WE ARE ALL STORYTELLERS JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention April 16-18 • Gaylord Opryland Resort National High School Journalism Convention April 16-18, 2020 at Nashville’s Gaylord Opryland Resort nashville.journalismconvention.org JOURNALISM NATIONAL EDUCATION SCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION 1 ASSOCIATION Every student deserves to be remembered. CONTENTS REGISTRATION FEES FOR UPDATES AND THE LATEST INFO — EARLY BIRD STANDARD nashville.journalismconvention.org JEA and NSPA members $99 per delegate $109 per delegate SEMINARS & SCHEDULING Nonmember students or advisers $119 per delegate $129 per delegate Keynote Speaker ............................................. 5 Nonmember professionals $159 per delegate Tentative Schedule ......................................... 5 Featured Speakers ..................................... 6-8 Register on or before March 25 to receive early-bird discounts. Register online at starting Jan. 28. Pre-convention Workshops .................... 10-11 nashville.journalismconvention.org One Story ......................................................... 11 Thursday Tours .............................................. 15 Convention Shirts .......................................... 19 DEADLINES Adviser-only Activities ................................... 17 Luncheon Feb. 1 — CJE/MJE applications (Page 17) Receptions Feb. 11-March 18 — JEA Media Contests registration/entry uploading (Pages 22-23) Hospitality Feb. 4-March 23 — Hotel reservations (Page 24) POWER AND RESPONSIBILITY First-time Attendee March 13 — Need-based scholarship application (Page 21). Winners announced March 18. Orientation Meeting March 23 — Shirt pre-order (Page 19) Continuing Education Units March 25 — Early-bird registration (including Break with a Pro, Media Swap Shops, media RESIDE IN THE ART OF JEA Certification Testing tours, on-site critiques, adviser luncheon, student dinner and pre-convention workshops) Special Events ................................................ 21 April 10 — Online registration closes at midnight. Register on site after this date. S T O R Y T E L L I N G. Break with a Pro Media Swap Shops Student Entertainment Student Press Party GET INVOLVED Adobe and Precision Certification Testing If you plan to attend the JEA/NSPA convention, consider getting involved by speaking, CONTESTS & CRITIQUES judging JEA National Student Media Contests or NSPA Best of Show competitions, or critiquing yearbooks, newspapers, videos or magazines. Pick an area that interests you and Best of Show Contest .................................. 21 contact us. National Journalism Quiz Bowl .................. 21 Adviser members of JEA or NSPA receive complimentary registration if they participate in at Join us ‘live’ On-site Critiques ............................................ 21 least two of the following activities. JEA National Student Media Contests ... 22 in Nashville SESSION SPEAKERS HOTEL & REGISTRATION There may be times available for session speakers. If you are interested in presenting a to learn more. session, fill out the form on the JEA website at www.jea.org/wp/volunteer, or email Scholarship Opportunities .......................... 21 Connie Fulkerson, at [email protected]. Convention Hotel .......................................... 24 Convention Rules ......................................... 25 JEA NATIONAL STUDENT MEDIA CONTEST JUDGING Registration Form .......................................... 27 Most JEA National Student Media Contests take place Friday afternoon, and the judging occurs Friday evening. To sign up to judge JEA contests, contact Nancy Smith, at [email protected]. NSPA ON-SITE CRITIQUES If you are an experienced adviser, you can help with NSPA’s on-site critiques. You’ll meet with the staff of the publication to provide constructive criticism of its work. JOLIE BARNHART • BLUE VALLEY WEST HS • OVERLAND PARK, KS Email [email protected] to help with critiques. 2 Every student deserves to be remembered. POWER AND RESPONSIBILITY RESIDE IN THE ART OF S T O R Y T E L L I N G. Join us ‘live’ in Nashville to learn more. JOLIE BARNHART • BLUE VALLEY WEST HS • OVERLAND PARK, KS experience the experienced. Great Print | Latest Tech | Caring People yearbooks.friesens.com KEYNOTE SPEAKER: JOHN SEIGENTHALER John Seigenthaler is an award-winning He began his career in local television news journalist and former anchor and at KOMO TV (ABC) in Seattle and WKRN TV correspondent for NBC News. (ABC) and WSMV TV (NBC) in Nashville. Seigenthaler anchored “NBC Nightly News” Seigenthaler is currently a partner at Finn weekend edition for almost a decade. Partners, a global public relations firm. He is He appeared on “Meet The Press,” “Dateline,” a member of the Newseum board of trustees “TODAY,” “Weekend TODAY,” MSNBC, CNBC and the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors, and Discovery Channel. Seigenthaler was and he is an RFK Journalism Award judge. He one of the first anchors to launch the MSNBC has a B.A. in public-policy studies from Duke cable news channel. University. As an NBC News special correspondent, he covered presidential campaigns, major hurricanes, the Olympics and terror attacks in the United States and around the world. In 2013, Seigenthaler was named primetime anchor for Aljazeera America cable news channel. TENTATIVE SCHEDULE Thursday, April 16 Friday, April 17 Saturday, April 18 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Media Tours 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Adviser Hospitality 7:30 a.m.-noon Adviser Hospitality 8 a.m.-3 p.m. JEA Board Meeting 8 a.m. JEA Membership Meeting 8 a.m. Breakout Sessions Begin 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Pre-convention Workshops 8 a.m. Several JEA Broadcast Contests Begin 8-11 a.m. JEA Bookstore 1-7 p.m. Convention Check-in, JEA Contests 8-10:30 a.m. JEA Contests Desk Open 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Convention Check-in and NSPA Best of Show Desks Open, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Convention Check-in, JEA 9-11 a.m. On-site Critiques Trade Show, JEA Bookstore Bookstore, Trade Show Noon-2:20 p.m. Adviser Awards Luncheon 6:15 p.m. First-time Attendee Orientation 9 a.m. Breakout Sessions Begin (Advisers Only) 3:30-6 p.m. JEA/NSPA Awards Ceremony 9-11 a.m. Break with a Pro (includes Best of Show, Pacemakers, 7-9 p.m. Opening Ceremony/Keynote Noon-3:30 p.m. On-site Critiques National Student Media Contests, Speaker/NSPA Pacemaker Finalists/ Journalist of the Year, Aspiring Young FAPFA Winners/JOY Finalists/Student 1 p.m. NSPA Best of Show Deadline Journalist) Journalist Impact Award 3:30-6 p.m. CJE/MJE Testing Midnight Convention Curfew 9-10:30 p.m. Adviser Kickoff Reception 4-6 p.m. JEA National Student Media experience the experienced. Midnight Convention Curfew Contests 6 p.m. JEA National Student Media Contests Judging and Dinner 6-7 p.m. Student Dinner 8-10 p.m. Student Swap Shops 8:30-11 p.m. Adviser Reception/SPLC Auction 8:30-11 p.m. Student Entertainment/ Freedom Sings Concert Midnight Convention Curfew Great Print | Latest Tech | Caring People yearbooks.friesens.com 5 FEATURED SPEAKERS For session times, consult the convention program and mobile app. Whit Adamson is immediate past president of Chris Baker, president of the Tennessee Nic Dugger is founder and owner of TNDV: the Tennessee Association of Broadcasters. Association of Broadcasters, has 36 years’ Television, a Nashville production company He has been in the broadcasting industry for experience in television, radio, sales and that is now part of the nation’s largest over four decades, after a start in the sales management. He began his career in radio provider of mid-size mobile production department at WSM-TV in Nashville. Adamson sales and management, and he became an facilities. Its productions can be seen nightly has not only witnessed the station’s evolution, equity partner in BRC Media Management, a on PBS, CMT, GAC, ABC and other networks. but contributed significantly to the TAB’s radio group with properties in Kentucky, New He was student TV station manager at Middle growth and stature across all parties. He York, Connecticut and Rhode Island. After Tennessee State University and worked on a became president in 1987 and will leave the selling BRC, he joined Gray Television, where number of freelance projects. As a producer position in 2022. he spent 22 years in general management for Media Arts in Seattle, he was part of and ran CBS, CW and MyNetwork affiliates milestone productions for the Discovery in Knoxville, Tennessee. He increased their Channel and National Geographic, with market value and built the nation’s first coverage of a volcano, the Peruvian rainforest network-affiliated multicast TV channel. and a live ocean-to-ocean broadcast. Jessica Frost is executive director, industry Laura Holloway has more than a decade David Hooper is a journalist and media relations, at Broadcast Music Inc., where of experience in Los Angeles in the film marketing expert based in Nashville. As a she develops and cultivates relationships and television industry and in Phoenix journalist, he’s best known as the host of with industry associations and businesses as a content marketing strategist, editor the syndicated radio show, “Music Business across the country that use BMI music. Based and journalist. A child of the South and a Radio.” His latest book is “Big Podcast – in Nashville, Frost is a 20-year veteran at passionate storyteller, Holloway founded the How To Grow Your Podcast Audience, Build BMI and now represents it to various trade Storyteller Agency to help businesses rethink Listener Loyalty, and Get Everybody Talking associations in the radio, TV, hotel,