2013 CSPA Advisory Program For security reasons, this ADVISORY COPY does NOT contain room locations. It does include titles, names of speakers and descriptions or all sessions by day and hour. Each delegate will get an official program at registration upon arrival at campus that WILL include room assignments and a campus map. As you plan possible sessions to attend once on campus, remember we must strictly enforce posted room capacity limits for classrooms. The University requires that CSPA staff check delegate badges at room entrances and close rooms once all seats are filled. No standees are allowed, per NYFD regulations. So pick a back-up room when making advance choices on what sessions to attend. Here are some highlighted sessions that require you to bring additional times to get the most out of the convention. • The Power of Light by Mark Murray on Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. (requires a digital camera). Open to students and advisers. •Student Swap Shops several hours during each day (requires copies of your publication to exchange with others students). Open only to students. Also, follow CSPA [@cspa] on Twitter for convention updates. CSPA 89th Annual Scholastic Convention March 20-22, 2013 Welcome to New York City and to Columbia University! at Columbia University in New York City For the 89th time, the Columbia Scholastic Press Association welcomes student journalists and their faculty advisers to Columbia’s historic campus in the Morningside Heights section of New York City. As delegates to this national convention, you CSPA seek both knowledge Columbia University and the fellowship of Mail Code 5711 your peers. This three- New York, NY 10027 Tel. 212.854.9400 day program offers 300 Fax. 212.854.9401 distinctive sessions [email protected] exploring the purposes, http://cspa.columbia.edu techniques and values imparted by the journalistic experience. Sessions are available for those interested in work with newspapers, On the Cover— yearbooks, magazines, Columbia University has been the meeting site for 89 spring conventions and Low plaza has The Crown, an official broadcast and digital been the site for delegate group photos. The top photo is from the 1950 convention and the symbol of Columbia bottom one is from the 2012. top photo/CSPA Archives, photo above/Rebecca Castillo University, that greets media. Some of you have visitors as they pass received instruction the iron gates on both in journalism classes Broadway and Amsterdam offered at your schools. Others take up the craft of journalism without at 116th St. Photo by Rebecca Castillo. any training. Whether you approach the excitement of reporting and presenting the news with or without prior, formal instruction, Columbia offers many sessions to help you to better practice journalism. For these reasons, this convention was designed with you in mind. As do your colleagues in the professional media, student journalists should Follow CSPA [@cspa] on Twitter for convention updates! take clear responsibility for how and why you communicate with your readers or viewers. We hope you will learn not only from the speakers Friend CSPA on Facebook and the sessions they will present, but also from one another. Please [www.facebook.com/cspa.nyc] use this opportunity to learn about journalism through knowledgeable speakers, good fellowship and the exciting atmosphere of the Big Apple. Columbia Scholastic Press Association 1 Confessionsof Former High School Journalism Nerds Come listen to panels of young professionals who were in Wednesday’s Panel your place very recently. Join 11-11:45 a.m. Jeff Brown Helen Dear us as they discuss what they — photographer Ashley Mason— graphic designer at AMDA, a performing arts are doing professionally, how Davidschool, Studinski freelancer. — blogger at eater.com technology impacted their — director of productModerated management by Carrie at Faust Sailthru, a NYC-based tech company jobs, and how you can build Thursday’s Panel your resume with the skills you 11-11:45 a.m. Katarina Alaupovic learned in journalism. Jessica Haley — owner of Redefined Communications, — owner an online stationery boutique, Michellecalligrapher, Hoover wedding invitation designer, blogger and photographer. Lindsey Ramsey — director of learning innovations at Duke Another session featuring Corporate Education, a subsidiary of Duke University JD Rinne — managing editor, FoodService Director former journalism nerds MichaelOnline Tedder — managing editor of Self.com on Thursday 10-10:45 a.m. Kelli Trapnell —— managing editor of The Talkhouse, online music magazine Moderated by by Kristina Skrela Get Social: Meet Digital Journalism and professional writer Social Media Professionals Friday’s Panel Emily Banks, Libby Brittain, and Erik Hinton 10:45-11:30 a.m. Join this conversation with young media professionals who Juliet Barbara are working in an industry that didn’t even exist when they Larry Buchanan started high school, not so many years ago. Meet journos Zach Hetrick — digital communications professional from Mashable.com, Branch.com and The New York Times — illustrator, designer and coder who have found thriving journalism careers in the rapid- Jamie Miles — photographer, freelancer for clients such as growth sectors of social media and digital journalism. Nike, ESPN, Facebook, Runners World, and Indiana University Melissa T. Romo— online — producer at XO Group, writing, building and distributing content forTheKnot.com freelance writer,Moderated novelist and by Dmitriblogger Conom at www.thebookorbust.com 2 All panels are in the Lecture Hall, Journalism89th Annual High School 3rd Convention floor Program Be part of the CSPA Tweet Fleet and share what you’ve learned with a worldwide audience and... be entered into a drawing for some rewards. Help students and teachers learn from some of the best speakers in the world and win prizes by posting to your Twitter feed today. As you attend sessions, tweet what you are learning and include #cspasc13 in your post. CSPA will be streaming these tips in the registration area. At the end of the day the Columbia RULES Scholastic Press Advisers Association will draw 1) You must include the hash tag #cspasc13 some tweets for gift cards, donated by the officers in your tweet. of the association. To be eligible, the tweets should 2) Your tweets must be educational tips of include educational tips students have learned in the what you learned in sessions. sessions. 3) Please keep it clean. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! CSPA thanks the sponsors at this convention http://yearbooks.friesens.com http://www.balfour.com http://www.yearbooks.biz Daily Advisers’ Hospitality Suite, Printing of the CSPA convention program. Advisers’ Awards Luncheon on Friday. Satow Room 5th fl. Lerner Additional exhibitors and adverstisers American Society of News Editors • B&H • Dow Jones News Fund Entourage Yearbooks • Jostens Yearbooks • Lifetouch Yearbooks LiveYearbooks • New England Center for Investigative Reporting schoolnewspapersonline.com • Walsworth Yearbooks Columbia Scholastic Press Association 3 Who’s Who at the Convention continues on page 8 ACP AEJMC A B = Associated Collegiate Press Ann Gramlich Akers Emily Banks AHSPA = Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication AIPA , MJE, is the Educational is the managing editor for ASPA = Arkansas High School Press Association Products Manager at Herff Jones Yearbooks. Mashable, a site read by more than 20 million AmerSPA = Arizona Interscholastic Press Association = Alabama Scholastic Press Association Formerly NSPA’s associate director, Akers has monthly visitors. She wrote for the Minneapolis CASE = American Scholastic Press done stints as journalism teacher/publications Star Tribune, reported live on TV at Georgia Association adviser and yearbook rep. She has been Public Broadcasting, and edited one of the CCJA = Council for the Advancement and honored with JEA’s Carl Towley Award, CSPA’s largest student-run newspapers in the country, Support of Education Gold Key and NSPA’s Pioneer Award. the Minnesota Daily. She was also a reporter at CHSPA = Community College Journalism Katarina Alaupovic local newspapers in Wisconsin and Georgia. It CMA Association all began when she was the editor in chief of her CSPA = Colorado High School Press Association is the owner of high school newspaper, The Lantern, in Cannon = College Media Advisers, Inc. Falls, MN. CSPAA Redefined Communications, specializing in Juliet Barbara = Columbia Scholastic Press Association content strategy for the travel, fashion, and = Columbia Scholastic Press Advisers DJNF beauty industries. Her freelance articles have is a digital communications FSPA Association appeared in publications like The Knot, Sunset, = Dow Jones Newspaper Fund professional with experience in digital media, GLIPA and Unboundary by USA Today. She is the = Florida Scholastic Press Association journalism and graphic design. Before joining author of The Food Lovers’ Guide to Phoenix = Great Lakes Interscholastic Press HORN, Juliet worked directly for the President GSSPA & Scottsdale, founder of the fashionable travel Association & CEO of Forbes Media as his Executive blog Style Jaunt, and hotels columnist for IHSPA = Garden State Scholastic Press Coordinator, handling internal and external SheKnows.com. As a student at Corona del IJA Association communications and scheduling for the office. Sol high school in Tempe, AZ, Katarina was ILPC = Iowa High School Press Association Previously at Forbes, she worked as a Market