is now board yearbook at Cypress Creek H.S. in Houston. She past president and serves on Certification and AVA BUTZU teaches yearbook and English was the 2015 Spotlight Teacher for her campus Scholastic Press Rights committees. at Grand Blanc (Michigan) H.S. Her yearbook and received the 2015 Pathfinder Award from 9 a.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite D; 11 a.m. Friday, staff has earned awards at multiple levels, the Texas Association of Journalism Educators. Wilshire Suite C; 9 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire including earning a Crown from CSPA and She is one of this year’s JEA Rising Star Award Suite B continual top honors at the state level. Her winners. She loves to chat about the following interest in approaching yearbook as a complete things: Google, Texas, coffee, fonts, books and JOHN BOWEN, MJE, is director of JEA’s journalism and entrepreneurship team-building breakfast foods. Scholastic Press Rights Committee. He is experience has encouraged her students 1 p.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite G assistant director of the Center for Scholastic pursue design, writing, journalism, photography Journalism and teaches law and ethics at Kent and marketing degrees in college. DANIEL H. BIRMAN is an award-winning (Ohio) State University. His personal honors Noon and 1 p.m. Friday, Beaudry B documentary producer based in Los Angeles. include DJNF Journalism Teacher of the Year, He recently produced “Perfecting Flight: JEA Carl Towley Award, NSPA Pioneer and CSPA YVETTE CABRERA covers criminal justice Bob Hoover,” an independent documentary Gold Key. issues for the investigative news nonprofit, about a legendary aviator from World War II. 9 a.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite D; 1 p.m. Friday, Voice of OC. She has followed Orange County’s Birman was a contributing producer on The Los Cerritos; 7:30 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite homeless from the streets to shelters, traveled Big Bang Machine for NOVA on PBS. The D to Haiti’s tent cities to interview earthquake special was about the Higgs Boson particle, survivors, reported as police rescued human which explains how the universe was formed. KELLEN BROWNING won the JEA Impact trafficking victims during brothel raids, and Birman is the faculty adviser and executive Award with fellow reporter Grace Richey in spent a summer in Mexico to report an award- producer for IMPACT, USC Annenberg’s award- 2015 for their story detailing how the lack of a winning series on the border killings of women winning television newsmagazine show. multipurpose room affected disabled students in Ciudad Juárez. 9 a.m. Saturday, San Francisco at the Davis H.S. campus in northern California. 8 a.m. Saturday, Santa Anita B Noon Saturday, Santa Monica D JEN BLADEN, MJE, began advising at a public JOSHUA CARTER is an editor for The Feather high school in San Diego in 1998. She spent P. KIM BUI is the deputy managing editor Online, the award-winning daily digital the next six years at Balfour. Bladen taught at for reported.ly. She’s also an adjunct at the publication, at Fresno (California) Christian H.S. Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles for University of Southern California and co- Noon and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Los Cerritos nearly a decade. She advised the Pacemaker founder of #wjchat, a weekly Twitter chat Finalist and Silver Crown-winning Vox Populi for Web journalists. Her experience includes KYLE CARTER advises The Rebel, Richland R-1 yearbook. Today, she lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, organizations such as Digital First Media’s School’s student yearbook. Carter is a former and lectures on topics of journalism and Thunderdome, KPCC, the Kansas City Star, APM’s freelance photographer covering events in leadership across the country. Marketplace and San Luis Obispo Tribune. She the South. He has been published in Sports 9 and 11 a.m. Friday, Santa Anita A; Noon is on the board of directors of the Online News Illustrated, on the cover of USA Today, the cover Saturday, Wilshire Suite E Association. of the Los Angeles Times and various other 1 p.m. Saturday, San Bernardino publications. Carter was also the 2015 Rising SUSAN BLOOM (Featured speaker — see Page Star Award winner for the Missouri Journalism 6) RENEE BURKE, NBCT, MJE, is a yearbook and Education Association. 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Friday, Palos Verdes newspaper adviser at Boone H.S. Renee is the 1 p.m. Friday, Santa Anita C; 11 a.m. Saturday, 2015 JEA National Yearbook Adviser of the Santa Barbara C MATT BOERNER is “ECR Live” lead color Year, 2014 Distinguished Yearbook Adviser, commentator at El Camino Real H.S. He has the 2012 OCPS Teacher of the Year, 2011 FSPA REBECCA CHAI is the adviser of The Hoofprint called games at Dodger Stadium and Los Journalism Teacher of the Year, and a 2011 Gold online and print hybrid newspaper and Cayuse Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Although he has Key recipient from CSPA. Both publications yearbook staff at Walnut (California) H.S. This is not been broadcasting for long, he has built a have earned CSPA Crown and NSPA Pacemaker her ninth year as an adviser. substantial reputation and is “ECR Live’s” lead awards. 11 a.m. Saturday, Palos Verdes; 2:30 p.m. broadcaster for basketball and softball. 11 a.m. Friday, San Diego; noon and 1 p.m. Saturday, Los Feliz Noon Saturday, Palos Verdes Friday, Santa Barbara A; 10 a.m. Saturday, San Pedro; noon Saturday, Hollywood ADRIANA CHAVIRA, MJE, is a former RON BONADONNA, CJE, is a JEA mentor in Ballroom newspaper reporter who advises the yearbook, New Jersey. He advised a school newspaper newspaper and website at Daniel Pearl Magnet for 25 years. He is a past JEA board member JILL BURNS, MJE, is a yearbook representative H.S. in Los Angeles. She was named Journalism

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medill.northwestern.edu 72 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES @medillschool Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions Educator of the Year in 2012 by the California Sacramento; 2:30 p.m. Saturday, San Journalism Education Coalition. She is also the Bernardino board secretary for the Southern California JEA. speaker bios 7:30 p.m. Thursday, California Ballroom; 2 SANDRA COYER, MJE, is the current p.m. Friday, Sacramento Washington Journalism Education Association with an emphasis on independent work. She president and serves as JEA’s state director for is developing a curriculum that incorporates LESLIE CHERET teaches junior English and Washington. She has been a newspaper adviser visual literacy in classes, regardless of subject journalism at Rigby (Idaho) H.S. She is a Harry for 16 years and is in her first year as a broadcast matter. Potter and Star Wars fangirl and loves to geek adviser with Viking Student Media at Puyallup 10 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite A out with her students. Cheret grew up in the H.S. She was recognized by Dow Jones in 2015 Los Angeles area and had her junior prom at as a Distinguished Adviser. JENN DE LA FUENTE has taught code at the Westin Bonaventure back in 1990. 11 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite E various levels, including as an instructor at 10 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite F General Assembly Los Angeles and at informal KAREN CRANE, CJE, has been a teacher for 21 workshops throughout her 10-year journalism JILL CHITTUM, MJE, works with schools in years. She advises her high school newspaper, career. She is now an assistant professor of northeast Oklahoma and northwest Arkansas producing both a print paper and an online professional practice at the USC Annenberg as a representative for Walsworth Yearbooks. paper. She is a journalism major, a reading School of Journalism, teaching HTML, CSS For eight years, Chittum advised publications specialist, and a gifted-endorsed teacher. Her and JavaScript and other digital journalism at Derby H.S. and Blue Valley H.S. in Kansas. publication, The McClintock Guidon, has won courses. She is also the Web developer for the After graduating from Kansas State University, several awards in state competitions and many Annenberg Media Center. de la Fuente also has Chittum worked as a staff photographer at the of her journalists place nationally at the annual run her own Web design and development Wichita (Kansas) Eagle. JEA/NSPA conventions. company since 2009. 10 a.m. Saturday, Santa Anita B 8 a.m. Saturday, San Bernardino 10 a.m. Friday, Santa Anita A

JOSEPH CLINE is the online photo editor for JOHN CUTSINGER, CJE, begins his 42nd ANNETTE DEMING, CJE, is a former Los the Harbinger at Shawnee Mission East H.S. in year as an ultimate publications nerd. With Angeles media and public relations professional Prairie Village, Kansas. teaching, advising and training experience, he with more than 50 clients published in a variety Noon Saturday, Wilshire Suite G shares ideas as a part of the Jostens creative of trade and consumer publications. She is management team. It is humbling to be on the now a 12th grade curriculum writer, English DEVAN COLLINS is a junior from Kansas City, JEA/NSPA program with so many incredibly and mass communication studies teacher, and Missouri, studying journalism with an emphasis talented and passionate educators and advisers. adviser of the Quest News online publication at in strategic communication at the Missouri What’s even better is that most of them Don Antonio Lugo H.S. in Chino, California. School of Journalism. Collins is a journalism are friends – there’s no place like scholastic 8 a.m. Saturday, Santa Monica B; 10 a.m. ambassador and this semester is working on journalism. Saturday, Wilshire Suite E social media content for the journalism school. 1 p.m. Friday, Avalon; 9 and 11 a.m. Saturday, Noon Saturday, San Fernando Beaudry A BARBARA DESANTO, Ed.D., is an associate professor and associate director for graduate BETH CONCEPCIÓN is the dean of the School JUSTIN DAIGLE, CJE, advises the Reflections studies at Kansas State University. She began of Liberal Arts at Savannah College of Art and yearbook at Brighton H.S. in Colorado. His her professional career as a Minnesota Design. She has 25 years of experience in students’ publications have earned state and reporter and editor followed by a Florida journalism and media relations, and still fills national awards including a CSPA Silver Crown public relations career in travel and tourism in at WJCL in Savannah, Georgia. Concepción and a Pacemaker nomination from NSPA. Daigle development. Developing international study earned a B.A. from Oglethorpe University, a B.S. has been honored with the 2009 Colorado abroad seminars is her signature educational from Mississippi State University, an M.A. and Student Media Association Teacher of the Year contribution. M.F.A. from SCAD, and a Ph.D. from University of as well as the JEA Rising Star award in 2010 and 10 a.m. Friday, San Fernando; 1 p.m. South Carolina. the Special Recognition Yearbook Adviser in Saturday, Los Feliz 9 a.m. Friday, Santa Barbara A 2015. 9 a.m. Friday, San Gabriel C LINDA DEUTSCH (Featured speaker — see WENDY CONNELLY is the Amador Valley Page 6) H.S. journalism adviser. She advises a class that KATHY DALY is a professional photographer Noon Friday, Avalon produces a newspaper, online news Web page specializing in lifestyle family portraits and and biweekly newscast, in addition to filming teaching photo lessons. While an adviser, her KRISTOFER P. DORAN is an interactive the school’s TEDx and running a live-stream yearbooks at Overland H.S. won CSPA Gold and multimedia instructor for the Trumbull Career sports network. Silver Crowns and NSPA Pacemakers. In 1998 and Technical Center in Warren, Ohio, and 11 a.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite G; 8 a.m. she was named JEA’s Yearbook Adviser of the is part-time faculty at Youngstown State Saturday, Wilshire Suite B Year, and has received CSPA’s Gold Key and University. Previously, he worked as a promotion NSPA’s Pioneer Award, JEA’s Medal of Merit and producer and assistant creative services director GREG A. COOPER teaches at Brooks Institute its Lifetime Achievement award. as well as a producer for the Cleveland Indians. in Ventura, California. He graduated in May 11 a.m. Friday, San Jose; 11 a.m. Saturday, His students have won several BPA national 1996 from Western Kentucky University with San Gabriel C competitions in broadcast news, digital media a double major in photojournalism and production and multimedia promotion. anthropology. After three years working as KAREN DAVIS is an Emmy-winning 8:15 a.m. Friday, Santa Monica D; 8:45 a.m. a picture editor in Ohio, Cooper returned to producer-writer and faculty member at Friday, Wilshire Suite F his native Ventura County, this time to pursue Miami Country Day School. Her middle and his master’s degree in photography at Brooks, upper school classes in broadcasting and MARY KAY DOWNES, MJE, advises Odyssey where he graduated in December of 2004. journalism focus on teaching digital natives yearbook. The book has won a boatload of 1 p.m. Friday, Los Feliz; 8 a.m. Saturday, the art of storytelling through digital means, awards as has Downes who was named JEA

Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES — 73 10 a.m. Friday, Santa Anita B; 11 a.m. Award and OIPA National Scholastic Journalism Saturday, San Jose Hall of Fame. speaker bios 9, 10 and 11 a.m. Saturday, Avalon SCOTT DUNCAN, CJE, teaches and advises Yearbook Adviser of the Year in 2007 and The Oracle newspaper at Columbus (Indiana) VALENTINE ESTABROOK began work at inducted to the Virginia High School Hall of East H.S. Prior to teaching at East, Duncan was WDAF/TV-NEWS/KC and next joined PBS/ Fame in 2014. Downes teaches and judges a sports reporter at The Birmingham (Alabama) Chicago. There, she worked in studio, news for NSPA, CSPA, regional and state press News, the Lexington (Kentucky) Herald-Leader and documentary. Estabrook’s documentary organizations. She is past-president of CSPAA. and The Muncie (Indiana) Star Press. Duncan, “Tutankhamun” won Emmy awards and a She displays a yerd’s passion for yearbook – a Northwestern University graduate, received National Emmy nomination. She started a film YB4L! national top 10 honors in 2007 from the company in New York City with “Can Anybody 9 and 10 a.m. Friday, Sacramento Associated Press Sports Editors in the under Hear Me?” — a documentary accepted by 40,000 explanatory category. the American Film Festival. Today, Estabrook LINDA DRAKE, MJE, yearbook/newspaper 9 a.m. Saturday, Los Cerritos works as an artist and consults in teaching adviser at Chase County Junior-Senior H.S. in documentary production to high school Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. Drake has received HELENE ELLIOTT, an LA Times reporter, is students. the Engel Award, the JEA Teacher Inspiration regarded as one of the top sportswriters in the 10 a.m. Friday, Palos Verdes Award and Medal of Merit as well as a CSPA nation. In 2005 she became the first female Gold Key Award and the NSPA Pioneer Award. sportswriter to be honored by the hall of fame BRYNDA EVERMAN, CJE, is an Adobe She was named the 2008 National Yearbook of a major sport when she received the Elmer Education Trainer and a publishing Adviser of the Year. She has served on the KSPA, Ferguson Award for distinguished contributions representative for Balfour Yearbooks in JEA and NSPA boards. to hockey writing from the Hockey Hall of Fame. Los Angeles. After more than 30 years of 10 a.m. Friday, Santa Monica A 10 a.m. Saturday, Beaudry B commercial printing and yearbook publishing experience, you’ll still find her at home in the MICHELE DUNAWAY, MJE, advises the award- PAUL ENDER was adviser to the award- classroom. As technology evolves, she helps her winning publications at Francis Howell H.S. in winning American yearbook at Independence students maximize their production time with St. Charles, Missouri. Dunaway has received a H.S. in San Jose, California, for more than 25 innovative ways of using commercial software JEA Medal of Merit, a CSPA Gold Key, Missouri years. A longtime special consultant for Herff and advanced project management skills. Journalism Teacher of the Year honors, and she Jones, Ender’s honors include JEA Yearbook 9 and 11 a.m. Friday, Santa Anita A is a 2012 Distinguished Yearbook Adviser and a Adviser of the Year, Northern California 2013 DJNF Special Recognition Adviser. She is Yearbook Adviser of the Year, CSPA Gold Key, JANET EWELL, MJE, helped pass the California also a multi-published, best-selling author. JEA Lifetime Achievement Award, NSPA Pioneer Adviser Protection Law and advised a prize-

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He is a 2016 JEA Distinguished Broadcast San Fernando Adviser. JACK FRANKE is a senior at Rockburst H.S., Noon Friday, Palos Verdes, and 10 a.m. JIM EWERT is general counsel for the and the co-executive editor of the Prep News Saturday, Santa Monica A California Newspaper Publishers Association in media family, including the Pacemaker-winning Sacramento, California. JEA named him a Friend Quarterly. TOM GAYDA, MJE, directs student media at of Scholastic Journalism in 2008 for his work 1 p.m. Saturday, San Pedro North Central H.S. in Indianapolis. In addition shepherding California’s Journalism Teacher to his daily school duties, he teaches a course Protection Act through the legislative process. KATIE FRAZIER is the yearbook and for Ball State University and works at various Ewert is a former teacher, coach and adviser to newspaper adviser at Seven Lakes Junior H.S. in workshops. He has earned several awards from The Moor at Alhambra H.S. Katy, Texas. After starting a yearbook program in organizations like JEA, NSPA, Ithaca College, Ball 1 p.m. Friday, Los Cerritos 2012, she started a newspaper staff this school State, IHSPA and the Dow Jones News Fund. year. In just three years, The Specifics yearbook 10 a.m. Friday, Santa Barbara C; 9 and 10 a.m. CARRIE FAUST, MJE, advises the Summit has won honors and awards from Jostens, JEA, Saturday, Santa Barbara A yearbook and Express newspaper at Smoky Hill NSPA and CSPA. H.S. in Aurora, Colorado. Her staffs have earned 9 a.m. Friday, San Gabriel A; 8 a.m. Saturday, SUSAN GILLAM, CJE, manages the Northeast three CSPA Silver Crowns, an NSPA Pacemaker, Los Cerritos area for Walsworth Yearbooks. A former teacher Gold Medalist and All-American critiques, and yearbook representative, Gillam’s passion and many state and local awards. She was a KORI FRIESEN, an established Central lies in reigniting journalism in yearbooks in the JEA Rising Star in 2008, a JEA Distinguished Valley photographer and designer, joined the Northeast area. Yearbook Adviser in 2009 and the CHSPA Fresno H.S. Feather team in 2014. Teaching 1 p.m. Saturday, Palos Verdes Teacher of the Year in 2011. photojournalism and partnering with adviser 6:45 p.m. Thursday, San Gabriel C; 11 a.m. Greg Stobbe, Friesen has led The Feather Online PAUL GLADER is associate professor at The Friday, Wilshire Suite E; Noon and 1 p.m. in a website redesign and a visual overhaul. King’s College in New York City, where he Friday, Santa Anita B She brings more than 12 years of industry directs the McCandlish Phillips Journalism knowledge to the publications team. Friesen Institute. He was a staff reporter for The Wall BRENDA FIELD, MJE, advises the yearbook has owned and operated Captured Moments Street Journal for a decade and still writes for at Glenbrook South H.S. in Glenview, Illinois. Photography since 2005. publications such as Bloomberg Businessweek, Her students’ publications have been honored Noon and 1 p.m. Saturday, Santa Anita C The Washington Post, Forbes.com and with both state and national awards, including ChristianityToday. He also directs the NYC NSPA Pacemakers and CSPA Crowns. A JEA MEGAN FROMM, CJE, Ph.D., is an assistant Semester in Journalism program. Distinguished Yearbook Adviser in 2014, professor at Colorado Mesa University and JEA’s 1 p.m. Saturday, Santa Monica A; noon Field serves as a JEA state director. From her Educational Initiatives director. Fromm has Saturday, Beaudry A classroom to summer workshops, she loves that worked as a high school journalism teacher and yearbook has allowed her to explore journalism as a professional journalist. DON GOBLE is an award-winning broadcast with creative and intelligent young people. 9 a.m. Saturday, Santa Monica D; 11 a.m. technology, film and multimedia Instructor 1 p.m. Friday, Avalon; 10 a.m. Saturday, Saturday, Santa Anita C at Ladue Horton Watkins H.S. in St. Louis. JEA Wilshire Suite D named Goble as its 2015 National Broadcast PRISCILLA FROST teaches and advises at Adviser of the Year. He is an Apple Distinguished JAIMA LYNN FINN is an account manager for Lindbergh High School in St. Louis. She serves Educator, who speaks nationally at conferences Picaboo Yearbooks in Northern California. She on the JEA national Write-off committee. and conventions, offering educators innovative loves to help students create the best possible 1 p.m. Thursday, Pasadena Room; 6 p.m. ways to incorporate video into the classroom. publication within any budget. She spends her Friday, Hollywood Ballroom Contact him on Twitter @dgoble2001. free time exploring California and beyond. 8:30 a.m. Thursday, San Pedro; 9 and 10 a.m. 1 p.m. Friday, San Fernando KELLY FURNAS, CJE, is executive director of Friday, Los Feliz; 1 p.m. Friday, San Gabriel C; the Journalism Education Association and an 9 a.m. Saturday, San Gabriel A BILL FLECHTNER, MJE, advised publications assistant professor at Kansas State University. in Oregon for 25 years. His is a DJNF Previously, he was the student media adviser at MARK GOODMAN is a professor and the Distinguished Adviser and a JEA Medal of Merit Virginia Tech. He also has worked at newspapers Knight Chair in Scholastic Journalism at Kent recipient. He serves on the JEA Mentor Program in Las Vegas and Tallahassee, Florida. State University where he coordinates the Committee and has mentored new advisers 7:30 p.m. Thursday, California Ballroom; 2 Center for Scholastic Journalism’s Scholastic since the program began. p.m. Friday, Sacramento/San Francisco/San Journalism Census. Goodman, a lawyer, was 8:30 a.m. Thursday, San Gabriel B; 9 a.m. Jose; noon Saturday, Hollywood Ballroom; executive director of the Student Press Law Friday, Wilshire Suite C; 11 a.m. Friday, 8:30 a.m. Sunday, Sacramento/San Francisco/ Center for 22 years. He has received many Wilshire Suite B; 10 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire San Jose awards for his work with the student press Suite F including JEA’s Carl Towley Award. GIL GARCIA advises KAHS News at Austin 10 and 11 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite C CARRIBEAN FRAGOZA is a writer and (Texas) High School. He is a filmmaker, speaker, artist from South El Monte, California. She has trainer and consultant. A leader in the field of AJ GORDON is content manager for the published fiction and poetry in publications media arts education, Garcia is finishing work Petersen Automotive Museum. such as BOMB magazine, Huizache and Palabra on the third edition of the textbook, “Television 11 a.m. Saturday, Santa Monica B

Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES — 75 years. She is a language arts specialist for Dysart MICHELLE HARMON, MJE, advises The Borah Unified School District and serves on the JEA Senator, a newspaper with a 55-year print speaker bios Mentoring committee. Gregory was local co- run. In her 14 years of advising a traditional chair for two JEA/NSPA Phoenix conventions. newspaper, Harmon has incorporated digital NICOLE GRAVLIN serves as the Walsworth Honors include NSPA Pioneer Award, JEA Medal journalism with a staff of 21 and a staff of eight. Yearbooks sales representative in San Jose, of Merit, CSPA Gold Key and James F. Paschal 9 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite C California. She earned a bachelor of arts in Award and DJNF Special Recognition Adviser English from Penn State and a master of arts and Distinguished Adviser awards. ERINN HARRIS, MJE and yerd for the past 20 in publishing from Rosemont College, where 8:30 a.m. Thursday, San Gabriel B years, advises Techniques yearbook, tjTODAY she focused on publication design and graphic newsmagazine, tjTODAY Online and TJTV design for magazines. She focuses on finding KATHY HABIGER, MJE, advises the JAG at Thomas Jefferson H.S. for Science and ways to transform eye-catching magazine yearbook, JagWire newspaper and Mill Valley Technology in Virginia. Her staff has earned a layouts into award-winning yearbook spreads. News Online at Mill Valley H.S.l in Shawnee, CSPA Silver Crown, an NSPA Pacemaker, Gold 1 and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Santa Anita A Kansas. Her students’ publications are consistent Medalist and All American critiques and many local, state and national award winners. state and local awards. JEA names Harris a 2010 KIM GREEN, MJE, is the outreach coordinator She is president of the Kansas Scholastic Rising Star and a 2014 Special Recognition and a graphics sequence instructor for Ball Press Association. This is her 35th national Adviser. State University’s Department of Journalism. convention. Noon and 1 p.m. Friday, Santa Anita B; 10 She is JEA’s Certification Committee chair. Her 10 a.m. Friday, Santa Barbara C; 11 a.m. a.m. Saturday, San Pedro honors include JEA Yearbook Adviser of Friday, Santa Barbara B; 9 .m. Saturday, Santa the Year and Medal of Merit, NSPA Pioneer Monica B KENDRA HARVEY is managing editor of The Award, Indiana Journalism Teacher of the Year, Broadview at Convent of the Sacred Heart H.S. Folger Outstanding Teacher of the Year, DJNF ISABEL HANEWICZ is a junior and in her and serves on the American Society of News Distinguished Adviser and Ball State University second year as editor-in-chief of RHSToday. Editor’s Youth Advisory Board, connecting with Journalism Hall of Fame. com. Her online staff was awarded the first journalists across the country through social 9 a.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite E; 1 p.m. Friday, Online Pacemaker in Florida. Hanewicz was media. She has served on Student Council Wilshire Suite C; 3:30 p.m. Friday, Santa named Emerging Journalist of the Year as a as junior class president and Student Body Monica D; 7:30 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite E; freshman by FSPA. Hanewicz is the FSPA District secretary, is captain of the badminton team and noon Saturday, Hollywood Ballroom 4 student representative and the cross country is head of Sign Language and Math clubs. and track captain. 11 a.m. Friday, Santa Barbara C PEGGY GREGORY, CJE, advised the award- 11 a.m. Saturday, Santa Anita A; 1 p.m. winning Greenway H.S. Demon Dispatch for 35 Saturday, San Gabriel B NANCY HASTINGS, MJE, advised the

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76 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions yearbook and newspaper at Munster H.S. in ROBERT HERNANDEZ (Featured speaker — Indiana for 38 years. Both publications earned see Page 6) Pacemakers, Crowns, Hoosier Stars and Best of 11 a.m. Friday, Santa Anita B speaker bios Shows. Personal honors include NSPA’s Pioneer, CSPA’s Gold Key, JEA’s Yearbook Adviser of the SARA HIGGINBOTHAM is a senior from journalism for four years. He joined his high Year and JEA’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Dallas studying journalism with an emphasis school newspaper, the St. Louis Park Echo, as She serves as JEA’s Indiana state director. in strategic communication. She manages the a writer before becoming news editor and 9 a.m. Saturday, Santa Barbara C social platforms of several organizations and eventually print editor-in-chief. Johnson now also serves as an ambassador for the Missouri works as a staff writer for the Occidental Weekly, LACEY HATFIELD has been teaching School of Journalism. continuing his passion for journalism. yearbook and newspaper in south central Los Noon Saturday, San Fernando 10 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite G Angeles for 11 years. She is in her second term as president of SCJEA. Hatfield started and DAVID HORSEY (Featured speaker — see SHEILA JONES, CJE, taught English for 23 has run journalism programs at two schools Page 6) years at Englewood (Colorado) H.S. and advised in Los Angeles and is working on setting up a 10 a.m. Saturday, San Jose the Pirateer newspaper program that became program at a third. Colorado’s first state-approved CTE Convergent 8 and 9 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite F BETHANY GRACE HOWE is an award- Media program in 2011. A former president of winning journalist, journalism teacher and the Colorado High School Press Association, ANNE HAYMAN, MJE, advises the current student at the University of Oregon, Jones in retirement is a JEA mentor. She news website and yearbook at Arlington now working on her doctorate studying how received the JEA Lifetime Achievement Award, (Washington) H.S. She has been a publications journalism and secondary education combine. CHSPA Medal of Merit, CHSPA Adviser of the adviser for 16 years. A transgender student, she is the founding Year award, Ridgway Freedom of Speech Award 10 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite D member of the school’s chapter of the National and the National Federation of Press Women Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association as well Fellowship. SUZETTE HEIMAN is a professor in strategic as the graduate representative to the school’s 9 a.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite B communication and director of planning and diversity committee. communications for the Missouri School of 1 and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Beaudry B JIM JORDAN has advised the Decamhian at Journalism. She is an author of a public relations Del Campo H.S. in Fair Oaks, California for 34 textbook and editor of “The J-School, The First DANIEL HRDLICKA was advising a monthly years. His students’ yearbooks have won CSPA Hundred Years of the World’s First School of newspaper and annual yearbook at Rockburst Gold Crown Awards (13) and NSPA Pacemaker Journalism.” H.S., Kansas City’s Jesuit preparatory school, Awards (17). He was the 1996 JEA National Noon Saturday, San Fernando when a group of junior staff writers approached Yearbook Adviser of the Year. He was also him about launching a new publication the awarded the CSPA Gold Key, the NSPA Pioneer WILLIAM HEMBREE has been producing following year. Through those conversations, Award and the JEA Medal of Merit. videos and new stories ever since he was in the the Quarterly was born. Four issues later, the 10 a.m. Friday, Santa Barbara B; 11 a.m. fourth grade. Once high school came around, staff accepted a Pacemaker for its inaugural year Friday, Avalon doors started opening in the video industry. In of publication. March 2015, Hembree was offered an internship 1 p.m. Saturday, San Pedro JASON KAISER, CJE, is a marketing project on the Sporting Kansas City Broadcast Crew. coordinator for Jostens. Prior to Jostens, Kaiser Now the live broadcast editor for the Harbinger TANNER HUFFMAN is a Walsworth Yearbook served many pivotal roles in The Record, at Shawnee Mission East H.S., he enjoys representative in the Little Rock, Arkansas, the student newspaper of the College of St. producing live content for the masses. area with more than 10 years of experience Benedict/St. John’s University, and received 8 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite G in yearbook, journalism, print production and awards from both the Minnesota Newspaper graphic design. Association and the Associated Collegiate CARRIE HENDRIX, CJE, has been advising Noon Saturday, San Gabriel B Press for his designs. He used these skills as a the Westwind yearbook for the past 13 years yearbook adviser while also teaching several and the Ranger Review News website for JOE HUMPHREY, MJE, advises newspaper, high school English courses. five years at Lewis-Palmer H.S. in Monument, yearbook and online media at Hillsborough H.S. 10 a.m. Saturday, Santa Anita A; 1 p.m. Colorado. Her student’s publications have in Tampa, Florida. He is evaluations coordinator Saturday, Santa Anita B earned top state and national awards including for the Florida Scholastic Press Association and a CSPA Silver Crown and an NSPA Pacemaker. a member of the JEA Certification Committee. JESSE KATZ (Featured speaker — see Page 6) Hendrix is the current Colorado Student Media He served as local team chair for the Orlando 10 a.m. Saturday, San Gabriel C Association Teacher of the Year. JEA/NSPA convention. @jhump96 9 a.m. Friday, San Gabriel C 11 a.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite D CRYSTAL KAZMIERSKI teaches graphic design, yearbook and drama at Arrowhead MICHAEL HERNANDEZ has taught broadcast JOYCE ISLETA is a Walsworth Yearbooks Christian Academy in Redlands, California. Her journalism for 16 years at Mira Costa H.S. in representative in Los Angeles. Originally from students have earned CSPA Crowns and NSPA Manhattan Beach, California, where he advises San Antonio, Texas, she led her Stevens H.S. Pacemakers for Wings. She was the 2000 JEA the Pacemaker-winning Mustang Morning staff to create an NSPA All-American yearbook. National Yearbook Adviser of the Year. She News. He is an Apple Distinguished Educator, After graduating from The University of Texas received CSPA’s Gold Key award in 2002 and Google For Education Certified Innovator and at Austin, her high school yearbook adviser NSPA’s Pioneer award in 2007. PBS Lead Digital Innovator. Hernandez is the recommended her to Walsworth to continue 10 a.m. Friday, Santa Barbara B; 11 a.m. inaugural JEA National Broadcast Adviser of the sharing her passion for design and yearbooks. Friday, San Gabriel B Year. 10 a.m. Friday, Avalon 8:30 a.m. Thursday, San Fernando; 11 a.m. LORI KEEKLEY, MJE, advises at St. Louis Park and noon Friday, San Gabriel C; 11 a.m. PETER JOHNSON is a freshman at Occidental (Minnesota) H.S. Previously she worked as the Saturday, San Gabriel A College. He has been involved in student director of contests and critiques at NSPA. The

Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES — 77 at Manhattan H.S. for 18 years and worked in secondary education from Boston College. previously in business and industry. She also 11 a.m. Saturday, Santa Barbara A; 1 p.m. speaker bios serves as an instructional facilitator for the Saturday Los Cerritos school. Echo has been a Gold Crown and Pacemaker 1 p.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite E ROB KUZNIA is a Pulitzer Prize-winning recipient, and her students have won state education reporter for his work at the and national awards. Keekley is a DJNF REBECCA KIMITCH is an investigative Daily Breeze. He now works at USC’s Shoah Distinguished Adviser and a member JEA’s reporter for the Los Angeles News Group Foundation and freelances stories about the Scholastic Press Rights Committee. and has worked in various capacities for West Coast for the Washington Post. 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Beaudry A; 9 a.m. Friday, the organization’s newspapers since 2008, 9 a.m. Friday, Avalon Wilshire Suite D; 9 and 10 a.m. Saturday, including as city editor, political editor and Wilshire Suite G political reporter. Together with two colleagues, EDMOND KWONG, after many years in she recently won the Pulitzer Prize for Local high-tech marketing, has decided to pursue JOELLE KEENE, CJE, is founding director of the Reporting for an investigation into corruption in opportunities to work with young artists Jewish Scholastic Press Association and advises the Centinela Valley Union High School District. and future business leaders. His first Pegasus the national award-winning Boiling Point and She has worked as a reporter in Washington, yearbook staff at Homestead H.S. in Cupertino, shalhevetboilingpoint.com at Shalhevet H.S. D.C., San José, Costa Rica and San Diego. California, earned a National Pacemaker and in Los Angeles. Earlier she worked for the Los 9 a.m. Friday, Avalon a Silver Crown. His passion for photography Angeles Herald-Examiner, Seattle Times and and design resulted in many published pieces Tacoma News Tribune, winning national, state MICHAEL KRASKE is online editor-in-chief of in newspapers, magazines, brochures and and local awards for education coverage and the Harbinger. He focuses mostly on broadcast websites. investigative reporting. Her work has appeared and multimedia, and this is his fourth and final Noon and 1 p.m. Saturday, Santa Monica B in many religious and secular publications. year on staff. 11 a.m. and noon Friday, Santa Anita C Noon Saturday, Wilshire Suite G ELIZA LAFFERTY is a high school junior and an editor at The Bishop’s School’s The Tower, a LESLIE KENDALL is chief curator for the JULIE KUO, CJE, has advised The Musket, monthly newsmagazine. She has coupled her Petersen Automotive Museum. Lexington H.S.’s student newspaper, for six years interests in journalism, leadership and service to 11 a.m. Saturday, Santa Monica B and is in her first year as the Massachusetts proliferate journalism at local schools. state director for JEA. She teaches U.S. history, Noon Saturday, Wilshire Suite D DEBRA KIDD is coordinator of Career and journalism and East Asian studies. She holds a Technical Education for USD 383 in Manhattan, bacheror’s degree in print journalism from the BRIAN LAMBORN-HERZBERG has been a Kansas. She has been a business teacher University of Southern California and a master’s key member of the “ECR Live” staff at El Camino

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78 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions Real H.S. He works as a cameraman and a and teaches a summer workshop for advisers at technician for the crew. He has helped produce the WJEA journalism camp. and air key broadcasts including the 2015 Los 11 a.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite B; 10 a.m. speaker bios Angeles City Section Championship football Saturday, Los Cerritos games. She is on the NSPA Journalism Honor Roll and Noon Saturday, Palos Verdes BRAD LEWIS, MJE, is in his ninth year of serves as Student Body president. teaching journalism and advising publications 11 a.m. Friday, Santa Barbara C MATTHEW LAPORTE, CJE, advises the at the high school level. He is the adviser for The Southwest Shadow online news site and Dart, DartNewsOnline.com and Teresian at St. GARY LUNDGREN served as director of The Howl yearbook at Southwest Career and Teresa’s Academy in Kansas City, Missouri. student publications for nine years at the Technical Academy in Las Vegas. His staffs have 11 a.m. Friday, Los Feliz University of Arkansas where his staffs received earned a 2014 Online Pacemaker and a 2015 Gold Crown and Pacemaker Awards and he CSPA Digital Gold Crown for their website. He is LISA LLEWELLYN, CJE, has lived and received the Gold Key, Pioneer Award and the JEA Nevada state director and co-president breathed scholastic journalism for 20 years. She Medal of Merit. During 18 years at Jostens, he of the Southern Nevada Society of Journalists. graduated from Lecanto H.S. in Florida, where launched the Look Book and Jostens Adviser 10 a.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite C; 11 a.m. Friday, she was an award-winning broadcast student University. He edited three editions of the 1,2,3 Beaudry A and yearbook editor. She served FSPA as district Yearbook Curriculum and edits Adviser & Staff representative and student chairperson. She magazine. JESSICA LATONI is yearbook adviser and Quill furthered her journalism education at the 11 a.m. Saturday, Beaudry A and Scroll sponsor at Braddock Senior H.S. She University of Florida. Llewellyn is a Dallas-Fort has over 15 years’ experience as a journalism/ Worth representative for Walsworth Yearbooks. MICHAEL MALCOM-BJORKLUND advises language arts teacher. Latoni was part of 11 a.m. Friday, San Bernardino; 1 p.m. Friday, the Ascent yearbook and RCSA Broadcast News the team that created district pacing guides, Santa Anita A while teaching middle school language arts and she has a special talent for raising sales at River City Science Academy Innovation in figures. She has seven years as a Los Angeles KAY LOCEY, CJE, advised the Commoner Jacksonville, Florida, after a successful 14-year department chairperson, and she also has newsmagazine at Gov. John R. Rogers H.S, in professional career in the media industry. With worked as an activities director. Puyallup, Washington. For more than 25 years a degree in journalism and a dozen design Noon Friday, San Pedro she has been active in WJEA, serving on its awards under his belt, Malcom-Bjorklund plans board and teaching at its summer workshop. on completing the trifecta with a digital school EVELYN LAUER, CJE, advises the online- She was the 2008 WJEA Adviser of the Year newspaper in 2016. only publication Niles West News. She is the and a 2015 JEA Lifetime Achievement Award Noon and 1 p.m. Saturday, San Gabriel C Publications/Public Relations chair for JEA winner. Locey is a JEA mentor, supporting new and a 2014 DJNF Special Recognition Adviser. advisers in Washington state. ARASH MARKAZI is a senior writer at ESPN She writes for the Huffington Post and other 10 a.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite B and an adjunct professor at the Annenberg publications. School for Communication and Journalism 11 a.m. Friday, San Pedro; 9 a.m. Saturday, FRANK LOMONTE is the executive director of at USC. He also is a board member for the Emerald Bay the Student Press Law Center. He joined SPLC in Jim Murray Memorial Foundation. He was January 2008 after practicing law with Atlanta- previously a staff writer at Sports Illustrated after PETE LEBLANC is in his 23rd year of teaching based Sutherland LLP and clerking for federal graduating from USC in 2004 and freelanced for and eighth year advising three programs judges on the Northern District of Georgia and publications ranging from Playboy to the Los at Antelope (California) H.S., which opened the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. Before Angeles Times while in school. in 2008. Students on Antelope’s Titanium law school, LoMonte was an award-winning 9 a.m. Friday, San Gabriel B yearbook, Titan Times newspaper and Channel investigative journalist and political columnist 5 Titan TV News staffs have won CSPA Gold and for daily newspapers in Florida and Georgia. BRIAN MARTINEZ, CJE, is the Monarch Silver Crowns, NSPA Pacemakers and NSPA Best 9 a.m. Thursday, San Gabriel C; noon Friday, specialist for Jostens. After a stint at the of Show awards. Santa Monica C; 11 a.m. Saturday, San Pedro; Houston Chronicle, he began advising 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Santa Barbara A-B; 9, 10 1 and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite D newspapers and yearbooks 20 years ago. His and 11 a.m. Saturday, Santa Barbara B students used cutting-edge software to create JILL PAINTER LOPEZ is a reporter for Fox Pacemaker-winning publications. Martinez now BETH LEE is celebrating 10 years advising Sports West/Prime Ticket in Los Angeles. She helps develop new tools for yearbook creation with The Hope International Tribune. She also is a contributor to the New York Times and using Adobe InDesign. He works with staffs is passionate about connecting with and UFC.com. Lopez is an award-winning sports nationwide to help them get the most out of supporting fellow advisers, as well as columnist, twice being named to the APSE top- technology to produce books they love. encouraging students and student journalism 10 sports columnist award list in 2011 and 2014. 10 a.m. Saturday, Santa Anita A; 11 a.m. programs to tackle their work with vigor and 10 a.m. Saturday, Beaudry B Saturday, Wilshire Suite G conviction. 8 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite C; 1 and 2:30 ROBERT J. LOPEZ (Featured speaker — see SUSAN MASSY advises the Lair yearbook p.m. Saturday, Santa Barbara A Page 6) and the Northwest Passage newspaper at 10 a.m. Saturday, San Gabriel C Shawnee Mission Northwest H.S. in Kansas, JOY LESSARD enjoyed advising award- where she teaches newspaper, yearbook and winning yearbooks and newspapers for 37 LIANA LUM is editor-in-chief of The Broadview photojournalism. Both publications have years in the Ellensburg (Washington) School at Convent of the Sacred Heart H.S., which will earned CSPA Crowns and NSPA Pacemakers. District. She was honored with Washington receive the NSPA Hall of Fame award at this Massy was honored as the 1999 JEA National (WJEA) Adviser of the Year; Ellensburg School convention. The senior began writing for The Yearbook Adviser of the Year. District Teacher of the Year; 2008 JEA Teacher Broadview her freshman year and has attended 10 a.m. Friday, Santa Barbara B; 10 a.m. Inspiration Award; and 2012 JEA Lifetime multiple JEA/NSPA conventions. Lum holds Saturday, Beaudry A; 2:30 p.m. Saturday, San Achievement Award. Lessard is a JEA mentor several local and national journalism awards. Gabriel C

Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES — 79 award-winning Daily 49er and the content the award-winning Oracle newspaper and the and design adviser for the Pacemaker award- Torch yearbook at Olympia H.S. in Orlando, speaker bios winning Dig Magazine. For almost 25 years, Florida. He is a National Board Certified Teacher he worked at the Los Angeles Times in various in career and technical education. Moffitt was KIM MCCARTHY, CJE and M.Ed., teaches editor positions. Metzker was a part of four OHS’s 2007 Teacher of the Year. JEA named him journalism and advises VOX, the online news Pulitzer Prize-winning staffs for breaking and a Special Recognition Yearbook Adviser in 2010 site for the virtual K-12 Mother of Divine spot news. He has won two Los Angeles Press and a Rising Star in 2006. Grace School. McCarthy has more than 15 Club awards and two Medals of Excellence from 11 a.m. Saturday, Beaudry A years experience in local and network news. the Society for News Design. She wrote and produced for NBC News. Now 10 a.m. Saturday, Beaudry B CIARAN MOLLOY is a senior at Rockburst H.S., McCarthy brings her experience to students in and the co-executive editor of the Prep News a virtual classroom. CHRIS MIHAL is a creative director, art director, media family, including the Pacemaker-winning Noon Friday, San Bernardino; 9 and Saturday, designer and illustrator. Currently the creative Quarterly. San Bernardino; 11 a.m. Saturday, Santa director of Variety overseeing art, photography 1 p.m. Saturday, San Pedro Monica B and design across all brands, he grew up in northwest Indiana and studied journalism AMY MORGAN, MJE, advises yearbook, TAMRA MCCARTHY, CJE, has been teaching graphics at Ball State University. Working at newspaper and online at Shawnee Mission English for 13 years and advising the Wingspan various newspapers in Phoenix, Fort Lauderdale, West H.S. The newspaper and yearbook have yearbook for nine years at James Enochs H.S. Atlanta and the Northeast, he has yet to pick up earned Pacemaker finalist and Best of Show in Modesto, California. Her publication has a Southern, New Jersey or California accent. honors. Morgan was local co-chair of the been recognized with CSPA Crown and NSPA 10 a.m. Saturday, Sacramento 2010 JEA/NSPA Kansas City convention. She Pacemaker awards every year for the last seven is secretary of the Kansas Scholastic Press years. McCarthy was named the 2011 JEA Rising BILL MILES has been an entrepreneur for Association and has been on the board of the Star and 2013 JEA Distinguished Adviser. more than 15 years. His initial startup brought Journalism Educators of Metropolitan Kansas 10 a.m. Saturday, San Gabriel A; 11 a.m. imaging to the Internet in the mid-1990s. He City. Saturday, Avalon later launched nonprofit group, Grassroot 11 a.m. Friday, Santa Barbara B; 9 a.m. Soccer, into a global brand. Miles joined Saturday, Santa Monica B MARY ANNE MCCLOUD, retired teacher, Picaboo in 2012 and has led the yearbook team participates in the JEA mentoring program in to multimillion dollar growth each year. He is a KATE MORGAN is a 20-year language arts Kansas after advising newspapers, yearbooks graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and teacher who recently designed her own and literary magazines for 30 years. Boston University Law School. seventh and eighth grade creative writing class. 8:30 a.m. Thursday, San Gabriel B 9 a.m. Friday, Beaudry A As well, she is a third-year yearbook adviser in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. Never before JIM MCCROSSEN is the journalism teacher CALEB MILES is the managing editor for The was she challenged in the quite the ways and newspaper, yearbook and online adviser Talon News. He has a state title in documentary that teaching journalism to middle schoolers at Blue Valley Northwest H.S. in Overland Park, film and won numerous state and national demands. Working with JEA mentor Sheila Kansas, and has been there for 23 years. He is a awards. He has traveled 3,270 miles covering Jones, Morgan was able to develop workable former professional photojournalist in Southern sporting events and worked as a student organization systems. California. He is also the serving past president correspondent for Dave Campbell’s Texas High 10 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite F of the Kansas Scholastic Press Association. School Football. 10 a.m. Friday, Beaudry B; 11 a.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. Saturday, San Fernando R.J. MORGAN, CJE, is the director of the Wilshire Suite F Mississippi Scholastic Press Association. Prior to KATHLEEN MILLS, a former newspaper taking this position in 2013, he was an award- JOE MCLINEY is on multimedia staff at reporter whose work has published in winning journalism adviser and a finalist for Shawnee Mission East H.S. He shoots, edits, and The New York Times, Indianapolis Star and Mississippi Teacher of the Year. Morgan also publishes videos. other publications, advises The Optimist at freelances as a sports and travel writer for Noon Saturday, Wilshire Suite G Bloomington (Indiana) H.S. South. multiple publications. Noon Friday, Wilshire Suite E; noon Friday, 10 a.m. Friday, Beaudry A MARY MCNAMARA (Featured speaker — see Wilshire Suite C; 10 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Page 6) Suite D NICOLE MOROTE is the editor-in-chief of 9 a.m. Saturday, San Diego Amador Valley H.S.’s newspaper, The Amadon. JOE MIRANDO, MJE and Ph.D., is the Elizabeth She is the first person to hold this role as a SARAH MESSMAN is a Walsworth Yearbooks Weeks Jones Endowed Professor of Humanities junior. She has been a writer and editor for representative in north central Ohio. She uses at Southeastern Louisiana University in three years. She’s also involved in her school’s her experience as a graphic designer and Hammond, Louisiana. He was a daily newspaper Mock Trial team, as a courtroom reporter. former high school basketball coach to help reporter/copy editor for five years and a high 11 a.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite G her staffs design great books meet their goals. school journalism teacher/publications adviser She teaches marketing, theme, design and for five years. He now teaches college courses in PATT MORRISON (Featured speaker — see coverage during the school year and at summer media law and ethics as well as communication Page 6) workshops. For the past three years she has research and theory, and frequently writes 8 a.m. Saturday, Beaudry B taught at the Ohio Scholastic Press Association articles for scholarly journals. convention. 10 a.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite E; noon Friday, BEATRICE MOTAMEDI, CJE, is director of 1 p.m. Saturday, Palos Verdes Wilshire Suite C; 10 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Global Student Square. A 2015 John S. Knight Suite D Fellow in journalism at Stanford University, she GARY METZKER has been a lecturer at co-directs Newsroom by the Bay, a summer California State University, Long Beach since JEFF MOFFITT, MJE, is creative accounts camp for student journalists. Motamedi is a 2008. He is design adviser for the Pinnacle manager for Jostens. Previously, Moffitt advised DJNF Distinguished Adviser and former staff 80 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions writer for the San Francisco Chronicle. She has faculty while with Clarkson Creative in Denver, helped students launch journalism programs in Colorado, for two years. East Oakland, Paris, Seoul and Ha Noi, Vietnam. 2:30 p.m. Saturday, San Gabriel B speaker bios 11 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite A; 2:30 p.m. Saturday, San Fernando ELLIS NEPSTAD is a junior at Shawnee (Kansas) H.S. Her students continue the school’s Mission East H.S. He is a live-broadcast editor long tradition of publishing one of the only CHLOE MUELLER is an editor for The Feather on the student-run publication, The Harbinger. weekly broadsheet newspapers in the state. Online, the award-winning daily digital Nepstad has been putting on broadcasts with 1 p.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite E publication, at Fresno (California) Christian H.S. his school publication for two years. He has Noon and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Los Cerritos made many videos and has experience with all MIMI ORTH, CJE, represents Herff Jones aspects of a basic broadcast. in Southern California and is the director of JEREMY MURPHY advises newspaper, 8 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite G Yearbooks@theBeach summer workshops. A yearbook and broadcast at West Fargo (North former award-winning yearbook adviser, Orth Dakota) H.S. He began his career as a sports KATHLEEN NEUMEYER retired last June can identify random fonts on the fly, pull off reporter for the Gillette News-Record in after 24 years advising the Harvard-Westake some quick keyboard tricks in InDesign, whip Gillette, Wyoming, in 2003. Murphy is also the Chronicle, Chronicle online and Big Red sports up a cool headline design or coverage idea, all coordinator for the Northern Interscholastic magazine, which have won Pacemakers, Gold in a single yearbook class period. Her students, Press Association. He has worked at WFHS for and Silver Crowns and been honored as the though, love her most for her homemade food. 11 years. first or second best high school publications 8 and 9 a.m. Saturday, San Pedro Noon Friday, Los Cerritos in California by the California News Publishers Association. She has been a reporter for United FRANK ORTIZ has been a yearbook MARK MURRAY is the director of technical Press International and has freelanced for representative in both Southern California and services and systems integration for Arlington numerous national magazines. Nevada for Balfour Yearbooks for more than six ISD. He also serves as the executive director 9 a.m. Saturday, Santa Anita B; 11 a.m. years. He attended high school in Redlands, of the Association of Texas Photography Saturday, Santa Monica A where he was an active member of the school’s Instructors. He is the recipient of the Carl Towley newspaper staff, and he began his adventures Award and Medal of Merit from JEA and the MARK NEWTON, MJE, teaches journalism in yearbook while in college as editor-in-chief Joseph Murphy Award from CSPA. He also is an at Mountain Vista H.S. in Highlands for the La Letra yearbook at the University of Adobe Education Leader. Ranch, Colorado, and advises VISTAj. The Redlands. 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Santa Anita A; noon and comprehensive media program includes 11 a.m. Friday, Beaudry B 1 p.m. Friday, San Gabriel B; 8 a.m. Saturday, the Eagle Eye newsmagazine, VistaNow.org, Santa Anita A Eagle Vision TV and Aerie yearbook. He is JEA’s JED PALMER, CJE, advises the Eagle Eye View president. Yearbook, Summit Newspaper, Summit online HEATHER NAGEL, CJE, advises the Lion’s 8 a.m. Thursday, Hollywood Ballroom; 9 p.m. and Sierra Television at Sierra Middle School Roar yearbook at Christ Presbyterian Academy Thursday, Plaza Pool Deck; 8 a.m. Friday, in Parker, Colorado. His staff has earned CSPA in Nashville, Tennessee, and is the Tennessee Santa Barbara B; noon Friday, JEA Suite; 4 Gold Crowns, NSPA Pacemakers, Gold Medalist state director for JEA. Her staff has received p.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite F; noon Saturday, and All-American critiques, NSPA Picture of a Pacemaker, NSPA Best of Show, CSPA Silver Hollywood Ballroom; and 2:30 p.m. Wilshire the Year and many other awards. He was a JEA Crown, CSPA Gold Medal and THSPA Best Suite B Distinguished Yearbook Adviser in 2013 and the Overall Yearbook. In 2012, Nagel was named CHSPA Teacher of the Year in 2013. a JEA’s Special Recognition Yearbook Adviser CASEY NICHOLS, CJE, advises student media 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. Thursday, Palos Verdes; 9 and Tennessee High School Press Association’s at Rocklin (California) H.S. In his 32nd year a.m. Friday, Santa Anita C; 10 a.m. Saturday, Bonnie Hufford Outstanding Media Adviser. of teaching, he has a profound passion for Santa Anita C; 11 a.m. Saturday, San 8 a.m. Saturday, Santa Barbara B; 10 a.m. journalism education. He is an NSPA Pioneer, Francisco Saturday, Santa Barbara C JEA Medal of Merit and JEA Yearbook Adviser of the Year recipient. Nichols serves as JEA Awards MEGAN PALMER, CJE, is in her eighth year of AMBER NARRO is the editor of Backspin Committee chair. advising the newspaper, yearbook and website golf magazine and is an associate professor 11 a.m. Friday, San Fernando; 11 a.m. at Park Hill South H.S. in Riverside, Missouri. of communication at Southeastern Louisiana Saturday, Wilshire Suite B; noon Saturday, She was the 2013 Missouri State High School University. She has a doctorate from the Hollywood Ballroom Journalism Teacher of the Year and is now University of Southern Mississippi. Narro has president of Journalism Educators of Metro KC. extensive professional experience in public SARAH NICHOLS, MJE, advises student 9 a.m. Friday, Santa Barbara C relations and journalism and runs her own media at Whitney H.S. in Rocklin, California, consulting business, specializing in social where her students have been recognized with MATT PEARCE is a national reporter for the media, marketing, publication design and top national and state honors. Nichols serves Los Angeles Times and frequently writes about online production. as JEA’s vice president and is a member of violence, disasters, social movements and civil 10 a.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite E the Scholastic Press Rights and Digital Media liberties. A University of Missouri graduate, he committees. The 2010 National Yearbook has covered news in the Midwest for a number EVERT NELSON captures life through a lens Adviser of the Year, she has been honored with of publications and previously wrote about while studying journalism at Kansas State JEA’s Medal of Merit and NSPA’s Pioneer Award. technology, culture and the Middle East as a University in Manhattan, Kansas. He works as 9 a.m. Friday, Santa Barbara B; 11 a.m. featured writer for the New Inquiry. He hails photographer for KSU Communications and Saturday, San Gabriel B from Kansas City, Missouri. Marketing, is a photojournalist at Collegian 9 a.m. Saturday, San Francisco Media Group, and freelances. Previously, he KRISTY NYP, CJE, has advised student worked as official photographer for Denver publications for more than a decade. She is MEGHAN PERCIVAL, CJE, teaches University Athletics, staff photographer for in her fifth year of working with yearbook, photojournalism and AP Psychology and the Colorado Rockies and Summit Workshop newspaper and multimedia at Manhattan advises The Clan yearbook staff at McLean H.S.

Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES — 81 10 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite D to the Royal Purple yearbook at Kansas State University. She received JEA’s Carl Towley, speaker bios BILL PLASCHKE (Featured speaker — see Teacher Inspiration, Lifetime Achievement and Page 7) Medal of Merit awards, CSPA’s Gold Key and in Virginia. The Clan has been recognized with 11 a.m. Friday, Sacramento Charles O’Malley awards and NSPA’s Pioneer the NSPA Pacemaker and CSPA Gold Crown and Award. Named Distinguished Yearbook adviser, is in the NSPA Hall of Fame. Percival earned a JULIA POE is a freshman at the University of she is in the CMA Hall of Fame. Gold Key from CSPA in 2013 and was a 2014 JEA Southern California and an alumna of Shawnee 8 and 9 a.m. Saturday, San Jose Distinguished Adviser. Mission East H.S. in Prairie Village, Kansas. She Noon and 1 p.m. Friday, Santa Anita B was named the 2015 National High School ERIKA QUICK, a Cody (Wyoming) H.S. Journalist of the year while serving as the graduate, received her B.A. in media production JONATHAN PETERS is a journalism professor editor-in-chief of the Harbinger Online. and worked as a Web designer before at the University of Kansas, where he teaches Noon Friday, San Gabriel A; 9 a.m. Saturday, managing Intrepid Outdoors, a television media law. He is an SPLC attorney and the Wilshire Suite A program that airs on NBC Sports Network and press freedom correspondent for the Columbia the Sportsman Channel. In 2011, she won Best Journalism Review. Previously he blogged REBECCA POLLARD, MJE, advises high New Program from Versus Network, among about free expression for the Harvard Law & school student media at Heritage H.S. in other awards, and now she owns Quick Draw Policy Review. Peters has written about legal Frisco, Texas. Over her career of 16 years in Productions in Cody, Wyo. issues for Esquire, The Atlantic, Sports Illustrated, scholastic journalism, she has advised yearbook, 10 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite F Slate, Wired, The Nation and PBS. broadcast, newspaper, Web and literary 9 a.m. Friday, San Pedro; 10 a.m. Saturday, magazine. Her programs have won state awards SARA QUINN, a design and journalism Santa Monica D; 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Wilshire and have been recognized nationally. She is the consultant and researcher, holds the R.M. Suite A Journalist of the Year Committee chair for JEA Seaton Endowed Chair at Kansas State and teaches at publication workshops around University. President of the Society for News DOREEN PICOZZI, MJE, is an English teacher the country. Design, she is also an affiliate faculty member at Lincoln (Rhode Island) H.S., where she also 9 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite A; 10 for The Poynter Institute where she taught full serves as program director of LHS’s Journalism a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite D; 11 a.m. time for more than a decade. Her large-scale & Broadcasting Academy, an accredited CTE Saturday, Wilshire Suite G; 8:30 a.m. Sunday, eyetracking research for Poynter and other program. Doreen joined the ranks of LHS after Sacramento/San Jose/San Francisco organizations on newspaper, tablet and online working for more than 20 years in the private reading habits helps journalists determine the sector as a print journalist, and from 1990 LINDA PUNTNEY, MJE, is a publications best forms for storytelling. Her most recent to 2002, as press secretary to the mayor of consultant and retired JEA executive director, study is Eyetracking Photojournalism, for NPPA. Providence, Rhode Island. director of Student Publications Inc. and adviser 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Beaudry B

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82 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions COURTNEY RADSCH (Featured speaker — MICHAEL REEVES is about to complete his see Page 7) third year at James Bowie H.S. in Austin, Texas. 9 a.m. Friday, Santa Anita B The 12-year publication veteran’s courses speaker bios include newspaper, photo-news/graphic JUSTIN RAISNER advises The Highlander design and illustration, and Journalism 1. He JONATHAN ROGERS, MJE, advises The Little newspaper, ScotCenter videos, and Scot Scoop grew up in a newspaper family that owned and Hawk newspaper, LH Magazine, The Red and News, which won a National Online Pacemaker operated newspapers across the country. His White yearbook and littlehawk.com website in 2014. He has been advising media at scholastic newspaper staffs have won multiple at Iowa City (Iowa) H.S. Before teaching, he Carlmont H.S. since 2009. state and national awards. He is the JEA Texas worked as a sports reporter and environmental Noon Friday, Los Feliz state director. journalist. Rogers is a DJNF Distinguished 9 a.m. Friday, San Jose; 9 a.m. Saturday, Adviser, JEA Professional Outreach chair, NCTE MARGIE RAPER, MJE, advises student Wilshire Suite E liaison, IHSPA president, and JEA Digital Media publications and teaches journalism and blogger. photojournalism at Wakeland H.S. in Frisco, CINDY RENAUD advises the yearbook and 10 a.m. Friday, San Gabriel B; 11 a.m. Friday, Texas. She is proud to share her passion for teaches freshman English and digital media at San Pedro scholastic journalism with her students, see Harborside Academy in Wisconsin. She started them grow as storytellers and celebrate their the yearbook program at the school in 2007, REES ROGGENSTEIN is an editor for The achievements. She also serves as the president- and the publication has earned All-KEMPA Feather Online, the award-winning daily digital elect for the Texas Association of Journalism honors for the past four years. Renaud was the publication, at Fresno (California) Christian H.S. Educators. 2015 KEMPA Jan Kohls Yearbook Adviser of the Noon and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Los Cerritos Noon Friday, Beaudry A; 10 a.m. Saturday, Year. Wilshire Suite D; 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Palos 1 p.m. Saturday, Santa Barbara C LES ROSE (Featured speaker — see Page 7) Verdes Noon Saturday, Avalon GRACE RICHEY won the 2015 JEA Impact KRISTI RATHBUN, CJE, advises the Black Award with fellow reporter Kellen Browning ANDREW ROSS is a yearbook editor-in-chief & Gold yearbook and The Rock student for their article about how the lack of a turned yearbook representative. This passionate newspaper at Rock Canyon H.S. in Highlands multipurpose room affected disabled students yearbook nerd prides himself on the fact that Ranch, Colorado. Her students have earned on the Davis H.S. campus in California. Richey he has been doing yearbook longer than he top state and national awards including now is a student at Scripps College. has been driving. Ross happily represents NSPA Pacemaker, CSPA Crown and CSMA All- Noon Saturday, Santa Monica D Walsworth Yearbooks in Colorado. Colorado awards. Rathbun was named a JEA Noon Friday, San Fernando; 8 a.m. Saturday, Distinguished Adviser in 2014. She is the JEA MIKE RILEY, CJE, recently retired from Palos Verdes state director for Colorado and the advocacy teaching broadcast journalism at Cody coordinator for CSMA. (Wyoming) H.S. He spent 40 years as an DANIELLE RYAN, MJE, has been teaching 9 a.m. Saturday, Palos Verdes educator, and he has taught in prison, the journalism at Carlsbad (California) H.S. for 10 Marshall Islands, Blackfeet Community College, years and advises the news website, newspaper, RACHEL RAUCH, CJE, advises the award- the University of Montana and the Texas School yearbook and literary magazine. Ryan was winning Highlander newsmagazine, The for the Deaf. His students have won numerous the co-chair of the 2014 San Diego JEA/NSPA Highlander online website and the Tartan awards, and many have become outstanding convention and is vice president of San Diego’s Yearbook at Homestead H.S. in Mequon, professionals in their fields. Riley now serves as JEA chapter. Her students have been named Wisconsin. She is a 2015 DJNF Distinguished a JEA mentor. Online Pacemaker finalists, won Best of Show Adviser and KEMPA Newspaper Adviser of 1 p.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite B for their website and earned All-American the Year. She serves on the JEA One Book and ratings. Digital Media committees, the Walsworth Idea TIM RILEY teaches multimedia journalism at 1 p.m. Saturday, Santa Monica A File board and is secretary of KEMPA. Emerson College in Boston, and is author of “Tell 9 a.m. Saturday, Emerald Bay; 2:30 p.m. Me Why: A Beatles Commentary and Lennon: ELANA SACINO is a Walsworth Yearbook Saturday, San Gabriel A Man, Myth Music.” representative in the San Diego area. She fell 1 p.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite G in love with photography while working on BILL RAWSON is a teacher of journalism and more than 400 yearbooks and has been a English and advises the school newspaper, The COLBY RIPSAM is a four-year video professional photographer since 2005. She is Smoke Signal, at Pascack Valley H.S. in Hillsdale, production student at Fossil Ridge H.S. the photographer for Dark Horse Comics at New Jersey. Prior to his teaching career, Rawson He founded the school news broadcast San Diego Comic Con and photographed for was a sports writer at a daily newspaper in New in 2013. Additionally, Ripsam built a live “Big Brother,” the TV show as well as countless Jersey. event production crew that streams school weddings. 10 a.m. Saturday, Palos Verdes assemblies, sporting events and theater shows. Noon Saturday, Beaudry B He has produced videos for several professional JON REESE, CJE, has advised student media companies including Coca Cola and Rachel’s SARA SAUSKER, CJE, is responsible for the at Decatur (Georgia) H.S. for 24 years. He is the Challenge. Ripsam has managed video crews Jostens educational materials and offerings. She Georgia state director for JEA and presents consisting of more than 100 members. uses her experience as a teacher and yearbook yearly at state and national conventions. His 8 a.m. Saturday, San Gabriel A representative to inform her passionate school’s newsmagazine, Carpe Diem, has won philosophy of student journalism. She believes Pacemakers, Gold Crowns and Gallup Awards. DANIELLE ROBINSON is a junior and editor- that a student journalism class can be one Reese coordinates his school’s Senior Project in-chief of Buffalo yearbook at Haltom H.S. in of the most valuable learning opportunities and IB Diploma Programme’s Creativity, Action Haltom City, Texas. offered in a high school and loves helping to and Service component. 11 a.m. Saturday, Los Feliz provide resources that will help build a thriving 10 and 11 a.m. Friday, San Gabriel A; 2:30 p.m. program. Saturday, Wilshire Suite E 1 p.m. Friday, San Gabriel A

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Saxon teaches media at Santa plan digital presentation for the Pulitzer Prize- Monica College and Palisades Charter H.S. in winning series on the corruption at an area a leadership speaker and a freelance writer. She California. school district. is the JEA state director for North Dakota. 10 a.m. Saturday, Beaudry B 9 a.m. Friday, Avalon Noon Friday, Wilshire Suite D; 1 p.m. Friday, Los Cerritos JOSH SCHAEFER is the “ECR Live” play-by-play LUCAS SHAW writes about the intersection commentator at El Camino Real H.S. He has of Hollywood and Silicon Valley for Bloomberg NANCY Y. SMITH, MJE, advises the announced games at Dodger Stadium and News, and often contributes to Bloomberg newspaper, yearbook, online and digital media Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. He has many Businessweek and Bloomberg Television. at Lafayette H.S. in Wildwood, Missouri. She contacts in the sports broadcasting field such He covers companies such as Netflix, CBS has been teaching journalism and advising as Pete Arbogast, the voice of the USC Trojans, and Pandora, reporting in the ways in which publications for 29 years, and she frequently and Tim Kurkjian from ESPN’s “Baseball Tonight.” technological innovations and shifts in speaks at workshops and conferences. Smith is Noon Saturday, Palos Verdes consumer behavior are transforming the the JEA national Write-off chair. Honors include entertainment business. DJNF Special Recognition Adviser and JEA LAURA SCHAUB, CJE, is Lifetouch’s national 9 a.m. Friday, Avalon Distinguished Yearbook Adviser. key accounts manager. Previously, she directed Wednesday through Sunday, International the Oklahoma Interscholastic Press Association TOMMY SHERK is editor-in-chief of the award- Room; 1 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m. Friday, and served as a professor of journalism at the winning newspaper, The Harbinger, at Shawnee Pasadena Room; 6 p.m. Friday, Hollywood University of Oklahoma. She is past CSPAA Mission East H.S. He is passionate for design, Ballroom president and has received the Gold Key, writing and editorial leadership. O’Malley, Paschal and Murphy awards from Noon Saturday, Wilshire Suite G MARIO SOLIS is NBC4’s award-winning sports CSPA. anchor and sports reporter. Solis has more 9 a.m. Friday, Beaudry B; noon and 1 p.m. STACY SHORT is the adviser of The Talon than two decades of sports broadcasting Friday, San Diego News. She has directed and mentored the Talon experience during which he has covered nearly for five years and has been teaching journalism every major sporting event, including the SARAH SCHISLA is the editor-in-chief of for 22 years. Prior to teaching, Short worked Olympic Games and the World Cup. Solis has Scot Scoop News. She is in her third year with for a major marketing and advertising firm also held on-air roles with HBO Sports, HBO Carlmont H.S.’s student media, and she was part developing markets, creating sales packages Latino, Fox Sports, Time Warner Cable Deportes, of the staff that won a 2014 Pacemaker. and designing advertisements. Short grew up Telemundo and Univision. Noon Friday, Los Feliz on the sidelines with her editor-in-chief uncle, 11 a.m. Saturday, San Fernando which is where she acquired her passion. SABRINA SCHMITZ, CJE, is a representative of 10 a.m. Saturday, San Fernando MARGARET SORROWS, CJE, retired in May Walsworth Yearbooks and is the former adviser 2015 after 36 years of advising yearbooks at J.W. Mitchell H.S. Under her leadership, The BARRY SIEGEL (Featured speaker — see Page and newspapers, most recently for 24 years Stampede yearbook earned multiple CSPA 7) at Bryant (Arkansas) H.S. She was the 2014 Crowns and an NSPA Pacemaker, and it was a 11 a.m. Saturday, Sacramento H.L. Hall Yearbook Adviser of the Year. Her 2012 Design of the Year Finalist. She was 2013 publications won numerous CSPA Crowns and Teacher of the Year and a District Teacher of the MIKE SIMONS, MJE, is the award-winning NSPA Pacemakers. She is an ambassador for Year runner-up. Schmitz teaches at workshops adviser of the 55-student Tesserae yearbook Jostens, serving as an educational and creative and conventions around the country. at Corning-Painted Post H.S. in upstate New consultant. 11 a.m. Saturday, Los Cerritos York. Vice president of the Columbia Scholastic 8 and 9 a.m. Saturday, San Gabriel C; 10 Press Advisers’ Association, Simons is a frequent a.m. Saturday, San Pedro; 11 a.m. Saturday, MATTHEW SCHOTT, CJE, advises the instructor and featured speaker at regional and Beaudry A newspaper, website, yearbook and broadcast national workshops. He is a 2015 Distinguished at Francis Howell Central H.S. in St. Charles, Yearbook Adviser. MELODY SOTO is a multimedia journalist Missouri. His publications have won numerous 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. Thursday, Santa Barbara C; based in the San Fernando Valley. She is the awards from NSPA, CSPA, Quill and Scroll and noon and 1 p.m. Friday, Hollywood Ballroom; site editor and associate producer of KCET’s state and local organizations. Schott formerly 9 a.m. Saturday, San Fernando; 10 a.m. Emmy Award-winning arts TV program and worked as a graphic designer for papers in Saturday, San Pedro; 11 a.m. Saturday, San online site Artbound and project associate of Illinois, Missouri and Florida. He was recognized Francisco KCET’s global music video show Border Blaster. as a DJNF Distinguished Adviser in 2013. In 2014, she was the recipient of the Best Use 10 a.m. Friday, San Gabriel B CAROLE SIMPSON (Featured speaker — see of Social Media prize at the National Arts & Page 7) Entertainment Journalism Awards. KATHY SCHRIER, MJE,is a former newspaper/ 9 a.m. Friday, Hollywood Ballroom 11 a.m. Saturday, Beaudry B yearbook adviser now serving as executive director of the Washington Journalism LUIS SINCO (Featured speaker — see Page 7) ALLIE STAUB advises The Scrapbook yearbook Education Association. She is a member of 10 a.m. Friday, San Diego at Westfield (Indiana) Middle School. She was JEA’s Scholastic Press Rights and the Awards named a 2015 JEA Rising Star and is the JEA committees. She holds a JEA Medal of Merit and SUE SKALICKY, MJE, advises journalism at Junior High/Middle School Media Contest co- was honored with the NSPA Pioneer Award. She Legacy H.S. in Bismarck, North Dakota. She chair. Her students have earned many state and hopes to see scholastic press rights legislation teaches journalism, advises newspaper, the national honors including three CSPA Crowns, passed in Washington state during her lifetime. news website LHStoday.com and The Legend NSPA Pacemaker Finalist and multiple NSPA Best 1 p.m. Friday, Los Cerritos; 9 a.m. Saturday, yearbook. Over the past 28 years, Skalicky has of Show and Picture of the Year awards. Wilshire Suite G worked as a medical photographer, a journalist, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite F

Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES — 85 FRANK SURACI is the Pulitzer-Prize winning teaches visual journalism and media writing. city editor of the Daily Breeze, where he has He also directs the Kansas Scholastic Press speaker bios worked for more than 40 years. Suraci has Association for 150 member schools. During the covered or overseen the paper’s coverage of summer, he organizes the Kansas Journalism GREG STOBBE advises The Feather Online several huge national stories — among them Institute, a five-day summer workshop on the (www.thefeather.com), Fresno (California) the years-long McMartin Preschool molestation KU campus in Lawrence. He is a former high Christian H.S.’s daily digital publication. The case, passage of the groundbreaking school adviser from St. Teresa’s Academy in online paper has earned numerous NSPA Proposition 13, the O.J. Simpson murder Kansas City. Pacemakers during his tenure as adviser. Stobbe case and a deadly plane crash at Los Angeles 9 a.m. Friday, San Diego; 1 p.m. Friday, Santa is a former board member of JEANC. He has International Airport. Barbara B often spoken at NSPA and CSPA conventions, 9 a.m. Friday, Avalon advocating online high school journalism since DAVID THOMPSON is a professor in the 1998. RIC TAPIA is a freelance sports and portrait Department of First-Year and Transition Studies Noon and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Los Cerritos photographer based in Los Angeles. His at Kennesaw State University, near Atlanta. clients include Nike, Gatorade, Under Armour, His media background includes owner and SYD STONE is a senior at The Archer School Skechers, K-Swiss, Sports Illustrated and the president of SENSS Publications and Seminars for Girls in Los Angeles. She is the co-editor-in- National Football League. Tapia started his Inc., and director of Online Services and chief of Archer’s award-winning digital news career as a yearbook staff photographer Content Development at the Columbia Daily site, The Oracle. She became the Voices editor and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Tribune in Missouri. and the social media manager during the 2013- professional photography from Brooks Institute 1 p.m. Saturday, Santa Monica D 2014 school year. She attended the summer of Photography. journalism institute at Northwestern University 10 a.m. Friday, San Francisco JENNIFER FREEMAN THOMPSON, CJE, has and will attend the Medill School of Journalism never met a play on words or an ultra thin sans there next year. BECKY TATE, CJE, has advised newspaper serif she didn’t like. A magazine design and 10 a.m. Saturday, Los Feliz and yearbook at Shawnee Mission North H.S. marketing veteran, Thompson is the marketing for the past 26 years. Tate received a Gold Key director for Picaboo Yearbooks. She is a former MARK STORER is adviser for Camarillo from CSPA in 2010 and Medal of Merit from JEA award-winning college yearbook editor and H.S.’s student news website, the Stinger, and in 2008. She was a DJNF Special Recognition stays actively involved in scholastic journalism teaches English at the school. As a working Adviser for newspaper in 1997 and a JEA Special organizations as a speaker and judge in her freelance journalist, Storer writes for a number Recognition Adviser for yearbook in 1999. home state of Arkansas and beyond. of publications including the Ventura County 10 a.m. Friday, Santa Barbara A; 10 a.m. 1 p.m. Friday, San Fernando Star, the San Jose Mercury News, the New York Saturday, Beaudry A Times and many others. He has presented to a ANNABEL THORPE is editor-in-chief of The number of journalism groups. DOW TATE is a newspaper, online and Talon News. She directed the first place UIL 10 a.m. Saturday, San Bernardino yearbook adviser at Shawnee Mission East state documentary Rubber Band Reminders. in Prairie Village, Kansas. Tate was named a Thorpe competes in writing and photography JIM STRAUB has been a Walsworth Yearbooks CSPA Gold Key recipient in 2013. He also has competitions, winning awards like Best of sales representative for 16 years. His passion been named a JEA Distinguished Adviser Show portfolio and superior portfolio. She is to help staffs create their best work while and, in 1997, the DJNF National High School interned at the Dallas Morning News and having fun and being motivated. His career has Journalism Teacher of the Year. freelances for Woman’s eNews, FD magazine, included working as a cover artist, computer 8 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite G; 10 a.m. and Cross Timbers Gazette. She’s also a student support tech, new rep trainer and sales rep. Saturday, Beaudry A correspondent for Fox Sports Southwest. 10 a.m. Saturday, Santa Anita B 10 a.m. Saturday, San Fernando; noon KRISTIN TAYLOR advises the Archer School Saturday, San Gabriel A LYNN STRAUSE, CJE, advised 30 yearbooks for Girls’ student-run digital news site, The before retiring, the last 13 at East Lansing Oracle, which started in 2012 and was named MICHELLE TURNER is a Missouri journalism (Michigan) H.S. Strause speaks and judges for an Online Pacemaker in 2015. She has been adviser with 20 years of experience. Over the national, regional and state organizations. She teaching 19 years but came to journalism years, on top of broadcast journalism, she was named Michigan’s Adviser of the Year, JEA education only recently. She has spent the past has taught English, photography, art, drama National Yearbook Adviser of the Year, and she three years developing a workable system for and yearbook. Missouri Interscholastic Press has received a CSPA Gold Key, NSPA Pioneer a digital-only news platform. Taylor is pursuing Association honored her as the Missouri High Award and JEA Lifetime Achievement Award. a master’s degree in journalism through Kent School Journalism Teacher of the Year in 2015. She works as a yearbook consultant. State University. Several of her Blue Jay Journal TV alumni are in 8 and 9 a.m. Saturday, Santa Anita C 10 a.m. Saturday, Los Feliz the industry. She is the 2016 National Broadcast Adviser of the Year. CAROL STRAUSS is a JEA mentor from MIKE TAYLOR is a journalism specialist/key Noon Saturday, Hollywood Ballroom Newport Beach, California. She taught accounts with Walsworth Yearbooks. He taught photography and advised newspaper and yearbook, newspaper and television production MARY VAN is a high school teacher and yearbook for 40 years at Los Amigos H.S. in at Lecanto (Florida) H.S. for 13 years. He has publications adviser. She oversees the Fountain Valley, California. served as president of the Florida Scholastic yearbook, newspaper, literary magazine and Noon Friday, Wilshire Suite B Press Association and has received the FSPA teaches sophomore English at Century H.S. Gold Medallion and JEA Medal of Merit. in Bismarck, North Dakota. In addition to her TARAN SUN is the managing editor of 11 a.m. Friday, San Diego; 1 p.m. Friday, San career, Van is leading a student tour to Europe Scot Scoop News. He is in his third year with Pedro and is finishing her master’s degree. Carlmont H.S.’s student media, and he was part 9 and 10 a.m. Friday, Wilshire Suite G; 9 a.m. of the staff that won a 2014 Online Pacemaker. ERIC THOMAS, MJE, instructs at the University Saturday, Los Feliz; 2:30 p.m. Saturday, San Noon Friday, Los Feliz of Kansas school of journalism where he Pedro 86 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions APRIL VAN BUREN, MJE, is a media specialist Show. She teaches at camps and conventions at La Follette H.S. in Madison, Wisconsin. and evaluates/judges publications. She holds She is president of the Kettle Moraine Press CSPA’s Gold Key and was a 2011 Distinguished speaker bios Association and a member of the JEA Write-off Yearbook Adviser. Request electronic sharing of committee. The 2013 New Mexico adviser of materials at [email protected]. manager of Corks & Curls at the University the year has taught journalism for 10+ years, 10 a.m. Friday, Los Cerritos; 11 a.m. Friday, of Virginia for three years. Whitten advises including as an adjunct for the University Beaudry B the Guardian yearbook and the Watchdog of New Mexico, faculty at George Mason newspaper at Westfield H.S. in Chantilly, Virginia. University’s WJMC and at KEMPA Kamp. LEAH WATERS, CJE, advises the Trail Dust He advises the Stone Observer, a middle school 8 a.m. Friday, Beaudry B; 8 a.m. Saturday San yearbook and Mane Event newspaper staffs at newspaper. He was a 2013 JEA Rising Star. Gabriel B Creekview H.S. in Carrollton, Texas. Waters also 8:30 a.m. Thursday, San Gabriel A serves as a vice president of the Association of JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS (Keynote speaker, Texas Photography Instructors. She is currently KELLY WILKERSON advises The HUB see Page 5) pursuing a master’s in journalism from the newspaper, BlueDevilHUB.com website, “Take It 7:30 p.m. Thursday, California Ballroom University of North Texas, focusing on the to the HUB” radio show, and The Spoke literary critical study of mediated culture. magazine. She teaches at Davis Senior H.S. in SARAH WAGNER is a senior at The Archer 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Beaudry A northern California. School for Girls in Los Angeles. She is the co- 11 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite D editor-in-chief of Archer’s award-winning digital BEN WELSH leads the Los Angeles Times data news site, The Oracle. She has been involved desk, a team of reporters and programmers BRADLEY WILSON, Ph.D. and MJE, is the with The Oracle since her sophomore year. In that partners with other journalists to collect, director of student media at Midwestern State her sophomore and junior years, she served analyze and present large amounts of University in Texas. He is the editor of JEA’s as the news and features editor. Two summers information. He is a co-founder of the California national magazine, Communication: Journalism ago, she interned at the local paper, The Civic Data Coalition, a network of developers Education Today, and co-managing editor of Brentwood News. dedicated to opening public data, and the College Media Review for the College Media 10 a.m. Saturday, Los Feliz creator of PastPages.org, an open-source effort Association. He has received CSPA’s Gold Key, dedicated to archiving digital news. NSPA’s Pioneer Award and JEA’s Carl Towley LIZABETH WALSH, MJE is the Re-Wa-Ne 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Santa Monica D Award. @bradleywilson09 yearbook adviser at Reno (Nev.) H.S. She has 1 p.m. Thursday, Santa Anita A; 8 a.m. Friday, advised publications for 25 years. Her staffs ANTHONY WHITTEN, CJE, began his Santa Monica C; noon and 1 p.m. Friday, have earned CSPA Gold Medals, NSPA All- scholastic journalism career as a high school Santa Barbara C; 4 p.m. Friday, Sacramento/ Americans, and have placed in NSPA’s Best of yearbook editor. He then served as business San Jose/San Francisco

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Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2016 • LOS ANGELES — 87 JENNIFER YOUNG advises yearbook and MAXWELL ZHU is a second-year editor-in- newspaper at President Theodore Roosevelt chief for the Cayuse yearbook staff at Walnut speaker bios H.S. in Honolulu, Hawaii. She is the JEA Hawaii (California) H.S. After managing the copy for state director. a year, he decided to step into the position of LEO WOLINSKY is a veteran journalist and 10 a.m. Saturday, Wilshire Suite F staff and production manager. media consultant who spent more than 30 11 a.m. Saturday, Palos Verdes years at the Los Angeles Times. He moved JESS YOUNG, MJE, advises the Torch yearbook, through the ranks from reporter to some of Musket newspaper and photography programs STAN ZOLLER, MJE, is lecturer of journalism the newsroom’s highest positions, including at Orange Glen H.S. in Escondido, California. She at Lake Forest (Illinois) College and Chicago executive editor and managing editor. He is the San Diego JEA president, Quill and Scroll project coordinator for the Center for News served as Page 1 editor for more than a decade. board member and a frequent presenter at Literacy. He is an at-large director of the JEA He is a member of the News Literacy Project’s scholastic journalism workshops. board. Zoller has been honored by Dow Jones Los Angeles advisory committee. 11 a.m. Friday, Santa Barbara A; 11 a.m. News Fund and is an NSPA Pioneer. He is vice 10 a.m. Friday, San Pedro Saturday, Santa Anita B president/membership and president-elect of the Chicago chapter of the Society of CASANDRA WORKMAN, CJE, is the co- LAURA ZHU, CJE, advises the Jamboree Professional Journalists. president and co-founder of the Southern yearbook at Toby Johnson Middle School 6:45 p.m. Thursday, San Gabriel C; 10 a.m. Nevada Society of Journalists. She has advised in California. She was Elk Grove USD’s 2013 Friday, San Bernardino; 1 p.m. Friday, Los yearbook for 13 years, 11 at Centennial H.S. Teacher of the Year and California League of Cerritos; 8 a.m. Saturday, Los Feliz; 9 a.m. in Las Vegas. She teaches graphic design and Middle Schools Educator of the Year. Zhu’s Saturday, Wilshire Suite D; 11 a.m. Saturday, previously taught English. She has written yearbook students have earned several San Bernardino curriculum in English and journalism for her state and national awards including three school district and helped write the design consecutive CSPA Gold Crowns and a 2011 curriculum for JEA. NSPA Pacemaker. Zhu is the JEA Junior High/ Noon Friday, Santa Anita A; 1 p.m. Saturday, Middle School Media Contest co-chair. Beaudry A 11 a.m. Saturday, Palos Verdes Westin Bonaventure

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Jostens and PANTONE® have joined ATTEND A SPECIAL SESSION forces to help students learn how “Show Your True Colors” by John Cutsinger, Gary Lundgren, to better connect and design with Jeff Moffitt and Margaret Sorrows color. Pantone is known worldwide Saturday at 11 a.m., as the standard language for color Beaudry A, Lobby Level. communication. Together, we’ll keep VISIT THE JOSTENS BOOTH advisers and students on the cutting Win Pantone prizes by participating edge of creativity. in fun journalism games.

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