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