2014 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 90th Annual Scholastic Convention March 19-21, 2014 at Columbia University in New York City

In 1926, CSPA commemorated the convention with the first official convention photo with the delegates in attendance . photo/CSPA Archive On the Cover— Welcome to New York City and to Columbia University! A look back at the past eight decades that the Columbia Scholastic Press Association has hosted a spring convention For the 90th time, the Columbia Scholastic Press on Columbia University’s campus. Highlights from the past 89 Association welcomes student journalists and their faculty years: advisers to Columbia’s historic campus in the Morningside 1926: Founding CSPA Director Col. Joseph M. Murphy poses with convention delegates for the official convention photo. Heights section of New York City. 1936: First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt gives the convention luncheon address. As delegates to this national convention, you seek both 1949: President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered the convention knowledge and the fellowship of your peers. This three- luncheon address. 1952: Col. Joseph M. Murphy awards President Harry S. Truman day program offers 317 distinctive sessions exploring the CSPA Gold Key prior to Truman’s speech at the luncheon. the purposes, techniques and values imparted by 1964: Students speak with one of the convention speakers after the journalistic experience. Sessions are available for the session concludes. those interested in work with newspapers, yearbooks, 1974: Students displaying their publication banners during the photo shoot of the official convention photo. magazines, broadcast and digital media. Some of you have 1980: CSPA Director Charles R. O’Malley and then CSPA received instruction in journalism classes offered at your Associate Director Edmund J. Sullivan preside over the Gold Key schools. Others take up the craft of journalism without Awards. 1999: Actor Martin Sheen speaks with convention delegates after any training. Whether you approach the excitement of a press conference and screening on the TV Show “The West reporting and presenting the news with or without prior, Wing. formal instruction, Columbia offers many sessions to help 2009: Former New York Times copyeditor Merill Perlman, now of Merrill Perlman Consulting, presents a session to delegates. you to better practice journalism. All photos from the CSPA Archive.

For these reasons, this convention was designed with you CSPA in mind. As do your colleagues in the professional media, Columbia University Mail Code 5711 student journalists should take clear responsibility for how New York, NY 10027 and why you communicate with your readers or viewers. Tel. 212.854.9400 We hope you will learn not only from the speakers and Fax. 212.854.9401 [email protected] the sessions they will present, but also from one another. http://cspa.columbia.edu Please use this opportunity to learn about journalism through knowledgeable speakers, good fellowship and Follow CSPA [@cspa] on Twitter for convention updates! the exciting atmosphere of the Big Apple. Friend CSPA on Facebook [www.facebook.com/cspa.nyc] Columbia Scholastic Press Association 1 2 90th Annual High School Convention Program http://brown.columbia.edu M a r k H a n s e n Established in 2012, the Brown Institute for Media joined Columbia’s Graduate School of Innovation is a collaboration between Columbia and Journalism in July Stanford Universities. Our mission is simple: Sponsor of 2012. He was thinking, building and speculating on how stories are named professor and East Coast discovered and told in a networked, digitized world. director of the David and Helen G u r l e y B r o w n Attend their session! Institute for Media Innovation, an innovative collaboration between Columbia and Stanford Two chances during the University’s School of Engineering.

While working in Los Angeles, Hansen held convention. appointments in the Department of Statistics, the Department of Design Media Arts and the Storytelling from Data Department of Electrical Engineering at UCLA -- literally forming a triangulation of data, art Mark Hansen and technology. He and his collaborators at Learning how to interpret and shape data into UCLA developed a data analysis component for a computer science curriculum running in Los stories is at the heart of today’s journalism. As we Angeles Unified School District. grow more dependent on data and computation,

we must responsibly and creatively find and tell While in New York, Hansen was a long-standing the stories that spring from the data. This session visiting researcher at the New York Times R&D will teach you how to use data and computation in Lab and a consultant with HBO Sports. Hansen works with data in an essentially journalistic a thoughtful way for reporting. We will also give practice, crafting stories through algorithm, advice for teachers wanting to tell stories using computation and visualization. data, computing, and visualization. Hansen holds a PhD and MA in Statistics from THURSDAY 2:30-3:15 P.M. the University of California, Berkeley and a BS in Applied Math from the University of California, 106 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] Davis. FRIDAY 9:45 - 10:30 A.M. 106 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] Who’s Who at the Convention continues on page 8 ACP Bios edited by Emerald Gearing, CSPA staff. AEJMC = Associated Collegiate Press FM broadcast, podcasting, web page design, AHSPA = Association for Education in Journalism A CMS distribution, live web updates, full-color and Mass Communication Justin Abello broadsheet print, online-only production, AIPA = Arkansas High School Press Twitter and Facebook integration and, now, live ASPAAssociation is currently a freshman at event, multi-camera broadcasting. Journalists AmerSPA = Arizona Interscholastic Press Association Georgetown University, double majoring in work with local news outlets who often = Alabama Scholastic Press Association Government and History with a minor in embed WRHSmedia broadcasts in their own CASE = American Scholastic Press English. Last year as a senior at Loyola High websites, Twitter feeds and Facebook pages. Association School of Los Angeles, he served as the Opinion [@wrhsmedia] Angela Amos CCJA = Council for the Advancement and Editor of the school newspaper, the copy Support of Education editor of the yearbook, and the literary editor advises the Cypress Legacy CHSPA = Community College Journalism for Windowpanes, the school’s art/litertary yearbook, teaches Introduction to Digital CMA Association magazine. Abello received the highest award Design and Digital Photography at Cypress Lake CSPA = Colorado High School Press Association the high school could bestow upon a student: Middle School in Fort Myers, FL. She is a Master CSPAA = College Media Association “Son of Loyola.” = Columbia Scholastic Press Association Ann Gramlich Akers Digital Educator for the state of Florida, as well DJNF = Columbia Scholastic Press Advisers as a 2012 Golden Apple finalist in Lee County Association is Herff Jones Yearbooks’ and a 2011 Teacher of the Year nominee. FSPA Sonia Anwar-Ahmed Martinez GLIPA = Dow Jones Newspaper Fund educational products manager. Formerly = Florida Scholastic Press Association NSPA’s associate director, Akers has done stints is an = Great Lakes Interscholastic Press GSSPA as journalism teacher/publications adviser 11th grade student at the American School Association and yearbook representative. She was the Foundation in Mexico. She has lived in seven = Garden State Scholastic Press IHSPA 2005 recipient of the Carl Towley Award, JEA’s different countries, spanning four continents Association IJA highest honor, and has been awarded CSPA’s and is eager to utilize her diverse cultural ILPC = Iowa High School Press Association Gold Key and NSPA’s Pioneer Award. = Idaho Journalism Association Martha Akers experiences to the advantage of others. She hopes to work with the United Nations in the IHSPA (TX) = Interscholastic League Press has been advising yearbook and future. JEA Conference Ellen Austin JEANC = Indiana High School Press Association teaching photojournalism at Loudoun Valley = Journalism Education Association High School for the past 34 years. Her students’ is the director of journalism at The KSPA = Journalism Education Association of yearbooks have received CSPA’s Gold Crown, Harker School in San Jose, where she advises LISPA Northern California NSPA’s Pacemaker and VHSL’s Trophy on their award-winning newspaper, website and MIPA = Kansas Scholastic Press Association numerous occasions. Akers, who speaks at and yearbook programs. Previously, Austin taught = Long Island Scholastic Press Association directs conventions and workshops nationwide journalism at Palo Alto High School, advising (MI) = Michigan Interscholastic Press MIPA has been named the 2005 JEA Yearbook The Viking sports magazine and website, and Association Adviser of the Year, and received CSPA’s Gold co-advising the broadcast program. Austin has (MO) = Missouri Interscholastic Press MSPA Key, NSPA’s Pioneer Award, VHSL’s Lifetime served on the JEA national board of directors, Association NCTE Achievement Award, VHSL’s Torch Award and and as the former chair of the Student Press NESPA = Maryland Scholastic Press Association SIPA’s Distinguished Service Award. In October = National Council of Teachers of English Law Center’s steering committee. Currently, 2008, she was inducted into the VHSL Hall of Austin serves as a JEA (Northern California) NHSPA = New England Scholastic Press Fame. She has also been inducted into OIPA’s board member. She received the Dow Jones Association National Scholastic Journalism Hall of Fame. NMSPA = Nebraska High School Press Katarina Alaupovic News Fund 2012 National Journalism Teacher Association of the Year. Austin will receive CSPA’s Gold Key is the owner of Redefined at this convention. [@ellenaustin] NSPA = New Mexico Scholastic Press Monica Avila Alvarez NIPA Association Communications, specializing in content = National Scholastic Press Association strategy for the travel, fashion, and beauty is an 11th grade student OIPA = Northern Interscholastic Press industries. Her freelance articles have appeared at the American School Foundation in Mexico Association in publications like The Knot, Sunset, and City. A native of Mexico City, Alvarez enjoys = Oklahoma Interscholastic Press OIPAA Unboundary by USA Today. She is the author of creative writing and wishes to pursue it Association The Food Lovers’ Guide to Phoenix & Scottsdale, professionally in the future. She currently is a = Oklahoma Interscholastic Press PSPA founder of the fashionable travel blog Style staff member of the Repentino Literature staff. SCSPA Advisers Association Jaunt, and hotels columnist for SheKnows.com. = Pennsylvania School Press Association As a student at Corona del Sol High School in SPJ = South Carolina Scholastic Press Tempe, AZ, Alaupovic was on yearbook staff all B Michelle Balmeo SIPA Association four years and served as editor-in-chief from = Society of Professional Journalists 2003 to 2004. SND = Southern Interscholastic Press James Amato is adviser to El Estoque SPLC Association newsmagazine and news website at Monta TAJE = Society for News Design , is the journalism director Vista High School in Cupertino, CA. She guided = Student Press Law Center and adviser of the WRHSonline.net/ her staff through the publications from a 12 VAJTA = Texas Association of Journalism WRHSmedia:Broadcast at Woodland Regional page tabloid newspaper to a 40+ page magazine Educators High School, Beacon Falls, CT. The program has and news website that is updated daily. Her VHSL = Virginia Association of Journalism undergone several program enhancements in students have received multiple awards from Teachers and Advisers its tenure since 2001. Starting as black-and- national organizations, but she is most proud of = Virginia High School League white, print-only program (a Silver Medalist her staff’s continual effort to ameliorate their 6 production), they have explored AM90 radio,th Annual publication. High School [@michellebalmeo] Convention Program Who’s Who at the Convention continues on page 14 Anne Barr Jason Boland

currently teaches English at advises the Calhoun High School lecturing and working with schools on creative concept materials. Episcopal Academy in the metropolitan newspaper, Hoofbeats, in Merrick, NY. His Jeff Brown Philadelphia area and advises the student staff has been recognized by numerous press newspaper, The Scholium. Under her leadership organizations in the last eight years, receiving a is a photographer now living in the online version of the paper was instituted CSPA Gold Medalist award and Most Outstanding Brooklyn, NY. In his last year of high school, and sports reporters began regularly using Newspaper by the American Scholastic Press Brown was co-editor in chief, scene editor, Twitter to provide live updates on sports games Association. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in a columnist, a photographer and a feature to the Episcopal Academy community. This Journalism and a Master’s in Education from writer for The Blue & Gold newspaper at past January, Barr taught a journalism class St. John’s University and has been teaching AP Center High School in Antelope, CA. During developed for Episcopal’s newly launched English and Journalism for 16 years. Before his tenure The Blue & Gold was a regular J-Term curriculum. teaching, he worked as a reporter and editor Katy Bellotte Crown winner. for several local newspapers. He was recently Larry Buchanan named a 2013 Educator of Excellence by the is a high school senior and co is a graphics editor at The New York State English Council. This is his sixth editor-in-chief of Severna Park High school New York Times. Buchanan has previously year presenting at CSPA. [@thejasonboland] newspaper, manager of the Unified Sports Harry Robert Brake worked as a freelancer for The New Yorker, Team, and owner of a registered business in the TheChristopher Onion, ESPN Burman and others. state of Maryland. Her YouTube channel, begun is the adviser of in 2009, now has over 16 million views. [@ Repentino magazine at the American School teaches Spanish at HelloKatyxo] in Mexico City. Repentino was a recipient of Joe Bergantino Pacific Ridge School, in Carlsbad, CA, and is the CSPA Silver Medalist certificate in 2012. the faculty adviser for Global Vantage. Global is the executive director, Brake restarted the magazine two years ago Vantage is a Crown Award Finalist for 2014 managing editor and co-founder of the New with Camila de la Parra. Under his guidance and the student staff is the recipient of the England Center for Investigative Reporting. the local magazine has become an international 2014 Edmund J. Sullivan Award. Bergantino has been a national and local one, increasing its staff from six members to its investigative reporter for 35 years. He spent present 57. He believes in the power of social C Aaron Cahall most of his career as the I-Team Reporter for media to uplift others, and in sharing the work of artists, having himself met John Green, Alice WBZ-TV in Boston. He also did investigative is a contributing editor and reporting for WPLG-TV, and spent five years as a Walker, Scott Westerfeld and many more. [@ Michigan01] a partner in The Dagger, a news Web site correspondent for ABC News. During his career, Betsy Brittingham covering Harford County, MD. A native of Bergantino has won many of the broadcasting Baltimore, he has written for professional industry’s most prestigious awards including is the adviser of Nuntius and student publications for more than 10 a duPont-Columbia Award and Citation, a yearbook in Altavista, VA. Before teaching years. He has worked for several newspapers Robert F. Kennedy Award for reporting on the English and advising the yearbook, Brittingham covering local government, police, fire, disadvantaged, and a Gabriel Award. [@necirbu] was a newspaper editor and reporter. She has Kathleen Bergen and community issues, and has interned expertise in public relations, graphic design at Newsday’s Washington, D.C. bureau, has been an English teacher and advertising. The Nuntius is a recipient of op/ed and sports departments, as well as at Madison (NJ) High School for the past ten the CSPA Silver Crown and NSPA Pacemakers Maxim magazine. He is a 2007 graduate of years. She serves as the adviser for the high in 2011 and 2012. Brittingham currently the Columbia University Graduate School of school’s online news site, Dodger Online, as serves as a board member of the VAJTA. She has Journalism. [@aaroncahall] well as the high school’s hybrid literary arts presented at the 2011 and 2012 CSPA Spring magazine, Glyphs. Conventions. [@BetsyBrit] Bonnie Blackman Rick Brooks

currently serves on the is a creative board of the GSSPA, and received their Golden design manager with Quill Award for contributions to journalism Jostens and has over 20 in New Jersey. Blackman is also a member of years experience within the Advisory Board of the PSPA. She is a 2006 the publishing and creative recipient of the CSPA Gold Key. Blackman design fields. A graduate speaks nationally at conventions and yearbook of Fairmont (WV) State camps specializing in staff management, University, he has degrees motivation, and marketing. Blackman began in Commercial design, her career as a yearbook adviser and coach in Graphics and Fine Arts Boston public schools before joining Jostens. [@ along with Journalism blackmanbonnie]Erika Bleed and Art Education. Brooks received the Gold Key and is a junior at the American School the PSPA Keystone award for Foundation in Mexico City. Bleed is currently a exemplary work in helping staff member of Repentino, an international art student journalism through and literature magazine dedicated to fostering education and training. He a love of the arts. She is trilingual in English, attained his CJE from JEA Current CSPA Executive Director Ed Sullivan presents his predecesor, Charles in 2013. Brooks spends the French and Spanish and is thinking about R. O’Malley a jacket with the CSPA official seal. photo/Joe Pineiro pursuing a career in law. majority of his time teaching, 8 90th Annual High School Convention Program Wednesday, March 19, 2014 Highlights for delegates

Exhibits and Publication Display Columbia’s Visitors Center Arledge Auditorium of Alfred Lerner Hall Hours 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 8 a.m. through 3 p.m. Located in room 213, on the west side of the foyer Check out the offerings from our exhibits in the at the main entrance of Low Library, the Visitors auditorium of Columbia’s student center. Also, tables of Center offers information and campus tours to award-winning newspapers, magazines and yearbooks prospective undergraduates of Columbia College will be on display. and the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science and to the public. Advisers’ Hospitality Lounge Satow Room, 5th floor Lerner Hall Student Swap Shops 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 19, at Enjoy some refreshments during the day. 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Broadway Room, 2nd fl., Lerner Hall Here’s a chance to meet other students from across On-site Critiques the country. Student moderators lead a conversation Ongoing from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. with other students at a roundtable. It’s an informal th discussion of whatever questions or problems the Sign up in room 555, 5 floor Lerner Hall group at your table wants to talk about. You can also This oral critique is free for all delegations, whether bring copies of your paper, magazine or yearbook to newspaper, magazine, yearbook or digital media. Staffs show or even exchange with others. Issues can be the and/or advisers will meet with a volunteer adviser-judge most recent or from previous months or even last year. for about 15 minutes of discussion about the publication If you don’t have enough copies to exchange, swap brought by the staff or viewed online. Critiques are names and addresses (including email addresses) so available if only one staff member or adviser is present that you can follow up after you return home. at the Convention, or for groups as large as nine persons (we use tables that seat 10 persons). These are not ratings, and they don’t carry awards. But they are a good chance to ask questions, get clarifications, learn new terms or techniques and inquire about possible changes or innovations you may be considering.

Each publication staff — newspaper print, hybrid, digital; yearbook, lit mag and general magazine, will participate in an in depth critique session to review the reference essentials, visual and verbal elements of the publication. The critiques will be individualized to meet the specific needs of each staff.

This detailed evaluation will serve as a blueprint for the staff to follow for the new school year.

Follow CSPA [@cspa] on Twitter for convention updates! And tweet what you learned at the convention #cspasc14

Columbia Scholastic Press Association 9 10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

ADVISERS Staying Semi-Sane in the Midst Confessions of Former High Growing Your Own Journalism of Chaos School Journalism Nerds Program Laura Schaub Carrie Faust, moderator Join this discussion for advisers of all types of Come talk to former pub students and find out Ellen Cowhey publications as we explore staff management, how their involvement in journalism helped Here’s a how-to for beginning newspaper grading techniques and other aspects them in college and in their professional advisers who are just beginning to advise, of advising student publications. careers. or are inheriting a small or dysfunctional journalism program. One adviser shares Lerner Room 568 Lecture Hall, 3rd fl. Journalism her story over a ten-year period, where she expanded the program, increased courses available, and developed specific protocol How to Advise a Yearbook Staff Using Sources to Create a More for students, faculty and administration. to Take Ownership of their Readable, Informed Publication This will be an opportunity for other advisers Yearbook to share their experiences and exchange Donald P. Mazella Attend this primer on using editorial skills

Wednesday, March 19, 2014 19, March Wednesday, ideas on best practices as well. Alison Stanford Turner This session will reveal the four steps an to incorporate internal and external sources 103 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] adviser can follow to make yearbook staff in everyday scholastic editorial enterprises. members care about and take charge of their Learn how to cultivate sources, read and Turning 5 into 50 publication. explain official documents and tell how they relate to your educational institution. Matthew LaPorte Hamilton Room 503 Better interviewing techniques when For those of us advisers who have a small staff, querying officials for information. we yearn for those huge staffs that could take ALL PUBLICATIONS Hamilton Room 517 on all those “things” that always seem to fall Trello for Everyone! by the wayside. At this session, learn how the Southwest Shadow Online News Site (staff of Harry Robert Brake & Alia Suhaimi Streams. Compressors. Bits. (No five) and The Howl Yearbook (staff of three) Thats right, not Jello, but TRELLO will Water, Air or Kibbles.) are maximizing their strengths to update daily change your world! See how one class in and produce a 256-page volume. Mexico City took Trello and made it a staple Jacob Palenske in organizing a staff that went from 12 to YouTube or Vimeo? h.264 or MPEG-4? 480i or Mathematics Room 207 57 on one year. See ways to increase the 1080p? Confused yet? You’re not alone. This use of Trello and make it work for you in session will take the “geek” out of shooting, Approaches to Reading in a variety of ways, saving you time, energy, exporting and distributing your digital videos Journalism and English: and increasing activity! Guaranteed to be a using the web and mobile platforms. We’ll cover hardware/software needs, production Bridging the Divide life saver of time, energy and help increase your publication’s productivity! tips, video hosting options and the best way Deborah March to embed video into your webpages. Mathematics Room 203 This session explores techniques for bridging Mathematics Room 312 the gap between approaches to reading in journalism and English classes, fostering 7 Ways to Be Eye Catching students’ awareness of distinct purposes Beginning InDesign and modes of literacy. I focus on the Alena Cybart-Persenaire Learn strategies to write eye catching openings Hal Schmidt increasing prevalence of close reading in Learn the basics of InDesign. This will the English classroom, the turn toward as well as photo captions that grab your readers’ attention, and keep them reading. give you a good start in seeing the design nonfiction, and journalism’s implicit capabilities of this powerful program. lessons to students about the value of Hamilton Room 702 context in shaping published writing. Get Room 101 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] sample lessons and practices that can be integrated into the production cycle. Schermerhorn Room 614

Tweet what you learned at #cspasc14 10 90th Annual High School Convention Program Student Swap Shop The WOW Factor 10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. LAW & ETHICS Melissa Wantz, moderator Jim McGonnell Calling all digital, magazine, newspaper Avoiding the Libel Trap Page designers could be the answer to and yearbook staffers. Take this chance to Adam Goldstein saving our publications. Turn gray text- network with students from across the country heavy pages into an eye-popping experience. This presentation provides student journalists in a discussion about your publications. You’ll get 60 new page designs and even with a straight-forward guide to understanding more story ideas in this slick, fast pace PP and identifying libel. It includes a number of Lerner Broadway, 2nd fl. presentation. Leave with creative ideas and a true-to life examples and ends with a list of ton of ways to WOW your students. practical suggestions that will help student On-site Critiques journalists avoid common libel traps. 106 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] Each publication staff — newspaper print, 105 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] hybrid, digital; yearbook, lit mag and general PHOTOGRAPHY magazine, will participate in an in depth critique session to review the reference MAGAZINES Pictures Reveal The Story essentials, visual and verbal elements of the In Praise of Walking publication. The critiques will be individualized Rosalie Cooper to meet the specific needs of each staff. This Christian McEwen Photography is a powerful too that invites the reader into the spread. Facial expression, detailed evaluation will serve as a blueprint Learn the relationship between writing and people’s actions, close ups, perspective views, for the staff to follow for the new school year. walking. light settings, are all discussed to enhance Lerner Room 555 403 International Affairs Building your pictures for your publications. Lerner Room 569 DIGITAL MEDIA NEWSPAPERS Make Every Shot a Masterpiece Adding Video Online Can Be YEARBOOKS John Chase Soliday Easy! Small Staff? Big Book? Get Capture images no one will ever forget! Shoot LaJuana Hale Organized photos, TV, Web-episodes and movies. Learn Today staffers need to have some video new tricks and old rules for photographers, skills. Using the $5 iMovie app, students David Framel yearbook and newsprint editors, photographers, Tradition and other factors can guarantee can shoot video with their iPhone or iPad artists, directors and actors. Discover how a large book year after year, but staff and then load it directly to their online models, TV and movie stars are made from sizes are rarely as consistent. When faced newspaper. A short video story can be an award winning professional. with 400+ pages and a handful of staff, filmed, edited and uploaded in 30 minutes. organization is crucial. Learn how to create Lerner Cinema, 2nd fl. Room 501 NWC design guides and work spreadsheets while fostering a sense of teamwork You have a domain, now what? On-site Observation for effective project management. Monique Sandoval Eve Hill-Agnus 104 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] Your school district has allowed you to go On-site observations—in the cafeteria online with your newspaper, but what happens kitchen; in the closet of a ninth-grader as “Nobody Reads the Stories next? This session will help you get your online she discusses the thought process that goes Anyways”: How to Rethink and news website started and will offer suggestions into picking a school outfit; at the dance Redesign Coverage on how to grow your audience. Social studio where a student practices Indian media integration will be discussed. dance—provide crucial insight into a story and prompt questions a reporter would Hamilton Room 717 Sabrina Schmitz not otherwise think to ask. Session-goers If you’re tired of hearing that no one reads will leave with an understanding of the the yearbook copy, then perhaps it’s time Broadcast Your Voice “added value” of on-site observations; how to rethink how you present your stories. to capture sensory detail; and how to weave Let’s get inspired by modern design trends Greg D. Stobbe, Callista Fries & observations into various story types. Christopher Grossman and provide a variety of coverage in a variety of visually-pleasing forms. Learn Learn to Podcast: The Feather’s lead Schermerhorn Room 501 how to engage the reader and create visual multimedia anchors discuss the in’s and out’s interest on your pages by repackaging of podcasting. Come prepared to discuss content into mods and infographics. how podcasting can brand your school or yourself by relating to listeners through a Lerner Party Space, basement more personal, creative storytelling format. Hamilton Room 602

Remember that ‘All Publications’ sessions are open to all convention delegates. Columbia Scholastic Press Association 11 Who’s Who at the Convention Alena Cybart-Persenaire

for CSPA and NSPA. Cooper teaches English was the successful grant writer and journalism at Kennedy High School in for Elizabeth Blackwell Middle Waterbury, CT, where she chairs the English School, which also collaborated department plus advises The Eagle Flyer with schools in the Learning newspaper, winner of 56 journalism awards Technology Grant. She has including four 2012 New England Scholastic taught for 36 years in the New Press Association awards and Connecticut’s York City public school system 2012 Margaret M. Generali grant for literacy. and is currently teaching digital A former staff writer for the Bristol Press, photography to adults. Hartford Courant and Columbia Spectator, She was named the University of Connecticut’s Ellen Cowhey 2006 Graduate of the Last Decade. She was editor in chief of UConn’s The Daily Campus, has advised winning 1996 second place U.S. Newspaper of Tower, The Masters School’s the Year from the Associated Collegiate Press. CSPA Convention delegates walk to their next session newspaper, for a decade. She has also worked in the editorial D during the 2011 annual convention. photo/Alan M. Murray Cindy Dahle department at Simon and Schuster’s Pocket Books and Mr. Terry G. Caldwell teaches creative writing at Corner Hyperion. Her staff’s work has Canyon High School in Draper, UT. A multi-year is the co-moderator consistently been recognized by CSPA and Quill CSPA Gold Medalist recipient and judge, she of Windowpanes, a literary/art magazine and Scroll. Last year, one of her editors-in-chief was hired to launch the still-unnamed literary published annually at Loyola High School of Los won The Journalist of the Year for New York magazine for CCHS, a brand-new high school. State. [@masterstower] Angeles. He has co-moderated this literary/art Elyn Coyle She plans to create a hybrid publication that magazine for over 15 years, garnering more includes techniques from the latest printing than 10 Gold Medalists and two Silver Crown is adviser of The Chief, teaches processes and desktop publishing software Awards from CSPA. journalism at Massapequa (NY) High School combined with hand-finished book art Molly Clarkson and served as vice president for the LISPA for Kristencraftsmanship. Dixie is the co-adviser for Richard three years. The Chief was honored with a Montgomery High School’s literary magazine CSPA Gold Medalist in 2013 and earned over is enjoying her sixth year as a Fine Lines. This is Clarkson’s seventh 62 awards at the Long Island Press High School teacher at American School Foundation in Journalism Program in 2013. Mexico City, Mexico as part of the Upper School year serving as co-adviser. She is the MYP Meredith Cummings coordinator at Richard Montgomery High English department. She recently completed School, MD, in addition to teaching Honors is a journalism her Masters in Educational Leadership, after English Nine. instructor at The University of Alabama and having completed her Honour Degree in Erin Coggins the Vice President/ President Elect of the SPJ English Language & Literature, her Bachelor Alabama Professional Chapter. She directs in Education and her Masters in International has advised The Crimson Crier the NESPA, the ASPA and the Multicultural Education. She is licensed to teach by the and The Senator at Sparkman High School for 12 Ontario College of teachers and has been Journalism Workshop at UA. Cummings is Danlly Domingo years. She has been named the ASPA’s Adviser a freelance writer for various publications, teaching for nearly 10 years. of the Year four times as well having received including al.com where her blog The Up Beat is currently the Senior the CSPA Gold Key and DJNF Distinguished won third place in the National Federation Designer at Conde Nast where he designs and Adviser awards. Prior to entering education, of Press Women contest in 2013. Cummings art-directs editorial content across all print and Coggins worked in public relations for NASA. has worked at newspapers, magazines and digital platforms of Architectural Digest. He is [@ eecoggins] Jane Collins Web sites in AL, PA, NC, NY, SC and FL. [@ also a freelance art director and photographer merecummings] John Cutsinger working efffprimarily in fashion. Domingo has is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the a BFA in Photography and Imaging from NYU’s Madison Dodger Online. She has been working was named the 1987 DJNF Tisch School of the Arts. on the Dodger since her sophomore year, but Mary Kay Downes National Journalism Teacher of the Year. CSPA she was first published by her local paper in awarded him a Gold Key; NSPA, a Pioneer loves yearbook so much the eighth grade. Michael Comos award; and SIPA, its Distinguished Adviser that her license plate reads YBQUEEN! She Award. In 1992, he was inducted into the FJA has advised the Odyssey yearbook for 26 has been the adviser of the Hall of Fame. A past JEA Commissioner, John years in Chantilly, VA. Her students’ books Hilltopper yearbook and Pawprints newspaper is CJE qualified and received a JEA Medal of have garnered numerous CSPA Crown and at Clarkston (MI) High School since 2004. Rosalie Cooper Merit and also a JEA Friend of Journalism. NSPA Pacemakers and have received the VHSL Cutsinger has judged as well as has spoken at Savedge Award for sustained excellence four was an adviser to thqe conventions for nearly 40 years. Prior to his times making 21 VHSL Trophy Class awards. Challenger yearbook for over 15 years at creative accounts manager role, he served as a Downes is the 2007 JEA Yearbook Adviser Elizabeth Blackwell Middle School in Ozone marketing manager where he edited Adviser & of the Year and has received CSPA’s Gold Key, Park, NY. The yearbook was a CSPA Gold Staff, created the Y Club Curriculum, co-edited JEA’s Medal of Merit, NSPA’s Pioneer Award Medalist with All-Columbian honors. She History Repeats Itself yearbook history and and SIPA’s Elizabeth Dickey Award. She is a received the CSPA Gold Key in 2007. She co-authored the new Adviser’s Companion. [@ past-president of CSPAA and chairs its Honors johnnyyearbook] 14continues to critique yearbooks and magazines 90th AnnualCommittee. High School [@mkdybq] Convention Program Who’s Who at the Convention continues on page 22 E Steve Ferguson Callista Fries Paul Ender has been a representative is a junior and the multimedia for Balfour Publishing in the Tampa Bay, FL was the adviser to the award- anchor for The Feather Online (thefeather. area for 24 years and had pieces published in com), at Fresno (CA) Christian High School. winning American yearbook at Independence CSPA’s Scholastic Yearbook Fundamentals. He High School in San Jose, CA, for more than 25 The Feather Online won 2012 and 2013 NSPA is a graduate of the UNC-Chapel Hill School Online Pacemakers, a 2013 Best of Show, a years. A longtime special consultant for Herff of Journalism and has worked at The Miami Jones, Ender’s honors include JEA Yearbook 2013 CSPA Gold Crown, and a 2012 Silver Herald. As a yearbook adviser at North Miami Crown. They are a Crown Award finalists this Adviser of the Year, Northern California Beach High School, his yearbooks received Tyninyear. Fries Yearbook Adviser of the Year, CSPA Gold Silver Crowns from CSPA, All Florida from Key, JEA Lifetime Achievement Award, NSPA FSPA and Pacemaker awards from NSPA. He is a senior and editor-in-chief for Pioneer Award and OIPA National Scholastic has led yearbook workshops in 22 states. His Journalism Hall of Fame. The Feather Online (thefeather.com), at Fresno schools frequently solicit his expertise on (CA) Christian High School. The Feather Online layout, design, copywriting, and InDesign tips won 2012 and 2013 NSPA Online Pacemakers, F andGeorge tricks. Fiala [@yearbookman] a 2013 Best of Show, 2011 and 2013 CSPA Gold Carrie Faust Crowns, and a 2012 Silver Crown. They are a is a professional photographer WilliamCrown Award Friskey finalists this year. has been advising yearbook and and teacher based in Dallas, TX. He specializes in capturing lyrical images of people on newspaper for 12 years at Smoky Hill High is in his fourth year of School in Aurora, CO. Her yearbooks have won location or in studio for editorial, corporate and advertising applications. Fiala is also the advising the journalism program and his four CSPA Silver Crowns, an NSPA Pacemaker, seventh year of teaching at Ledyard (CT) High and also a finalist. A 2008 JEA Rising Star, head of photography at the Episcopal School of Dallas. School. He teaches English 11 and journalism 2009 Distinguished Adviser, and a 2013 Medal Virginia Fitzgerald and advises The Colonel Newsmagazine, of Merit recipient, Faust enjoys speaking Horizons Yearbook, the Poet Laureate, and the at conventions and workshops around the is an adviser of the Youth Alive Bible Club. He has a Masters of Fine Mauracountry. [@carriefaust] Fennelly Algonquin Harbinger newspaper and Sachem Arts in Creative and Professional Writing from magazine at Algonquin Regional High School in Western Connecticut State University where is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Northborough, MA. She left the newsroom for he specialized in fiction and speech writing. Madison High School’s newspaper, the Madison the classroom and has been teaching English In addition to penning three novel-length and Journalism since 2007. Dodger Online. She began taking journalism Adrienne Forte manuscripts, Friskey enjoys writing poetry her sophomore year and plans to pursue a and short fiction when he gets a chance. [@ career in the field. has been teaching Newspaper WilliamFriskey] Sheryl Fulton Journalism for the past nine years at Robinson Secondary School in is the Marketing Services Fairfax, VA. Her students, seventh and Manager for Jostens Printing & Publishing in eighth graders, produce quarterly Topeka, KS. Fulton formerly taught at Fort Davidissues of Framelthe school newspaper. Collins (CO) High School, where she advised the Lambkin yearbook and she also advised has taught high the Archive yearbook at St. Louis University. school English and journalism Her books have won awards from NSPA, CSPA, for 28 years and has advised The and CHSPA. She was awarded the Pioneer Hexagon yearbook, The Knight Times Award from NSPA in 2013. She enjoys speaking newspaper, and the KEHS News at summer workshops and conventions. broadcast program for Episcopal High School in Bellaire, TX, since 2005. His publications and staffs Nick Ferentinos, a member of the 2005 judging board for the Crown have earned numerous national and G Awards examines high school newspapers. photo/Rebecca Castillo regional writing and graphic design Aaron Gillego recognitions, including Gold Circle, Scholastic Arts and Writing, and Yearbook of Excellence is the faculty adviser of honors. A published author of fiction, he also AMUSED, the literary magazine of Miami Nick Ferentinos coaches and teaches summer yearbook and Country Day School. He has been teaching newspaper workshops. high school English for 11 years, holds an MFA advised The Epitaph Dr. Seth Frechie in Poetry, and was himself a recipient of a CSPA newspaper at Homestead High School in Gold Circle Awards Certificate of Merit as a Cupertino, CA, when the paper earned eight is Chair of the Department of student. Gold Crowns. From CSPA he has received a English at Cabrini College in Radnor, PA. In the Nelson Gomez Gold Key as well as the Joseph Murphy Award last decade, the faculty in his department have for Outstanding Service and the O’Malley re-imagined the Woodcrest literary magazine is a junior at the Massapequa Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 1993 he to create an emerging arts culture that (NY) High School. He is the managing editor of was given a Fulbright scholarship to teach invigorates campus life. Dr. Frechie is a 2007 The Chief. The Chief was honored with a Gold journalism educators in New Zealand. The Dow recipient of the Lindback Award for Teaching Medalist rating from CSPA in 2013 and has Jones News Fund honored him as the 1994 Excellence. A writer and editor, he is a founding also earned more than 62 awards at the Long National High School Journalism Teacher of member of the Forum for Undergraduate Island Press High School Journalism Program for Excellence in Teaching. Columbiathe Year. He Scholastic is the former Presspresident Association of CSPAA. Student Editors (FUSE) conference network. 15 11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

ADVISERS How to be a Social Media Star Using Editorial Material to Get Techniques for Judging Print Katy Bellotte into the College of Your Choice News Publications This high school senior reflects on how she Donald P. Mazella built a YouTube presence of over 16 million Learn what’s important to college admission Helen F. Smith views, and how you can too. officers and how you can turn your editorial Advisers, learn how to use CSPA’s criteria to experience into selling points on admission provide useful, constructive advice to staffs 417 International Affairs Building forms. Build a resume to enhance your and advisers from a distance—and how not profile to make you a high profile candidate to. Along with an overview of the judging for scholarships and intern programs. process, advisers will be invited to share School Publication as Local and Whether to journalism schools or elite perspectives, questions and suggestions. Global Engagement colleges some of the things you can do to Lerner Room 568 Steven Le build a better admissions packet. Global Journal Project empowers students Hamilton Room 517 Moving From Club to Classroom with business skills to connect communities by sharing stories. We form public-private- Gail Katz Snyder international school partnerships that operate You Sound, Like, Um...Stupid? Ya An overview for creating a working and a student-run magazine. Each magazine’s Know?

Wednesday, March 19, 2014 19, March Wednesday, creative curriculum that teaches Literary content comes from members of all three Magazine skills to classes. schools, including students, teachers, parents, Jacob Palenske alumni, and the general public, making each Interviewing is as much about your credibility Lerner Room 477 publication a shared voice. Join us to see how as the questions you ask. Speaking like an you can start a GJP Chapter at your school. inarticulate reality TV star and mumbling How to Advise a Yearbook Staff sentences filled with the words “like”, “um” and 103 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] “ya know?” won’t result in good answers from to Take Ownership of their even the friendliest source. This class will teach Yearbook The Music of Writing you how to use your voice, your words and your body language to be an outstanding, intelligent- Alison Stanford Turner Michael Lydon sounding interviewer (or interviewee.) This session will reveal the four steps an adviser Good writing does much more than convey can follow to make yearbook staff members information. The sound of the words, the Mathematics Room 312 care about and take charge of their publication. rhythm of the sentences, the tone of the writer’s voice all contribute to the emotional message, Hamilton Room 503 Masterpieces, Yearbooks, the human-to-human communication that Newspapers, TV, Web-episodes lies under the words. Long time journalist ALL PUBLICATIONS Michael Lydon shows how good phrasing, and Blockbuster Films On-site Critiques mixing long and short words, alliteration, John Chase Soliday and dynamic opposites can make your Learn to use the professional tricks of the Each publication staff — newspaper print, writing sing — and make it more convincing. hybrid, digital; yearbook, lit mag and general stars now! Shoot your pictures to leap off the magazine, will participate in an in depth 104 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] page. Create unforgettable moving images! critique session to review the reference Capture viewers with the psychology of essentials, visual and verbal elements of the If You Can’t Say Anything Nice... color. Be a pro now! Professional tips you publication. The critiques will be individualized can use now from award winning pro! to meet the specific needs of each staff. This Jimmy Margulies Editorial detailed evaluation will serve as a blueprint Cartoons Lerner Cinema, 2nd fl. for the staff to follow for the new school year. Jimmy Margulies Cornflakes, Confessions and Lerner Room 555 Award winning nationally syndicated editorial Controversies cartoonist Jimmy Margulies discusses and Order up! Bringing Culinary shows examples of his work. John Tagliareni Coverage Online In this entertaining and informative session, 101 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] the speaker will present legal advice and Ellen Austin strategies for students and advisers about With an ever-increasing media focus on food covering controversial and sensitive issues competitions and celebrity chefs, why not in school publications. Resources will bring that audience to your school’s online be given for assistance about censorship site? Join this session with two Bay area concerns with school administrators. high school food bloggers who are piloting innovative food coverage with recipes, reviews, Lecture Hall, 3rd fl. Journalism and culinary tips for their online audience. Mathematics Room 203 Tweet what you learned at #cspasc14 16 90th Annual High School Convention Program Exposing the Best in Graphic MAGAZINES The WOW Factor Design-I: Braving the Worst Type New to the Menu: Moving Jim McGonnell 11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Demons Beyond Free-Form Poetry Page designers could be the answer to C. Bruce Watterson saving our publications. Turn gray text- Cindy Dahle heavy pages into an eye-popping experience. Almost like magic, the right type choice This session will suggest methods to broaden You’ll get 60 new page designs and even can turn two-dimensional designs into and modernize the content of your magazine more story ideas in this slick, fast pace PP dynamic and powerful pieces of journalism- and ideas to include the work of students presentation. Leave with creative ideas -digital or print. From light to extra bold who wouldn’t normally think of themselves and a ton of ways to WOW your students. italic, the right font can turn good reporting as writers or consider their work art. We into great storytelling. Delegates will will brainstorm ways to include writing 106 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] use this session to preview and critique a and art forms that can be pulled from variety of font samples from high school technology, social media, sustainability magazines, newspapers and yearbooks. Shocking! People Actually Read efforts, and other trends that offer writing Your Newspaper? Schermerhorn Room 501 opportunities beyond traditional short stories, essay writing, and poetry. Ray Westbrook DIGITAL MEDIA Tired of people skimming through Pupin Room 428 your paper — only to be finished in The Best Kept Secret for two minutes or less? This session will Broadcast Journalism (and it’s Across the Bridge of Dreams offer tips on how to develop meaningful free!) Christian McEwen stories that people actually want to read. James Amato Learn how to use dreams in poetry and prose. Lerner Party Space, basement In this session, students explain the finer 403 International Affairs Building points of setting up a live broadcast using PHOTOGRAPHY Google Hangouts (which is free). It is Creating a Photo Story Package a simple method to broadcast sports, NEWSPAPERS musicals, and other events for your school How to Say Something Mark Murray and journalism program. Also discussed, Meaningful Without Whining Learn strategies and tips for creating YouTube policies and video archiving process. better photo stories. Become familiar with Sandy Hall-Chiles the storytelling process from concept to Room 501 NWC With the exception of student government, publish. See examples of strong images no other institution on your campus has and gain perspectives on the behind-the- Online Workflow the authority or platform to advocate for scenes efforts in making them. students like the school newspaper. But, Greg D. Stobbe, Tynin Fries & too often staff editorials resemble rants, Mathematics Room 207 Viviana Hinojosa not reasoned arguments. Learn how to use Managing an online publication can be this opportunity wisely to open dialog and Photo Storytelling Strategies cluttered and slowed by a room with little perhaps affect meaningful change. Providing to no organization. The Feather editors a collective and powerful voice is not only Alan M. Murray remove the guesswork away from organizing your right, but your responsibility. Learn strategies and tips for creating better a workflow by sharing their experience photo essays. Become familiar with the and tips for managing an efficient staff. Lerner Broadway, 2nd fl. storytelling process from concept to post- completion. Learn how to interact with Hamilton Room 602 Pushing the Limits: How to your subjects to get better access and more Create an Award-Winning compelling images. See examples of strong LAW & ETHICS Newspaper images and gain perspectives on the behind- the-scenes efforts in making them. Private School Student Media Lori Hart and the Law The focus of the session will be to encourage Schermerhorn Room 614 Adam Goldstein students and advisers to take chances and YEARBOOKS push the limits with their newspaper’s content. Private schools face significantly different This is not a class on first amendment rights, hurdles from their public school counterparts Cure for Boring Yearbook Copy it is more about building relationships with when it comes to gathering and reporting the decision-makers at your school and how MaryKay Downes the news. Get help to sort through the legal important it is to continue to test your limits. This veteran adviser will offer ways to make maze. We will show examples of ways we have done yearbook copy sizzle so that more people than 105 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] this — what we have “gotten away with” your grandmother will say, “Great job!” Examine and what we have not, and why. topic, angle and interviewing techniques to ensure you eliminate the snooze factor from Pupin Room 329 vapid copy and meaningless quotes. Lerner Room 477

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ADVISERS Writing about Pop Music Student Swap Shop Journalism is a Business Michael Lydon Ray Westbrook, moderator So you want to write the next cover story Calling all digital, magazine, newspaper and Daniel Reinish of Rolling Stone? Pop music is made by yearbook staffers. Take this chance to network This presentation will examine how advisers and for teens, so this is a field where young with students from across the country in a can improve the quality and viability of journalists can be experts. Reviewing records, discussion about your publications. publications by infusing the project with a interviewing stars, discovering up and comers, tone of professionalism. While this might reporting on new technology--writing about Lerner Broadway, 2nd fl. seem to simply refer to using certain kinds of pop music can challenge your reporting and language or acting respectfully/responsibly, critical skills. Michael Lydon, a pop music it really refers to an entire attitude. It DIGITAL MEDIA writer for forty years, will share all he’s learned impacts how the staff organizes itself, sets from interviewing the Beatles, Ray Charles, the Web Project Management Basics goals, creates products, advertises, receives Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, and many more. grades, etc. Professionalism is really about a Alan M. Murray Wednesday, March 19, 2014 19, March Wednesday, mentality or an approach to creating a product. 104 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] Become familiar with basic project management principles and strategies for 106 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] The Digital Story: Find it, Tell It, more effective web development. Learn how to establish a clear vision for your final product, The Common Core and the CSPA Share It how to work with multiple stakeholders to Critiques Jacob Palenske manage expectations and requirements, and Effective 21st Century journalists must use become acquainted with low-cost tools and Kathleen Zwiebel technology to find, tell and distribute stories. resources that can save time and money. The CSPA’s Medalist Critiques offer publication This session will teach you how to produce advisers both general guidelines and specific Schermerhorn Room 614 up-to-the-minute digital content, how to use criteria that reflect current journalism trends. converged information sources like Twitter Now they also align with Common Core ELA and Facebook to generate coverage ideas, 60 eyes, 60 hands... creating one Standards. Learn how you can use the Medalist and how to format/distribute what you big, fun story Critiques as curriculum for the Common produce so your audience can easily access it. Core, how to substantiate your students Melissa Wantz meeting the Standards and how students can Mathematics Room 312 Take your next big event story and set your self-evaluate their publications by using the entire publication team lose on it. Come to scorebook to analyze and judge their work. Want to be a magazine editor? this session to see how to “blanket cover” an event or a “day in the life.” Build team Lerner Board Room 503 Alexa Pence & Brigid Neary spirit, mentor newbies and create a story told We’re young journalists, sick of being told from multiple views on multiple platforms. ALL PUBLICATIONS to become lawyers and attorneys. A year On-site Critiques ago we created the student-run, feminist Lerner Party Space, basement media empire, Aberrance Quarterly (AQ). Each publication staff — newspaper print, Rated #2 on The Huffington Post’s “The LAW & ETHICS hybrid, digital; yearbook, lit mag and general Best 5 Things That Happened in 2013” AQ is magazine, will participate in an in depth Advisers and the Law only beginning. Hear our story, start an AQ critique session to review the reference branch in your city, & become a chic feminist. essentials, visual and verbal elements of the Adam Goldstein The law recognizes that every person publication. The critiques will be individualized 417 International Affairs Building to meet the specific needs of each staff. This sometimes has the right to be left alone — detailed evaluation will serve as a blueprint even by journalists. Understand where the for the staff to follow for the new school year. Beginning Photoshop legal lines have been drawn. Lerner Room 555 Hal Schmidt 105 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] Get the basics on adjusting and cropping photos. See easy steps for cut-outs and other special effects. Lerner Cinema, 2nd fl.

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MAGAZINES NEWSPAPERS Beginning Photography Keeping it fresh Don’t Fear the Long Story Jay Kleinrichert Learn how to control your camera and take Tom Hayes LaJuana Hale better pictures. In this session, you will Creative writing is the backbone of keeping Long stories can scare staffers and panic learn how to control your Aperture, Shutter an arts and literary magazine fresh. Discuss designers. However, these are the stories that Speed, and ISO. You will also learn different ways to solicit material and how publications are read and that win awards. This session will composition methods such as framing, panning, staff incorporated their literary magazine into teach how to create well-developed narratives leading line, and the rule of thirds. everything they do. This session focuses on ways that will capture the audience’s attention. to produce an online magazine and combining Mathematics Room 207 a creative club with a production group. 101 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] Pupin Room 428 Keep on Trucking The Power of Light x2 Part 1 of 2 Mark Murray Seed Books & Journals John Tagliareni “Amazing. Exciting. Enthralling. Are these Cover issues in detail with strong feature words that describe your photographs? They writing, eye-catching graphics and theme Christian McEwen could if you learn to harness the power of Learn how to keep track of what really matters concepts, to create exciting double trucks. light in your images, in the same way that to you. Feature story ideas, writing techniques master artists have learned to work with and graphic design are covered with oil, watercolor or stone. In a special class at 403 International Affairs Building examples of double trucks and handouts. CSPA this year, you’ll join us on Wednesday Lecture Hall, 3rd fl. Journalism for instruction on how to see light and have There is Life Beyond Literary Art it make a difference in your photographs. Magazines Then take the rest of the day to practice PHOTOGRAPHY what you’ve learned. On Thursday morning Deborah J. Stepelman Photography as a Social Change you’ll drop off your best images (as digital Learn the story of the genesis of a “General” Agent files) and later that morning gather again Magazine, one that is all about mathematics for a lively critique of the images from the but is geared to all readers. It makes no George Fiala entire class. A digital camera, required.” difference whether you are good in math “The most powerful weapon in the world or not, whether you like math or not. has been, and can be a photograph . . . and Schermerhorn Room 501 Everyone likes our “general” magazine. it only takes 1/500th of a second.”--Eddie Mathematics Room 203 Adams. In this session we will view and discuss war photographs telling the stories of YEARBOOKS the suffering to bring attention to the human Lyrics Inspire Powerful Poetry & struggle, one image at a time. We will also 50 Ways to Tell A Story Prose discuss how student photographers can adopt Meghan Percival the techniques of the masters to capture their Mods. Sidebars. Alternative Story Forms. Violet Turner experiences for their audiences. Exploring the art of concise and potent imagery Whatever you call them, they are a great way to through the works of lyricists including 103 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] expand your publication’s coverage, play with Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Tom design and explore unique forms of storytelling. Waits. If you’re stuck in a picture and quote rut, this session will give you some new ideas. Room 501 NWC Pupin Room 329

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is the first Knight Chair in Atlantic Monthly: Words That Make A Difference is the adviser to Eagle Scholastic Journalism at Kent State University and More Words That Make A Difference (co- Edition, the student newspaper of The Episcopal in Ohio. Also a lawyer, Goodman was executive authored by his wife, Carol). He writes regularly School of Dallas, TX. In her previous schools, her director of the Student Press Law Center for the Visual Thesaurus language Web site, students’ publications have been awarded Gold from 1985 to 2007. Recognized as a national visualthesaurus.com. Visit his Web site at www. and Silver Crowns from CSPA, Pacemakers from expert on scholastic journalism, media law and robertgreenman.com NSPA, Gold Stars from Texas’ Interscholastic student press freedom, he speaks to hundreds Christopher Grossman League Press Conference. Hall-Chiles has been of students, teachers, school administrators and awarded the Edith Fox King Award, the Max attorneys around the United States and abroad is a junior and the R. Haddick Teacher of the Year Award, and the each year about the legal issues confronting sports editor for The Feather Online (thefeather. Dallas Teacher of the Year award. She is a proud the student press. Goodman has received many com) at Fresno (CA) Christian High School. The recipient of the CSPA Gold Key. Mark Hansen awards for his work with the student press Feather Online won 2012 and 2013 NSPA Online Pacemakers, a 2013 Best of Show, a 2013 CSPA including CSPA’s Gold Key, Charles O’Malley is the east coast director of the Gold Crown, and a 2012 Silver Crown. They are Award and Joseph M. Murphy Award for David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Outstanding Service. [@SMarkGoodman] a Crown Award finalists this year. Media Innovation, an For innovative full bio see collaboration page four. Elizabeth Gouldman between Columbia and Stanford University’s School of Engineering. H Erinn Harris is the director of digital LaJuana Hale media at the Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, has been a yearbook adviser for MD. She manages the high school’s website is an adviser to both newspaper the past eight years. She is currently in her fifth and social media presence. Gouldman also and broadcast staffs at Marcus High School in year advising Techniques at Thomas Jefferson advises the Screen Club and is technical adviser Flower Mound, TX. The Marquee staff produces High School for Science and Technology to Scrolling, the Holton-Arms School’s online both a print and online newspaper. The print in Alexandria, VA, where the staff recently literary magazine. paper was honored with a CSPA Silver Crown celebrated its first CSPA Silver Crown. A 2010 Sue Grady in 2010 and is a 2014 Crown Award finalist. JEA Rising Star, 2014 Special Recognition The broadcast staff of MOB was awarded a Adviser, and “yerd” for the past 18 years, Harris is the adviser of The Devils’ Advocate NSPA Pacemaker in 2009 for Video Yearbook. recently took over as newspaper and broadcast print and online newsmagazines at Hinsdale In 2013 Hale was awarded a master’s degree in adviser, and views student publications as (IL) Central High School. She founded the Journalism from the University of North Texas. the most exciting part of education. [@Erinn_ online website in 2011 and has been an adviser [@lajhale] Harris] of student publications for 13 years. Grady Charla Harris teaches Journalism 1, Journalism 2, Honors Jessica Haley Print and Journalism 2 Honors Online. She advises the yearbook, newspaper, owns an online stationery advises two staffs and an extracurricular club online newspaper and the broadcast program boutique and is a calligrapher and wedding for writers. Devils’ Advocate was a recipient of at Pleasant Grove High School in Texarkana, invitation designer, blogger and photographer. the NSPA Pacemaker Award. TX. All four programs have been consistently She left a career in finance to pursue her recognized at both the state and the national Warren Green creative passion and join the wedding industry level with Crown and Pacemaker Awards. Last is a Boston-based investment three years ago and is still developing her year, both the Hawk yearbook and the Edge banker who advises companies on both personal brand. Haley participated in the first newspaper were honored with CSPA Gold corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. edition of the Stationery Academy as well as the Crowns, and the Hawk and PGEdge Online He is also frequent speaker at business schools. first annual Inspire Smart Success Experience received NSPA Pacemaker Awards. Harris is Prior to law school, Green wrote for The in 2011 and is currently living in New York City. both a JEA and DJNF Distinguished Adviser. New York Times, and had articles published in its Sunday Business, Sunday Travel, and national and metropolitan news sections. His photographs have been featured on the Associated Press A-wire and in private shows and have also been displayed in The Brooklyn Museum and at the World Exposition in Osaka, Japan. Robert Greenman

taught high school and college English and journalism, and advised school publications for more than 30 years. He is a newspaper in education consultant for The New York Times and the high school liaison for the Society of Professional Journalists’ New York City chapter, the Deadline Club. Greenman is the author of The Adviser’s Companion, a guide for high school newspaper advisers, and Robert Greenman teaching writing at the 2009 Fall Conference. photo/Rebecca Castillo vocabulary enrichment books based on words 22and passages from The New York Times and the 90th Annual High School Convention Program 2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. 2014 19,

ADVISERS You Want a Website. Now What? “How do I” using InDesign Recruiting from Within Doug Levandowski Hal Schmidt The editor-in-chief and adviser of The Ever wondered, “How do I do that in InDesign?” Angela Amos Tower will talk about their recent experience Here’s your chance to ask that question and,

March Set up prerequisite classes that will have them with establishing a website for their school hopefully, get an answer. If you have an banging down the door to join your yearbook newspaper. They’ll go over the unexpected example of your question, bring it with you. staff. Listen to how one middle school teacher upsides - and the unexpected pitfalls - created two electives, Intro to Digital Design associated with having a website, and they’ll Lerner Cinema, 2nd fl. and Digital Photography that increased the discuss how they addressed the school quality of applicants and the rigor of staff districts various legal concerns. We’ll leave DIGITAL MEDIA selections. Course syllabus and lesson plans time for questions, and we hope that all available so bring your USB to download. A Starter Kit of Web Interactives participants will leave with an outline of Lerner Room 568 a plan for establishing their own website! Michelle Balmeo Newsflash: your online publication isn’t Lerner Room 569 Wednesday, your print publication. Sure, you can post Techniques for Judging Hybrid photos and stories, but with the Web, you Publications The Art of the Interview have the opportunity to do so much more. Join us for a quick primer on 10 online Kathleen Zwiebel Marcia Meskiel-Macy interactive tools to tell stories on your website “Hybrids (print plus digital) are the fastest Five quick hints that take the fear out of the in an alternative way. They’re almost all growing publication genre today. Learn how questioning and put the jazz into the story. free, easy to learn, and great for taking to use CSPA’s criteria to provide a detailed your news website to another level. critique. Along with an overview of the 417 International Affairs Building judging process, advisers will be invited to 104 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] share perspectives, questions and suggestions. Old Stories, New Media: Convergence Journalism Basics Lerner Board Room 503 EDITORS Jacob Palenske It’s no wonder colleges want me What is convergence? How and why is ALL PUBLICATIONS it happening? And how do I prepare my Bonnie Blackman & Sheryl Fulton publication, my staff members and my program Journalism students possess a skill set that On-site Critiques for the demands of the digital age? This session is highly valued. Motivation, organization, Each publication staff — newspaper print, will introduce you to converged journalism project management, finances, and hybrid, digital; yearbook, lit mag and general and how to implement it in your classroom communication, make an publication leader magazine, will participate in an in depth a prized addition to any college. Share critique session to review the reference Mathematics Room 312 ideas and skills that make you a top draft essentials, visual and verbal elements of the pick. Editors Only, No advisers please. publication. The critiques will be individualized Writing Fashion & Beauty: Lerner Broadway, 2nd fl. to meet the specific needs of each staff. This Frivolous vs. Functional detailed evaluation will serve as a blueprint for the staff to follow for the new school year. Gerit Quealy Examining the underpinnings of a very Lerner Room 555 popular and competitive topic, opinion-driven “journalism”, and the difference between journalist and blogger. Lerner Party Space, basement

Tweet what you learned at #cspasc14 26 90th Annual High School Convention Program 2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. LAW & ETHICS “Going Gonzo:” Incorporating Captions 1, 2, 3 From Tinker to Hazelwood to Literary Journalism Mike Simons Dean Tara Huber Captions are the most-read copy in your “Students will be introduced to literary publication, and you owe it to your audience Adam Goldstein journalism, compare traditional vs. literary Join in on a discussion of three cases — to craft them with care! Come pick up tips on techniques, explore famous writing samples including one decided in 2004 — that have how to use a proven formula to increase your and brainstorm ideas to incorporate defined the First Amendment rights of publication’s journalistic value and create literary journalism into their publications.” America’s high school student media and hear captions that prove there’s more to the story. what they mean to you. Lecture Hall, 3rd fl. Journalism Schermerhorn Room 614 105 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] Sports Writing and Editing Helen F. Smith YEARBOOKS MAGAZINES Learn the hows and whys of sports reporting Building the Bond Child Time so as to keep your sports stories appealing and informative all year round. Christian McEwen Jay Kleinrichert Learn about writing on nature and writing on 106 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] For first time advisers, join this roundtable to nature deficit disorder. learn from each other on how to survive. Get More is More: How to produce a tips, grading sheets, best practice ideas. Learn 403 International Affairs Building newspaper every 10 days how to get your staff intrinsically motivated. Visual Art as Poetic Inspiration Evva Starr The only way school newspapers can hope Mathematics Room 207 Violet Turner to be relevant is to publish more often. Poetica proclaimed: “ut pictura poesis”--”as What a Concept! is painting, so is poetry.” From poets W.H. Learn why this is essential and how to make Auden to William Carlos Williams to you, it happen. Get all the tools to produce an Meghan Percival explore the marriage of visual art and poetry. award-winning, 16-page newspaper in just 10 school days. Staff organization, work flow, The best themes /concepts influence Room 501 NWC editorial process and budget will be addressed. every decision a yearbook staff makes - from typography and design, to the NEWSPAPERS Pupin Room 301 organization of your book, writing style Localizing your newspaper: Your and coverage. This session will take you Editorials that Count through what happens when a concept moves publication vs. The New York Dave Wooley & Michael von Wahlde beyond just the cover and theme pages. Times The Editorial is the voice of your publication. Elyn Coyle, Meghana Rao & Courageously conceived and effectively written, Pupin Room 329 Nelson Gomez it can drive the discourse of your community. Sometimes it’s not enough to just tell a Let us take you through the process of creating story; if someone can read about national timely and impactful editorials from idea and international news in The Times, why planning to research to the final written product read about it in yours? This workshop will that will establish your publication as an examine such topics and look at how to make essential voice within your school community. them more relevant to your local readership. Mathematics Room 203 103 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] PHOTOGRAPHY The world is your canvas Preparing Images for Any Tom Hayes Thinking about taking your publication Publications online? What to get the most out of your online publication while maintaining a self- Mark Murray contained print edition? Discuss the pros and Consistency. A magic word when it comes cons or taking your school publication online to working with images, whether you are and learn how to set up a staff to help you in the darkroom or on a computer. Learn a get the most out of your online experience. step-by-step workflow for photographs that will make both you and your printer smile. Pupin Room 428 Schermerhorn Room 501

Remember that ‘All Publications’ sessions are open to all convention delegates. Columbia Scholastic Press Association 27 Who’s Who at the Convention continues on page 32 Eve Hill-Agnus Myrtle Jones

is the adviser of The Evergreen, is an assistant professor at the the student-produced newspaper at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She began Greenhill School in Dallas, TX. She teaches her time at RIT in 2006 following years in the English, creative writing and journalism and is media industry, most recently as the interactive also freelance writer. director of The Journal News. Jones is a product Pat Hinman of the award winning U-High Midway at the is a journalism teacher and Laboratory School of the University of Chicago, yearbook adviser at Robinson Secondary receiving her initial journalism training under School in Fairfax County, VA. In her position Wayne Brasler. as teacher and adviser for the past 22 years, K she has developed an extensive middle school Crystal Kazmierski yearbook curriculum. Hinman has advised the middle school yearbook for 22 years and the is the adviser to Wings, high school publication, Above & Beyond, for the yearbook at Arrowhead Christian Academy the past four years. Under her leadership, the in Redlands, CA, where she teaches journalism Sentry yearbook has won numerous CSPA Gold and editorial leadership. She was named the and Silver Crowns as well as NSPA Pacemakers. JEA’s National Yearbook Adviser of the Year Hinman received her CSPA Gold Key in 2010 for 2000. She received the CSPA Gold Key in and is a regular presenter at scholastic press 2002 and the NSPA Pioneer award in 2007. Her association conferences. students have earned consistent CSPA Gold Viviana Hinojosa Crowns and NSPA Pacemakers for Wings. Joelle Keene is a senior and the senior Columbia’s copy of The Thinker (Le Penseur) is an authentic cast editor for The Feather Online (thefeather. advises The Boiling Point and by French sculptor Auguste Rodin himself, one of only a few in the shalhevetboilingpoint.com, award-winning world. It stands outside Philosophy Hall. photo/Rebecca Castillo com), at Fresno (CA) Christian High School. The Feather Online won 2012 and 2013 NSPA news sources of Shalhevet High School in Los Online Pacemakers, a 2013 Best of Show, 2011 Angeles, CA, and is also founding director of Lori Hart and 2013 CSPA Gold Crowns, and a 2012 Silver the Jewish Scholastic Press Association, which held its first national conference in Los Angeles is the adviser of the CS Press, Shadows Crown. They are a Crown Award finalists this last fall. A graduate of Columbia University’s literary magazine, the Shadow yearbook, and year. Graduate School of Journalism, Keene worked the CS Press online at Cactus Shadows High Tara Huber for the Tacoma News-Tribune, Seattle Times, School in Cave Creek, AZ. Both the CS Press and is a journalism/creative writing Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and OLAM Shadows literary magazine have received CSPA teacher and adviser of The Playwickian, at Magazine. Her work has also appeared in many Gold Crowns and NSPA Pacemaker Awards. [@ Neshaminy High School’s monthly student religious and secular publications. jedihart] newspaper in Langhorne, PA. The CSPA has Steve Kent Sara Hashem Liles critiqued The Playwickian for the past 36 believes the best yearbooks haven’t years and has received a Gold Medal for been created yet. Six from his family of schools is the co-adviser for an outstanding 24 years. She holds a BA in — Altavista, Brookville, Cave Spring, Hidden Richard Montgomery High School’s literary Journalism and Communications from Lehigh Valley, Salem and Virginia Tech — are 2014 magazine, Fine Lines, in Rockville, MD. This is University. [@kikhayskycon] Liles’ seventh year as co-adviser. In addition, Beth Hunsinger Crown winners. Last year, four won Crowns she teaches AP Language and Composition, and five appeared on the NSPA Pacemaker list. is adviser of The Falcon Flier, Honors English Nine, and IB Theater. A multiple Crown and Pacemaker recipient as the student newspaper of Fredericksburg editor of The University of Alabama’s Corolla, Tom Hayes (VA) Academy. Before joining independent he is a consultant for Herff Jones based in education, she was a government and is an award-winning sports Roanoke, VA. The country’s first Adobe- education reporter for The Free Lance-Star, journalist. Hayes began teaching after covering certified yearbook consultant, with ACE status Fredericksburg’s daily newspaper. Hunsinger’s sports for 20 years and working in computer in InDesign and Photoshop, he conceived the full-time position as Fredericksburg Academy’s publishing for 10 years. He is currently in his KarinYearbookonomics® Kisel approach. [@picaplanet] director of communications requires her to use eighth year advising newspaper, yearbook and journalistic skills daily as she writes, edits, and magazine at one of Indiana’s largest public is a junior at the American School designs the school’s marketing publications schools. He oversees a staff of nearly 100 Foundation in Mexico City, Mexico. She works and oversees its online presence. aspiring journalists and has taught at summer as part of the PR Staff in Repentino. and hopes yearbook and newspaper workshops. [@BD_ J to go on to study psychology and marketing Publications] abroad in the United States. She has lived in Daniela Jessurun three countries, Mexico, the United States, and Zach Hetrick Sweden, and has a passion for travelling and is a student of the American learning about new cultures and traditions. is a photographer. After School Foundation in Mexico City, Mexico. She Jay Kleinrichert participating in student media during high is an 18 year old art staff member of Repentino. school, Hetrick started freelancing for clients Recently Jessurun won a scholarship to has been an adviser at when he began attended Indiana University. study drama in England and is sure that her Windermere (FL) Preparatory School for Since then Hetrick has worked for clients such experiences in Mexico and abroad will allow three years. Prior to that, Kleinrichert has as Nike, ESPN, Facebook, Runners World, and her to share valuable skills and knowledge worked professionally as an education stock 28Indiana University. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. with a growing media public. 90th Annualphotographer High School and graphic Convention designer. Program 3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.

ADVISERS Grabbing the Amazing, Making An internship in high school? It’s Assessment is not a dirty word It Your Own, Creating Something possible. for EVERYONE! Angela Amos Alexa Pence and Brigid Neary It is possible to find a balance between student Harry Robert Brake & Kristen Dixie Learn how to secure the right internship, work product and curriculum expectations. How do you reach not only adults, but outshine your colleagues and be the Come see how this middle school teacher students, families in and out of your school, indispensable journalist that every newsroom marries yearbook product grades with and those on the fence of being interested needs. If a journalism career is your goal, you curriculum expectations. Rubrics, course about your publication? In this workshop, should start gaining professional experience expectations and student samples will be you will be given a variety of tools to not only now. This session will help you start. discussed. Bring your USB to download. increase attendance to events to promote your publication, but ideas that will extend for years 417 International Affairs Building Lerner Room 568 to increase your audience! Get excited about this very animated and exciting workshop Ethics of Expertise: Opinions, Techniques for judging that will help you increase your audience, and Overreaching & the Dangers of interest of your publication on a DAILY basis! yearbooks Hyperbole Room 501 NWC Gerit Quealy

Wednesday, March 19, 2014 19, March Wednesday, Kathleen Zwiebel Yearbook advisers and staffs expect lots Examining boundaries regarding the of comments in their critiques so they Let’s Poke a Hole In It: journalist’s role in telling the truth, reporting the can improve each year. Learn how to use Debunking the Writerly Rules truth, evaluating the truth, assessing the truth. CSPA’s criteria to provide a detailed critique. Along with an overview of the judging Patricia Ann McNair Lerner Party Space, basement process, advisers will be invited to share We’ve all heard them: “show don’t tell,” perspectives, questions and suggestions. “less is more,” “write what you know,” Advanced InDesign and so on. This session, aimed at writers, Lerner Board Room 503 editors, and teachers alike, will encourage Hal Schmidt an active questioning of these rules as a Go beyond the basics of this powerful layout way to bring the best work to the page. program. Come with questions about your ALL PUBLICATIONS publications and layouts. The Art of Art - Art Picking in 103 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] Style Lerner Cinema, 2nd fl. Know Your (Copy)Rights Sonia Anwar-Ahmed Martinez & DIGITAL MEDIA Erika Bleed Jacob Palenske 14 in ‘14 — Online Edition In a magazine that includes art, how do you Can I use a photo I found online in my know which pieces are ideal for your specific newspaper or yearbook? What about images Logan Aimone magazine or publication? Every magazine from movies and TV shows? Does the Fourteen things today’s online news staff and publication is different, therefore the “30-second rule” really exist? Copyright should think about and do for 2014 — and art included will vary. We are going to set a laws can be confusing, but knowing what beyond. general criteria to go art picking: Interactive you can and can’t do could save you from PowerPoint We will bing examples of distinct embarrassment and legal issues. This session Mathematics Room 207 types of art work, as well as a handy toolkit will shed light on the most common copyright to help you make these difficult decisions. issues encountered by publication staffs. Breaking News Online, On Time 101 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] Mathematics Room 312 Michelle Balmeo Once you have an online presence, it’s time to start breaking news online. In this session, we’ll talk about managing breaking news, working in large reporting teams, and handling sensitive situations on a really tight deadline. These strategies can be scaled for staffs big and small. 104 Jerome Greene Hall [Law]

Tweet what you learned at #cspasc14 30 90th Annual High School Convention Program 3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. EDITORS So You’re Going to be an Editor Mike Simons It takes a special kind of person to step up into a leadership role in a publications lab. If you’re on track to serve as an editor next year, come to this editors-only session where we’ll create some space for a discussion about tips, tricks, strategies and concerns you have for the year ahead. Come ready to talk, share and network with other students who will be in the same boat as you in September! Schermerhorn Room 614 MAGAZINES Sparks from the Anvil Christian McEwen Learn about the art of the interview. 403 International Affairs Building NEWSPAPERS Photo by Alan M. Murray How to Cover the Arts in Your Own School Take a virtual tour of Helen F. Smith News, features and reviews are all important components to reporting on the arts. Learn how to cover students’ work in musical and Columbia University! theatrical performances along with their exhibitions. 106 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] http://undergrad.admissions.columbia.edu/visit/virtual-tours PHOTOGRAPHY http://www.columbia.edu/content/self-guided-walking-tour.html Photo Question and Answer You have several options to get to know the University Mark Murray Dealing with a file management issue with the help of your smart phone! You can take a self on your staff? Having problems getting the photos you need? Questions about guided tour and find out what happens in each building buying equipment? Join us for this Q&A session on everything photo related. or learn about the architecture highlights of the campus. Schermerhorn Room 501 Photographic Literacy Dave Wooley & Michael von Wahlde Photographs are ubiquitous. This workshop puts them under the cultural enlarger, helping you use the tools of media literacy and the principles of design to take and choose the most powerful, “can’t stop looking” images for your paper, site, or project. Bring news or feature images with you for review for the second half.

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Remember that ‘All Publications’ sessions are open to all convention delegates. Columbia Scholastic Press Association 31 Who’s Who at the Convention continues on page 36 Tiffany Kopcak

is the photojournalism Howl, yearbook, at Southwest Career and approach to journalism and is happy for his teacher and adviser of the Apollo yearbook Technical Academy in Las Vegas, NV. He is thrilled students to run the show. His laissez-faire at Colonial Forge High School in Stafford, VA. to be attending his first CSPA Convention and leadership has paid off: the students have She teaches a staff of 46 returning students ecstatic for the staff of the Southwest Shadow earned Gold or Silver Medalists in their past six and 84 new students. Her staffs have earned (www.southwestshadow.com) for being named CSPA critiques. multiple CSPA Gold Medalists and have also a Crown Finalist. The Southwest Shadow was been included in NSPA’s Best of the High School also honored as an NSPA Pacemaker finalist in Gary Lundgren Press. Kopcak writes the “Picture This” column 2013. [@educatelaporte] Matilde Larson , a senior marketing manager for Walsworth’s IdeaFile and teaches at the for Jostens, served as director of student Walsworth East summer workshop at James teaches English and Journalism publications and director of the Arkansas Madison University. Dean Kostos in the Upper School of the Convent of the Sacred Scholastic Press Association. His staffs received Heart in Greenwich, CT. She serves as the several Gold Crown and Pacemaker Awards has numerous collections that faculty adviser for the King Street Chronicle, and he received the CSPA Gold Key, NSPA include Rivering, Last Supper of the Senses, The and championed its transition from print to Pioneer Award, JEA Medal of Merit and was Sentence That Ends with a Comma (taught at online. In its first year the KSC was awarded a inducted into the Scholastic Journalism Hall of CSPA Gold Medalist. [@ciaocara7] Duke University), and Celestial Rust. He edited Steve Le Fame. During his 16 years at Jostens, Lundgren Mama’s Boy and Pomegranate Seeds. His work launched the “Look Book” and Jostens Adviser has appeared in over 300 journals: Boulevard, founded GJP and has served as its University. He edited three editions of the “1,2,3 Chelsea, Cimarron Review, Cincinnati Review, executive director since 2010. Before starting Yearbook Journalism Curriculum” as well as Southwest Review, Western Humanities Review, GJP, Le had professional experiences in the serving as editor of “Jostens Adviser & Staff” on Oprah Winfrey’s Web site, Oxygen.com, to military, education, and government sectors as magazine for 14 years. Michael Lydon name a few. Kostos has taught at Wesleyan, The well as nonprofit administration. As a teacher at Gallatin School, and CUNY, and has also served Pacific Ridge School, in Carlsbad, CA, Le founded is a writer and singer/ as literary judge for the CSPA Crown Awards. Glenn Krake and advised the magazine Global Vantage. He is songwriter who lives in New York. A founding an avid reader and ready traveler, and he also editor of Rolling Stone and the author of eight teaches cooking classes to people of all ages. was editor of his high school and Pete LeBlanc books, Lydon has interviewed and toured with university newspapers and spent time in radio John Lennon and Paul McCartney, the Rolling and video production, but didn’t discover the is in his 20th year of teaching and Stones, BB King, Johnny Cash, and many more magical world of Yearbook until he re-entered his sixth at Antelope (CA) High School where he for pieces published in The New York Times, the classroom as a teacher. He counts how advises the national-award winning Titanium Atlantic Monthly, and Village Voice. He also many years he’s been teaching (10) by how Yearbook, Titan Times Newsmagazine and the wrote “Ray Charles: Man and Music,” the many books he’s advised. Krake is currently Channel 5 Titan TV News. LeBlanc is a recipient definitive biography of the Ray Charles. Lydon adviser of the West Linn High School Green & of the CSPA Gold Key and the JEA’s 2006 has released three CDs of his music, and he Gold Yearbook in West Linn, OR. Yearbook Adviser of the Year. He will teach plays regularly at many clubs in Manhattan. design at CSPA’s 2014 summer workshop. L Doug Levandowski Matthew LaPorte is the co-adviser for M is the adviser of the Princeton (NJ) High School’s newspaper, The Deborah March Southwest Shadow, online news site, and The Tower. He takes a very student-centered is the adviser of Valor Dictus, the newspaper of Robinson Secondary School in Fairfax, VA. She co-founded and currently directs the school’s first writing center. March teaches journalism, broadcast journalism, and IB English. Since earning her Ph.D. in American Studies and African American Studies in 2012, she has been interested in interdisciplinary approaches to teaching reading and writing at the secondary school level. [@wolfmarch] Jimmy Margulies

’ editorial cartoons appear regularly in Newsday and AM New York. His cartoons are nationally syndicated by King Features and appear in USA Today, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. He previously served as editorial cartoonist for The Record in New Jersey, The Houston Post, and Journal Newspapers in the Washington, DC suburbs. Visit his website at www.jimmymargulies.com Jimmy Margulies poses with students after his sessionat the 2007 spring convention. photo/Joe Pineiro or check out his free iPhone app, which can be found under Political Cartoons and his name, 32 90th AnnualJimmy High Margulies. School [@jimmymargulies] Convention Program Thursday, March 20, 2014 Highlights for delegates Advisers’ Luncheon Rotunda, 2nd floor Low Library Exhibits and Awards 12 noon - 1:30 p.m. “Advocating for our students” Arledge Auditorium of Alfred Lerner Hall Jim Streisel, Dow Jones National 8 a.m. through 3 p.m. Journalism Teacher Check out the offerings from our new exhibits in the of the Year for 2013 auditorium of Columbia’s student center. Also tables of CSPA Executive Director Edmund award-winning newspapers, magazines and yearbooks J. Sullivan will interview Jim will be on display. on his path teaching journalism and how he is adapting to the changing times of technology. Advisers’ Hospitality Lounge Welcome: Ray Westbrook, President Satow Room, 5th floor Lerner Hall Columbia Scholastic Press Advisers 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Association (CSPAA) Enjoy some refreshments during the day. Inquire at the Registration Desk in Arledge Auditorium about available spaces. Columbia s Visitors Center Hours 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Located in room 213, on the west side of the foyer at Student Swap Shops the main entrance’ of Low Library, the Visitors Center Thursday, March 20 offers information and campus tours to prospective 1:30 p.m. undergraduates of Columbia College and the Fu Broadway Room 2nd fl. Lerner Hall Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science Student moderators lead a conversation with as many as and to the public. 10 students at a roundtable. It’s an informal discussion of whatever questions or problems the group at your table wants to talk about. You can also bring copies of your On-site Critiques paper, magazine or yearbook to show or even exchange Ongoing from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. with others. Issues can be the most recent or from previous Sign up in room 555, 5th floor Lerner Hall months or even last year. If you don’t have enough copies This oral critique is free for all delegations, whether to exchange, swap names and addresses (including email newspaper, magazine, yearbook or digital media. Staffs addresses) so that you can follow up after you return home. and/or advisers will meet with a volunteer adviser-judge for about 15 minutes of discussion about the publication brought by the staff or viewed online. Critiques are Session Spotlight available if only one staff member or adviser is present Thirteen Lessons from a at the Convention, or for groups as large as nine persons Life in Media (we use tables that seat 10 persons). These are not ratings, Neal Schapiro and they don’t carry awards. But they are a good chance CEO of WNET and to ask questions, get clarifications, learn new terms or techniques and inquire about possible changes or past president of NBC News innovations you may be considering. Thursday, March 20 at 1:30 p.m. 104 Jerome Green Hall [Law] See page 50 for full session description.

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0, ADVISERS ALL PUBLICATIONS Ahead of the Technology Curve 2 Online Publication for the 21st On-site Critiques Susan M. Pavelka Century Classroom Each publication staff — newspaper print, As technology evolves, it is important to take hybrid, digital; yearbook, lit mag and general advantage of the online apps like Remind Dr. Seth Frechie & magazine, will participate in an in depth 101, Google Drive, and Dragon Dictation to Dr. Amy Lee Persichetti critique session to review the reference stay connected and assist with creating and

March This session will describe the process of essentials, visual and verbal elements of the editing copy. transitioning from a print publication to publication. The critiques will be individualized an online format in the greater context of to meet the specific needs of each staff. This 106 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] reimagining an existing writing curriculum. detailed evaluation will serve as a blueprint Here, we will share our challenges and the for the staff to follow for the new school year. Invoking Creativity, Encouraging approaches we have adopted in our effort Confidence, and Offering Lerner Room 555 to identify online publication as a hands-on Constructive Feedback learning tool for writing students and those seeking employment in the publishing industry. Making Teamwork Work Lori L. Qian

Thursday, Over the past 5 years at the American Schermerhorn Room 501 Sara Hashem Liles & Molly Clarkson International School of Guangzhou, I have For advisers and Editor-in-Chiefs, one worked with students age eight through Flip this Classroom commonly asked question is “What do you do eighteen as they use the creative process when you disagree?” This session will focus on toward producing writing (and art) they can be Kristen Scott and Sarah Waggoner avoiding these kinds of setbacks, delegating proud of. What I have found is that although Do you get tired of answering the same questions responsibilities among co-advisers and editors the writers’ ages and content differ, the process over and over? Like a record player going in order to make your class or club a well-oiled a teacher or adviser uses, is essentially the round and round, you cover the same material machine. same, and invoking creativity, confidence, again and again. Flipping your Journalism and constructive feedback are the keys. classroom streamlines lectures through the Room 501 NWC use of video tutorials. Learn how to maximize 101 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] instructional time and make your students Crop It Like It’s #Hott problem solvers, leaving you free to work one Exposing the best in graphic on one, troubleshoot and meet deadlines. Steve Kent “Kids only look at the pictures.” Well, then, design-II: Are your photos page- 103 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] make ‘em amazing! Taught from a designer’s turners? perspective with all new images, learn “You’re the Expert, So What Do how to appreciate photography as art, free C. Bruce Watterson Using photography to illustrate, not decorate. You Think?” your staffers to capture it and challenge designers to take their cues from it. It’s It is time to capture things the reader takes Erin Timmons & Sue Grady a content-driven world, and many times for granted: the awe, the mystery, the victory, the humor and, yes, the defeat Learn ways to manage your staff so that it is photos should be in driver’s seat. #OhSnap that tell the stories that matter. a truly “student-run” publication. Instead of Lerner Cinema, 2nd fl. advisers fielding issues from their staff, this Lerner Party Space, basement management system places the “ownness” on the students. Build accountability & ownership Old Stories, New Media: in your staff by dividing them into specialized Convergence Journalism Basics “experts” (in-house photographers, writers, DIGITAL MEDIA copy editors, designers, business managers, Jacob Palenske You have a domain, now what? marketing gurus), and having them teach/ What is convergence? How and why is manage the staff. it happening? And how do I prepare my Monique Sandoval publication, my staff members and my program Your school district has allowed you to go Lerner Room 569 for the demands of the digital age? This session online with your newspaper, but what happens will introduce you to converged journalism next? This session will help you get your and how to implement it in your classroom online news website started and will offer suggestions on how to grow your audience. Mathematics Room 312 Social media integration will be discussed. 417 International Affairs Building

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Thriving in Cyber Space NEWSPAPERS You Can Quote Me on That Greg D. Stobbe, Tynin Fries & Viviana Reinventing Your School Pat Hinman & Adrienne Forte Hinojosa Newspaper Two veteran yearbook and newspaper advisers The editorial team of The Feather staff reveal not only how to get good quotes but discuss day-by-day steps and tips for Jason Boland also how to get a wealth of information producing a fun, interactive and wide- Looking to breath new life into your that you can use throughout the book. reaching online publication. Learn from publication? This session will discuss ways interactive producers how to create a multi- to improve the design, look, and content 104 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] media package to deliver a story with pizzazz. of your high school newspaper. From the masthead to the folios to the coverage of Put Art Back into Yearbook Lecture Hall, 3rd fl. Journalism your school, changing your style, look, and approach to the reader will be discussed. Design Cristina Pinton Oh, the Places You Should Be Mathematics Room 203 Going Learn to create unique and artistic page spreads, dividers and end-sheets. See design Jim Streisel Alternative is the new normal examples and learn more about laying out a The web has some amazing (and mostly Beth Hunsinger double page spread. Get a demo of still life for a free) tools for you to use to help improve digital photo working in Photoshop to prepare Our readers are visual, impatient, and easily your storytelling. Take advantage of them for use in yearbookave.com or InDesign. distracted. (Aren’t we all?!) It’s our job to and watch your readership skyrocket. grab their attention and keep it with content Schermerhorn Room 614 Lerner Broadway, 2nd fl. that is engaging and easy to follow. In this session, students will learn principles for Step-by-step design planning, reporting, and designing stories in LAW & ETHICS formats other than the traditional narrative. Laura Schaub Keeping Secrets: A Guide to the Newspaper staff members will leave this Learn how to plan the content of your design Reporter’s Privilege session with inspiration for their publications, before you actually create your design. The as well as guidelines for maintaining high session will also address the essentials of Adam Goldstein journalistic standards in the alt-story format. excellent design. Should reporters be allowed to keep their confidential sources or unpublished notes Hamilton Room 703 Pupin Room 428 or photos secret? When is it appropriate to use a confidential source? This presentation News and Feature Writing “Nobody Reads the Stories will introduce student journalists to one of the hottest and most controversial Helen F. Smith Anyways”: How to Rethink and topics of the day: the reporter’s privilege. Learn how to provide well-written leads Redesign Coverage and stories to serve your readers’ needs. 105 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] Sabrina Schmitz Pupin Room 301 If you’re tired of hearing that no one reads MAGAZINES the yearbook copy, then perhaps it’s time YEARBOOKS to rethink how you present your stories. A Broad Overview of Poetry Let’s get inspired by modern design trends Uniquely Yours: Finding a Theme Dean Kostos and provide a variety of coverage in a that Fits variety of visually pleasing forms. Learn Learn how voice, imagery, figurative language, how to engage the reader and create visual sound syntax and sound structure affect Carrie Faust & Erinn Harris interest on your pages by repackaging poetry. Some say that there are no new themes - content into mods and infographics. they’ve all been done before. This is simply 403 International Affairs Building not true. In this session, you will learn how to Mathematics Room 207 find a theme that not only fits your school, but also allows you to cover the year in a way that is uniquely your own. If you find yourself saying, “Been there, done that, what’s next?” when thinking about theme, this session is for you. Hamilton Room 602

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Marcia Meskiel-Macy

has been working with yearbooks and newsmagazines for the past 30-plus years in South Florida and fosters a journalistically-sound atmosphere in which more than 40 staffs have won Crowns. A 1975 Journalism Graduate of the Year from the University of Iowa, Meskiel-Macy maintains her ties to Iowa and to the University of Miami’s award-winning Ibis Yearbook and Distraction Magazine. She is the director of MyMediaSeminars hosting several integrated media workshops in Orlando, New Orleans and at the University of Miami during the year. Jamie Miles

studied magazine journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She now works as an assistant managing editor at XO Group, writing, building and distributing content for TheKnot. com. Miles began her professional career at The staff at Cupertino (CA) High School react to the news that they received a Gold Crown at the 2012 Awards Convocation. photo/Rebecca Castillo New York magazine and continues to freelance for its entertainment blog, Vulture. Denise Markt Bob Minzesheimer was recognized as a JEA Rising Star in 2011 credits her years advising now writes about books and was recently named a 2013 Distinguished student publications for her passion in support and authors for USA Today, but was once Adviser by JEA. She is proud to call herself a of First Amendment rights and responsibilities. sports editor of his high school newspaper, “yerd”. Adviser of The Survey at Warwick Valley (NY) Christian McEwen The Francis Lewis Patriot. A former political Central HS for over 15 years, she taught as reporter in Washington, DC, he now reviews an adjunct instructor at Alfred University, is currently working on a books and interviews authors such as J.K. Presbyterian College, St. Lawrence University, collection of interviews with contemporary Rowling, Bill Clinton, Maya Angelou, Suzanne Orange County Community College, and Virginia poets, called Sparks from the Anvil. Her play, Collins, Stephen King, Norman Mailer, Wally Military Institute. Markt was commended by “Legal Tender: Women & the Secret Life of Lamb, John Green and Daniel Handler to name the Academy of Shuppan of Tokyo for teaching Money”, will open in the spring of 2014. a few. He lives in Ossining, NY, and fondly the English language in 2002, was a DJNF Her latest book, World Enough & Time: On remembers his high school newspaper adviser, Semifinalist in 2009, and was awarded a Target Creativity and Slowing Down came out in 2011 Mr. Fredericks. He’s a graduate of Colgate Corporation grant for her journalism students Jimand is McGonnellnow in its fifth edition. College and Columbia’s Graduate School of to attend the 2012 CSPA Convention. Donald P. Mazella Journalism. Minzesheimer was also a Knight was an adviser to the fellow at Stanford. [@bookbobminz] is a lifelong journalist and newspaper, TV broadcast and website at Christine Mooney editor who has held senior level positions at Findlay (OH) High School for 20 years. All three McGraw Hill, Essence, Thomson. He has also programs received Pacemaker and Crown advises the yearbook staff worked for NBC News as well as newspapers and awards. Personal honors include DJNF National at Monsignor Donovan High School in Toms magazines. He is currently editorial director of Journalism Teacher of the Year, CSPA Gold Key, River, NJ. She also teaches French and works small business, healthcare and HR publications GLIPA Hall of Fame, Master Teacher of Ohio and with teachers to help integrate technology into serving more than two million online readers. the 2014 Linda S. Puntney Teacher Inspiration their curriculum. Mooney loves helping her He has won the National Press Club award for Award from JEA. He retired after 35 years of students express their creativity. The MDHS best consumer magazine. He has taught at NYU, teaching and advising media staffs. McGonnell yearbook, EXEMPLAR, has been consistently Herbert Lehman College, Fairleigh Dickinson lives in New Smyrna Beach, FL, and besides recognized with the GSSPA’s All-NJ Awards. [@ enjoying life at the beach, he works at the Magic cmooney6] and other major institutions and is currently Kyle Moreno Kingdom at Walt Disney World. participating as a mentor for students at Patricia Ann McNair Misericordia College. Mazzella holds BA, MA, is currently a freshman, serving and MBA degrees from NYU. is the adviser for as a Trustee Scholar at the University of Tamra McCarthy Hair Trigger, the student-edited literary Southern California, and is pursuing a Bachelor journal of Columbia College Chicago’s fiction of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Design and advises the James Enochs program. She was the recipient of Columbia Photography at the Gayle Garner Roski School High School yearbook, Wingspan, in Modesto, College’s Excellence in Teaching Award and of Art and Design. Last year as a senior at Loyola CA. Her staff has been recognized as a CSPA was nominated for Carnegie Foundation’s High School of Los Angeles, he served as the Crown winner and NSPA Pacemaker Finalist/ US Professor of the Year Award. McNair has Art and Layout Editor for Windowpanes, the Winner for their 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and chapters in the textbooks The Truth of the school’s art/literary magazine. Moreno’s work 2013 editions. McCarthy is a JEA Certified Matter: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction, is recognized nationally by The National Young Journalism Educator and has been teaching Short Circuit: A Guide to the Art of the Short Arts Foundation and the Columbia Scholastic th 36English for 12 years and advising for eight. She Story and Culture: A Reader for Writers.90 AnnualPress High Association. School Convention Program 10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. 2014 20, ADVISERS Problem Solving 101 Confessions of Former High Motivate the Unwilling to do the Marcia Meskiel-Macy School Journalism Nerds Impossible for the Ungrateful Just when you thought you had everything Kristina Skrela, moderator RUNNING SMOOTHLY ... THIS (fill in the Come talk to former pub students and find out MaryKay Downes blank) happens!!! Learn how to have that how their involvement in journalism helped Wonder why you plug away day after day only difficult conversation that will go a long way them in college and in their professional careers. March to receive criticism and complaints? Come toward making you a better leader, a stronger On the panel: Katarina Alaupovic, Lindsey to this motivational session to vent to MKD adviser or a great staffer. Go home with a PLAN!!! Ramsey, David Studinski and Michael Tedder. and leave with some tips for self-survival. Hamilton Room 717 Lecture Hall, 3rd fl. Journalism Lerner Room 477 Journalism’s 10 Deadly Sins “Journalism Students are Jim Streisel ALL PUBLICATIONS Destined to be Poor” and Other Thing you’re ready to submit your story? On-site Critiques Stupid Lies, Debunked Think again. Here’s a checklist of 10 things Thursday, Each publication staff — newspaper print, you can do to edit and improve your writing hybrid, digital; yearbook, lit mag and general Jacob Palenske to make your sound more professional. magazine, will participate in an in depth critique We’ve all heard them from parents, counselors, Lerner Broadway, 2nd fl. session. The critiques will be individualized family members and maybe complete to meet the specific needs of each staff. strangers. “Journalism? Hope you like being poor.” “Journalism skills aren’t useful in the Exposing the Best in Graphic Lerner Room 555 real world.” Come learn from a journalism- Design-III: Rid the Clutter, nerd-turned-corporate-marketing-pro why Simplify these sayings are **total lies,** and what the Putting the ‘Quest’ in Question employment future holds for professional C. Bruce Watterson Ever tried to spice up your design by communicators. Michelle Balmeo adding something? Next time, subtract Question-driven stories lead reporters on a Mathematics Room 312 something instead. Join us to see just journey. If some of your publication’s stories how hard it is to create simple, effective feel flat or uninspired, maybe you need to focus designs. It is time to eliminate the flashy, more on developing questions, not just for Adaptation — Borrow from the overly-graphic patterns that glut our grids. interviewees, but for yourselves. It’s the kind Best of journalism you see in movies, and it’s a blast. Lerner Party Space, basement Kristi Rathbun 104 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] Some of the strongest content — both visual and verbal — comes from astute observation Reviewer v. Critic Unite, Divide, Conquer of the pros and stellar adaptation of it for our Sandy Hall-Chiles audience. Make the most of the ideas all around Writing snarky comments about a popular Sara Hashem Liles & Molly Clarkson us and transfer them into fantastic designs, new restaurant, blaming the school play Running any publication as an after school stories, and coverage for our publications. for the waste of an evening, or extolling the club can be extremely difficult for a number hilarity of the latest film may make your of reasons. Advisers and editors share tips on Pupin Room 301 critique entertaining reading, but probably how to successfully raise funds, obtain school won’t provide opinions useful to your readers. wide notoriety, and work as a cohesive and A Twisted Mind is a Terrible Thing Educate yourself about what professionals keep successful team to meet goals and deadlines. to Waste in mind when they review a particular venue. Room 501 NWC Leigh Rubin Hamilton Room 702 Through his humorous presentations “Sit- LAW & ETHICS Oh No You #Gridnt down comedian” Leigh emphasizes the rewards of persistence and the fun of problem Online News: Redefining Steve Kent solving while celebrating the joy of creativity. Journalism? An up-to-the-second look at what’s happening Rubin says he tries to inspire people to Adam Goldstein in professional publication design, and how break their normal routine of looking at A presentation addressing media adaptation that translates to you. Learn to build pages things and think outside of the box, even to the Internet. Discusses media web sites, piece by piece. Space, color and type contribute though he himself has to draw inside a box. interactivity, user generated content, staff to the science of graphic design, and separate and reader blogs, Independent news web sites us from the animals. #TheStruggleIsReal 106 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] and blogs, and legal liability for copyright, Lerner Cinema, 2nd fl. defamation and privacy law. 105 Jerome Greene Hall [Law]

Tweet what you learned at #cspasc14 38 90th Annual High School Convention Program MAGAZINES Reinventing Your School Generating a Great Double-Page Creating an Award-Winning Art/ Newspaper Spread 10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Literary Magazine: The Student’s Jason Boland Karen Thompson Perspective Looking to breath new life into your This interactive session will cover how Terry G. Caldwell & Nancy Kay Turner publication? Let’s discuss ways to improve much copy/art is needed to fill out a spread This student-centered workshop showcases the design, look, and content of your high and how to generate diverse story ideas our past editors, now in college and in the school newspaper. Changing your style, look, under one overall topic. Student journalists professional publishing world, who will and approach to the reader will be discussed. should finish the session with at least three fleshed-out plans for some great spreads. present the importance of theme, generating Mathematics Room 203 the best content, running productive student Lerner Room 569 meetings, and effectively laying out the final content of a literary/art magazine. Using 007 Skills to Find Good Also on the panel former students Justin Stories PRIVATE SCHOOLS Abello, Danlly Domingo and Kyle Moreno Private School Adviser Round- Erin Coggins Hamilton Room 517 Tired of the same old stories. Utilize your best table spy skills to find interesting stories for your Ray Westbrook From Print to Web: Expanding publication. Come visit with fellow advisers from private the Literary-Arts Form to the schools and share your concerns, war-stories Schermerhorn Room 501 and, yes, your successes. The session will Internet be facilitated by the outgoing president of Melinda Salata & Elizabeth Gouldman Alternative is the New Normal the Columbia Scholastic Press Advisers Creating a web presence for a literary-arts Beth Hunsinger Association, a 13-year veteran of advising in a private school (and an all-boys school, at that). magazine opens up a host of possibilities. Our readers are visual, impatient, and easily When we decided to create an online version, distracted. It’s our job to grab their attention Lerner Room 568 we were able to present more art, more kinds of with engaging, easy to follow content. Learn art, and a broader idea about artistic endeavor principles for planning, reporting, and through videos of performances, interviews designing stories in formats other than the YEARBOOKS with artists about their portfolios, and so forth. traditional narrative. Newspaper staff members Yearbook Zen will leave this session with inspiration, as Pupin Room 428 well as guidelines for maintaining high John Cutsinger journalistic standards in the alt-story format. Yearbook graphic design can have an ethereal Surrealism: Its Relevance to effect on readers when staff members applty Hamilton Room 703 seven basic principles. We might throw in a Writers Today few yearbook coverage yoga moves for good Dean Kostos Free Books! Reviewing and measure. Frank O’Hara said that surrealism made it Reporting on Books possible for poets to write love poems in the 417 International Affairs Building twentieth century. Explore this image-driven Bob Minzesheimer language of dreams to better articulate. A book reviewer and reporter for USA Today Someday My Prints Will Come describes what it’s like to get paid to read, 403 International Affairs Building Steve Ferguson review books and interview authors such as The heart of the yearbook is the photo. Regular Suzanne Collins, Toni Morrison, Stephen King staff members, not just photographers, need to NEWSPAPERS and John Green. We’ll review one of Bob’s know what to ask for. See humorous examples, Diving into Digital book reviews, talk about the art and craft of legendary yearbook photos and have fun while criticism and brainstorm about how student learning all the ways to make your yearbook Kathleen Bergen, Jane Collins & journalists can write about books and authors. pictures better. You will leave with great ideas. Maura Fennelly This is photography for the non-photographer. Advisers and editors: Thinking of taking 101 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] the leap from print to online publication? 103 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] We will address the advantages of moving The History of Headline Writing away from print, planning and start-up, and its Use by News Agencies to Don’t Get Schooled by Academics costs, savings, potential problems and Promote Readership their solutions, and day to day operations. Carrie Faust and Erinn Harris Ana Rosenthal Don’t settle for photos of kids staring at Schermerhorn Room 614 News headlines have evolved since newspapers textbooks. There are great stories in your were first published. This presentation classrooms and telling them starts with explores the history of headline writing, fantastic photos. Two yearbook advisers and how/why news outlets have modified discuss vibrant academics coverage through the way they grab their reader’s attention. great photography, strong coverage and contemporary design. 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0, Creating the Ultimate Fictional Streams. Compressors. Bits. (No

2 ADVISERS Sustaining Your Scholastic Experience - Experience from Water, Air or Kibbles.) Journalism Flame Around the World Jacob Palenske Ellen Austin Monica Avila Alvarez YouTube or Vimeo? h.264 or MPEG-4? 480i or Learn how to heighten your writing including 1080p? Confused yet? You’re not alone. This Journalism matters. Although platforms are session will take the “geek” out of shooting, in flux and the dust is still settling on our descriptions of your feelings regarding March exporting and distributing your digital videos changing journalism landscape, journalism the future through the use of any object the audience chooses without actually using the web and mobile platforms. We’ll (and the teaching of it) matters now more than cover hardware/software needs, production ever. This session will help advisers check in on using the word “future” since feelings are better described in a latent manner. tips, video hosting options and the best the “snapshot” of where we have come in the way to embed video into your webpages. past few years, and give tips for defeating the 106 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] “yabbits” that attack innovation and change. Mathematics Room 312 Hamilton Room 703 Tools, Tips and Tricks for Journalists: Beyond the Norm Covering a Catastrophe Thursday, Can Google Drive Your Claire Regan Meredith Cummings Hurricane Sandy tore Staten Island to pieces, Production Staff? This session will provide you with dozens of killing 24 people and demolishing hundreds ideas on how to get the most from your media Glenn Krake of homes. Hear about one journalist’s outlet through apps, websites and social media See how one adviser (with the prompting/ experience working on, and living through, tools beyond the usual outlets. From print to shoving/forcing of his editorial staff) uses the storm of the century. And learn how video, this session will leave you with oodles of Google Drive to increase staff communication to be ready to cover a big story like it. and streamline production flow. Maybe you’ve resources to explore and use when you go home. used Google Docs or Google Drive in the Lecture Hall, 3rd fl. Journalism past. In this session, you’ll get ideas for ways Hamilton Room 717 to implement this free technology tool on a Beginning Photoshop basic level to help students set goals, perform Making Video Your Publication’s self-evaluations, and manage themselves. New BFF! Hal Schmidt Get the basics on adjusting and cropping Hamilton Room 602 Daniela Jessurun & Karin Kisel photos. See easy steps for cut-outs and other Faster than reading a publication is special effects Transforming to a Digital World showing more about it through video! Learn about different ways in which Lerner Party Space, basement Matilde Larson video can be implemented as a way to In this presentation the presenter will reflect promote and compliment your publication, Words In the Wild: Examining upon the experience during the school’s providing a presence, raise an awareness Journalism Program’s convergence from with no boundaries, advertise to get new Words in Their Natural Habitat a print-based publication to a fully digital readers, and give your audience a better Ben Zimmer & Georgia Scurletis publication, incorporating the skills taught in understanding of your work. Get to know This session will lead students to look beyond Broadcast Journalism and Multimedia Design. your submitters by putting a face to the a word’s dictionary definition to instead Highlights: The presenters will show what fragments that make up your publication! examine how a word has been used “in the was accomplished to facilitate convergence, wild.” Learning about how experienced the challenges, advantages, elements Mathematics Room 207 writers have used words can give developing of the program, and recommendations writers guidance in their own writing. for anyone attempting convergence. #ForRealDough Hamilton Room 702 Hamilton Room 503 Steve Kent Your image on campus determines your ALL PUBLICATIONS success, not just how many times students EDITORS are covered or if they can find themselves Someone Forgot to Include the On-site Critiques on your pages. It’s way more than coverage. Instruction Manual Each publication staff — newspaper print, It’s not always related to content. It’s hybrid, digital; yearbook, lit mag and general beyond marketing. It has little to do with Bonnie Blackman & Sheryl Fulton magazine, will participate in an in depth selling. It’s your brand, and everything Being in charge isn’t easy, especially without critique session to review the reference you do either strengthens or weakens a guidebook that tells you what to do and essentials, visual and verbal elements of the it. #ForRealForReal #BettaWerk how to do it. Share with your peers the publication. The critiques will be individualized best way to make decisions, maximize to meet the specific needs of each staff. This Lerner Cinema, 2nd fl. publication efficiency and minimize drama. detailed evaluation will serve as a blueprint For editors ONLY. No advisers please. for the staff to follow for the new school year. Tweet what youLerner learned Broadway, at cspasc14 2nd fl. Lerner Room 555 # 42 90th Annual High School Convention Program LAW & ETHICS How to Do InvestigativeNEWSPAPERS Using Social Media in Your Privacy and the Law Reporting for Your High School Yearbook Program Newspaper 11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Adam Goldstein Christine Mooney The law recognizes that every person Joe Bergantino Social media provides good opportunities for sometimes has the right to be left alone — What are the issues in your school and communication, learning and marketing for even by journalists. Understand where the community that could lead to compelling your yearbook legal lines have been drawn. investigative reports? This session will focus on providing you with a step-by-step method Hamilton Room 517 105 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] for conducting an investigation as well as coming up with investigative story ideas. May The Force Be With You MAGAZINES Mathematics Room 203 Heather Nagel Creating an Award-Winning Art/ Empower your staff! Staffs that share Literary Magazine: The Student’s Writing Brightly responsibility produce better yearbooks and Perspective happier people. We will discuss proven ways Nick Ferentinos & Robert Greenman to delegate, give confidence and teach others Terry. G Caldwell & Nancy Kay Turner Strong, lively and memorable writing how to lead. This student-centered workshop showcases must be more than informative. It must our past editors, now in college and in the have flair, freshness and wit; essential Schermerhorn Room 501 professional publishing world, who will elements that make people enjoy and present the importance of theme, generating remember news stories, features, reviews Design: Basics and Beyond the best content, running productive student and opinion writing. Get readers to meetings, and effectively laying out the enjoy your writing, not just learn from it. Sara Oswald final content of a literary/art magazine. Use InDesign to create engaging yearbook Also on the panel former students Justin 101 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] spreads that reflect your theme, school, Abello, Danlly Domingo and Kyle Moreno and students. Starting with the basics, PHOTOGRAPHY students will learn to use the program’s Hamilton Room 516 features to enhance layouts, graphics, and If I Had $1,000,000 other design elements quickly and easily. Memoirs & Personal Essays Mike Simons Hamilton Room 603 The best camera is the one you have with you, Dean Kostos but from iPhones to point-and-shoots to the Use the craft of writing scene, summary, and newest DSLRs, publication staffs need to know Trends in Yearbook retrospection to transform experience into art. where to start and what to buy when they have Laura Schaub 403 International Affairs Building the opportunity to do so. We’ll cover bodies, See the latest ideas for yearbook theme lenses and accessories and what to buy when concepts, designs and coverage ideas. From to help publication staffs stretch their dollar. publications representing other schools to Theme as Your Anchor professional publications, ideas are everywhere. Kristen Scott & Sarah Waggoner Schermerhorn Room 614 Design decisions should never be arbitrary. Pupin Room 428 Choosing an inspiring theme can take your YEARBOOKS magazine from flat to dynamic. This session Type Is Your Friend… Coloring Outside the Lines will provide concrete ideas to take you from an initial brainstorm to a polished, well- John Cutsinger Ned Semoff developed concept. Your theme can then Or enemy! One of the most abused visual Hi this is Buddy! What’s your favorite color? inform all your design choices from cover tools, fonts can be what make or break your Have you ever struggled creating a consistent and layout to typography and graphics. publication. A careful study of typography color scheme for your yearbook and spreads? and its creative energy will be explored in Has your book kept to the same consistent 104 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] this session. Join me for some fontastic ideas! colors each year? This session will be a great opportunity to learn about the fundamentals Is this any Good? How to Critique 417 International Affairs Building of using color in printing and design. a Literary Magazine Someday My Prints Will Come Room 501 NWC Gail Katz Snyder Steve Ferguson Learn how to critique your magazine The heart of the yearbook is the photo. Regular publication with your staff using materials staff members, not just photographers, need to easily available to your Lit Mag. know what to ask for. See humorous examples, Lerner Room 569 legendary yearbook photos and have fun while learning all the ways to make your yearbook pictures better. You will leave with great ideas. 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Mark Murray gives his acceptance speech for the Joseph M. Murphy Award for outstanding service in 2012. photo/Rebecca Castillo

Alan Murray

is a Pennsylvania-based and has freelanced for scores of publications. better figured out than her. She also teaches entrepreneur. He is the president and a Neumeyer has been awarded CSPA’s Gold Key photojournalism, digital design, and directs an co-founder of Uncharted, a media and award and her publications have won both annual summer writing workshop for grades NSPA Pacemakers and CSPA Gold and Silver 3-12 in Louisville, KY. consulting venture that provides products, Susan M. Pavelka services and project management in media, Crowns. leadership, education and travel-related is the adviser of the Palos endeavors. An award-winning photographer, O Anthony Oliverio Verdes (CA) High School’s Triton Yearbook and journalist and editor, his work has included the Trade Winds Literary Magazine. She is also assignments such as the Olympics, the NCAA is a sophomore at Pacific an adjunct professor at Marymount California and long-term multimedia projects. Murray Ridge School, in Carlsbad, CA and is the CEO University. She worked for the Sonoma County is a licensed Project Manager Professional of Global Vantage. Global Vantage is a Crown Press Democrat newspaper and for KFTY (PMP®), specializing in the management Award finalists for 2014 and the student staff Television News. Pavelka has served as the and development of websites and mobile is the recipient of the 2014 Edmund J. Sullivan Triton adviser since 2006 and this publication applications. was honored with a PIA Benny Award in 2008, SaraAward. Oswald an NSPA All-American in 2013, and a CSPA Gold N Medalist in 2013. Recently, Pavelka was quoted Heather Nagel has advised the Indianhead in an article for South Bay Magazine. yearbook staff at the University of North Alexa Pence advises the Lion’s Roar Carolina at Pembroke for the past 25 years yearbook staff at Christ Presbyterian Academy and also works with students to produce is the 18-year-old editor-in- in Nashville, TN. She is serving as the Tennessee other university publications. An adjunct in chief of Aberrance Quarterly, a women’s State Director for JEA. In recent years, the Lion’s the mass communication department, she is a empowerment and fashion magazine that Roar has won CSPA Silver Crown, NSPA Best of senior lecturer in English, who teaches writing, tackles nationally relevant investigative Show, CSPA Gold Medalist and Tennessee High editing, and early British literature. Oswald pieces. Pence interned at NFocus Louisville School Press Association Best Overall Yearbook also designs and edits publications for various Magazine her sophomore year of high school, and All-American. Her students have won university organizations and a local theater progressed to staff photographer/writer, and many individual awards from Quill and Scroll company. is now an editorial associate. She has covered and THSPA. Nagel received Special Recognition New York Fashion Week, two Kentucky Derbys in 2012 for JEA’s HL Hall Yearbook Adviser of P trackside, President Obama’s election night Brigidthe Year. Neary Jake Palenske rally and more than 60 local assignments. [@ aberrancequart]Meghan Percival is a senior attending duPont is the senior manager of digital, Manual High School in Louisville, Kentucky. social and advanced media for Raytheon is an adviser to The Clan She serves as the creative direct for Aberrance Intelligence, Information and Services in yearbook staff at McLean High School in Fairfax Quarterly, a women’s empowerment magazine Dallas, TX. In his spare time, Palenske instructs County, VA. The Clan staff has been recognized based out of Louisville. With the help of her and speaks at scholastic journalism events with the NSPA Pacemaker and CSPA Gold friends and editor, Neary is helping create the across the nation and in Europe. He is CSPA Crown and was inducted into the NSPA Hall Gold Key recipient. [@jakepalenske] brand of chic feminism: the idea that empowers Liz Palmer of Fame. Percival loves helping staffs work women to embrace feminism without losing on theme, brainstorming new coverage ideas Kathleentheir femininity. Neumeyer didn’t like yearbooks until she and hanging out with other “yerds”. She also realized that yearbooks were journalism, too. teaches photojournalism and AP Psychology at McLean High School. [@MeghanPercival] has advised the Harvard- Turning to education after working in the Dr. Amy Lee Persichetti Westlake Chronicle, Chronicle online, Big Red media, she has advised the duPont Manual sports magazine and LIFE, an alumni magazine, High School Crimson for seven years, and likes is an Assistant for 22 years. She is a former UPI reporter and it when it shows up on those fancy award lists. Professor in the Department of English at contributing editor of LOS ANGELES magazine That said, she still suspects everyone has it Cabrini College. She is currently the director 44 90th Annual High School Convention Program Who’s Who at the Convention continues on page 52

of the department’s newly designed writing Qian’s current school, she successfully advised Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel, where she track and the faculty adviser for Woodcrest the high school literary magazine for four was responsible for research, fact-checking and Magazine. Persichetti is also a founding years, and now takes the principles she learned writing. In high school, she was co-editor of member and co-director of the Forum for in that context toward encouraging her third the yearbook and entertainment editor of the Undergraduate Student Editors (FUSE) grade students to put forth the same creativity school newspaper. Meghana Rao conference network. in their writing and artistic endeavors. She is Cristina Pinton married with three children and is passionate is a senior at Massapequa (NY) about her family, literacy, and travel. is the adviser of the Winged Gerit Quealy High School and serves as the editor-in-chief Beaver yearbook at Avon Old Farms School of The Chief. The Chief was honored with a for Boys. This yearbook, which has been currently writes for A&E’s CSPA Gold Medalist in 2013 and earned over published for over half a century, has become Biography & History channel websites, and on 62 awards at the Long Island Press High School an amalgamation of tradition and modernity, a wider range of topics at Huffington Post. Her Journalism Program in 2013. Kristi Rathbun of literary and artistic endeavors and the beat: Everything from lipstick to Shakespeare. prime token of nostalgia and story-telling For the last three and a half years Quealy was currently advises The Black at the school. It has won numerous awards a daily columnist on Style at NBC digital’s & Gold yearbook at Rock Canyon High School through CSPA as well as the ASPA, including LifeGoesStrong.com; her work has appeared in Highlands Ranch, CO. For more than15 distinctions for photography, end sheets, in publications such as The New York Times, years, she has helped students achieve state Gabrieltheme and Piscitello editorial. Country Living, Woman’s Day, and Modern and national success in student publications Bride. She’s also had her hand in a number of from NSPA, CSPA and CHSPA. Rathbun was is a sophomore at Pacific books including her overriding passion, history, named Colorado’s Journalism Teacher of the Ridge School, in Carlsbad, CA and is the COO with a penchant for putting contemporary Year in 2012. Rathbun is a frequent presenter of Global Vantage. Global Vantage is a Crown mores and practices in a historical context. [@ at conventions and workshops around the Award finalists for 2014 and the student staff historychiq] country. [@teacher_rathbun] is the recipient of the 2014 Edmund J. Sullivan Claire Regan Award. R Wanda Pletcher Lindsey Ramsey is associate managing editor of the Staten Island Advance, a daily newspaper teaches English and advises is a production coordinator in New York City’s greenest borough. Regan’s the online newspaper and print literary contractor at Food.com, a website owned by the editing and design work has been honored magazine in Altoona, PA. The staffs of both Food Network. She also is a regular freelance by the Associated Press, the Society for publications have been recognized locally and contributor to Restaurant Business magazine News Design and the Society of Professional nationally. Pletcher served as president of and Food Service Director magazine, where she Journalists. Regan is an assistant professor of the PSPA from 2005-2008. She worked with previously worked as online managing editor journalism at Wagner College, her alma mater, PennCORD and attended The Peter Jennings before moving to Food.com in 2013. Ramsey where she also serves as faculty adviser of the Institute for Journalists and the Constitution. holds Bachelors degrees from the University student newspaper. Her passion is inspiring Pletcher served as PA state representative for of Kansas in journalism and film studies. and mentoring young journalists. She will the JEA until 2011. Pletcher was honored by Ramsey previously worked as an intern at receive the CSPA’s Charles R. O’Malley Award the CSPA in 2010 as a recipient of the Gold Key Time Out New York and as assistant editor at for Excellence in Teaching at this convention. Award. Linda Puntney

teaches magazine and feature writing at Kansas State University and works as a publications consultant for Herff Jones. She was the executive director of the JEA, director of Student Publications, Inc., and assistant professor in the Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications. She has advised award-winning publications on the middle school, high school, community college, small university and Big 12 levels. Puntney has received personal honors including the JEA Carl Towley Award, Medal of Merit and Teacher Inspiration awards and the Gold Key and the Charles O’Malley Award for Excellence in Teaching from the CSPA. Q Lori Qian

is a teacher at the American International School of Guangzhou, in China. She has lived in China for nearly a decade and Claire Regan teaches students about decision making in their writing at the 2004 spring convention. photo/Joe Pineiro has been teaching everything from grade 2 through university for the past 15 years. At Columbia Scholastic Press Association 45 2014 1:30 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.

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Mentoring for the Future of Religion in High School to Waste Scholastic Journalism Joelle Keene Leigh Rubin Are there religious kids at your school? Does Through his humorous presentations “Sit- Nick Ferentinos this frame their outlook on life and school? down comedian” Leigh emphasizes the As veteran advisers retire or leave the Is this news? Religion is a proving ground for rewards of persistence and the fun of problem profession, scholastic journalism is confronted tolerance and a chance to regard the world from solving while celebrating the joy of creativity. March with the question about how to train new different angles, and growing more important Leigh has gained a reputation for inspiring advisers who often are assigned to teach to understanding current events. How do you those who attend to add a little creativity to the subject often without any content cover it with respect, sensitivity and color? their own lives. Rubin says he tries to inspire knowledge. Mentoring new advisers has people to break their normal routine of looking emerged as one solution to help train the Room 501 NWC at things and think outside of the box, even next generation of advisers. This session though he himself has to draw inside a box. explores methods veteran advisers can use to #werd sustain new advisers going forward. 106 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] Steve Kent Hamilton Room 703 Thursday, “No one reads copy.” Keep telling yourself Thirteen Lessons from a Life in that, champion. “On every page.” Yep, that’s The Common Core and the CSPA what the pros do. #sarcasm Wonder where Media Critiques your program sits on the Arc o’ Trendiness? Neal Schapiro Come and enjoy a fun overview of the Telltale “Practical lessons learned from an experienced Kathleen Zwiebel Habits of Highly Successful Staffers (and newsman’s journey from college newspaper The CSPA’s Medalist Critiques offer publication the advisers who create them). Session to network TV news to public media CEO. advisers both general guidelines and specific includes open Q&A time. #WreckMyJourno A forward-looking session focused on how a criteria that reflect current journalism trends. passion for news that starts in high school can Now they also align with Common Core ELA Lerner Cinema, 2nd fl. lead to a career that continues to excite you Standards. Learn how you can use the Medalist and challenge you. Critiques as curriculum for the Common Just My Type Core, how to substantiate your students 104 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] meeting the Standards and how students can Sara Oswald self-evaluate their publications by using the A review of current trends in typography, scorebook to analyze and judge their work. advice on font selection, and demonstration Personality Type: Using Font to of techniques for working creatively Develop an Identity Lerner Board Room 503 with type as an integral part of your publication’s design and personality. Kristen Scott & Sarah Waggoner ALL PUBLICATIONS Understanding the personality of a given Hamilton Room 603 typeface can help you make purposeful On-site Critiques decisions about your publication. Informed Each publication staff — newspaper print, You Sound, Like, Um...Stupid? Ya font choices add cohesion, strengthen your hybrid, digital; yearbook, lit mag and general purpose, and bring depth to your theme. magazine, will participate in an in depth Know? This session will introduce the different critique session to review the reference classifications of typography and explain how Jacob Palenske to use them to support your design identity. essentials, visual and verbal elements of the Interviewing is as much about your credibility publication. The critiques will be individualized as the questions you ask. Speaking like an Pupin Room 428 to meet the specific needs of each staff. This inarticulate reality TV star and mumbling detailed evaluation will serve as a blueprint sentences filled with the words “like”, “um” and for the staff to follow for the new school year. “ya know?” won’t result in good answers from When Words Become News Lerner Room 555 even the friendliest source. This class will teach Ben Zimmer you how to use your voice, your words and your Sometimes a word or phrase can become body language to be an outstanding, intelligent- newsworthy: think of “Obamacare,” “bitcoin,” Ethical Challenges in sounding interviewer (or interviewee.) “selfie,” or even “twerk.” When words are Investigative Reporting news, it’s essential to provide historical Mathematics Room 312 Joe Bergantino context. This session looks at how to navigate through online resources to tell the stories Is it ever acceptable to lie in pursuit of a story? Headless Body in Topless Bar behind buzzwords and catchphrases. What’s the line between dogged reporting and violating someone’s privacy? Investigative Claire Regan Hamilton Room 702 reporting presents unique ethical challenges. Do you struggle with headlines? Many This session will offer you a framework editors do. Learn a five-step process to guide you in ethical decision-making. that’s guaranteed to make you a stronger headline writer by the end of this session. Mathematics Room 203 Lecture Hall, 3rd fl. Journalism Tweet what you learned at #cspasc14 50 90th Annual High School Convention Program Student Swap Shop Persona Poems & Dramatic Using Nikon Digital SLR Cameras Melissa Wantz, moderator Monologues for Award Winning Journalistic 1:30 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. Calling all digital, magazine, newspaper Dean Kostos Photograph and yearbook staffers. Take this chance to The word “persona” means “mask.” Enlarge network with students from across the country Alexander Thorp your poetic voice by writing as anyone or This session will cover how to take award in a discussion about your publications. anything. Paradoxically, you will learn more winning journalistic photographs using Nikon about yourself. Lerner Broadway, 2nd fl. Digital SLRs. Topics to be covered will include elements of composition, working with lines, 403 International Affairs Building DIGITAL MEDIA composing with color, using different types of lenses (wide angle, zoom, prime, macro), 50 Tips to Improve Your Website NEWSPAPERS exposure metering, aperture and how to Diving into Digital use it, bokeh (appearance of out of focus Logan Aimone areas), plane of focus, lighting fundamentals, Regardless of your platform or theme, learn Kathleen Bergen, Jane Collins & ISO and noise, white balance, shutter best practices to make your site stand out. We’ll Maura Fennelly speed, flash photography, and bracketing rattle off at least 50 tips in a fast-paced session. This session is intended to help both advisers Schermerhorn Room 614 Mathematics Room 207 and student editors take the leap from print to online publication. I will address the advantages of moving away from print, planning and start- YEARBOOKS Building the Watercooler up, costs, savings, potential problems and The 2014 Designer’s Guide to their solutions, and day to day operations. Aaron Cahall What Works Commenting forums and social media allow Pupin Room 301 your readers to join the conversation, but how Rick Brooks much is too much? High school publications The very best of design is all around often face tight restrictions, but there are PHOTOGRAPHY you, the right inspiration can make any ways to get readers involved and keep the The Power of Light x2 Part 2 of 2 publication a trendsetter. An up to date trolls at bay. An editor of an independent, look at current design trends from all forms hyper-local news website shares the lessons Mark Murray of mass media and school publications. he’s learned about encouraging reader “Amazing. Exciting. Enthralling. Are these Understanding color, font, design and interaction and where to draw the line. words that describe your photographs? whitespace can make anyone a better designer. Learn to harness the power of light in your Hamilton Room 717 images, in the same way that master artists 101 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] have learned to work with oil, watercoloror Online Sports Coverage stone. On Wednesday we had instruction on Don’t Get Schooled By Academics how to see light and have it make a difference Chris Waugaman in your photographs. Then take the rest of Carrie Faust & Erinn Harris Sports fans want to see and hear highlights of the day to practice what you’ve learned. On Don’t settle for photos of kids staring at their favorite teams right now. Broadcasting Thursday, morning you dropped off your textbooks. There are great stories in your sports is now an essential element to your best images (as digital files) and now we classrooms and telling them starts with journalism coverage. Learn how to use video, gather for a lively critique of the images from fantastic photos. Two yearbook advisers audio, online and social media strategies for the entire class. A digital camera is required. discuss vibrant academics coverage through sports. Make the Web your “field of dreams.” great photography, strong coverage and Schermerhorn Room 501 contemporary design. 103 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] Light it Up! Hamilton Room 602 LAW & ETHICS Mike Simons Yerds Run the World What is Fair Use? So you’ve got some basic rules for composition Adam Goldstein and developing your “eye.” Now it’s time to Ned Semoff & Kristina Skrela explore ambient light and how to make it What can you use in your publications that Queen Beyonce shocked the world again work for you, then move on to inexpensive is copyrighted materials, especially those with her Visual surprise album in 2013. ‘hacks’ and ways to shape and control light gathered from the Internet. In this session we will uncover how you on the cheap. We’ll finish by exploring can take your yearbook imagination and 105 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] some of the accessories you can invest produce the book you always dreamed of in to work with speedlites and triggers creating. We will take inspiration from the MAGAZINES to take your lighting to the next level magazines and uncover the true potential for a magazine to yearbook conversion. Discovering Poetry Line Breaks Lerner Party Space, basement Beyonce wants to shift the perception and Aaron Gillego expectation about everything in the music world...we want to do the same with yearbooks. The line break elides rhyme or reason or does it even matter? This session will get down to 417 International Affairs Building the dirty business of line breaks: participants will break and re-break lines to discover nuances, tensions, and unexpected turns that didn’t exist before the editing process Remember that ‘AllLerner Publications’ Room 569 sessions are open to all convention delegates. Columbia Scholastic Press Association 51 Who’s Who at the Convention continues on page 62 Daniel Reinisht Laura Schaub

has been is national involved in scholastic key accounts manager journalism in one way and education director or another since he was for Lifetouch. As executive a sophomore in high director of OIPA at the school -- first as editor- University of Oklahoma, in-chief of his student she taught courses in newspaper and now as typography and design. the adviser of an award Previously, she taught winning yearbook and journalism and advised newspaper in Northern publications at Charles Virginia. A two-time Page High School in Sand graduate of the University Springs, OK. A Gold Key of Virginia, with a broad recipient, Schaub also academic background in received the CSPA Murphy both the science and art of Members of the Columbia Scholastic Press Advisers Association board discuss Award for Outstanding communication, he works plans for the spring convention during the 2001fall meeting. photo/Rebecca Castillo Service, O’Malley Award to keep the important tradition for Excellence in Teaching and of student media alive by the CSPAA’s Paschal Award providing the necessary tools Leigh Rubin for Outstanding Service for a and trust to empower student leaders and state scholastic press groups. She was a two- is a cartoonist and began drawing support the delicate business of journalism. [@ term president of CSPAA. Schaub has taught Rubes in 1984. Rubes is distributed by Creators poetclicense] workshops across the United States and Christine Rice Syndicate to more than 400 newspapers and Canada. Co-editor of CSPA’s Scholastic Yearbook media outlets worldwide and appears in ’s novel-in-stories was recently Fundamentals, she served as images editor for major daily metropolitan papers, such as the shortlisted in the William Faulkner–William its Magazine Fundamentals and chaired the Los Angeles Daily News, the Vancouver Sun, Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. Her CSPA Judging Standards Committee for over ten the Oregonian, The Washington Times, the work has appeared in the Jaded Ibis’s Bleed, years. Sacramento Bee, the Houston Chronicle, The Chicago Tribune, Detroit’s Metro Times and Orange County Register, and the Rochester Hal Schmidt Metro Parent, The Good Men Project, The Democrat and Chronicle. Rubin also enjoys Urbaness.com, CellStories.net, F Magazine and a busy schedule giving thought-provoking has been working with student her radio essays have been produced by WBEZ and entertaining cartoon presentations at publications for over 25 years training staffs in Chicago. She’s a Chicago Now blogger at www. conferences and schools as well as professional getting the most from their software. Schmidt is chicagonow.com/what-would-royko-do/ and organizations all around the country. [@ a representative of Balfour Yearbooks and co- the managing editor of www.Hypertextmag. RubesCartoons] owner of PS Graphics in Fredericksburg, TX. com. Christine has taught at Columbia College Sabrina Schmitz Chicago since 1992. From 2001 to 2013, she S edited CCC Department of Creative Writing’s Melinda Salata teaches graphic design award-winning publication Hair Trigger and and journalism in addition to advising The chaired their national Young Authors Writing is an adviser to Scroll/Scrolling, Stampede yearbook staff and The Hoofbeat Competition for high school writers. Christine the literary-arts magazine of the Holton-Arms newspaper staff at J.W. Mitchell High School in has also served as a CSPA judge multiple times School in Bethesda, MD. She works with a New Port Richey, FL. She has a bachelor’s degree over the past ten years. staff of five to six students to produce both the in magazine journalism, and in her five years as JD Rinne magazine and its companion website. She has adviser, The Stampede has been awarded two is the managing editor of Self. taught English in the Upper School at Holton- CSPA Silver Crowns, a Gold Crown, an NSPA com, the website of the award-winning Self Arms for 14 years. Before becoming a teacher, Pacemaker Award, and was an NSPA Design of magazine. Previously, JD worked at Jetsetter. she worked as a freelance editor for the World the Year finalist in 2012. com, the world’s leading flash-sale travel site, Bank and the Woodrow Wilson Center of the Kristen Scott as well as Budget Travel and Cookie magazine. Smithsonian. Scroll earned a CSPA Gold Crown Award in 2010. Rinne holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in Monique Sandoval is the adviser of The Vespa, the Journalism from the University of Missouri - yearbook for Kealing Middle School in Austin, Columbia and has lived in New York City for six is the adviser of the Regalia TX. In just three short years, Scott has taken the years. Yearbook and ReaganRecorder.com online Vespa from a picture book to an award-winning Ana Rosenthal news website at Reagan High School in San publication. The Vespa has been honored with a number of state awards in the University is the mass communications Antonio, TX. She has been advising publications for the past seven years. The Regalia has earned Interscholastic League and with a CSPA Silver department chair of The Hockaday School Crown in 2013. in Dallas, TX. She advises the school’s a CSPA Silver Medalist and the Recorder has Georgia Scurletis newspaper The Fourcast, the news website received both Silver and Gold Medalists as well hockadayfourcast.org, the yearbook as All Columbian Honors. Sandoval started out is the director of curriculum Cornerstones, and the literary magazine acquiring her love for journalism under Pam development at Vocabulary.com and the Vibrato. All three print publications have been Smith, former adviser of the Crown award Visual Thesaurus. Scurletis has spent 20 honored with Crown Awards and/or Pacemaker winning Hornet Yearbook at East Central High years in education; 11 as a secondary school Awards. She is a 2013 DJNF Special Recognition School. This is her first year to attend presenting English teacher in Brooklyn, NY, and nine as a 52Adviser. at a CSPA Convention. [@reaganrecorder]90th Annualcurriculum High School writer and Convention developer. [@gscurletis] Program 2014 2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

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March and General Mags Joelle Keene

Logan Aimone Kathleen Zwiebel News is news, but when you’re writing a Learn to package and present information on feature story, the location of information isn’t the story page — beyond just the story text. See Literary and general magazine advisers so obvious. Learn how to balance student and staffs expect lots of comments in their best practices for headlines, captions, graphics, and professional, local and national, live images, audio and video. Discover new ways critiques so they can improve each year. and published sources, and structure your Learn how to use CSPA’s criteria to provide to deliver information to your online audience story so the reader can navigate effortlessly through embedded information and context. a detailed critique. Along with an overview of from the lead to the closing paragraph. the judging process, advisers will be invited to Mathematics Room 207 share perspectives, questions and suggestions. Room 501 NWC Thursday, Lerner Board Room 503 LAW & ETHICS How to Build a $100K News Copyright 101 Website (For Less Than $300.) ALL PUBLICATIONS Adam Goldstein On-site Critiques Jacob Palenske Copyright law limits your ability to use Each publication staff — newspaper print, In the digital era, a publication without a the works of others, including cartoons hybrid, digital; yearbook, lit mag and general webpage is like a person without a phone and photos, and protects your work as magazine, will participate in an in depth number. This session will make getting easy, well. Learn what is legal and what is not. critique session to review the reference even with low technical abilities and a tiny essentials, visual and verbal elements of the budget. You’ll learn how to get web hosting, 105 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] publication. The critiques will be individualized register a domain, and setup e-mail accounts to meet the specific needs of each staff. This for your staff. You’ll also see how to set up detailed evaluation will serve as a blueprint individual site accounts, choose a template and MAGAZINES for the staff to follow for the new school year. upload video, audio, stories and photos. As a finale, I’ll show you how to create a custom iOS Meter without Stress Lerner Room 555 and Android mobile news app for less than $50. Dean Kostos Mathematics Room 312 Develop an understanding of poetic meter. Storytelling from Data It will enhance your understanding of the There’s No Crying In Baseball craft of poetry, particularly poetry written in Mark Hansen the past. It will also be useful to all writers Learning how to interpret and shape data into Chris Waugaman of poetry, even those who prefer free verse. stories is at the heart of today’s journalism. Is your sports section full of boring game As we grow more dependent on data and recaps that mean very little to your readers? 403 International Affairs Building computation, we must responsibly and Come discover how to bring emotion, creatively find and tell the stories that impact and passion to great sports writing. spring from the data. This session will teach You are guaranteed to leave inspired. NEWSPAPERS you how to use data and computation in a And, yes, there may be some crying. thoughtful way for reporting. We will also The News: How to Get It and give advice for teachers wanting to tell stories 103 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] using data, computing, and visualization. What to Do With It Paperless Creative Writing Nick Ferentinos 106 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] Do conversations about news coverage among Workshop Using Google your staff sometimes start with, “I don’t Aaron Gillego know, what do you want to write about?” This session will explain the functions of Google Followed by, “I don’t know. What do you Site and Google Drive and how they can be want to write about?” This session will help used to flip the classroom to conduct paperless you get solutions about finding and reporting and interactive creative writing workshops. the news and even landing big stories. Participants are encouraged to bring their laptops or devices to join in a mock workshop. Hamilton Room 702 Lerner Room 569

Tweet what you learned at #cspasc14 54 90th Annual High School Convention Program CSPA Summer 2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Journalism Workshop Top 10 Tips for Good Design Using Nikon Digital SLR Cameras Claire Regan for Award Winning Journalistic June 22-27, 2014 Is your flag frumpy? Your typography tired? Photography Learn simple steps and good techniques that at Columbia University will give your publication a cleaner, fresher Alexander Thorp This session will cover how to take award look without much trouble. Come join print and digital student winning journalistic photographs using Nikon journalists and their advisers as they improve Lecture Hall, 3rd fl. Journalism Digital SLRs. Topics to be covered will include their skills, rethink their publications and elements of composition, working with lines, take part in a learning experience like no composing with color, using different types Staff Motivation other – in the media capital of the world! of lenses (wide angle, zoom, prime, macro), Helen F. Smith exposure metering, aperture and how to Each student or adviser participant will be An organized staff is an excited staff. Learn use it, bokeh (appearance of out of focus required to register for a particular class how to get your reporters and editors ready areas), plane of focus, lighting fundamentals, sequence, focusing on either writing, editing, to tackle each deadline. ISO and noise, white balance, shutter speed, flash photography, and bracketing. management or advanced design. 104 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] Schermerhorn Room 614 Registration for this five-day intensive PHOTOGRAPHY program is limited to 160 participants, with YEARBOOKS a waiting list to be maintained once the limit Saving Face has been reached. Finding a Theme that Fits Tiffany Kopcak Mug shots. They are the worst form of Carrie Faust http://cspa.columbia.edu photography, an awkward face in front Some say that there are no new themes - they’ve of a cinderblock wall. Eliminate them all been done before. This is simply not true. In from your publication by transitioning to this session, you will learn how to find a theme environmental and natural reaction photos. that not only fits your school, but also allows Learn the do’s, do not’s, and sweet tricks to you to cover the year in a way that is uniquely environmental portraits. Discover how to your own. If you find yourself saying, “Been get a real expression as opposed to a frozen there, done that, what’s next?” when thinking smile. Examine how lighting conveys story about theme, this session is for you. and some inexpensive lighting options to start building your own portrait studio. Hamilton Room 602 101 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] Caption Magic An Introduction to Adobe Pat Hinman & Adrienne Forte Two veteran yearbook and newspaper advisers Lightroom reveal their magic formula to get staff members Mark Murray to create good captions the first time. Is it a replacement for Photoshop? [It can be.] Can I use it instead of iPhoto? [Definitely] Mathematics Room 203 Does it really make coffee? [No, not really.] All this and more as you learn about Adobe Design Details Lightroom - an image management program that can organize and edit thousands of images. Kristina Skrela You think you got away with adjusting the Schermerhorn Room 501 point size to make the quote fit or changing the leading in order to escape writing more copy. You didn’t. We notice. This session focuses on the design details to sweat over. Success of a polished, well-made yearbook is in the details. 417 International Affairs Building

Photos by Rebecca Castillo Remember that ‘All Publications’ sessions are open to all convention delegates. Columbia Scholastic Press Association 55 Friday, March 21, 2014 Highlights for delegates

Advisers’ Hospitality Lounge Satow Room, 5th floor Lerner Hall Awards Luncheon for Advisers 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. 12:30 p.m.- 2:15 p.m. Rotunda, 2nd floor Low Library

CSPAA: Annual Meeting of Luncheon sponsored by Herff Jones. Members Presiding: 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Edmund J. Sullivan, executive director th Room 568, 5 floor Lerner Hall Columbia Scholastic Press Association All CSPA advisers, who are members of the Columbia Scholastic Press Advisers Association, are invited to Gold Keys participate. Ellen Austin—The Harker School, San Jose, CA; On Friday, 11:45 a.m. see page 74. Beth Shull—Pulaski Academy, Little Rock, AR; Gail Snyder —South River High School, Edgewater, MD; On-site Critiques Jim Streisel—Carmel (IN) High School; Chris Waugaman—Prince George (VA) High School. Ongoing from 9 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. th Sign up in room 555, 5 floor Lerner Hall Edmund J. Sullivan Award This oral critique is free for all delegations, whether Global Journal Project newspaper, magazine, yearbook or digital media. Staffs Pacific Ridge School (Carlsbad, California), and/or advisers will meet with a volunteer adviser-judge Canyon Crest Academy (San Diego, California), and for about 15 minutes of discussion about the publication the Kibera Girls Soccer Academy (Kibera, Kenya). brought by the staff. James F. Paschal Award for Student Swap Shops Outstanding Service to a State Scholastic Press Friday, March 21 , at 10:45 a.m. Organization Meredith Cummings Broadway Room, 2nd fl., Lerner Hall Alabama Scholastic Press Association, Student m oderators lead a conversation with as many Tuscaloosa, AL. as 1 0 students at a roundtable. It’s an informal discussion of whatever questions or problems the group Charles R. O’Malley Award for at your table wants to talk about. You can also bring Excellence in Teaching copies of your paper, magazine or yearbook to show or Claire Regan exchange with others. Issues can be the most recent or Staten Island Advance and Wagner College, from previous months or even last year. If you don’t have Staten Island, NY. enough copies to exchange, swap names and addresses (including email addresses). Student Awards Convocation 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Arledge Auditorium, Alfred Lerner Hall Gold and Silver Crown Awards All delegates are welcome. For more information, see page 96.

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ALL PUBLICATIONS On-site Critiques PHOTOGRAPHY Building Confidence Using Social Each publication staff — newspaper print, Photography Portfolio Basics Media to Distribute Stories and hybrid, digital; yearbook, lit mag and general magazine, will participate in an in depth Mark Murray Market Your Publication critique session to review the reference “There is much more to creating a portfolio essentials, visual and verbal elements of the than simply “collecting your 10 best Myrtle Jones publication. The critiques will be individualized pictures.” Know how a portfolio should Using social media sites to market and distribute to meet the specific needs of each staff. This look while gaining tips to improve your content. The session provides an overview of detailed evaluation will serve as a blueprint photography. Bridge the gap between high all of the social media sites with real world for the staff to follow for the new school year. school photography and college photography.” examples from industry using social media to distribute content and extend their brand. Lerner Room 555 Mathematics Room 207 Pupin Room 301 Friday, March 21, 2014 21, March Friday, LAW & ETHICS Photography Crash Course The Designers’ Tool Bag (1 of 2) Can I UseTthat? Sarah Tricano By the end of this session, you will understand Pete LeBlanc Mark Goodman how shutter, aperture, ISO and focal length In this two-hour session, students from all The Internet has plenty of images that would look affect your images. More importantly, you publications will engage in the study and great in your publication. Can you legally use will feel confident enough to manipulate these application of design concepts including but them? Maybe. Maybe not. Learn the difference settings on the go to achieve desired results. not limited to: design inspiration, appeal to and where to go for content you CAN use. emotion, marriage of elements, photography, Hamilton Room 503 type, dominance, design hierarchy, scale 102A Jerome Greene Hall [Law] and relationship, contrast, negative space YEARBOOKS and mods. Fill up your designers’ tool bag MAGAZINES Now That’s a Concept with the correct tools that will help you Rising to the Top: CSPA Crown successfully redesign your publication. Overview for Magazines Ann Gramlich Akers & Ray Slye Hamilton Room 517 It’s more than a theme. It’s more than color, C. Bruce Watterson type, shapes, texture and “identifiable” Join us for a discussion and review of elements... don’t forget that the verbal message 45 Tips in 45 Minutes the 2014 CSPA Crown Finalists. and coverage choices are important factors Linda S Puntney in anchoring and developing the ideas that Lerner Auditorium, 1st floor set any year’s book apart from the others. This fast-moving session will include tips on making deadlines improving staff management Lerner Party Space, basement and morale, updating design, recruiting, making NEWSPAPERS coverage comprehensive and more. Come How to Sell Advertising prepared to walk away with a wealth of ideas. The Dream Team: Divine Design Helen F. Smith + Writing that Wows Pupin Room 428 Develop a systematic approach to finding advertising leads and making sales that enable Charla Harris Organize Workflow from your publication to thrive, not just survive as Great design pulls the readers into the a business. page. Great writing keeps them there. The Anywhere with Trello best yearbooks have both. Get some tips 104 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] Melissa Wantz on improving both writing and design and making them work together in your yearbook. Take away confusion and excuses by switching to Trello. All publication editors and advisers Lerner Broadway, 2nd fl. can benefit from switching to an online Photojournalism: Telling the workflow process. Trello is an easy tool that Story in a Single Photograph allows collaborative teamwork to be assigned and tracked from a phone, tablet or computer. Warren Green We will analyze how and when photographs can 106 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] stand alone to tell a complete story, drawing on examples from Bressai, Lange, Capa, Adams and others. We will discuss ways to create the memorable photos that tell the story, from finding inspiration to shooting techniques. 102B Jerome Greene Hall [Law]

Tweet what you learned at #cspasc14 60 90th Annual High School Convention Program 8:45 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Win Awards Save the Yearbook! (Or At Least for Your Work! Stop Killing It.) Jacob Palenske Contrary to popular belief, yearbooks *aren’t* CSPA has three ways to gain dead. But they will be unless we make recognition for your publication. them relevant to 21st-century audiences by re-thinking their content, adding a digital component, and letting go of damaging “traditions.” This session will explain what Gold Circle Awards you can do to nurse your yearbook back to health using technology, education, creative Over 200 individual categories in the Gold Circle marketing tactics and updated content. Awards are offered to recognized superior work by Mathematics Room 312 student journalists, usually as individuals, but sometimes Yearbook Countdown as an entire staff working with either print or online Tamra McCarthy & Liz Palmer media. These media are published in school or colleges If yearbook is documenting a single year, does throughout the United States and in overseas schools it begin the first day of school? The first day following an American plan of education. All Newspaper of summer? What about the previous spring? Join two experienced advisers as they break and Magazine entries must be POSTMARKED by June down their preparation rituals for their staffs 10th. All Yearbook, Digital/Online entries must be — from retreats to bootcamps, from planning POSTMARKED by October 10th. the ladder to organizing summer coverage, from interviewing for the staff to theme pitches, you should leave with some new ideas for jumping into the next yearbook season. Publication Critiques Hamilton Room 717 Your critique contains a written set of standards developed by the Association to itemize the best Confessions of a Fontaholic practices for student media. The adviser-judge reads the Lynn Strause print or online publication and analyzes its strengths With thousands of fonts available for use and weakness as described by the Critique. The judge in publications, it’s easy to become a font fanatic. Learn how to make the most of your writes comments and makes constructive suggestions for fonts to strengthen your designs and how building on current strengths and correcting deficiencies to avoid font faux pas. Check out the seven- noted in the Critique. Your publication is awarded with step program to cure your font addictions. a distinction of Gold Medalist, Silver Medalist or Bronze 403 International Affairs Building Medalist placing, depending on the overall score. Create a System to Keep Your Staff on Task Crown Awards Beth B. Ward Crown Awards are the highest recognition given by the Tired of feeling like you are always running CSPA to a student print or online medium for overall after yourselves? Attend this session and learn how to visually organize your room; organize excellence. Both Gold Crown and Silver Crown Awards your staff; establish a routine; create a proper are given each year. A panel of Crown Judges assembles checklist and monthly to do list; meeting deadlines as well mini deadlines. Organizing each year at Columbia University to view all entrants, a yearbook staff requires much work from the whether they are newspaper, magazines, yearbooks or adviser the first time around. However, once online (digital) media. Judges are experienced former you have created a process that works for you and your staff, it just becomes a matter of advisers to student media, professional journalists tweaking the process from year to year. who understand student media or professionals such Hamilton Room 516 as photographers or online specialists with particular expertise for the judging. Remember that ‘All Publications’ sessions are openRemember to all conventionthat ‘All Publications’ delegates. sessions are open to all conventionhttp://cspa.columbia.edu delegates. Columbia Scholastic Press Association 61 Who’s Who at the Convention Ned Semoff

is a graduate of the State writer on The Caucus blog. Previously, Shear has edited such publications as Springboard University at Buffalo with a Bachelors of Fine wrote for the Washington Post as a metro to Journalism and its Teacher’s Manual, Arts in Communication Design. He is a yearbook reporter covering Virginia politics, the 2008 The Official CSPA Stylebook, and Scholastic presidential election and the White House. Newspaper Fundamentals for CSPA. representative for Yearbook Advisers, Inc., Gail Katz Snyder in Westchester and Rockland Counties, NY. Shear received a B.A. degree from Claremont Semoff began his journey with yearbooks back McKenna College and a Masters in Public Policy advises Etchings, South from Harvard University. [@shearm] in high school. He joined his yearbook staff Beth Shull River High School’s Literary magazine, where during his sophomore year and rose to co- she serves as English Department Chairman. editor in chief by his senior year. In addition is an Arkansas native who Snyder teaches English 10, Creative Writing, to his UBand yearbook work, Ned worked on teaches at Pulaski Academy, Little Rock, AR, Literary Magazine, and Speech and Debate. a variety of projects for varying companies and an independent college preparatory school A graduate in English and Education from institutions, including one affiliated with the for preschool through 12th grade, where she the University of Maryland, she also holds a United Nations in New York City. [@ybkadv] Neal Shapiro teaches journalism, yearbook, photography, Master’s Degree from Loyola College. Snyder public speaking, online communications, and achieved her National Board Certification in is an award-winning producer is the Honor Council adviser. The 2014 Bruin Adolescence and Young Adulthood/English and media executive with a 25-year career is her 20th yearbook to advise. Beth lives Language Arts and has written extensive spanning print, broadcast, cable and online with her husband, one dog, and three college curriculum for Anne Arundel County Schools. media. As CEO of WNET, he oversees the kids - when they are home. Beth’s favorite She is also working on committees for the operations of THIRTEEN, WLIW21 and NJTV, places include New York City, the beach, and selection of teaching materials for high reaching an audience of more than 5 million home. She will receive CSPA’s Gold Key at this schools. She will receive CSPA’s Gold Key at this Convention. convention. monthly. Before joining WNET in 2007, Shapiro Mike Simons John Chase Soliday was President of NBC News, leading its top- rated news programs, including Today, NBC advises the Skjöld yearbook at is an award winning Nightly News and Meet the Press, as well as West High School and the Logos yearbook at professional director of theatre, film, TV, Dateline NBC. He previously spent 13 years at East High School in Corning, NY. An information photography and professor of cinema ABC News. Shapiro has won numerous awards, technology teacher and band director as well, and theatre. Soliday is also the Director of including 32 Emmys, 31 Edward R. Murrow Simons teaches at various regional journalism Undergraduate Studies at the University Awards and 3 Columbia DuPont awards. [@ and yearbook workshops, conventions and of Miami’s “Cinema and Interactive Media nshapiro] Michael D. Shear summer camps. He serves as second vice Department” and Director of Europe’s #1 Film president for CSPAA and lives with his wife and School FAMU, the Czech National Film School is a White House four children just south of the Finger Lakes in in Prague. He conducts workshops in Berlin, upstate New York. [@ Msimons] Munich, Dresden, Salzburg, Vienna and Prague. correspondent for The New York Times. He Kristina Skrela joined The Times in September 2010 as a lead Soliday also serves as the Director of Graduate is a Herff Jones TV, Print and Photographic Journalism and Yearbook representative servicing Cinema and the National Communication Metro New York. She is also the Association’s “Theatre, Film and New Multi- Media Division.” director of the Yearbook Expo, which C. Randy Stano showcases the best yearbooks in the area. She trains her yearbook staffs is a professor of practice in with an emphasis on publication visual journalism and journalism in the School design, coverage, and organization. of Communications as well as editorial adviser Ray Slye for both the Ibis yearbook and Distractions is a sales and marketing magazine at the University of Miami. He is resource consultant with Herff Jones the former director of editorial art and design Yearbooks. He taught journalism for The Miami Herald and the Democrat and and advised student publications Chronicle of Rochester, NY. Stano was assistant in California and Arizona prior to art director at the Kansas City Times and part becoming a yearbook representative of its Pulitzer Prize-winning team in 1982 in the Sacramento area. Slye’s and also for The Miami Herald’s in 1993. A students and those at schools in his former president of the SND, he also chaired territory have earned numerous its southeast region, annual contest and quick national, regional and state awards. A course committees. While teaching at A.N. CSPA Gold Key recipient, Slye teaches McCallum High School in Austin, TX, during at workshops and conventions from the 1970s, he was the school’s publications coast to coast. adviser and the DJNF National High School Helen F. Smith Journalism Teacher of the Year in 1974. Stano has received numerous awards for arts/design is the executive competitions. Stano received the CSPA’s Charles director of the NESPA and a past R. O’Malley Award for Excellence in Teaching. president of CSPAA. From 1973-2009, Evva Starr Students attend a session on using Photoshop 2009 CSPA summer workshop. photo/Rebecca Castillo. she taught English and journalism as well as advised the Newtonite is the adviser of the Common and Mirettes at Newton North High Sense newspaper and the Fife & Drum th 62 School in Newtonville, MA. 90 Smith Annual yearbook High at School Thomas Convention S. Wootton High Program School Who’s Who at the Convention continues on page 68

in Rockville, MD. She has been teaching English of the Year. In addition to several sessions on Tedder lives in Hoboken, NJ, he calls himself a and journalism for 14 years and her student the regular program of this Convention, he New York-based writer. publications have won numerous awards and will be interviewed during the Advisers Lunch Karen Thompson medals from both CSPA and NSPA. She has on Thursday. He will also receive the CSPA’s is the adviser for the a BSJ from the Medill School of Journalism at Gold Key at the Award Luncheon on Friday. [@ newspaper and literary magazine at Flintridge Northwestern University and worked at the CarmelJim] David Studinski Sacred Heart Academy in La Canada, CA. The Virginia-Pilot and Ledger Star in Norfolk, VA, publications have won numerous top awards before becoming a teacher. [@evvastarr] Deborah Stepelman is the director of product from CSPA, ASPC, Quill & Scroll and NCTE. management at Sailthru, a NYC-based tech A former journalist for a variety of business was the initiator of company redefining real-time analytics and publications, she holds a master’s in print and faculty adviser to the Math Mag at SAR behavioral communication. Studinski was a journalism from USC. High School and served as the coordinator of two-term editor-in-chief at the Ball State Daily Alexander Thorp mathematics enrichment. The spring 2013 News, three-term president of the Indiana advises the online issue of Metromath featured her article about Collegiate Press Association, and design editor, newspaper and the Observatory Yearbook the magazine. She previously retired from writer and columnist at Homestead High Journalism program at The Bronx High School teaching mathematics and computers at the School’s Spartana newspaper. Honors include of Science, a school for gifted students in the Bronx High School of Science. There, her the first online story Pacemaker, UWIRE Top Bronx, NY. He was previously an editor at responsibilities included mentoring student College Journalist and Ball State’s Journalism Random House (Bantam Doubleday Dell) and teachers, serving on the Standing Committee Workshops Hall of Fame. Alia Suhaimi at Columbia University Press. For the past on Mathematics of NYC, acting as conflict 13 years that he has served as advisor to The mediation specialist and more. She earned her is a junior at the American Observatory, the yearbook has won first place BA from CUNY, MS from Yeshiva University and School Foundation in Mexico City, has been ratings in every major national journalism Certificate of Instructional Technology from an international student since the day of her Erincompetition. Timmons NYIT. In 1999 she was awarded Teacher of the birth, living in 5 different countries in the Year by AOJT. Greg Stobbe span of her 17 years of life. A proud Malaysian is the adviser of El Diablo citizen, she has spent the last 3 years living in yearbook at Hinsdale (IL) Central High School. has taught publications at Fresno Mexico and has spent her time being part of She has served as the yearbook adviser for (CA) Christian High School for 22 years where an international literary/arts magazine by the four years. She also teaches Sophomore he serves as the adviser for The Feather Online name “Repentino.”. Previously the artist behind English Honors. Timmons previously taught at (www.thefeather.com). The CSPA has honored the first cover, followed by Art Editor, she is Seton Hall University and worked at Simon & the digital paper with five Crown awards now the Editor in Chief of Repentino. Magazine Schuster. For the first time, the El Diablo is a (2009-2013): three Gold Crowns and two for this year and hopefully, the next. finalist for a Crown Award this year. The 2012- Silvers. Additionally the NSPA has awarded The 2013 yearbook earned the honor rating of Feather with five Online Pacemakers (2006- T John Tagliareni First Class with Three Marks of Distinction in 2013). Stobbe has spoken at the NSPA and Concept, Coverage, and Writing/Editing from CSPA conventions on numerous occasions and NSPA. advised Bear Facts, the Cindy Todd has been an advocate for online high school student newspaper of Bergenfield (NJ) High journalism since 1998. [@gstobbe] Lynn Strause School, for 37 years, until his retirement in advises the El Paisano yearbook 2010. Bear Facts received state and national and teaches photojournalism at Westlake High advised 30 yearbooks before awards including the GSSPA’s Garden State School in Austin, TX. Her students’ publications retiring, the last 13 at East Lansing (MI) High Award and the CSPA’s Gold Medalists, All- have earned top awards from TAJE, ILPC, CSPA School. She was named Michigan Adviser of the Columbian Honors, and Silver Crowns. Bear and NSPA. The 2012 Yearbook Adviser of the Year, JEA National Yearbook Adviser of the Year, Facts was featured on the Reading Rainbow Year, Todd has also received the CSPA Gold and has received a CSPA Gold Key and NSPAs program, ABC-TV’s Nightline and on National Key, NSPA Pioneer, JEA Medal of Merit, TAJE Pioneer Award. JEA presented her with its Public Radio. He served as a past president of Trailblazer, the ILPC Edith Fox King and Max R. Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. Strause the GSSPA, and as member of the JEA Student Haddick Texas Teacher of the Year awards. [@ continues to teach at a number of workshops Press Rights Commission. He was a judge for cindydtodd] across the country and to speak and judge the CSPA and served as CSPAA Recording Sarah Tricano for national, regional and state organizations. Secretary. His awards include the GSSPA has advised Holy Trinity Strause currently works as a yearbook Golden Quill Award, DJNF Distinguished Episcopal Academy’s Tigrium, a CSPA Silver consultant. Adviser Award, CSPA Gold Key, OIPA’s Lifetime Jim Streisel Crown and NSPA Pacemaker finalist, K-12 Achievement Award, The New York Times and yearbook for six years. She also teaches digital CSPA Charles R. O’Malley Award for Excellence is the adviser of the Carmel (IN) photography. She has taught sessions at My in Teaching, The Deadline Club (The New York High School HiLite newspaper and its website, Media Seminars in Miami and Melbourne, the City Chapter of the Society of Professional www.hilite.org. He is the 2013 DJNF National FSPA district convention in Orlando and most Journalists) Teacher Recognition Award, and High School Journalism Teacher of the Year. recently at the Fall 2013 NSPA/JEA convention the JEA Lifetime Achievement Award. Streisel has written two journalism textbooks, Michael Tedder in Boston. Before becoming an adviser “High School Journalism: A Practical Guide” and teacher, Tricano worked as a design and “Scholastic Web Journalism: Connecting is the managing editor of the professional at high-end interior design firms with Readers in a Digital World.” He received an Talkhouse, and the former managing editor of in New York. She earned her BA from SUNY NSPA Pioneer Award in 2012 and was named CMJ. He has written for Spin, The Village Voice, at Stony Brook and MFA in Industrial Design a 2012 DJNF Distinguished Adviser. He was the New Republic, Salon, MTV, The Orlando from Rochester Institute of Technology. [@ Columbiaalso named Scholastic 2011 Indiana Press Journalism Association Adviser Sentinel, Buzzfeed to name only a few. Though sarahtricano] 63 9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

ADVISERS Busy as a Bee The Designers’ Tool Bag (2 of 2) Cost Effective Ways to Distribute William Friskey Pete LeBlanc to Alumni and the Community Time management for understaffed and In this two-hour session, students from all overworked publication advisers and editors. publications will engage in the study and Myrtle Jones Focus on creating deadlines, keeping them, application of design concepts including but Students and your on-campus constituency managing multiple publications, dealing not limited to: design inspiration, appeal to have access to your publications but how with dead-weight staffers, being proactive, emotion, marriage of elements, photography, do you use other distribution channels to and flexibility. This is ideal for extremely type, dominance, design hierarchy, scale extend your audience? This session reviews small staffs and those that produce multiple and relationship, contrast, negative space cross media distribution workflow strategies publications. There will be ample time and mods. Fill up your designers’ tool bag that can be cost effectively implemented for individual school trouble-shooting. with the correct tools that will help you to grow and extend your audience. successfully redesign your publication. Hamilton Room 717

Friday, March 21, 2014 21, March Friday, Pupin Room 301 Hamilton Room 517 The Missing Story: Financial Advisers Unite to Tackle Daily Reporting for School Newspapers 20 Ways to Be Me Oorganized! Obstacles Warren Green Marcia Meskiel-Macy Denise Markt Student publications rarely report financial Whether your desk (or your room) are a red- Advisers will collaborate by sharing unique news, although the economy affects hot mess or not, whether you make deadlines perspectives and commonalties on a variety everyone in the school. The “Washington early or miss them by 10 days, even if you think of issues which surface daily when guiding Monument Syndrome” doesn’t just take TIME is your friend (or conversely if you pray a student publication. Cutting edge article place in Washington - it happens in schools, for just another 24-hours in a week), there’s a topics, and strategies which will strengthen too. This radical session will introduce tip here that will make your life in general more your advising position, will be discussed. economic reporting, and provide suggestions WONDERFUL. Tip #1 - Attend this session. Lerner Room 568 on developing relevant, personal and lively financial reporting for school newspapers. Hamilton Room 602 “You’re the Expert, So What Do 102B Jerome Greene Hall [Law] “Journalism Students are You Think?” Destined to be Poor” and Other Using Data to Tell Your Story Erin Timmons and Sue Grady Stupid Lies, Debunked Give your students the opportunity to really Mark Hansen Jacob Palenske run the show. This session discusses ways to Learning how to extract and interpret We’ve all heard them from parents, counselors, manage your staff so that it is a truly “student- data into stories is at the heart of today’s family members and maybe complete run” publication. Instead of advisers fielding journalism. As we grow more dependent on strangers. “Journalism? Hope you like being issues from their staff, this management data and computation, we must responsibly poor.” “The newspaper industry is dying.” system places the “ownness” on the students. and creatively find and tell the stories that “You’ll never have a stable job.” “Journalism Build accountability & ownership in your staff spring from the data. This session will teach skills aren’t useful in the real world.” Come by dividing them into specialized “experts” (in- you how to use data and computation in a learn from a journalism-nerd-turned- house photographers, writers, copy editors, thoughtful way for reporting. We will also corporate-marketing-pro why these sayings designers, business managers, & marketing give advice for teachers wanting to tell stories are **total lies,** and what the employment gurus), & having them teach & manage the staff. using data, computing, and visualization. future holds for professional communicators. Lerner Room 569 106 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] Mathematics Room 312

ALL PUBLICATIONS Get #Kurnt We Design With a Little Help Dealing with Difficult Sources Steve Kent From Our Friends Meredith Cummings “Think you are OCD about type? Prove it. This session focuses on consistency ¬— when it’s Laura Schaub How do you deal - both in person and through Design ideas are everywhere, from the just right and when it’s too much. See myriad various media - a difficult source? This Web to the shopping mall. Learn how to approaches to sculpt content and keep readers’ workshop will focus on positive interactions borrow ideas from professionals and create attention. Font savants, type snobs and natural with sources, professionalism and how to beautiful designs in your publications recover from negative experiences with aligners welcome. #ChildrenOfTheKern” sources (yelling, cursing, etc.). Lerner Broadway, 2nd fl. Hamilton Room 516 Mathematics Room 203

Tweet what you learned at #cspasc14 66 90th Annual High School Convention Program Confessions of Former High MAGAZINES PHOTOGRAPHY School Journalism Nerds Expanding Your Literary Be an Action Hero 9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Mike Simons, moderator Magazine Cindy Todd Come talk to former pub students and find out Mark Murray “With great power comes great responsibility.” how their involvement in journalism helped You may not be Spider-Man, but that them in college and in their professional “Explore ways to increase funds and improve content with 101 rapid-fire ideas.” press pass does give you the power and careers. On the panel: Jeff Brown, Jessica the responsibility to capture images that Haley, Zach Hetrick and Jamie Miles. Mathematics Room 207 transform your publications’ pages. Channel your inner Peter Parker as we reveal the Lecture Hall, 3rd fl. Journalism secrets of taking compelling action photos while on assignment. Step out from behind What Can You Borrow from the NEWSPAPERS that shadow and assume your true identity. Professionals? Private School is Different Hamilton Room 702 C Randy Stano We will take a look at professional publications Anne Barr YEARBOOKS to see what you can readapt for your Join this discussion about the advantages publication. This will be an exercise in thinking and disadvantages of running a journalism Better by Design of ways to add new energy to your publication. program at a private school. Learn how you Ann Gramlich Akers and Paul Ender can divorce your publication from the PR These principles of design make the difference machine of your school and empower your Lerner Cinema, 2nd fl. between good yearbooks and great ones. students to produce high quality journalism. See how knowing what subtle changes On-site Critiques Lerner Room 477 to make can create a drastically different Each publication staff — newspaper print, look in terms of sophistication and polish. hybrid, digital; yearbook, lit mag and general magazine, will participate in an in depth Why Nobody Reads Your Paper Lerner Party Space, basement critique session to review the reference essentials, visual and verbal elements of the Nick Ferentinos & Robert Greenman Magazine Mania publication. The critiques will be individualized Learn how to make the very next issue of to meet the specific needs of each staff. This your paper more interesting, relevant, timely, Gary Lundgren detailed evaluation will serve as a blueprint consequential and journalistically impressive Let’s look at designs from popular magazines for the staff to follow for the new school year. than the one you just published. Also learn from the newsstand and discuss why they are how to make your readers love your paper. effective and how they could be successfully Lerner Room 555 adapted to meet the special needs of a 104 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] yearbook audience. DIGITAL MEDIA Room 501 NWC Lets Get Digital – Digitize Your Publication’s Organization Rising to the Top: CSPA Crown Coverage: It’s What Sells Overview for Newspapers Sarah Tricano Linda S Puntney “An overview of how to take your publication C. Bruce Watterson Coverage is too often forgotten in today’s to a whole new level with software, apps and Join us for a discussion and review of the 2014 yearbooks. Pretty design may get the websites to keep you and your staff organized CSPA Crown Finalists. readers’ attention but won’t boost sales and productive. if they don’t see themselves in the book. Lerner Auditorium, 1st floor Get specific ideas to enhance each Hamilton Room 503 section of your book as well as expanded LAW & ETHICS coverage via websites or social networks. Designating Your Publication as Pupin Room 428 You are so Beautiful! Public Forum Contemporary Coverage Mark Goodman Ray Westbrook Many staffs neglect “Presentation” — the The courts say the forum status of each Lynn Strause visual part of communication. It really What’s the hot trend that every staff should individual student publication makes all doesn’t take much to make your newspaper work towards? More coverage. See how the difference in your free press rights. pages more appealing. Here are several yearbooks use modular design and umbrella Learn how to determine whether your menu items and examples of how to take coverage, along with strong organizational publication qualifies — you may be your page design from “Blah” to “Wow!” plans, to expand beyond traditional copy surprised at the answer — and how to work blocks, giving readers more information, towards a public forum policy that matters. Schermerhorn Room 614 more voices, more angles and more appeal. 102A Jerome Greene Hall [Law] 403 International Affairs Building

Remember that ‘All Publications’ sessions are open to all convention delegates. Columbia Scholastic Press Association 67 Who’s Who at the Convention Violet Turner Melissa Wantz

has taught secondary English is the adviser of The Foothill advising the newspaper since 2003. Wooley at the Wantagh (NY) High School for 27 years. Dragon Press, the online news site at Foothill also teaches English and Beats, Rhymes and She is an adjunct professor at Long Island Technology High School in Ventura, CA. She Life, a course in hip hop music and culture that University, and is the adviser to Escapades, the serves as first vice president of the CSPAA and he piloted. [@othello88] WHS literary magazine. Turner’s professional has taught digital journalism for advisers at writing background includes radio copy as well CSPA’s Summer Journalism Workshops for the Z as newspaper and magazine feature articles. past three summers. The Foothill Dragon Press Ben Zimmer She was a 2012 finalist in the Norman Mailer (www.foothilldragonpress.org) was honored High School Teacher Fiction Writing contest with a CSPA Gold Crown in 2012 and 2013 and is the executive producer of and received the New York State English Council an NSPA Online Pacemaker in 2011, 2012 and Vocabulary.com and the Visual Thesaurus as Educator of Excellence Award in 2008. Turner is 2013. [@mwantz] well as the language columnist for The Wall Beth B. Ward currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing Street Journal, and a former columnist for from SUNY Stony Brook Southampton. the Boston Globe and The New York Times Alison Stanford Turner is the adviser of Reflections, Magazine. His writing about language has also the yearbook publication at Mauldin (SC) High appeared in The Atlantic, Forbes, and Slate. is in her ninth year School. Ward has been advising the publication Zimmer also chairs the New Words Committee as the adviser for the Spider Web yearbook at since 2001. Reflections has been honored with of the American Dialect Society. [@bgzimmer] Concord (NC) High School. Spider Web received CSPA Silver Crown in a Gold Medalist Certificate from CSPA in 2013. 2011 and a Gold Crown The Spider Web has also received recognition in 2013. Reflections has from the North Carolina Scholastic Media also been recognized as a Association, including the prestigious Tarheel NSPA Pacemaker finalist Award. Turner has taught English for 22 years in 2013. The publication and currently serves as the English Department has received consistent Chair. high rating with SIPA Nancy Kay Turner and SCSPA. The 2013 is an artist, critic and art publication received SIPA educator and has been the visual adviser/ All Southern rating and moderator for the award-winning Windowpanes SCSPA Best in State in 2012 and 2013. since 2001. She teaches AP Studio Art 2-D, Bruce Watterson ceramics and painting at Loyola High School of Los Angeles, CA. As an AP Studio Art Reader has she is privileged to see and to grade work from been working with all over the United States and several countries scholastic and collegiate overseas. Her work has just been shown in publication students for Randy Stano and JoAnn Davila judge high school visual categories “Black and White”, an exhibition that examines years and started as a for yearbook for the 2011 Gold Circle judging. photo/Rebecca Castillo work that focuses on the absence of color. Her student editor in high art reviews have been published in ARTWEEK school and college. He’s Elizabeth Zwerling and ARTSCENE. worked as an adviser in secondary and collegiate publication circles... is a former award-winning all the while he has never met a pica he didn’t newspaper reporter, who left the newsroom V like. His passion for teaching meshes with Michael von Wahlde for the classroom and is currently an associate his desire to inspire creativity, imaginative professor of journalism at the University of advises The Westword approaches and maybe even a little risk-taking La Verne in California. At ULV, she advises the and TheWestwordOnline.com, and works as a in publications. Honored most recently with the University’s award-winning Campus Times Journalism/Communications and AP Language CSPA’s Joseph Murphy Award for Outstanding newspaper and web publication, and teaches teacher at Westhill High School in Stamford, CT. Service, Watterson currently chairs the CSPAA news reporting, media ethics and other courses. Committee on Judging Practices. An ex-editor, he writes and presents on issues Chris Waugaman Zwerling continues to write, most recently for of media literacy and photographic theory in the Online Journalism Review, Ms. Magazine, contemporary media, and moonlights as a teaches journalism at Prince Women’s Enews, Pasadena Weekly and public curator and photographer. He holds an M.A. in George (VA) High School, where he advises the radio, among others. She is also a blogger for a Media Studies from The New School and a B.A. in hyper-local news website. newspaper, broadcast, online and magazine Kathleen D. Zwiebel English from Loyola University Chicago. staffs. His staffs have won NSPA Pacemakers and CSPA Gold Crowns. Waugaman is the director of was the 1998 DJNF High W VAJTA and serves on the SIPA board. In 2011, Sarah Waggoner School Journalism Teacher of the Year. A CSPA he was named a DJNF Distinguished Adviser, Gold Key recipient, Zwiebel also received the and in 2012, a Lowell Milken Center Fellow. He has advised the literary Charles R. O’Malley Award for Excellence in will receive a CSPA Gold Key on Friday at this magazine, Inkblot, at Kealing Middle School in Teaching and the Joseph Murphy Award for Convention. [@cwaugaman] Austin, TX for the past 13 years. Over the years, Dave Wooley Outstanding Service to CSPA. She was honored Inkblot has grown from a staple-bound booklet by NSPA with its Pioneer Award and by JEA produced after school to an award-winning, is the co-adviser of The with both the Medal of Merit and Lifetime artfully-produced publication. She is proud to Westword which serves the Westhill High Achievement awards. A CSPAA past president, have her young journalists honored with a CSPA School community in Stamford, CT. He has been Zwiebel currently serves as the Chair of the 68Crown Finalist for this year. teaching at Westhill High School since 200190th and Annual Judging High Standards School Committee. Convention Program 10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

ADVISERS The Common Core and the CSPA The Contrast Factor School Publication as Local and Critiques Gary Lundgren Global Engagement Kathleen Zwiebel Big/small, horizontal/vertical, wide/narrow, The CSPA’s Medalist Critiques offer publication thick/thin, modular/cut-out, isolated/unified, Steven Le, Christopher Burman, advisers both general guidelines and specific justified/unjustified, verbal/visual, color/ Anthony Oliverio & criteria that reflect current journalism trends. black -- mastering the use of contrast is essential for dynamic visual presentations. Gabriel Piscitello Now they also align with Common Core ELA Standards. Learn how you can use the Medalist Global Journal Project empowers students Critiques as curriculum for the Common Room 501 NWC with business skills to connect communities Core, how to substantiate your students by sharing stories. We form public-private- meeting the Standards and how students can The Digital Story: Find it, Tell It, international school partnerships that operate self-evaluate their publications by using the a student-run magazine. Each magazine’s Share It scorebook to analyze and judge their work. Friday, March 21, 2014 21, March Friday, content comes from members of all three Jacob Palenske schools, including students, teachers, parents, Lerner Board Room 503 Effective 21st Century journalists must use alumni, and the general public, making each technology to find, tell and distribute stories. publication a shared voice. This session This session will teach you how to produce features the first GJP Chapter, the CSPA ALL PUBLICATIONS up-to-the-minute digital content, how to use award-winning magazine Global Vantage. On-site Critiques converged information sources like Twitter 106 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] Each publication staff — newspaper print, and Facebook to generate coverage ideas, hybrid, digital; yearbook, lit mag and general and how to format/distribute what you magazine, will participate in an in depth produce so your audience can easily access it. Managing Your Junior High critique session to review the reference Online Newspaper Staff essentials, visual and verbal elements of the Mathematics Room 312 publication. The critiques will be individualized Wanda Pletcher to meet the specific needs of each staff. This Beginning Photoshop Managing an online newspaper is a task detailed evaluation will serve as a blueprint in and of itself. Working with junior high for the staff to follow for the new school year Hal Schmidt students to create an online publication is a Get the basics on adjusting and cropping unique endeavor. Join me as we discuss ways Lerner Room 555 photos. See easy steps for cut-outs and other to organize your classroom and encourage special effects autonomy with your students as they create All in the Family a unique publication. Bring out the best in Schermerhorn Room 614 your younger students as they learn life and William Friskey leadership skills in your classroom. Links will Building a family environment in a staff So You Want to be an Editor be provided to access handouts and materials that is accountable to one another and the you can take home and use in your classroom. adviser. This is ideal for advisers and editors Cindy Todd who have personal conflicts or trouble As this year winds down, publications staffs 102B Jerome Greene Hall [Law] getting their staffs to gel. Focus will be already have their sights set on next year’s on team building, personality conflicts, book. And you’re going to be an editor or Midnight Deadlines Do Not Work adviser best practices, editor autonomy, section editor. Let’s talk about what you need for Me and interpersonal relationships between to know going into what will be one of the most adviser and editors. There will be ample rewarding – and challenging – times of your Beth Shull time for individual school trouble-shooting. life. Current editors, come share your advice If you yearn to read novels in February, enjoy and expertise. Newbies, bring your questions! a leisurely dinner out on a weekday, or follow Hamilton Room 717 a TV show in real time, this advisers’ session Hamilton Room 702 may be for you. Time-management tips and Photo Packaging in the 21st the teaching philosophy discussed provide the Century Student Swap Shop best learning experience for your students, too. Pete LeBlanc Melissa Wantz Hamilton Room 602 This session will introduce you to several Calling all digital, magazine, newspaper tangible design tools and techniques you can and yearbook staffers. Take this chance to use to bring your photo-packaging skills into network with students from across the country the 21st century. That in turn will give your in a discussion about your publications. publication the contemporary look you and your audience deserve. Lerner Broadway, 2nd fl. Hamilton Room 517

Tweet what you learned at #cspasc14 70 90th Annual High School Convention Program Create a System to Keep Your NEWSPAPERS Improving Photography in Your Staff on Task From High School Newspaper to Publications 10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Beth B. Ward the White House: A Reporter’s Mark Murray Tired of feeling like you are always running Journey. Strong photography leads to great newspapers, after yourselves? Attend this session and learn yearbooks and magazines. Take a look at how to visually organize your room; organize Michael D. Shear & Nick Ferentinos examples of strong photographs and learn your staff; establish a routine; create a proper This editor has gone from news editor at some tips for capturing images like this for checklist and monthly to do list; meeting The Epitaph, the newspaper at Homestead your publication. deadlines as well mini deadlines. Organizing High School in California to his college paper a yearbook staff requires much work from the and on to The Washington Post and now Mathematics Room 207 adviser the first time around. However, once The New York Times, where he is a White you have created a process that works for House correspondent. He has reported on YEARBOOKS you and your staff, it just becomes a matter local, state and national issues, including of tweaking the process from year to year. the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech, the Take a Look 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns Ann Gramlich Akers and Paul Ender and the White House. He will discuss his Hamilton Room 516 Hundreds of examples from books coast to 25-year journey with his former adviser. DIGITAL MEDIA coast showcase popular yearbook practices 104 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] and introduce some fun, new twists. From Online First coverage strategies and concept development to maximizing the power of your content, you’ll Logan Aimone Four Levels of Storytelling see how to make you book even more amazing. Is your news website still living in the Linda S Puntney shadow of your print edition? Learn how a Lerner Party Space, basement Not all stories should be told the same. This dynamic news website and an “online first” session will examine story-telling techniques philosophy can transform and reinvigorate from the professional, collegiate and high Baby Market your coverage of your school community. school media. You’ll laugh, you may cry and you Crystal Kazmierski will learn how to best tell the stories of the year. Mathematics Room 203 If you are selling seniors in the yearbook Pupin Room 428 ad section (or just paying tribute to them) Rising to the Top: CSPA Crown you’ve come to the right place. Tips on Overview for Digital & Hybrid promoting “baby ads” and how to design them Finding the Hyperlocal Angle to fit the look of your book will be shared. Publications Elizabeth Zwerling Lerner Room 569 C. Bruce Watterson From gay marriage, to global warming; online Join us for a discussion and review of the 2014 bullying to sexual assault blogs, the biggest and CSPA Crown Finalists most interesting news of the day is fair game The Design and Content of for your high school or college news outlet, as Yearbooks Lerner Auditorium, 1st floor long as you hyper-localize it, so it is personal to your readers and distinct from what other news C Randy Stano LAW & ETHICS outlets are producing. This workshop will look We will take a look at yearbooks spreads/ at major national and international trends and pages from across the country to see what Your Right to School Records issues in the news and discuss ways to make they are covering and how they are visually displaying the topics in their yearbooks. Adam Goldstein them unique and relevant to your readers. Learn how you can use freedom of information Lerner Room 477 Lerner Cinema, 2nd fl. laws to get facts about your school that can make great stories. PHOTOGRAPHY 102A Jerome Greene Hall [Law] Make Your Light MAGAZINES Zach Hetrick Add lighting to your bag of photo tricks. Learn Magazine Fundamentals 101 from a NYC photog who started lighting in Virginia Fitzgerald high school and has continued to employ Want to take your literary/arts magazine those same techniques with clients like Nike, up a notch? Need help with managing New Balance, ESPN, and Runner’s World. a staff, fundraising, deciding on design software, then you are in the right place. Lecture Hall, 3rd fl. Journalism Come and see how this dynamic editorial staff has been able to stay on top of the game year after year. There will be a lot of ideas so come prepared with your questions! 403 International Affairs Building

Remember that ‘All Publications’ sessions are open to all convention delegates. Columbia Scholastic Press Association 71 11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. ADVISERS LAW & ETHICS YEARBOOKS CSPAA: Annual Meeting of High School Press Freedom Design Dos and Don’ts Members Adam Goldstein Martha Akers All CSPA advisers, who are members of What are your rights as a public high school While all designers have their own beliefs on the Columbia Scholastic Press Advisers student journalist? The presentation discusses what makes a strong layout, some basic design Association, are invited to participate. the major court cases that have helped dos and don’ts frequently figure into design define the First Amendment protections strategies. Take a look at 20 of the most accepted Lerner Room 568 that apply in school. It also provides practices used in nationally recognized practical suggestions for maintaining a yearbooks and in professional design ALL PUBLICATIONS free and responsible student press. Pocket Journalism: Creating Mathematics Room 207 102A Jerome Greene Hall [Law] Content Using Mobile Devices Friday, March 21, 2014 21, March Friday, Identity Crisis? Jacob Palenske NEWSPAPERS Populating a full-featured news website Crystal Kazmierski Covering Controversial and Don’t have a design meltdown when you’re with stories, photos, audio and video using Sensitive Stories nothing but digital cameras and mobile stuck for design ideas. Explore the graphic devices is (finally) possible. This session will Kathleen Neumeyer identities all around you, and you just explain what apps and services you’ll need, might find the inspiration you need to In the last 22 years, there has been no come up with one of your own. the “speed bumps” you might encounter, topic the Chronicle hasn’t been willing and how you can introduce “pocket to tackle. We’ve written about cheating Lerner Room 569 journalism” to your staff/publication. scandals, drinking at semiformal after- parties, drug use, cyberbullying, arrests, Mathematics Room 312 the deaths of students and teachers, and The Same but Different suicides. Any story can be responsibly handled Linda S Puntney Adaptation — Borrowing from the with authoritative sources and careful, The best work is inspired, not stolen. Yearbook Best accurate reporting. The Chronicle is an staffs will examine the lessons from professional uncensored newspaper at a private high school. designers, magazine editors and other media Kristi Rathbun to help you create an amazing backdrop for Some of the strongest content -- both visual Lecture Hall, 3rd fl. Journalism the story of the year. Added bonus: you may and verbal -- comes from astute observation have to cover the same topics every year, but of the pros and stellar adaptation of it for our Get Started Blogging they don’t have to be the same look or content. audience. Make the most of the ideas all around A quick Maestro preview will show you how us and transfer them into fantastic designs, Wanda Pletcher to make content the same but different. stories, and coverage for our publications. News reporting has become instantaneous. Discuss how to create your own unique blog Pupin Room 428 106 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] and how to use those blogs to support the online content of your newspaper. In this Rising to the Top: CSPA Crown Creative Headline Design session, we will discuss the basics of starting Overview for Yearbooks Thinking a blog and brainstorm ideas to get started on your first blog today. C. Bruce Watterson C Randy Stano 104 Jerome Greene Hall [Law] Join us for a discussion and review of the 2014 Art headlines or design headlines. How can CSPA Crown Finalists. you add some sparkle to our publication and not take away from the basic format or look. Finding the Hyperlocal Angle Lerner Auditorium, 1st floor Lerner Cinema, 2nd fl. Elizabeth Zwerling From gay marriage, to global warming; online DIGITAL MEDIA bullying to sexual assault blogs, the biggest and Managing an Online Newsroom most interesting news of the day is fair game for your high school or college news outlet, as Logan Aimone long as you hyper-localize it, so it is personal to Develop a structure to manage the writing, your readers and distinct from what other news editing and publishing workflow using outlets are producing. This workshop will look collaborative tools. We’ll cover best practices at major national and international trends and for frequency of publication, student issues in the news and discuss ways to make responsibilities, tracking and grading the them unique and relevant to your readers. work and dealing with school administration. Lerner Room 477 Mathematics Room 203 Tweet what you learned at #cspasc14 74 90th Annual High School Convention Program The Charles R. O’Malley Award for Excellence in Teaching

The Charles R. O’Malley Award for Excellence in Teaching is named for the CSPA’s second director and honors his generous service to the student press and to Columbia University, his alma mater. This award recognizes “a sustained record of outstanding teaching” in support of student journalism or student publishing. It is intended to be the CSPA’s highest accolade in support of the core function of teaching as related to student-practiced journalism. Suggestions for suitable candidates should be sent to the executive director. There is no formal nomination process. The O’Malley Award is discretionary. If presented, it is given at the Association’s annual Spring Convention in March at Columbia University. 78 90th Annual High School Convention Program O’Malley Award Recipient

“I share in the classroom what I experience every day in the newsroom. The results, the rewards, the challenges, the difficult decisions. Journalism skills are life skills.” Claire M. Regan has devoted her working life to learning, practicing and teaching those life skills. First as college student editor, then professional journalist, editor and designer she also served as a college faculty member and active adviser. In short, she has lived most aspects of journalism and journalism education. The daughter of New York City high school teachers, she majored in education at Wagner College in her native Staten Island, intending to take up teaching as her profession. But joining the student newspaper changed her thinking and her goals. Regan currently serves as associate managing editor, Staten Island Advance, where she has worked since 1980, serving in a variety of progressively more senior reporting and editing positions. Today she oversees content and design of the newspaper and establishes design policy. She is a member of the core team leading the current transition of The Advance to a digital first platform. Since 1984 she has served as an adjunct faculty member at Wagner College, teaching undergraduate courses in news writing, public relations, page design, CLAIRE editing, ethics, new media and war reporting. Regan also serves as adviser to the student newspaper and yearbook at Wagner. The college awarded her its REGAN Adjunct Exceptional Performance Award in 2009. Her professional achievements show a wide variety of interests and skills, including active participation at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies in Florida as one of their Ethics Fellows as well as seminars in Advanced Design and Art Direction and Effective Visual Leadership. She was also a visiting faculty member for one of their six-week fellowship programs for new journalists. The International Women’s Media Foundation also invited her to participate in a leadership institute, only to invite her back as a program speaker the following year. Regan has served in an impressive variety of leadership positions such as a member and past president of the Board of Directors of the New York State Associated Press Association and as a member of the Executive Council, The Deadline Club, New York City Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Her many professional awards, chiefly for design and spot news presentation, have come from major news competitions including the Society of News Design and the Society of Professional Journalists. She has also served as a judging facilitator for the SND’s annual news design competition at Syracuse University since 2009. She has steadily contributed her time and talent to presentations by the CSPA, serving as a presenter at this convention since 2004 and at the Garden State Scholastic Press Association in New Jersey since 2007. For her distinguished professional service above and beyond her actual daily duties; for her quiet but persistent efforts to advance the causes of many supporting journalism organizations, both professional and educational, the Columbia Scholastic Press Association is proud to honor Claire M. Regan with its Charles R. O’Malley Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Columbia Scholastic Press Association 79 James F. Paschal Award

The Columbia Scholastic Press Advisers Association honors state or regional school press association officials who have distinguished themselves in the field with an award named for the late James Frederick Paschal, a former director of the Oklahoma Interscholastic Press Association and a former editor of The CSPAA Bulletin. The award honors his many years of service to advisers and editors. Consideration for the award is based on service, accomplishment, innovations and recognition by members of the state press association with which the official has been associated. The Paschal Award was first presented in 1987.

In the words of Mark Levin, the National Elementary School Press Association Founding Director, “Meredith Cummings is a tireless crusader for all things journalism for the state of Alabama as well as the nation.” Mr. Levin’s words are supported by Meredith’s impressive professional resume and by others active in Alabama journalism circles. Erin Coggins writes, “Meredith is a great journalist, but she is even a better ambassador for scholastic journalism. She came on board when ASPA was on the verge of elimination. I served as the adviser board MEREDITH president during her first five years and saw our beloved CUMMINGS press association go from almost extinct to a thriving organization with a website, social media presence, and increased membership. Meredith tweeted, Facebooked,

• Director, National Elementary blogged, wrote, videoed, Vined, Instagramed and organized School Press Association non-stop to better the state of Alabama for high school and • Director, Alabama Scholastic elementary journalists.” Press Association • Director, Multicultural Marie Parsons also adds words of support and praise. Journalism Program “Meredith has used her considerable organizational talent • Instructor, Department of Journalism, University of by coordinating multiple resources for contests, spring Alabama conventions, summer camps and statewide fall regionals. • Freelance writer for several publications She has developed a cadre of Alabama media professionals, • President-elect for Society university professors and experienced local advisers, of Professional Journalists – Alabama Professional Chapter peppering it with leading figures on the national journalism scene. Her work with CSPA, SIPA and JEA has put Alabama on the map.” The Columbia Scholastic Press Advisers Association is honored to present Meredith Cummings with its James Paschal Award for Outstanding Service to a State Scholastic Press Association.

80 90th Annual High School Convention Program Gold Key

“In recognition of outstanding devotion to the cause of the school press, encouragement to the student editors in their several endeavors, service above and beyond the call of delegated duty, leadership in the field of education, and support of the high ideals from which the Association has drawn its strength and inspiration” are the words on the certificate that accompanies the CSPA’s Gold Key. The Gold Key has its roots in history. The crown on its top is a symbol of King’s College, formally established by Royal Charter on October 31, 1754, as the first such institution in the Province of New York and the fifth in the American Colonies. After the Revolutionary War, its name was changed to Columbia College. The Trustees authorized the change to the institution’s present name of Columbia University in the City of New York in 1896. Bearing a replica of the seal of the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, the Key includes the date of the CSPA’s founding, 1925. Inside the frame is a reproduction of the facade of Low Memorial Library, the central architectural feature of the University’s Morningside Heights campus and a New York City landmark. The CSPA seal was executed by James Kip Finch, professor (and later Dean) of engineering at Columbia. A total of 898 Gold Keys have been awarded since the CSPA’s founding director, Joseph M. Murphy, started the tradition in 1929. Beginning in 1930, Gold Keys were presented during the concluding ceremonies of the Association’s annual convention. Different procedures were used to select those honored with the Gold Key during the CSPA’s history. Most often prior to 1955, an advisory committee would consider nominees recommended by past Key recipients. Many faculty adviser nominees were considered due to an extensive record of CSPA honors earned by the student publications they advised. From 1955 until 1979, Joseph M. Murphy made the annual selections with some advice from officers of the Columbia Scholastic Press Advisers Association (CSPAA). Selections in 1980 and 1981 were made by then-director Charles R. O’Malley. From 1982 until 1991, selections were made by a committee convened by director Edmund J. Sullivan, using nominees suggested by either past Key recipients or directors of state scholastic press associations. Beginning with the 1992 selections, Sullivan asked the CSPAA to create a permanent Committee on Honors and Awards, chaired by its immediate past president, to make the selections, accepting nominees from scholastic, collegiate and professional sources, including past recipients.

Columbia Scholastic Press Association 81 2014 Gold Key Recipients ELLEN Ellen Austin writes “When I began a second career as a teacher 15 years ago, advising journalism was far from AUSTIN my plans. But a rural Minnesota school without a student newspaper needed a student voice, so with the energy • M.Ed. University of Minnesota, of students, we started one.” In her fourth school of Secondary English teaching and advising in two states, Ellen keeps teaching • Director of Journalism, The journalism in part because, “The joy in watching a Harker School, San Jose, CA developing young journalist find his or her voice and being 2013-present a part of helping him or her find a stance in the world is an • Advises the newspaper, incredible experience.” yearbook and online publications Nick Ferentinos, a retired teacher/adviser from • English and journalism teacher California who is active in the journalism community and adviser, Palo Alto HS, CA comments that “Ellen’s reputation as a leader in scholastic 2007-13 journalism was confirmed when at Palo Alto High School she helped students create the • Dow Jones News Fund first ever all sports publication, ‘The Viking’ and its website Vikingsportsmag.com.” National Journalism Teacher of Ellen’s current boss, Samuel Keller, the Head of Harker School adds, “Ellen dreams big the Year 2012 and she has landed in the right place to make things happen. It will take a great deal of • Presenter at national hard work to keep ahead of the journalism students and so far she has proven more than journalism conventions and summer workshops capable of the task. Her classes are fast-paced and innovative. From all indications she is reinforcing with the students the ethical and moral foundation that is necessary for a • Master Journalism Educator first-class citizen, journalist and human being.” Ellen is also an adviser who knows that the little extras make a difference. She advises, “Keep candy on your desk every day and bring “surprise treats” to your staff from time to time. The small joys and little moments are the glue that builds fun and community on a staff.”

A former journalism student of CSPA’s own Bruce BETH Watterson, Beth Shull served as editor of a CSPA Gold SHULL Crown winning yearbook “The Wildcat” in 1982. She continued her love affair with journalism at Ouachita • Journalism Educator of the Baptist University as a communications member, and had Year, Arkansas Press Association the privilege of working on five Crown yearbooks while 2003 there. • Yearbook and Newspaper As a yearbook adviser, Beth has gained the admiration Adviser, Pulaski Academy, Little of a fellow adviser from Arkansas, Margaret Sorrows who Rock AR says, “Quite simply, I can’t think of any current yearbook • Presenter for CSPA, NSPA and adviser who is more admired. She represents what every SIPA adviser should aspire to be: innovative, hard-working, • Summer Journalism Workshop dynamic and professional.” instructor in multiple states Megan Abbot, the head of the Pulaski Academy’s English Department comments, • Executive Director of Arkansas “Understanding that outstanding journalism begins at ‘the beginning’, Beth has shown Scholastic Press Association dedication by focusing on the details, and she volunteers her time in the middle school 1997-2005 by coaching students in design of their literary journal.” • Judge for SIPA, CSPA and NSPA A former student, Katherine Norwood, adds to praise of Beth. “This past semester I took a senior level journalism class at my university, and our first assignment was to write a journalistic story. I did my best to recall everything Mrs. Shull taught me, and my professor was blown away, saying I was the only person in the class to make a perfect score!” In her own words Beth celebrates advising. “Even in the middle of stressful, tearful, crazy days, I’m glad to be here. My favorite days are when Ethan rushes in to show his headline package; when Sydney calls to brag on the homecoming coverage; when Kaelyn finishes the final caption on her spread and shouts the best words ever: Finally finished!”

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Gail Snyder is the consummate example of an educator GAIL and adviser who learned by doing. “I came into Lit Mag SNYDER blind. I didn’t know the first thing about how to create a magazine, and early attempts proved that to be oh-so- • English Degree from University true. So I attended workshops, I studied other magazines, of Maryland I taught myself InDesign and slowly I learned.” • Teacher and literary magazine Over the past decade due to Gail’s commitment, adviser at South River High School MD “Etchings”, the literary magazine of South River High School has been acclaimed at both the state and national • English Department Chair level. Her former department chair, Elaine Boothby, who • National Board Certified recruited her, comments, “I watched our program soar Teacher to unexpected new heights under her tutelage. Gail had a • Developer of the Anne Arundel vision and was able to work with talent development so County Literary Magazine and that the magazine became the students’ work.” Creative Writing Curricula Sarah Sapp, a former student and 2008 Editor-in-Chief is proud to consider Gail a • “Etchings” literary magazine mentor and friend. “She is dedicated to helping students understand the most basic to has consistently received awards the most complex concepts of writing and design, and she teaches each element with from CSPA and NCTE wisdom and clarity.” • Judges literary magazines and Sapp continues, “Mrs. Snyder taught me an incredible amount about journalism, presents for CSPA writing and creating technology, but more than that, she gave me leadership skills and inspiration to become an educator myself.” Gail’s passion has helped her students find a voice for their artistic and literary expressions. She comments, “I am passionate about Lit Mag. My reward is in the publication and in the fulfillment it brings to my own students. There is something magical about looking at the published copy and realizing it was created through the teamwork of me and my staff. Their pleasure is my joy.”

Nicole Wilson, the yearbook adviser at Carmel High JIM School says this about Jim Striesel, “Professionally, Jim STRIESEL has set the bar high. His students’ publications, not to mention their website, consistently win awards, and when • Journalism and English Teacher he makes a commitment, he honors it. Commitment is a at Carmel High School IN skill he stresses to his students, constantly emphasizing • Advises newsmagazine, the importance of dedication and professionalism and newspaper and online news taking pride in one’s work.” • Dow Jones News Fund Jim has taught journalism for 18 of his 19 year career. In National Journalism Teacher of the Year 2013 addition to commitment, he stresses time management, an essential life skill. “My role in the process is simple. • Master Journalism Educator I’m a devil’s advocate. I walk the room and ask: ‘Have you • Advises multiple CSPA Crown thought about this?’ ‘What would happen if you did this?’ Award programs Since I believe the lifeblood of every publication is its content, I also like to conference • NSPA Pioneer Award with reporters about their stories helping them polish their writing.” • Presenter at several Aaron Manfull, a former DJNF teacher writes, “Jim has done an incredible job with conventions and summer the journalism program at Carmel High School. He works to push his students to be the workshops best they can and works to keep them on the cutting edge so that the students and the program are viewed by many as trend-setters.” In his own words, Jim expresses thoughts about the future of American education and offers that journalism plays a significant role. To answer the essential question of what we want students to learn by the time they leave school he says, “What better than a rigorous journalism curriculum? My job is to use the language of journalism to teach what I call ‘transferrable skills’, such as meeting deadlines, writing coherently for multiple audiences and working through messy problems that will help them in any area they choose to pursue.”

Columbia Scholastic Press Association 83 2014 Gold Key Recipients Chris Waugaman wears many hats and wears them CHRIS well! He advises four media at Prince George High School in Virginia and as director of the Virginia WAUGAMAN Association of Journalism Teachers and Advisers is instrumental in leading efforts in the Commonwealth • Advises newspaper, literary magazine, broadcast and online for a full range of professional development for both news at Prince George HS VA advisers and students. • Lowell Milken Center Discovery Karen Flowers, Director of Scholastic Journalism Award Recipient 2013 Organizations at the University of South Carolina • Dow Jones News Fund says, “Chris was such an asset to our SIPA convention Distinguished Adviser 2011 program that I invited him to serve on the SIPA • Master Journalism Educator Executive Committee. He challenges our thinking and helps us think of new ways to approach what we • VAJTA Director May 2010-present are teaching and how we teach at our conventions and sessions. He is the epitome of an excellent publication adviser who is active at all levels.” • Presenter for CSPA, SIPA, NSPA Bradley Wilson who knows Chris well through his involvement with VAJTA and • Judge for CSPA, MIPA, NSPA and SIPA other organizations speaks of his contributions to “Communication: Journalism Education Today.” He comments, “Chris consistently works beyond the walls of his own school to contribute service above and beyond the call of delegated duty and demonstrates leadership in the field of education.” In his own words Chris speaks of the impact of our profession. “Student journalism means seeing students with quiet, shy demeanors develop the confidence to interview gubernatorial candidates. I witness students who have no reason to associate with one another join forces to publish 24 pages of quality journalism each month. I witness students understanding the power of the written word and appreciate the impact they have on their community. It is the ultimate endeavor to be a part of journalism at a school, and I have the pleasure of doing it each and every day.”

For information on award criteria and nomination process, please go the CSPA’s website: http://cspa.columbia.edu

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84 90th Annual High School Convention Program The Edmund J. Sullivan Award

The Edmund J. Sullivan Award recognizes student editors who pursue innovative ways to present the truth on behalf of their audiences. The award may be given to a single student or a group of students.

Suggestions for suitable candidates should be sent to the Honors Committee chair of the Columbia Scholastic Press Advisers Association, c/o the CSPA office. Supporting materials will be required.

The Sullivan Award is discretionary. If presented, it is given at the Association’s annual Spring Convention in March at Columbia University. Global Vantage Magazine and The Global Journal Project

Founded in 2011, Global Vantage magazine comprises three partner schools: Pacific Ridge School (Carlsbad, California), Canyon Crest Academy (San Diego, California), and the Kibera Girls Soccer Academy (Kibera, Kenya). To date, Global Vantage has published eight print issues and maintained a live website with contributions from more than 150 writers, artists, poets, and photographers across the world, ranging in age from 13 to 93. As the inaugural Chapter of the Global Journal Project, Global Vantage demonstrates the effectiveness of the student- run, community-based storytelling platform.

Global Vantage magazine is the main medium through which we share stories, generate dialogue, and encourage community involvement. This year, we are in the process of publishing three issues of our 56-page magazine. The editing team solicits stories from people across the world, working directly with the authors to ensure that all deadlines are met and that the writing process goes as Socialsmoothly Action as possible. Projects:

At Global Vantage, our mission is not only to share stories, but also to strengthen our local and global community through our Social Action Projects. As stories are collected, relationships are developed, shed light on issues, and often discover specific projects we can undertake to help to reduce or resolve these issues. This is where the concept of Social Action Projects was born. Global Vantage works independently to plan, coordinate, and manage our projects.

For innovation in a global storytelling platform based on a student magazine, the Columbia Scholastic Press Advisers Association is proud to honor Global Vantage and the Global Journal Project with its Edmund J. Sullivan Award. CSPACROWN 2014 AWARDS 2014 CROWN AWARD DVD

CSPA offers every member a copy of the DVD as part of regular and associate membership. The DVD includes scans of all of the Crown winners as well as the judges’ comments for each publication. The 2014 DVDs will begin to be mailed out in April. All publications with a current 2013-14 CSPA membership will receive this DVD.

DEADLINES FOR 2015 CROWN AWARDS Postmarked by June 10, 2014 Digital Media Print Newspapers Magazines Hybrids Spring Yearbooks

Postmarked by October 10, 2014 Summer and Fall Yearbooks Middle School Digital Publication Crown Finalists The Sagamore | thesagonline.com, Brookline High School, Livewire, Altoona Area Junior High School, Altoona, PA; Brookline, MA; The Corner, Germantown Friends School, Philadelphia, PA. The Shakerite | shakerite.com, Shaker Heights High School, Shaker Heights, OH; High School Digital Publication Crown Finalists The Southerner | thesoutherneronline.com, Henry W. Grady FHNToday.com, Francis Howell High School, St. Charles, MO; High School, Atlanta, GA; Inklingsnews.com, Staples High School, Westport, CT; The Spoke | stoganews.com, Conestoga High School, My Jag News, Claudia Taylor Johnson High School, Berwyn, PA; San Antonio, TX; The Standard | standard.asl.org, The American School in Southwestshadow.com, Southwest Career and TechniCal London, London, UK; Academy, Las Vegas, NV; The Tower | thetowerpulse.net, Grosse Pointe South High The Clarion, Riverside Brookfield High School, Riverside, IL; School, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI; The Feather Online, Fresno Christian High School, The Tribal Tribune | wandotribaltribune.com, Wando High Fresno, CA; School, Mt. Pleasant, SC; The Foothill Dragon Press, Foothill Technology High School, The Viking | vikingsportsmag.com, Palo Alto High School, Ventura, CA; Palo Alto, CA; The Lasso Online, George Mason High School, Tiger Times | tigertimesonline.com, Texas High School, Falls Church, VA; Texarkana, TX; The Red Ledger, Lovejoy High School, Lucas, TX; Tiger Times | ttonl.org, Seoul International School, Seoul, The Rider Online, Legacy High School, Mansfield, TX. South Korea.

High School Hybrid Publication Crown Finalists Middle School Magazine Crown Finalists El Estoque | elestoque.org, Monta Vista High School, Enlight’ning, The Harker School, San Jose, CA; Cupertino, CA; Inkblot, Kealing Middle School, Austin, TX; Global Vantage | vantage.thegjp.org, Pacific Ridge School, Inklings, Pierce Middle School, Grosse Pointe Park, MI. Carlsbad, CA; HiLite | hilite.org, Carmel High School, Carmel, IN; High School Magazine Crown Finalists Knight Errant | bsmknighterrant.org, Benilde-St. Margaret’s Big Red, Harvard-Westlake School, Studio City, CA; School, St. Louis Park, MN; Blue Review, Mercersburg Academy, Mercersburg, PA; Odyssey | odysseynewsmagazine.net, Clarke Central High Cat’s Tales/Eight By Eight, Quince Orchard High School, School, Athens, GA; Gaithersburg, MD; Point Of View (POV) | bbnpov.com, Buckingham Browne & Colophon, Towson High School, Towson, MD; Nichols School, Cambridge, MA; Esse, Ursuline Academy, Dallas, TX; Scroll | Scrolling, Holton-Arms School, Bethesda, MD; Fine Lines, Richard Montgomery High School, Rockville, MD; The A-Blast |thea-blast.org, Annandale High School, Folio, Flintridge Preparatory School, La Canada, CA; Annandale, VA; Galaxy, Brighton High School, Rochester, NY; The Boiling Point | shalhevetboilingpoint.com, Shalhevet Gallimaufry, Cranbrook Kingswood School, High School, Los Angeles, CA; Bloomfield Hills, MI; The Campanile | palycampanile.org, Palo Alto High School, Grant Magazine, Ulysses S. Grant High School, Portland, OR; Palo Alto, CA; Iliad, Clarke Central High School, Athens, GA; The Charger | Thechargeronline.com, Oxford High School, Impressions, Riverdale Country School, New York, NY; Oxford, MS; Itinerary, The Episcopal School of Dallas, Dallas, TX; The Chronicle | hwchronicle.com, Harvard-Westlake School, Literati, Our Lady of Lourdes Academy, Miami, FL; Studio City, CA; Maret Literary & Visual Arts, Maret School, Washington, DC; The Edge | pgedgeonline.com, Pleasant Grove High School, Marque, St. Mark’s School of Texas, Dallas, TX; Texarkana, TX; Montage, Greenhill School, Addison, TX; The Fourcast | hockadayfourcast.org, The Hockaday School, Nexus, Henry W. Grady High School, Atlanta, GA; Dallas, TX; Parallax, Ramaz Upper School, New York, NY; The Harbinger | smeharbinger.net, Shawnee Mission East Perspectives, Convent of the Sacred Heart, Greenwich, CT; High School, Prairie Village, KS; Phantasm, Saint Ignatius College Prep, Chicago, IL; The Hoofprint | whshoofprint.com, Walnut High School, Pulp, Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School, Walnut, CA; Midland, PA; The Kirkwood Call | thekirkwoodcall.com, Kirkwood High Quill, Glendale High School, Springfield, MO; School, Kirkwood, MO; Rapier, Marist School, Atlanta, GA; Reflections, Cistercian Preparatory School, Irving, TX; 2014 Crown Award Recipients Award Crown 2014 The Royal News | trnwired.org, Prince George High School, Prince George, VA; Riverbend Review, Benjamin Franklin High School, 2014 Crown Award Recipients , Sierra Middle School, Parker, CO; Parker, School, Middle Sierra , , Westfield Middle School, Westfield, IN; Westfield, Middle School, Westfield , , St. Thomas’ Episcopal School, Houston, TX; Houston, School, Episcopal St. Thomas’ , , The Hockaday School, Dallas, TX; Dallas, School, Hockaday The , , Rock Canyon High School, Highlands High School, Canyon Rock , , Orinda Intermediate School, Orinda, CA; Orinda, School, Intermediate Orinda , , duPont Manual High School, Louisville, KY; Louisville, Manual High School, duPont , , Columbus North High School, Columbus, IN; Columbus, School, High North Columbus , , Mauldin High School, Mauldin, SC; Mauldin, Mauldin High School, , , Brookville High School, Lynchburg, VA; Lynchburg, High School, Brookville , , St. Mark’s School of Texas, Dallas, TX; Dallas, of Texas, School St. Mark’s , , Dos Pueblos High School, Goleta, CA; Goleta, Dos Pueblos High School, , , Shawnee Mission North High School, Mission North Shawnee , , Burges High School, El Paso, TX; El Paso, High School, Burges , , Miami Palmetto Senior High School, High School, Senior Miami Palmetto , , Legacy High School, Mansfield, TX; Mansfield, High School, Legacy , , Westlake High School, Austin, TX; Austin, High School, Westlake , , James Enochs High School, Modesto, CA. Modesto, Enochs High School, James , , West Henderson High School, School, High Henderson West , , Maize South Middle School, Wichita, KS; Wichita, South Middle School, Maize , , Powell Middle School, Littleton, CO; Littleton, Middle School, Powell , , Pleasant Grove High School, Texarkana, TX; High School, Texarkana, Grove Pleasant , , Hidden Valley High School, Roanoke, VA; High School, Roanoke, Hidden Valley , , James Bowie High School, Austin, TX; Austin, High School, Bowie James , , Middlesex Middle School, Darien, CT. Darien, Middle School, Middlesex , , Salem High School, Salem, VA; Salem, High School, Salem , , Oviedo High School, Oviedo, FL; Oviedo, Oviedo High School, , , Hinsdale Central High School, Hinsdale, IL; Hinsdale, High School, Hinsdale Central , , Edmond Santa Fe High School, Edmond, OK; Edmond, High School, Fe Santa Edmond , , Altavista Combined School, Altavista, VA; Altavista, School, Combined Altavista , , Smoky Hill High School, Aurora, CO; Aurora, Smoky Hill High School, , , Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy, Melbourne, FL; Melbourne, Academy, Episcopal Holy Trinity , , Bellarmine College Preparatory School, School, Preparatory Bellarmine College , , Cupertino High School, Cupertino, CA; Cupertino, High School, Cupertino , , Arrowhead Christian Academy, Redlands, CA; Redlands, Academy, Christian Arrowhead , , Memorial High School, Houston, TX; Houston, High School, Memorial , , Loudoun Valley High School, Purcellville, VA; Purcellville, High School, Loudoun Valley , , Redondo Union High School, Redondo Beach, CA; Beach, Union High School, Redondo Redondo , El Paisano IL; Glenview, South High School, Glenbrook , Etruscan Hoofbeats AR; Bryant, High School, Bryant , Hornet Laconian Star Lone Marksmen Nugget Nuntius Oviedian Echo Palm FL; Pinecrest, Pilot MO; Kirkwood, High School, Kirkwood , Pioneer TX; El Paso, High School, Franklin Pride, CA; Orangevale, High School, Casa Roble Rampages, Reata Reflections Saga Summit Arena The Belltower The Buzzer The Crimson The Hawk The Image The Indian The KS; Park, Overland Theogony Tigrium Wings Wingspan The Triangle The Wingspan NC. Hendersonville, Finalists Crowns Yearbook School Middle View Eye Eagle CA; Los Angeles, School, Mirman , Farrier OIS Scenario VA; School, Fairfax, Middle Robinson , Sentry Stampede Prowl The Scrapbook The Yearbook Finalists Crown Yearbook School High VA; Roanoke, Spring High School, Cave , Accolade Archives Black & Gold CO; Ranch, AR; Rock, Little Pulaski Academy, Bruin, Carillon CA; San Jose, Cornerstones El Diablo , Northern Highlands Highlands Northern , , Northview High School, Northview , , Vernon Township High School, High School, Township Vernon , , Saratoga High School, Saratoga, CA; Saratoga, High School, Saratoga , , Cactus Shadows High School, School, High Cactus Shadows , , Shawnee Mission Northwest Mission Northwest Shawnee , , North Shore Middle School, Middle School, Shore North , , Sparkman High School, Harvest, AL; Harvest, Sparkman High School, , , Yavneh Academy of Dallas, Dallas, TX; of Dallas, Dallas, Academy Yavneh , , Flint Hill School, Oakton, VA; Oakton, Hill School, Flint , , Antelope High School, Antelope, CA; Antelope, High School, Antelope , , Loyola High School of Los Angeles, High School of Los Angeles, Loyola , , TC Robertson High School, Asheville, NC; Asheville, High School, Robertson TC , , Harvard-Westlake Middle School, Harvard-Westlake , , Marcus High School, Flower Mound, TX; Mound, Flower High School, Marcus , , The Episcopal School of Dallas, Dallas, TX; School of Dallas, Episcopal The , , Fauquier High School, Warrenton, VA; Warrenton, High School, Fauquier , , Grosse Pointe North High School, Grosse High School, Grosse North Pointe Grosse , , Granite Bay High School, Granite Bay, CA; Bay, Granite High School, Bay Granite ,

, Montgomery Blair High School, Blair High School, Montgomery , , St. John’s School, Houston, TX; School, Houston, St. John’s , , Francis Howell North High School, High School, North Howell Francis , , Francis Parker School, San Diego, CA; Diego, San School, Parker Francis , , Oviedo High School, Oviedo, FL; Oviedo, Oviedo High School, , , Burges High School, El Paso, TX; El Paso, High School, Burges , , Omaha Westside High School, Omaha, NE; Omaha, High School, Omaha Westside ,

, Chinese International School, Hong Kong, China. Hong School, International Chinese , , St. Louis Park High School, St. Louis Park, MN; St. Louis Park, High School, St. Louis Park , , Rock Bridge High School, Columbia, MO; Columbia, High School, Bridge Rock , , Lynbrook High School, San Jose, CA; San Jose, High School, Lynbrook , , Cactus Shadows High School, Cave Creek, AZ; Creek, Cave High School, Cactus Shadows , , Stony Point High School, Round Rock, TX; Rock, Round High School, Point Stony , , Staples High School, Westport, CT; High School, Westport, Staples , , The Hockaday School, Dallas, TX; Dallas, School, Hockaday The ,

The Lance The The Review The The Crimson Crier The Echo The Epic The Falconer The Gazette The Marquee The Messenger Northview The GA; Johns Creek, Rock The Falcon Saratoga The Times Titan The Stampede Bulldog Print The , Lakota East High School, Liberty Township, OH; Liberty Township, High School, East Lakota Spark, Silver Spring, Silver MD;

Silver Chips Prowler TX; Dallas, of Texas, School St. Mark’s , ReMarker High School, Shawnee, KS; Shawnee, High School, Northwest Passage Northwest Eagle Edition Eagle MO; St. Charles, CS Press Tale Lion’s Star North , Munster High School, Munster, IN; Munster, High School, Munster Crier, Fleece Golden Inklings MI; Fenton, High School, Fenton , InPrint Pointe North MI; Woods, Pointe High School Newspaper Crown Finalists Crown Newspaper School High Los Angeles, CA. Los Angeles, The Spectrum The Houston, TX; Houston, The ‘Stang Express ‘Stang The Middle School Newspaper Crown Finalists Crown Newspaper School Middle Windowpanes Xiao Hua Vibrato CA; Los Angeles, The Rough Draft Rough The Regional High School, Allendale, NJ; Allendale, High School, Regional Scribe The The Freshman Literary & Art Magazine & Art Literary Freshman The Vernon, NJ; Vernon, The Back Porch Review Back Porch The Shadows Magazine Shadows NY; Islip, West School, Islip High West Spectrum, New Orleans, LA; Orleans, New MD; Bethesda, High School, Johnson Walter , Spectator Cave Creek, AZ; Creek, Cave Student Awards Convocation

Friday, March 21, 2014 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Roone Arledge Auditorium, Alfred Lerner Hall 115th & Broadway

Gold & Silver Crown Awards This year 1,236 digital, newspapers, magazines and yearbooks published during the 2012-2013 academic year were eligible for judging in the 2014 Crown Awards Program. All entries were judged at Columbia University from December 14-16, 2013 by the Board of Crown Judges. Publications were judged on writing/editing, design, content, concept, photography, art and graphics. This year CSPA judged digital only, print magazine, print newspaper and print yearbook as well as - hybrid, a membership classified as a publication that works to combine their digital and print publications as one. While most hybrids grew from print newspapers that added digital platforms, several magazines became hybrids too. CSPA created the hybrid membership as a response to publications moving from print to pixels.

Announced by Edmund J. Sullivan, CSPA Executive Director, and presented by C. Bruce Watterson, Chair of CSPAA’s Committee on Judging Practices.

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