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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.

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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

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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, restaurant, marketing and to consider their message as About Your Show.” bar, winery and fitness industries. She an ongoing narrative — a conversation with educates business owners about copyright their audience. Holloway is founder of the law, music licensing and the service that BMI Cookeville Improv Alliance and the co-founder provides to all businesses and organizations and president of Storyteller Theatre Company. that play music publicly. Frost is also responsible for events that connect BMI songwriters with the businesses that play their music.

6 Deborah Fisher is director of the John Brent Carl Fleshman is program director and Erica Francis is anchor at WKRN-TV News Seigenthaler Chair of Excellence in First morning-show host on the award-winning 2, in Nashville. She joined its news team in Amendment Studies at Middle Tennessee Newstalk 107.7 and 1400 The HUB (WHUB) in June 2019 to focus on Nashville’s growth State University, where she develops Cookeville, Tennessee. After experience in and the growing pains that come along with programs and resources to increase Las Vegas, Atlanta and Kansas City, Missouri, it. An Emmy-nominated writer, Francis has understanding of First Amendment freedoms. Fleshman moved in 2011 to Cookeville to join been honored by the Michigan Association of She is executive director of the Tennessee Zimmer Broadcasting on multiple stations, Broadcasters and the Society of Professional Coalition for Open Government, a non- including 94.7 The Country Giant (WGSQ) Journalists. After graduating from Central partisan nonprofit organization, specializing in serving Nashville and the Upper Cumberland. Michigan University, she became a full-time the state’s open meetings and open records He soon began producing a morning talk general-assignment reporter in Grand Rapids, laws and press access to court proceedings show on WHUB, a conservative/community Michigan, and was promoted to morning and and records. Fisher spent 25 years as a station, and in 2014, he became its morning midday anchor. Francis says she most enjoys journalist, as reporter, city editor, business show host and program director for “Good stories that highlight individuals beating the editor, managing editor and executive editor. Morning Cookeville.” odds.

Boyd Huppert is a TV personality and news Jimmy Hyams, award-winning sports writer Mike Keith, radio play-by-play announcer reporter for KARE 11 in Minneapolis-St. Paul, and broadcaster, is a longtime “SportsTalk” for the Tennessee Titans, is one of the NFL’s Minnesota. Each week, he adds another co-host and director for WNML Knoxville. longest-tenured announcers. In his four- “Land of 10,000 Stories” story, which has been Working with a range of sources and contacts, decade career, Keith has done play by play recognized for its photojournalism. He has Hyams breaks news on all sports, including on radio and television for football, basketball, an Emmy Award for news and documentary the Southeastern Conference and the baseball and wrestling, from high school for Outstanding Feature Story in a Regularly University of Tennessee Volunteers. to professional — even the 1995 National Scheduled Newscast. Indoor Paintball Championships. On Jan. 8, 2000, he called one of the greatest plays in NFL history, “The Music City Miracle,” a last- second touchdown that gave the Titans an improbable playoff win. ESPN named it one of the 10 best radio calls in American sports history.

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7 FEATURED SPEAKERS For session times, consult the convention program and mobile app.

Lindsay McReynolds is managing editor of Stokes Nielson is recognized for his country Tracey Rogers is vice president and general the Herald-Citizen, in Cookeville, Tennessee. music career as an award-winning songwriter manager of WKRN-TV in Nashville. She has Her team produces a 12-plus page newspaper with the band The Lost Trailers, the twice- been vice president and general manager five days a week that includes obituaries, nominated band for the Academy of Country at WMC-TV in Memphis, Tennessee, and local, state, national and international news, Music’s Top New Vocal Group. With over KAIT-TV in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Rogers community events, features and sports. With 15 years of experience as a new media has served as news director at Memphis, WHUB Radio, McReynolds is a regular weekly entrepreneur, Stokes is the founder/CEO of Tennessee; Huntsville, Alabama, and guest on “Good Morning Cookeville,” a live Channel Greatness in Nashville, a content Paducah, Kentucky. She has won three show with community leaders and elected provider and online video channel-building Emmy awards, four Associated Press awards officials. Since 2018, staffs of the newspaper company. and two Murrow awards. She serves on the and the station have co-interviewed sources, boards for the Better Business Bureau of shared news tips and cross-promoted each Middle Tennessee, NATAS and the Tennessee other’s stories and initiatives. Association of Broadcasters.

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Al Tompkins is an award-winning senior JEA ONE STORY JEA ONE STORY faculty member for broadcast and Ashley Gorley is the reigning ASCAP Libby Oellerich is a digital storyteller online at The Poynter Institute. He has Country Songwriter of the Year, his sixth who promotes a variety of entertainers, worked as a photojournalist, reporter, time earning the honor. He has achieved including songwriters, musicians, producer, anchor, assistant news Moments 46 No. 1’s so far in his career. Most recently authors, actors, and entrepreneurs director, special projects/investigations he wrote the No. 1 singles “I Don’t Know such as Billy Ray Cyrus, Abby into director, documentary producer and About You” (Chris Lane), “Living” (Dierks Anderson, Ryan Hurd, Dennis Quaid, news director. Tompkins has trained Bentley), “Rumor” (Lee Brice), “Love Ain’t” Kathie Lee Gifford, Chris Tomlin, thousands in his One-Day Storytelling (Eli Young Band) and “Eyes On You” (Chase Julianna Zobrist. Workshops in 45 states and many Rice). countries. He has taught and coached She has created a variety of content print newsrooms in the United States Going into 2020, Gorley had five singles for Nashville organizations, red-carpet Memories and abroad. climbing the charts, including “Good Vibes” events and networking communities, with Lifetouch Yearbooks. (Chris Janson), “Remember You Young” as well as her own platform. She is (Thomas Rhett), “Catch” (Brett Young), host/producer of “The Waiting Room “Ridin’ Roads” (Dustin Lynch) and “One Big Series with Libby Oellerich,” the Young Country Song” (Locash). Entertainment Professionals podcast, His company, Tape Room Music, and its and “The Libby Show.” Visit Lifetouch APRIL 16 & 17 to learn about writers have achieved 17 No. 1’s and five She is the former host and creator of Top-10 singles to date, including “Good NSAI Coffee Break for the Nashville our leading-edge yearbook program. As You” and “Lose It” (Kane Brown), “Up Songwriters Association International. Down” (Morgan Wallen, featuring Florida Georgia Line), and the Grammy-nominated and multi-platinum No. 1 “Body Like a Back Road” (Sam Hunt). 8 Turn

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9 THURSDAY PRE-CONVENTION WORKSHOPS

All-day Workshops | 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. | $40 JEA Curriculum Boot Camp The workshop begins with instruction on Online/Social Media Boot Camp NEW | $40 | Limit 40 planning packages with readers in mind, and $40 | Limit 40 then the students will go off-site to gather As your year winds down, you have much to stories. Students will return to the convention Reaching your audience and building your think about as you prepare for the fall. Spend site to finish their packages. media brand is a daily chore and one that a day investigating the resources JEA has to requires a knowledgeable social media team. offer to support your curricular needs. Schools should register students in teams of three, preferably a writer, design and In this workshop, adviser Chris Waugaman, In this hands-on workshop led by adviser and photographer, though certainly the students MJE, of Prince George (Virginia) High School, JEA Curriculum coordinator Abrianna Nelson, can each practice all these skills. At least one will cover a daily workflow for storytelling CJE, of Washington-Liberty High School, student needs InDesign skills, as the students using Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook Arlington, Virginia, you will be introduced will design their packages. and many third-party social media platforms. to the vast resources available through the In addition to incorporating video and audio JEA Curriculum Initiative. Through discussion Students will need to bring any equipment content into your social media streams, your and individual work time, you will be able to they might need (cameras, laptops and card online team will leave with strategies and reflect upon your curricular practice and set readers). Students can create content for skills to execute live coverage and breaking an agenda for the next school year. Bring your print, broadcast or web, and the workshop news. Participants may want to have login and laptop for work during this session. is recommended for experienced student password data available for their staff social journalists. Teachers will leave with an understanding of media sites as well as from their own personal what JEA offers in terms of curriculum, ideas An off-site permission form is required for sites. Participants should expect to use their for how you can map out your semester or each student attending this workshop. smartphone or tablet during this session. year-long courses using the lessons, and tips and tricks for deploying the curriculum in the Writers’ Workshop | $40 | Limit 70 Redesign Seminar | $40 | Limit 40 classroom. Additionally, you will receive one- on-one support for curriculum implementation If you’re looking for ways to sharpen and Newspaper, newsmagazine and yearbook in your classroom as well as time to brighten your writing so others will clamor to students will redesign elements of their collaborate with other journalism educators. read it, this interactive workshop is for you. publications during this intensive, hands-on, This seminar, led by Barbara Tholen, CJE, one-day design seminar. Lawrence (Kansas) High School, will entertain Led by Pete LeBlanc, CJE, of Antelope Leadership: Building and inspire as we analyze excellent writing (California) High School, attendees will study a Successful Staff Culture and apply the pros’ techniques to your work. advanced packaging techniques including $40 | Limit 75 Whether you need a catchy headline or a modular design, typography, marriage Your publication is up and running. Now it’s 2,000-word feature, you’ll improve every of elements, negative space and photo time to refine your leadership skills and put aspect of your writing as we discuss ledes, packaging. Students must bring some of their into practice the best methods for growing voice, narrative style and literary devices to favorite magazines, the most current version staffers, mediating conflict and creating a tighten and strengthen your writing. of their publication and a laptop computer culture of excellence. with a working version of InDesign. In this workshop led by adviser Carrie Faust, Broadcast and Video Boot Camp MJE, of Smoky Hill High School, Aurora, Digital Photography Workshop $40 | Limit 40 | Ends at 4:30 p.m. Colorado, and adviser Lindsay Safe, CJE, of $40 | Limit 60 | Ends at 4:40 p.m. Sunny Hills High School, Fullerton, California, In this hands-on workshop, beginning participants will explore leadership styles and and intermediate students will learn the Designed for photographers who have at strategies, feedback protocols, motivating fundamentals of creating an effective news least one year’s experience shooting for their staffers and managing workflow. package from the ground up. This includes publications, this intensive workshop will videography, sound recording, editing and cover composition, lighting, cropping and You will leave this class with the tools you camera technique. need to create communication pathways, an story structure. understanding of who you are as a leader Working in small teams, participants will spend Participants will receive instruction and go and how that interacts with others’ styles, and the morning developing their videography out on assignment with Mike Simons, MJE, of strategies to grow your staff with positive and skills and planning a story, and the afternoon Corning-Painted Post High School, Corning, productive feedback. shooting and editing that story. New York, and Leah Waters, CJE, of Heritage High School, Frisco, Texas. The instructor will be 2015 Broadcast Adviser Following the photo shoot, the instructors Team Storytelling | $40 | Limit 60 of the Year Don Goble, of Ladue Horton Watkins High School in St. Louis. will critique students’ work and offer editing Great storytelling combines good writing, tips and techniques. Participants must bring good photos and good design. Behind it all is Participants must bring their own video a digital camera, and they are encouraged good planning. In this team-based reporting cameras, tripods, microphones and laptops to bring a laptop computer with the photo- experience, taught by Emily Smith, CJE, with editing software. Please test and become editing program (Photoshop, Lightroom) they of Pittsburg (Kansas) High School, and J.D. familiar with your equipment before attending will use. Garber, CJE, Salina (Kansas) Central High the session, as the presenters may not be familiar with your specific hardware/software. An off-site permission form is required for School, students will work in groups to create each student attending this workshop. real story packages. An off-site permission form is required for each student attending this workshop.

10 Morning Workshops | 8:30 a.m.-noon | $25 SNO Sites: Live at the Opry Photoshop Workflow NEW | $25 | Limit 40 $25 | Limit 40 Join SNO Sites trainers Alex McNamee and Participants will learn to use Adobe Ivy Kaplan for an intensive morning workshop Photoshop. This workshop, taught by for students and advisers designed to help Mark Murray, executive director of the you learn and immediately put into practice Association of Texas Photography Instructors, methods to improve the design of your SNO Wichita Falls, Texas, will emphasize a basic website and the format of your content. workflow for preparing photographs for ONE STORY Alex and Ivy will be there to meet you at your publication. level and guide you to where you want to go, Some laptops will be available; however, and give you the time and space to talk shop participants may bring their own laptops with SONGWRITER with your journalistic peers. Don’t forget your Adobe Photoshop CS6 or later installed. Two ASHLEY GORLEY laptop because it’s time to get to work. students may share one laptop. This session You’ve heard his songs on the radio — Limit three attendees per school. is open to both students and advisers. “Living” (Dierks Bentley) and “Remember You Young” (Thomas Rhett), just to name a few. Afternoon Workshop | 1-5 p.m. | $25 But have you heard the story of songwriter Ashley Gorley? Advanced InDesign | $25 | Limit 40 libraries, styles and other InDesign tricks. Join digital storyteller Take your design skills to the next level with Some laptops will be available for participants; however, if you bring your own laptop please Libby Oellerich this seminar that will show you how to use as she uses her the power of InDesign to streamline your have Adobe InDesign CS6 or later installed. Two students may share one laptop. interviewing skills publication production. to dig into Gorley’s Bradley Wilson, MJE, of Midwestern State story, from conception University, Wichita Falls, Texas, will cover to final, published product in a live podcast session. JEA Outreach Academy | 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. | Free Before the convention, FREE | Limit 25 including (1) have five years or fewer students will Apply at jea.org/wp/outreach-academy by advising experience and (2) teach in schools explore interviewing March 15. traditionally underrepresented in JEA techniques in the One Story curriculum membership, especially low-income, urban and will listen and discuss a selection of Outreach Academy is a Journalism Education and rural schools. Association initiative to promote diversity in Oellerich’s previous podcast sessions. the journalism teaching profession. Participants who are accepted to the Through interviewing techniques, students Outreach Academy and attend the Thursday will witness firsthand how Oellerich gives Led by Teresa Scribner, of the Cleveland workshop earn the following benefits, in unknown stories their headline. STEM High School in Seattle, the Outreach addition to the instruction received at the Afterward, using a provided rubric, students Academy is a free, intensive seminar for workshop: publication advisers who need help teaching will use the skills learned in this session to and advising students in journalism while • Up to $100 in substitute pay to the produce their own podcast by investigating dealing with issues surrounding diversity. participant’s school for the Thursday a topic that will further develop their own workshop. The program is hands-on and focuses on journalistic passion. practical information advisers need. It includes • One-day parking reimbursement for the discussions on teaching journalism to diverse Thursday workshop. populations, diversifying school coverage, • One year’s membership to the Journalism engaging your staff and school community Education Association. and understanding the resources and • Waived registration fee to the National High organizations ready to help advisers. School Journalism Convention in Nashville, This program is committed to helping all courtesy of JEA and NSPA. advisers, especially advisers of color who • Waived registration fee to the 2020 JEA are underrepresented in 9-12 education, Advisers Institute in New Orleans. who work in challenging circumstances,

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Planning is underway for these media Center, home to the Nashville Symphony tours and educational excursions. Check Orchestra. Across the street see the stunning nashville.journalismconvention.org for more architecture that is the Country Music Hall of information on the tours, times, costs and Fame and Museum. pre-registration. Belmont University Tennessee History Museum Participants will be able to take a tour of Participants will take a bus to the Tennessee Belmont University and visit with Sarita History Museum, where exhibitions cover Stewart, associate professor of creative and everything from natural history to the civil- entertainment industries. rights movement to current events. Just two miles from downtown Nashville, Participants can then stroll through the Belmont University is a dynamic and vibrant beautiful outdoor park, Bicentennial Mall, on hub for government, health care, tourism and their way to a guided tour of the Nashville especially music and the music business. State Capitol. Next door is the Nashville Participants can walk to the nearby hip and Farmer’s Market. cozy Hillsboro Village for lunch on their own. Participants can browse stalls of fresh-picked produce and crafts from local makers, and WKRN News Channel 2 then eat lunch in the Market House. The Market House features cuisines that span Get a behind-the-scenes tour of WKRN News the globe — from gyro sandwiches to Korean Channel 2 with General Manager Tracey bibimbap to Jamaican jerk chicken of “Diners, Rogers and on-air talent Silvia Castaneda. Drive-Ins and Dives” fame. You can sample This custom tour will let participants see one some of the best local food in downtown of Nashville’s local news stations in action. Nashville. Country Music Hall of Fame Tennessee Titans Stadium Tour the Country Music Hall of Fame and Take a private tour of Nissan Stadium, home Museum, where they collect, preserve and of the National Football League’s Tennessee interpret the evolving history and traditions of Titans and host of the 2019 NFL Draft. country music. Fans will go on an hour-long guided tour April exhibits include these — through the stadium, with stops at the Titans “Sing Me Back Home: Folk Roots to the locker room, press box, playing field, Trac’s Present” den and cheerleader locker room. “Outlaws & Armadillos: Country’s Roaring ’70s” Downtown Nashville Walking Tour “Still Rings True: The Enduring Voice of Keith This is a self-guided tour of Downtown Whitley” Nashville, starting at the Cumberland River, “Kacey Musgraves: All of the Colors” where Nashville itself began as a hub for “Brooks & Dunn: Kings of Neon” transportation and river commerce. “We Could: The Songwriting Artistry of Guests will see Riverfront Park and the Boudleaux and Felice Bryant” Shelby Street Pedestrian Bridge, which connects downtown to Nissan Stadium, home of the Tennessee Titans. Also along the river, Nashville Civil Rights Walking Tour between First and Second avenues, guests Led by Chakita Patterson, of United Street will see the block-wide historic Victorian Tours, this walking tour of downtown Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp. warehouse area, known as the District, home Nashville will focus on the Civil Rights to some of Nashville’s music venues. Movement’s connection to Tennessee. Just a few streets over is the Ryman Participants will start at Woolworth on Auditorium, one of Nashville’s signature Fifth, site of a non-violent campaign to historical country music landmarks. After the desegregate lunch counters throughout the Ryman Auditorium, cruise down Broadway Southern states. Participants will also go to and experience the historic honky tonks such the downtown Nashville library and tour its as Legends Corner, Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge, civil-rights collection after hearing a short Robert’s and more. Keep walking and you presentation on the history and collection, will reach SoBro, “South of Broadway,” which then and visit other landmarks along the way. will take you by the Schermerhorn Symphony

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NSPA BEST OF SHOW JEA NATIONAL JOURNALISM NSPA ON-SITE CRITIQUES CONTEST QUIZ BOWL $30 $20 NSPA members | $30 non-members $50/team Both beginning and experienced staffs can All high school staffs (with students attending) Qualifying test: 8 a.m. Friday benefit from a critique. Staff members and advisers will sit down with an experienced and junior high advisers are invited to Live rounds: 8-10 a.m. Saturday enter their website, newspaper, yearbook, adviser or professional and go over the newsmagazine, broadcast production or Start putting together your four-person teams school’s most recent publications or Meet literary arts magazine in the NSPA Best of now for the National Journalism Quiz Bowl broadcasts. This one-on-one opportunity Show competition. competition. The competition will include allows staffs to ask questions and get questions related to current events, pop clarifications as needed. Winners will be announced at the awards culture, journalism and civics. ceremony at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, April 18. 25-minute critiques are available noon-3 p.m. Entries are due by 1 p.m. Friday, April 17. To register a team or for additional Friday and 9-11 a.m. Saturday. Each critique Go to nashville.journalismconvention.org information, visit jea.org/wp/home/awards- costs $30. for categories and competition rules. NSPA honors/quiz-bowl/. Sign up during convention registration. Northwestern membership is REQUIRED to participate in Bring your publication/URL with you to your all Best of Show contests, and student staff appointed critique time. members must be in attendance. Questions? [email protected] Medill in Nashville SPECIAL EVENTS BREAK WITH A PRO | $5 STUDENT PRESS PARTY | $15 ADOBE & PRECISION 9 and 10 a.m. Friday 6-7 p.m. Friday CERTIFICATION TESTING Tailored, small-group discussion sessions with Join this celebration of student media and Saturday journalism pros who share information about honor the great work accomplished in their work and backgrounds with students. scholastic newsrooms across the country 8 a.m. Precision exams. $10 per person Thursday, April 16 and 9 and 10 a.m. Adobe exams. $50 per person MEDIA SWAP SHOPS | FREE SHUT UP AND DANCE | FREE Advisers and students will have the opportunity to take certification exams 8:30-10 p.m. Friday 8:30-11 p.m. Friday for Adobe Photoshop and InDesign, and Friday, April 17 Meet with students from other staffs to share Plan for a great evening activity — Precision exams for digital photography and with one another and gather new ideas. a multimedia show of live performances. broadcast. Bring nine copies of your newspaper or The exams are industry recognized and are a newsmagazine, one or more of your literary great option for CTE teachers and advanced Stop by the Medill booth in magazines, your most recent yearbook and students. Certification will boost a student’s your broadcast URL. ability to land critical internships and jobs. It the exhibit hall to talk with current also supports high school journalism classes students, win swag and learn become funded CTE pathways. about our undergraduate NEED-BASED SCHOLARSHIPS program. Sponsored by Northwestern University’s Go to nashville.journalismconvention.org/ Medill School, JEA and NSPA are offering up scholarship to apply by March 13. Recipients to 50 need-based registration scholarships. will be notified by March 18. Priority will be given to students from underrepresented groups and low-income students. Each scholarship covers only the registration fee.

21 JEA NATIONAL STUDENT MEDIA CONTESTS

REGISTER ONLINE CONTEST/CRITIQUE CONTEST REGISTRATION, for JEA contests between SESSIONS STEP BY STEP Feb. 11-March 18, 2020. 1. Most contests/critiques take place from 1. The adviser must be a current JEA member All rules and descriptions are available at 4-6 p.m., but the on-site broadcast contests for the online contest registration form to jea.org/contests. have earlier times. Check the schedule and work. Join or renew your membership at jea. It is imperative that advisers and contestants room assignments in the convention program, org. Find the Membership heading at the top carefully read all the rules to make sure all available online in mid-March or on site at the of the page and click on Join JEA or Renew deadlines and requirements are met. convention registration desk. Students late to Membership from the pull-down menu. All contests require students to bring their their contests will not be able to participate. Membership should be activated by own supplies. 2. Online submission contestants will be March 1 to meet the March 18 contest disqualified if they do not attend the entire deadline. Membership is not processed until critique session Friday, April 17. funds are received. A FEW OF THE BASICS 2. If you don’t remember your username/ 1. Each student may enter just one password for jea.org/wp/membersarea, category. A school may enter just one REGISTRATION INFORMATION please contact JEA staff at 785-532-5532 or student per category except for team 1. Students and their advisers must be [email protected]. contests. All contestants must be present registered for the convention in order to 3. Decide with your students what to enter. at the convention and attend the contest participate, and the adviser must be a Confer with other advisers in your school to critique Friday, April 17, or the entry will be member of JEA. decide what students will participate in each disqualified. In online-submission contests 2. No on-site registrations will be accepted; category. Although it’s preferred one adviser that allow a team to enter, both students must however, name substitutions are allowed until enters all entries from a school, two or more register and pay; however, only one student 10:30 a.m. Friday at the JEA contest check-in advisers may enter their students separately if needs to be present at the convention for the desk. paying separately. Please collaborate on this. entry to be eligible for the contest. 3. If your student has a documentable 4. To register for the JEA contests, go to 2. Contestants will be disqualified if they fail to disability, you need to request any jea.org/contests and follow the instructions follow the rules available at jea.org/contests. accommodation when you register. Please for entering the contests. All students must 3. Register early. Some venues have limited notify National Contest Chair Nancy Smith, have working emails and passwords. seating for the contests. In the event the at [email protected], and bring 5. Payment of $20 per student may be number of registrants for a contest category documentation to the convention. made by credit/debit card, PayPal, check or fills the seating capacity of the assigned 4. The rules for JEA contests can be purchase order. contest room and a larger room is not downloaded at jea.org/contests. If you Mail check to Journalism Education available, JEA will close registration for that have any questions, you may call JEA Association, Attention: Contests, 105 Kedzie category. Headquarters, 785-532-5532, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Hall, 828 Mid-Campus Drive S., Manhattan, KS 4. All contests marked online submission CT, Monday through Friday, or email staff@ 66506. must be uploaded by 7 p.m. ET Wednesday, jea.org. Official, signed purchase orders may be March 18, 2020. Specific instructions are mailed, emailed to [email protected] or faxed to available at jea.org/contests. Links to 785-532-5563. Contest entries must be paid instructions will be available on the rules page in full before the contests begin April 17, 2020. Feb. 11. Students may begin working on those Do not include your JEA contest payment entries at that time. No late entries will be with your convention registration payment. accepted for judging or critique. JEA contests are processed separately. Start early. Call JEA for help if necessary. 6. Bring the rules and required supplies with (A working email and a password must you to the convention. be provided for each student entered in a contest. This is especially important in contests submitted online before the convention.)

22 JEA CONTESTS

The following contests will be offered for Nashville. Descriptions and complete rules can be found atjea.org/contests Advisers and students should read all rules carefully and email or call JEA if you have questions. Failure to follow the rules or meet deadlines will result in an automatic disqualification.

ON-SITE CONTESTS ONLINE SUBMISSION CONTESTS These categories all take place at the convention. No work is required Prompts will be available at jea.org/contests on Feb. 11, 2020. in advance. Most of the contests run 4-6 p.m. Friday. Only ONE student Students who compete in these categories must complete the work from each school may enter each contest unless a team entry is BEFORE the convention and have the entry uploaded no later than indicated. March 18. Newspaper Contests These contests require students to attend a two-hour critique session 4-6 p.m. Friday, April 17. A school may enter just one student per 01: NEWSWRITING contest unless a team entry is indicated. Each student may enter just 02: EDITORIAL WRITING one contest. Please read all contest rules at jea.org/contests. 03: FEATURE WRITING Newspaper, Yearbook, Magazine Layout Contests 04: SPORTS WRITING 09: NEWSPAPER LAYOUT 05: REVIEW WRITING 10: NEWSMAGAZINE LAYOUT 06: EDITORIAL CARTOONING 16: YEARBOOK LAYOUT: THEME 07: COMMENTARY WRITING 17: YEARBOOK LAYOUT: INSIDE PAGES 08: NEWS EDITING/HEADLINE WRITING 18: YEARBOOK COVER/ENDSHEETS 11: PRESS LAW & ETHICS 19: LITERARY MAGAZINE: LAYOUT

Yearbook Contests Graphic Design Contests 12: YEARBOOK COPY/CAPTIONS: SPORTS 23: GRAPHIC DESIGN: LOGO 13: YEARBOOK COPY/CAPTIONS: ACADEMICS 24: GRAPHIC DESIGN: INFOGRAPHICS 14: YEARBOOK COPY/CAPTIONS: CLUBS 25: GRAPHIC DESIGN: ADVERTISING 15: YEARBOOK COPY/CAPTIONS: STUDENT LIFE 26: GRAPHIC DESIGN: PHOTO ILLUSTRATION

Literary Magazine Contests Photography Contests 20: LITERARY MAGAZINE POETRY 27: THEMED PHOTOGRAPHY (theme available Feb. 11) 21: LITERARY MAGAZINE ILLUSTRATION 28: SPORTS ACTION PHOTOGRAPHY 22: LITERARY MAGAZINE PHOTOGRAPHY 29: SPORTS FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY 30: FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY Broadcast Contests 31: GENERAL OR SPOT NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY 42: VIDEO PACKAGE EDITING 32: PHOTO STORY 43. ONLINE NEWS PACKAGE (individual or team of 2-3) 33: PORTFOLIO 44: BROADCAST ANCHOR 34: PHOTO PORTRAIT 45: BROADCAST NEWSWRITING 35: FIRST-YEAR PHOTO 46: BROADCAST PACKAGE (team of 2)

Broadcast Contests 36: BROADCAST NEWS STORY (individual or team of 2) REGISTRATION/UPLOAD DEADLINE 37: BROADCAST SPORTS STORY (individual or team of 2) 7 p.m. ET Wednesday, March 18, 2020 38: BROADCAST FEATURE STORY (individual or team of 2) 39: BROADCAST COMMERCIAL/PSA (individual or team of 2) Late entries will not be accepted. Start the process early. 40: VIDEOGRAPHY (individual only) (theme available Feb. 11.) Questions? Contact JEA at [email protected] or 785-532-5532. Hours: 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. CT. 41: SHORT DOCUMENTARY (individual or team of 2) Rules and registration: jea.org/contests

23 CONVENTION HOTEL

GAYLORD OPRYLAND RESORT registration confirmation email. This rule is 2800 Opryland Drive in place because of issues with attendees Nashville, TN 37214 reserving more rooms than necessary and canceling at the last minute. This results in additional fees from the hotel for JEA/NSPA ROOM RATES which affects the price of future conventions $219/night single/double and prevents other potential attendees from and triple/quad, plus tax. reserving rooms in the block. You should Tax is 9.25%, plus a 6% occupancy tax and a know how many students are attending $2.50 per room per night city tax. before you register and book your rooms. Please realize that although a March 23 RESERVATION DEADLINE: March 23, 2020 deadline for reservations has been set, neither the hotel nor JEA/NSPA can guarantee Reservation information will be found in your availability. registration confirmation email. You must register for the convention before you can reserve rooms. The room block opens for SoundWaves Waterpark registration Feb. 4. You can purchase passes to SoundWaves, the To take full advantage of the convention, hotel’s waterpark, using the same link for the delegates who live outside the Nashville hotel, with the SoundWave purchase button. area are encouraged to stay at the Gaylord Pricing depends upon the day but ranges Opryland Resort, the sanctioned and officially from $27.99-$32.99, plus tax. designated JEA/NSPA convention hotel. It also offers a sunset rate of $27.99, which Convention attendees must be registered gives you access from 5 p.m. until close. before you can book rooms at the convention Closing time varies by day. Check the hotel hotel in the room block. Information on how website for details. to book your room will be found in your

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These guidelines are established to ensure that all participants have a safe and enjoyable stay at the convention. A midnight convention curfew will be in effect on the elevators or escalators; excessive For your safety, Wednesday through Saturday. Students noise; destruction of property; or any other should be in their rooms, making no excessive inappropriate behavior is not acceptable and whether inside or noise, at that time. The hotel reserves the can lead to expulsion from the hotel and/or outside the hotel and right to remove any hotel guests who make criminal prosecution. convention center, excessive noise or create similar disruption. Should individual students, advisers or travel in groups. Advisers/chaperones will be responsible for delegations prove disruptive, JEA/NSPA enforcing the nightly convention curfew. officials reserve the right to declare all fees No student will be admitted to the convention forfeited and to send delegates home at their without a school-approved adviser/chaperone. own expense. At least one chaperone/adviser is required for Drinking or possessing alcoholic beverages, every 12 students. It is understood that by the or possession/use of cigarettes, tobacco, act of registering students for the convention, vaping devices and/or illegal drugs is advisers assume responsibility for their absolutely prohibited. students’ behavior and well-being during the convention. All students are expected to wear their convention name badges at all times while in Chaperones should recognize that they the hotel meeting rooms and common areas. and their schools will be held liable for any damage to hotel facilities incurred by students Breaking convention rules may result in under their supervision. disqualification from all contests and forfeiture of any awards won. Rudeness to hotel guests and hotel employees; misuse of or reckless behavior

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Nonmember students or advisers $119 per delegate $129 per delegate

School Name Nonmember professionals $159 per delegate

Publication/Broadcast Name PAYMENT All fees for items on this form should be made payable to NSPA.

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Mailing Address ❍Check enclosed ❍Purchase order enclosed # # City State ZIP Pursuant to Minnesota Statute 604.113, NSPA is authorized to charge $50 for any check that is returned for insufficient funds. School Phone Adviser/Chaperone Cellphone Number(s) ❍Visa ❍MasterCard ❍American Express ❍Discover Name of Card Adviser email address

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SAVE THE DATE Signature ADVISER/NONSTUDENT ATTENDEES Enter names and appropriate designations below. At least one adviser/nonstudent attendee must be registered at the convention for students to participate. KANSAS CITY | JULY 7-10 THIS PAYMENT IS FOR CONVENTION REGISTRATION ONLY. Do not include fees for JEA 1. ❍CJE ❍MJE ❍1st Time Attendee Contests, critiques or membership in the payment for registration fees. Make check or purchase orders for convention registration payable to NSPA. Submission of a purchase order indicates ADVISERADVISER ACADEMYACADEMY your intention to pay fees in full and does not constitute payment itself. If payment is not received with registration, NSPA requests that you pay via check or credit card or provide a purchase order 2. ❍CJE ❍MJE ❍1st Time Attendee number within 10 business days of your registration or upon arrival at the convention, whichever Take your yearbook to the next level by attending this workshop for advisers only. comes first. Plan carefully. Absolutely no refunds; however, substitutions can be made at any time. Convention Photography/Video: Participants give permission for photographs and/or video to be taken during the convention. These images and video will remain the property of the Learn from some of the best yearbook instructors in the business. Find inspiration, get organized and STUDENT ATTENDEES photographer or JEA/NSPA and may be used in publications and marketing campaigns for future learn all the ways you and your staff can your yearbook. Type or print students’ full names as clearly as possible. Substitutions may conventions with or without names of those pictured. be made later by email or fax. Names are being collected for security and Special Considerations: insurance purposes. ❍ Check here if anyone in your delegation has a disability that may affect his/her participation in Meet and brainstorm with advisers from across the country and leave with the support of an entire network this event. Attach a statement regarding your disability-related needs. NSPA must be notified by and amazing resources. March 14 to ensure appropriate accommodations. I, the undersigned, have read the rules of conduct on page 25, and I will assist convention officials in their enforcement. Adviser Academy is three full days of classes, July 7-9, with the option to tour Walsworth’s printing Adviser Signature facilities or attend advanced tech training for Online Design, InDesign or Photoshop on July 10. DATE: COST: Mail to: JEA/NSPA Convention Fax: 612-626-0720 July 7-9, 2020; optional plant tour or advanced • $425 until May 31 2829 University Ave. SE, Suite 720 Questions: 612-200-9254 tech training on July 10 Minneapolis, MN 55414 [email protected] • $450 June 1 - June 7 REGISTRATIONS QUANTITY RATE TOTAL • $50 Plant tour To sign up for pre-convention workshops, media tours, Swap Shops, LOCATION: Student Registrations x = InterContinental Kansas City at the Plaza Break with a Pro, NSPA Best of Show, JEA Contests, adviser luncheon, Adviser Registrations x = student dinner or shirt orders, you must register online. REGISTER ONLINE: nashville.journalismconvention.org DEADLINE: walsworthyearbooks.com/adviseracademy Professional Registrations x $159 = June 1

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