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CONTENTS 2 Convention Officials 3 Local Planning Team 3 Convention Sponsors 4 Exhibitors/Advertisers SEA the SIGHTS 7 Keynote Speaker 8 Featured Speakers 10 Special Activities 14 Awards 19 Thursday at a Glance 20 Thursday Sessions 24 Friday at a Glance 29 Write-off Rooms 30 Friday Sessions 48 Saturday at a Glance 53 Saturday Sessions 65 Sunday SEA the JOURNALISM 68 Speaker Bios #nhsjc 88 Floor Plans

COVER: EMP Museum and the Seattle Space Needle share acreage on the Seattle Center grounds. Photo by Tim Thompson. UPPER RIGHT: is one of the nation’s oldest continuously operated farmer’s markets, best known for its offering of fresh, regional seafood and beautiful flowers. Photo by Visit Seattle. CENTER: The Seattle , located at the waterfront, extends over Elliott Bay. Photo by Alabastro Photography. LOWER RIGHT: Students work together during a breakout session at last spring’s convention. Photo by Evert Nelson.

1 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions CONVENTION OFFICIALS

Linda S. Puntney, MJE JOURNALISM EDUCATION ASSOCIATION JEA Interim HEADQUARTERS STAFF Executive Director Linda S. Puntney, MJE, interim executive director Connie Fulkerson, CJE, administrative assistant Pam Boller, office manager/advertising director Kate Dubiel, web/database developer Lisa Terhaar, bookkeeper OFFICERS Mark Newton, MJE President: Mark Newton, MJE, Mountain Vista High School, Highlands Ranch, Colo. JEA President Vice President: Sarah Nichols, MJE, Whitney High School, Rocklin, Calif. Past President: Candace Perkins Bowen, MJE, Kent (Ohio) State University DIRECTORS Educational Initiatives: Megan Fromm, MJE, Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, Colo. Scholastic Press Rights: John Bowen, MJE, Kent (Ohio) State University Director at Large: Carrie Faust, MJE, Smoky Hill High School, Aurora, Colo. Director at Large: Stan Zoller, MJE, Buffalo Grove, Ill. Laura Widmer STANDING COMMITTEE CHAIRS NSPA Executive Awards: Casey Nichols, CJE, Rocklin (Calif.) High School Director Certification: Kim Green, MJE, Ball State University, Muncie, Ind. Contests: Nancy Y. Smith, MJE, Lafayette High School, Wildwood, Mo. Digital Media: Aaron Manfull, MJE, Francis Howell North High School, St. Charles, Mo. Nominations: Candace Perkins Bowen, MJE, Kent (Ohio) State University Professional Outreach: Jonathan Rogers, MJE, Iowa City (Iowa) High School Publications/Public Relations: Evelyn Lauer, MJE, Niles West High School, Skokie, Ill.

Jane Kirtley, NATIONAL SCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION NSPA Interim HEADQUARTERS STAFF President Laura Widmer, executive director Gary Lundgren, associate director Amber Billings, communications director Ashley Tilley, membership outreach coordinator Olivia Rezac, communications intern Roy Aker and Julia Bauer, volunteers BOARD OF DIRECTORS Sandra Coyer, MJE, Interim President: Jane Kirtley, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Local Team Chair Treasurer: Scott M. Libin, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Board Members: Jeanne Acton, University Interscholastic League, Austin, Texas Michelle Coro, CJE, Desert Vista High School, Phoenix Peter Bobkowski, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan. Gayle Golden, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Laura York Guy, Shawnee, Kan. Laurie Hansen, CJE, Stillwater (Minn.) Area High School Ron Johnson, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind. Meghan Percival, MJE, McLean (Va.) High School Sara Quinn, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kan. Ann Visser, MJE, Pella, Iowa

2 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions SPONSORS/LOCAL TEAM

Chair: Sandra Coyer, MJE, Puyallup High School, Puyallup Angelo Comeaux, Mountlake Terrace High School, Mountlake Terrace Vince DeMiero, Mountlake Terrace DIAMOND High School, Mountlake Terrace Chris Grasseschi, Bishop Blanchet High School, Seattle Annie Green, CJE, Peak High School, Snohomish Anne Hayman, MJE, Arlington High School, Arlington Casey Henry, Northshore School District, Bothell Tom Kaup, MJE, Auburn High School, GOLD Auburn Miguel Llanos, Overlake School, Redmond Kay Locey, CJE, retired, Gov. John R. Rogers High School, Puyallup Pia Longinotti, CJE, Freeman High School, Rockford SILVER Dave Riggs, Wenatchee High School, Wenatchee Kathy Schrier, MJE, Executive Director, Washington Journalism Education Association, Seattle Teresa Scribner, CJE, Cleveland High School, Seattle BRONZE Michael Smith, Ballard High School, Seattle Nancy E. Smith, CJE, Hanford High School, Richland Kevin Smyth, CJE, Emerald Ridge High School, South Hill D  J  M C  Fern Valentine, MJE, retired, Auburn High School, Auburn Kirsten Vesely, CJE, Inglemoor High School, Kenmore Jacoy Willis, , FRIEND Seattle

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Arizona State University Cronkite Jostens, Booth 413, Page 44, back cover Media and Communication, Booth School of Journalism and Mass Kansas State University, Booth 410 312, Page 18 Communication, Booth 304 Lifetouch, Booth 315 University of Kansas — William Allen Balfour, Booths 212-213, Pages 28, 52 Meek School of Journalism and New White School of Journalism, Booth Ball State University Journalism Media, Booth 115 314 Workshops, Booth 309, Page 57 Missouri School of Journalism, Booth University of Maryland — Philip Merrill Central Washington University, Booth 408 College of Journalism, Booth 306 105 Northwestern University Medill School University of Montana School of Colorado State University, Booth 117 of Journalism, Media, Integrated Journalism, Page 63 Drake University — School of Journalism Marketing, Booth 100, Page 5, 73 University of , Booth 316 and Mass Communication, Booth 409 Savannah College of Art and Design, Walsworth, Booths 101, 201, Page 66 Friesens, Booth 211, Page 23 Booth 414 Western Washington University, Booth Goodheart-Willcox Publisher, Booth 311 School Paper Express, Booth 411, Page 204 Herff Jones, Booths 301, 401, Page 12 39 Wisconsin Indian Education Association/ Issuu, Booth 112, Page 80 SchoolPrinting.com, Page 6 Veterans for Peace, Booth 205 Ithaca College Park Scholar Program, SNO Sites, Booth 313 Write the World, Booth 407 Booth 113, inside front cover, Page 43 Temple University, Lew Klein College of Youth Radio, Booth 106

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6 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions KEYNOTE SPEAKER TIM HARROWER 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Hall 4E, Convention Center

Tim Harrower has been an award-winning editor, designer and columnist at newspapers from New York (The Times-Union) to Portland (The Oregonian). He became a journalist in the 1980s after his first career choice — rock ’n’ roll superlegend — fizzled out.

Harrower’s first book, “The Newspaper Designer’s Handbook,” has been a fixture in newsrooms and classrooms around the world, translated into Russian, Chinese and Polish. And his “Inside Reporting” is the most popular newswriting textbook in the country.

He hosts journalism workshops, consults on redesigns, dabbles in multimedia and composes music in his cottage deep in the Oregon woods.

CONVENTION GUIDELINES How to get the JEA/ These guidelines are established to ensure that all convention participants have NSPA convention mobile a safe and enjoyable stay in Seattle. app onto your device: A midnight convention curfew will be in effect Wednesday through Saturday. Students should be in their rooms, making no excessive noise, at that time. The hotel 1. Download the free reserves the right to remove any hotel guests who make excessive noise or create similar Guidebook app. disruptions. Advisers/chaperones will be responsible for enforcing the nightly convention curfew. 2. Search No students will be admitted to the convention without a school-approved adviser/ chaperone. At least one chaperone/adviser is required for every 12 students. It is “JEA/NSPA understood that by the act of registering students for the convention, advisers assume Spring 2017” responsibility for their students’ behavior and well-being during the convention. and Chaperones should recognize they and their schools will be held liable for any download damage to hotel facilities incurred by students under their supervision. Rudeness to hotel guests and employees; misuse of or reckless behavior on the the guide. elevators; excessive noise; destruction of property; or any other inappropriate behavior is not acceptable and can lead to expulsion from the hotel and/or criminal prosecution. Should individual students, advisers or delegations prove disruptive, JEA/NSPA officials reserve the right to declare all fees forfeited and to send delegates home at their own expense. Breaking convention rules may result in disqualification from all contests and forfeiture of any awards won. Sponsored Drinking or possessing alcoholic beverages, or possession/use of illegal drugs is by Friesens absolutely prohibited. All students are expected to wear their convention name badges at all times while in the convention hotel. When outside the hotel, travel in groups. Your personal safety is our concern. Out of respect to instructors and the intellectual property of their sessions, please do not record presentations without first asking permission from the speaker(s) to do so.

Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE — 7 FEATURED SPEAKERS COREY duBROWA ESMY JIMENEZ Corey duBrowa is senior vice president of global Esmy Jimenez, born in Mexico but raised in communications and international public affairs rural Washington, is an undocumented mestiza for Starbucks. He leads the development of scholar, organizer, and now journalist. After strategies to enhance and protect the company’s graduating from University of Southern brand and corporate image: brand marketing in , she moved to Seattle, where campaigns, product launches, executive thought she is an editor for the Sightline Institute. A leadership and employee engagement. He former Seattle Globalist apprentice, her work has served on the Board of Advisers for the USC Annenberg Center on appeared in La Raze del Noroeste, Femme Feminism and other Communication Leadership & Policy in 2016. He holds a bachelor’s publications. degree in journlaism from the University of Oregon. Applying an intersectional lens in media, 10 a.m. Saturday, Why public relations is the career of choice, 11 a.m. Saturday, Room 3B, CC Room 3B, CC ALLIE JONES SUSAN ENFIELD Allie Jones is a graphic designer, adman and Susan Enfield, Ed.D., is in her fifth year as occasional video producer. When she’s not superintendent for Highline Public Schools in hunched over her laptop, she’s usually sipping Burien, Washington. She previously served as Seattle coffee on her way to an art museum, interim superintendent for Seattle Public Schools. her second home. Whether it’s in curating her Enfield began her career teaching English, ELL Instagram feed (@alliejjones) or launching an ad and journalism in the San Francisco Bay area. She campaign, Jones is passionate about making the student taught for Nick Ferentinos at Homestead world a more beautifully designed place. H.S. and succeeded him as adviser to The Epitaph. A champion Let Pinterest die, 1 p.m. Saturday, Room 3B, CC for students’ First Amendment rights, Enfield was the first school superintendent to serve on the Student Press Law Center board. SHARON LACEY Her article, “Scholastic Journalism: Skills for the 21st Century” was Sharon Lacey had a 10-year career in broadcast published in School Administrator magazine in 2013. Enfield was journalism, holding on-air and behind-the-scenes JEA’s 2012 Administrator of the Year. positions in several radio and television stations Administrators and assertive student journalism: Embrace it, 9 in the Pacific Northwest. She also enjoyed a 23- a.m. Friday, Room 3AB, CC year career as a middle school teacher, winning several national and state awards for her creative PETER HALEY teaching methods. She travels the world as a Peter Haley grew up in Tacoma, Washington, stand-up comedian and motivational humorist. studied science at UC Berkeley, but forged his Friday adviser luncheon, Cirrus, 35th Floor, Sheraton career from a passion for photography. He’s shot Turn your challenges into opportunities, 2 p.m. Friday, for The News Tribune (Tacoma) since 1986. Like Metropolitan B, 3rd Floor, Sheraton all photographers, he’s won plenty of awards (photographers love contests), and his work JERRY LARGE has appeared in coffee-table photo books. Jerry Large’s column appears each Monday He has been embedded with the army in Iraq three times and and Thursday in Local section of The Seattle Afghanistan once. His favorite things to shoot: live events; people Times. A New Mexico native, he has worked for doing ordinary things; no posed photos! Outside of family, his newspapers in four states doing everything from passions include skiing, and ... well ... more skiing. emptying trash cans after school to supervising Techniques in news photography, 11 a.m. Friday, Room 4C1-2, CC reporters. Journalism gives him a chance to explore how people interact in societies and it BETTINA HANSEN allows him to exercise his other pleasure, writing. His column is Bettina Hansen is a staff photographer at The the latest phase of a 35-year career at The Seattle Times. Seattle Times who shoots news, sports, features You will write our nation’s future, 10 a.m. Saturday, Room 4C4, and video for print and online. Originally from CC Phoenix, Hansen has interned at The Arizona Republic, East Valley Tribune, The (Baton Rouge) Advocate, and has worked as a staff photography at The Hartford Courant in Connecticut. Breaking into visual journalism, 2 p.m. Friday, Room 3AB, CC

8 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions FEATURED SPEAKERS

LORI MATSUKAWA ANDREA OTANEZ Lori Matsukawa anchors KING 5 News at 5, Andrea Otanez teaches multiplatform journalism 6:30 and 11. Before joining KING 5 in 1983, she at the University of Washington, where she also anchored and reported in Redding, California; specializes in topics related to diversity and Latino Portland, Oregon, and Seattle. Memorable stories representation in media. In her publishing career, include Gov. Gary Locke’s first trade mission to she has worked as an editor at The Seattle Times, China, Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and a columnist for The Seattle Times editorial page, Vancouver and her personal favorite – pulling and as a book editor for the University of New 9-Gs in an F-16. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford Mexico Press, where she edited books in Chicano studies. She is University (B.A.) and from the University of Washington (M.A.). In inspired every day by “The Elements of Journalism” and strives to 1974, Matsukawa was Miss Teenage America, offering her a help her students understand the power of language, especially chance to travel outside her native Hawaii and influencing her when covering race and difference. decision to become a journalist. Journalism: To serve and engage, 9 a.m. Friday, Room 4C1-2, CC The evolving world of , 1 p.m. Friday, Metropolitan B, 3rd Floor, Sheraton ROSS REYNOLDS Ross Reynolds is KUOW’s executive producer for TRAVIS MAYFIELD community engagement. Before that he was Travis Mayfield is the director of digital strategy a KUOW program host for 16 years. His awards for Q13 News in Seattle. He also serves as the on- include the 2011 Public Radio News Directors air social media reporter and host for Q13 News First Place in the call-in category for “Living in “This Morning.” Mayfield has worked in broadcast a White City.” He also has been KUOW’s news news for nearly 20 years at both the local and director, program director and he hosted the network levels. weekly KCTS-TV interview program “Upon Reflection.” Reynolds was news director at KBOO Radio in Portland, Oregon, and news/ The changing face of broadcast news, noon Friday, public affairs director at WCUW Radio in Worcester, Massachusetts. Metropolitan B, 3rd Floor, Sheraton Reynolds has been in journalism fellowships through the East West Center to Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and the Kingdom of Tonga and through RIAS Berlin to Berlin, Brussels and Prague. PATRICIA MURPHY How to do a better interview, 10 a.m. Friday, Room 4C1-2, CC Patricia Murphy is a feature reporter for KUOW, where she has worked since 2000. Murphy is part of two collaborative projects focusing on LINDA SHAW military and veterans. The American Homefront Linda Shaw is an assistant metro editor at The Project is a partnership between public radio Seattle Times, where she was part of the team stations KUOW, WUNC, KPCC and the Corporation that put together “Under Our Skin.” She also for Public Broadcasting. Back at Base is a oversees Education Lab, an innovative project collaboration between NPR and seven member stations including that pairs in-depth reporting and engagement KUOW. Murphy is an award-winning radio journalist. Prior to on education. Prior to that, she worked as an covering veterans and military affairs she reported on social issues education reporter and in 2008, won a first-place and criminal justice. Her first job in radio news was at WBUR award in beat reporting from the Education Writers Association. Boston in 1994. One Story: ‘Under Our Skin’, 9-10:50 a.m. Friday, Metropolitan A, How to succeed in a general-assignment newsroom, 11 a.m. 3rd Floor, Sheraton Friday, Room 3AB, CC ASHLEY STEWART Ashley Stewart is technology and finance reporter for the Puget Sound Business Journal. Before landing at PSBJ, she covered Washington state government for two legislative sessions as an Olympia bureau reporter for KUOW Public Radio, TVW and The Seattle Times.

Getting your foot in the door, 10 a.m. Friday, Room 3AB, CC

Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE — 9 SPECIAL ACTIVITIES

WRITE-OFF CONTEST CHECK-IN REGISTRATION AND PUBLICATION EXCHANGE If both your Write-off registration and JEA Interested in seeing what kind of work other TRADE SHOW membership fees have been paid, your school’s high schools around the nation are producing? Write-off packet containing student contest Stop by the exchange tables to see the latest MEDIA TOUR CHECK-IN tickets, additional instructions and contest editions of high school publications from coast The media tour check-in table is located in the room assignments may be picked up at the to coast. Feel free to drop off a few copies of Convention Center lobby near the Convention Write-off desk. your media and pick up some you like. Place exit. Please check in at the designated If you have not paid, you must do so at 1 p.m. Thursday through 7 p.m. Saturday, Hall media-tour time listed on the website and in this time. Noon Friday is the deadline for 4D, CC the registration booklet. Tour buses will leave substitutions in preregistered categories. No from this area. new entries will be accepted at the convention. 7:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Thursday, Lobby near the Lost tickets will be replaced for $5. After noon ADVISER EVENTS Convention Place entrance, 1st Floor, CC Friday, come to Juniper, 2nd Floor, Sheraton, for ticket replacement. DAY OF DOING CONVENTION CHECK-IN AND All broadcast contest entrants who meet The Day of Doing provides an opportunity Friday morning must have their contest ID for advisers to practice what they teach and REGISTRATION labels before their contest begins. to rediscover their love for journalism while In addition to the trade show and convention Desk open: 1-7 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m.- noon working with advisers from across the country. registration/check-in, turn in your Best of Show Friday, Hall 4F, CC; noon-3 p.m. Friday, Juniper, Pick a day during the convention to DO entries here. Speakers may pick up their name 2nd Floor, Sheraton JOURNALISM. We will meet at the start of each badges at a nearby table. Also in the exhibit day to introduce you to other participants and hall is the lost and found, Write-off contest and provide coverage options. on-site critique check-in and convention shirt ON-SITE CRITIQUES 8 a.m. Thursday, and 7:30 a.m. Friday and distribution. Schools scheduled for critiques should bring up Saturday, Spruce, 2nd Floor, Sheraton 1-7 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, to three different issues of newspapers/ Hall 4F, CC; 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Hall 4D magazines, or the most recent literary magazine Registration Desk, CC or yearbook. Some staffs also choose to bring NEW ADVISER CONVENTION mockups of the current yearbook. For broadcast ORIENTATION critiques, bring a thumb drive, DVD or upload to Advisers attending their first JEA/NSPA TRADE SHOW EXHIBITS YouTube. For online critiques, exchange a URL. Dozens of national and local vendors and convention should consider attending a short Since critiques are 30 minutes, it is important to colleges will educate and entertain during orientation meeting to get a general overview be on time. Check at the NSPA desk to confirm the trade show exhibit. Find out what’s new, and explanation of convention events and how your time and room assignment. chat with company representatives, pick up to get the most out of them. Noon-3:30 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. information and have some fun. 6:45-7:15 p.m. Thursday, Hall 4E, CC Saturday, Hall 4E, CC 1-7 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, Hall 4F, CC ADVISER KICKOFF RECEPTION JEA BOOKSTORE After the keynote speech, all advisers are Check out the new books, as well as popular welcome to attend this reception to socialize CONVENTION SHIRT DISTRIBUTION best-sellers, at the JEA Bookstore. Nearly 300 If your school purchased the official convention with new colleagues and relax with old friends. items relating to journalism are available, shirts through online registration, you may pick New and first-time attendee advisers will have including textbooks, curriculum development, them up here. Large orders will be bundled a chance to meet the local convention team, yearbook, newspaper, design, photography, together and should be picked up by the plus JEA and NSPA board members and staffs. writing, desktop publishing, new media, adviser. There may be extra shirts to buy if you Sponsor for this event is Issuu. advertising and broadcast. Did you forget Write- did not pre-order. Quantities are limited. Shirts 9-10:30 p.m. Thursday, Room 4C1-2, CC off supplies? Check here to buy stylebooks, must be picked up no later than noon Friday. paper, pens, pencils, pencil sharpeners, flash 1-7 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, Hall ADVISER RECEPTION AND SPLC drives and erasers. Supplies are limited so shop 4F, CC early. Students are welcome. FUNDRAISER 1-7 p.m. Thursday; 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday and Save room for dessert. Advisers are invited to NSPA BEST OF SHOW 7:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Room 4C3, CC this social gathering featuring a fundraiser Will your staff bring home the trophy this year? to benefit the Student Press Law Center. The See how your publication fares against others CONTINUING EDUCATION UNIT auction will feature sports memorabilia, signed represented at the convention. High school books, Seattle-related food and gifts, art and Attendance certificates signed by both publications are eligible if at least one student other interesting items. Credit/debit cards, organizations’ leaders are available in the representative is attending the convention, and check or cash will be accepted as payment for adviser tote bags, in the JEA Bookstore and on junior high publications can enter if the adviser auction items. Those who are judging Write-off the convention website at no charge. These is a registered delegate at the convention. Enter contests are especially encouraged to attend certificates are for advisers only and do not your newspaper, newsmagazine, literary arts after they finish judging. Sponsored by Issuu. have an affiliation with a university. magazine, broadcast production, website or 8:30-11 p.m. Friday, Metropolitan B, 3rd Floor, 1-7 p.m. Thursday; 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday and yearbook at the Best of Show desk. Winners will Sheraton 7:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Room 4C3, CC be announced at the Satruday award ceremony. Desk open: 1-7 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m.- 4 p.m. Friday, Hall 4F, CC

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ADVISER HOSPITALITY MEDIA SWAP SHOPS Meet with your colleagues from across the STUDENT ACTIVITIES Newspaper, newsmagazine, yearbook, literary country in the adviser hospitality suite, a hot magazine, website and broadcast Swap Shops spot for advisers. Local committee members will NATIONAL JOURNALISM QUIZ BOWL are prime opportunities for preregistered be available to recommend sightseeing, dining A quiz bowl-style competition with questions students to share useful ideas and concepts and entertainment options. Friday refreshments related to current events, pop culture, with others. Bring at least nine samples of your are sponsored by Temple University Lew Klein journalism and civics is part of the learning and newspaper, newsmagazine or literary magazine College of Media and Communication. fun at this JEA/NSPA convention. Registered or one copy of your yearbook. Broadcast stories 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday and 7:30 a.m.-1 p.m. four-person teams will take a written qualifying and websites may be shared if students bring Saturday, Room 4C3, CC test at 8 a.m. Friday. The test scores will be used a laptop. to seed the top teams that will compete in the Each delegate attending Swap Shops FRIDAY ADVISER LUNCHEON live buzzer rounds 8-9:50 a.m. Saturday. The must have a ticket, which will be in the school Take a breather from the convention to socialize list of qualifying teams will be posted by 11 registration packet. and to laugh. Luncheon speaker will be a.m. Friday at the Write-off desk in Hall 4F, CC, 8 and 9 p.m. Friday, Windows, 2nd Floor, motivational humorist Sharon Lacey, a stand-up at the JEA Bookstore in Room 4C3, CC, and on Sheraton comic and former media specialist in Portland, Facebook and Twitter. Oregon. Fern Valentine, a longtime adviser Test: 8 a.m. Friday, Windows, 2nd Floor, LIVE MUSIC and First Amendment freedom fighter, will be Sheraton; Buzzer Rounds: 8-10:50 a.m. Saturday, Live music in the ballroom. Get a flavor of honored. Preregistration through WJEA was Willow, 2nd Floor, Sheraton Seattle with music from current local bands required. Please bring your ticket. popular in this city. Hang out, listen, dance and Noon-1:30 p.m. Friday, Cirrus, Pike Street Tower, JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR have a good time with friends new and old. 35th Floor, Sheraton MEET AND GREET 8-11 p.m. Friday, Grand Ballroom, 2nd Floor, Per feedback from contest participants, we are Sheraton ADVISER RECOGNITION LUNCHEON offering the first-ever meet and greet for 2017 JEA and NSPA will present awards at this special Journalist of the Year national candidates (state TRIVIA NIGHT event. New and renewing Certified Journalism winners) and judges to come together. This is a For individuals or team competition. Test your Educators and Master Journalism Educators will chance to network and reflect with each other knowledge of current events, popular college, be recognized. Speakers will include Nancy Y. about the contest and future plans. sports and other topics. Prizes for the winners. Smith, Yearbook Adviser of the Year, and Alyssa 10-10:50 a.m. Saturday, Room 307, CC Check your phones at the door. Boehringer, Broadcast Adviser of the Year, who 8-10 p.m. Saturday, Willow, 2nd Floor, Sheraton will provide a video. There also will be special BREAK WITH A PRO presentation honoring the 2016 Carl Towley If you preregistered for this career-exploration Award winner, Nick Ferentinos. event with media professionals, please AWARDS CEREMONIES Preregistration was required. Please bring check your ticket for your assigned time and your ticket. Sponsors include Herff Jones and table number. Tickets will be in the school NSPA AWARDS CEREMONY Northwestern University Medill School of registration packet. Winners of the NSPA Best of Show, NSPA Journalism, Media and Integrated Marketing Students are encouraged to develop Pacemakers and national individual awards will Communications. questions on career preparation requirements, be honored at this ceremony. JEA and NSPA Noon-2:20 p.m. Saturday, Metropolitan nature of work, salary-level expectations and encourage everyone to celebrate all winners. Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Sheraton job availability. They also may inquire about 3:30-5:30 p.m. Saturday, Hall 4E, CC how to handle issues or situations in their work ADMINISTRATOR ACTIVITY as student journalists. JEA AWARDS AND CLOSING 9 and 10 a.m. Friday, Hall 4E, CC CEREMONY A CONVERSATION ABOUT LUNCH WITH THE JEA PRESIDENT Winners of JEA Write-off contest, National SCHOLASTIC MEDIA Journalist of the Year compeition, Aspiring Ten students, who have been selected for this Young Journalist and Student Journalist Impact JEA President Mark Newton invites all school event, will meet with Mark Newton administrators to an informal discussion of the Award will be recognized during the closing for lunch and a press conference in the JEA ceremony. You also will see a slideshow of ultimate 21st century educational opportunity: suite. Participants will have the president’s journalism and student media. Participants will convention highlights. You may pick up Write- attention for ideas and suggestions related off entries after the ceremony. Entries not meet in the Sheraton lobby before going to the to student and adviser needs in scholastic JEA Suite. picked up will be mailed. If you receive entries journalism. Students are encouraged to from other schools in your envelope, contact 4-5:30 p.m. Friday, Sheraton Lobby, then to JEA produce some kind of piece based on the Suite JEA at [email protected]. interview for publication at home in their 8:30-10:30 a.m. Sunday, Hall 4E, CC student media. JEA will promote the finished pieces on the organization’s website and social media accounts. Noon-1:50 p.m. Friday, JEA Suite

Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE — 11 Kudos to the 28 middle and high school yearbooks created by Herff Jones staffs and recognized as NSPA’s 2016 Pacemaker Finalists — and to staffs everywhere that created yearbooks loved by their readers for their story telling, design, coverage, photography and more. Stop by our booth to see lots of great yearbooks, meet other yerds and score great swag. inspiring

YEARBOOK. IT’S WHAT WE DO. AND WHO WE ARE.

12 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions Kudos to the 28 middle and high school yearbooks created by Herff Jones staffs and recognized as NSPA’s 2016 Pacemaker Finalists — and to staffs everywhere that created yearbooks loved by their readers for their story telling, design, coverage, photography and more. Stop by our booth to see lots of great yearbooks, meet other yerds and score great swag. inspiring

YEARBOOK. IT’S WHAT WE DO. AND WHO WE ARE.

Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE — 13 2017 ONLINE PACEMAKER FINALISTS NSPA congratulates the finalists and winners presented on Saturday, April 8, 2017; national winners announced at that time Roundup The Broadview Sequoit Media Mill Valley News Dart News Online Wingspan Brophy College Convent of the Antioch (Illinois) Comm. HS Mill Valley HS St. Teresa’s Academy Liberty HS Preparatory School Sacred Heart HS Shawnee, Kansas Kansas City, Missouri Frisco, Texas in its annual Pacemaker competitions Phoenix, Arizona San Francisco Metea Media Metea Valley HS Tonka News The Review Online El Estoque Online The Foothill Aurora, Illinois John Carroll School Winnetonka HS St. John’s School 2016 YEARBOOK PACEMAKER FINALISTS Monta Vista HS Dragon Press Bel Air, Maryland Kansas City, Missouri Houston, Texas presented on Saturday, April 8, 2017; national winners announced at that time Cupertino, California Foothill Technology HS HiLite Online Ventura, California Carmel (Indiana) HS Wayland Student The Kirkwood Call The Red Ledger Hornet The Prowl The Scrapbook The Howl Cornerstones Lair Blue Devil Hub Press Network Kirkwood (Missouri) HS Lovejoy HS Bryant (Arkansas) HS Powell MS Westfield (Indiana) MS Southwest Career and Hockaday School Lake Braddock HS Davis (California) Sr. HS HHSToday.com The Little Hawk Wayland (Massachusetts) HS Lucas, Texas Littleton, Colorado Technical Academy Dallas Burke, Virginia Hillsborough HS Iowa City (Iowa) HS FHNtoday.com Nugget Indian Las Vegas The Oracle Tampa, Florida Knight Errant Francis Howell North HS The Rider Online Cupertino (California) HS Golden Images Shawnee Mission North HS Marksmen Odyssey Archer School for Girls West Side Story Benilde-St. Margaret’s School St. Charles, Missouri Legacy HS Chaparral HS Overland Park, Kansas Tesserae St. Mark’s School of Texas Chantilly (Virginia) HS Los Angeles Odyssey Online Iowa City (Iowa) West HS St. Louis Park, Minnesota Mansfield, Texas Jamboree Parker, Colorado Corning-Painted Post HS Dallas Clarke Central HS Southwest Shadow Toby Johnson MS Hauberk Corning, New York The Guardian The Boiling Point Athens, Georgia The Mustang Moon Echo Southwest Career and TRNWIRED Elk Grove, California Eagle Eye View Shawnee Mission East HS Hoofbeats Westfield HS Shalhevet HS Mount Vernon (Iowa) HS St. Louis Park (Minnesota) HS Technical Academy Prince George (Virginia) HS Sierra MS Prairie Village, Kansas Invictus Burges HS Chantilly, Virginia Los Angeles 3TEN Las Vegas, Nevada Ursus Parker, Colorado Ward Melville HS El Paso, Texas Decatur (Georgia) HS The Harbinger Online RubicOnline Granite Bay (California) HS Lair East Setauket, New York Sentry The Paly Voice Shawnee Mission East HS St. Paul (Minnesota) The Eagle’s Tale Trillium Shawnee (Kansas) Triune Robinson MS Palo Alto (California) HS The Prowler Prairie Village, Kansas Academy and Summit Canyon (Texas) HS Farrier Trumbull (Connecticut) HS Mission Northwest HS Westwind Trinity HS Fairfax, Virginia Starr’s Mill HS School Mirman School West Henderson HS Euless, Texas Verde Magazine Fayetteville, Georgia Coppell Student Media Los Angeles Greyhound Stampede Hendersonville, Columbian Palo Alto (California) HS Coppell (Texas) HS Lyman HS Maize South MS North Carolina The Tribute George C. Marshall HS Wingspan Longwood, Florida Wichita, Kansas Heritage HS Falls Church, Virginia James C. Enochs HS Paw Prints Frisco, Texas Modesto, California Legend Fentonian Ursuline Academy The Clan William R. Boone HS Fenton (Michigan) HS Cincinnati Buffalo McLean (Virginia) HS 2016 NEWSPAPER PACEMAKERS Rampages Orlando, Florida Haltom HS presented on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016, in Indianapolis Casa Roble HS PAWESEHI MUNHINOTU Haltom City, Texas Saga Orangevale, California Panther Parkway West HS Gresham (Oregon) HS Loudoun Valley HS WINNERS The JagWire Featherduster Eye of the Tiger The Harbinger Nighthawk H.B. Plant HS Ballwin, Missouri Reata Purcellville, Virginia The Titan Times Mill Valley HS Westlake HS Roseville (California) HS Shawnee Mission East HS NewsMagazine Wings Tampa, Florida Lion’s Roar Memorial HS Antelope (California) HS Shawnee, Kansas Austin, Texas Prairie Village, Kansas First Flight HS Arrowhead Christian Le Flambeau Christ Presbyterian Houston Aquila The Saratoga Falcon Kill Devil Hills, Academy The Stampede Notre Dame de Sion HS Academy Freedom HS Verde The Northwest Passage The ReMarker Saratoga (California) HS Paladin North Carolina Redlands, California J.W. Mitchell HS Kansas City, Missouri Nashville, Tennessee The Lair South Riding, Virginia Palo Alto (California) HS Shawnee Mission St. Mark’s School of Texas Kapaun Mount Carmel HS Trinity, Florida Leander (Texas) HS Northwest HS Dallas The Lake Wichita, Kansas The Eagle Angle Details Pioneer Lone Star The Apollo The Broadview Shawnee, Kansas Standley Lake HS Allen (Texas) HS Whitney HS Jabberwokk Kirkwood (Missouri) HS James Bowie HS The Arena Colonial Forge HS Convent of the Raider Rumbler Westminster, Colorado Communicator Rocklin, California Darlington School Austin, Texas Legacy HS Stafford, Virginia Sacred Heart HS On the Record Rouse HS Community HS Digit Rome, Georgia Excalibur Mansfield, Texas San Francisco duPont Manual HS Leander, Texas The Lion’s Tale Ann Arbor, Michigan Gorzycki MS Sword & Shield Francis Howell North HS The Vespa Legacy Louisville, Kentucky Oviedo (Florida) HS Austin, Texas Saugus (California) HS Etruscan St. Charles, Missouri Kealing MS Dragon Potomac Falls HS J. Hop Times Prowler The Echo Glenbrook (Illinois) Austin, Texas Round Rock (Texas) HS Sterling, Virginia John Hopkins MS Uncaged Stony Point HS Odyssey St. Louis Park (Minnesota) HS The Blazer Prowler South HS The Legend St. Petersburg, Florida Stockbridge (Michigan) HS Round Rock, Texas Clarke Central HS Timberline HS Pioneer MS Lafayette HS El Paisano The Hawk Legend Athens, Georgia The View Lacey, Washington Tustin, California Paragon Wildwood, Missouri Westlake HS Pleasant Grove HS Brookfield (Wisconsin) Carpe Diem Marquette Messenger Uncaged Park Hill South HS Munster (Indiana) HS Austin, Texas Texarkana, Texas Central HS Decatur (Georgia) HS Marquette HS Freedom HS Blade Riverside, Missouri Hawkeye The Black and Gold Legacy Chesterfield, Missouri South Riding, Virginia Woodward Academy Mountlake Terrace Rock Canyon HS Quiver Green Valley HS The Lonestar Tiger The HiLite College Park, Georgia Image (Washington) HS Highlands Ranch, Colorado Lake Central HS Henderson, Nevada Vista Ridge HS Texas HS Carmel (Indiana) HS Globe FINALISTS Lafayette HS St. John, Indiana Cedar Park, Texas Texarkana, Texas Clayton (Missouri) HS The CS Press The Triangle Wildwood, Missouri Puma Press The Little Hawk Cactus Shadows HS Columbus (Indiana) North HS HS Iowa City (Iowa) HS The Kirkwood Call Cave Creek, Arizona The Exonian Seattle Kirkwood (Missouri) HS Inklings Phillips Exeter Academy 2016 MAGAZINE FINALISTS 2016 BROADCAST WINNERS The Express El Estoque Crown Point (Indiana) HS Exeter, New Hampshire presented on Saturday, April 8, 2017; national winners announced at that time presented on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016, in Indianapolis Blue Valley Northwest HS North Star Monta Vista HS Shadows: Masque Rapier Soupstone WINNERS MHS1 Southside Scoop/PHS-TV Overland Park, Kansas Francis Howell North HS Cupertino, California Crier Pilot’s Log Cactus Shadows HS Marist School, Atlanta Yorktown HS Nighthawk News McKinney (Texas) HS Park Hill South HS St. Charles, Missouri Munster (Indiana) HS Hasbrouck Heights Cave Creek, Arizona Yorktown Heights, New York Rocky Heights MS Riverside, Missouri Standard The Town Crier (New Jersey) HS Silent Voices Littleton, Colorado CHS Wired Blue Valley Southwest HS Spark Paul Revere Charter MS Black & White Connotations Woodward Academy Roars and Whispers Cody (Wyoming) HS Frisco ISD-TV Overland Park, Kansas Lakota East HS Los Angeles Johnston (Iowa) HS Fayetteville (Arkansas) HS College Park, Georgia Providence Sr. HS CCNN Live Frisco (Texas) ISD Career & Liberty Township, Ohio Charlotte, North Carolina Christopher Columbus HS FINALISTS Technical Education Center Footnotes Spectator Miami WAHS News Haas Hall Academy Walter Johnson HS PenSoul American Heritage School NTV-North Television Fayetteville, Arkansas Bethesda, Maryland Bismarck (North Dakota) HS Mustang Magazine Plantation, Florida McKinney (Texas) North HS Norwood The Rambler The Phoenix Vibrato (Massachusetts) HS DTV News Live Sierra Canyon School Townsend Harris HS The Hockaday School Davison (Michigan) HS The Pacemaker has recognized outstanding student journalism since 1927. Entries in the Chatsworth, California Flushing, New York Dallas Wave TV contest are judged on coverage and content, quality of writing and reporting, layout/design and Summerville (South Tiger Broadcasting The Unmasking Galaxy Inkblots Carolina) HS Lee’s Summit (Missouri) HS photography, art and graphics. The Pacemaker recognizes the best in scholastic journalism. Henry W. Grady HS Brighton HS The John Cooper School Pacemaker finalists break new ground in student journalism and truly set the pace for other news organizations to emulate. Atlanta Rochester, New York The Woodlands, Texas

14 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions 2017 ONLINE PACEMAKER FINALISTS NSPA congratulates the finalists and winners presented on Saturday, April 8, 2017; national winners announced at that time Roundup The Broadview Sequoit Media Mill Valley News Dart News Online Wingspan Brophy College Convent of the Antioch (Illinois) Comm. HS Mill Valley HS St. Teresa’s Academy Liberty HS Preparatory School Sacred Heart HS Shawnee, Kansas Kansas City, Missouri Frisco, Texas in its annual Pacemaker competitions Phoenix, Arizona San Francisco Metea Media Metea Valley HS The Patriot Tonka News The Review Online El Estoque Online The Foothill Aurora, Illinois John Carroll School Winnetonka HS St. John’s School 2016 YEARBOOK PACEMAKER FINALISTS Monta Vista HS Dragon Press Bel Air, Maryland Kansas City, Missouri Houston, Texas presented on Saturday, April 8, 2017; national winners announced at that time Cupertino, California Foothill Technology HS HiLite Online Ventura, California Carmel (Indiana) HS Wayland Student The Kirkwood Call The Red Ledger Hornet The Prowl The Scrapbook The Howl Cornerstones Lair Blue Devil Hub Press Network Kirkwood (Missouri) HS Lovejoy HS Bryant (Arkansas) HS Powell MS Westfield (Indiana) MS Southwest Career and Hockaday School Lake Braddock HS Davis (California) Sr. HS HHSToday.com The Little Hawk Wayland (Massachusetts) HS Lucas, Texas Littleton, Colorado Technical Academy Dallas Burke, Virginia Hillsborough HS Iowa City (Iowa) HS FHNtoday.com Nugget Indian Las Vegas The Oracle Tampa, Florida Knight Errant Francis Howell North HS The Rider Online Cupertino (California) HS Golden Images Shawnee Mission North HS Marksmen Odyssey Archer School for Girls West Side Story Benilde-St. Margaret’s School St. Charles, Missouri Legacy HS Chaparral HS Overland Park, Kansas Tesserae St. Mark’s School of Texas Chantilly (Virginia) HS Los Angeles Odyssey Online Iowa City (Iowa) West HS St. Louis Park, Minnesota Mansfield, Texas Jamboree Parker, Colorado Corning-Painted Post HS Dallas Clarke Central HS Southwest Shadow Toby Johnson MS Hauberk Corning, New York The Guardian The Boiling Point Athens, Georgia The Mustang Moon Echo Southwest Career and TRNWIRED Elk Grove, California Eagle Eye View Shawnee Mission East HS Hoofbeats Westfield HS Shalhevet HS Mount Vernon (Iowa) HS St. Louis Park (Minnesota) HS Technical Academy Prince George (Virginia) HS Sierra MS Prairie Village, Kansas Invictus Burges HS Chantilly, Virginia Los Angeles 3TEN Las Vegas, Nevada Ursus Parker, Colorado Ward Melville HS El Paso, Texas Decatur (Georgia) HS The Harbinger Online RubicOnline Granite Bay (California) HS Lair East Setauket, New York Sentry The Paly Voice Shawnee Mission East HS St. Paul (Minnesota) The Eagle’s Tale Trillium Shawnee (Kansas) Triune Robinson MS Palo Alto (California) HS The Prowler Prairie Village, Kansas Academy and Summit Canyon (Texas) HS Farrier Trumbull (Connecticut) HS Mission Northwest HS Westwind Trinity HS Fairfax, Virginia Starr’s Mill HS School Mirman School West Henderson HS Euless, Texas Verde Magazine Fayetteville, Georgia Coppell Student Media Los Angeles Greyhound Stampede Hendersonville, Columbian Palo Alto (California) HS Coppell (Texas) HS Lyman HS Maize South MS North Carolina The Tribute George C. Marshall HS Wingspan Longwood, Florida Wichita, Kansas Heritage HS Falls Church, Virginia James C. Enochs HS Paw Prints Frisco, Texas Modesto, California Legend Fentonian Ursuline Academy The Clan William R. Boone HS Fenton (Michigan) HS Cincinnati Buffalo McLean (Virginia) HS 2016 NEWSPAPER PACEMAKERS Rampages Orlando, Florida Haltom HS presented on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016, in Indianapolis Casa Roble HS PAWESEHI MUNHINOTU Haltom City, Texas Saga Orangevale, California Panther Parkway West HS Gresham (Oregon) HS Loudoun Valley HS WINNERS The JagWire Featherduster Eye of the Tiger The Harbinger Nighthawk H.B. Plant HS Ballwin, Missouri Reata Purcellville, Virginia The Titan Times Mill Valley HS Westlake HS Roseville (California) HS Shawnee Mission East HS NewsMagazine Wings Tampa, Florida Lion’s Roar Memorial HS Antelope (California) HS Shawnee, Kansas Austin, Texas Prairie Village, Kansas First Flight HS Arrowhead Christian Le Flambeau Christ Presbyterian Houston Aquila The Saratoga Falcon Kill Devil Hills, Academy The Stampede Notre Dame de Sion HS Academy Freedom HS Verde The Northwest Passage The ReMarker Saratoga (California) HS Paladin North Carolina Redlands, California J.W. Mitchell HS Kansas City, Missouri Nashville, Tennessee The Lair South Riding, Virginia Palo Alto (California) HS Shawnee Mission St. Mark’s School of Texas Kapaun Mount Carmel HS Trinity, Florida Leander (Texas) HS Northwest HS Dallas The Lake Wichita, Kansas The Eagle Angle Details Pioneer Lone Star The Apollo The Broadview Shawnee, Kansas Standley Lake HS Allen (Texas) HS Whitney HS Jabberwokk Kirkwood (Missouri) HS James Bowie HS The Arena Colonial Forge HS Convent of the Raider Rumbler Westminster, Colorado Communicator Rocklin, California Darlington School Austin, Texas Legacy HS Stafford, Virginia Sacred Heart HS On the Record Rouse HS Community HS Digit Rome, Georgia Excalibur Mansfield, Texas San Francisco duPont Manual HS Leander, Texas The Lion’s Tale Ann Arbor, Michigan Gorzycki MS Sword & Shield Francis Howell North HS The Vespa Legacy Louisville, Kentucky Oviedo (Florida) HS Austin, Texas Saugus (California) HS Etruscan St. Charles, Missouri Kealing MS Dragon Potomac Falls HS J. Hop Times Prowler The Echo Glenbrook (Illinois) Austin, Texas Round Rock (Texas) HS Sterling, Virginia John Hopkins MS Uncaged Stony Point HS Odyssey St. Louis Park (Minnesota) HS The Blazer Prowler South HS The Legend St. Petersburg, Florida Stockbridge (Michigan) HS Round Rock, Texas Clarke Central HS Timberline HS Pioneer MS Lafayette HS El Paisano The Hawk Legend Athens, Georgia The View Lacey, Washington Tustin, California Paragon Wildwood, Missouri Westlake HS Pleasant Grove HS Brookfield (Wisconsin) Carpe Diem Marquette Messenger Uncaged Park Hill South HS Munster (Indiana) HS Austin, Texas Texarkana, Texas Central HS Decatur (Georgia) HS Marquette HS Freedom HS Blade Riverside, Missouri Hawkeye The Black and Gold Legacy Chesterfield, Missouri South Riding, Virginia Woodward Academy Mountlake Terrace Rock Canyon HS Quiver Green Valley HS The Lonestar Tiger The HiLite College Park, Georgia Image (Washington) HS Highlands Ranch, Colorado Lake Central HS Henderson, Nevada Vista Ridge HS Texas HS Carmel (Indiana) HS Globe FINALISTS Lafayette HS St. John, Indiana Cedar Park, Texas Texarkana, Texas Clayton (Missouri) HS The CS Press The Triangle Wildwood, Missouri Puma Press The Little Hawk Cactus Shadows HS Columbus (Indiana) North HS University Prep HS Iowa City (Iowa) HS The Kirkwood Call Cave Creek, Arizona The Exonian Seattle Kirkwood (Missouri) HS Inklings Phillips Exeter Academy 2016 MAGAZINE FINALISTS 2016 BROADCAST WINNERS The Express El Estoque Crown Point (Indiana) HS Exeter, New Hampshire presented on Saturday, April 8, 2017; national winners announced at that time presented on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016, in Indianapolis Blue Valley Northwest HS North Star Monta Vista HS Shadows: Masque Rapier Soupstone WINNERS MHS1 Southside Scoop/PHS-TV Overland Park, Kansas Francis Howell North HS Cupertino, California Crier Pilot’s Log Cactus Shadows HS Marist School, Atlanta Yorktown HS Nighthawk News McKinney (Texas) HS Park Hill South HS St. Charles, Missouri Munster (Indiana) HS Hasbrouck Heights Cave Creek, Arizona Yorktown Heights, New York Rocky Heights MS Riverside, Missouri Standard The Town Crier (New Jersey) HS Silent Voices Littleton, Colorado CHS Wired Blue Valley Southwest HS Spark Paul Revere Charter MS Black & White Connotations Woodward Academy Roars and Whispers Cody (Wyoming) HS Frisco ISD-TV Overland Park, Kansas Lakota East HS Los Angeles Johnston (Iowa) HS Fayetteville (Arkansas) HS College Park, Georgia Providence Sr. HS CCNN Live Frisco (Texas) ISD Career & Liberty Township, Ohio Charlotte, North Carolina Christopher Columbus HS FINALISTS Technical Education Center Footnotes Spectator Miami WAHS News Haas Hall Academy Walter Johnson HS PenSoul American Heritage School NTV-North Television Fayetteville, Arkansas Bethesda, Maryland Bismarck (North Dakota) HS Mustang Magazine Plantation, Florida McKinney (Texas) North HS Norwood The Rambler The Phoenix Vibrato (Massachusetts) HS DTV News Live Sierra Canyon School Townsend Harris HS The Hockaday School Davison (Michigan) HS The Pacemaker has recognized outstanding student journalism since 1927. Entries in the Chatsworth, California Flushing, New York Dallas Wave TV contest are judged on coverage and content, quality of writing and reporting, layout/design and Summerville (South Tiger Broadcasting The Unmasking Galaxy Inkblots Carolina) HS Lee’s Summit (Missouri) HS photography, art and graphics. The Pacemaker recognizes the best in scholastic journalism. Henry W. Grady HS Brighton HS The John Cooper School Pacemaker finalists break new ground in student journalism and truly set the pace for other news organizations to emulate. Atlanta Rochester, New York The Woodlands, Texas

Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE — 15 SPRING 2017 AWARD WINNERS H.L. HALL YEARBOOK BROADCAST ADVISER OF THE YEAR ADVISER OF THE YEAR Nancy Y. Smith, MJE Alyssa Boehringer Lafayette High School McKinney (Texas) High School Wildwood, Mo.

The awards listed here and on the next page will be presented at noon Saturday in the Metropolitan Ballroom, Sheraton. DISTINGUISHED YEARBOOK ADVISER DISTINGUISHED BROADCAST ADVISERS Justin Daigle, CJE, Brighton (Colo.) High School Christina Geabhart, MJE, Oak Park High School, Kansas City, Mo. SPECIAL RECOGNITION YEARBOOK ADVISER Thomas Gregory, CJE, Gahanna (Ohio) Lincoln High Adrienne Forgette, MJE, Darlington School, Rome, Ga. School Leland Mallett, CJE, Legacy High School, Mansfield, Texas Brian Kennedy, Prosper (Texas) High School

RISING STAR AWARD SPECIAL RECOGNITION BROADCAST ADVISERS Travis Armknecht, CJE, Grand Center Arts Academy, Jane Bannester, Ritenour High School, St. Louis St. Louis Andrew Chambers, Richland Northeast High School, Katie Comeford, Phoenix Military Academy, Chicago Columbia, S.C. John Horvath, Hill Country Christian School, Austin, Texas Jonathan Rogers, MJE, Iowa City (Iowa) High School Jordyn Kiel, CJE, Francis Howell North High School, St. Charles, Mo. LINDA S. PUNTNEY TEACHER INSPIRATION AWARD Dennis Leizear, CJE, Padua Academy, Wilmington, Del. Nancy Hastings, MJE, Highland, Ind. Susan McNulty, J.W. Mitchell High School, New Port Ritchey, Fla. The following awards will be presented Alicia Merrifield, The Village School, Houston 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Hall 4E, Convention Center: Time Ryckman, Rocky Heights Middle School, Highlands Ranch, Colo. FIRST AMENDMENT PRESS FREEDOM AWARD Veronica Sarmiento, CJE, Seminole High School, The Archer School for Girls, Los Angeles Sanford, Fla. Chantilly (Va.) High School Andrew Young, Woodland Junior High School, Convent of the Sacred Heart High School, San Francisco Fayetteville, Ark. Grosse Pointe North High School, Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich. DIVERSITY AWARD Francis Howell North High School, St. Charles, Mo. Barbara Bateman, CJE, Murphy High School, Mobile, Ala. Harrisonburg (Va.) High School Kirkwood (Mo.) High School DIVERSITY AWARD RUNNERS-UP Mountlake Terrace (Wash.) High School Camille Respess and Erin Castellano, CJE, Clayton (Mo.) Smoky Hill High School, Aurora, Colo. High School St. Louis Park (Minn.) High School Thomas Kaup, MJE, Auburn (Wash.) High School Whitney High School, Rocklin, Calif. Journalist of the Year, Student Journalist Impact Award and Aspiring Young Journalist will be awarded at 8:30 a.m. Sunday in Hall 4E, Convention Center.

16 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions JEA CERTIFICATION RECIPIENTS

CERTIFIED JOURNALISM EDUCATORS John J. Gonczy, Marist High School, MASTER JOURNALISM EDUCATORS Paul R. Aubrey, North Kansas City (Mo.) Chicago Megan E. Fromm, Colorado Mesa High School Laurie Hansen, Stillwater (Minn.) Area High University, Grand Junction, Colo. Sara E. Brookshire, Oak Hill High School, School Mary E. Gillis, Rolla (Mo.) High School Converse, Ind. Gabrielle S. Herbst, Beverly Hills (Calif.) High Evelyn A. Lauer, Niles West High School, Erin Sucher Castellano, Clayton (Mo.) High School Skokie, Ill. School Brian T. Heyman, Pattonville High School, Meghan J. Percival, McLean (Va.) High Shelby Nicole Dinkel, Salina (Kan.) Central Maryland Heights, Mo. School High School Adrienne Hollifield, Charles D. Owen High Beth Skaggs, Colgan High School, Jeremiah Daniel Garber, Salina (Kan.) School, Black Mountain, N.C. Manassas, Va. Central High School Heather L. Hooper, Topeka (Kan.) High Samantha M. Gerwe-Perkins, Walnut Hills School MJE RENEWALS High School, Cincinnati Trudy J. Hurd, Cisne (Ill.) High School Sue Ellen Blackmon, Klein Forest High Samantha Goetting, Herrin (Ill.) High Kari L. Johnson, Platte County High School, School, Houston School Platte City, Mo. Cindy M. Carey, Shenendehowa High Sarah-Anne Lanman, Munster (Ind.) High Sheila L. Jones, Littleton, Colo. School, Clifton Park, N.Y School Kate N. LaForge, Allen (Texas) I.S.D. Julie E. Dodd, University of Florida- Steven Listopad, North Dakota State Matthew S. LaPorte, Southwest Career and Gainesville University, Fargo, N.D Technical Academy, Las Vegas Mary Kay Downes, Chantilly (Va.) High Adam Livesay, Walsworth Yearbooks, Julie A. Mancini, Dunnellon (Fla.) High School Tampa, Fla. School Thomas J. Kaup, Auburn (Wash.) High Thomas J. McHale, Hunterdon Central Beatrice Y. Motamedi, Global Student School Regional High School, Flemington, N.J. Square, Oakland, Calif. Joseph A. Mirando, Southeastern Louisiana Janell Johnson Mikels, Valley High School, Nancy A. Olson, Putney, Vt. University, Hammond, La. West Des Moines, Iowa Katina Paron, Baruch College, New York Amy Morgan, Shawnee Mission West High Catherine Misar, Washington-Lee High Kyle N. Phillips, George Washington High School, Overland Park, Kan. School, Arlington, Va. School, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Robin C. Morris, Richland Wash. Erika Quick, Cody (Wyo.) High School Ellen F. Regen, Sugar Hill, N.H. Timm Pilcher, Brody Middle School, Des Lisa Stine, Bryant (Ark.) High School Monica B. Rodriguez, Gulliver Preparatory Moines, Iowa School, Miami Wayna C. Polk, Carbon, Texas CJE RENEWALS Stephen H. Slagle, Walnut, Calif. Rodney N. Satterthwaite, Palo Alto (Calif.) Angela J. Banfield, Early College High Karla Rae Happis Sprague, Har-Ber High High School School, Colorado Springs, Colo. School, Springdale, Ark. Kathy Schrier, Seattle Public Schools John W. Bradford, Creekview High School, Larry E. Steinmetz, Bullitt East High School, Nancy Y. Smith, Lafayette High School, Canton, Ga. Mount Washington, Ky. Wildwood, Mo. Judy L. Cannaday, Palm Harbor (Fla.) Brandi D. Stout, Washington High School, Ronna Sparks-Woodward, Liberty (Mo.) University High School Kansas City, Kan. North High School Keith R. Carlson, Naperville Central (Ill.) Jennifer Swanson, Arroyo High School, El Susan Hathaway Tantillo, Naples, Fla. High School Monte, Calif. Nathan S. Thompson, Tussey Mountain Shetye Cypher, Tompkins High School, Karla Thompson, Lee’s Summit (Mo.) High High School, Saxton, Pa. Katy, Texas School Bradley Wilson, Midwestern State Karen W. Ford, Holton (Kan.) High School Lisa A. Wieland, Assumption High School, University, Wichita Falls, Texas Kelly R. Furnas, Elon (N.C.) University Louisville, Ky. JoAnn M. Gage, Mount Vernon (Iowa) High Lea A. Williams, Christian Academy of School Myrtle Beach, S.C. Clare A. Gartlan, Chantilly (Va.) High School William A. Wolfe, Taft (Calif.) Union High Suzanne M. Gill, Stafford High School, School Falmouth, Va. Karen Zajac, Glenbard South High School, Mary E. Gillis, Rolla (Mo.) High School Glen Ellyn, Ill. For more information about JEA certification and awards: www.jea.org

Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE — 17 TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR FUTURE

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SMC.TEMPLE.EDU | E-MAIL: [email protected] 18 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions THURSDAY AT A GLANCE See floor plans on Page 88, inside back cover ROOM 8 a.m. Noon 1 p.m. 3 p.m. 5 p.m. Evening

Convention Pl. entrance lobby, 1st Fl. , CC Media tour check-in desk (7:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.) Adviser kickoff Room 4C1-2, CC reception (9 p.m.) Room 4C3, CC JEA Bookstore (1-7 p.m.)

Hall 4D, CC Publication exchange tables (1-10:30 p.m.) Adviser orientation Opening/keynote Hall 4E, CC (6:45 p.m.) (7:30-9 p.m.) Convention check-in/registration, trade show, Write-off check-in, Hall 4F, CC Best of Show drop-off, shirt distribution, lost and found (1-7 p.m.) Diamond, 1st Fl., IJW workshop Social media workshop Sheraton (9 a.m.-noon) (1-5 p.m.) Aspen, 2nd Fl., Sheraton JEA board meeting (8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.) Cedar, 2nd Fl., Student leadership Adviser leadership seminar Sheraton (9 a.m.-noon) (1-4 p.m.) Juniper, 2nd Fl., Sheraton Write-off headquarters Redwood, 2nd Fl., Sheraton Creative coaching (8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.) Spruce, 2nd Fl., Sheraton Day of Doing workspace (8 a.m.-11 p.m.) Willow A, 2nd Fl., Sheraton Digital photography workshop (8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.) Willow B, 2nd Fl., Sheraton Team storytelling (8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.) Ballard, 3rd Fl., Photoshop work- Sheraton flow (8:30-noon) Advanced InDesign (1-5 p.m.) Capitol Hill, 3rd Fl., Sheraton Sports seminar (9 a.m.-4 p.m.) Greenwood, 3rd Fl., Sheraton In-depth legal training (9 a.m.-3 p.m.) Issaquah, 3rd Fl., Sheraton Broadcast and video boot camp (8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.) Kirkland, 3rd Fl., Sheraton JEA Outreach Academy (8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.) Leschi, 3rd Fl., Sheraton Mentor forum (8 a.m.-5 p.m.) Metropolitan A, 3rd Fl., Sheraton Writers’ workshop (8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.) Metropolitan B, 3rd Fl., Sheraton Fast and Furious: The Society for News Design QuickCourse (8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.) Ravena, 3rd Fl., Sheraton Online boot camp (8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.) n ADVISING/TEACHING n ENTREPRENEURSHIP n LEADERSHIP/TEAM BUILDING n NEWS LITERACY n CONTEST n KEYNOTE n MEETING n PHOTOJOURNALISM n DESIGN n GENERAL AUDIENCE n MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST n WEB n EDITING n LAW/ETHICS n NEWS GATHERING n WRITING

Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE — 19 7:30 a.m. THURSDAY EVENT WHAT DOES IT MEAN? as we discuss ledes, voice, narrative style and l MEDIA TOUR CHECK-IN literary devices to tighten and strengthen your CC — Convention Center Please check in at the designated media-tour writing. Preregistration was required. CJE — Certified Journalism Educator EVALUATION CODE: 4288 time listed on the website and on Page 11 in CSPA — Columbia Scholastic Press Association the registration booklet. Dan Austin, Casa Roble High School, DJNF — Dow Jones News Fund Orangevale, Calif. 7:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Thursday, Lobby near JEA — Journalism Education Association 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Metropolitan A, 3rd Floor, Convention Place entrance, 1st Floor, CC MJE — Master Journalism Educator Sheraton (380) NBCT — National Board Certified Teacher NCTE — National Council of Teachers of English 8 a.m. NSPA — National Scholastic Press Association DESIGN SIPA — Southern Interscholastic Press Association FAST AND FURIOUS: THE SOCIETY MEETING SPLC — Student Press Law Center FOR NEWS DESIGN QUICKCOURSE MENTOR FORUM This long-running, preconvention workshop Beginner badge: Session is suitable for JEA mentors will meet to exchange ideas on is chock full of fresh ideas. We’ll tackle the beginners how to provide better assistance to new or fundamentals of print presentations — story nearly new advisers. l Special activity or event forms, strong visuals, tasteful typography EVALUATION CODE: 2056 and smart packaging. Then we’ll move into Gary Lindsay, MJE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; the trends in news design, with dozens of cameras, tripods, microphones and laptops Bill Flechtner, MJE, Milwaukie, Ore.; Peggy ideas for photos, graphics and stories from with editing software. Please test and become Gregory, CJE, Phoenix; and Mary Anne publications around the world. Bring copies of familiar with your equipment before attending McCloud, Newton, Kan. your publication, in print or PDF, for the best the session, as the presenter may not be 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, Leschi, 3rd Floor, part of the QuickCourse — our group critiques. familiar with your specific hardware/software. Sheraton (40) Preregistration was required. Preregistration was required. EVALUATION CODE: 5182 EVALUATION CODE: 4566 Amy DeVault, MJE, Wichita (Kan.) State 8:30 a.m. Michael Hernandez, Mira Costa High School, University Manhattan Beach, Calif. 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Thursday, Metropolitan B, MEETING 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, Issaquah, 3rd Floor, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (400) JEA BOARD MEETING Sheraton (110) JEA board members meet to discuss ongoing WEB projects and other agenda items. ADVISING/TEACHING Mark Newton, MJE, Mountain Vista High JEA OUTREACH ACADEMY ONLINE BOOT CAMP Whether launching your website or just looking School, Highlands Ranch, Colo. Outreach Academy is a Journalism Education for ideas to revive your existing site, this seminar 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Aspen, 2nd Floor, Sheraton Association initiative to promote diversity will provide a look at best practices and provide (125) in the journalism teaching profession. The you with easy tools to make your online Outreach Academy is a free, intensive seminar publication shine. This workshop will cover PHOTOJOURNALISM for publication advisers who need help everything from third-party multimedia tools PHOTOSHOP WORKFLOW teaching and advising students in journalism and live coverage platforms to best practices in Participants will learn to use Adobe Photoshop. while dealing with issues surrounding diversity. social media and interactivity. Participants may The workshop will emphasize a basic workflow The program is hands-on and focuses on want to have login and password data available for preparing photographs for publication. practical information advisers need. It includes to use from their own site. All participants must Participants must bring their own laptops with discussions on teaching journalism to diverse bring a laptop. Preregistration was required. Adobe Photoshop CS4 or later installed. Two populations, diversifying school coverage, EVALUATION CODE: 5333 attendees may share one laptop. Preregistration engaging your staff and school community and Chris Waugaman, MJE, Prince George (Va.) was required. understanding the resources and organizations High School EVALUATION CODE: 4554 ready to help advisers. Preregistration was 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday, Ravenna, 3rd Floor, Mark Murray, Arlington (Texas) ISD required. Sheraton (170) 8:30 a.m. -noon Thursday, Ballard, 3rd Floor, EVALUATION CODE: 4567 Sheraton (100) Anthony Whitten, CJE, University of Oregon, EDITING Portland, Ore. MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Thursday, Kirkland, 3rd CREATIVE COACHING BROADCAST AND VIDEO BOOT Floor, Sheraton (40) The key to a successful magazine, newspaper or yearbook is empowering your staff members CAMP to improve with every piece of work they turn In this hands-on workshop, beginning WRITING in. This interactive session will go through the and intermediate students will learn the WRITERS’ WORKSHOP coaching process for designers, photographers fundamentals of creating an effective news If you’re looking for ways to sharpen and and writers. You will need to bring three package from the ground up. This includes brighten your writing so others will clamor to samples of your work. Preregistration was videography, sound recording, editing and read it, this interactive workshop is for you. This required. story structure. Working in small teams, seminar will entertain and inspire as we analyze EVALUATION CODE: 5334 participants will spend the morning developing excellent writing and apply the pros’ techniques Lori Keekley, MJE, St. Louis Park (Minn.) High their videography skills and planning a story, to your work. Whether you need to write a School and the afternoon shooting and editing that catchy headline or a 2,000-word feature, you’ll 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday, Redwood, 2nd Floor, story. Participants must bring their own video learn to improve every aspect of your writing Sheraton (150)

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PHOTOJOURNALISM WRITING The Student Press Law Center wants you to go DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP SPORTS SEMINAR into your newsroom equipped to understand Designed for photographers who have at The most-read stories in a publication are your rights, protect them — and, if possible, least one year’s experience shooting for their often the sports stories, but often they are make them even better. This day-long publications, this intensive workshop will cover filled with sports cliches and hyperbole. From workshop will cover free-speech and free-press composition, lighting, cropping and camera understanding the sport, to interviewing, to rights in schools, what the law does and doesn’t technique. Participants will receive instruction writing the final story, the sports writer’s job protect, and how students can organize and and go out on assignment with the instructors. is unlike any other on the media team. This campaign for better policies protecting their Following the photo shoot, instructors will workshop will show you how to write sport rights. You’ll learn to make the case for a free critique students’ work and offer editing tips stories as exciting as the event itself. You’ll have and press, with lessons from the and techniques. Participants must bring a a chance to interview players or coaches and successful recent campaign in North Dakota digital camera, and a laptop computer with the write a sports story to be critiqued at the end of that led to The New Voices Act, one of the photo-editing program (Photoshop, Lightroom) the session. It’s all new and it’s geared to help strongest student press-rights laws in the they will use. Preregistration and an off-site you make your sports coverage the best your country. Preregistration was required. permission form is required. school media has seen. EVALUATION CODE: 4557 EVALUATION CODE: 5336 EVALUATION CODE: 5618 Frank LoMonte, Student Press Law Center, Mike Simons, MJE, Corning-Painted Post High Pete LeBlanc, Antelope (Calif.) High School, Washington, D.C. School, Corning, N.Y., and Jed Palmer, CJE, and Andrew Smith, Kansas State University, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Thursday, Greenwood, 3rd Floor, Sierra Middle School, Parker, Colo. Manhattan, Kan. Sheraton (45) 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Thursday, Willow A, 2nd 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday, Capitol Hill, 3rd Floor, 1 p.m. Floor, Sheraton (125) Sheraton (50) DESIGN NEWS GATHERING ADVISING/TEACHING ADVANCED INDESIGN TEAM STORYTELLING INTENSIVE JOURNALISTIC WRITING Take your design skills to the next level with Great storytelling combines good writing, WORKSHOP this seminar that will show you how to use good photos and good design. Behind it all is Since 1988, the Intensive Journalistic Writing the power of InDesign to streamline your good planning. In this team-based reporting Institute has trained hundreds of English publication production. The speaker will cover experience, students will work in groups and journalism teachers around the country libraries, styles and other InDesign tricks. of three to create real story packages. The in new approaches to teaching writing and Participants must bring their own laptops with workshop begins with instruction on planning using real examples of contemporary and Adobe Photoshop CS6 or later installed. Two packages with readers in mind, and then classic journalistic models. Teachers will students may share one laptop. Preregistration the students will go off site to gather stories. read journalistic models, explore journalistic was required. Students will return to the Sheraton to finish writing modes, learn teaching techniques EVALUATION CODE: 4555 their packages. Preregistration and an off-site and explore new unit plans to incorporate Bradley Wilson, MJE, Midwestern State permission form is required. journalistic writing in your English curriculum. University, Wichita Falls, Texas EVALUATION CODE: 4556 Preregistration was required. 1-5 p.m. Thursday, Ballard, 3rd Floor, Sheraton Sara Quinn, Kansas State University, EVALUATION CODE: 5335 (100) Manhattan, Kan. Valerie Kibler, CJE, Harrisonburg (Va.) High 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, Willow B, 2nd Floor, School LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING Sheraton (125) 9 a.m.-noon Thursday, Diamond, 1st Floor, LEADERSHIP SEMINAR FOR Sheraton (85) ADVISERS LAW AND ETHICS 9 a.m. This session will help you figure out how IN-DEPTH LEGAL TRAINING you lead, and, more importantly, how LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING others think you lead. This half-day workshop LEADERSHIP SEMINAR FOR will make you a better, stronger, more effective STUDENTS Let us know how we’re leader and teach you how to work with people We’re all different people, which makes us who aren’t anything like you. Preregistration different types of leaders. Sometimes, you’ll doing. Visit jea.org/eval was required. Sponsored by Society of fall right in line with the team; other times, and tells us what you think. Professional Journalists. not so much. This session will help you figure EVALUATION CODE: 5340 out how you lead and, more importantly, how We want to know how helpful Tara Puckey, Society of Professional others think you lead. This half-day workshop the sessions are during the JEA/ Journalists, Indianapolis will make you a better, stronger, more effective NSPA Spring National High School 1-5 p.m. Thursday, Cedar, 2nd Floor, Sheraton leader and teach you how to work with people Journalism Convention. For each (125) who aren’t anything like you. Preregistration session listed in this program, you’ll was required. Sponsored by Society of find an evaluation code listed under ENTREPRENEURSHIP Professional Journalists. the description. Please visit jea.org/ SOCIAL MEDIA WORKSHOP EVALUATION CODE: 5339 eval on your computer or web-enabled Social media is more than a quick 140-character Tara Puckey, Society of Professional mobile device, enter that code and tweet and students engaging with a quick click. Journalists, Indianapolis provide some feedback for each of the Social media for student media requires ample 9 a.m.-noon Thursday, Cedar, 2nd Floor, sessions you attend. planning and thought. In this workshop, look Sheraton (125) to be more than the viewer by learning how to

Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE — 21 1 p.m. THURSDAY create large social-media events and campaigns that have students, staff and your community engaging far beyond a simple tweet. Topics include planning and research, execution, ideas and evaluation. Preregistration was required. EVALUATION CODE: 5636 Patrick Johnson, MJE, Antioch (Ill.) Community High School 1-5 p.m. Thursday, Diamond, 1st Floor, Sheraton (85)

EVENT l JEA BOOKSTORE Take a look at nearly 300 journalism-related items in the JEA Bookstore. Check here to buy Write-off supplies. Students are welcome. Hammering Man stands at the entrance of the Seattle Art Museum at First and University 1-7 p.m. Thursday, Room 4C3, CC (300) streets. Photo by Tim Thompson. EVENT Enter your newspaper, newsmagazine, literary 6:45 p.m. l PUBLICATION EXCHANGE arts magazine, broadcast, website or yearbook Interested in seeing what kind of work other at the Best of Show desk. Winners will be ADVISING/TEACHING high schools around the nation are producing? announced at the NSPA awards ceremony NEW ADVISER CONVENTION Stop by the publication exchange tables to see Saturday. the latest editions of high school media from 1-7 p.m. Thursday, Hall 4F, CC (2,263) ORIENTATION Advisers attending their first JEA/NSPA coast to coast. Feel free to drop off a few copies convention should consider attending a short, of your publication and take some you like. EVENT 30-minute orientation meeting to get a general 1-10:30 p.m. Thursday, Hall 4D, CC l LOST AND FOUND overview and explanation of convention events The convention check-in/registration desk will and how to get the most out of them. EVENT house the lost and found. If what you lost is not EVALUATION CODE: 3282 l CONVENTION CHECK-IN AND there, check to see whether someone turned Carrie Faust, MJE, Smoky Hill High School, REGISTRATION it in to the hotel security staff. Items not picked Aurora, Colo.; Stan Zoller, MJE, Lake Forest (Ill.) In addition to the trade show and convention up by 1 p.m. Saturday will be turned in to the College; and Teresa Scribner, CJE, Cleveland registration/check-in, turn in your Best of Show hotel’s security department. High School, Seattle entries here. Speakers may pick up their name 1-7 p.m. Thursday, Hall 4F, CC (2,263) 6:45 p.m. Thursday, Hall 4E, CC (5,030) badges at a nearby table. Also in the exhibit hall is the lost and found, Write-off contest CONTEST and on-site critique check-in and convention l WRITE-OFF CONTEST CHECK-IN 7:30 p.m. shirt distribution. Shirts not picked up by noon If both your Write-off registration and JEA Friday will be resold. membership fees have been paid, your school’s EVENT 1-7 p.m. Thursday, Hall 4F, CC (2,263) Write-off packet containing student contest l OPENING CEREMONY/KEYNOTE tickets, additional instructions and contest ADDRESS EVENT room assignments may be picked up at the JEA, NSPA and the local convention team l CONVENTION SHIRT Write-off desk. If you have not paid, you must welcome you to the Seattle. Tim Harrower will DISTRIBUTION do so at this time. Noon Friday is the deadline present the keynote address. Kellen Browning, for substitutions in preregistered categories. No If your school purchased the official convention 2016 National High School Journalist of the new entries will be accepted at the convention. shirts through online registration, you may pick Year, also will speak. First Amendment Press Lost tickets will be replaced for $5. Students in them up here. Large orders will be bundled Freedom Awards will be presented. broadcast or online news contests with 8 a.m. together and should be picked up by the 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Hall 4E, CC (5,030) Friday start times must get their ID Thursday. adviser. There may be extra shirts to buy if you 1-7 p.m. Thursday, Hall 4F, CC (2,263) did not pre-order. Quantities are limited. Shirts 9 p.m. must be picked up no later than noon Friday. EVENT 1-7 p.m. Thursday, Hall 4F, CC (2,263) l TRADE SHOW EXHIBITS ADVISER EVENT l ADVISER KICKOFF RECEPTION EVENT Dozens of national and local vendors and After the keynote speech, all advisers are l BEST OF SHOW DESK colleges will educate and entertain during the trade show exhibits. Find out what’s new, welcome to attend this reception to socialize See how your publication fares against others chat with company representatives, pick up with new colleagues and relax with longtime represented at the convention. High school information and have some fun. friends. New and first-time attendee advisers publications are eligible if at least one student 1-7 p.m. Thursday, Hall 4F, CC (2,263) will have a chance to meet the local convention representative is attending the convention, and team. plus JEA and NSPA board members and junior high publications can enter if the adviser staffs. Sponsor for this event is Issuu. is a registered delegate at the convention. 9 p.m. Thursday, Room 4C1-2, CC (570)

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YEARBOOKS.FRIESENS.COM Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE — 23 FRIDAY AT A GLANCE ROOM 8 a.m. 9 a.m. 10 a.m. 11 a.m. Noon 1 p.m. 2 p.m. 4 p.m. Evening Icing the cake: Details You’re doing it wrong: Photo Room 201, CC It’s OK to be funny complete the book For your info(graphic) and quote packages Give ‘em what they paid for Design smarter, not harder A truly useful session on Not another student Journalism is about Write-off: 17 Yearbook layout Room 203, CC Great editor = Great leader review writing at a desk ... It’s not them ; it’s you relationships Review writing: Getting it all inside pages What it feels like to burn the Creating a story like a Write-off: 19 Literary Room 204, CC Plays well with others Bare essentials of design Survival of the fittest box storyteller Designing to tell your story magazine layout Lids: 5 hats you must wear in ‘Third Wave’: A classroom Covering controversial topics Write-off: 16 Yearbook layout Room 205, CC sports writing Critique yourselves dictatorship at 50 Captivate your reader responsibly theme How diverse thinking produces Digital journalism: 8 Room 211, CC Why diversity matters Covering American inequalities Leadership in the newsroom Source diversity: How to get it better reporting differences from print What do WWII, feature writing Add stature through freelance Write-off: 18 Yearbook cover/ Room 212, CC Avoid staff infection have in common? May the Force be with you Writing as a social activity writing endsheets The most challenging human Aerial photography and Write-off: 26 Graphic design Room 213, CC Heading in the right direction task: Consensus China 360 in photojournalism videography Jobs for journalists The journalist’s toolbox photo illustration Photography for the 10 must-have images of Tell your story through Room 2AB, CC non-photographer The design is right Be an action hero photojournalism environmental portraits The art of photo editng Write-off: 01 News writing How to investigate criminal Room 303, CC You can’t handle the truth Strangers on the street Not your momma’s yearbook Taste the rainbow: True colors justice issues Be an interview ninja Deadline — It’s not a dirty Write off: 10 Newsmagazine Room 304, CC The dynamic duo Cut it out We’re bringing reporting back word From the ground up Best practices make perfect layout Meet and share ideas with the Using the research: Women Transitioning from classroom Write-off: 23 Graphic design Room 305, CC NSPA To lead, you must first serve and media to newsroom Work hard, play hard logo Design Quest: Sparking Room 306, CC Design that wows yearbook creativity Twinkle toes? Or two left feet? Join this club (section) Theme fit 4 design principles 4 U State laws protecting student Designating a publication as a Dropping the journalistic 3 essentials for understanding Get proactive! Writing great Write off: 25 Graphic design Room 307, CC press freedom public forum F-bomb Going beyond the headlines copyright ... free-speech policy advertising Motion graphics, animation Developing ethical online Digging dirt through access Using social media to expand Room 308, CC and modern journalism Copyright and fair use Game on: Ethics in action news policies laws coverage Write off: 09 Newspaper layout Introduction to intellectual Introduction to the First Beyond the home page: Plugging print skills into Write-off: 24 Graphic design Room 310, CC property Amendment Driving traffic to your site digital Journalism beyond high school Ready ... set ... lede! infographics Administrators and assertive Succeed in a general- Improve your captions in 1, Design inspiration from hidden Room 3AB, CC student journalism ... Getting your foot in the door assignment newsroom 2, 3 places Breaking into visual journalism Write-off: 03 Feature writing Building a program with Beat the Tweet news writing To push, pull or sit back and Room 401, CC Copy editing in 5 simple steps Promoting your program Make a new plan, Stan administration’s help workshop watch Best of Show judging (4:30-8 p.m.) Journalism: To serve and Techniques in news Write-off: 12-15 Yearbook Room 4C1-2, CC engage How to do a better interview photography Activating girls’ voices Just how far is too far? Head in the game copy/caption (all)

Room 4C3, CC JEA Bookstore/Adviser Hospitality (7:30 a.m.-5 p.m.) JEA Bookstore/Adviser Hospitality (7:30 a.m.-5 p.m.)

Using gestalt principles in Surviving yearbook: Small Balancing act: Building a Room 4C4, CC Just your type Trends in yearbook Ideas from the professionals design staff, large school theme verbally, visually Write off: 05 Review writing

Hall 4D, CC Publication exchange tables Publication exchange tables

Write-off: 27-35 Photography Hall 4E, CC Break with a Pro (9 and 10 a.m.) On-site critiques (Noon-3:30 p.m.) (all) Convention check-in/registration, trade show, shirt distribution, lost and found (8 a.m.-4 p.m.) Convention check-in/registration, trade show, shirt distribution, lost and found Hall 4F, CC Write-off check-in (8 a.m.-noon) (8 a.m.-4 p.m.)

24 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions n ADVISING/TEACHING n ENTREPRENEURSHIP n LEADERSHIP/TEAM BUILDING n NEWS LITERACY n CONTEST n KEYNOTE/FEATURED SPEAKER n MEETING n PHOTOJOURNALISM n DESIGN n GENERAL AUDIENCE n MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST n WEB n EDITING n LAW/ETHICS n NEWS GATHERING n WRITING ROOM 8 a.m. 9 a.m. 10 a.m. 11 a.m. Noon 1 p.m. 2 p.m. 4 p.m. Evening Icing the cake: Details You’re doing it wrong: Photo Room 201, CC It’s OK to be funny complete the book For your info(graphic) and quote packages Give ‘em what they paid for Design smarter, not harder A truly useful session on Not another student Journalism is about Write-off: 17 Yearbook layout Room 203, CC Great editor = Great leader review writing at a desk ... It’s not them ; it’s you relationships Review writing: Getting it all inside pages What it feels like to burn the Creating a story like a Write-off: 19 Literary Room 204, CC Plays well with others Bare essentials of design Survival of the fittest box storyteller Designing to tell your story magazine layout Lids: 5 hats you must wear in ‘Third Wave’: A classroom Covering controversial topics Write-off: 16 Yearbook layout Room 205, CC sports writing Critique yourselves dictatorship at 50 Captivate your reader responsibly theme How diverse thinking produces Digital journalism: 8 Room 211, CC Why diversity matters Covering American inequalities Leadership in the newsroom Source diversity: How to get it better reporting differences from print What do WWII, feature writing Add stature through freelance Write-off: 18 Yearbook cover/ Room 212, CC Avoid staff infection have in common? May the Force be with you Writing as a social activity writing endsheets The most challenging human Aerial photography and Write-off: 26 Graphic design Room 213, CC Heading in the right direction task: Consensus China 360 in photojournalism videography Jobs for journalists The journalist’s toolbox photo illustration Photography for the 10 must-have images of Tell your story through Room 2AB, CC non-photographer The design is right Be an action hero photojournalism environmental portraits The art of photo editng Write-off: 01 News writing How to investigate criminal Room 303, CC You can’t handle the truth Strangers on the street Not your momma’s yearbook Taste the rainbow: True colors justice issues Be an interview ninja Deadline — It’s not a dirty Write off: 10 Newsmagazine Room 304, CC The dynamic duo Cut it out We’re bringing reporting back word From the ground up Best practices make perfect layout Meet and share ideas with the Using the research: Women Transitioning from classroom Write-off: 23 Graphic design Room 305, CC NSPA To lead, you must first serve and media to newsroom Work hard, play hard logo Design Quest: Sparking Room 306, CC Design that wows yearbook creativity Twinkle toes? Or two left feet? Join this club (section) Theme fit 4 design principles 4 U State laws protecting student Designating a publication as a Dropping the journalistic 3 essentials for understanding Get proactive! Writing great Write off: 25 Graphic design Room 307, CC press freedom public forum F-bomb Going beyond the headlines copyright ... free-speech policy advertising Motion graphics, animation Developing ethical online Digging dirt through access Using social media to expand Room 308, CC and modern journalism Copyright and fair use Game on: Ethics in action news policies laws coverage Write off: 09 Newspaper layout Introduction to intellectual Introduction to the First Beyond the home page: Plugging print skills into Write-off: 24 Graphic design Room 310, CC property Amendment Driving traffic to your site digital Journalism beyond high school Ready ... set ... lede! infographics Administrators and assertive Succeed in a general- Improve your captions in 1, Design inspiration from hidden Room 3AB, CC student journalism ... Getting your foot in the door assignment newsroom 2, 3 places Breaking into visual journalism Write-off: 03 Feature writing Building a program with Beat the Tweet news writing To push, pull or sit back and Room 401, CC Copy editing in 5 simple steps Promoting your program Make a new plan, Stan administration’s help workshop watch Best of Show judging (4:30-8 p.m.) Journalism: To serve and Techniques in news Write-off: 12-15 Yearbook Room 4C1-2, CC engage How to do a better interview photography Activating girls’ voices Just how far is too far? Head in the game copy/caption (all)

Room 4C3, CC JEA Bookstore/Adviser Hospitality (7:30 a.m.-5 p.m.) JEA Bookstore/Adviser Hospitality (7:30 a.m.-5 p.m.)

Using gestalt principles in Surviving yearbook: Small Balancing act: Building a Room 4C4, CC Just your type Trends in yearbook Ideas from the professionals design staff, large school theme verbally, visually Write off: 05 Review writing

Hall 4D, CC Publication exchange tables Publication exchange tables

Write-off: 27-35 Photography Hall 4E, CC Break with a Pro (9 and 10 a.m.) On-site critiques (Noon-3:30 p.m.) (all) Convention check-in/registration, trade show, shirt distribution, lost and found (8 a.m.-4 p.m.) Convention check-in/registration, trade show, shirt distribution, lost and found Hall 4F, CC Write-off check-in (8 a.m.-noon) (8 a.m.-4 p.m.)

Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE — 25 FRIDAY AT A GLANCE ROOM 8 a.m. 9 a.m. 10 a.m. 11 a.m. Noon 1 p.m. 2 p.m. 4 p.m. Evening InDesign tips and techniques for student publications InDesign: Work smarter, not Certification test for CJE and Diamond, 1st, Sheraton (2 hours) Instagram micro packages InDesign tricks and tips harder Not another InDesign session MJE candidates Pinterest: A creative resource Stress management for the Write-off: 07 Commentary Aspen, 2nd, Sheraton for design, photo ... Avoiding marshmallow fluff Open forum on press rights staffer 10 timely tips What will the principal say? writing Strengthening your journalistic Legal and ethical issues for Photojournalism basics for CJE/MJE certification study Write-off: 20: Lit mag poetry Cedar A, 2nd, Sheraton foundation (Pt. 1) Taming the grading monster advisers advisers session 21: Lit mag illustration Covering controversy: Video Beyond daily announcements: Publications come alive with 41: Documentary (3 p.m.) Cedar B, 2nd, Sheraton journalism, social respons. video news stories for impact Aurasma Advanced Aurasma Follow the rubric road 42: Video pkg. edit. (4:30 p.m.)

Grand Ballroom, 2nd, Live music (8-11 p.m.) Sheraton Juniper, 2nd, Sheraton Write-off headquarters Quiz Bowl grading Write-off headquarters Write-off headquarters Write-off lead judges check in (1-3:30 p.m.) Write-off headquarters Bits to bytes: Digital marketing Entreprenuership and the teen Creative ways to market your Other career opportunities for Redwood, 2nd, Sheraton Going beyond the game Socialnomics explained journalist yearbooks yerds Write-off: 04 Sports writing Spruce, 2nd, Sheraton Day of Doing (7:30 a.m. meeting) and workspace Day of Doing workspace The anatomy of a broadcast Lighting techniques for video Journalistic ethics: A crash Write-off: 02 Editorial writing; Willow, 2nd, Sheraton Quiz Bowl qualifying test package Move like a videographer and photojournalism Produce like a pro course Drones and the media 06 Ed. cartooning Media Swap Shops Windows, 2nd, Sheraton (8 and 9 p.m. ) JEA general membership Pop-up reporting on refugees Write-off: 38 Broadcast feature Ballard, 3rd, Sheraton meeting JEA state directors meeting Show your style In the room where it happens You want to major in WHAT? It’s all about the culture in Paris story

Capitol Hill, 3rd, Editing video stories in Blackfish, Murrow, Time All together now Build a better grading system High school live broadcast Staff organization and 40 Social media rep. (3 p.m.) Sheraton Premiere Warner ... oh my! motivation 36: Broadcast news (4:30 p.m.) Advising multiple publications Roundtable for broadcast Taping for contest Everett, 3rd, Sheraton Yearbook adviser roundtable Newspaper adviser roundtable roundtable Roundtable for online advisers Roundtable for lit mag advisers advisers 44 On-air reporting Taping for contest Fremont, 3rd, Sheraton 48 Broadcast commentary

Greenwood, 3rd, Write-off: 47 Videography Broadcast judging Broadcast judging Write-off: 45 Broadcast Sheraton newswriting 48 Broadcast comm. (3 p.m.) Issaquah, 3rd, Sheraton Write-off: 43 Online news package (8 a.m.-12:30 p.m.) 08: News editing (4 p.m.) Write-off: 21 Lit mag Kirkland, 3rd, Sheraton illustration What I wish I had known as a The great journalism lock-in 37: Broadcast sports (3 p.m.) Leschi, 3rd, Sheraton Advisers: Shoot for the stars new adviser adventure Remember to breathe Using your local resources 39: Commercial (4:30 p.m.) The book is done, now have Coverage, content and Write-off: 22 Literary Medina, 3rd, Sheraton some fun! reporting for advisers Using springtime to get ahead magazine photography

Metropolitan A, 3rd, One Story: ‘Under Our Skin’ (2 hours) Copy this! Humans of Harker Breaking barriers: Indigenous LGBTQ media: Beyond the Write-off judges dinner and Sheraton representation letters judging (6 p.m.)

Metropolitan B, 3rd, The future of your local It’s the little things Doing one thing really well The changing face of broadcast The evolving world of news Turn your challenges into Adviser reception/SPLC auction Sheraton newspaper news broadcasting opportunities (8:30-11 p.m.)

Ravenna A-B, 3rd, Write-off: 46 Broadcast package (8 a.m.-12:30 p.m.) 44: On-air reporter (3 p.m.) Sheraton 11: Press law/ethics (4 p.m.) Ravenna C, 3rd, Sheraton Photography judging (8 a.m.-noon) Broadcast judging (1-6 p.m.)

Cirrus, Pike St. Tower, WJEA luncheon (noon-1:30 p.m.) 35th Floor, Sheraton A conversation about JEA Suite, Sheraton Lunch with the JEA president scholastic media

26 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions n ADVISING/TEACHING n ENTREPRENEURSHIP n LEADERSHIP/TEAM BUILDING n NEWS LITERACY n CONTEST n KEYNOTE/FEATURED SPEAKER n MEETING n PHOTOJOURNALISM n DESIGN n GENERAL AUDIENCE n MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST n WEB n EDITING n LAW/ETHICS n NEWS GATHERING n WRITING ROOM 8 a.m. 9 a.m. 10 a.m. 11 a.m. Noon 1 p.m. 2 p.m. 4 p.m. Evening InDesign tips and techniques for student publications InDesign: Work smarter, not Certification test for CJE and Diamond, 1st, Sheraton (2 hours) Instagram micro packages InDesign tricks and tips harder Not another InDesign session MJE candidates Pinterest: A creative resource Stress management for the Write-off: 07 Commentary Aspen, 2nd, Sheraton for design, photo ... Avoiding marshmallow fluff Open forum on press rights staffer 10 timely tips What will the principal say? writing Strengthening your journalistic Legal and ethical issues for Photojournalism basics for CJE/MJE certification study Write-off: 20: Lit mag poetry Cedar A, 2nd, Sheraton foundation (Pt. 1) Taming the grading monster advisers advisers session 21: Lit mag illustration Covering controversy: Video Beyond daily announcements: Publications come alive with 41: Documentary (3 p.m.) Cedar B, 2nd, Sheraton journalism, social respons. video news stories for impact Aurasma Advanced Aurasma Follow the rubric road 42: Video pkg. edit. (4:30 p.m.)

Grand Ballroom, 2nd, Live music (8-11 p.m.) Sheraton Juniper, 2nd, Sheraton Write-off headquarters Quiz Bowl grading Write-off headquarters Write-off headquarters Write-off lead judges check in (1-3:30 p.m.) Write-off headquarters Bits to bytes: Digital marketing Entreprenuership and the teen Creative ways to market your Other career opportunities for Redwood, 2nd, Sheraton Going beyond the game Socialnomics explained journalist yearbooks yerds Write-off: 04 Sports writing Spruce, 2nd, Sheraton Day of Doing (7:30 a.m. meeting) and workspace Day of Doing workspace The anatomy of a broadcast Lighting techniques for video Journalistic ethics: A crash Write-off: 02 Editorial writing; Willow, 2nd, Sheraton Quiz Bowl qualifying test package Move like a videographer and photojournalism Produce like a pro course Drones and the media 06 Ed. cartooning Media Swap Shops Windows, 2nd, Sheraton (8 and 9 p.m. ) JEA general membership Pop-up reporting on refugees Write-off: 38 Broadcast feature Ballard, 3rd, Sheraton meeting JEA state directors meeting Show your style In the room where it happens You want to major in WHAT? It’s all about the culture in Paris story

Capitol Hill, 3rd, Editing video stories in Blackfish, Murrow, Time All together now Build a better grading system High school live broadcast Staff organization and 40 Social media rep. (3 p.m.) Sheraton Premiere Warner ... oh my! motivation 36: Broadcast news (4:30 p.m.) Advising multiple publications Roundtable for broadcast Taping for contest Everett, 3rd, Sheraton Yearbook adviser roundtable Newspaper adviser roundtable roundtable Roundtable for online advisers Roundtable for lit mag advisers advisers 44 On-air reporting Taping for contest Fremont, 3rd, Sheraton 48 Broadcast commentary

Greenwood, 3rd, Write-off: 47 Videography Broadcast judging Broadcast judging Write-off: 45 Broadcast Sheraton newswriting 48 Broadcast comm. (3 p.m.) Issaquah, 3rd, Sheraton Write-off: 43 Online news package (8 a.m.-12:30 p.m.) 08: News editing (4 p.m.) Write-off: 21 Lit mag Kirkland, 3rd, Sheraton illustration What I wish I had known as a The great journalism lock-in 37: Broadcast sports (3 p.m.) Leschi, 3rd, Sheraton Advisers: Shoot for the stars new adviser adventure Remember to breathe Using your local resources 39: Commercial (4:30 p.m.) The book is done, now have Coverage, content and Write-off: 22 Literary Medina, 3rd, Sheraton some fun! reporting for advisers Using springtime to get ahead magazine photography

Metropolitan A, 3rd, One Story: ‘Under Our Skin’ (2 hours) Copy this! Humans of Harker Breaking barriers: Indigenous LGBTQ media: Beyond the Write-off judges dinner and Sheraton representation letters judging (6 p.m.)

Metropolitan B, 3rd, The future of your local It’s the little things Doing one thing really well The changing face of broadcast The evolving world of news Turn your challenges into Adviser reception/SPLC auction Sheraton newspaper news broadcasting opportunities (8:30-11 p.m.)

Ravenna A-B, 3rd, Write-off: 46 Broadcast package (8 a.m.-12:30 p.m.) 44: On-air reporter (3 p.m.) Sheraton 11: Press law/ethics (4 p.m.) Ravenna C, 3rd, Sheraton Photography judging (8 a.m.-noon) Broadcast judging (1-6 p.m.)

Cirrus, Pike St. Tower, WJEA luncheon (noon-1:30 p.m.) 35th Floor, Sheraton A conversation about JEA Suite, Sheraton Lunch with the JEA president scholastic media

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Your yearbook: It’s the story of the school year. There’s your best no better match for your yearbook staff’s enthusiasm and commitment than Balfour’s innovative technology, classroom resources and attentive customer care. yearbook. We’re here to help you be your best yearbook. bt eYearbook BalfourTools BAL4.tv ImageShare 28 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2017For more• SEATTLE information, see your Balfour representative or visit us at balfour.com/yearbooks. Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions WRITE-OFF ROOM ASSIGNMENTS Advisers: Check in at the Write-off desk in the Hall 4F, CC, to pick up students’ contest ID labels. Make sure students have their contest ID labels before their contests are scheduled to meet. Note the contests that begin early Friday. Students will need to pick up their tickets by 7 p.m. Thursday in order to enter their 8 a.m. contests. The Write-off desk is open 1-7 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m.-noon Friday. Name substitutions must be made by noon Friday. Between noon and 3 p.m. Friday, tickets may be picked up in Juniper, 2nd Floor, Sheraton. If a ticket is lost, replacement fee is $5. Students: Please note the assigned time and room for your contest. While most contests begin at 4 p.m. Friday, some broadcast contests will meet earlier in the day. Bring required equipment and supplies, as explained in rules at jea.org, and contest ID label to the assigned room. Most contests/ critiques will last two hours. Lead judges: Pick up material for contests 1-26 between 1 and 3:30 p.m. in Juniper, 2nd Floor, Sheraton. Photography Judges: 8 a.m.-noon, Ravena C, 3rd Floor, Sheraton Broadcast Judges: 10:30 a.m. Greenwood, 3rd, Sheraton; 1 p.m. Ravena C, 3rd, Sheraton (check schedule for assigned room/time). Write-off Judges’ Dinner/Judging: 6 p.m., Metropolitan A, 3rd Floor, Sheraton Verify rooms: Check the Convention Update flier in case there is a room change. 01 Newswriting...... 4 p.m., Room 2AB, CC 02 Editorial Writing...... 4 p.m., Willow, 2nd Floor, Sheraton 03 Feature Writing...... 4 p.m., Room 3AB, CC 04 Sports Writing...... 4 p.m., Redwood, 2nd Floor, Sheraton 05 Review Writing...... 4 p.m., Room 4C4, CC 06 Editorial Cartooning...... 4 p.m., Willow, 2nd Floor, Sheraton 07 Commentary Writing...... 4 p.m., Aspen, 2nd Floor, Sheraton 08 News Editing/Headline Writing...... 4 p.m., Issaquah, 3rd Floor, Sheraton 09 Newspaper Layout (online)...... 4 p.m., Room 308, CC, stay for critique 10 Newsmagazine Layout (online)...... 4 p.m., Room 304, CC, stay for critique 11 Press Law & Ethics...... 4 p.m., Ravenna A-B, 3rd Floor, Sheraton 12 Yearbook Copy/Caption: Sports...... 4 p.m., Room 4C1-2, CC 13 Yearbook Copy/Caption: Academics...... 4 p.m., Room 4C1-2, CCr 14 Yearbook Copy/Caption: Clubs...... 4 p.m., Room 4C1-2, CC 15 Yearbook Copy/Caption: Student Life...... 4 p.m., Room 4C1-2, CC 16 Yearbook Layout: Theme (online)...... 4 p.m., Room 205, CC, stay for critique 17 Yearbook Layout: Inside Pages (online)...... 4 p.m., Room 203, CC, stay for critique 18 Yearbook Cover/End Sheets (online)...... 4 p.m., Room 212, CC, stay for critique 19 Literary Magazine Layout (online)...... 4 p.m., Room 204, CC, stay for critique 20 Literary Magazine Poetry...... 4 p.m., Cedar A, 2nd Floor, Sheraton 21 Literary Magazine Illustration...... 4 p.m., Kirkland, 3rd Floor, Sheraton 22 Literary Magazine Photography...... 4 p.m., Medina, 2nd, Sheraton 23 Graphic Design: Logo (online)...... 4 p.m., Room 305, CC stay for critique 24 Graphic Design: Infographics (online) ...... 4 p.m., Room 310, CC, stay for critique 25 Graphic Design: Advertising (online)...... 4 p.m., Room 307, CC stay for critique 26 Graphic Design: Photo Illustration (online)...... 4 p.m., Room 213, CC, stay for critique 27 Themed Photo (online)...... 4 p.m., Hall 4E, CC, stay for critique 28 Sports Action Photography (online)...... 4 p.m., Hall 4E, CC, stay for critique 29 Sports Feature Photography (online)...... 4 p.m., Hall 4E, CC, stay for critique 30 Feature Photography (online)...... 4 p.m., Hall 4E, CC, stay for critique 31 General or Spot News Photography (online)...... 4 p.m., Hall 4E, CC, stay for critique 32 Photo Story (online)...... 4 p.m.,Hall 4E, CC, stay for critique 33 Portfolio (online)...... 4 p.m., Hall 4E, CC, stay for critique 34 Photo Portrait (online)...... 4 p.m., Hall 4E, CC, stay for critique 35 First-year Photo (online)...... 4 p.m., Hall 4E, CC, stay for critique 36 Broadcast News Story (online)...... 4:30 p.m., Capitol Hill, 3rd Floor, Sheraton, stay for critique 37 Broadcast Sports Story (online)...... 3 p.m., Leschi, 3rd Floor, Sheraton, stay for critique 38 Broadcast Feature Story (online)...... 4 p.m., Ballard, 3rd Floor, Sheraton, stay for critique 39 Broadcast Commercial/PSA (online)...... 4:30 p.m., Leschi, 3rd Floor, Sheraton, stay for critique 40 Social Media Reporting (online)...... 3 p.m., Capitol Hill, 3rd Floor, Sheraton, stay for critique 41 Short Documentary (online)...... 3 p.m., Cedar B, 2nd Floor, Sheraton, stay for critique 42 Video Package Editing (online)...... 4:30 p.m., Cedar B, 2nd Floor, Sheraton, stay for critique 43 Online News Package (on-site)...... 8 a.m., Issaquah, 3rd Floor, Sheraton. Turn in entry by 12:30 p.m. 44 On-Air Reporter (on-site)...... 3 p.m., Ravenna A-B, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (taping in Everett) 45 Broadcast Newswriting (on-site)...... 4 p.m., Greenwood, 3rd Floor, Sheraton 46 Broadcast Package (on-site)...... 8 a.m., Ravenna A-B, 3rd Floor, Sheraton. Turn in entry by 12:30 p.m. 47 Videography (on-site)...... 8 a.m., Greenwood, 3rd Floor, Sheraton. Turn in entry by 10:30 a.m. to Greenwood. 48 Broadcast Commentary (on-site)...... 3 p.m., Issaquah, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (taping in Fremont)

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EVENT CONTEST entries must be completed by noon. l PUBLICATION EXCHANGE WRITE-OFF CONTEST CHECK-IN 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Friday, Issaquah, 3rd Floor, Interested in seeing what kind of work other If both your Write-off registration and JEA Sheraton (40) high schools around the nation are producing? membership fees have been paid, your school’s Stop by the exchange tables to gander at the Write-off packet containing student contest CONTEST latest editions of high school publications from tickets, additional instructions and contest WRITE-OFF CONTEST 46: coast to coast. Drop off a few copies of your room assignments may be picked up at the BROADCAST PACKAGE media and take some you like. Write-off desk. If you have not paid, you must Students will meet for the broadcast package All day Friday, Hall 4D, CC do so at this time. Noon Friday is the deadline contest. Contest ID label must be shown to for substitutions in preregistered categories. No enter. Final entries must be completed by noon. new entries will be accepted at the convention. 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Friday, Ravenna A-B, 3rd Floor, 7:30 a.m. Lost tickets will be replaced for $5. Write-off Sheraton (40) personnel will move at noon to the Juniper, 2nd ADVISER EVENT Floor, Sheraton. STUDENT EVENT l ADVISER HOSPITALITY 8 a.m.-noon Friday, Hall 4F, CC (2,263) l JOURNALISM QUIZ BOWL Meet with your colleagues from across the country in the adviser hospitality suite, a hot EVENT QUALIFYING TEST spot for advisers. Local committee members l Registered four-person teams will take a written BEST OF SHOW DESK qualifying test with questions related to culture, will be available to recommend sightseeing, Enter your newspaper, newsmagazine, literary dining and entertainment options. Friday journalism and civics. The test scores will be arts magazine, broadcast, website or yearbook used to seed the top teams to compete in the refreshments are underwritten by Temple at the Best of Show desk. Winners will be University Lew Klein College of Media and live buzzer rounds 8-10:50 a.m. Saturday. The announced at the NSPA awards ceremony list of qualifying teams will be posted by 11 a.m. Communication. Saturday. 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, Room 4C3, CC (300) Friday at the Write-off desk in Hall 4F, at the JEA 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, Hall 4F, CC (2,263) Bookstore in Room 4C3, and on Facebook and Twitter. EVENT EVENT l April van Buren, MJE, La Follette High School, JEA BOOKSTORE l CONVENTION SHIRT Madison, Wis. Check out the new books, as well as popular DISTRIBUTION 8 a.m. Friday, Willow, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (300) best-sellers, at the JEA Bookstore. Nearly 300 If your school purchased the official convention items relating to journalism are available, shirts through online registration, you may pick including textbooks, curriculum development, 9 a.m. them up here. Large orders will be bundled yearbook, newspaper, design, photography, together and should be picked up by the writing, desktop publishing, new media, DESIGN adviser. There may be extra shirts to buy if you advertising and broadcast. Did you forget Write- did not pre-order. Quantities are limited. Shirts PINTEREST: A CREATIVE RESOURCE off supplies? Check here to buy dictionaries, not picked up by noon Friday will be resold. FOR DESIGN, PHOTOGRAPHY, FOOD thesauruses, stylebooks, paper, pens, pencils, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, Hall 4F, CC (2,263) We will explore a variety of ways to use rulers and erasers. Supplies are limited, so shop Pinterest in the journalism/graphic arts early. Students are welcome. CONTEST classroom. From design ideas to photography 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, Room 4C3, CC (300) PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST JUDGING to deadline snacks, this app can be an adviser’s Those who agreed to judge photography lifeline or a student’s best resource. 8 a.m. entries for the JEA Write-off will meet. EVALUATION CODE: 5432 8 a.m.-noon Friday, Ravenna C, 3rd Floor, Linda Drake, MJE, Chase County Jr./Sr. High MEETING Sheraton (50) School, Cottonwood Falls, Kan. JEA GENERAL MEMBERSHIP 9 a.m. Friday, Aspen, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (125) CONTEST MEETING MEETING JEA members and others interested in the WRITE-OFF CONTEST 47: organization are invited to attend this meeting. JEA STATE DIRECTORS MEETING VIDEOGRAPHY CONTEST All JEA state directors should attend this You’ll learn about recent JEA board action, hear INSTRUCTIONAL MEETING concerns and discuss plans and goals. meeting to learn about upcoming events and Students will meet to get instructions. Contest get helpful hints on how to make others aware Mark Newton, MJE, Mountain Vista High ID label must be shown to enter. Turn in entry School, Highlands Ranch, Colo. of the organization at the state level. by 10:30 a.m. EVALUATION CODE: 2028 8 a.m. Friday, Ballard, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (100) 8 a.m. Friday, Greenwood, 3rd Floor, Sheraton Sarah Nichols, MJE, Whitney High School, (45) Rocklin, Calif. EVENT 9 a.m. Friday, Ballard, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (100) l CONVENTION CHECK-IN AND CONTEST REGISTRATION, TRADE SHOW WRITE-OFF CONTEST 43: ONLINE MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST Check-in to pick up name badges, programs NEWS PACKAGE EDITING VIDEO STORIES IN and school packets containing Swap Shop, If you registered for this contest, bring your PREMIERE Break with a Pro and luncheon tickets. Lost and Contest ID so you can get your assignment. This session will demonstrate a Premiere Pro found is here. Read the rules so you will know what workflow that presents effective strategies 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, Hall 4F, CC (2,263) equipment to bring to prepare your entry. Final for selecting effective footage, organizing

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sequence patterns and packaging effective video stories. EDITOR-IN-RESIDENCE EVALUATION CODE: 5304 Jim McCarthy, Joseph Gregori High School, Bill Elsen, primarily an editor during a 33 1/2-year career at The Modesto, Calif. Washington Post, is editor-in-residence at the JEA/NSPA Spring 9 a.m. Friday, Capitol Hill, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (50) National High School Journalism Convention. Sign up in the registration area, Hall 4F, CC, to meet him LAW AND ETHICS and discuss internship and job possibilities, your portfolio and STRENGTHENING YOUR anything else on your mind. At The Post, he spent 7 1/2 years as a director of recruiting JOURNALISTIC FOUNDATION and hiring for the newsroom. He also worked as a night and (PART 1) assignment editor on the national desk, a sports and metro Focus on your journalistic foundation by copy editor, executive sports editor, metro staff writer, assistant strengthening your editorial policy, ethical foreign editor, night city editor and night news editor. guidelines and staff manual procedures in this He is now an editor for the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education and Twice Media first of two sessions. This session will cover Productions, and is a board member of the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation of Washington, D.C. basics and what should be included. (For He continues to teach at journalism conventions and workshops, and has been a consultant advisers, students and administrators.) in college newsrooms. EVALUATION CODE: 5142 John Bowen, MJE, and Candace Perkins Bowen, MJE, Kent (Ohio) State University, and session to ask questions, solve problems and Temple University, offers a perspective and Lori Keekley, MJE, St. Louis Park (Minn.) High benefit from the experience of JEA mentors. leads a discussion. School EVALUATION CODE: 4447 EVALUATION CODE: 5551 9 a.m. Friday, Cedar A, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (50) Carol Strauss, Newport Beach, Calif., and Ray David Boardman, Temple University, College Hopfer, CJE, Tillamook, Ore. of Media and Communication, Philadelphia MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST 9 a.m. Friday, Everett, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (20) 9 a.m. Friday, Metropolitan B, 3rd Floor, COVERING CONTROVERSY: Sheraton (400) VIDEO JOURNALISM AND SOCIAL ADVISING/TEACHING RESPONSIBILITY ADVISERS: SHOOT FOR THE STARS ENTREPRENEURSHIP Do you want to maximize the effectiveness of GOING BEYOND THE GAME Follow Pacemaker-winning Mustang Morning your journalism program? Make it the best it Social media is a game changer. In our schools, News adviser through case studies of how can be by picking up some tips on teaching, it’s helping us go beyond the game in a they’ve succeeded — and sometimes recruiting, fund-raising, fostering diversity, and number of fun and easy ways. In this session, failed — to report on topics that people in establishing community connections. come learn about four ways you can use social the community don’t want to see the light EVALUATION CODE: 5628 media to give your community a glimpse of day. We’ll share tips and advice so your Dave Riggs, Wenatchee (Wash.) High School behind the scenes. broadcast program can cover controversy. 9 a.m. Friday, Leschi, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (40) EVALUATION CODE: 5495 EVALUATION CODE: 4897 Patrick Johnson, MJE, Antioch (Ill.) Michael Hernandez, Mira Costa High School, GENERAL AUDIENCE Community High School Manhattan Beach, Calif. 9 a.m. Friday, Redwood, 2nd Floor, Sheraton 9 a.m. Friday, Cedar B, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (50) ONE STORY: ‘UNDER OUR SKIN’ (2 HOURS) (150) DESIGN Journalists from The Seattle Times share a multimedia project about the words we use MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST INDESIGN TIPS AND TECHNIQUES THE ANATOMY OF A BROADCAST FOR STUDENT PUBLICATIONS to talk about race. They will then discuss what they’ve learned from this project, and how we PACKAGE (2 HOURS) can improve our reporting to better reflect our A former network producer will show how Tips, tricks and techniques to help you get communities. broadcast packages are structured so you can the most out of Adobe InDesign in your EVALUATION CODE: 5584 report and write efficiently. Learn to set up a publication. Beginning and advanced Shirley Qiu, Corinne Chin, Tyrone Beason and package in a newscast for the most impact. techniques will be covered. Bring a laptop Linda Shaw, The Seattle Times EVALUATION CODE: 5554 with InDesign installed AND your questions/ 9 a.m. Friday, Metropolitan A, 3rd Floor, Paul Niwa, CJE, Emerson College, Boston challenges to get the most out of this session. Sheraton (380) 9 a.m. Friday, Willow, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (300) EVALUATION CODE: 5573 Hal Schmidt, Balfour Yearbooks, Houston GENERAL AUDIENCE STUDENT EVENT David Graves, St. Thomas’ Episcopal School, THE FUTURE OF YOUR LOCAL l Houston BREAK WITH A PRO Kick off your morning with small-group 9 a.m. Friday, Diamond, 1st Floor, Sheraton (85) NEWSPAPER The daily newspaper has been a staple of discussion sessions with journalism professionals in traditional and specialized ADVISING/TEACHING American life for the nation’s history. Today, YEARBOOK ADVISER ROUNDTABLE though, many newspapers are hanging on areas. Media professionals will share by a thin thread as their traditional business information about their work and backgrounds. If you’re new to advising a yearbook and need model dissolves. Will your local paper survive? Preregistration was required. Please check your tips on organization, lesson planning, grading And should you even care? The former editor- ticket for your assigned time. or staff management, come to this informal in-chief of The Seattle Times, now a dean at 9 and 10 a.m. Friday, Hall 4E, CC (5,030)

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WRITING needed to take photos while on assignment. ADVISING/TEACHING IT’S OK TO BE FUNNY Fancy camera or point-and-shoot camera, we’ll MEET AND SHARE IDEAS Most student publications list “entertaining their help you be prepared. WITH THE NSPA audience” as one of their purposes, but many EVALUATION CODE: 5576 Come in and chat with NSPA’s executive and student publications are devoid of humor. If Kathy Habiger, MJE, Mill Valley High School, associate directors to brainstorm how to done right, humor can be a powerful way to Shawnee, Kan.; Amy Morgan, MJE, Shawnee strengthen services, awards, workshops and encourage readership. Focusing on examples Mission West High School, Overland Park, Kan. resources offered by NSPA. They want to hear from professional and student publications, this 9 a.m. Friday, Room 2AB, CC (325) your ideas on how the organization can better session will explore specific ways to incorporate serve you. GENERAL AUDIENCE, DIVERSITY humor into your publication without losing EVALUATION CODE: 5338 journalistic credibility. WHY DIVERSITY MATTERS Laura Widmer and Gary Lundgren, National EVALUATION CODE: 2966 This session explores the importance of Scholastic Press Association, Minneapolis Rod Satterthwaite, MJE, Palo Alto High diversity in journalism and the media, told 9 a.m. Friday, Room 305, CC (55) School, Palo Alto, Calif. through personal anecdotes and stories. 9 a.m. Friday, Room 201, CC (147) EVALUATION CODE: 5587 DESIGN Zaki Hamid, Humanities Washington, Seattle DESIGN THAT WOWS LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING 9 a.m. Friday, Room 211, CC (119) Be inspired. Look at trends for ways to go GREAT EDITOR = GREAT LEADER beyond basic principles of design to create Great publication editors must be effective LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING a truly innovative, fresh, reader-relevant leaders. Come learn ideas and methods for AVOID STAFF INFECTION publication with design that WOWS! leading your staffs. Learn how to motivate your Don’t stress out every time you walk in to the EVALUATION CODE: 5632 staff to work for a common goal and avoid journalism room. Use our tips to help motivate Tamra McCarthy, CJE, James Enochs High common pitfalls. In order to create a great and inspire your staff. School, Modesto, Calif. product, you must have strong student leaders. EVALUATION CODE: 5500 9 a.m. Friday, Room 306, CC (53) EVALUATION CODE: 3917 Jeff Moffitt, MJE, Jostens, Dallas, and Brian Dan Mueller, CJE, Herff Jones Yearbooks, Martinez, CJE, Jostens, Houston LAW AND ETHICS St. Louis 9 a.m. Friday, Room 212, CC (65) STATE LAWS PROTECTING STUDENT 9 a.m. Friday, Room 203, CC (81) WRITING PRESS FREEDOM LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING Ten state legislatures have enacted laws HEADING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION protecting the rights of student journalists; PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS Do you ever write copy and hope no one reads other lawmakers are discussing ways to protect Whether working with the surly veteran, know- it? Probably not. Learn how to write and design your expression each year. Learn how existing it-all editor, protective reporter or overzealous the perfect headline that will make people stop state laws work, where this effort is heading publisher, knowing how to collaborate in the and read your story. and how you how you could enact legislation. 21st century is vital to sustaining, maintaining EVALUATION CODE: 5459 EVALUATION CODE: 3379 Adam Livesay, CJE, Walsworth Yearbooks, and succeeding in the media marketplace. Mark Goodman, Kent (Ohio) State University Join us in learning how to build a harmonious Tampa, Fla. 9 a.m. Friday, Room 307, CC (67) communications environment. 9 a.m. Friday, Room 213, CC (70) EVALUATION CODE: 4892 DESIGN Michael Malcom-Bjorklund, CJE, River City NEWS GATHERING Science Academy Innovation, Jacksonville, Fla. YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH! JUST YOUR TYPE Typography can make or break your yearbook. 9 a.m. Friday, Room 204, CC (119) The 2016 election has shown public trust in Learn the basic rules of typography to create a the media is falling. Many feel we get the story readable look; then learn how and why to break WRITING wrong more than we get it right. This session the rules to “visually speak” your message. will teach you how to be accurate in your LIDS: 5 HATS YOU MUST WEAR IN EVALUATION CODE: 5043 reporting in a world of d fast deadlines. SPORTS WRITING Laura Schaub, CJE, Lifetouch, Commerce City, EVALUATION CODE: 5499 Does your media team have a wealth of sports Colo. Brad Lewis, MJE, St. Teresa’s Academy, Kansas junkies but still a lack of great coverage? Learn 9 a.m. Friday, Room 4C4, CC (289) how a great sports section starts with a crew of City, Mo. 9 a.m. Friday, Room 303, CC (117) reporters who know how to approach the topic WEB from a variety of angles. MOTION GRAPHICS, ANIMATION EVALUATION CODE: 5330 DESIGN Chris Waugaman, MJE, Prince George (Va.) THE DYNAMIC DUO AND MODERN JOURNALISM High School Great yearbooks are built on beautiful and This presentation will touch on the process of 9 a.m. Friday, Room 205, CC (96) effective design AND journalistic, interesting creating every major form of multimedia while and relevant writing. Here are some tips on focusing on motion graphics, the animation PHOTOJOURNALISM blending divine design with writing that wows style used frequently by professional news to create an award-winning publication. websites. Whether you are a journalist or a PHOTOGRAPHY FOR THE video producer, this presentation will leave you NON-PHOTOGRAPHER EVALUATION CODE: 5517 Charla Harris, CJE, Pleasant Grove High informed and inspired. Here’s a quick guide to taking photos even if School, Texarkana, Texas EVALUATION CODE: 5688 you’re not a “photographer” on your staff. You 9 a.m. Friday, Room 304, CC (79) Peter Champelli, Ithaca (N.Y.) College never know when you might be expected/ 9 a.m. Friday, Room 308, CC (61)

32 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions 9 a.m. FRIDAY GENERAL AUDIENCE, FEATURED SPEAKER 10 a.m. Adjusting some of the little things may ADMINISTRATORS AND ASSERTIVE be all it takes to transform your paper or STUDENT JOURNALISM: NEWS GATHERING newsmagazine. EVALUATION CODE: 2111 EMBRACE IT AVOIDING MARSHMALLOW FLUFF Jon Reese, CJE, Decatur (Ga.) High School When we talk of students using their voices, With all the talk about “fake news” today, 10 a.m. Friday, Metropolitan B, 3rd Floor, we’re not thinking about 10 Ways to Ask it is more important than ever that we, as Sheraton (400) educators, help our students become critical Someone to Prom. To make a difference in school or community, students should do real consumers of the media. Our high school MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST journalists can help lead this effort and model reporting. Learn ideas from previous media, for their peers, and perhaps even some adults, FOIA requests, school board coverage and BEYOND DAILY ANNOUNCEMENTS: what responsible journalism is. information-gathering skills. VIDEO NEWS STORIES FOR IMPACT EVALUATION CODE: 5585 EVALUATION CODE: 5288 Learn how to turn your daily announcements Susan Enfield, Highline Public Schools, Burien, John Bowen, MJE, and Candace Perkins show into a full newscast by integrating video Wash. Bowen, MJE, Kent (Ohio) State University, and news packages into your program. The adviser 9 a.m. Friday, Room 3AB, CC (325) Lori Keekley, MJE, St. Louis Park (Minn.) High of Pacemaker-winning Mustang Morning News School will show examples of different types of news LAW AND ETHICS 10 a.m. Friday, Aspen, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (125) packages, and discuss crew roles and workflow. INTRODUCTION TO INTELLECTUAL EVALUATION CODE: 4898 PROPERTY EDITING Michael Hernandez, Mira Costa High School, SHOW YOUR STYLE Manhattan Beach, Calif. If you found it on the internet, can you use it? 10 a.m. Friday, Cedar B, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (50) This is an introduction to intellectual property This refresher on AP style is ideal for candidates preparing to take the CJE exam and copy laws, primarily copyright and trademarks, with ADVISING/TEACHING tips for student journalists who want to avoid editors looking to brush up on their skills. Bring violations in their publications, and also want to your phone or computer to play along with an NEWSPAPER ADVISER protect their own work. interactive game. ROUNDTABLE EVALUATION CODE: 5595 EVALUATION CODE: 5258 If you’re new to advising a newspaper and need Peggy Watt, Western Washington University, Joe Humphrey, MJE, Hillsborough High tips on organization, lesson planning, grading Bellingham, Wash. School, Tampa, Fla. or staff management, come to this informal 9 a.m. Friday, Room 310, CC (96) 10 a.m. Friday, Ballard, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (100) session to ask questions, solve problems and benefit from the experience of JEA mentors. EDITING NEWS LITERACY EVALUATION CODE: 4219 COPY EDITING IN 5 SIMPLE STEPS BLACKFISH, MURROW, TIME Kay Locey, CJE, Puyallup, Wash., and Katherine New to copy editing? Don’t know where to WARNER ... OH MY! Patrick, CJE, Torrington, Wyo. start? Find out what you should be looking for Media literacy is necessary in the classroom. 10 a.m. Friday, Everett, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (20) and how you should be editing. How do you Journalism classes tend to focus heavily on critique your peers without them hating you? writing. That’s all good, but a solid six-week ADVISING/TEACHING And AP style? Get all your tips here. lesson/curriculum plan on media literacy can WHAT I WISH I HAD KNOWN AS A EVALUATION CODE: 5674 help your group understand the bias, history NEW ADVISER Elaine Robinson, Kapaun Mt. Carmel Catholic and genres of mass media. New advisers face all sorts of troubling High School, Wichita, Kan. EVALUATION CODE: 4258 situations, and this session will deal with some 9 a.m. Friday, Room 401, CC (157) Annette Deming, CJE, Don Antonio Lugo High of those. Time will also be allowed for questions School, Chino, Calif. and discussion. GENERAL AUDIENCE, FEATURED SPEAKER 10 a.m. Friday, Capitol Hill, 3rd Floor, Sheraton EVALUATION CODE: 2465 JOURNALISM: TO SERVE AND (50) Ellen Kersey, Corban University, Salem, Ore. ENGAGE 10 a.m. Friday, Leschi, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (40) ADVISING/TEACHING Being a journalist is a privilege and a responsibility. What kind of journalist do you TAMING THE GRADING MONSTER ADVISING/TEACHING want to be? In this session we will inspire one See one adviser’s approach to bringing some THE BOOK IS DONE, NOW HAVE another by examining the principles and a order out of chaos regarding the grading SOME FUN! few reporting tools responsible journalists dilemma in a publication classroom. Discover Whether you’re spring or fall delivery, it is adhere to in their efforts to serve and engage some ways to evaluate every student on staff in important to celebrate both a finished book, communities of all kinds. a way that reflects individual responsibilities or and a hard-working staff. This session will EVALUATION CODE: 5645 assignments. discuss ideas for large and small celebrations. Andrea Otanez, University of Washington, EVALUATION CODE: 2054 From quick, simple ideas to overnight events, Seattle Bill Flechtner, MJE, Milwaukie, Ore. you’re sure to find something for your end-of- 9 a.m. Friday, Room 4C1-2, CC (570) 10 a.m. Friday, Cedar A, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (50) year staff retreat. EVALUATION CODE: 5691 GENERAL AUDIENCE Jessica Bramer, CJE, John Marshall High IT’S THE LITTLE THINGS School, Glen Dale, W.Va. Come to this session to hear almost three 10 a.m. Friday, Medina, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (40) dozen specific suggestions aimed at improving your reporting, design and staff dynamics.

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP WRITING Valley High School, Shawnee, Kan. SOCIALNOMICS A TRULY USEFUL SESSION ON 10 a.m. Friday, Room 2AB, CC (325) We don’t have a choice on whether we do REVIEW WRITING social media; the question is how well we do it. Why should anyone care what you think NEWS GATHERING EVALUATION CODE: 5490 about what you review? What is the difference STRANGERS ON THE STREET Mitch Eden, MJE, Kirkwood (Mo.) High School between reviewing something and “liking” it? Learning how to approach a subject and 10 a.m. Friday, Redwood, 2nd Floor, Sheraton Come learn the art of reviewing and come getting them to open up is not all that hard. It (150) away with a basic writing map to help you just takes practice. The speakers will offer good review almost anything. examples and practices that will work for you. MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST EVALUATION CODE: 3746 EVALUATION CODE: 5383 MOVE LIKE A VIDEOGRAPHER Janet Ewell, MJE, Huntington Beach, Calif. Mike Taylor, CJE, Walsworth Yearbooks, Knowing the right technique can turn an 10 a.m. Friday, Room 203, CC (81) Mansfield, Texas, and Sabrina Schmitz, CJE, amateur video enthusiast into a polished video Walsworth Yearbooks, Tampa, Fla. producer. We will learn the fundamentals of NEWS GATHERING, DIVERSITY 10 a.m. Friday, Room 303, CC (117) shooting and discuss how to gather enough COVERING AMERICAN solid footage to head back to the newsroom INEQUALITIES DESIGN confidently and ready to edit. America is the land of opportunity — for some CUT IT OUT EVALUATION CODE: 5391 far more than others. Learn how to tackle tough Professional-looking cutouts are a few clicks Sarahmaria Gomez, Northwestern University/ national issues — such as housing access, away. We’ll explore the selection tools, create Medill, Evanston, Ill. segregation in schooling and the criminal masks and tackle the dreaded part of any 10 a.m. Friday, Willow, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (300) justice system — in your school paper. cutout — wispy hair. EVALUATION CODE: 5660 EVALUATION CODE: 5513 DESIGN Erin Castellano, CJE, Clayton (Mo.) High School John Horvath, Hill Country Christian School, Austin, Texas ICING THE CAKE: DETAILS 10 a.m. Friday, Room 211, CC (119) COMPLETE THE BOOK 10 a.m. Friday, Room 304, CC (79) Beautiful cover. Unique theme. But that’s not WRITING enough. Great staffs pay attention to the WHAT DO WWII, FEATURE WRITING DESIGN DESIGN QUEST: SPARKING smallest details. They consider every aspect HAVE IN COMMON? from the table of contents and index to WWII correspondent Ernie Pyle became the YEARBOOK CREATIVITY consistent writing style. This session will study most famous reporter of his time. People on the This session will stimulate your thinking as you these details and how they can make or break home front waited to read his weekly columns. embark on the journey of designing your 2018 the finished product. It wasn’t the death and destruction facts that book. Where do the great yearbook designers EVALUATION CODE: 5461 drew his readers; it was his crafting of words. get all those great ideas? Come see what the Jeff Moffitt, MJE, Jostens, Dallas Come and hear Pyle’s style. professionals are doing and find new sources of 10 a.m. Friday, Room 201, CC (147) inspiration for your 2018 book. EVALUATION CODE: 5487 Erin Coggins, MJE, Sparkman High School, EVALUATION CODE: 5520 LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING Harvest, Ala. Jim Jordan, Del Campo High School, Fair Oaks, Calif. CRITIQUE YOURSELVES 10 a.m. Friday, Room 212, CC (65) Learn a tried-and-true method of critiquing 10 a.m. Friday, Room 306, CC (53) your newspaper or website to see continuous WRITING and obvious improvement using the standards THE MOST CHALLENGING HUMAN LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING that judges use. TO LEAD, YOU MUST FIRST SERVE EVALUATION CODE: 5558 TASK: CONSENSUS What kind of servant are you? Your answer to Vicki Brennan, CJE, St. Petersburg, Fla. Learn to go beneath the surface of an editorial that question will determine how great a leader topic while honoring all sides of the argument. 10 a.m. Friday, Room 205, CC (96) you can become. Come learn how to lead your Develop an editorial stance by probing the staff by first learning how to serve your staff. conflicting positions and dignifying the DESIGN EVALUATION CODE: 5531 opposition. Learn what creative editorial leaders Jim McCrossen, Blue Valley Northwest High BARE ESSENTIALS OF DESIGN do to create a unified stance. It is noble work. When your design seems more like “Old Mother School, Overland Park, Kan. EVALUATION CODE: 5207 10 a.m. Friday, Room 305, CC (55) Hubbard,” it’s time to get creative and start Susan Turner Jones, Sierra Canyon School, collaborating. We’ll discuss ways on how to get Chatsworth, Calif. from Point A to Point B with a limited pallet LAW AND ETHICS 10 a.m. Friday, Room 213, CC (70) through tips, tricks and techniques that will fill DESIGNATING YOUR PUBLICATION your cupboard. DESIGN AS A PUBLIC FORUM EVALUATION CODE: 5127 Courts say the forum status of each student Michael Malcom-Bjorklund, CJE, River City THE DESIGN IS RIGHT Bring your content to life with great design. publication makes all the difference in your free Science Academy Innovation, Jacksonville, press rights. Learn how to determine whether Fla. This session explores great designs fit for any medium. Fifty minutes packed full of ideas! your publication qualifies and how to work 10 a.m. Friday, Room 204, CC (119) toward a forum policy that matters. EVALUATION CODE: 5571 Tom Gayda, MJE, North Central High School, EVALUATION CODE: 4675 Indianapolis, and Kathy Habiger, MJE, Mill Mark Goodman, Kent (Ohio) State University 10 a.m. Friday, Room 307, CC (67)

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LAW AND ETHICS DESIGN student media issues? If you want to know COPYRIGHT AND FAIR USE TRENDS IN YEARBOOK landmark cases or understand the importance Can we take that off the Internet and use it in See how yearbook staffs across the country of your publication being a forum, find what is our book? The speaker will show you how she create trendsetting designs to expand their essential here. starts the copyright and fair use conversation coverage and ultimately sell more books. EVALUATION CODE: 2164 with her students. Come prepared to share how EVALUATION CODE: 5041 Candace Perkins Bowen, MJE, Kent (Ohio) your staff manages this topic. Laura Schaub, CJE, Lifetouch, Commerce City, State University EVALUATION CODE: 5536 Colo. 11 a.m. Friday, Cedar A, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (50) Kate Obukowicz, Snohomish (Wash.) High 10 a.m. Friday, Room 4C4, CC (289) School GENERAL AUDIENCE 10 a.m. Friday, Room 308, CC (61) 10:30 a.m. PUBLICATIONS COME ALIVE WITH AURASMA LAW AND ETHICS CONTEST Use augmented reality app Aurasma to bring INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST your publications to life. This is an intro session BROADCAST CONTEST JUDGING on using Aurasma to increase engagement AMENDMENT Those who agreed to judge broadcast contests and/or sales of your publication. If you don’t Who does the First Amendment protect and 44, 46 and 47 for the JEA Write-off will meet. know what it is or haven’t used it yet, this how far does it go? What are its limits and why? 10:30 a.m.-3:45 p.m. Friday, Greenwood, 3rd session is for you. We’ll review the basics of these fundamental Floor, Sheraton (45) freedoms and discuss current issues and cases EVALUATION CODE: 5612 involving controversial speech, libel and related John Dent, Dos Pueblos High School, Goleta, concerns. 11 a.m. Calif. EVALUATION CODE: 5596 11 a.m. Friday, Cedar B, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (50) Peggy Watt, Western Washington University, LAW AND ETHICS Bellingham, Wash. OPEN FORUM ON PRESS RIGHTS MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST 10 a.m. Friday, Room 310, CC (96) This open forum session will empower INSTAGRAM MICRO PACKAGES students, advisers and administrators to raise In a world dominated by social media, we GENERAL AUDIENCE, FEATURED SPEAKER questions or issues that are important to them must learn to adapt the way we share our GETTING YOUR FOOT IN THE DOOR with members of the JEA Scholastic Press Rights information. In this session we will discuss a Are you wondering what it takes to get a Committee. new and unique approach to sharing stories journalism job in the current media climate? EVALUATION CODE: 5140 using a variety of audio and visual actions. Wondering how to get your foot in the door John Bowen, MJE, Kent (Ohio) State University EVALUATION CODE: 5699 in different media outlets? Come with your 11 a.m. Friday, Aspen, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (125) Joel Garver, CJE, Junction City (Kan.) High questions and prepare to get your answers. School EVALUATION CODE: 5668 WRITING 11 a.m. Friday, Diamond, 1st Floor, Sheraton (85 Ashley Stewart, Puget Sound Business IN THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENS Journal, Seattle In this hands-on session on narrative writing, ADVISING/TEACHING 10 a.m. Friday, Room 3AB, CC (325) we’ll write copy that puts readers in the room ADVISING MULTIPLE PUBLICATIONS where it happens. This type of writing relies ROUNDTABLE ENTREPRENEURSHIP on the ability to use all the senses to observe If you’re new to juggling both a yearbook and PROMOTING YOUR PROGRAM what’s happening. a newspaper, and need tips on organization, This session is all about making sure people see EVALUATION CODE: 5590 lesson planning, grading or staff management, you. This should help your audience see your Joe Humphrey, MJE, Hillsborough High come to this informal session to ask questions, site, get excited about your paper, buy your School, Tampa, Fla. solve problems and benefit from the yearbook and know what publications are in 11 a.m. Friday, Ballard, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (100) experience of JEA mentors. your school. EVALUATION CODE: 4218 EVALUATION CODE: 5555 ADVISING/TEACHING Carmen Wendt, MJE, Scottsdale, Ariz., and Joy Jordyn Kiel, CJE, Francis Howell North High ALL TOGETHER NOW Lessard, Ellensburg, Wash. School, St. Charles, Mo. Hear how a veteran adviser united separate 11 a.m. Friday, Everett, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (20) 10 a.m. Friday, Room 401, CC (157) print and broadcast journalism classes to form a more diverse, energetic and responsive ADVISING/TEACHING NEWS GATHERING, FEATURED SPEAKER convergence media crew. And it’s Career Tech. THE GREAT JOURNALISM LOCK-IN HOW TO DO A BETTER INTERVIEW And IB. Successful? Come be the judge. ADVENTURE Tips on how to conduct an interview — live or EVALUATION CODE: 4966 Starting off the school year with an overnight recorded — preparation, phrasing questions, Jon Reese, CJE, Decatur (Ga.) High School retreat is a great staff bonding experience. But, strategy, including the one suggestion that will 11 a.m. Friday, Capitol Hill, 3rd Floor, Sheraton also, a little scary. This session will talk about the make you a better interviewer every time. (50) benefits and the challenges of an up-all-night EVALUATION CODE: 5613 journalism extravaganza. Ross Reynolds, KUOW-FM, Seattle ADVISING/TEACHING EVALUATION CODE: 5503 10 a.m. Friday, Room 4C1-2, CC (570) LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES FOR R.J. Morgan, CJE, University of Mississippi, ADVISERS University, Miss. Do you plan to take the CJE or MJE test or just 11 a.m. Friday, Leschi, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (40) want to be more familiar with legal and ethical

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WRITING place. Come learn the ins and outs of creating to capture images that transform your COPY THIS! infographics that will appeal to today’s publications’ pages. Channel your inner Peter This speaker needs no Powerpoint or other “nonreaders.” Parker as we reveal the secrets of taking techy gismos to rev students up to meet the EVALUATION CODE: 3626 compelling action photos. challenge and banish boredom from lackluster Megan Palmer, CJE, Park Hill South High EVALUATION CODE: 2155 yearbook copy. Imagine you are in a revival School, Riverside, Mo. Cindy Todd, Austin, Texas, and Deanne Brown, meeting; come to be inspired and leave fired 11 a.m. Friday, Room 201, CC (147) Westlake High School, Austin, Texas up to make changes in your process. 11 a.m. Friday, Room 2AB, CC (325) EVALUATION CODE: 5514 NEWS GATHERING Mary Kay Downes, MJE, Chantilly (Va.) High NOT ANOTHER STUDENT AT A DESK LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING School Every day there are at least two to three MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU 11 a.m. Friday, Metropolitan A, 3rd Floor, moments happening on campus that could Empower your staff! Sharing responsibility Sheraton (380) make great stories, but are deemed “boring.” produces better books and happier people. We Strangely, students at desks then make the cut. will discuss proven ways to delegate, develop GENERAL AUDIENCE Come learn how to re-evaluate what you think confidence and teach others how to lead. DOING ONE THING REALLY WELL is boring. EVALUATION CODE: 3038 You know that suspicion you have that all EVALUATION CODE: 5565 Heather Nagel, CJE, Christ Presbyterian your online work is getting lost in the muddy Matthew LaPorte, CJE, Southwest Career and Academy, Nashville, Tenn. currents of the web? Trust your feelings! Technical Academy, Las Vegas 11 a.m. Friday, Room 212, CC (65) This session is not anti-Internet so much as 11 a.m. Friday, Room 203, CC (81) passionately pro-print, and is aimed at helping PHOTOJOURNALISM news publications renew their focus. LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING CHINA 360 IN PHOTOJOURNALISM EVALUATION CODE: 5524 SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST Learn more about the modern China 360 Jack Kennedy, MJE, Colorado Student Media From missing photos to constant deadlines, through photojournalism and shape your Association, Highlands Ranch, Colo. organization provides the keys to a production perspectives differently. Get to see scenes in 11 a.m. Friday, Metropolitan B, 3rd Floor, staff. This session will offer tips to help yearbook China you have never seen before and learn Sheraton (400) and newspaper staffs stay organized and on your new global knowledge. deadline, while advisers maintain their sanity. EVALUATION CODE: 5629 ENTREPRENEURSHIP EVALUATION CODE: 4687 Jason Zhu, JEA China, Shanghai, China BITS TO BYTES: DIGITAL Nancy Hastings, MJE, Highland, Ind. 11 a.m. Friday, Room 213, CC (70) MARKETING EXPLAINED 11 a.m. Friday, Room 204, CC (119) GENERAL AUDIENCE From Apple to Target, digital marketing campaigns have transformed brands from GENERAL AUDIENCE NOT YOUR MOMMA’S YEARBOOK traditional marketing mediums (print ‘THIRD WAVE’: A CLASSROOM Heck, it’s not even your big sister’s book! Just advertisements) to new frontiers. In this session, DICTATORSHIP AT 50 because we call it a yearbook does not mean we’ll take a look at fresh ideas for bringing print Fifty years ago this week, history teacher Ron your coverage and design should stay the and digital marketing campaigns together. Jones launched what would become one of same. Many new ideas on coverage, design #MarketingLove the 20th century’s most frightening social and writing will be discussed. Take a leap! Move EVALUATION CODE: 5497 science experiments. Find out how one student your 2018 publication ahead. Jason Kaiser, CJE, Jostens Inc., Minneapolis staff commemorated the experience and EVALUATION CODE: 5505 11 a.m. Friday, Redwood, 2nd Floor, Sheraton how you can bring its timely lessons about Martha Akers, Loudoun Valley High School, (150) authoritarianism to your readers. Purcellville, Va., and Mike Taylor, CJE, EVALUATION CODE: 5673 Walsworth Yearbooks, Mansfield, Texas PHOTOJOURNALISM Paul Kandell, Palo Alto (Calif.) High School 11 a.m. Friday, Room 303, CC (117) LIGHTING TECHNIQUES FOR VIDEO 11 a.m. Friday, Room 205, CC (96) NEWS GATHERING AND PHOTOJOURNALISM WE’RE BRINGING REPORTING BACK Visual journalists know it’s all about the light. LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING Is your writing in a rut? It all comes down to the Learn how to use natural light to produce LEADERSHIP IN THE NEWSROOM interview. Learn techniques for having a natural high-quality photojournalism and video. We The best leaders inspire, provide clear direction, conversation to get the facts needed to write a also will learn the basics of how to light a still and create a safe environment that fosters great story. portrait and video interview using an affordable trust and collaboration. This session focuses on EVALUATION CODE: 5560 lighting kit. tapping into human biology to get the best, Justin Daigle, CJE, Brighton (Colo.) High EVALUATION CODE: 5392 most meaningful work from your staff. School, and Carrie Hendrix, CJE, Lewis-Palmer Sarahmaria Gomez, Northwestern University/ EVALUATION CODE: 5485 High School, Monument, Colo. Medill, Evanston, Ill. Erin Castellano, CJE, Clayton (Mo.) High School 11 a.m. Friday, Room 304, CC (79) 11 a.m. Friday, Willow, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (300) 11 a.m. Friday, Room 211, CC (119) GENERAL AUDIENCE DESIGN PHOTOJOURNALISM FOR YOUR INFO(GRAPHIC) BE AN ACTION HERO USING THE RESEARCH: WOMEN In our visual society, it’s no longer enough With great power comes great responsibility.” AND MEDIA to write a really good story. You need a really You may not be Spider-Man, but that press The range of recent research on women and great graphic to go with it ... or even take its pass gives you the power and the responsibility media has a lot to offer the high school student

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publication. This session breaks down recent EVALUATION CODE: 5528 and First Amendment freedom fighter, will be studies on women in media and presents Jonathan Rogers, MJE, Iowa City (Iowa) High honored. real-world application opportunities for writing, School, and Evelyn Lauer, MJE, Niles West Noon-1:30 p.m. Friday, Cirrus, 35th Floor, editing and classroom discussion. High School, Skokie, Ill. Sheraton EVALUATION CODE: 5537 11 a.m. Friday, Room 310, CC (96) Erica Salkin, Whitworth University, Spokane, LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING Wash. NEWS GATHERING, FEATURED SPEAKER STRESS MANAGEMENT FOR THE 11 a.m. Friday, Room 305, CC (55) HOW TO SUCCEED IN A GENERAL- STAFFER ASSIGNMENT NEWSROOM Students: Are you struggling to balance LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING Most small and some large newsrooms are your deadlines, academic assignments TWINKLE TOES? OR TWO LEFT filled with general-assignment reporters. That extracurricular events and your social life? Take FEET? means you’ve got to be a little bit of an expert time to learn some stress-busting tips. Dealing with surprises that accompany on everything. It’s not easy but there are ways EVALUATION CODE: 4611 leadership requires a dose of experience, a dash to make it work. Jessica Bramer, CJE, John Marshall High of success, and a lot of good old tap-dancing. EVALUATION CODE: 5534 School, Glen Dale, W.Va. This forum-style session will let us learn from Patricia Murphy, KUOW 94.9 Puget Sound Noon Friday, Aspen, Sheraton (65) each other as we share our trials and successes Public Radio, Seattle and you share some of yours. 11 a.m. Friday, Room 3AB, CC (325) GENERAL AUDIENCE EVALUATION CODE: 5523 YOU WANT TO MAJOR IN WHAT? Crystal Kazmierski, Arrowhead Christian ENTREPRENEURSHIP You want to do journalism in college and Academy, Redlands, Calif.; Susan Massy, MAKE A NEW PLAN, STAN beyond. But your parents (and you) worry about Shawnee Mission Northwest High School, A business plan, that is. This isn’t “50 ways to job prospects. Most journalism schools prepare Shawnee, Kan.; and Jim Jordan, Del Campo leave your lover,” but specific plans for selling you beyond writing and designing newspapers. High School, Fair Oaks, Calif. ads to raise money for your publication. Learn Learn how strategic communication employs 11 a.m. Friday, Room 306, CC (53) the skills you’ll need in whatever career you journalism’s best practices – interviewing, choose: the ability to sell something and to writing, storytelling – and envision your future. LAW AND ETHICS provide customer service. EVALUATION CODE: 5646 DROPPING THE JOURNALISTIC EVALUATION CODE: 5219 Peter Bobkowski and Kerry Benson, University F-BOMB Linda Barrington, MJE, Mount Mary of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan. Your mother says she loves you? Check it out. University, Milwaukee Noon Friday, Ballard, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (100) That can sometimes be a challenge and require 11 a.m. Friday, Room 401, CC (157) ADVISING/TEACHING a lot of digging. This session examines tools and procedures for accessing public records and PHOTOJOURNALISM, FEATURED SPEAKER BUILD A BETTER GRADING SYSTEM freedom of information – including those that TECHNIQUES IN NEWS From rubrics to points to checklists, grading is begin with F — FOIA. PHOTOGRAPHY a necessary part of every classroom. Discover a range of grading philosophies to help you build EVALUATION CODE: 3318 Veteran news photographer Peter Haley shows a grading system reflecting your values and Stan Zoller, MJE, Lake Forest (Ill.) College and explains techniques of shooting stills and priorities while balancing external demands. 11 a.m. Friday, Room 307, CC (67) video anywhere from a local elementary school Experienced editors welcome. to a raid in Mosul, Iraq. EVALUATION CODE: 5687 LAW AND ETHICS EVALUATION CODE: 5549 Logan Aimone, MJE, University of Chicago GAME ON: ETHICS IN ACTION Peter Haley, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. Lab High School, Chicago Dilemmas and scenarios involving media 11 a.m. Friday, Room 4C1-2, CC (570) Noon Friday, Capitol Hill, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (50) ethics are common in the media classroom and program. In this session, learn about new DESIGN DESIGN resources being released by Quill and Scroll to IDEAS FROM THE PROFESSIONALS INDESIGN TRICKS AND TIPS help navigate ethical dilemmas and improve See how yearbook staffs use college viewbooks, Learn how to be more creative and productive decision making in your programs. magazines, television graphics and the web as with InDesign software. Bring a laptop with EVALUATION CODE: 5564 inspirations for their books. InDesign software on it so you can follow along. Jessica Young, MJE, Orange Glen High School, EVALUATION CODE: 5042 EVALUATION CODE: 4550 Escondido, Calif., and Patrick Johnson, MJE, Laura Schaub, CJE, Lifetouch, Commerce City, Linda Drake, MJE, Chase County Jr./Sr. High Antioch (Ill.) Community High School Colo. School, Cottonwood Falls, Kan. 11 a.m. Friday, Room 308, CC (61) 11 a.m. Friday, Room 4C4, CC (289) Noon Friday, Diamond, 1st Floor, Sheraton (85) WEB BEYOND THE HOME PAGE: DRIVING Noon ADVISING/TEACHING ROUNDTABLE FOR ONLINE TRAFFIC TO YOUR WEBSITE ADVISER EVENT With the rise of social media, home pages are ADVISERS becoming less important. 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EVALUATION CODE: 5633 session will look at ways to strengthen your NEWS GATHERING Sheila Jones, CJE, Littleton, Colo., and Jo editorial content and make it more attention- SOURCE DIVERSITY: HOW TO GET IT Zimmerman, MJE, Thousand Oaks, Calif. grabbing. Source diversity is more important than ever. Noon Friday, Everett, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (20) EVALUATION CODE: 5546 Opposing views matter, but we also need Scott Collins, Raytown (Mo.) High School sources representative of our readers. In this EVENT Noon Friday, Willow, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (300) workshop, we explain how source diversity l ON-SITE CRITIQUES influences trust and authority. Participants leave Schools scheduled for critiques should bring up ENTREPRENEURSHIP with strategies professional reporters use to to three different issues of newspapers/ ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THE TEEN connect with sources. magazines, or the most recent literary magazine JOURNALIST EVALUATION CODE: 5654 or yearbook. Some staffs also choose to bring The speaker will describe her journey from shy Margot Lester, The Word Factory, Carrboro, mockups of the current yearbook. For broadcast freshman to the founder of a global website N.C., and Steve Peha, Teaching That Makes critiques, bring a a thumb drive, DVD or upload and author of a book on Gen Z, helping her Sense Inc., Carrboro, N.C. to YouTube. For online critiques, exchange peers and their advisers understand how to Noon Friday, Room 211, CC (119) a URL. Since critiques are 30 minutes, it is use entrepreneurship to craft interesting and important to be on time. successful journalistic careers. PHOTOJOURNALISM Noon-3:30 p.m. Friday, Hall 4E, CC (5,030) EVALUATION CODE: 5547 AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND Grace Masback, Catlin Gabel School, VIDEOGRAPHY STUDENT EVENT Portland, Ore. Find out how to get into, improve and l LUNCH WITH THE PRESIDENT Noon Friday, Redwood, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (150) master drone and aerial photography. Learn JEA President Mark Newton will have a press how to make and tell a story with aerial conference and lunch with 10 preselected DESIGN cinematography. students to discuss JEA and scholastic YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG: PHOTO EVALUATION CODE: 5594 journalism. AND QUOTE PACKAGES Dylan Stewart, John W. North High School, EVALUATION CODE: 3664 One of the weakest content, coverage and Riverside, Calif. Mark Newton, MJE, Mountain Vista High design elements in any publication has to Noon Friday, Room 213, CC (70) School, Highlands Ranch, Colo. be the quote and photo combination. Make Noon Friday, JEA Suite, Sheraton the mundane a thing of the past with well- PHOTOJOURNALISM designed and planned elements. Banish 10 MUST-HAVE IMAGES OF NEWS GATHERING the “favorite” and “best” questions to reveal PHOTOJOURNALISM HUMANS OF HARKER personality-driven content. We have all returned from photo assignments, Interested in where your staff can go with a EVALUATION CODE: 5591 reviewed our images and thought, “Why don’t HONY-style project? Hear from the cross-staff Shannon Williams, aMomentus Group, I have pictures that tell the whole story of the “team” who created 190 profiles of the senior Chicago, and Mandy Mahan, d’Iberville High event?” This session will provide a checklist of class, with a multi-platform commitment School, Biloxi, Miss. essential images that you can take back to your involving yearbook, newspaper, online and Noon Friday, Room 201, CC (147) photo staff. social media. Includes tricks and tips for EVALUATION CODE: 5540 organizing your own HONY initiative. NEWS GATHERING Eric Thomas, MJE, University of Kansas, EVALUATION CODE: 5675 IT’S NOT THEM; IT’S YOU Lawrence, Kan. Ellen Austin, MJE, The Harker School, San Jose, Discover why your interviews might be coming Noon Friday, Room 2AB, CC (325) Calif. up short ... even when you have tried your best. Noon Friday, Metropolitan A, 3rd Floor, This session will show you five of the most LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING Sheraton (380) common mistakes in interviewing and how to TASTE THE RAINBOW: TRUE correct these errors. COLORS MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST, FEATURED SPEAKER EVALUATION CODE: 5329 Are you an orange? A green? A blue-gold? THE CHANGING FACE OF Chris Waugaman, MJE, Prince George (Va.) Your staff is made up of a variety of different High School BROADCAST NEWS personality types and understanding each Noon Friday, Room 203, CC (81) Broadcast news is facing an uncertain future. person’s strengths, weaknesses and learning To continue reaching an audience and serving styles can drastically increase productivity, WRITING the public, the industry must evolve in dramatic harmony and unity. Come taste the rainbow fashion. We will discuss the challenges ahead WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BURN and learn your true colors. and what those changes may involve. THE BOX EVALUATION CODE: 4787 EVALUATION CODE: 5530 This session is all about getting out of the box Jessica Young, MJE, Orange Glen High School, Travis Mayfield, Q13 News, Seattle and developing specialized stories that will pull Escondido, Calif. Noon Friday, Metropolitan B, 3rd Floor, Sheraton on heartstrings. Learn about what it feels like Noon Friday, Room 303, CC (117) (400) to ___, finding out what you wish you knew about ___, and just trying ___ out. Come burn LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST the box. DEADLINE — IT’S NOT A DIRTY PRODUCE LIKE A PRO EVALUATION CODE: 5496 WORD Your newscast should be more than talking Patrick Johnson, MJE, Antioch (Ill.) Does your staff have trouble meeting their heads and packages. Learn the tricks of the Community High School deadlines? If so, that stops today. Learn 10 trade from a former TV news producer. This Noon Friday, Room 204, CC (119)

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ideas to make sure your staff stays on track, and Stan Zoller, MJE, Lake Forest (Ill.) College WRITING deadlines are completed on time with ease. Noon Friday, Room 307, CC (67) IMPROVE YOUR CAPTIONS IN 1, 2, 3 EVALUATION CODE: 5561 The most-read copy in your publication usually Justin Daigle, CJE, Brighton (Colo.) High WEB gets the least attention: captions. We’ll highlight School, and Carrie Hendrix, CJE, Lewis-Palmer PLUGGING PRINT SKILLS INTO a straightforward strategy for developing solid, High School, Monument, Colo. DIGITAL journalistic captions that do service to the story Noon Friday, Room 304, CC (79) Website content is becoming more of the year and will be valuable to your readers sophisticated, which means the demand from now! DESIGN for talented, versatile writers, editors and EVALUATION CODE: 4974 JOIN THIS CLUB (SECTION) photographers is great. What skills are the most Mike Simons, MJE, Corning-Painted Post High What does it take to create an outstanding useful, and how do they apply online? School, Corning, N.Y. organizations section in your yearbook? This EVALUATION CODE: 5657 Noon Friday, Room 3AB, CC (325) session will walk you through the stages of John Taylor, Townsquare Media, Yakima, Wash. club picture day (before, during and after) and Noon Friday, Room 310, CC (96) LAW AND ETHICS examine effective ways to cover campus clubs. ACTIVATING GIRLS’ VOICES EVALUATION CODE: 5588 LAW AND ETHICS New research demonstrates that girls suffer Jill Burns, MJE, Hillsborough High School, DEVELOPING ETHICAL ONLINE most of the censorship in high schools, and Tampa, Fla. NEWS POLICIES they’re much less likely than boys to push Noon Friday, Room 306, CC (53) Citing an online source in a story? Augmenting back when they’re censored. The Active Voice your story with social media? Engaging with project is working on solutions, starting with a NEWS LITERACY readers and sources online comes with its own nationwide awareness campaign. Find out how GOING BEYOND THE HEADLINES ethical responsibilities. This session will help you can get involved It seems simple, but news consumers expect your leadership facilitate policy development EVALUATION CODE: 5419 you, or at least your stories, to be VAIN so they that responds to the ever-changing reporting Frank LoMonte, Student Press Law Center, know your reporting is independent and landscape of news gathering. Washington, D.C., and Sophie Gordon, Ball transparent. This session will cover some basic EVALUATION CODE: 5545 State University, Muncie, Ind. principles of news literacy and why they are Kathryn Campbell, St. Paul (Minn.) Academy Noon Friday, Room 4C1-2, CC (570) more important than ever. and Summit School EVALUATION CODE: 4406 Noon Friday, Room 308, CC (61)

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ADVISING/TEACHING Bailey Whitney, Cold Spring Harbor (N.Y.) Jr./ CONTEST BUILDING A PROGRAM WITH Sr. High School WRITE-OFF LEAD JUDGES ADMINISTRATION’S HELP 1 p.m. Friday, Capitol Hill, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (50) CHECK-IN You need administration’s help to build a Lead judges for JEA’s Write-off afternoon program. This session will give you some ideas ADVISING/TEACHING contests must check in between 1 and 3:30 on how to approach them about issues such as PHOTOJOURNALISM BASICS FOR p.m. to get instructions and supplies. funding, staff, environment and censorship. ADVISERS 1-3:30 p.m. Friday, Juniper, 2nd Floor, Sheraton EVALUATION CODE: 5279 Whether you’re planning to take the CJE exam (45) Barbara Bateman, CJE, Murphy High School, or just want to learn more about principles of Mobile, Ala. photojournalism, this session is for you. Learn ADVISING/TEACHING Noon Friday, Room 401, CC (157) about the elements of composition, camera REMEMBER TO BREATHE techniques, file formats, photo management. Are you a new adviser? Welcome to the DESIGN We’ll also cover strategies for how to teach yearbook world! Not only are you a teacher, you USING GESTALT PRINCIPLES IN these concepts to your students so they can are now the CEO, bookkeeper and counselor DESIGN become more proficient at presenting the of your school’s small business. This session Understanding how people perceive objects visual side of the story. will provide ideas of how to tame this fun and and order them is important in good design. EVALUATION CODE: 3684 exciting world. Learn about several gestalt principles and how Rod Satterthwaite, MJE, Palo Alto (Calif.) High EVALUATION CODE: 5486 you can incorporate them in your publication’s School Gina Claus, Castle Rock (Colo.) Middle School design. 1 p.m. Friday, Cedar A, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (50) 1 p.m. Friday, Leschi, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (40) EVALUATION CODE: 5566 William Love, Sandpoint (Idaho) High School GENERAL AUDIENCE ADVISING/TEACHING Noon Friday, Room 4C4, CC (289) ADVANCED AURASMA COVERAGE, CONTENT AND Come learn how to take Aurasma to the REPORTING FOR ADVISERS 1 p.m. next level with click-through auras, texting, This is a “Get Certified!” session helpful to Instagram follows and more. Computers or those studying for the CJE exam and open to devices with Aurasma studio account access all advisers. If you want to be more familiar GENERAL AUDIENCE will make this a more valuable experience. with coverage, content and reporting issues 10 TIMELY TIPS Bring videos and trigger images from your in student media, this is the session for you. Come learn some helpful pointers on how to publication. Advanced users recommended. Whether it’s learning how to improve coverage get the most of Photoshop and InDesign. We’ll EVALUATION CODE: 5611 in your school, fine-tuning the content in your present five easy tips for each program that we John Dent, Dos Pueblos High School, Goleta, publications, or improving the writing process, hope will make your life just a tiny bit easier. Calif. here is the place to find out what’s essential and We recommend no more than one person per 1 p.m. Friday, Cedar B, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (50) how you can teach it. school attend. EVALUATION CODE: 3296 EVALUATION CODE: 5501 DESIGN Lizabeth Walsh, MJE, Reno (Nev.) High School Brian Martinez, CJE, Jostens, Houston, and INDESIGN: WORK SMARTER, NOT 1 p.m. Friday, Medina, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (40) Jason Kaiser, CJE, Jostens Inc., Minneapolis HARDER 1 p.m. Friday, Aspen, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (125) In this session, users will work with InDesign GENERAL AUDIENCE, DIVERSITY to learn techniques to make less work while LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING BREAKING BARRIERS: INDIGENOUS creating layouts. Users will also learn tips and IT’S ALL ABOUT THE CULTURE REPRESENTATION AND MEDIA tricks to enhance their design skills. Users will Discuss and explore how social and digital One key to building a successful media need a laptop with InDesign for this session. media created by natives are being used to program is creating a classroom culture of EVALUATION CODE: 5601 combat negative misconceptions of indigenous empowerment and empathy. Journalism Casandra Workman, CJE, Centennial High people and culture while allowing for native classrooms should be like no other on campus, School, Las Vegas perspectives to be recognized and included in engaging students in high-energy, innovative 1 p.m. Friday, Diamond, 1st Floor, Sheraton (85) mainstream media discussions. and fun activities. EVALUATION CODE: 5580 EVALUATION CODE: 5489 ADVISING/TEACHING Johnnie Jae Morris, A Tribe Called Geek, Mitch Eden, MJE, Kirkwood (Mo.) High School ROUNDTABLE FOR LIT MAG Lawton, Okla. 1 p.m. Friday, Ballard, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (100) ADVISERS 1 p.m. Friday, Metropolitan A, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (380) MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST If you’re new to advising a literary magazine, want to start one or need ideas to make your HIGH SCHOOL LIVE BROADCAST magazine even better, come to this informal FEATURED SPEAKER, MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST The Cold Spring Harbor Jr./Sr. High School session to ask questions, solve problems and broadcasting class airs a daily morning THE EVOLVING WORLD OF NEWS benefit from the experience of a JEA mentor. broadcast to every classroom. This is how the BROADCASTING EVALUATION CODE: 4448 student body stays up to date with club and People today get their news and information Gary Lindsay, MJE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, sport announcements. This presentation will on many platforms. That means journalists and Linda Ballew, MJE, Great Falls (Mont.) give attendees a look into how their school can need to be on those platforms as well. See Education Association create a live broadcast. how the KING 5 newsroom demands have 1 p.m. Friday, Everett, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (20) EVALUATION CODE: 5506 evolved over the last couple of years and how

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technology informs how they do their research EVALUATION CODE: 5366 Clare McFadden, Write the World, Cambridge, and reporting. Carrie Faust, MJE, Smoky Hill High School, Mass. EVALUATION CODE: 5586 Aurora, Colo.; Meghan Percival, MJE, McLean 1 p.m. Friday, Room 212, CC (65) Lori Matsukawa, King 5 News, Seattle (Va.) High School; and Erinn Harris, MJE, 1 p.m. Friday, Metropolitan B, 3rd Floor, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and GENERAL AUDIENCE Sheraton (400) Technology, Alexandria, Va. JOBS FOR JOURNALISTS 1 p.m. Friday, Room 203, CC (81) A veteran newspaper editor and CONTEST communications professional offers an BROADCAST CONTEST JUDGING WRITING overview of today’s journalism and media- Those who agreed to judge broadcast entries CAPTIVATE YOUR READER communication job market, from legacy news for contests 36-42 in the JEA Write-off will meet. In a world where everyone gets news almost jobs to emerging new opportunities. Times may 1 p.m. Friday, Ravenna C, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (50) instantaneously, it’s more important than ever be challenging for traditional newshounds, but for students to write stories that captivate storytelling skills have never been in greater ENTREPRENEURSHIP their readers. This session will cover literary demand. CREATIVE WAYS TO MARKET YOUR techniques to use in storytelling and several EVALUATION CODE: 5623 YEARBOOK examples of great writing. T. Andrew Wahl, Everett (Wash.) Community If your school is struggling to sell the yearbook, EVALUATION CODE: 5465 College learn how El Paso, Texas, schools are getting Julia Satterthwaite, CJE, Monte Vista High 1 p.m. Friday, Room 213, CC (70) creative in marketing to increase sales. Some School, Cupertino, Calif. of these strategies work for schools with a 1 p.m. Friday, Room 205, CC (96) PHOTOJOURNALISM zero budget! This class is also perfect for new TELL YOUR STORY THROUGH advisers. WRITING ENVIRONMENTAL PORTRAITS EVALUATION CODE: 5642 CREATING A STORY LIKE A If a picture is worth a thousand words, an Carlos Briano, CJE, El Paso (Texas) Fire STORYTELLER effective environmental portrait is worth a short Department, and Lori Garcia, Walsworth The age-old tradition of oral storytelling can be story. This session will offer tips and techniques Yearbooks, El Paso, Texas woven into how we write and design yearbook for capturing your subject in the best light 1 p.m. Friday, Redwood, 2nd Floor, Sheraton spreads to tell our stories. Learn how to use the using the best poses. (150) best storytelling techniques to pull the readers EVALUATION CODE: 4998 in and make them want to read your stories. Kathy Daly, KDaly Photography, Denver LAW AND ETHICS EVALUATION CODE: 5569 1 p.m. Friday, Room 2AB, CC (325) JOURNALISTIC ETHICS: A CRASH Carolyn Henderson, CJE, Walsworth COURSE Yearbooks, Matthews, N.C., and Missy Green, NEWS GATHERING What do Kant, John Stuart Mills, and Aristotle Walsworth Yearbooks, New Smyrna Beach, Fla. HOW TO INVESTIGATE CRIMINAL have to do with your reporting and editing? 1 p.m. Friday, Room 204, CC (119) JUSTICE ISSUES This session discusses the principles we might Since 1999, Northwestern University’s The use to help us in publishing decisions, with a LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING Medill Justice Project has investigated sidebar on what the student press can do to HOW DIVERSE THINKING PRODUCES potentially wrongful murder convictions, counter “fake news.” BETTER REPORTING uncovering revelatory information that has EVALUATION CODE: 5669 Intellectual diversity is crucial. In this workshop, impacted people’s lives and the criminal justice Jack Kennedy, MJE, Colorado Student Media we explore why newsrooms need staffers system. Learn how college students have Association, Highlands Ranch, Colo. with different backgrounds and different ways obtained records, tracked down sources and 1 p.m. Friday, Willow, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (300) of thinking, and how to make deliberation uncovered new evidence in criminal cases. and decision-making more effective. Learn EVALUATION CODE: 4778 DESIGN strategies for leveraging intellectual diversity Amanda Westrich, The Medill Justice Project, GIVE ‘EM WHAT THEY PAID FOR to produce better coverage and techniques for Evanston, Ill. Businesses who support your program deserve resolving conflicts. 1 p.m. Friday, Room 303, CC (117) more than a scanned business card. This crash EVALUATION CODE: 5649 course in effective ad design will help you give Margot Lester, The Word Factory, Carrboro, DESIGN them what they deserve. N.C., and Steve Peha, Teaching That Makes FROM THE GROUND UP EVALUATION CODE: 5672 Sense Inc., Carrboro, N.C. Want to ... start? See how one adviser started Cindy Todd, Austin, Texas 1 p.m. Friday, Room 211, CC (119) with no experience and transformed his 1 p.m. Friday, Room 201, CC (147) yearbook program into a Gold Medalist and All WRITING American in four years. LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING WRITING AS A SOCIAL ACTIVITY EVALUATION CODE: 5661 JOURNALISM IS ABOUT Students will examine the broad benefits of John Horvath, Hill Country Christian School, RELATIONSHIPS belonging to a writing community — whether Austin, Texas Do you or your staff have a problem with that be face to face or virtual. The workshop 1 p.m. Friday, Room 304, CC (79) motivation and enthusiasm? Successful will focus on the importance of review in stories, designs and staffs all have one thing establishing connections with other young WRITING in common: strong relationships. When you writers as well as improving one’s own writing THEME FIT cultivate relationships, the rest falls into place. practice. Find a theme that fits your school and covers Intended for advisers and student leaders. EVALUATION CODE: 5568 the year in a way that’s unique and all your

Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE — 41 1 p.m. FRIDAY own. We’ll explore why and how theme GENERAL AUDIENCE publications and the principal. development and copy are so important to JOURNALISM BEYOND HIGH EVALUATION CODE: 5676 telling that story and ways to find the voice that SCHOOL Ellen Austin, MJE, and Samuel “Butch” Keller, carries it through. There is life beyond high school. From basic The Harker School, San Jose, Calif. EVALUATION CODE: 4715 college classes to paid internships, this session 2 p.m. Friday, Aspen, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (125) Tamra McCarthy, CJE, James Enochs High will look at the different ways you can break School, Modesto, Calif. into the journalism industry after you graduate. WEB 1 p.m. Friday, Room 306, CC (53) EVALUATION CODE: 5488 POP-UP REPORTING ON REFUGEES Paige Cornwell, The Seattle Times IN PARIS LAW AND ETHICS 1 p.m. Friday, Room 310, CC (96) Can 10th graders tackle global problems? 3 ESSENTIALS FOR Students at the American School of Paris did, UNDERSTANDING COPYRIGHT LAW NEWS GATHERING working with Global Student Square and a local Is your staff violating copyright law? Is your BEAT THE TWEET NEWS WRITING NGO to produce “Here Today,” a storytelling audio, text and design authentic and original? WORKSHOP project by, for and about refugees. Learn more By understanding three areas — fair use, “Beat the Tweet” teaches reporters to respond and discuss doing collaborative pop-ups where inspiration versus imitation and Creative quickly to situations in the field and be the you live. Commons — you’ll learn the basics of first ones to report the news, accurately and EVALUATION CODE: 5532 copyright law and how to stay out of trouble. without mistakes. Students will leave the Beatrice Motamedi, CJE, Global Student EVALUATION CODE: 4662 workshop equipped for the ever-changing Square, Oakland, Calif. Megan Fromm, MJE, Colorado Mesa world of journalism. 2 p.m. Friday, Ballard, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (100) University, Grand Junction, Colo. EVALUATION CODE: 5550 1 p.m. Friday, Room 307, CC (67) Caleb Ragan and Hannah Schoenbaum, Los LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING Angeles (Calif.) Times High School Insider STAFF ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL AUDIENCE 1 p.m. Friday, Room 401, CC (157) MOTIVATION TRANSITIONING FROM CLASSROOM While it’s long been known that food is the TO NEWSROOM PHOTOJOURNALISM ultimate motivator, sometimes that pizza party Ask a recent graduate and newly employed JUST HOW FAR IS TOO FAR? just isn’t enough. Learn some tips and tricks to reporter all the questions you’ve always had Designers and photojournalists have been help your student staffers enjoy the work they about journalism in college, freelancing as a manipulating images for more than 100 years do. Bring a USB drive for handouts, if desired. student, internships, the job search and more. to make them “look better.” The reality becomes EVALUATION CODE: 4610 EVALUATION CODE: 5627 the reality that the photojournalist wanted. But Jessica Bramer, CJE, John Marshall High Holly Thorpe, Wenatchee (Wash.) World just how far is too far when it comes to digitally School, Glen Dale, W.Va. 1 p.m. Friday, Room 305, CC (55) editing images? 2 p.m. Friday, Capitol Hill, 3rd Floor (50) EVALUATION CODE: 5508 LAW AND ETHICS Bradley Wilson, MJE, Midwestern State ADVISING/TEACHING DIGGING DIRT THROUGH ACCESS University, Wichita Falls, Texas CJE/MJE CERTIFICATION STUDY LAWS 1 p.m. Friday, Room 4C1-2, CC (570) SESSION Can the ASB kick you out of its meeting? Can Teachers who will take the JEA certification you read the principal’s email? Learn about LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING tests today are invited to this pre-test study public records and public meetings laws, the SURVIVING YEARBOOK: SMALL session. handy tools for student journalists to gather STAFF, LARGE SCHOOL Kim Green, MJE, Ball State University, Muncie, information and produce groundbreaking How do you manage to create a book that Ind. stories. covers more than 2,000 students when 2 p.m. Friday, Cedar A, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (50) EVALUATION CODE: 5598 you have a staff of eight or fewer? We have Peggy Watt, Western Washington University, managed to do just that and have never missed ADVISING/TEACHING Bellingham, Wash. a deadline. Come hear our secrets. FOLLOW THE RUBRIC ROAD 1 p.m. Friday, Room 308, CC (61) EVALUATION CODE: 4597 Advisers, learn how to use rubrics to guide the Barbara Bateman, CJE, Murphy High School, student writing process from beginning to end. DESIGN Mobile, Ala. Attendees will receive a Google Drive folder of DESIGN INSPIRATION FROM 1 p.m. Friday, Room 4C4, CC (289) rubrics that can be adapted for their own use. HIDDEN PLACES EVALUATION CODE: 5252 Get out of that design rut and start finding new Cathy Wall, MJE, Harrisburg (Ill.) High School sources of inspiration for your design! Explore 2 p.m. 2 p.m. Friday, Cedar B, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (50) how you could transform art, architecture and nature into fresh ideas and design elements to DESIGN NEWS GATHERING NOT ANOTHER INDESIGN SESSION get your creative juices flowing. WHAT WILL THE PRINCIPAL SAY? EVALUATION CODE: 5682 Yes. Another InDesign session but be prepared Join the 2016 JEA Administrator of the Year Veronica Sarmiento, CJE, Seminole High for high-octane training. You’re guaranteed to and the director of journalism at the Harker School, Sanford, Fla. learn something you didn’t know before you School for a presentation of tips for advisers and 1 p.m. Friday, Room 3AB, CC (325) walked into the session. Anyone using CS5 publication leaders, followed by a Q&A session through the current version will benefit from about building strong relationships between these time-saving tips, tricks and Easter eggs.

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EVALUATION CODE: 5592 GENERAL AUDIENCE GENERAL AUDIENCE, FEATURED SPEAKER Shannon Williams, aMomentus Group, LGBTQ MEDIA: BEYOND THE TURN YOUR CHALLENGES INTO Chicago LETTERS OPPORTUNITIES 2 p.m. Friday, Diamond, 1st Floor, Sheraton (85) There was a time when writing about the Life doesn’t always fall into place the way LGBT community was considered writing on you plan it. If you can be open to facing your ADVISING/TEACHING the edge. Today, LGBT people are an accepted challenges and working through them, you ROUNDTABLE FOR BROADCAST part of the professional and personal work also might be opening your life to amazing, ADVISERS environments of most everyone. Still, however, unexpected opportunities. If you’re new to advising a broadcast program challenges remain, for both reporters and their EVALUATION CODE: 5526 want to start one or need ideas to make your subjects. Sharon Lacey, Portland, Ore. program even better, come to this informal EVALUATION CODE: 5493 2 p.m. Friday, Metropolitan B, 3rd Floor, session to ask questions, solve problems and Bethany Grace Howe, University of Oregon, Sheraton (400) benefit from the experience of a JEA mentor. Eugene, Ore. EVALUATION CODE: 5029 2 p.m. Friday, Metropolitan A, 3rd Floor, GENERAL AUDIENCE Joy McCaleb, Cookeville, Tenn. Sheraton (380) OTHER CAREER OPPORTUNITIES 2 p.m. Friday, Everett, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (20) FOR YERDS ADVISING/TEACHING Love being in student publications but don’t ADVISING/TEACHING USING YOUR LOCAL RESOURCES want to be a journalist or broadcaster? Other USE SPRINGTIME TO GET AHEAD Let’s talk about how to take advantage of employers out there want and need your skills! Unsure how you should make use of the down the journalism resources in your area to set Listen to a public information officer from a fire time between final deadline and the end of up an adviser think tank and a local training department and a yearbook rep share how they school? Come find out how individual and opportunity for your students. Find resources use their yerd skills daily professionally. group projects, in-class activities and alternative around you to strengthen your program. EVALUATION CODE: 5640 final exam preparation can make this time the EVALUATION CODE: 5518 Carlos Briano, CJE, El Paso (Texas) Fire most productive ever. Anne Hayman, MJE, Arlington (Wash.) High Department, and Lori Garcia, Walsworth EVALUATION CODE: 2486 School Yearbooks, El Paso, Texas Lizabeth Walsh, MJE, Reno (Nev.) High School 2 p.m. Friday, Leschi, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (40) 2 p.m. Friday, Redwood, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (150) 2 p.m. Friday, Medina, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (40)

THE ROY H. PARK SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATIONS WOULD LIKE TO CONGRATULATE THE 2016 S’Park Media Mentor Award Winners

This award recognizes high school teachers and advisors who are committed to igniting a passion for media in their students. Visit ithaca.edu/rhp/community/sparkaward for more information.

LEFT TO RIGHT: Joseph Schieve, Johnson City Senior High School, Johnson City, New York • Bruce Miller, Bergen County Technical High School, Teterboro, New Jersey • Michael Britt, Central Educational Center, Newnan, Georgia • Sarah Ann Lanman, Munster High School, Munster, Indiana ithaca.edu/rhp

Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE — 43 ™ The thing I really like You have totally It’s becoming harder is that my students converted me. It took and harder for can go online at my guys about one educators to maintain home and work on hour to figure out Adobe InDesign in their pages. I don’t the index, compared their classroom. Using think I had a single to at least two Monarch has eliminated student who had an weeks in the past. all those worries.” Adobe program on To quote one of my — Tessa Shirley, their computer at guys: “Indexing with North Hall High School [GA] “”home. Not only has Monarch is Monarch made it the bomb!” easier for us but it — Ray Westbrook, St. Mark’s has made it fun School of Texas [TX] for them.” — Mary Patrick, ONLY THE Maize South Middle School [KS] BEST FOR THE BEST. USE WHAT THE AWARD-WINNERS USE. Monarch. A Jostens exclusive innovation. It brings you full versions of Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Bridge, wherever you go. All you need is a browser. And now, yearbook staffs are using Monarch to create Pacemaker and Crown winners. See how it can make your book take flight at jostens.com/monarch.

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161205_x_YBK_x_2016_JEA Magazine Insert_Monarch Awards_PF.indd All Pages 8/17/16 10:29 AM ™ The thing I really like You have totally It’s becoming harder is that my students converted me. It took and harder for can go online at my guys about one educators to maintain home and work on hour to figure out Adobe InDesign in their pages. I don’t the index, compared their classroom. Using think I had a single to at least two Monarch has eliminated student who had an weeks in the past. all those worries.” Adobe program on To quote one of my — Tessa Shirley, their computer at guys: “Indexing with North Hall High School [GA] “”home. Not only has Monarch is Monarch made it the bomb!” easier for us but it — Ray Westbrook, St. Mark’s has made it fun School of Texas [TX] for them.” — Mary Patrick, ONLY THE Maize South Middle School [KS] BEST FOR THE BEST. USE WHAT THE AWARD-WINNERS USE. Monarch. A Jostens exclusive innovation. It brings you full versions of Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Bridge, wherever you go. All you need is a browser. And now, yearbook staffs are using Monarch to create Pacemaker and Crown winners. See how it can make your book take flight at jostens.com/monarch.

New for 2016-17: Monarch customers can now use the same innovative, on-demand platform to Adobe, the Adobe logo, InDesign, Photoshop and Bridge are either registered trademarks or create newspaper and literary magazine content. trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. 161205 Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE — 45

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MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST Carolyn Henderson, CJE, Walsworth how to prepare and execute your interviews DRONES AND THE MEDIA Yearbooks, Matthews, N.C., and Missy Green, like a pro. Unmanned aircraft systems are providing Walsworth Yearbooks, New Smyrna Beach, Fla. EVALUATION CODE: 5578 journalists new ways of viewing their 2 p.m. Friday, Room 204, CC (119) Julieanne McClain, CJE, Rutherford B. Hayes communities, but the technology also has legal High School, Delaware, Ohio and ethical implications attached to it. Come GENERAL AUDIENCE 2 p.m. Friday, Room 303, CC (117) learn about the why and the how of drone DIGITAL JOURNALISM: 8 journalism. DIFFERENCES FROM PRINT LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING EVALUATION CODE: 5662 Producing digital content requires more than WORK HARD, PLAY HARD Kelly Furnas, CJE, Elon (N.C.) University solid reporting and writing. In this workshop, Learn how to use team-building games and 2 p.m. Friday, Willow, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (300) we review a list of eight things digital journalists activities to build trust and community within do before filing that print-first folks don’t. We your staff. Having fun and building relationships DESIGN explain each activity, why it matters and how to is an important part of a successful journalism DESIGN SMARTER, NOT HARDER do it using real-world examples. program so come get some ideas! Good design isn’t about smothering your EVALUATION CODE: 5652 EVALUATION CODE: 5516 spreads with graphics or knowing every Margot Lester, The Word Factory, Carrboro, Katie Frazier, Seven Lakes Junior High School, complicated design trick. Good design is smart N.C., and Steve Peha, Teaching That Makes Katy, Texas design. Become an intelligent designer and Sense Inc., Carrboro, N.C. 2 p.m. Friday, Room 305, CC (55) learn how creative thinking, clever design 2 p.m. Friday, Room 211, CC (119) decisions and unique approaches to layout can WEB help you create advanced designs that wow. WRITING BEST PRACTICES MAKE PERFECT EVALUATION CODE: 4753 ADD STATURE THROUGH Learn how your website can become a Sabrina Schmitz, CJE, Walsworth Yearbooks, FREELANCE WRITING Distinguished Site using award-winning best Tampa, Fla. Are you a writer? Then use your talent to practices in online journalism. 2 p.m. Friday, Room 201, CC (147) expand your impact through adding freelance EVALUATION CODE: 5481 assignments. Here’s how. Abby Anderson, SNO Sites, Bloomington, LAW AND ETHICS Minn. EVALUATION CODE: 5617 COVERING CONTROVERSIAL TOPICS Bob Clampett, Camano Island, Wash. 2 p.m. Friday, Room 304, CC (79) RESPONSIBLY 2 p.m. Friday, Room 212, CC (65) This session will walk students through law and DESIGN ethics scenarios involving stories about sex NEWS GATHERING 4 DESIGN PRINCIPLES 4 U education and hookah smoking. It will address THE JOURNALIST’S TOOLBOX If you don’t know what’s wrong, how do story idea development, coaching writing, Want to improve your work? Building better you make your pages look better? We will handling parent complaints, meeting with stories starts with upgrading your tools! look at four basic concepts to guide your administration, hitting the panic button and A veteran journalist offers a collection of decisions in improving layout. If you can apply resolving the issue (hopefully) without prior strategies ranging from generating better story these principles, your work will look more review. ideas to nailing your walk-off. Recommended professional, organized, unified and interesting. EVALUATION CODE: 5504 for anyone looking to improve his or her EVALUATION CODE: 5222 Julia Satterthwaite, CJE, Monte Vista High storytelling skills. Linda Barrington, MJE, Mount Mary University, Milwaukee School, Cupertino, Calif. EVALUATION CODE: 5622 2 p.m. Friday, Room 205, CC (96) T. Andrew Wahl, Everett (Wash.) Community 2 p.m. Friday, Room 306, CC (53) College LAW AND ETHICS WRITING 2 p.m. Friday, Room 213, CC (70) REVIEW WRITING: GETTING IT ALL GET PROACTIVE! WRITING GREAT Reviews are not just about what you like PHOTOJOURNALISM FREE-SPEECH POLICY and don’t like. They are about informing THE ART OF PHOTO EDITING Head off potential student-administration readers. Learn how to give your readers all the Telling a story through photos is a vital aspect conflict by working with administrators to information they need and want. of being a successful photojournalist. How to create comprehensive and readable student EVALUATION CODE: 3866 decide which photos to use often makes the speech policies for your school. This session Leslie Dennis, Southern Intercollegiate Press difference between telling a great story and just walks you through the legal and practical Association, Columbia, S.C. having a bunch of photos. The class is full of challenges of student speech policy and offers 2 p.m. Friday, Room 203, CC (81) discussion and interaction. advice on working through them. EVALUATION CODE: 4738 EVALUATION CODE: 5538 DESIGN Clif Palmberg, CJE, Balfour Publishing, Dallas Erica Salkin, Whitworth University, Spokane, DESIGNING TO TELL YOUR STORY 2 p.m. Friday, Room 2AB, CC (325) Wash. Conquer the challenge of getting students to 2 p.m. Friday, Room 307, CC (67) read your stories by drawing them in with great NEWS GATHERING design and photography. Learn some strategies BE AN INTERVIEW NINJA NEWS GATHERING to make sure your entire spread is telling the If you’re on your publications staff, you’ll most USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO EXPAND story and leading the reader to actually read likely have to schedule interviews regularly. This COVERAGE what you write. session will show you how to go beyond your Do what you do best and use social media EVALUATION CODE: 5570 comfort zone to get the perfect interview. Learn to share stories, build your voice and gain an

46 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions 2 p.m. FRIDAY engaged community following. This class will every level by incorporating quick reads and 4:30 p.m. include ideas and tips for engaging your school beautiful design. community in gathering content for your staff. EVALUATION CODE: 5462 CONTEST EVALUATION CODE: 5321 Jeff Moffitt, MJE, Jostens, Dallas WRITE-OFF CONTESTS Margie Raper, MJE, Highland Park High 2 p.m. Friday, Room 4C4, CC (289) Students entered in36: Broadcast news story; School, Dallas 39: Commercial/PSA; and 42: Video package 2 p.m. Friday, Room 308, CC (61) 3 p.m. editing will meet for group critiques. Contest ID label must be shown. WRITING CONTEST 4:30-6 p.m. Friday, See Page 29 for room READY ... SET ... LEDE! assignments Got a good story? Make sure it gets off to WRITE-OFF CONTESTS Students entered in 37: Broadcast sports story; a good start. An effective ‘lede” is essential 6 p.m. 40: Social media reporting; and 41: Short in bringing your audience into the story. documentary will meet for group critiques. This session will examine the lede-writing CONTEST Those entered in 48: Broadcast commentary fundamentals. WRITE-OFF JUDGES DINNER AND and 44: On-air reporter contests will meet to EVALUATION CODE: 3753 write for 30 minutes and to get a time for their JUDGING Stan Zoller, MJE, Lake Forest (Ill.) College presentation. Those who have agreed to judge JEA’s Write-off 2 p.m. Friday, Room 310, CC (96) Contest ID label must be shown to enter. contests are invited to dinner before judging 3 p.m. Friday, See Page 29 for room assignments begins. Please check in at the door. WRITING Nancy Y. Smith, MJE, Lafayette High School, HEAD IN THE GAME Wildwood, Mo. Tired of unexciting headlines? Come learn how 3:30 p.m. 6 p.m. Friday, Metropolitan A, 3rd Floor, to write and design headlines that will grab the Sheraton (380) readers’ attention and make them want to read ADVISING/TEACHING your story. CERTIFICATION TEST FOR CJE AND 8 p.m. EVALUATION CODE: 4619 MJE CANDIDATES Renee Burke, MJE, Boone High School, Advisers who have applied to take the Certified STUDENT EVENT Orlando, Fla. Journalism Educator or Master Journalism l 2 p.m. Friday, Room 4C1-2, CC (570) Educator tests will do so at this time. This is a LIVE MUSIC Live music in the ballroom. Get a flavor of 2½-hour test session. Please bring your laptop. Seattle with music from current local bands PHOTOJOURNALISM, FEATURED SPEAKER Kim Green, MJE, Ball State University, Muncie, popular in this city. Hang out, listen, dance and BREAKING INTO VISUAL Ind. have a good time with friends new and old. JOURNALISM 3:30-6 p.m. Friday, Diamond, 1st Floor, Sheraton 8-11 p.m. Friday, Grand Ballroom, 2nd Floor, Interested in visual journalism but don’t know Sheraton (1550) where to start? This presentation will explore 4 p.m. different approaches and pathways into a STUDENT EVENT career in the ever-changing, exciting, field. ADMINISTRATOR EVENT EVALUATION CODE: 5609 l MEDIA SWAP SHOPS Corinne Chin and Bettina Hansen, The Seattle l A CONVERSATION ABOUT Swap Shops are prime opportunities for Times, and Jason Redmond, Seattle SCHOLASTIC MEDIA preregistered students to share useful ideas 2 p.m. Friday, Room 3AB, CC (325) Journalism Education Association President and concepts with others. Bring at least 10 Mark Newton invites all school administrators samples of your newspaper, newsmagazine or LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING to an informal discussion of the ultimate 21st literary magazine or one copy of your yearbook. TO PUSH, PULL OR SIT BACK AND century educational opportunity: journalism Broadcast stories and websites may be shared if WATCH and student media. Participants will meet in the students bring a laptop. Please check the ticket Sheraton lobby before going to the JEA Suite. for your assigned table and time. A strong leader not only understands his or her EVALUATION CODE: 4278 8 and 9 p.m. Friday, Windows, 2nd Floor, strengths but seeks to understand the strengths Mark Newton, MJE, Mountain Vista High Sheraton of each of the team members. This session will School, Highlands Ranch, Colo. review leadership styles, when to use what skill 4-5:30 p.m. Friday, JEA Suite, Sheraton and ideas to develop the talents on your team. 8:30 p.m. EVALUATION CODE: 5541 CONTEST Carmen Wendt, MJE, Scottsdale, Ariz. ADVISER EVENT WRITE-OFF CONTESTS 2 p.m. Friday, Room 401, CC (157) l Categories 1-35 will meet at this time. Those ADVISER RECEPTION AND SPLC BENEFIT AUCTION DESIGN who uploaded photography, layout or graphic Save room for dessert. Advisers are invited to BALANCING ACT: BUILDING A design entries online will meet for a required critique session. Contest ID label must be this social gathering featuring a fundraiser THEME VERBALLY, VISUALLY shown to enter the room. Don’t forget required to benefit the Student Press Law Center. The Take a deep look into how Bryant High School contest supplies, such as paper and pens. Arrive auction will feature sports memorabilia, signed developed its theme: Balance. Check out how it early. Latecomers will be disqualified. books, Seattle-related food and gifts, art and is built upon specific facts unique to the school 4-6 p.m. Friday. See Page 29 for room other interesting items. Sponsored by Issuu. and year. Visual and verbal development starts assignments 8:30-11 p.m. Friday, Metropolitan B, 3rd Floor, with inspiration and reinforces the message at Sheraton (400)

Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE — 47 SATURDAY AT A GLANCE ROOM 8 a.m. 9 a.m. 10 a.m. 11 a.m. Noon 1 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. SUNDAY Critical writing and reviews: Using social media for Yearbook like you’re The most important Room 201, CC The good, the bad, the ugly journalism Journalism’s deadly sins What’s the big idea? Snapchatting sentence 10 habits of a highly Senior ads: Make over and Room 203, CC Confessions of a fontaholic Coverage that counts effective editor Sports in social media You CAN make it work make money 6 traits of effective digital Credible information in a First Amendment: The Covering hot topics without Room 204, CC Little things, big results Don’t forget to write writing fake news world power of ideas getting burned Don’t just make it good; Storytelling: The complete Write CAPTIONS, not Marketing youself with Room 205, CC make it great! picture CRAPTIONS multimedia Method to the madness Won’t you be my neighbor?

Room 209, CC Editor-in-residence meetings

Room 211, CC Spread visual variety Photo composition and Navigating through 140 Visual design for the student You’re doing it wrong: more characters What’s in a design theme? publication Dominant elements How to get nationally Room 212, CC What is great writing? published now Authentic voice for advisers 1+1 = Our Staff How to be EIC Photo packaging in the 21st Pitching to print: Production Room 213, CC century The writing lab Yearbook: Opening matters cycle basics Making ‘real’ pictures: Life after high school Legal rights of student Room 2A, CC Theme: 4 steps to awesome Hot topics in photography Getting below the surface journalism: College 101 journalists Ready. Set. Shoot! (great Narrative journalism: Transgender Q&A Room 2B, CC The magic of 3 a.m. sports photos) Photojournalism rules Writing nonfiction as lit. (80 minutes) Visual portfolios for college, Room 303, CC Little details, big difference How did that happen? Better by design Photographers: Stand here internships, jobs Oh, JOY: Preparing a digital Journalist of the Year meet Trust the students; they’re Editorial leadership in the Room 307, CC portfolio and greet From list to listicle awesome real world What to do with that new Better-than-basic Censorship: Manage it, Room 308, CC drone photographers Using ‘1984’ in journalism avoid it From minority to majority: Boot camp basics The art and craft of Room 3A, CC Covering diversity in school Banning race-based mascots in our schools (2 hours) (80 minutes) reviewing Applying an intersectional Why public relations is the Smarter smartphone Room 3B, CC Let Pinterest die lens in media career of choice journalism (80 minutes) The ‘quest’ in question

Room 401, CC Best of Show judging

Room 4C3, CC JEA Bookstore/Adviser Hospitality (7:30 a.m.-1 p.m.)

Borrowing online photos: You will write our nation’s Room 4C4, CC What’s safe, what’s not? future The best of the best

Hall 4D, CC Publication exchange (7 a.m.-7 p.m.) Publication exchange (7 a.m.-7 p.m.)

Hall 4D Registration Convention check-in/ Desk, CC Convention check-in/registration (8 a.m.-1 p.m.) registration NSPA awards ceremony JEA awards ceremony Hall 4E, CC On-site critiques (9 a.m.-1 p.m.) On-site critiques (3:30-5:30 p.m.) SUNDAY (8:30-10:30 a.m.)

48 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions n ADVISING/TEACHING n ENTREPRENEURSHIP n LEADERSHIP/TEAM BUILDING n NEWS LITERACY n CONTEST n KEYNOTE/FEATURED SPEAKER n MEETING n PHOTOJOURNALISM n DESIGN n GENERAL AUDIENCE n MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST n WEB n EDITING n LAW/ETHICS n NEWS GATHERING n WRITING ROOM 8 a.m. 9 a.m. 10 a.m. 11 a.m. Noon 1 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. SUNDAY Critical writing and reviews: Using social media for Yearbook like you’re The most important Room 201, CC The good, the bad, the ugly journalism Journalism’s deadly sins What’s the big idea? Snapchatting sentence 10 habits of a highly Senior ads: Make over and Room 203, CC Confessions of a fontaholic Coverage that counts effective editor Sports in social media You CAN make it work make money 6 traits of effective digital Credible information in a First Amendment: The Covering hot topics without Room 204, CC Little things, big results Don’t forget to write writing fake news world power of ideas getting burned Don’t just make it good; Storytelling: The complete Write CAPTIONS, not Marketing youself with Room 205, CC make it great! picture CRAPTIONS multimedia Method to the madness Won’t you be my neighbor?

Room 209, CC Editor-in-residence meetings

Room 211, CC Spread visual variety Photo composition and Navigating through 140 Visual design for the student You’re doing it wrong: more characters What’s in a design theme? publication Dominant elements How to get nationally Room 212, CC What is great writing? published now Authentic voice for advisers 1+1 = Our Staff How to be EIC Photo packaging in the 21st Pitching to print: Production Room 213, CC century The writing lab Yearbook: Opening matters cycle basics Making ‘real’ pictures: Life after high school Legal rights of student Room 2A, CC Theme: 4 steps to awesome Hot topics in photography Getting below the surface journalism: College 101 journalists Ready. Set. Shoot! (great Narrative journalism: Transgender Q&A Room 2B, CC The magic of 3 a.m. sports photos) Photojournalism rules Writing nonfiction as lit. (80 minutes) Visual portfolios for college, Room 303, CC Little details, big difference How did that happen? Better by design Photographers: Stand here internships, jobs Oh, JOY: Preparing a digital Journalist of the Year meet Trust the students; they’re Editorial leadership in the Room 307, CC portfolio and greet From list to listicle awesome real world What to do with that new Better-than-basic Censorship: Manage it, Room 308, CC drone photographers Using ‘1984’ in journalism avoid it From minority to majority: Boot camp basics The art and craft of Room 3A, CC Covering diversity in school Banning race-based mascots in our schools (2 hours) (80 minutes) reviewing Applying an intersectional Why public relations is the Smarter smartphone Room 3B, CC Let Pinterest die lens in media career of choice journalism (80 minutes) The ‘quest’ in question

Room 401, CC Best of Show judging

Room 4C3, CC JEA Bookstore/Adviser Hospitality (7:30 a.m.-1 p.m.)

Borrowing online photos: You will write our nation’s Room 4C4, CC What’s safe, what’s not? future The best of the best

Hall 4D, CC Publication exchange (7 a.m.-7 p.m.) Publication exchange (7 a.m.-7 p.m.)

Hall 4D Registration Convention check-in/ Desk, CC Convention check-in/registration (8 a.m.-1 p.m.) registration NSPA awards ceremony JEA awards ceremony Hall 4E, CC On-site critiques (9 a.m.-1 p.m.) On-site critiques (3:30-5:30 p.m.) SUNDAY (8:30-10:30 a.m.)

Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE — 49 SATURDAY AT A GLANCE ROOM 8 a.m. 9 a.m. 10 a.m. 11 a.m. Noon 1 p.m. 2: 30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. Evening

Photoshop and InDesign Photoshop tips and techniques for student publications InDesign and Photoshop: App prototyping without Diamond, 1st, Sheraton tips for advisers (2 hours) Stump the chumps code

Top advisers discuss Beyond the interviewing Documentaries: Start to Making money with Aspen, 2nd, Sheraton How to be the boss Human journalism yearbook trends basics finish, roll to cut photography

Take 5 action steps to Thriving as a freelance Fake news: Using media Cedar, 2nd, Sheraton perfect publications photojournalist More than a story literacy, paper to fight back

Write-off Committee Juniper, 2nd, Sheraton Write-off headquarters Write-off headquarters meeting

Spruce, 2nd, Sheraton Day of Doing (meeting at 7:30 a.m.) and workspace Day of Doing workspace

Trivia night Willow, 2nd, Sheraton National Journalism Quiz Bowl (3 hours) The WOW factor (8-10 p.m.)

Newspaper design On the scene: Convergent Audio stories: Podcast Passing student press Risky conversations: Ballard, 3rd, Sheraton strategies storytelling storytelling techniques legislation Inverviews with an edge JEA Scholastic Press Rights Strengthening your Capitol Hill, 3rd, Committee meeting journalistic foundation Open forum on legal, ethical From extracurricular to Sheraton (7:30 a.m.) (Part 2) issues extraordinary JEA Diversity Committee JEA Awards Committee Everett, 3rd, Sheraton meeting Scholastic press association roundtable (2 hours) meeting

Teaching self-reflection to Evaluate and strengthen Fremont, 3rd, Sheraton enhance collaboration 21st century skills workout programs of study

Greenwood, 3rd, Staff development The team bonded; everyone Sheraton according to Pearl Jam Judge me! had a marvelous time

Pitch perfect: Taking your Issaquah, 3rd, Sheraton story national No guts, no glory (2 hours)

JEA Digital Media CTE certification for your Effectively coordinate your Critique your book Kirkland, 3rd, Sheraton Committee meeting program Help for new advisers yearbook photo process

JEA Certification Committee Presentation of MJE projects Why consider JEA Challenges and solutions: Leschi, 3rd, Sheraton meeting (7:30 a.m.) for advisers certification? Go with the flow Schol. media budget cuts

How to create accountability Resources for broadcast Medina, 3rd, Sheraton From chaos to caliber Data journalism crash course for deadlines journalists JEA board followup

Metropolitan, 3rd, Sheraton Adviser recognition luncheon (noon-2:20 p.m.)

Ravenna, 3rd, Build an award-winning Sizzle and pop with a splash Sheraton The power of light portfolio of color Survey says

50 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions n ADVISING/TEACHING n ENTREPRENEURSHIP n LEADERSHIP/TEAM BUILDING n NEWS LITERACY n CONTEST n KEYNOTE/FEATURED SPEAKER n MEETING n PHOTOJOURNALISM n DESIGN n GENERAL AUDIENCE n MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST n WEB n EDITING n LAW/ETHICS n NEWS GATHERING n WRITING

ROOM 8 a.m. 9 a.m. 10 a.m. 11 a.m. Noon 1 p.m. 2: 30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. Evening

Photoshop and InDesign Photoshop tips and techniques for student publications InDesign and Photoshop: App prototyping without Diamond, 1st, Sheraton tips for advisers (2 hours) Stump the chumps code

Top advisers discuss Beyond the interviewing Documentaries: Start to Making money with Aspen, 2nd, Sheraton How to be the boss Human journalism yearbook trends basics finish, roll to cut photography

Take 5 action steps to Thriving as a freelance Fake news: Using media Cedar, 2nd, Sheraton perfect publications photojournalist More than a story literacy, paper to fight back

Write-off Committee Juniper, 2nd, Sheraton Write-off headquarters Write-off headquarters meeting

Spruce, 2nd, Sheraton Day of Doing (meeting at 7:30 a.m.) and workspace Day of Doing workspace

Trivia night Willow, 2nd, Sheraton National Journalism Quiz Bowl (3 hours) The WOW factor (8-10 p.m.)

Newspaper design On the scene: Convergent Audio stories: Podcast Passing student press Risky conversations: Ballard, 3rd, Sheraton strategies storytelling storytelling techniques legislation Inverviews with an edge JEA Scholastic Press Rights Strengthening your Capitol Hill, 3rd, Committee meeting journalistic foundation Open forum on legal, ethical From extracurricular to Sheraton (7:30 a.m.) (Part 2) issues extraordinary JEA Diversity Committee JEA Awards Committee Everett, 3rd, Sheraton meeting Scholastic press association roundtable (2 hours) meeting

Teaching self-reflection to Evaluate and strengthen Fremont, 3rd, Sheraton enhance collaboration 21st century skills workout programs of study

Greenwood, 3rd, Staff development The team bonded; everyone Sheraton according to Pearl Jam Judge me! had a marvelous time

Pitch perfect: Taking your Issaquah, 3rd, Sheraton story national No guts, no glory (2 hours)

JEA Digital Media CTE certification for your Effectively coordinate your Critique your book Kirkland, 3rd, Sheraton Committee meeting program Help for new advisers yearbook photo process

JEA Certification Committee Presentation of MJE projects Why consider JEA Challenges and solutions: Leschi, 3rd, Sheraton meeting (7:30 a.m.) for advisers certification? Go with the flow Schol. media budget cuts

How to create accountability Resources for broadcast Medina, 3rd, Sheraton From chaos to caliber Data journalism crash course for deadlines journalists JEA board followup

Metropolitan, 3rd, Sheraton Adviser recognition luncheon (noon-2:20 p.m.)

Ravenna, 3rd, Build an award-winning Sizzle and pop with a splash Sheraton The power of light portfolio of color Survey says

Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE — 51 Balfour Great Shot Photo Contest, Victoria G, Mansfield Legacy High School, Mansfield, TX. Mansfield, Mansfield Legacy High School, Victoria G, Balfour Great Shot Photo Contest,

bt eYearbook BalfourTools BAL4.tv ImageShare The first truly interactive The premier yearbook plug-in Extend yearbook coverage Easy-to-use photo upload yearbook viewable on a for Adobe™ InDesign that and transform the way app that allows the school computer or mobile device integrates seamlessly with students remember school community to share Adobe™ Creative Cloud™ with links to multimedia snapshots of the yearbook

52 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2017For more • SEATTLE information, see your Balfour representative or visit us at balfour.com/yearbooks. Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions 7:30 a.m. SATURDAY 7:30 a.m. packaging, powerful visuals, eye flow and Let us know how we’re modular grid design increase the readership of your newspaper content. We’ll look at lots MEETING doing. Visit jea.org/eval of examples from scholastic and professional SCHOLASTIC PRESS RIGHTS and tells us what you think. newspapers. COMMITTEE MEETING EVALUATION CODE: 5678 Members of this committee will meet to make We want to know how helpful Gary Lundgren, National Scholastic Press plans and goals for the upcoming year. Other the sessions are during the JEA/ Association, Minneapolis advisers who are interested in being part of the NSPA Spring National High School 8 a.m. Saturday, Ballard, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (100) committee are invited to attend. Journalism Convention. For each John Bowen, MJE, Kent (Ohio) State University session listed in this program, you’ll LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING 7:30 a.m. Saturday, Capitol Hill, 3rd Floor, find an evaluation code listed under TAKE 5 ACTION STEPS TO PERFECT Sheraton (50) the description. Please visit jea.org/ eval on your computer or web-enabled PUBLICATIONS EVENT mobile device, enter that code and The 5 P action steps – Preparation, Purpose, Participation, Progress, Persistence – are crucial l PUBLICATION EXCHANGE provide some feedback for each of the sessions you attend. tools to finding success. A project as large in Interested in seeing what kind of work other scope as a yearbook or newspaper requires all high schools around the nation are producing? five steps to excel. Create your action plan to Stop by the exchange tables to gander at the make your publication perfect. Stan Zoller, MJE, Lake Forest (Ill.) College latest editions of high school publications from Kelly Glasscock, Collegian Media Group, 8 a.m. Saturday, Everett, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (20) coast to coast. Feel free to drop off a few copies Manhattan, Kan. of your media and take some you like. 8 a.m. Saturday, Cedar, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (125) 7:30 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday, Hall 4D, CC MEETING JEA DIGITAL MEDIA COMMITTEE ADVISING/TEACHING MEETING MEETING FROM CHAOS TO CALIBER JEA CERTIFICATION COMMITTEE This committee will meet to discuss goals and Without set parameters, learning targets and MEETING projects for the upcoming academic year. goals, advising quality publications can be Committee members will meet to discuss JEA Aaron Manfull, MJE, Francis Howell North chaotic, demanding and frustrating and an certification procedures. High School, St. Charles, Mo. absolute mess. Here are some expert tips on Kim Green, MJE, Ball State University, Muncie, 8 a.m. Saturday, Kirkland, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (40) getting your staff to excel with top-notch Ind. journalism challenges, have an award-winning 7:30 a.m. Saturday, Leschi, 3rd Floor, Sheraton EVENT publication and contain the madness. (40) l CONVENTION CHECK-IN AND EVALUATION CODE: 5634 REGISTRATION Nicole Sanders, Lovejoy Independent School EVENT Register for the convention or pick up your District, Lucas, Texas l JEA BOOKSTORE school packets here. This also is convention lost 8 a.m. Saturday, Medina, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (40) Check out the new books, as well as popular and found. Items not picked up by 1 p.m. will best-sellers, at the JEA Bookstore. Nearly 300 be turned over to convention center security. STUDENT EVENT items relating to journalism are available, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Hall 4D Registration l NATIONAL JOURNALISM QUIZ including textbooks, curriculum development, Desk, CC BOWL (3 HOURS) yearbook, newspaper, design, photography, Four-person teams will compete in the live writing, desktop publishing, new media, LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING buzzer rounds. Come cheer on your school as a advertising and broadcast. HOW TO BE THE BOSS member of the audience. 7:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Room 4C3, CC Depending on the editor’s relationships with EVALUATION CODE: 2861 the staff, the year can be smooth sailing or a April van Buren, MJE, La Follette High School, ADVISER EVENT rocky ride. We will discuss solutions to common Madison, Wis. l ADVISER HOSPITALITY issues editors have with staff members 8-10:50 a.m. Saturday, Willow, 2nd Floor, Meet with your colleagues from across the including managing workflow, communicating Sheraton (300) country in the adviser hospitality suite, a hot your vision, and dealing with difficult staff spot for advisers. Local committee members members. WRITING will be available to recommend sightseeing, EVALUATION CODE: 5572 CRITICAL WRITING AND REVIEWS: dining and entertainment options. Justin Daigle, CJE, Brighton (Colo.) High THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY 7:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Room 4C3, CC School, and Annie Gorenstein-Falkenberg, Learn the fundamentals for how to write an CJE, Longmont (Colo.) High School effective review: positive reviews for something 8 a.m. 8 a.m. Saturday, Aspen, 2nd Floor, Sheraton the reviewer enjoyed, how to effectively write a (125) negative review of something that didn’t meet expectations, and what not to do. MEETING DESIGN JEA DIVERSITY COMMITTEE EVALUATION CODE: 5680 NEWSPAPER DESIGN STRATEGIES Ben Sellers, Lake Braddock Secondary School, MEETING Effective newspaper design is all about Burke, Va. Members of the committee will discuss goals strategically packaging verbal and visual 8 a.m. Saturday, Room 201, CC (132) and projects for the upcoming year. content for selective readers. Learn how story

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DESIGN guidelines and staff manual procedures in this Candace Perkins Bowen, MJE, Kent (Ohio) CONFESSIONS OF A FONTAHOLIC second of two sessions. This session will allow State University With thousands of fonts available for use in our for hands-on evaluation of attendee policies, 9-10:50 a.m. Saturday, Everett, 3rd Floor, publications, it’s easy to become a font fanatic. guidelines and manuals and other examples. Sheraton (20) Learn how to make the most of your type to (For advisers, students and administrators.) strengthen your designs while avoiding font EVALUATION CODE: 5143 LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING faux pas. Check out the seven-step program to John Bowen, MJE, Kent (Ohio) State STAFF DEVELOPMENT ACCORDING cure your font addictions. University, and Lori Keekley, MJE, St. Louis TO PEARL JAM EVALUATION CODE: 2397 Park (Minn.) High School Let the greatest rock band of all time equip Lynn Strause, CJE, Herff Jones, Waynesville, N.C. 9 a.m. Saturday, Capitol Hill, 3rd Floor, Sheraton you to assemble, train and motivate a staff that 8 a.m. Saturday, Room 203, CC (81) (50) strives for success. (For advisers and editors.) EVALUATION CODE: 5670 DESIGN PHOTOJOURNALISM John Horvath, Hill Country Christian School, LITTLE THINGS, BIG RESULTS THRIVING AS A FREELANCE Austin, Texas We’re all about yearbook theme and the little PHOTOJOURNALIST 9 a.m. Saturday, Greenwood, 3rd Floor, Sheraton things that drive it! We’ll cover how to ensure Do you want to be a freelance magazine (45) all of your elements flow together to create a photographer, traveling and working on your cohesive product by examining and tracing own? Are you confused about how that would MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST the theme of several yearbooks. Big results can work? Learn how to thrive as a freelancer in PITCH PERFECT: TAKING YOUR come from the small things. this Photojournalism Business 101 discussion STORY NATIONAL EVALUATION CODE: 5535 by a professor of photojournalism business Youth Radio, NPR’s youth desk, is the premier Heather Nagel, CJE, and Madeline Littleton, practices. source of youth news, and is expanding its Christ Presbyterian Academy, Nashville, Tenn. EVALUATION CODE: 5511 national network of young reporters. Workshop 8 a.m. Saturday, Room 204, CC (119) Jackie Bell, Missouri School of Journalism, your pitches with senior producers and editors, Columbia, Mo. who will share tips on getting your print, audio 9 a.m. 9 a.m. Saturday, Cedar, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (125) and visual stories maximum impact. EVALUATION CODE: 5656 ADVISING/TEACHING GENERAL AUDIENCE Teresa Chin and Rebecca Martin, Youth Radio, HUMAN JOURNALISM PHOTOSHOP AND INDESIGN TIPS Oakland, Calif. Beyond the news and opinions, journalism FOR ADVISERS 9 a.m. Saturday, Issaquah, 3rd Floor, Sheraton has the power to create empathy and Are you an adviser struggling with Photoshop (110) understanding. In today’s media, human or InDesign? We’ll show you some techniques journalism, the uniqueness of each person’s every adviser can use. Bring your problems, ADVISING/TEACHING stories, creates a powerful message that crosses challenges and questions and let us help. CTE CERTIFICATION FOR YOUR all platforms. EVALUATION CODE: 5575 PROGRAM EVALUATION CODE: 5581 Hal Schmidt, Balfour Yearbooks, Houston, and See the steps one adviser took to make Casey Nichols, CJE, Rocklin (Calif.) High School David Graves, St. Thomas’ Episcopal School, her journalism program a Career Technical 9 a.m. Saturday, Aspen, 2nd Floor, Sheraton Houston Education program. Learn what it has meant (125) 9 a.m. Saturday, Diamond, 1st Floor, Sheraton for her professionally as well as how she has (85) made the CTE requirements meaningful for her MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST program. LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING ON THE SCENE: CONVERGENT EVALUATION CODE: 5525 STORYTELLING TEACHING SELF-REFLECTION TO Anne Hayman, MJE, Arlington (Wash.) High Go to the scene (on your own or with a team) ENHANCE COLLABORATION School to capture reporting for long-form storytelling, Journalism staffs confront constant change, 9 a.m. Saturday, Kirkland, 3rd Floor, Sheraton environmental portrait photography, audio routinely turning over a third or more of their (40) stories and video storytelling. Add some real- leaders every year. Come take a look at a time social media reporting while you’re there. method of reflection and individual counseling ADVISING/TEACHING All in one place, all in one trip. that leads to individual student learning and PRESENTATION OF MJE PROJECTS growth as well as enhances collaborative work. EVALUATION CODE: 5630 FOR ADVISERS Adam Dawkins, CJE, Regis Jesuit High School, EVALUATION CODE: 4911 Teachers who recently earned JEA’s Master Aurora, Colo. Sue Skalicky, MJE, Legacy High School, Journalism Educator status will formally present 9 a.m. Saturday, Ballard, 3rd Floor, Sheraton Bismarck, N.D. their MJE projects, followed by a Q&A time. (100) 9 a.m. Saturday, Fremont, 3rd Floor, Sheraton They will give hints on how to finish the project (20) and join the ranks of an elite group of teachers LAW AND ETHICS who have completed the highest level of STRENGTHENING YOUR MEETING journalism teaching certification in the nation. JOURNALISTIC FOUNDATION SCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION Mentoring will be available for those ready to (PART 2) ROUNDTABLE (2 HOURS) begin an MJE project. Join the discussion of scholastic press EVALUATION CODE: 3299 Focus on your journalistic foundation by association directors and those involved in Moderators: Cathy Wall, MJE, Harrisburg High strengthening your editorial policy, ethical scholastic press organizations in their states. School, Harrisburg, Ill., and Kim Green, MJE,

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Ball State University, Muncie, Ind. GENERAL AUDIENCE DESIGN Presenters: Kelly Furnas, CJE, Elon University, COVERAGE THAT COUNTS PHOTO PACKAGING IN THE 21ST Elon, N.C.; Evelyn Lauer, MJE, Niles West What’s the hottest trend every staff should CENTURY High School, Skokie, Ill.; Meghan Percival, adapt? Better coverage. Explore all kinds of This session, updated with new examples, will MJE, McLean (Va.) High School, and Patrick ideas for including more stories — and more introduce you to several tangible design tools Johnson, MJE, Antioch (Ill.) Community High people — in the book. Make it a book they and techniques you can use to bring your School want to buy now and look at for years to come. photo-packaging skills into the 21st century. 9 a.m. Saturday, Leschi, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (40) EVALUATION CODE: 4912 The process starts with your photographers and Lynn Strause, CJE, Herff Jones, Waynesville, N.C. ends with page designers. The process will give GENERAL AUDIENCE 9 a.m. Saturday, Room 203, CC (81) your publication the contemporary look you DATA JOURNALISM CRASH COURSE and your audience deserve. Hear from two advisers about how (and why) WRITING EVALUATION CODE: 3459 data journalism can make a difference. With a DON’T FORGET TO WRITE Pete LeBlanc, Antelope (Calif.) High School, few examples, strategies and suggested tools, Quick reads and quotes are fun, but they are and Dan Austin, Casa Roble High School, this session will expose participants to basic no replacement for real storytelling. The right Orangevale, Calif. data acquisition, cleaning and presentation as combination of words, heart, substance and 9 a.m. Saturday, Room 213, CC (70) well as offer resources for where to learn more. personality can provide a mental picture of EVALUATION CODE: 5319 the year that scattered coverage misses. We’ll GENERAL AUDIENCE Sarah Nichols, MJE, Whitney High School, examine bad stories and see what it takes to THEME: 4 STEPS TO AWESOME Rocklin, Calif., and Megan Fromm, MJE, make them into something special. In yearbook, the theme can make, or break, Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, EVALUATION CODE: 5521 your publication. We want to show you an easy Colo. Crystal Kazmierski, Arrowhead Christian to use process to help you build an awesome 9 a.m. Saturday, Medina, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (40) Academy, Redlands, Calif., and Susan Massy, theme for your 2018 book. Shawnee Mission Northwest High School, EVALUATION CODE: 4299 PHOTOJOURNALISM Shawnee, Kan. Jed Palmer, CJE, Sierra Middle School, Parker, THE POWER OF LIGHT 9 a.m. Saturday, Room 204, CC (119) Colo., and Nicole Arduini, CJE, Herff Jones Understanding the characteristics of light and Yearbooks, Parker, Colo. the impact this has on your photograph is DESIGN 9 a.m. Saturday, Room 2A, CC (135) the key to becoming an artist with a camera. DON’T JUST MAKE IT GOOD; MAKE Explore ways to use light to become a better IT GREAT! NEWS GATHERING photographer. They say the devil’s in the details, and nothing THE MAGIC OF 3 A.M. EVALUATION CODE: 5251 could be more true with design. Learn how to Emergencies and spot news never happen at Mark Murray, Arlington (Texas) ISD take a solid layout to the next level by making a convenient time. Learn — and practice — 9 a.m. Saturday, Ravenna, 3rd Floor, Sheraton small adjustments that make all the difference. how to cover spot news with an emphasis on (170) Let dominance, hierarchy, balance and contrast working with public safety officials. work for you! EVALUATION CODE: 5509 EVENT EVALUATION CODE: 5666 Bradley Wilson, MJE, Midwestern State l ON-SITE CRITIQUES John Cutsinger, CJE, Jostens, Orlando, Fla., University, Wichita Falls, Texas Schools scheduled for critiques should bring and Brenda Field, MJE, Glenbrook South High 9 a.m. Saturday, Room 2B, CC (175) up to three different issues of newspapers/ School, Glenview, Ill. magazines, or the most recent literary magazine 9 a.m. Saturday, Room 205, CC (96) DESIGN or yearbook. Some staffs also choose to bring LITTLE DETAILS, BIG DIFFERENCE mockups of the current yearbook. For broadcast PHOTOJOURNALISM The better your yearbook gets, the more critiques, bring a thumb drive, DVD or upload to SPREAD VISUAL VARIETY important the little things become. See how YouTube. For online critiques, exchange a URL. A yearbook should tell a complete story. Learn attention to detail made these amazing designs Since critiques are 30 minutes, it is important to how to shoot a photo story and make the best more powerful. A few solid guidelines and lots be on time. photo selections for your yearbook spreads. of examples provide inspiration and direction. 9 a.m. Saturday, Hall 4E, CC (5,030) EVALUATION CODE: 5226 EVALUATION CODE: 5276 Margaret Sorrows, CJE, Jostens, Sherwood, Ark. Paul Ender, Herff Jones, Palm Springs, Calif., NEWS GATHERING 9 a.m. Saturday, Room 211, CC (119) and Ann Akers, MJE, Herff Jones, Charlotte, USING SOCIAL MEDIA FOR N.C. JOURNALISM WRITING 9 a.m. Saturday, Room 303, CC (117) This session will discuss some of the concerns WHAT IS GREAT WRITING? with information passed through social Great writing can still knock teenagers socks LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING media including information verification and off. Come find out how journalists are writing OH, JOY: PREPARING A DIGITAL confirmation. We also will spend time looking award-winning stories, awesome leads, getting PORTFOLIO into a variety of social media mobile apps that great quotes and telling stories that matter in Are you thinking of applying for the Journalist are useful for journalists. their community. of the Year contest? This session will go over EVALUATION CODE: 5480 EVALUATION CODE: 5599 the basics of applying for this contest, the keys Tom Hallaq, Kansas State University, Jonathan Rogers, MJE, Iowa City (Iowa) High to creating the winning portfolio, and tips and Manhattan, Kan. School tricks to help you leave a lasting impression on 9 a.m. Saturday, Room 201, CC (147) 9 a.m. Saturday, Room 212, CC (65) the judges.

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Panelists: Nancy Y. Smith, EVALUATION CODE: 5574 the new FAA regulations and what that means MJE, Lafayette High School, Wildwood, Mo.; Hal Schmidt, Balfour Yearbooks, Houston, and for the beginning drone pilot. and Justin Daigle, CJE, Brighton (Colo.) High David Graves, St. Thomas’ Episcopal School, EVALUATION CODE: 5637 School Houston Nick Homburg, Kansas State University, 10 a.m. Saturday, Aspen, 2nd Floor, Sheraton 10-11:50 a.m. Saturday, Diamond, 1st Floor, Manhattan, Kan. (125) Sheraton (85) 9 a.m. Saturday, Room 308, CC (61) MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING, DIVERSITY AUDIO STORIES: PODCAST 21ST CENTURY SKILLS WORKOUT FROM MINORITY TO MAJORITY: STORYTELLING TECHNIQUES Are you banging your head against a wall COVERING DIVERSITY IN YOUR A look at how your coverage team can produce because students are missing deadlines? Try SCHOOL powerful audio stories and meet your audience honing in on your students’ strengths and How do you cover diversity when your staff where they are. Get into their rotation! Be in watch them take ownership and pride in their doesn’t reflect the student population? their playlist, in the car, while they workout, work. Quit playing Jenga and start coaching Cleveland Publications has it all figured out. even while they “multitask” that late-night your students through a 21st century skills EVALUATION CODE: 5655 homework. workout! Teresa Scribner, CJE, Cleveland High School, EVALUATION CODE: 5631 EVALUATION CODE: 4634 Seattle Adam Dawkins, CJE, Regis Jesuit High School, Sue Skalicky, MJE, Legacy High School, 9 a.m. Saturday, Room 3A, CC (135) Aurora, Colo. Bismarck, N.D. 10 a.m. Saturday, Ballard, 3rd Floor, Sheraton 10 a.m. Saturday, Fremont, 3rd Floor, Sheraton LAW AND ETHICS (100) (20) BORROWING ONLINE PHOTOS: WHAT’S SAFE, WHAT’S NOT? LAW AND ETHICS ADVISING/TEACHING It’s never been easier — or more risky — to OPEN FORUM ON LEGAL, ETHICAL JUDGE ME! “help yourself” to photos, videos or songs Send your yearbook for critiques. Enter contests. ISSUES Solicit feedback. Students and advisers need to from other people’s websites. Where can you This open forum session will empower shed the fear of what experts might say about find truly copyright-free material that’s safe to students, advisers and administrators to raise their work. This veteran judge and critic will lift republish — and what sites should you never, questions or issues that are important to them the veil of mystery from the process so all will ever borrow from? with the JEA Scholastic Press Rights Committee. benefit, including your readers. EVALUATION CODE: 5418 EVALUATION CODE: 5141 EVALUATION CODE: 5515 Mike Hiestand, Zenger Consulting, Ferndale, John Bowen, MJE, Kent (Ohio) State University Mary Kay Downes, MJE, Chantilly High School, Wash. and JEA Scholastic Press Rights Committee Chantilly, Va. 9 a.m. Saturday, Room 4C4, CC (289) 10 a.m. Saturday, Capitol Hill, 3rd Floor, 10 a.m. Saturday, Greenwood, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (50) Sheraton (45) DESIGN, FEATURED SPEAKER WEB LET PINTEREST DIE GENERAL AUDIENCE Pinterest has become a breeding ground for MORE THAN A STORY NO GUTS, NO GLORY (2 HOURS) the same looking publications nationwide. Learn to present information on the online Often we forget to discuss the GUTS — the This session will help you step away from tired, story page — beyond just the story text. See magic, the poetry within a lit magazine. Let’s outdated trends by diving into social media the best practices for headlines, captions, graphics, talk about what makes poetry gutsy. Bring RIGHT way, and exploring a plethora of new images, audio and video. Discover new ways poems to share, slam or traditional. How can design resources. to deliver information to your online audience you best represent your school by inviting the EVALUATION CODE: 5519 through embedded information and context. poetry (and prose) we desire? Allie Jones, Wexley School for Girls, Seattle EVALUATION CODE: 5686 EVALUATION CODE: 5208 9 a.m. Saturday, Room 3B, CC (175) Logan Aimone, MJE, University of Chicago Susan Turner Jones, Sierra Canyon School, Lab High School, Chicago Chatsworth, Calif. 10 a.m. Saturday, Cedar, 2nd Floor, Sheraton 10-11:50 a.m. Saturday, Issaquah, 3rd Floor, (125) Sheraton (110)

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and Master Journalism Educator. Ask questions how a portfolio should look while gaining tips ADVISING/TEACHING about a unique opportunity to demonstrate to improve your photography. Bridge the gap HELP FOR NEW ADVISERS you are a highly qualified journalism educator. between high school photography and college Advisers who have been mentored as a part EVALUATION CODE: 2046 photography. of the JEA Mentoring Program share their Kim Green, MJE, Ball State University, Muncie, EVALUATION CODE: 4885 experiences in the program. Learn about Ind. Mark Murray, Arlington (Texas) ISD the advantages of having an experienced 10 a.m. Saturday, Leschi, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (40) 10 a.m. Saturday, Ravenna, 3rd Floor, Sheraton journalism mentor guide you through your first (170) years of advising. LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING EVALUATION CODE: 4180 HOW TO CREATE ACCOUNTABILITY GENERAL AUDIENCE Moderators: Linda Barrington, MJE, Mount FOR DEADLINES JOURNALISM’S DEADLY SINS Mary University, Milwaukee, and Bill This session is for editors and advisers who Have we got a journalism treat for you: our list Flechtner, MJE, Milwaukie, Ore. want to learn ways to promote accountability of the biggest sins you’re making in reporting, Panelists: Kate Morgan, Mountain Ridge and responsibility within their staffs. Learn how editing, photography, design and leadership High School, Highlands Ranch, Colo.; Hannah to have less missing or incomplete work, and and how to fix them. There’s something for Shapiro, Eagle Valley High School, Gypsum, how staff members can help each other out on everyone to roll their eyes at in this session. Colo.; Heather Treanor, Estacada (Ore.) High assignments. EVALUATION CODE: 5268 School; and Hillary Currier, Tigard (Ore.) High EVALUATION CODE: 5602 Amy Morgan, MJE, Shawnee Mission West School Casandra Workman, CJE, Centennial High High School, Overland Park, Kan. 10 a.m. Saturday, Kirkland, 3rd Floor, Sheraton School, Las Vegas 10 a.m. Saturday, Room 201, CC (147) (40) 10 a.m. Saturday, Medina, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (40) LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING ADVISING/TEACHING 10 HABITS OF A HIGHLY EFFECTIVE WHY CONSIDER JEA PHOTOJOURNALISM EDITOR CERTIFICATION? BUILD AN AWARD-WINNING Maybe you already have a leadership role, or The answer to this question is “Why not?” Learn PORTFOLIO maybe you just want to prepare yourself for the steps required to obtain JEA’s two educator There is much more to creating a portfolio than a future position as an editor. Come to this certifications: Certified Journalism Educator simply “collecting your 10 best pictures.” Know session for tips and tricks about how to lead a

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BSUWkshpsConvAd.indd 1 1/30/17 1:11 PM 10 a.m. SATURDAY staff effectively. WRITING great books and solid solutions will help you EVALUATION CODE: 5577 HOW TO GET NATIONALLY avoid that moment when your book is printed Julieanne McClain, CJE, Rutherford B. Hayes PUBLISHED NOW and in your hands and you realize that crucial High School, Delaware, Ohio Find out how national organizations are info is missing from your title page or that your 10 a.m. Saturday, Room 203, CC (81) publishing amazing student journalism, what indexing plan was less than perfect. they are looking for and how to get recognized EVALUATION CODE: 4552 WRITING and published on a national scale through Paul Ender, Herff Jones, Palm Springs, Calif., 6 TRAITS OF EFFECTIVE DIGITAL Flipboard, SNO, and Los Angeles Times. and Ann Akers, MJE, Herff Jones, Charlotte, N.C. WRITING EVALUATION CODE: 5600 In this workshop, we look at examples of Jonathan Rogers, MJE, Iowa City (Iowa) High 10 a.m. Saturday, Room 303, CC (117) digital journalism and discover why they work. School PHOTOJOURNALISM Participants leave with models of good writing, 10 a.m. Saturday, Room 212, CC (65) a set of criteria to measure their own and others’ BETTER-THAN-BASIC writing against, and tools to increase the quality PHOTOJOURNALISM PHOTOGRAPHERS and consistency of digital work. HOT TOPICS IN PHOTOGRAPHY This session is for photographers who feel they EVALUATION CODE: 5651 Come join in as we explore a variety of current have mastered how to balance their camera, Margot Lester, The Word Factory, Carrboro, topics in photography from gear and resources and they’re looking for the next step in getting N.C., and Steve Peha, Teaching That Makes to trends in portraiture and lighting with eye-catching photos. We’ll talk about tips and Sense Inc., Carrboro, N.C. examples from pros and scholastic journalism tricks for before, during and after shooting. 10 a.m. Saturday, Room 204, CC (119) alike. Bring your own questions for this open EVALUATION CODE: 5556 discussion. Jordyn Kiel, CJE, Francis Howell North High DESIGN EVALUATION CODE: 4756 School, St. Charles, Mo., and Sarah Semmel, STORYTELLING: THE COMPLETE Mike Simons, MJE, Corning-Painted Post High Ladue Horton Watkins High School, St. Louis PICTURE School, Corning, N.Y., and Jed Palmer, CJE, 10 a.m. Saturday, Room 308, CC (61) Your storytelling toolbox doesn’t just contain Sierra Middle School, Parker, Colo. words. Learn how photography and design pair 10 a.m. Saturday, Room 2A, CC (135) GENERAL AUDIENCE, FEATURED SPEAKER with great reporting to tell the whole story. YOU WILL WRITE OUR NATION’S EVALUATION CODE: 5367 PHOTOJOURNALISM FUTURE Carrie Faust, MJE, Smoky Hill High School, READY. SET. SHOOT! (GREAT Journalists don’t just write about what happens. Aurora, Colo.; Meghan Percival, MJE, McLean SPORTS PHOTOS) We help shape the future by giving our readers (Va.) High School; and Erinn Harris, MJE, This session addresses the special challenges a better understanding of the world around Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and for photographers covering sports events. We them. Our ability to see the world clearly from Technology, Alexandria, Va. will cover correct camera settings for all types multiple perspectives is a necessity for the well- 10 a.m. Saturday, Room 205, CC (96) of sports and venues as well as techniques for being of our communities. setting up more effective shots. EVALUATION CODE: 5624 WRITING EVALUATION CODE: 4076 Jerry Large, The Seattle Times THE WRITING LAB Kathy Daly, KDaly Photography, Denver 10 a.m. Saturday, Room 4C4, CC (289) In this session, we will drill down, giving you 10 a.m. Saturday, Room 2B, CC (175) specific techniques to improve the writing in all GENERAL AUDIENCE your publications. Style Imitation will help you EVENT BANNING RACE-BASED MASCOTS practice the craft of writing through imitation l JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR MEET IN OUR SCHOOLS (2 HOURS) and repetition. Rehabilitate your writing process AND GREET Through facts and data research, along with by coming to the realization that writing in your Per feedback from contest participants, we are true history, we’ll share why the removal of all publication is about reporting first and writing offering the first-ever meet and greet for 2017 race-based mascots promotes the opportunity second: Report, Observe, Quote. Yes, it’s that Journalist of the Year national candidates and for an equal education and should be adapted simple. Piece of Pie will give beginning writers a judges to come together. This is a chance to nationwide. Learn how you can cover this topic formula to create professional feature copy. network and reflect with each other about the in your school. A Q&A discussion will follow. EVALUATION CODE: 2628 contest and future plans. EVALUATION CODE: 5615 Pete LeBlanc, Antelope (Calif.) High School, EVALUATION CODE: 5583 Dahkota Brown, Native Education Raising and Dan Austin, Casa Roble High School, Rebecca Pollard, MJE, Heritage High School, Dedicated Students, Jackson, Calif., and Orangevale, Calif. Frisco, Texas, and Kellen Browning, Pomona Elyssia Maysee, Argonaut High School, 10 a.m. Saturday, Room 213, CC (70) College, Claremont, Calif. Jackson, Calif. 10 a.m. Saturday, Room 307, CC (67) 10-11:50 a.m. Saturday, Room 3A, CC (135) PHOTOJOURNALISM

PHOTO COMPOSITION AND MORE DESIGN GENERAL AUDIENCE, FEATURED SPEAKER Learn how to take showstopping photos for HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? APPLYING AN INTERSECTIONAL your publications using simple composition If you’re an editor who’s working toward LENS IN MEDIA techniques. You will see tons of great examples competitive excellence, this session’s guidelines Learn to use a critical lens that includes issues taken by high school students. and checklists will remind you of some of the of diversity, queer and gender studies, historical EVALUATION CODE: 5227 small details that help the great books rise and economic context, and more in your effort Margaret Sorrows, CJE, Jostens, Sherwood, Ark. above the excellent ones. A lot of examples of to tell nuanced and accurate stories. 10 a.m. Saturday, Room 211, CC (119) EVALUATION CODE: 5648

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Esmy Jimenez, Sightline Institute/Freelance, to teambuilding, workflow management and state. Get ideas on how to get legislators to Seattle staff motivation. sponsor freedom of expression legislation so 10 a.m. Saturday, Room 3B, CC (175) EVALUATION CODE: 5582 student voices can be heard. Kate Plows, CJE, Malvern (Pa.) Preparatory EVALUATION CODE: 4848 School John Bowen, MJE, and Mark Goodman, Kent 11 a.m. 11 a.m. Saturday, Capitol Hill, 3rd Floor, (Ohio) State University; Stan Zoller, MJE, Sheraton (50) Lake Forest (Ill.) College; Kathy Schrier, MJE, NEWS GATHERING Washington JEA, Seattle; and Janet Ewell, BEYOND THE INTERVIEWING ADVISING/TEACHING MJE, Huntington Beach, Calif. BASICS EVAULATE AND STRENGTHEN 11 a.m. Saturday, Ballard, 3rd Floor, Sheraton “Duh” questions get lifeless responses. Discover (100) techniques that are sure to elicit powerful PROGRAMS OF STUDY This session will go over the evaluation tool anecdotes, useful stats and charged reactions. that measures the effectiveness of a program NEWS LITERACY You’ll also hear the best three words to start based on criteria set by the Carl D. Perkins grant. FAKE NEWS: USING MEDIA any interview. Bonus: Learn to decipher your Need assistance and/or support to strengthen interviewee’s body language! LITERACY AND YOUR SCHOOL programs of study? Ideas will be offered to EVALUATION CODE: 2113 PAPER TO FIGHT BACK develop solutions for challenging areas. Jon Reese, CJE, Decatur (Ga.) High School Fighting back against the cry of “fake news” EVALUATION CODE: 5663 11 a.m. Saturday, Aspen, 2nd Floor, Sheraton requires courage — and a process for strong Nina Quintana, CJE, Bernalillo (N.M.) High (125) fact-checking and verification. Join the adviser School and librarian of a top research high school in a 11 a.m. Saturday, Fremont, 3rd Floor, Sheraton LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING session designed to strengthen the accuracy FROM EXTRACURRICULAR TO (20) and credibility of your publications. EVALUATION CODE: 5677 EXTRAORDINARY LAW AND ETHICS Ellen Austin, MJE, and Sue Smith, The Harker How do you keep staff accountable when your PASSING STUDENT PRESS School, San Jose, Calif. publication is fully extracurricular? How might 11 a.m. Saturday, Cedar, 2nd Floor, Sheraton we push for excellence when no grades are LEGISLATION Come learn what is working in state capitals (125) involved and rewards are mostly intrinsic for the across the nation and discuss options for your team? Learn from our wins and misses related

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WRITING best practices and discuss why these hypothetical assignment live with audience THE TEAM BONDED; EVERYONE resources effectively incorporate color trends. participation. HAD A MARVELOUS TIME Understanding this powerful tool makes pages EVALUATION CODE: 5653 Do your articles ever have trite phrases like sizzle and pop. Margot Lester, The Word Factory, Carrboro, those in the title of this presentation? If you do, EVALUATION CODE: 4336 N.C., and Steve Peha, Teaching That Makes this session will point out how to eliminate the Linda Ballew, MJE, Great Falls (Mont.) Sense Inc., Carrboro, N.C. trite, the overdone, and the meaningless. Education Association 11 a.m. Saturday, Room 204, CC (119) 11 a.m. Saturday, Ravenna, 3rd Floor, Sheraton EVALUATION CODE: 5533 Ellen Kersey, Corban University, Salem, Ore. (170) GENERAL AUDIENCE 11 a.m. Saturday, Greenwood, 3rd Floor, WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA? MEETING Sheraton (45) Behind every good publication are tons of JEA AWARDS COMMITTEE MEETING great ideas. And behind every great idea are ADVISING/TEACHING Committee members will meet to discuss some really, REALLY bad ones. Getting the good EFFECTIVELY COORDINATE YOUR award procedures. stuff to rise to the surface is simply a matter of Casey Nichols, CJE, Rocklin (Calif.) High School maximizing the fine art of brainstorming. We’ll YEARBOOK PHOTOGRAPHY 11 a.m. Saturday, Everett, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (20) show you how. PROCESS EVALUATION CODE: 5522 This session is for new yearbook advisers to DESIGN Crystal Kazmierski, Arrowhead Christian learn how to organize photographers. Basics THE WOW FACTOR Academy, Redlands, Calif., and Susan Massy, in teaching photojournalism skills, camera Page designers could be the answer to saving Shawnee Mission Northwest High School, checkout, creating weekly photo assignments, our publications. Turn gray text-heavy pages Shawnee, Kan. grading, cataloging photos for easy access and into an eye-popping experience. You’ll get 60 11 a.m. Saturday, Room 201, CC (147) tips on how to purchase a variety of cameras new page designs and even more story ideas in will be covered. this slick, fast paced PowerPoint presentation. NEWS GATHERING EVALUATION CODE: 5529 Leave with creative ideas and numerous ways NAVIGATING THROUGH 140 Joy Lessard, Ellensburg, Wash. to WOW your readers. 11 a.m. Saturday, Kirkland, 3rd Floor, Sheraton CHARACTERS EVALUATION CODE: 4134 Five hundred million tweets are sent daily. From (40) Jim McGonnell, New Smyrna Beach, Fla. @OBJ_3 to @realDonaldTrump, journalists must 11 a.m. Saturday, Willow, 2nd Floor, Sheraton siphon through the social media circus. In this MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST (300) session, we take a satirical look at the world RESOURCES FOR BROADCAST of 140-character tweets from grammatical JOURNALISTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP blunders to terrible typos and how journalists One of the best ways to learn broadcasting is to SPORTS IN SOCIAL MEDIA can avoid going viral. study professional examples, but how do you So you just tweet all day about sports? Learn EVALUATION CODE: 5502 know where to start looking? This session will the importance of using social media in the Michael Malcom-Bjorklund, CJE, River City point you in the right direction. You’ll leave with ever-changing world of sports and why it’s so Science Academy Innovation, Jacksonville, a list of websites and journalists to follow. much more than just “being on the internet.” Fla. EVALUATION CODE: 5548 EVALUATION CODE: 5610 11 a.m. Saturday, Room 211, CC (119) Scott Collins, Raytown (Mo.) High School Alexandra Clark and Jordan Nilsen, HERO 11 a.m. Saturday, Medina, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (40) Sports, Bellevue, Wash. PHOTOJOURNALISM 11 a.m. Saturday, Room 203, CC (81) MAKING ‘REAL’ PICTURES: GETTING ADVISING/TEACHING BELOW THE SURFACE GO WITH THE FLOW WRITING Your photography will stand out if you take How do you organize the workflow in your WRITE CAPTIONS, NOT CRAPTIONS! time with people to get beyond the superficial. newsroom? Say hello to Trello, talk about Take your publication to the next level by See some great examples and learn a few tricks using Google, and explore other forms of stepping up your caption game. Get rid of to take it to another level. organization. We will talk about how you those lame, one sentence, vague captions that EVALUATION CODE: 3469 can use different programs to organize the don’t tell your reader anything. Learn the format Andy Nelson, Register Guard, Eugene, Ore. workflow between you and your staff. for strong, journalistic, storytelling captions. 11 a.m. Saturday, Room 2A, CC (135) EVALUATION CODE: 5315 EVALUATION CODE: 5492 Anastasia Harrison, CJE, Ashlyn Foster and Jessica Young, MJE, Orange Glen High School, ADVISING/TEACHING Tara Diltz, Legend High School, Parker, Colo. Escondido, Calif. 11 a.m. Saturday, Leschi, 3rd Floor, Sheraton (40) 11 a.m. Saturday, Room 205, CC (96) AUTHENTIC VOICE FOR ADVISERS The success of any rookie or seasoned adviser DESIGN NEWS GATHERING is the ability to balance all those little voices SIZZLE AND POP WITH A SPLASH —writers, photographers, designers, editors, CREDIBLE INFORMATION IN A FAKE parents, administrators, teachers and staff OF COLOR NEWS WORLD members. Oh, and don’t forget judges. But Editors want page design to incorporate It used to be a “nose for news” was all a good the most important voice is YOUR VOICE. In splashes of vibrant color or sophisticated journalist needed. But now we need to this session, we will discuss exploring ways to shades of black/white because color draws devote at least one nostril to fake news and make authentic and authoritative policies and audiences to the heart of the story. So, let’s other unsuitable background information. processes that work for all. look at design examples implementing In this interactive workshop, we research a EVALUATION CODE: 5639

60 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions 11 a.m. SATURDAY Margaret Sorrows, CJE, Jostens, Sherwood, Noon Ark.; Jeff Moffitt, MJE, Jostens, Dallas; John Cutsinger, CJE, Jostens, Orlando, Fla., and Tina MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST Cleavelin, CJE, Jostens, Parker, Colo. DOCUMENTARIES: START TO FINISH, 11 a.m. Saturday, Room 212, CC (65) ROLL TO CUT GENERAL AUDIENCE This session will discuss the different types of YEARBOOK: OPENING MATTERS documentaries, how to create an idea, prepare for production, production techniques, and This session will deal exclusively with the all- post production editing. Wanting to try long- important opening section of your yearbook. forum storytelling? It’s fun, rewarding and gives First impressions are important, both visually creative minds a way to tell a story. and verbally. You will leave this session with EVALUATION CODE: 5331 several tangible tools that will help you write Annabel Thorpe and Stacy Short, Argyle contemporary opening copy and produce an (Texas) High School eye-opening — Ahem! — opening section. Noon Saturday, Aspen, 2nd Floor, Sheraton EVALUATION CODE: 4798 (125) Pete LeBlanc, Antelope (Calif.) High School, and Dan Austin, Casa Roble High School, GENERAL AUDIENCE Orangevale, Calif. 11 a.m. Saturday, Room 213, CC (70) INDESIGN AND PHOTOSHOP: STUMP THE CHUMPS PHOTOJOURNALISM Having trouble figuring out how to do Sealth was a chief of the Suquamish PHOTOJOURNALISM RULES something in InDesign or Photoshop? Is it tribe at the time the first settlers taking forever to do routine tasks? Bring us your If you have ever taken that “perfect” picture arrived in 1851. Seattle is a derivative only to find that it is grainy and out of focus, problems and let us help you solve them. Your of the Indian name “Sealth.” Photo by laptop will be useful but not required. this session is for you. You will not only learn Visit Seattle. the rules of composition, but also how your EVALUATION CODE: 5380 camera actually works. No previous photo skills Hal Schmidt, Balfour Yearbooks, Houston, and required. EVALUATION CODE: 5527 David Graves, St. Thomas’ Episcopal School, Evelyn Lauer, MJE, Niles West High School, EVALUATION CODE: 4075 Houston Kathy Daly, KDaly Photography, Denver Skokie, Ill. Noon Saturday, Diamond, 1st Floor, Sheraton (85) 11 a.m. Saturday, Room 308, CC (61) 11 a.m. Saturday, Room 2B, CC (175) ADVISER EVENT GENERAL AUDIENCE, FEATURED SPEAKER DESIGN l ADVISERS RECOGNITION BETTER BY DESIGN WHY PUBLIC RELATIONS IS THE LUNCHEON These principles of design make the difference CAREER OF CHOICE JEA will present awards at this special event. between good yearbooks and great ones. See Over a career spanning roles with Starbucks, New and renewing Certified Journalism how knowing what subtle changes to make Nike, Microsoft and others, Corey duBrowa has Educators and Master Journalism Educators will can create a drastically different look in terms of helped build brands, protect reputations and be recognized. Speakers will include Nancy Y. sophistication and polish. champion the people and values of some of Smith, Yearbook Adviser of the Year and a video EVALUATION CODE: 2207 the world’s most recognizable corporations. by Alyssa Boehringer, Broadcast Adviser of the Paul Ender, Herff Jones, Palm Springs, Calif.; He will explain the role of public relations in Year. There also will be special presentation Ann Akers, MJE, Herff Jones, Charlotte, N.C. a fake news/low trust/high stakes world and honoring the 2016 Carl Towley winner, Nick 11 a.m. Saturday, Room 303, CC (117) build a case for PR as the best career for future Ferentinos. Preregistration was required. Please journalists and those who want to make a bring your ticket. Sponsors include Herff Jones WRITING positive change in the world. and Northwestern University Medill School of FROM LIST TO LISTICLE EVALUATION CODE: 5614 Journalism, Media and Integrated Marketing People love lists. But how can you develop your Corey duBrowa, Starbucks, Seattle Communications. list into an article that provides news value? 11 a.m. Saturday, Room 3B, CC (175) Noon Saturday, Metropolitan Ballroom, 3rd Discover a six-step plan for turning a list into a Floor, Sheraton (850) “listicle” that’s newsworthy and entertaining. DESIGN EVALUATION CODE: 5567 THE BEST OF THE BEST WRITING William Love, Sandpoint (Idaho) High School From unique coverage to dynamic design, let’s YOU CAN MAKE IT WORK 11 a.m. Saturday, Room 307, CC (67) examine the latest in yearbook journalism by “Print is a dying field. You can’t make a decent studying highlights from the entries recognized living with that major.” How many times have ADVISING/TEACHING as finalists in the NSPA 2016 Yearbook you heard that? Don’t listen. It’s possible. This USING ‘1984’ IN JOURNALISM Pacemaker competition. Fasten your seat belts college student is making it work while in Current political events have made an old — we have ideas from 70 awesome yearbooks school. This session contains the advice she classic a recent best-seller. Learn and discuss to share in 50 minutes. wishes she had received. ways to use the spring 2017 JEA One Book, EVALUATION CODE: 5679 EVALUATON CODE: 5697 “1984” by George Orwell, in the journalism Gary Lundgren, National Scholastic Press Kaitie Marolf, Kansas State University, classroom. Association, Minneapolis Manhattan, Kan. 11 a.m. Saturday, Room 4C4, CC (289) Noon Saturday, Room 203 (72)

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WRITING to turn your straightforward story into a work of WRITING FIRST AMENDMENT: THE POWER OF modern literature that will excite and engage YEARBOOK LIKE YOU’RE IDEAS readers. SNAPCHATTING In this hands-on workshop, participants use EVALUATION CODE: 5681 Snapchats, while short in nature, communicate a strategy that produces high-impact writing Bethany Grace Howe, University of Oregon, our stories. This unique form of storytelling is with the power to inspire, inform and persuade. Eugene, Ore. done quickly and requires a response. When Participants produce a draft piece and should Noon Saturday, Room 2B, CC (175) writing we struggle with the “overview” and come with a device or notebook for writing. not the story itself. This session will examine This workshop is ideal for editorial writers and PHOTOJOURNALISM storytelling and how to tell personal stories. columnists. PHOTOGRAPHERS: STAND HERE EVALUATION CODE: 5557 EVALUATION CODE: 5650 In action photography, location is (almost) Andrew Ross, Walsworth Yearbooks, Arvada, Margot Lester, The Word Factory, Carrboro, everything. The right equipment helps too. Colo. N.C., and Steve Peha, Teaching That Makes Learn a few basics about equipment and 1 p.m. Saturday, Room 201, CC (147) Sense Inc., Carrboro, N.C. settings to help you get the winning shot. Then Noon Saturday, Room 204, CC (119) learn the golden locations to help you get the DESIGN money shot. SENIOR ADS: MAKE OVER AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP EVALUATION CODE: 4969 MAKE MONEY MARKETING YOURSELF WITH Jed Palmer, CJE, Sierra Middle School, Parker, Colo. During this session, we’ll scrap the old design MULTIMEDIA Noon Saturday, Room 303, CC (117) templates and challenge your creativity with This session will focus on tips and ideas to many tips and tricks. Learn how to work with market yourself using various tools to land your LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING difficult parents and establish a tradition of dream internship or opportunity. Get advice excellent senior tributes, all while making a little on going from high school journalism to an TRUST THE STUDENTS; THEY’RE extra money. innovative and successful college experience. AWESOME EVALUATION CODE: 5644 EVALUATION CODE: 5625 The session will focus on ideas and processes Mason Chavez, Timber Creek High School, Bryce Newberry, Arizona State University, that advisers can implement now to help Fort Worth, Texas Phoenix students lead and succeed in journalism and 1 p.m. Saturday, Room 203, CC (81) Noon Saturday, Room 205, CC (96) yearbook classrooms. EVALUATION CODE: 5643 NEWS GATHERING DESIGN Andrew Hosford, Peninsula High School, Gig COVERING HOT TOPICS WITHOUT WHAT’S IN A DESIGN THEME? Harbor, Wash. Noon Saturday, Room 307, CC (67) GETTING BURNED Struggling to work out a visual theme for next Hazing, teacher suspensions, sexual year? This session will teach you how to create misconduct, code violations. If administrators a unifying design for your school’s magazine or 1 p.m. won’t cooperate, how can you find the truth in yearbook. Concepts covered will include design other ways? These students have chased down elements such as color themes, spread design ENTREPRENEURSHIP these stories, often resisted by school officials. and section development. MAKING MONEY WITH Past articles: football team hazing; a history EVALUATION CODE: 5665 teacher’s suspension; student arrests. Roth Lovins, Ball State University, Muncie, Ind. PHOTOGRAPHY In this session the speakers will discuss the EVALUATION CODE: 5542 Noon Saturday, Room 211, CC (119) techniques that go into making money with Karen Xia, Mountain View High School, photography. The Talon News has raised over Mountain View, Calif., and Avni Singhal, LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING $10,000 in photo sales through its program. University of California, Berkeley, Calif. 1 + 1 = OUR STAFF See how you can implement or create a similar 1 p.m. Saturday, Room 204, CC (119) Working with a staff of 10 or fewer may seem program at your school. daunting, but it’s not impossible. Learn from EVALUATION CODE: 5007 DESIGN two editors who have guided their publication Stacy Short and Annabel Thorpe, Argyle METHOD TO THE MADNESS in earning an NSPA Online Pacemaker, CSPA (Texas) High School The ball is rolling on next year’s theme. With Digital Gold Crown and NSPA First Place Best in Noon Saturday, Aspen, 2nd Floor, Sheraton all the brainstorming and creativity flowing, Show — all with a small team. (125) focus your planning with a formula approach EVALUATION CODE: 5562 to concept development. Use formulas and Alexis Drevetzki and Althea Gevero, WEB workflows to break away from template designs Southwest Career and Technical Academy, Las and canned coverage. Vegas APP PROTOTYPING WITHOUT CODE Anyone can build and test their own app EVALUATION CODE: 5589 Noon Saturday, Room 212, CC (65) prototype for their own iPhone. Use what you Margie Raper, MJE, Highland Park High learn to create interactive widgets or animation School, Dallas WRITING for YouTube. Then, see how prototypes 1 p.m. Saturday, Room 205, CC (96) NARRATIVE JOURNALISM: WRITING are brought into Apple XCode for app NONFICTION AS LITERATURE development. Bring your own Macbook. In a world where print stories are fighting for EVALUATION CODE: 5553 the reader’s attention, one form of journalism Paul Niwa, CJE, Emerson College, Boston continues to attract readers: narrative 1 p.m. Saturday, Diamond, 1st Floor, Sheraton journalism. 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DESIGN LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING GENERAL AUDIENCE VISUAL DESIGN FOR THE STUDENT PITCHING TO PRINT: PRODUCTION TRANSGENDER Q&A (80 MINUTES) PUBLICATION CYCLE BASICS A transgender educator and student, Bethany Focus on visuals and information presentation This session will cover an editor’s experience of Grace will take every question you have. No to create engaging, exciting design in your the best way to run a publication, an in-depth question is too personal, no topic too taboo. publication. Along the way you’ll learn skills discussion and dispersion of resources. She’ll A chance to learn about transgender people – that will be useful as you go on in journalism share tips on leadership, deadline management whether you’re an ally, curious or transgender or any job that requires clear, compelling and how to keep your staff engaged yourself – Bethany has something for everyone. communication. throughout the year. EVALUATION CODE: 5494 EVALUATION CODE: 5626 EVALUATION CODE: 5664 Bethany Grace Howe, University of Oregon, Vanessa McVay, The Herald, Everett, Wash. Jacoy Willis, University of Washington, Seattle Eugene, Ore. 1 p.m. Saturday, Room 211, CC (119) 1 p.m. Saturday, Room 213, CC (70) 1-2:20 p.m. Saturday, Room 2B, CC (175)

LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING GENERAL AUDIENCE PHOTOJOURNALISM HOW TO BE EIC LIFE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL VISUAL PORTFOLIOS FOR COLLEGE, Being an editor-in-chief is more than just a title. JOURNALISM: COLLEGE 101 INTERNSHIPS, JOBS It’s about dedication to your staff and being Starting college is a major milestone! Let’s talk Learn how to wow prospective employers the leader they need. Learn from two EICs who about it. Get tips and strategic advice from and colleges with a professional manage a small publication, publish daily, earn Katie Olsen, who’s spent the past seven years photographic, multimedia or picture editing national awards and still have time for a life. teaching and mentoring college students, portfolio. We’ll discuss how to choose your EVALUATION CODE: 5563 preparing them for internships and life after best work, what you need to include, picking a Alexis Drevetzki and Althea Gevero, graduation. Current college students will add to website provider, getting eyes on your portfolio Southwest Career and Technical Academy, Las the conversation. and creating a “book.” Vegas EVALUATION CODE: 5658 EVALUATION CODE: 5510 1 p.m. Saturday, Room 212, CC (65) Katie Olsen, Kansas State University, Jackie Bell, Missouri School of Journalism, Manhattan, Kan. Columbia, Mo. 1 p.m. Saturday, Room 2A, CC (135) 1 p.m. Saturday, Room 303, CC (117)

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LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING EDITORIAL LEADERSHIP IN THE REAL WORLD If you can learn to be a leader on your staff then leading a team or a company later in life will be a breeze. In this session, we’ll take real- world business practices and apply them in the publications classroom. EVALUATION CODE: 4667 John Gearhart, CJE, Walsworth Yearbooks, Oklahoma City 1 p.m. Saturday, Room 307, CC (67)

LAW AND ETHICS CENSORSHIP: MANAGE IT, AVOID IT Silicone bracelets emblazoned with “I (heart) boobies” resulted in acts of censorship and court cases. Come share your experiences with censorship and take away some ideas on how to nip censorship in the bud and how to fight it. EVALUATION CODE: 5543 Genelle Belmas, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan. 1 p.m. Saturday, Room 308, CC (61)

LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING BOOT CAMP BASICS (80 MINUTES) Tired of spending the first month of school The Tlingit Indian Totem Pole and Iron Pergola stand as landmarks in the talking about policy rather than creating a historical Pioneer Square neighborhood. Photo by Visit Seattle. product? Learn from this adviser and her students about how to run a summer boot camp that is effective and energizing so you 2:30 p.m. Mike Simons, MJE, Corning-Painted Post High can hit the ground running in August. School, Corning, N.Y., and Meghan Percival, EVALUATION CODE: 5684 MJE, McLean (Va.) High School Julieanne McClain, CJE, Rutherford B. Hayes ADVISING/TEACHING 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Ravenna, 3rd Floor, High School, Delaware, Ohio MAKING DUE WITH A SMALL STAFF Sheraton (170) 1-2:20 p.m. Saturday, Room 3A, CC (135) This session will discuss strategies that enable MEETING small staffs to tackle the many tasks required PHOTOJOURNALISM to create a yearbook. Topics will range from JEA BOARD FOLLOWUP SMARTER SMARTPHONE staff organization to deadline planning and The JEA board will meet to discuss items that JOURNALISM (80 MINUTES) everything in between. It’s all about teamwork. need resolution before the convention ends. Still using your smartphone just to Snapchat EVALUATION CODE: 5690 EVALUATION CODE: 2404 and selfie? Let’s talk about strategies to Beth Ann Brown, Northeastern High School, Mark Newton, MJE, Mountain Vista High maximize your smartphone use for journalism. Manchester, Pa. School, Highlands Ranch, Colo. We’ll cover photo and video tips, helpful apps, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Capitol Hill, 3rd Floor, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Medina, 3rd Floor, Sheraton storage and battery management, and a few Sheraton (50) (40) cool add-ons. This extended session will include an opportunity to try out strategies and get DESIGN ADVISING/TEACHING feedback from the instructor, so charge your SURVEY SAYS CRITIQUE YOUR BOOK battery. One goal of most yearbook staffs is to find Improve your book and improve the EVALUATION CODE: 5692 more ways to include student voices, opinions personalities in your class by using critique Michelle Balmeo, MJE, West Albany High and stories. Polling your student body can be among your own staff. Learn techniques used School, Albany, Ore. a great way to collect data to transform into by design professionals to establish cohesive 1-2:20 p.m. Saturday, Room 3A, CC (175) infographics and other engaging coverage designs. Effective critiques give your entire staff packages. It can also help you identify people a voice and the confidence to use it. you should interview further and stories that EVALUATION CODE: 5579 need to be told in your book. We’ll examine the Zane Mills, Inglemoor High School, Kenmore, logistics of conducting a schoolwide survey, Wash. how to write good questions and explore 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Kirkland, 3rd Floor, Sheraton different ways of communicating these results (40) throughout your book. EVALUATION CODE: 5671 64 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions 2:30 p.m. SATURDAY

ADVISING/TEACHING newsroom culture and be the best neighbor to 3:30 p.m. CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS: your fellow staffers. EVALUATION CODE: 5313 SCHOLASTIC MEDIA BUDGET CUTS MEETING Margie Raper, MJE, Highland Park High Based on data collected from focus groups of WRITE-OFF COMMITTEE MEETING scholastic media advisers in Oklahoma, the School, Dallas 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Room 205, CC (96) Committee will evaluate the Indianapolis director of Oklahoma Scholastic Media and her contest procedures and discuss future changes. graduate assistant will present results from their Nancy Y. Smith, MJE, Lafayette High School, study, outlining challenges of budget cuts, but LAW AND ETHICS LEGAL RIGHTS OF STUDENT Wildwood, Mo. also offering solutions gathered from those 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Juniper, 2nd Floor, Sheraton living the challenge. JOURNALISTS (45) EVALUATION CODE: 5507 Do you leave your constitutional rights at the Melanie Wilderman, Oklahoma Scholastic schoolhouse door? Well, sometimes. Get an EVENT Media, Norman, Okla., and Sohana Nasrin, overview of the court cases, state laws and University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla. policies regarding student speech and media, l NSPA AWARDS CEREMONY 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Leschi, 3rd Floor, Sheraton and learn what you can do to exercise and Winners of the NSPA Best of Show, NSPA (40) protect your rights. Pacemakers and national individual awards will EVALUATION CODE: 5597 be honored at this ceremony. JEA and NSPA NEWS GATHERING Peggy Watt, Western Washington University, encourage everyone to celebrate all winners. RISKY CONVERSATIONS: Bellingham, Wash. 3:30-5:30 p.m. Saturday, Hall 4E, CC (5,030) INTERVIEWS WITH AN EDGE 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Room 2A, CC (135) Throw away that boring script of questions 8 p.m. that will help you “get a quote” for your story. WRITING This session will coach you toward having THE ART AND CRAFT OF REVIEWING STUDENT EVENT conversations that deliver vivid and storytelling From a writer who has reviewed more l TRIVIA NIGHT quotes that keep readers engaged. than 2000 movies (and a lot of books and For individuals or team competition. Test your EVALUATION CODE: 5539 performances, too) — a primer on arts criticism: knowledge of current events, popular college, Eric Thomas, MJE, University of Kansas, How to capture, in words, the sense and feeling sports and other topics. Prizes for the winners. Lawrence, Kan. of what you just saw. (And a few movie-star Check your phones at the door. Wear your 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Ballard, 3rd Floor, Sheraton stories, too.) convention name badge to enter. (100) EVALUATION CODE: 5700 8 p.m. Saturday, Willow, 2nd Floor, Sheraton Moira Macdonald (300) WRITING 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Room 3A, CC (135) THE MOST IMPORTANT SENTENCE Learn how to write leads that work well every NEWS GATHERING time, avoid classically bad leads, and write THE ‘QUEST’ IN QUESTIONS SUNDAY better overall stories. Question-driven stories lead reporters on a 8:30 a.m. EVALUATION CODE: 5559 journey. If your publication’s stories feel flat or Vicki Brennan, CJE, St. Petersburg, Fla. uninspired, maybe you need to focus more on EVENT 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Room 201, CC (147) developing questions, not just for interviewees, l but for yourselves. It’s the kind of journalism JEA AWARDS CEREMONY Winners of JEA Write-off contest will be you see in movies, and it’s a blast. DESIGN recognized during the closing ceremony. EVALUATION CODE: 5689 YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG: Winners for National High School Journalist of Michelle Balmeo, MJE, West Albany High the Year, Aspiring Young Journalist and Student DOMINANT ELEMENTS School, Albany, Ore. Journalist Impact Award will be announced. You have a big photo in the middle of the 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Room 3B, CC (157) page — so what! Zero in on the dominant You also will see a slideshow of convention highlights. You may pick up Write-off entries elements of a spread to maximize impact. Look NEWS GATHERING at secondary modules with dominant features after the ceremony. Entries not picked up will including photos, type and color. IMPLEMENTING MEANINGFUL be mailed. If you receive entries from other EVALUATION CODE: 5593 DIVERSITY IN YOUR WORK schools in your envelope, contact JEA at staff@ Shannon Williams, aMomentus Group, Diversity has nothing to do with being jea.org. Chicago, and Mandy Mahan, d’Iberville High politically correct. Finding voices from all 8:30 a.m. Sunday, Hall 4E, CC (5,030) School, Biloxi, Miss. perspectives helps strengthen stories and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Room 211, CC (119) improve accuracy. EVALUATION CODE: 5698 LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING Jason Begay and Tailyr Irvine, University of WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? Montana, Missoula, Mont., 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Room 303, CC (105) Mister Rogers taught generations lessons of love, friendship, respect, individuality and honesty. His enduring presence created the neighborhood where everyone felt at home. Learn from the lessons of Mister Rogers to build

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VISIT THE WALSWORTH BOOTH AND MEET LEAD MENTOR ADVISER MENTOR PROGRAM WALSWORTH’S EXCLUSIVE PEER-TO-PEER MENTORING PROGRAM An experienced yearbook adviser can provide an encouraging shoulder for a new adviser to J IMAWARD-WINNING ADVISER FROM DEL CAMPO HIGH SCHOOL, lean on, in addition to the sales rep. JORDAN FAIR OAKS, CALIFORNIA THE ADVISER MENTOR PROGRAM is about matching experienced yearbook advisers with yearbook adviser rookies as a way to offer the new adviser additional support, camaraderie and wisdom on topics such as: • Working with the school’s administration • Grading • Dealing with parents STOP BY OUR BOOTH TO ENTER TO WIN • Knowing when emotional support and a calming voice is needed ONE OF TWO STOCKED MINI FRIDGES VISIT US IN THE WALSWORTH BOOTH TO LEARN MORE. FOR YOUR CLASSROOM!

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VISIT THE WALSWORTH BOOTH AND MEET LEAD MENTOR ADVISER MENTOR PROGRAM WALSWORTH’S EXCLUSIVE PEER-TO-PEER MENTORING PROGRAM An experienced yearbook adviser can provide an encouraging shoulder for a new adviser to J IMAWARD-WINNING ADVISER FROM DEL CAMPO HIGH SCHOOL, lean on, in addition to the sales rep. JORDAN FAIR OAKS, CALIFORNIA THE ADVISER MENTOR PROGRAM is about matching experienced yearbook advisers with yearbook adviser rookies as a way to offer the new adviser additional support, camaraderie and wisdom on topics such as: • Working with the school’s administration • Grading • Dealing with parents STOP BY OUR BOOTH TO ENTER TO WIN • Knowing when emotional support and a calming voice is needed ONE OF TWO STOCKED MINI FRIDGES VISIT US IN THE WALSWORTH BOOTH TO LEARN MORE. FOR YOUR CLASSROOM!

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17_CONV_AD_Spring JEA Ad.indd 1-2 2/1/17 2:47 PM 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Metropolitan A, 3rd Floor, stories that reflect the cultural, social and SPEAKER BIOS Sheraton; 9, 10 and 11 a.m. Saturday, Room economic climate in the Seattle area. He’s 213, CC currently working with colleagues to encourage LOGAN AIMONE, MJE, teaches and advises at deeper coverage of race, class, gender, political University of Chicago Laboratory H.S. and serves ELLEN AUSTIN, MJE, is the director of movements and other areas that can benefit on the SPLC board of directors. Previously he journalism at The Harker School in San Jose, from a diversity of perspectives and reporting was on the SNO team, led NSPA as executive California. She advises the award-winning news approaches. director and spent 10 years at Wenatchee publications there, including newspaper, online, 9 a.m. Friday, Metropolitan A, 3rd Floor, (Washington) H.S., where his students earned yearbook and long-form magazine. Austin Sheraton top national honors for newspaper, website holds a CSPA Gold Key and was the 2012 DJNF and yearbook. He has received state and High School Journalism Teacher of the Year. JASON BEGAY is an associate professor at the national awards for teaching, advising and free Noon Friday, Metropolitan A, 3rd Floor, University of Montana School of Journalism. He expression. Sheraton; 2 p.m. Friday, Aspen, 2nd Floor, is a former president of the Native American Noon Friday, Capitol Hill, 3rd Floor, Sheraton; 10 Sheraton; 11 a.m. Saturday, Cedar, 2nd Floor, Journalists Association and has reported for the a.m. Saturday, Cedar, 2nd Floor, Sheraton Sheraton New York Times, the Oregonian and the Navajo Times. ANN AKERS, MJE, is Herff Jones Yearbooks’ LINDA BALLEW, MJE, represents advisers as 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Room 303, CC educational products manager. Formerly NSPA’s a DJNF National Journalism Teacher of the Year associate director, Akers has done stints as and as a JEA Distinguished Yearbook Adviser. JACKIE BELL, Missouri School of Journalism journalism teacher/publications adviser and She has twice been a Montana Teacher of associate professor and co-director of College yearbook representative. She was the 2005 the Year finalist. A recipient of JEA’s Lifetime Photographer of the Year, has 15 years’ staff recipient of the Carl Towley Award, JEA’s highest Achievement Award, she is JEA’s Montana state photography experience at the Fort Lauderdale honor, and has been awarded CSPA’s Gold Key director, a mentor and an MJEA executive board Sun-Sentinel, Arizona Daily Star, The Tennessean and NSPA’s Pioneer Award. member. Ballew advised all media at Great and Israeli magazines. She previously taught 9, 10 and 11 a.m. Saturday, Room 303, CC Falls H.S. She presents at national and state at the University of Montana and the Art workshops. Institute of Fort Lauderdale. Her interests are MARTHA AKERS, 2005 JEA Yearbook Adviser 1 p.m. Friday, Everett, 3rd Floor, Sheraton; 11 conservation photojournalism, visual ethics, of the Year, advises yearbook at Loudoun Valley a.m. Saturday, Ravenna, 3rd Floor, Sheraton freelance business practices, underwater H.S. Her students’ yearbooks have earned photography and Latin America. NSPA’s Pacemaker, CSPA’s Gold Crown and MICHELLE BALMEO, MJE, advises The 9 a.m. Saturday, Cedar, 2nd Floor, Sheraton; 1 VHSL’s Trophy. Akers has received CSPA’s Gold Whirlwind, a newspaper coming back from p.m. Saturday, Room 303, CC Key, NSPA’s Pioneer Award, VHSL’s Lifetime the dead at West Albany H.S. in Albany, Achievement Award, VHSL’s Torch Award Oregon. She spent the last 11 years advising a GENELLE BELMAS teaches media law and and SIPA’s Distinguished Service Award. She newsmagazine and news website in California. ethics at the William Allen White School of is in VHSL’s Hall of Fame and OIPA’s National 1 and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Room 3B, CC Journalism and Mass Communication. Her Scholastic Journalism Hall of Fame. research interests include scholastic journalism, 11 a.m. Friday, Room 303, CC LINDA BARRINGTON, MJE, is the graphics games and gamification, the law of flags, and adviser for the student magazine at Mount the intersection between law and ethics. ABBY ANDERSON is the education and Mary University. Her professional focus is on 1 p.m. Saturday, Room 308, CC training director for SNO Sites (School mentoring new teachers. She is the executive Newspapers Online). She coordinates the SNO director of the Kettle Moraine Press Association, KERRY BENSON teaches J101, the first course Distinguished Sites program and curates the vice president of the Wisconsin College Media in journalism and mass communications in the Best of SNO website, where she publishes Association, a JEA mentor and the Mentor School of Journalism at the University of Kansas. award-winning high school journalism. Program chair. Barrington has been a DJNF She also teaches Stand and Deliver, the school’s 2 p.m. Friday, Room 304, CC special recognition adviser and has been presentation skills class. She is the strategic awarded CSPA’s Gold Key, NSPA’s Pioneer Award communication chair in KU’s journalism school. NICOLE ARDUINI, CJE, has a degree and JEA’s Towley Award. Noon Friday, Ballard, 3rd Floor, Sheraton in journalism and more than 13 years of 11 a.m. Friday, Room 401, CC; 2 p.m. Friday, experience in yearbook publishing with Herff Room 306, CC; 10 a.m. Saturday, Kirkland, 3rd DAVID BOARDMAN is dean of the Lew Jones. After working as a graphic designer for Floor, Sheraton Klein College of Media and Communication four years, Arduini was excited to return to her at Temple University. He has academic and passion — yearbook publishing. Several of her BARBARA BATEMAN, CJE, has advised financial responsibility for one of the largest schools have received awards ranging from Best student journalism at Murphy H.S. since 2010. and most comprehensive programs of its kind in State to national awards such as CSPA Gold She teaches Introduction to Journalism and in the world, with more than 3,000 students Crowns and NSPA Pacemakers. advises Murphy High News broadcast, The and 250 faculty members. Previously, Boardman 9 a.m. Saturday, Room 2A, CC Hi-Times newspaper, The Mohian yearbook, The was executive editor and senior vice president Mosaic literary magazine and photojournalism. of The Seattle Times. Under his leadership, The DAN AUSTIN advises the Rampages and Bateman is Alabama 2016 Adviser of the Year, Times won four Pulitzer Prizes and produced 10 the Casa Chronicle for Casa Roble H.S. in a 2013 ASNE Fellow, a 2006 National Writing Pulitzer finalists. Orangevale, California. His students have Project Fellow and the 2015 Youth Journalism 9 a.m. Friday, Metropolitan B, 3rd Floor, garnered many national awards, including International Journalism Educator of the Year. Sheraton several Gold Crowns and Pacemakers. JEANC Noon Friday, Room 401, CC; 1 p.m. Friday, Room named him Adviser of the Year in 1992, and JEA 4C4, CC PETER BOBKOWSKI, Ph.D., is assistant named him a Distinguished Yearbook Adviser in professor in the William Allen White School of 2000. He is the 2006 National Yearbook Adviser TYRONE BEASON has been a staff writer for Journalism and Mass Communications at the of the Year. The Seattle Times Sunday magazine, Pacific University of Kansas. He is a member of the NW Magazine, since 2007. He produces cover NSPA Board of Directors. From 1999 to 2006 he

68 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions advised Pacemaker- and Crown-winning high BETH ANN BROWN advises the yearbook at school publications in Texas. Northeastern H.S. in Manchester, Pennsylvania, SPEAKER BIOS Noon Friday, Ballard, 3rd Floor, Sheraton and has done so for the past nine years. Her proudest moment as an adviser was winning KATHRYN CAMPBELL is the director of CANDACE PERKINS BOWEN, MJE, is a 2015 Pacemaker in Los Angeles because it publications at St. Paul Academy and Summit associate professor at Kent (Ohio) State represented the completion of a long-standing School in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is a first-year University and directs its Center for Scholastic staff goal. Brown is also active as the treasurer adviser of Ibid yearbook and Iris Art & Literature, Journalism. Previously, she was a high school for the Pennsylvania School Press Association. a second year adviser of Aureus feature journalism teacher/media adviser in Illinois 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Capitol Hill, 3rd Floor, magazine, and is in her 10th year of advising and Virginia. She is a former DJNF High School Sheraton The Rubicon/RubicOnline, national award- Journalism Teacher of the Year. Bowen started winning news publications. Campbell was JEAHELP while JEA president, is now board DAHKOTA BROWN founded NERDS, Native named 2015 Minnesota Journalism Educator of past president and serves on Certification and Education Raising Dedicated Students, to help the Year. Scholastic Press Rights committees. Native students. In February 2016, he was Noon Friday, Room 308, CC 9 and 11 a.m. Friday, Cedar A, 2nd Floor, appointed by President Obama to serve on the Sheraton; 10 a.m. Friday, Aspen, 2nd Floor, National Advisory Council on Indian Education ERIN CASTELLANO, CJE, JEA’s Missouri state Sheraton;; 9 a.m. Saturday, Everett, 3rd Floor, and currently serves on the Center for Native director, advises the Clayton H.S. Globe. Her Sheraton American Youth’s executive board where he’s students have earned national recognition taken a leadership role in actively seeking to including the Brasler Prize, the Robert Kennedy JOHN BOWEN, MJE, is director of JEA’s ban the use of race-based images within the Journalism Award, NSPA Pacemakers and Scholastic Press Rights Committee. He is school system and professional sports world. CSPA Gold Crowns. Castellano was awarded assistant director of the Center for Scholastic 10 a.m. Saturday, Room 3A, CC the 2015 JEA Rising Star Award. She attended Journalism and teaches law and ethics at Kent the University of Missouri Journalism School (Ohio) State University. His personal honors DEANNE BROWN advises The Featherduster and is working on a second master’s degree at include DJNF Journalism Teacher of the Year, newsmagazine and teaches photojournalism Washington University in St. Louis. JEA Carl Towley Award, NSPA Pioneer and CSPA at Westlake H.S. in Austin, Texas. The 10 and 11 a.m. Friday, Room 211, CC Gold Key. newsmagazine has won Pacemakers, Gold 9 a.m. Friday, Cedar A, 2nd Floor, Sheraton; 10 Crowns, Gold Stars and Best of Show awards. PETER CHAMPELLI is a freshman in the Park and 11 a.m. Friday, Aspen, 2nd Floor, Sheraton; Brown was the 2014 Texas Journalism Teacher Scholar Program at Ithaca College. He is the 7:30, 9 and 10 a.m. Saturday, Capitol Hill, 3rd of the Year, was named a TAJE Trailblazer assistant news director of WICB 91.7 FM and Floor, Sheraton; 11 a.m. Saturday, Ballard, 3rd and is president of the Association of Texas the assistant web director of The Ithacan. As Floor, Sheraton Photography Instructors. the editor-in-chief of his high school’s online 11 a.m. Friday, Room 2AB, CC newspaper, he began producing motion JESSICA N. BRAMER, CJE, recently finished graphics to accompany multimedia articles. He her fifth Pride yearbook at John Marshall H.S. in KELLEN BROWNING is a student-journalist now creates motion graphics and animation Glen Dale, West Virginia. She previously advised and freshman at Pomona College in Claremont, for journalistic publications and for nonprofit yearbook for three years at the Osceola County California. He is the news editor for his school organizations. School for the Arts in Kissimmee, Florida. newspaper, The Student Life; U.S. news editor 9 a.m. Friday, Room 308, CC Bramer teaches speech communications classes for GlobalStudentSquare.org; and a 2015 including nonverbal communications and a graduate of the California Scholastic Press MASON CHAVEZ is a member and editor of new championship communications course. Association workshop. During his senior year The Creek Yearbook of three years, building Bramer is JEA’s West Virginia state director. at Davis (California) Senior H.S., he was selected nationally recognized senior tribute designs for 10 a.m. Friday, Medina, 3rd Floor, Sheraton; as the 2016 National High School Journalist of the annually award-winning books. With the noon Friday, Aspen, 2nd Floor, Sheraton; 2 p.m. the Year. guidance of The Creek’s adviser, Kathy Beers, he Friday, Capitol Hill, 3rd Floor, Sheraton 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Hall 4E, CC; 9 and 10 a.m. has built a solid senior ad section that has fully Saturday, Room 307, CC funded summer camps, staff shirts and camera VICKI MCCASH BRENNAN, CJE, is a JEA equipment, and established a tradition of mentor and the former JEA curriculum RENEE BURKE, NBCT, MJE, is a yearbook and excellence that parents have grown to cherish. leader in news gathering and news writing. A newspaper adviser at Boone H.S. Renee is the 1 p.m. Saturday, Room 203, CC veteran journalist with more than 25 years of 2015 JEA National Yearbook Adviser of the experience in newspapers and magazines as Year, 2014 Distinguished Yearbook Adviser, CORINNE CHIN is a video editor at The Seattle an editor and reporter, she had a second career the 2012 OCPS Teacher of the Year, 2011 FSPA Times. Previously, she was a freelance video as a journalism adviser in Miami-Dade County. Journalism Teacher of the Year, and a 2011 Gold journalist reporting in Washington, D.C.; Nairobi, Now retired, she is a frequent yearbook and Key recipient from CSPA. Both publications Kenya; São Paulo, Brazil; Ouagadougou, Burkina newspaper judge and freelance writer. have earned CSPA Crown and NSPA Pacemaker Faso and more. Chin earned a bachelor’s degree 10 a.m. Friday, Room 205, CC; 2:30 p.m. awards. in magazine writing and a master’s in video Saturday, Room 201, CC 2 p.m. Friday, Room 4C1-2, CC; 10 a.m. Saturday, journalism from Northwestern University. She Aspen, 2nd Floor, Sheraton is a national board representative for the Asian CARLOS BRIANO, CJE, is the public American Journalists Association. information officer for the El Paso Fire JILL BURNS, MJE, advises the Hilsborean 9 a.m. Friday, Metropolitan A, 3rd Floor, Department. He is a 2011 JEA Rising Star. He yearbook, Red & Black newspaper and Sheraton; 2 p.m. Friday, Room 3AB, CC was a finalist for Texas Teacher of the Year in HHSToday.com online news site at Hillsborough 2013 and his staff at El Dorado H.S. in El Paso H.S. in Tampa, Florida. She previously advised TERESA CHIN is a producer and designer won a CSPA Silver Crown in 2011. Briano still the Pacemaker Finalist Excalibur yearbook and at Youth Radio, NPR’s official youth desk. She advocates for student press rights in Texas. Pacemaker-winning RHSToday.com at Robinson works with teens in Youth Radio’s newsroom 1 and 2 p.m. Friday, Redwood, 2nd Floor, H.S. in Tampa. and interactive teams to produce deep Sheraton Noon Friday, Room 306, CC

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A Kansas City native, she is a Media at Regis Jesuit H.S., which includes an journalist and a former classroom teacher, with proud alum of Shawnee Mission East’s student online website, RJ Sports Broadcasting, Elevate master’s degrees in both public health and newspaper, The Harbinger. newsmagazine, RJ Radio, and RJTV. journalism. 1 p.m. Friday, Room 310, CC 9 and 10 a.m. Saturday, Ballard, 3rd Floor, 9 a.m. Saturday, Issaquah, 3rd Floor, Sheraton Sheraton SANDRA COYER, MJE, is the Washington BOB CLAMPETT, writer, editor and novelist, Journalism Education Association president ANNETTE DEMING, CJE, is a former Los is among the West Coast’s most prominent and JEA’s state director for Washington. She Angeles media and public relations professional freelance writers, with byline articles in dozens has been a newspaper adviser for 16 years with more than 50 clients published in a variety of national and regional magazines and blogs and is in her first year as a broadcast adviser of trade and consumer publications. She is while also freelance-editing national and with Viking Student Media at Puyallup H.S. She now a 12th grade curriculum writer, English international magazines and heading his own was recognized by Dow Jones in 2015 as a and mass communication studies teacher, and public relations agency in Los Angeles and Distinguished Adviser. adviser of the Quest News online publication at Seattle. 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Hall 4E, CC Don Antonio Lugo H.S. in Chino, California. 2 p.m. Friday, Room 212, CC 10 a.m. Friday, Capitol Hill, 3rd Floor, Sheraton HILLARY CURRIER has a master’s degree ALEXANDRA CLARK is a 2013 graduate in teaching from Duke University. She began LESLIE DENNIS is the director of scholastic from Washington State University with a teaching English in 1992 at a boys school media organizations at the University of communications degree from the Edward in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and has also South Carolina’s School of Journalism and R. Murrow School of Communications. She taught in schools in New Mexico and Oregon. Mass Communications. She directs the South works as an editor for HERO Sports in Bellvue, Currier spent three years running her own Carolina Scholastic Press Association and Washington. photography business before returning to the regional organization Southern Interscholastic 11 a.m. Saturday, Room 203, CC classroom to teach photography, journalism Press Association. She graduated from the and yearbook. University of South Carolina with a bachelor’s GINA CLAUS advises the Crusader yearbook 10 a.m. Saturday, Kirkland, 3rd Floor, Sheraton degree in English with a creative writing at Castle Rock (Colorado) Middle School. She concentration and a master’s degree in brings the experience of a veteran middle JOHN CUTSINGER, CJE, begins his 42nd American literature. school teacher with the enthusiasm and year as an ultimate publications nerd. With 2 p.m. Friday, Room 203, CC excitement of a second-year adviser. Her staff teaching, advising and training experience, has earned state awards in photography and he shares ideas as part of the Jostens creative JOHN DENT advises the Dos Pueblos H.S. NSPA Best of Show. management team. “It is humbling to be on yearbook (The Image) and broadcast programs 1 p.m. Friday, Leschi, 3rd Floor, Sheraton the JEA/NSPA program with so many incredibly (DPNews) in Goleta, California. His yearbooks talented and passionate educators and advisers. have earned CSPA crowns and NSPA Pacemaker TINA CLEAVELIN, CJE, is the western creative What’s even better is that most of them finalist awards. Dent tries to infuse technology accounts manager for Jostens. She advised are friends – there’s no place like scholastic into his programs and expose his students award-winning newspaper, yearbook and journalism.” to real-world application of their school photojournalism staffs for 14 years in Arizona 9 a.m. Saturday, Room 205, CC; 11 a.m. experience. The Image has led in augmented and Oklahoma. She also served as the fall state Saturday, Room 212, CC reality and was the top hashtag in the world for journalism convention director for the Arizona Aurasma 2015. Interscholastic Press Association. She received JUSTIN DAIGLE, CJE, advises the Reflections 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Friday, Cedar B, 2nd Floor, the Friend of Journalism Award from the New yearbook at Brighton H.S. in Colorado. His Sheraton Mexico Scholastic Press Association. students’ publications have earned state and 11 a.m. Saturday, Room 212, CC national awards including two CSPA Crowns AMY DEVAULT, MJE, teaches editing and and an NSPA Pacemaker Finalist nomination. visual communication at Wichita (Kansas) ERIN COGGINS, MJE, has advised the Daigle has been honored with the 2009 State University. After teaching high school newspaper, yearbook and online site at Colorado Student Media Association Teacher of journalism for three years, she spent nearly five Sparkman H.S. for 15 years. She has won the Year as well as JEA Rising Star in 2010 and years as a visual journalist at The Wichita Eagle, numerous awards as an adviser and her staffs Special Recognition Yearbook Adviser in 2015. where she designed the front page. DeVault are regular state, regional and national winners. 11 a.m. and noon Friday, Room 304, CC; 8 and earned a Society of News Design award of 10 a.m. Friday, Room 212, CC 10 a.m. Saturday, Aspen, 2nd Floor, Sheraton excellence and helped The Eagle win Kansas Press Association’s best front page award. SCOTT COLLINS advises the newspaper, KATHY DALY is a professional photographer 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Metropolitan B, 3rd Floor, yearbook and broadcast programs at Raytown specializing in “lifestyle” family portraits and Sheraton (Missouri) H.S. Prior to teaching, Collins worked teaching photo lessons. While an adviser, her as a TV news producer in Seattle and Portland. yearbooks at Overland H.S. won CSPA Gold and TARA DILTZ is a junior at Legend H.S. and is He also has worked in newsrooms in Kansas Silver Crowns and NSPA Pacemakers. In 1998 design editor and assistant editor of the Epic City and Columbia, Missouri. she was named JEA’s Yearbook Adviser of the yearbook. She has been on staff for two years. Noon Friday, Willow, 2nd Floor, Sheraton; 11 Year, and has received CSPA’s Gold Key and She gained an interest in graphic design her a.m. Saturday, Medina, 3rd Floor, Sheraton NSPA’s Pioneer Award, JEA’s Medal of Merit and freshman year and since then her design work its Lifetime Achievement award. has been featured in many art galleries around PAIGE CORNWELL is a reporter at The 1 p.m. Friday, Room 2AB, CC; 10 and 11 a.m. the state. She has also designed Snapchat filters Seattle Times, where she was a member of the Saturday, Room 2B, CC for yearbook that helped to create a unique reporting team that won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize coverage opportunity. ADAM DAWKINS, CJE, is president of the 11 a.m. Saturday, Leschi, 3rd Floor, Sheraton

70 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions MARY KAY DOWNES, MJE, a veteran PAUL ENDER was adviser to the award- yearbook adviser from Chantilly, Virginia, lives winning American yearbook at Independence SPEAKER BIOS and breathes all things yearbook. Odyssey H.S. in San Jose, California, for more than 25 students have won a boatload of awards, which years. A longtime special consultant for Herff recipient. He has received the NSPA Pioneer thrills her to pieces. She writes articles, teaches Jones, Ender’s honors include JEA Yearbook Award and the JEA Lifetime Achievement at camps and critiques books. MKD is the 2007 Adviser of the Year, Northern California Award. Flechtner is an Oregon Journalism JEA Yearbook Adviser of the Year and serves on Yearbook Adviser of the Year, CSPA Gold Key, Teacher of the Year. He is a JEA mentor and the SIPA and VAJTA boards. She is past president JEA Lifetime Achievement Award, NSPA Pioneer serves on the JEA Mentor Program Committee. of CSPAA. Award and OIPA National Scholastic Journalism 8 a.m. Thursday, Leschi, 3rd Floor, Sheraton; 10 11 a.m. Friday, Metropolitan A, 3rd Floor, Hall of Fame. a.m. Friday, Cedar A, 2nd Floor, Sheraton; 10 Sheraton; 10 a.m. Saturday, Greenwood, 3rd 9, 10 and 11 a.m. Saturday, Room 303, CC a.m. Saturday, Kirkland, 3rd Floor, Sheraton Floor, Sheraton SUSAN ENFIELD, Ed.D., is in her fifth year as ASHLYN FOSTER is a senior at Legend H.S. LINDA DRAKE, MJE, yearbook/newspaper superintendent for Highline Public Schools and is editor-in-chief of the Epic yearbook. She adviser at Chase County Junior-Senior H.S. in in Burien, Washington. She previously served has been on staff for three years. She has won Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. Drake has received as interim superintendent for Seattle Public multiple awards from the Colorado Student the Engel Award, the JEA Teacher Inspiration Schools. Enfield began her career teaching Media Association for her work and has been Award and Medal of Merit as well as a CSPA English, ELL and journalism in the San Francisco a part of two Pacemaker Finalist staffs. Her Gold Key Award and the NSPA Pioneer Award. Bay area. She student taught for Nick Ferentinos favorite part of yearbook is taking photos and She was named the 2008 National Yearbook at Homestead H.S. and succeeded him as getting on the field access to events. Adviser of the Year. She has served on the KSPA, adviser to The Epitaph. A champion for students’ 11 a.m. Saturday, Leschi, 3rd Floor, Sheraton JEA and NSPA boards. First Amendment rights, Enfield was the first 9 a.m. Friday, Aspen, 2nd Floor, Sheraton; noon school superintendent to serve on the SPLC KATIE FRAZIER is the yearbook and Friday, Diamond, 1st Floor, Sheraton board. Her article, “Scholastic Journalism: Skills newspaper adviser at Seven Lakes Junior High for the 21st Century” was published in School in Katy, Texas. Her staff has been a Pacemaker ALEXIS DREVETZKI is the co-editor-in-chief Administrator magazine in 2013. Enfield was Finalist and a Crown winner. Her students are for the Southwest Shadow. She has been in JEA’s 2012 Administrator of the Year. blazing the trail in Katy ISD, as her school is journalism for four years and has a devotion 9 a.m. Friday, Room 3AB, CC the only junior high in the district to have a to creating stories, and hopes to continue this student-run newspaper. passion after high school. JANET EWELL, MJE, helped pass the California 2 p.m. Friday, Room 305, CC Noon and 1 p.m. Saturday, Room 212, CC Adviser Protection Law and advised a prize- winning newspaper at an urban Title I school MEGAN FROMM, MJE, Ph.D., is an assistant COREY DUBROWA is senior vice in Southern California. She is an author of professor at Colorado Mesa University and JEA’s president, Global Communications and “Journalism: Publishing Across Media.” She is a Educational Initiatives director. She is also JEA’s International Public Affairs for Starbucks, Fellow of the South Basin Writing Project, was a news gathering curriculum leader. Fromm has leading the development and execution of National Board Certified Teacher, and received worked as a high school journalism teacher and communications strategies to enhance and the JEA Medal of Merit and the CSPA Gold Key. as a professional journalist. protect the company’s brand and corporate 10 a.m. Friday, Room 203, CC; 11 a.m. Saturday, 1 p.m. Friday, Room 307, CC; 9 a.m. Saturday, image. He leads efforts to extend integrated Ballard, 3rd Floor, Sheraton Medina, 3rd Floor, Sheraton brand marketing campaigns, support new product launches, enhance and maintain the CARRIE FAUST, MJE, advises the Summit PRISCILLA FROST teaches and advises at company’s reputation, manage executive yearbook and Express newspaper at Smoky Hill Lindbergh H.S. in St. Louis. She serves on the thought leadership communication, and H.S. in Aurora, Colorado. Her staffs have earned JEA national Write-off committee. direct partner (employee) engagement three CSPA Silver Crowns, an NSPA Pacemaker, 1 p.m. Thursday, Hall 4F, CC; 8 a.m. Friday, Hall and communication efforts. Prior to joining Gold Medalist and All-American ratings, 4F, CC; 6 p.m. Friday, Metropolitan A, 3rd Floor, Starbucks in 2010, duBrowa spent a decade as and many state and local awards. She was a Sheraton president of the Americas Region and Business JEA Rising Star in 2008, a JEA Distinguished Development at WE Worldwide in addition to Yearbook Adviser in 2009 and the CHSPA KELLY FURNAS, CJE, teaches multimedia individual consulting assignments for clients Teacher of the Year in 2011. journalism at Elon (North Carolina) University ranging from Microsoft to T-Mobile to Toshiba, 6:45 p.m. Thursday, Hall 4E, CC; 1 p.m. Friday, and advises the converged student news and served in a client-side communications Room 203, CC; 10 a.m. Saturday, Room 205, CC organization, Elon News Network. He is the capacity for Nike prior to that, leading former executive director of the national employee communication efforts and urban BRENDA FIELD, MJE, advises the yearbook Journalism Education Association and an marketing strategy for the U.S. region. at Glenbrook South H.S. in Glenview, Illinois. assistant professor at Kansas State University. He 11 a.m. Saturday, Room 3B, CC Her students’ publications have been honored has also served as editorial adviser to student with both state and national awards, including media at Virginia Tech and worked as an editor MITCH EDEN, MJE, advises The Kirkwood NSPA Pacemakers and CSPA Crowns. A JEA at newspapers in Las Vegas and Tallahassee, Call newsmagazine/website and the Pioneer Distinguished Yearbook Adviser in 2014, Florida. yearbook. In his 21st year teaching, he follows Field serves as a JEA state director. From her 2 p.m. Friday, Willow, 2nd Floor, Sheraton; 9 a.m. the advice of his greatest mentor, Jack Kennedy, classroom to summer workshops, she loves that Saturday, Leschi, 3rd Floor, Sheraton by simply trying to do his best each day. Most yearbook has allowed her to explore journalism days are just OK, but every once in awhile with creative and intelligent young people. LORI GARCIA left the boring corporate world he hits a home run. Or at least a ground-rule 9 a.m. Saturday, Room 205, CC to come back to her one true love: yearbook. As double. a sales representative for Walsworth Yearbooks, 10 a.m. Friday, Redwood, 2nd Floor, Sheraton; 1 BILL FLECHTNER, MJE, advised publications she has been on the hunt (along with the best p.m. Friday, Ballard, 3rd Floor, Sheraton for more than 25 years. He is a DJNF yearbooks in the nation) to improve her design Distinguished Adviser and a JEA Medal of Merit

Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE — 71 Journalism Institute, a summer camp for rising MISSY GREEN, a yearbook representative SPEAKER BIOS high school seniors. Gomez is faculty adviser for with Walsworth, is a graduate of the University National Association for Hispanic Journalists NU. of South Carolina with a degree in journalism. skills and show schools how to go from trendy 10 and 11 a.m. Friday, Willow, 2nd Floor, After college, she was a newspaper reporter for to trending! Great things come out of El Paso, Sheraton the Tampa Tribune before starting her yearbook Texas, where she was born and raised. career. She has been a yearbook rep for 40 1 and 2 p.m. Friday, Redwood, 2nd Floor, MARK GOODMAN is a professor and the years. She received the Friend of Scholastic Sheraton Knight Chair in Scholastic Journalism at Kent Journalism award from JEA and a Gold State University where he coordinates the Medallion award from FSPA. JOEL GARVER, CJE, is a first-year teacher at Center for Scholastic Journalism’s Scholastic 1 and 2 p.m. Friday, Room 204, CC Junction City (Kansas) H.S. where he is the AV Journalism Census. Goodman, a lawyer, was communications teacher, teaching graphic executive director of the Student Press Law PEGGY GREGORY, CJE, advised the award- Center for 22 years. He has received many winning Greenway H.S. Demon Dispatch for design and video production courses. He has awards for his work with the student press 35 years and held two specialist positions for been involved in many JEA events, attending including the Carl Towley Award, JEA’s highest eight years in the Dysart USD. She has served conventions as a student worker. Now, as an honor. on the JEA Mentoring Committee since its assistant on the broadcast Write-off team, he 9 and 10 a.m. Friday, Room 307, CC; 11 a.m. inception and was local co-chair for two JEA/ has many opportunities to work with students Saturday, Ballard, 3rd Floor, Sheraton NSPA Phoenix conventions. Honors include and advisers across the nation. NSPA Pioneer Award, JEA Medal of Merit, CSPA 11 a.m. Friday, Diamond, 1st Floor, Sheraton SOPHIE GORDON is a junior at Ball State Gold Key and James F. Paschal Award and DJNF University pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Special Recognition Adviser and Distinguished TOM GAYDA, MJE, advises the student media journalism-news. She is an Active Voice fellow Adviser awards. at North Central H.S. in Indianapolis. He also with the Student Press Law Center, the assistant 8 a.m. Thursday, Leschi, 3rd Floor, Sheraton teaches journalism part-time at Ball State copy director for the Ball State Daily News and University. Gayda has been recognized with an office worker in the Ball State Journalism KATHY HABIGER, MJE, teaches journalism awards from JEA, NSPA, Dow Jones News Fund, Workshops office. Gordon is passionate about and photography and advises the yearbook, Ball State University, the Indiana High School First Amendment rights and helping others newspaper and online news at Mill Valley H.S. Press Association and Ithaca College. He is speak up against adversity. in Shawnee, Kansas. Habiger is president of the local team chair of the 2016 Indianapolis Noon Friday, Room 4C1-2, CC the Kansas Scholastic Press Association and convention. is a frequent workshop speaker. The JagWire 10 a.m. Friday, Room 2AB, CC ANNIE GORENSTEIN-FALKENBERG, CJE newspaper and Mill Valley News online both has been advising yearbook for seven years. won Pacemakers in 2016. Both the JagWire and JOHN GEARHART, CJE, was an experienced She advises The Priam yearbook at Longmont JAG yearbook are in the NSPA All-American Hall trainer with a well-rounded education including H.S. During her time as adviser her yearbook of Fame. a MBA before joining Walsworth Yearbooks four staffs have earned numerous state awards, and 9 and 10 a.m. Friday, Room 2AB, CC years ago. He has a passion for photography, in 2014 and 2015 her staffs were named CSPA technology and anything innovative. Not only Silver Crown winners. Gorenstein-Falkenberg is PETER HALEY grew up in Tacoma, studied does he teach at numerous workshops he also the Colorado Student Media Association vice science at UC Berkeley, but forged his career helps train other Walsworth representatives on president. In 2015, JEA named her a Rising Star. from a passion for photography. He’s shot for new technology and software. 8 a.m. Saturday, Aspen, 2nd Floor, Sheraton The News Tribune (Tacoma) since 1986. Like 1 p.m. Saturday, Room 307, CC all photographers, he’s won plenty of awards DAVID GRAVES is the yearbook adviser at (photographers love contests), and his work has ALTHEA GEVERO is the co-editor-in-chief for St. Thomas’ Episcopal School in Houston. His appeared in coffee-table photo books. He has the Southwest Shadow. Starting off as a review students have won Crown, Pacemaker and ILPC been embedded with the army in Iraq three writer in her freshman year, she moved her Star awards. He was awarded a CSPA Gold Key times and Afghanistan once. His favorite things way up to junior editor and finally to EIC. After in 2012. In his spare time, he writes and designs to shoot: Live events. People doing ordinary high school, she plans on pursuing her love for political junk mail, so you’ve probably thrown things. No posed photos! Outside of family, his writing and sharing stories with others. away some of his greatest creations. passions include skiing, and ... more skiing. Noon and 1 p.m. Saturday, Room 212, CC 9 a.m. Friday and 9, 10 and noon Saturday, 11 a.m. Friday, Room 4C1-2, CC Diamond, 1st Floor, Sheraton KELLY GLASSCOCK is associate director TOM HALLAQ teaches broadcast journalism of Collegian Media Group at Kansas State KIM GREEN, MJE, is the outreach coordinator and digital media at Kansas State University. University, Manhattan, Kansas, where he advises and a graphics sequence instructor for Ball He began his teaching career at a high school the Royal Purple yearbook and Manhappenin’ State University’s Department of Journalism. in Washington state. Prior to that he worked in magazine. Glasscock also directs a summer She is JEA’s Certification Committee chair. Her the broadcast news industry for several years high school journalism workshop, the Flint Hills honors include JEA Yearbook Adviser of as a producer, newscast director and reporter. Publications Workshop, at K-State each July. As the Year and Medal of Merit, NSPA Pioneer Tom has a great enthusiasm for broadcasting of Aug. 1, he will be JEA’s executive director. Award, Indiana Journalism Teacher of the Year, and video technology and loves to share that 8 a.m. Saturday, Cedar, 2nd Floor, Sheraton Folger Outstanding Teacher of the Year, DJNF enthusiasm with others. Distinguished Adviser and Ball State University 9 a.m. Saturday, Room 201, CC SARAHMARIA GOMEZ teaches video, audio Journalism Hall of Fame. and photojournalism at the Medill School of 2 p.m. Friday, Cedar A, 2nd Floor, Sheraton; ZAKI BARAK HAMID is an Arab immigrant Journalism. She is director of Medill Media 3:30 p.m. Friday, Diamond, 1st Floor, Sheraton; who was born and raised in Jordan. He has Teens, a program pairing undergraduate 7:30, 9 and 10 a.m. Saturday, Leschi, 3rd been In the U.S. since 1994. Hamid is a program mentors with high school students from Floor, Sheraton; noon Saturday, Metropolitan director at Humanities Washington, where he Chicago’s South Side. She is a multimedia Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Sheraton produces humanities-themed lectures and instructor at the Medill-Northwestern discussion programs throughout the state. He is 72 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions TAKE A NORTHWESTERN DIRECTION AT MEDILL

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» Talk with current Medill student journalists » Learn how you can study all over the world » Get a sweet treat! www.medill.northwestern.edu Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE — 73 at Thomas Jefferson H.S. for Science and publications. She is an active member of her SPEAKER BIOS Technology in Virginia. Her staff has earned a state organization and has been a journalism CSPA Silver Crown, an NSPA Pacemaker, Gold adviser nearly 20 years. also a contributor to KUOW’S “Week in Review,” Medalist and All American critiques and many 2 p.m. Friday, Leschi, 3rd Floor, Sheraton; 9 a.m. and teaches film, mass media and other topics state and local awards. JEA names Harris a 2010 Saturday, Kirkland, 3rd Floor, Sheraton at Everett Community College and other Rising Star and a 2014 Special Recognition institutions. Adviser. CAROLYN HENDERSON, CJE, has more 9 a.m. Friday, Room 211, CC 1 p.m. Friday, Room 203, CC; 10 a.m. Saturday, than 30 years of yearbook experience as Room 205, CC both an award-winning yearbook adviser BETTINA HANSEN is a staff photographer and a yearbook representative for Walsworth at The Seattle Times who shoots news, sports, ANASTASIA HARRISON, CJE, advises the Yearbooks. She shares her yearbook passion features and video for print and online. Epic yearbook at Legend H.S. in Colorado. Her with students daily. Her teaching and advising Originally from Phoenix, Hansen has interned students’ publications have earned state and experience plus her master’s degree in at The Arizona Republic, East Valley Tribune, The national awards including CSPA Silver Crowns communication provide her with a unique set (Baton Rouge) Advocate, and has worked as a and an NSPA Pacemaker as well as Pacemaker of skills for showing, not just telling, the story. staff photographer at The Hartford Courant in finalists the past two years. Harrison was 1 and 2 p.m. Friday, Room 204, CC Connecticut. honored with the JEA Rising Star award in 2011 2 p.m. Friday, Room 3AB, CC and the Colorado Adviser of the Year in 2016. CARRIE HENDRIX, CJE, has been advising 11 a.m. Saturday, Leschi, 3rd Floor, Sheraton the Westwind yearbook since 2003 and the CHARLA HARRIS, CJE, has advised the print, Ranger Review News website since 2008 in online and broadcast programs at Pleasant NANCY HASTINGS, MJE, retired after advising Lewis-Palmer H.S. in Colorado. Her students’ Grove H.S. in Texarkana, Texas, for the past 31 the yearbook and newspaper at Munster H.S. in publications have earned top state and national years. The Hawk yearbook and Edge newspaper Indiana for 38 years. Both publications earned awards including two CSPA Crowns and an have won multiple Pacemakers, Gold Crowns Pacemaker, Crown, Hoosier Star and Best of NSPA Pacemaker. Hendrix was honored with the and Best of Show Awards. Harris is a JEA and Show awards. Personal honors include NSPA’s Colorado Student Media Association Teacher of DJNF Distinguished Adviser, and she serves as Pioneer, CSPA’s Gold Key, JEA’s Yearbook Adviser the Year in 2015. president of the Texas Association of Journalism of the Year, and JEA’s Lifetime Achievement 11 a.m. and noon Friday, Room 304, CC Educators. Award. She serves as JEA’s Indiana state director. 9 a.m. Friday, Room 304, CC 11 a.m. Friday, Room 204, CC MICHAEL HERNANDEZ has advised the Pacemaker-winning Mustang Morning News for ERINN HARRIS, MJE and yerd for the past 20 ANNE HAYMAN, MJE, advises The 17 years. He is an Apple Distinguished Educator, years, advises Techniques yearbook, tjTODAY Stillaguamish Trail and The AHS Eagle news PBS Digital Innovator and the inaugural JEA newsmagazine, tjTODAY Online and TJTV website. She has one staff who produce both National Broadcast Adviser of the Year.

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PRESIDENT: Sarah Nichols, MJE, Whitney High School, Rocklin, California VICE PRESIDENT: Val Kibler, CJE, Harrisonburg (Virginia) High School SCHOLASTIC PRESS RIGHTS: Lori Keekley, MJE, St. Louis Park (Minnesota) High School EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES: Megan Fromm, MJE, Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, Colorado DIRECTORS-AT-LARGE EAST: Joe Humphrey, MJE, Hillsborough High School, Tampa, Florida CENTRAL: Tom Gayda, MJE, North Central High School, Indianapolis WEST: Julia Satterthwaite, CJE, Monta Vista High School, Cupertino, California

74 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Issaquah, 3rd Floor, 2 p.m. Friday, Metropolitan A, 3rd Floor, Sheraton; 9 and 10 a.m. Friday, Cedar B, 2nd Sheraton; noon and 1 p.m. Saturday, Room 2B, SPEAKER BIOS Floor, Sheraton CC Media program in 2011. A former president of MIKE HIESTAND was the staff attorney for the JOE HUMPHREY, MJE, advises the Red & the Colorado High School Press Association, Student Press Law Center between 1991 and Black newspaper, Hilsborean yearbook and Jones in retirement is a JEA mentor. She 2003 and worked full time as the center’s sole HHSToday.com online news site at Hillsborough received the JEA Lifetime Achievement Award, consulting attorney until 2012. He continues to H.S. in Tampa, Florida. He is a member of the CHSPA Medal of Merit, CHSPA Adviser of the assist student media and work with the SPLC JEA Certification Committee and evaluations Year award, Ridgway Freedom of Speech Award on special projects affecting the student press coordinator for the Florida Scholastic Press and the National Federation of Press Women community. He and Mary Beth Tinker traveled Association. He was local team leader for the Fellowship. the country on the Tinker Tour, visiting schools 2015 JEA/NSPA Fall National High School Noon Friday, Everett, 3rd Floor, Sheraton nationwide to promote youth voices, free Journalism Convention in Orlando, Florida. speech and a free press. 10 and 11 a.m. Friday, Ballard, 3rd Floor, JIM JORDAN is in his 35th year as yearbook 9 a.m. Saturday, Room 4C4, CC Sheraton adviser of the Decamhian at Del Campo H.S. in Fair Oaks, California. Although his students’ work NICK HOMBURG is an instructor in the TAILYR IRVINE is a senior at the University has won many awards, his greatest joy though A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass of Montana School of Journalism. She is a comes from watching his students grow as Communications at Kansas State University photographer and has worked for the Billings they create and produce a beautiful book that in Manhattan Kansas. He teaches digital Gazette, where she photographed the Standing captures the essence of a school year. photography, drones in media, photojournalism Rock movement during the fall of 2016. After 10 and 11 a.m. Friday, Room 306, CC and documentary film production. Prior to graduating in May, she plans to move to Texas coming to K-State, he worked the past 25 where she will work at the Dallas Morning JASON KAISER, CJE, is an assistant marketing years in the Pacific Northwest as a freelance News. manager for Jostens. Prior to Jostens, he worked photographer and documentary filmmaker. 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Room 303, CC for the student newspaper of the College of 9 a.m. Saturday, Room 308, CC ESMY JIMENEZ, born in Mexico but raised St. Benedict/St. John’s University, and received RAY HOPFER, CJE, advised newspaper and in rural Washington, is an undocumented awards from both the Minnesota Newspaper yearbook and taught photography during his mestiza scholar, organizer, and now journalist. Association and the Associated Collegiate Press 34 years at Tillamook H.S. in Oregon. In 2002 he After graduating from University of Southern for his designs. A former yearbook adviser and received the Oregon Journalism Teacher of the California in Los Angeles, she moved to Seattle, high school teacher, Kaiser has worked with Year award. He also served as local co-chair for where she is an editor for the Sightline Institute. scholastic journalism for more than seven years. the JEA/NSPA national convention in Portland A former Seattle Globalist apprentice, her work 11 a.m. Friday, Redwood, 2nd Floor, Sheraton; 1 in 2003. Ray retired from full-time teaching in has appeared in La Raze del Noroeste, Femme p.m. Friday, Aspen, 2nd Floor, Sheraton 2010 and now serves as a JEA mentor. Feminism and other publications. 9 a.m. Friday, Everett, 3rd Floor, Sheraton 10 a.m. Saturday, Room 3B, CC PAUL B. KANDELL, the 2009 DJNF National Journalism Teacher of the Year, advises Verde JOHN HORVATH has been the yearbook PATRICK R. JOHNSON, MJE, advises the magazine and The Paly Voice at Palo Alto H.S. adviser at Hill Country Christian School in award-winning Tom Tom media program and is co-president of the Journalism Education Austin, Texas, for five years. In that time, his at Antioch Community H.S. He is also an Association of Northern California. Kandell staff has transformed a glorified scrapbook into adjunct instructor in the Diederich College has a master’s degree in journalism from the a yearbook that has been named a NSPA All of Communication at Marquette University, University of Missouri at Columbia and worked American in 2015 and 2016. He was recently where he teaches digital journalism, visual for Newsweek in the early 1990s. selected as a 2017 JEA Rising Star. communication, and media writing. Johnson is 11 a.m. Friday, Room 205, CC 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Friday, Room 304, CC; 9 a.m. the director of the KEMPA’s Summer Journalism Saturday, Greenwood, 3rd Floor, Sheraton Workshop. He is a DJNF Distinguished Adviser CRYSTAL KAZMIERSKI advises the Wings and a JEA Rising Star. yearbook at Arrowhead Christian Academy in ANDREW HOSFORD advises journalism, 1 p.m. Thursday, Diamond, 1st Floor, Sheraton; Redlands, California, and teaches design and yearbook and business classes at Peninsula H.S. 9 a.m. Friday, Redwood, 2nd Floor, Sheraton; photography at journalism workshops and in Gig Harbor, Washington. He is also the dean 11 a.m. Friday, Room 308, CC; noon Friday, conventions. She was the 2000 JEA National of students and former boys basketball coach. Room 204, CC; 9 a.m. Saturday, Leschi, 3rd Floor, Yearbook Adviser of the Year. She was awarded He was initially hired to take the traditional print Sheraton a CSPA Gold Key in 2002 and an NSPA Pioneer newspaper completely online and, with the Award in 2007. Wings has been a consistent help of his students, has built the program into ALLIE JONES is a graphic designer, adman CSPA Crown and NSPA Pacemaker winner since a nationally recognized student newspaper. and occasional video producer. When she’s not 1995. Noon Saturday, Room 307, CC hunched over her laptop, she’s usually sipping 11 a.m. Friday, Room 306, CC; 9 a.m. Saturday, Seattle coffee on her way to an art museum, Room 204, CC; 11 a.m. Saturday, Room 201, CC BETHANY GRACE HOWE is a former her second home. Whether it’s in curating her newspaper reporter, having worked in Instagram feed (@alliejjones) or launching an LORI KEEKLEY, MJE, advises at St. Louis Park Colorado, Missouri and Oregon. She has ad campaign, Jones is passionate about making (Minnesota) H.S. Previously she worked as the won state-level recognition for her narrative the world a more beautifully designed place. director of contests and critiques at NSPA. The journalism, where she also had the opportunity 9 a.m. Saturday, Room 3B, CC Echo has been a Gold Crown and Pacemaker to work with Pulitzer Prize winners. She’s recipient, and her students have won state a former high school teacher and adjunct SHEILA JONES, CJE, taught English for 23 and national awards. Keekley is a DJNF professor at the University of Missouri, who now years at Englewood (Colorado) H.S. and advised Distinguished Adviser and a member of JEA’s teaches journalism at the University of Oregon, the Pirateer newspaper program that became Scholastic Press Rights Committee. where she is pursuing a Ph.D. Colorado’s first state-approved CTE Convergent 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Redwood, 2nd Floor,

Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE — 75 comedian and motivational humorist. local, state and national news and feature SPEAKER BIOS Noon Friday, Cirrus, Sheraton; 2 p.m. Friday, outlets, including Forbes, Los Angeles Business Metropolitan B, 3rd Floor, Sheraton Journal and Monster.com. She also has been Sheraton; 9 a.m. Friday, Cedar A, 2nd Floor, a managing editor and writing coach. Her Sheraton; 10 a.m. Friday, Aspen, 2nd Floor, MATTHEW LAPORTE, CJE, advises the accolades include a scholastic journalism Sheraton; 9 a.m. Saturday, Capitol Hill, 3rd Floor, Southwest Shadow online news site and award for editorial writing and an Independent Sheraton The Howl yearbook at Southwest Career and Publisher Book Award gold medal for Technical Academy in Las Vegas. Both staffs nonfiction. SAMUEL “BUTCH” KELLER is the Upper have earned accolades, both individually and Noon, 1 and 2 p.m. Friday, Room 211, CC; 10 School Division Head at The Harker School collectively, from CSPA, NSPA, ASPA and Quill a.m., 11 a.m. and noon Saturday, Room 204, CC in San Jose, California. With a 35+ year and Scroll. He is also the JEA Nevada state background as an educator, he focuses most on director and co-president of the Southern BRAD LEWIS is in his 10th year of Nevada Society of Journalists. teaching scholastic journalism and advising character education. The varsity boys basketball 11 a.m. Friday, Room 203, CC publications. He advises The Dart newspaper, team recently celebrated his 600th career win DartNewsOnline.com and Teresian yearbook at as a basketball coach. A strong supporter of JERRY LARGE’S column appears each St. Teresa’s Academy in Kansas City, Missouri. student free expression and of journalism, Keller Monday and Thursday in Local section of The 9 a.m. Friday, Room 303, CC is the 2016 JEA Administrator of the Year. Seattle Times. A New Mexico native, he has 2 p.m. Friday, Aspen, 2nd Floor, Sheraton worked for newspapers in four states doing GARY LINDSAY, MJE, recently retired after 40 everything from emptying trash cans after years’ teaching language arts and journalism JACK KENNEDY, MJE, advised high school school to supervising reporters. Journalism at Kennedy H.S. in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. During print publications for 30 years, and now gives him a chance to explore how people his career, he advised newspaper, yearbook torments college students in online writing interact in societies and it allows him to exercise and literary magazine, and his staffs earned courses. He has been, at various times, a his other pleasure, writing. His column is the numerous state and national awards. Lindsay teacher, a coach, an assistant principal, and latest phase of a 35-year career at The Seattle is a member of the JEA Mentoring Committee a yearbook rep. He won some awards before Times. and JEA mentor for Iowa. He has served on the most current students were born, and now 10 a.m. Saturday, Room 4C4, CC JEA board and on several JEA committees. is executive director of the Colorado Student 8 a.m. Thursday, Leschi, 3rd Floor, Sheraton; 1 Media Association. EVELYN LAUER, MJE, advises the online- p.m. Friday, Everett, 3rd Floor, Sheraton 11 a.m. Friday, Metropolitan B, 3rd Floor, only publication Niles West News. She is the Sheraton; 1 p.m. Friday, Willow, 2nd Floor, Publications/Public Relations chair for JEA MADELINE LITTLETON has been on the Sheraton and a 2014 DJNF Special Recognition Adviser. Lion’s Roar yearbook staff for three years at She writes for the Huffington Post and other Christ Presbyterian Academy in Nashville, ELLEN KERSEY is a retired high school publications. Tennessee. As only a junior, she is the head English/journalism teacher, now teaching 11 a.m. Friday, Room 310, CC; 9 a.m. Saturday, designer and is part of a staff that has received freshman writing and advising the yearbook Leschi, 3rd Floor, Sheraton; 11 a.m. Saturday, an NSPA Pacemaker and a CSPA Crown. THSPA at Corban University in Salem, Oregon. Kersey Room 308, CC awarded Littleton third place for Best Academic taught in Camarillo, California; Queensland, Copy in 2015. Australia; and Klamath Falls, Oregon. PETE LEBLANC is in his 23rd year of teaching 8 a.m. Saturday, Room 204, CC 10 a.m. Friday, Leschi, 3rd Floor, Sheraton; 11 and eighth year advising three programs a.m. Saturday, Greenwood, 3rd Floor, Sheraton at Antelope (California) H.S., which opened ADAM LIVESAY, CJE, has more than 15 years in 2008. Students on Antelope’s Titanium of scholastic journalism experience. In high VALERIE J. KIBLER, CJE, teaches at yearbook, Titan Times the Magazine and school, he pulled double duty, serving as the Harrisonburg (Virginia) H.S., where she advises Channel 5 Titan TV News staffs have won CSPA editor-in-chief of Crystal River H.S.’s yearbook the print and online newspaper. She was the Gold and Silver Crowns, NSPA Pacemakers and newspaper. Since graduating from the local chair for the 2009 and 2014 JEA/NSPA and NSPA Best of Show awards. He is the 2006 University of Central Florida with bachelor Washington, D.C., conventions. She is a member National Yearbook Adviser of the Year. degrees in both broadcast journalism and of the NSPA Board of Directors. 9 a.m. Thursday, Capitol Hill, 3rd Floor, political science, Livesay now works with 9 a.m. Thursday, Diamond, 1st Floor, Sheraton Sheraton; 9, 10 and 11 a.m. Saturday, Room Walsworth Yearbooks as a representative in 213, CC Tampa, Florida. JORDYN KIEL, CJE, advises the Excalibur 9 a.m. Friday, Room 213, CC yearbook at Francis Howell North H.S. in St. JOY LESSARD enjoyed advising award- Charles, Missouri. She also co-advises the media winning yearbooks and newspapers for 37 KAY LOCEY, CJE, advised the Commoner program, which includes web, social media, years in the Ellensburg (Washington) School newsmagazine at Gov. John R. Rogers H.S, in business, newspaper, yearbook, video and District. She was honored with the Washington Puyallup, Washington. For more than 25 years photography. (WJEA) Adviser of the Year; Ellensburg School she has been active in WJEA, serving on its 10 a.m. Friday, Room 401, CC; 10 a.m. Saturday, District Teacher of the Year; 2008 JEA Teacher board and teaching at its summer workshop. Room 308, CC Inspiration Award; and 2012 JEA Lifetime She was the 2008 WJEA Adviser of the Year Achievement Award. Lessard is a JEA mentor and a 2015 JEA Lifetime Achievement Award SHARON LACEY had a 10-year career in and teaches a summer workshop for advisers at winner. Locey is a JEA mentor, supporting new broadcast journalism, holding on-air and the WJEA journalism camp. advisers in Washington state. behind-the-scenes positions in several radio 11 a.m. Friday, Everett, 3rd Floor, Sheraton; 11 10 a.m. Friday, Everett, 3rd Floor, Sheraton and television stations in the Pacific Northwest. a.m. Saturday, Kirkland, 3rd Floor, Sheraton She also enjoyed a 23-year career as a middle FRANK LOMONTE is the executive director of school teacher, winning several national and MARGOT LESTER’S career began with her the Student Press Law Center. He joined SPLC in state awards for her creative teaching methods. high school and hometown newspapers. A January 2008 after practicing law with Atlanta- Currently she travels the world as a stand up journalism graduate, she has reported for based Sutherland LLP and clerking for federal 76 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions judges on the Northern District of Georgia and During his 20 years at Jostens, he launched the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. Before the “Look Book,” Jostens Adviser University and SPEAKER BIOS law school, LoMonte was an award-winning edited three editions of the “1,2,3 Yearbook investigative journalist and political columnist Curriculum” as well as editing “Jostens Adviser & successful 14-year professional career in the for daily newspapers in Florida and Georgia. Staff” magazine. media industry. With a degree in journalism and 9 a.m. Thursday, Greenwood, 3rd Floor, 9 a.m. Friday, Room 305, CC; 8 a.m. Saturday, a dozen design awards under his belt, Malcom- Sheraton; noon Friday, Room 4C1-2, CC Ballard, 3rd Floor, Sheraton; 11 a.m. Saturday, Bjorklund plans on completing his media Room 4C4, CC trifecta with a podcast component. WILLIAM LOVE is the adviser of the Cedar 9 and 10 a.m. Friday, Room 204, CC; 11 a.m. Post and SHSCedarPost.com at Sandpoint MOIRA MACDONALD writes about movies Saturday, Room 211, CC (Idaho) H.S. and books (and dance, and fashion, and . . . ) for Noon Friday, Room 4C4, CC; 11 a.m. Saturday, The Seattle Times, where she has been a staff AARON MANFULL, MJE, is the JEA Digital Room 307, CC critic since 2001. Media chair, overseeing JEADigitalMedia.org. 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Room 3A, CC He’s the co-director of MediaNow.press and ROTH LOVINS is a senior journalism education director of Student Media at Francis Howell major from Ball State University doing his MANDY MAHAN has been teaching for 15 North H.S. You can find him on most social student teaching in Indianapolis. As a student years and is the adviser for the Warrior annual, platforms @manfull (except Snapchat where journalist, Lovins has worked with the Chicago WDHS broadcasting program and Proeliator he’s: aaronmanfull). He will be happy to talk Tribune for its Olympics coverage, been literary magazine at d’Iberville H.S. She has about the Iowa Hawkeyes or Star Wars with you. employed as an art director for a student been advising publications for nine years. The 8 a.m. Saturday, Kirkland, 3rd Floor, Sheraton magazine, been the content editor of his high Warrior has earned NSPA First and Second Class school newspaper and served as a photo editor Ratings with Marks of Distinction, CSPA Gold KAITIE MAROLF is a senior at Kansas State for his high school yearbook. and Silver Medals, 11 MSPA awards, and annual University graduating in May with a B.S. in Noon Saturday, Room 211, CC Jostens Look Book recognition. print journalism, a minor in leadership studies Noon Friday, Room 201, CC; 2:30 p.m. Saturday, and a certification in equine science. She is GARY LUNDGREN, associate director NSPA/ Room 211, CC co-editor-in-chief of the Royal Purple Yearbook ACP, has received the CSPA Gold Key, NSPA and communications specialist for the K-State Pioneer, JEA Medal of Merit and ILPC Edith MICHAEL MALCOM-BJORKLUND, CJE, Department of Horticulture. She freelances Fox King. In his 10 years at the University of advises the Ascent yearbook and The Rocketeer professionally in equine journalism and works Arkansas, the “Arkansas Traveler” newspaper newspaper while teaching middle school as a contracted SEO copywriter with Turn the and “Razorback” yearbook staffs he advised language arts at River City Science Academy Page Online Marketing. were consistent Crown and Pacemaker winners. Innovation in Jacksonville, Florida, after a Noon Saturday, Room 203

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Hyatt Regency | Dallas | Nov. 16-19, 2017 dallas.journalismconvention.org Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE — 77 as the on-air social media reporter and host for former professional photojournalist in Southern SPEAKER BIOS Q13 News “This Morning.” Mayfield has worked California. He is the past president of the Kansas in broadcast news for nearly 20 years at both Scholastic Press Association. REBECCA MARTIN is the managing editor the local and network levels. 10 a.m. Friday, Room 305, CC at Youth Radio. She leads the day-to-day Noon Friday, Metropolitan B, 3rd Floor, Sheraton operations of Youth Radio’s award-winning CLARE MCFADDEN manages and oversees newsroom, including editing and producing ELYSSIA MAYSEE is a senior at Argonaut H.S. the Write the World website, community and local and national features. She works closely and NERDS club president. While in seventh programs. She has worked in arts education with the chief content officer on strategic grade she created the NERDS logo, which is with children, young people and communities planning and the development of the national now trademarked. Maysee was an attendee at in Australia and the United States. She is also an network. Before coming to Youth Radio, she the first White House Native Youth Gathering author and illustrator. McFadden was a teaching worked for The World (PRI/BBC), NPR and CNN. in 2015, where she met First Lady Michelle fellow for the Writing Workshop course at Obama. She was recently named a 2016-2017 Harvard University. She holds a master’s degree 9 a.m. Saturday, Issaquah, 3rd Floor, Sheraton We-R-Native ambassador and takes pride in in education from Harvard University. helping her Native community. 1 p.m. Friday, Room 212, CC BRIAN MARTINEZ, CJE, is a long-time 10 a.m. Saturday, Room 3A, CC journalism nerd. After a stint at the Houston JIM MCGONNELL advised the newspaper, Chronicle, he began advising newspapers JOY MCCALEB is a former journalist and TV broadcast and website at Findlay (Ohio) and yearbooks more than 20 years ago. In has published works in the NCTE/IRA English H.S. for 20 years. All three programs received that time, his students earned Gold Crowns Standards and a book – “Our Hero Freebird; An Pacemaker awards and the newspaper earned and Pacemakers. Martinez now works to help Organ Donor’s Story.” She advised newspaper, Gold and Silver Crowns, All American and Best develop new and better tools for yearbook literary magazine and broadcast. She has served of Show trophies. Personal honors include DJNF creation using Adobe InDesign. as a committee member for the JEA/NSPA National Journalism Teacher of the Year, CSPA 9 a.m. Friday, Room 212, CC; 1 p.m. Friday, national convention in Nashville and is currently Gold Key and Master Teacher of Ohio. Recent Aspen, 2nd Floor, Sheraton writing freelance and serves as a JEA mentor in honors include JEA’s Linda S. Puntney Teacher Tennessee. Inspiration Award, Lifetime Achievement Award, GRACE MASBACK is the founder of WANT, 2 p.m. Friday, Everett, 3rd Floor, Sheraton Medal of Merit and NSPA’s Pioneer Award. After a news website that aggregates the best in 35 years of teaching he retired to Florida and high school journalism from school papers and JIM MCCARTHY, CJE, teaches convergent works for the Disney Cruise Line. teen bloggers worldwide (wantnewsforteen. journalism, multimedia, and video at Gregori 11 a.m. Saturday, Willow, 2nd Floor, Sheraton com). At 18, she’s considered a voice of her H.S. in Modesto, California. He advises JNN, a generation, having published “The Voice of Gen Broadcast Pacemaker recipient and national VANESSA MCVAY is visuals editor at The Z: Understanding the Attitudes & Attributes award-winning publication. During his 17 years Herald in Everett, Washington. During her news of America’s Next ‘Greatest Generation’” and of teaching, McCarthy also has taught yearbook career she has been a photojournalist, page and writing for the Huffington Post, New York Times and advised The Corinthian, a nationally projects designer, news editor and copy editor. and AwesomenessTV.com. recognized newspaper. She has a master’s degree in multimedia from Noon Friday, Redwood, 2nd Floor, Sheraton 9 a.m. Friday, Capitol Hill, 3rd Floor, Sheraton University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and teaches multimedia as an adjunct at Everett SUSAN MASSY advises the Lair yearbook TAMRA MCCARTHY, CJE, has been teaching Community College. and the Northwest Passage newspaper at English for 15 years and advising the Wingspan 1 p.m. Saturday, Room 211, CC Shawnee Mission Northwest H.S. in Kansas, yearbook for 11 years at James Enochs H.S. where she teaches newspaper, yearbook and in Modesto, California. Her publication been ZANE MILLS advises Scandia the yearbook at photojournalism. Both publications have recognized with CSPA Crown and NSPA Inglemoor H.S. just outside of Seattle. Through earned CSPA Crowns and NSPA Pacemakers. Pacemaker awards every year for the last 9 his seven years as adviser he has discovered Massy was honored as the 1999 JEA National years. McCarthy was named a 2011 JEA Rising many tools to grow a strong staff encouraging Yearbook Adviser of the Year. Star and a 2013 JEA Distinguished Adviser. them to produce a book that is coveted by the 11 a.m. Friday, Room 306, CC; 9 a.m. Saturday, 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Friday, Room 306, CC school community. Room 204, CC; 11 a.m. Saturday, Room 201, CC 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Kirkland, 3rd Floor, Sheraton JULIEANNE MCCLAIN, CJE, teaches LORI MATSUKAWA anchors KING 5 News journalism and advises the Talisman, a student JEFF MOFFITT, MJE, is creative accounts at 5, 6:30 and 11. Before joining KING 5 newspaper at Rutherford B. Hayes H.S. in manager for Jostens. Previously, Moffitt advised in 1983, she anchored and reported in Delaware, Ohio. She is the secretary of the Ohio the award-winning Oracle newspaper and the Redding, California; Portland, Oregon, and Scholastic Media Association and is a 2014 Torch yearbook at Olympia H.S. in Orlando, Seattle. Memorable stories include Gov. Gary Rising Star Award recipient. Florida. He is a National Board Certified Teacher Locke’s first trade mission to China, Winter 2 p.m. Friday, Room 303, CC; 10 a.m. Saturday, in career and technical education. Moffitt was Olympics in Salt Lake City and Vancouver and Room 203, CC; 1 p.m. Saturday, Room 3A, CC OHS’s 2007 Teacher of the Year. JEA named him pulling 9-Gs in an F-16. She graduated Phi a Special Recognition Yearbook Adviser in 2010 Beta Kappa from Stanford University (B.A.) and MARY ANNE MCCLOUD, retired teacher, and a Rising Star in 2006. from the University of Washington (M.A.). In participates in the JEA mentoring program in 9 a.m. Friday, Room 212, CC; 10 a.m. Friday, 1974, Matsukawa was Miss Teenage America, Kansas after advising newspapers, yearbooks Room 201, CC; 2 p.m. Friday, Room 4C4, CC; 11 allowing travel outside her native Hawaii and and literary magazines for 30 years. a.m. Saturday, Room 212, CC influencing her decision to become a journalist. 8 a.m. Thursday, Leschi, 3rd Floor, Sheraton 1 p.m. Friday, Metropolitan B, 3rd Floor, AMY MORGAN, MJE, teaches journalism Sheraton JIM MCCROSSEN has been the journalism and advises yearbook, newspaper and online teacher and newspaper, yearbook and online journalism at Shawnee Mission West H.S. TRAVIS MAYFIELD is the director of digital adviser during his 23 years at Blue Valley Morgan is secretary of the Kansas Scholastic strategy for Q13 News in Seattle. He also serves Northwest H.S. in Overland Park, Kansas. He is a Press Association and is a frequent workshop 78 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions and conference speaker. to covering veterans and military affairs she 9 a.m. Friday, Room 2AB, CC; 10 a.m. Saturday, reported on social issues and criminal justice. SPEAKER BIOS Room 201, CC Her first job in radio news was at WBUR Boston in 1994. She’s worked at KUOW since 2000. org and VistaNow Video. Newton has been KATE MORGAN is a 20-year language arts 11 a.m. Friday, Room 3AB, CC teaching journalism and advising student teacher who recently designed her own media for 33 years at five high schools, seventh and eighth grade creative writing class. MARK MURRAY is the director of Technical including the last eight at MVHS. He is the JEA As well, she is a third-year yearbook adviser Services and Systems Integration for the president — for a few more days anyway. in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. Never before Arlington (Texas) School District. He serves as 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Aspen, 2nd Floor, Sheraton; was she challenged in the quite the ways the executive director of the Association of 9 p.m. Thursday, Room 4C1-2, CC; 8 a.m. Friday, that teaching journalism to middle schoolers Texas Photography Instructors. He has received Ballard, 3rd Floor, Sheraton; noon and 4 p.m. demands. Working with JEA mentor Sheila the JEA Carl Towley Award and Medal of Merit Friday, JEA Suite, Sheraton; noon Saturday, Jones, Morgan was able to develop workable and an NSPA Pioneer Award. Metropolitan Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Sheraton; 2:30 organization systems. 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Ballard, 3rd Floor, Sheraton; p.m. Saturday, Medina, 3rd Floor, Sheraton 10 a.m. Saturday, Kirkland, 3rd Floor, Sheraton 9 and 10 a.m. Saturday, Ravenna, 3rd Floor, Sheraton CASEY NICHOLS, CJE, is a veteran student R.J. MORGAN, CJE, is the director of the media adviser of 35 years, the past 24 at Rocklin Mississippi Scholastic Press Association and an HEATHER NAGEL, CJE, advises the Lion’s H.S. He is a former National Yearbook Adviser instructor in the Meek School of Journalism and Roar yearbook at Christ Presbyterian Academy of the Year, Gold Key recepient from CSPA, New Media at the University of Mississippi (Ole in Nashville, Tennessee. She’s the Tennessee and NSPA Pioneer. He is the JEA Awards chair. Miss). He is a former high school newspaper, state director for JEA. Her staff has received Nichols’ love of journalism is based around a yearbook and broadcast adviser, as well as a a Pacemaker, NSPA Best of Show, CSPA Silver good story no matter how it is told. freelance professional journalist. Crowns, CSPA Gold Medals and THSPA Best 9 a.m. Saturday, Aspen, 2nd Floor, Sheraton; 11 a.m. Friday, Leschi, 3rd Floor, Sheraton Overall Yearbook. In 2012, Nagel was named 11 a.m. Saturday, Everett, 3rd Floor, Sheraton; a JEA Special Recognition Yearbook Adviser noon Saturday, Metropolitan Ballroom, 3rd JOHNNIE JAE MORRIS is a multimedia and Tennessee High School Press Association’s journalist from the Otoe-Missouria and Bonnie Hufford Outstanding Media Adviser. Floor, Sheraton Choctaw tribes of Oklahoma. She is the 11 a.m. Friday, Room 212, CC; 8 a.m. Saturday, founder of a Tribe Called Geek, managing Room 204, CC SARAH NICHOLS, MJE, advises student media partner of Native Max Magazine, co-founding at Whitney H.S. in Rocklin, California, where board member of Not Your Mascots and SOHANA NASRIN is a master’s student her students have been recognized with top LiveIndigenousOK. Her work primarily focuses in media management at Gaylord College, national and state honors. Nichols is JEA’s vice on native representation in the media and the University of Oklahoma and the graduate president and a member of the Scholastic Press utilization of social and digital media. assistant for Oklahoma Scholastic Media. She Rights and Digital Media committees. The 2010 1 p.m. Friday, Metropolitan A, 3rd Floor, holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature, National Yearbook Adviser of the Year, she has Sheraton communication and rhetoric from the Nazareth been honored with JEA’s Carl Towley Award and College of Rochester. Medal of Merit and NSPA’s Pioneer Award. BEATRICE MOTAMEDI, CJE, is executive 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Leschi, 3rd Floor, Sheraton 9 a.m. Friday, Ballard, 3rd Floor, Sheraton; 9 a.m. director of Global Student Square, an Saturday, Medina, 3rd Floor, Sheraton; noon international student journalism network. ANDY NELSON is a photojournalist at The Saturday, Metropolitan Ballroom, 3rd Floor, She was journalist-in-residence and a visiting Register-Guard newspaper in Eugene, Oregon. Sheraton teacher/adviser at the American School of He joined the paper in 1988, then moved Paris last fall and works with schools around to Washington, D.C., in 1997 to work for The JORDAN NILSEN is the CEO of HERO Sports. the world to create and sustain digital media Christian Science Monitor. In 2014, Nelson The company’s mission is to advance interest programs. Motamedi was a 2015 Knight Fellow returned to Eugene and the R-G. During and appreciation for small-school athletics in journalism at Stanford University, where she his career, he’s covered a diversity of stories through aggregating and publicizing stories co-directs Newsroom by the Bay, a summer including war in Iraq, presidential campaigns about teams, players and fans. journalism camp. and Olympic Track and Field Trials. 11 a.m. Saturday, Room 203, CC 2 p.m. Friday, Ballard, 3rd Floor, Sheraton 11 a.m. Saturday, Room 2A, CC PAUL NIWA, CJE, is the chair of the Journalism DAN MUELLER, CJE, is a former yearbook BRYCE NEWBERRY is a sophomore at the Department of Emerson College. He has won and newspaper editor and has worked as a Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona national awards for his innovative teaching, yearbook representative for 13 years — striving State University. He’s a graduate of Wenatchee research and professional work. He develops to inspire and encourage students to be leaders H.S. and a proud Apple Leaf alumnus. He immersive websites and apps for iOS and on their staffs and publications. has interned for NBC’s “Today Show,” hosts Android. As a professional journalist, Niwa 9 a.m. Friday, Room 203, CC an entertainment news program at ASU and helped NBC launch two international runs social media for ASU’s School of Public television networks and six news programs, PATRICIA MURPHY is a feature reporter for Affairs. He hopes to someday be a network and he created one of the world’s first online KUOW. Murphy is part of two collaborative correspondent. newscasts. projects focusing on military and veterans. The Noon Saturday, Room 205, CC 9 a.m. Friday, Willow, 2nd Floor, Sheraton; 1 p.m. American Homefront Project is a partnership Saturday, Diamond, 1st Floor, Sheraton between public radio stations KUOW, MARK NEWTON, MJE, is the journalism WUNC, KPCC and the Corporation for Public teacher at Mountain Vista H.S. in Highlands KATE OBUKOWICZ advises the Kla-Ta-Wa at Broadcasting. Back at Base is a collaboration Ranch, Colorado, a suburb of Denver. He is Snohomish (Washington) H.S. She is working on between National Public Radio and seven the adviser of MV Media, a comprehensive her eighth book and was the editor of her high member stations including KUOW. Murphy journalism program consisting of the Aerie school’s yearbook. is an award-winning radio journalist. Prior yearbook, Eagle Eye news magazine, VistaNow. 10 a.m. Friday, Room 308, CC

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KATIE OLSEN, MBA, teaches advertising courses at Kansas State University. Prior to KSU, she worked at a database marketing and advertising firm in Kansas City, where she specialized in account management and strategic planning. Olsen worked on a wide range of clients, including Michelin, H&R Block, and Bayer Environmental Sciences. Her passion is teaching undergraduates, and she is currently finishing up her Ph.D. at K-State. 1 p.m. Saturday, Room 2A, CC

ANDREA OTANEZ teaches multiplatform journalism at the University of Washington, where she also specializes in topics related to diversity and Latino representation in media. In her publishing career, she has worked as an editor at The Seattle Times, a columnist for The Seattle Times editorial page, and as a book editor for the University of New Mexico Press, where she edited books in Chicano studies. She is inspired every day by “The Elements of Journalism” and strives to help her students understand the power of language, especially when covering race and difference. 9 a.m. Friday, Room 4C1-2, CC

CLIF PALMBERG, CJE, at Balfour Yearbooks has been involved in journalism-related activities since middle school. The Kansas native bleeds purple and graduated from Kansas State University. Photography, teaching workshops and helping students create yearbooks are all tasks he enjoys and has focused on in the past. These days the Dallas resident focuses mainly on new website development and the future of yearbooks. 2 p.m. Friday, Room 2AB, CC

JED PALMER, CJE, is the journalism adviser at Sierra Middle School, advising yearbook, news Beautiful artwork and architecture, such as this colorful dragon, can be found and broadcasting students. His students have throughout the Chinatown-International District, adding to the neighborhood’s rich earned numerous state and national awards, history and culture. Photo by Alabastro Photography. including NSPA Pacemakers, CSPA Crowns and several NSPA Picture of the Year awards. In 2013, STEVE PEHA, a former high school and 2014 JEA Distinguished Adviser. he was named a JEA Distinguished Adviser and college journalist, has written professionally for 1 p.m. Friday, Room 203, CC; 9 a.m. Saturday, Colorado Adviser of the Year. 30 years. In 2001, his series for The Seattle Times Leschi, 3rd Floor, Sheraton 10 a.m. Saturday, 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Willow A, 2nd Floor, won an Innovator in Education Award from Room 205, CC; 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Ravenna, 3rd Sheraton; 9 and 10 a.m. Saturday, Room 2A, CC; the Newspaper Association of America. He has Floor, Sheraton noon Saturday, Room 303, CC written for The Washington Post, The National Journal and Psychology Today. His latest book, KATE PLOWS, CJE, advises The Blackfriar MEGAN PALMER, CJE, is in her eighth year “Be a Better Writer,” was the Amazon No. 1 New Chronicle and The Friar’s Lantern at Malvern advising the newspaper, yearbook and website Release in Teen Writing. Preparatory School, where she also teaches at Park Hill South H.S. in Riverside, Missouri. Noon, 1 and 2 p.m. Friday, Room 211, CC; 10 graphic design, ceramics and a journalism She was the 2013 Missouri State High School a.m., 11 a.m. and noon Saturday, Room 204, CC elective to high school boys. The publication Journalism Teacher of the Year and currently received its first NSPA, JEA, CSPA, and SJOY serves as president of Journalism Educators of MEGHAN PERCIVAL, MJE, teaches recognition in 2015-16. Blackfriar Chronicle Metropolitan Kansas City. photojournalism and AP Psychology and student editors lead the extracurricular 11 a.m. Friday, Room 201, CC advises The Clan yearbook staff at McLean publication. (Virginia) H.S. The Clan has been recognized 11 a.m. Saturday, Capitol Hill, 3rd Floor, KATHERINE PATRICK, CJE, is a JEA mentor with the NSPA Pacemaker and CSPA Gold Sheraton from Torrington, Wyoming. Crown and is in the NSPA Hall of Fame. Percival 10 a.m. Friday, Everett, 3rd Floor, Sheraton earned a Gold Key from CSPA in 2013 and was a 82 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions REBECCA POLLARD, MJE advises high Seaton Endowed Chair at Kansas State school student media at Heritage H.S. in University. President of the Society for News SPEAKER BIOS Frisco, Texas. During her career of 17 years in Design, she is also an affiliate faculty member scholastic journalism, she has advised yearbook, for The Poynter Institute where she taught full ROSS REYNOLDS is KUOW’s executive broadcast, newspaper, web and literary time for more than a decade. Her large-scale producer for community engagement. Before magazine. Her programs have won state and eyetracking research for Poynter and other that he was a KUOW program host for 16 years. national awards. She is the Journalist of the organizations on newspaper, tablet and online His awards include the 2011 Public Radio News Year Committee chair for JEA, and teaches at reading habits helps journalists determine the Directors First Place in the call-in category publication workshops around the country. best forms for storytelling. Her most recent for “Living in a White City.” He also has been 9 and 10 a.m. Saturday, Room 307, CC; 8:30 a.m. study is Eyetracking Photojournalism for NPPA. KUOW’s news director, program director and he Sunday, Hall 4E, CC 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Willow B, 2nd Floor, hosted “Upon Reflection.” Reynolds was news Sheraton director at KBOO Radio in Portland, Oregon, and TARA PUCKEY is the associate executive news/public affairs director at WCUW Radio director for the Society of Professional NINA QUINTANA, CJE, advises yearbook and in Worcester, Massachusetts. He has been in Journalists, helping the organization’s 7,000 broadcast journalism at Bernalillo (New Mexico) journalism fellowships through the East West members and more than 150 chapters with all H.S. She is a National Board Certified Teacher in Center to Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and the things journalism. In addition, she facilitates Career and Technical Education. Kingdom of Tonga and through RIAS Berlin to the Ted Scripps Leadership Institute around 11 a.m. Saturday, Fremont, 3rd Floor, Sheraton Berlin, Brussels, and Prague. the country, training and empowering 10 a.m. Friday, Room 4C1-2, CC newsroom leaders. Puckey holds an MBA and CALEB RAGAN is a student editor for the is a journalism graduate of Indiana University High School Insider section of the Los Angeles DAVE RIGGS is retired adviser for Purdue University Indianapolis. Times, and the editor-in-chief of John W. North Wenatchee H.S.’s national-award winning 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Thursday, Cedar, 2nd Floor, H.S.’s student newspaper, The North Star. He student newspaper, The Apple Leaf. He was Sheraton has worked on various projects and initiatives also yearbook adviser at WHS. In 2016, he for the Los Angeles Times. He plans to pursue was named a DJNF National High School LINDA PUNTNEY, MJE, is JEA’s interim journalism throughout college and beyond. Distinguished Journalism Adviser. executive director, and former director of 1 p.m. Friday, Room 401, CC 9 a.m. Friday, Leschi, 3rd Floor, Sheraton Student Publications Inc. and adviser to the Royal Purple yearbook at Kansas State MARGIE RAPER, MJE, advises the Highlander ELAINE ROBINSON advises three staffs at University. She received JEA’s Carl Towley, yearbook at Highland Park H.S. in Dallas. She Kapaun Mt. Carmel Catholic H.S. in Wichita, Teacher Inspiration, Lifetime Achievement and is proud to share her passion for scholastic Kansas: yearbook, Paladin newsmagazine Medal of Merit awards, CSPA’s Gold Key and journalism with her students, see them grow as Charles O’Malley awards and NSPA’s Pioneer storytellers and celebrate their achievements. and video production. The program has Award. Named Distinguished Yearbook adviser, She serves as the president-elect of the Texas a long history of excellence and both the she is in the CMA Hall of Fame. Association of Journalism Educators and the newsmagazine and yearbook have been 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Hall 4E, CC; 9 p.m. Thursday, Gloria Shields workshop committee. named to the NSPA Hall of Fame. Room 4C1-2, CC; noon Saturday, Metropolitan 2 p.m. Friday, Room 308, CC; 1 and 2:30 p.m. 9 a.m. Friday, Room 401, CC Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Sheraton; 8:30 a.m. Sunday, Saturday, Room 205, CC Hall 4E, CC JONATHAN ROGERS, MJE, advises the JASON REDMOND is an independent Pacemaker Award-winning Little Hawk SHIRLEY QIU is the features producer at The photojournalist and photo editor based in newspaper and The Red and White yearbook Seattle Times, handling features stories (arts, Seattle. He produces photographic and video at Iowa City (Iowa) H.S. Rogers is a DJNF entertainment, food, etc.) on The Seattle Times content for major news outlets and nonprofits. Distinguished Adviser, JEA Professional website and social media platforms. She is also Clients include Reuters, Agence France-Presse Outreach chair, NCTE liaison and Iowa High the secretary of the Asian American Journalists (AFP), Wall Street Journal, OnTrak Magazine, School Press Association president and believer Association’s Seattle chapter, a national 1889 Magazine, TED Conferences and the UN in the power of scholastic journalism. organization that works to promote newsroom Foundation. Originally from Southern California, 11 a.m. Friday, Room 310, CC; 9 and 10 a.m. diversity and support Asian American journalists he worked as a staff photographer for the Saturday, Room 212, CC across the country. Ventura County Star for seven years before 9 a.m. Friday, Metropolitan A, 3rd Floor, going freelance. He earned a bachelor’s degree ANDREW ROSS is a yearbook editor-in-chief Sheraton from the Missouri School of Journalism. turned yearbook representative. This passionate 2 p.m. Friday, Room 3AB, CC yearbook nerd prides himself on the fact that ERIKA QUICK, CJE, a Cody (Wyoming) H.S. he has been doing yearbook longer than he graduate, received her bachelor’s degree JON REESE, CJE, has advised student media has been driving. Ross happily represents in media production and worked as a web at Decatur (Georgia) H.S. for 24 years. He is the Walsworth Yearbooks in Colorado. designer before managing “Intrepid Outdoors,” Georgia state director for JEA and presents 1 p.m. Saturday, Room 201, CC a television program that airs on NBC Sports yearly at state and national conventions. His Network and the Sportsman Channel. In school’s newsmagazine, Carpe Diem, has won ERICA SALKIN, Ph.D., is an assistant professor 2011, she won Best New Program from Versus Pacemakers, Gold Crowns and Gallup Awards. of communication studies at Whitworth Network, among other awards, and now Reese coordinates his school’s Senior Project University in Spokane, Washington. She teaches she teaches at CHS and owns Quick Draw and IB Diploma Programme’s Creativity, Action media writing and law. Her research focuses on Productions in Cody, Wyoming. and Service component. free speech in public schools, which inspired 8 a.m. Friday, Ravenna A-B, 3rd Floor, Sheraton; 10 a.m. Friday, Metropolitan B, 3rd Floor, her books: “Students’ Right to Speak” (McFarland, 3:30 p.m. Friday, Everett, 3rd Floor, Sheraton Sheraton; 11 a.m. Friday, Capitol Hill, 3rd Floor, 2016) and “Student Speech Policy Readability in Sheraton; 11 a.m. Saturday, Aspen, 2nd Floor, Public Schools” (Palgrave Pivot, 2016). SARA QUINN, a design and journalism Sheraton 11 a.m. Friday, Room 305, CC; 2 p.m. Friday, consultant and researcher, holds the R.M. Room 307, CC

Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE — 83 SABRINA SCHMITZ, CJE, is a representative Gypsum, Colorado. She is a second-year SPEAKER BIOS of Walsworth Yearbooks and is the former teacher and adviser of broadcast, print, and adviser at J.W. Mitchell H.S. in Florida. Under online journalism programs. Additionally, she NICOLE SANDERS advises the ILPC Star her leadership, The Stampede yearbook earned sponsors the literary arts magazine, humor Award-winning, NSPA First Class-rated middle multiple CSPA Crowns, an NSPA Pacemaker, magazine, live sports broadcasting, Diversity school LeopardLife newspaper and news and was a 2012 Design of the Year Finalist. In Club and GSA. Shapiro has also worked as a website and NSPA Best of Show and First 2013, Schmitz was MHS teacher of the year photographer, writer and goat cheese maker. Class-rated yearbook, Rosette yearbook in and finalist for Pasco County Schools teacher 10 a.m. Saturday, Kirkland, 3rd Floor, Sheraton Lovejoy ISD. Previously, Sanders was an editor of the year. She teaches at workshops and and journalist for newspaper and magazines conventions around the country. LINDA SHAW is an assistant metro editor at throughout the South. She holds a bachelor’s 10 a.m. Friday, Room 303, CC; 2 p.m. Friday, The Seattle Times, where she was part of the degree in journalism and a master’s degree in Room 201, CC team that put together “Under Our Skin.” She also oversees Education Lab, an innovative educational leadership and mediation. HANNAH SCHOENBAUM is the editor-in- project that pairs in-depth reporting and 8 a.m. Saturday, Medina, 3rd Floor, Sheraton chief of Corona del Mar H.S.’s Trident magazine engagement on education. Prior to that, she and serves on the Los Angeles Times High worked as an education reporter and in 2008, VERONICA SARMIENTO, CJE, brings her School Insider Student Advisory Board. She won a first-place award in beat reporting from graphic design experience into the classroom was a student at the highly selective, five-week the Education Writers Association. at Seminole H.S. in Sanford, Florida, advising Medill-Northwestern Journalism Institute 9 a.m. Friday, Metropolitan A, 3rd Floor, the yearbook and teaching digital design and summer program. Schoenbaum plans to study Sheraton AP studio art. She led the creation of the Mass journalism and film and television production Media CAPE Academy at SHS to mirror the at Boston University, starting in the fall. STACY SHORT is the adviser of The Talon structure and convergence of professional 1 p.m. Friday, Room 401, CC News. She has directed and mentored for six media agencies. Sarmiento is the 2017 teacher years and has been teaching journalism for of the year at SHS and a JEA Rising Star. KATHY SCHRIER, MJE, is a former newspaper/ 23 years. Prior to teaching, Short worked for 1 p.m. Friday, Room 3AB, CC yearbook adviser now serving as executive a marketing and advertising firm developing director of the Washington Journalism local markets, sales packages and designing JULIA SATTERTHWAITE, CJE, advises El Education Association. She is a member of advertisements. Short grew up on the Estoque and elestoque.org at Monta Vista H.S. JEA’s Scholastic Press Rights and the Awards sidelines with her editor-in-chief uncle, where in Cupertino, California. Prior to this year, she committees. She holds a JEA Medal of Merit she acquired passion for photography and advised The Talon and rochestertalon.com and was honored with the Pioneer Award from reporting. in Rochester Hills, Michigan, and served as NSPA. She hopes to see Scholastic Press Rights Noon and 1 p.m. Saturday, Aspen, Sheraton Michigan’s JEA state director. She was awarded Legislation pass in Washington State during her Michigan’s Adviser of the Year in 2014. lifetime. MIKE SIMONS, MJE, is the adviser of 1 and 2 p.m. Friday, Room 205, CC 11 a.m. Saturday, Ballard, 3rd Floor, Sheraton Tesserae, the award-winning yearbook at Corning-Painted Post H.S. in upstate New York. ROD SATTERTHWAITE, MJE, co-advises The TERESA SCRIBNER, CJE, is an award-winning President of the Columbia Scholastic Press Campanile newspaper and thecampanile.org media teacher at Cleveland H.S. in Seattle. Advisers’ Association, Simons is a frequent website at Palo Alto (California) H.S. He is a Scribner oversees Cleveland Publications, which instructor and featured speaker at regional member of JEA’s Certification Committee and houses the school’s yearbook, newspaper, news and national workshops, with a special interest the SPLC’s advisory council steering committee. broadcast and website. Scribner is Washington in photography — and coffee. He is a 2015 He was named a DJNF Distinguished adviser in state’s Journalism Adviser of the Year, a DJNF Distinguished Yearbook Adviser. 2012. Special Recognition Adviser and a JEA Rising 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Willow A, 2nd Floor, 9 a.m. Friday, Room 201, CC; 1 p.m. Friday, Star. Scribner previously worked as a visual Sheraton; noon Friday, Room 3AB, CC; 10 a.m. Cedar A, 2nd Floor, Sheraton journalist for The Seattle Times. Saturday, Room 2A, CC; 2:30 p.m. Saturday, 6:45 p.m. Thursday, Hall 4E, CC; 9 a.m. Saturday, Ravenna, 3rd Floor, Sheraton LAURA SCHAUB, CJE, is Lifetouch’s national Room 3A, CC key accounts manager. Previously, she directed AVNI SINGHAL, a freshman at UC Berkeley, the Oklahoma Interscholastic Press Association BEN SELLERS is in his first year advising the was co-editor-in-chief of the Mountain View and served as a professor of journalism at the newspaper and yearbook at Lake Braddock H.S. Oracle. Her past work for the paper includes University of Oklahoma. She is past CSPAA Secondary School in Burke, Virginia. His coverage of hazing on the high school football president and has received the Gold Key, previous journalism experiences include several team, which was met by strong opposition O’Malley, Paschal and Murphy awards from years as a music editor at C-VILLE Weekly in from administration, police and peers. She now CSPA. Charlottesville, Virginia, and The Free Lance-Star writes for the Daily Californian and aspires to be 9, 10 and 11 a.m. Friday, Room 4C4, CC in Fredericksburg, Virginia. an influential politician or journalist. 8 a.m. Saturday, Room 201 1 p.m. Saturday, Room 204, CC HAL SCHMIDT has been working with student publications for more than 30 years, training SARAH SEMMEL advises the Panorama SUE SKALICKY, MJE, is in her 12th year of staffs to get the most from their software. He newspaper, the Rambler yearbook and teaching and advising journalism in Bismarck, is a representative for the Houston office of LadueLead.com at Ladue Horton Watkins H.S. in North Dakota. During the past 28 years, Skalicky Balfour yearbooks and co-owner of PS Graphics St. Louis. She is the co-owner of Snaps by Sisters has worked as a medical photographer, a in Fredericksburg, Texas. and has experience shooting portrait, sports journalist, a leadership speaker and freelance 9 a.m. Friday, Diamond, 1st Floor, Sheraton; and wedding photography. writer. She is the JEA North Dakota state 9 a.m., 10 a.m. Saturday, and noon Saturday, 10 a.m. Saturday, Room 308, CC director. Diamond, 1st Floor, Sheraton 9 and 10 a.m. Saturday, Fremont, 3rd Floor, HANNAH SHAPIRO is a high school Sheraton journalism and filmmaking teacher in

84 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions ANDREW SMITH is the multimedia news Duke University. She manages a team of eight director and journalism instructor for Kansas librarians and teaches advanced research skills. SPEAKER BIOS State University, where he has been since 2016. She wrote “Professional Learning Communities . An Emmy Award-winning sports journalist, in an Information Literacy Odyssey” in “Growing LYNN STRAUSE, CJE, advised 30 yearbooks Smith spent 25 years as a sports broadcaster Schools: Librarians as Professional Developers,” before retiring, the last 13 at East Lansing in Salt Lake City, Las Vegas and Green Bay, Libraries Unlimited, 2012. (Michigan) H.S. Strause continues to speak Wisconsin. Smith also has worked for ESPN, Fox 11 a.m. Saturday, Cedar, 2nd Floor, Sheraton and judge for national, regional and state Sports and numerous sports stations. organizations. She was named Michigan’s He teaches a sports reporting class at K-State. MARGARET SORROWS, CJE, retired from Adviser of the Year, JEA National Yearbook 9 a.m. Thursday, Capitol Hill, 3rd Floor, Sheraton Bryant (Arkansas) H.S. in 2015 after advising Adviser of the Year, received a CSPA Gold Key, publications for 36 years in Arkansas, Texas and NSPAs Pioneer Award JEA Lifetime Achievement NANCY Y. SMITH, MJE adviser publications Virginia. She now works as an educational and Award. She works as a yearbook consultant. at Lafayette H.S. in Wildwood, Missouri. She creative consultant for Jostens. She was the 8 and 9 a.m. Saturday, Room 203, CC has been teaching/advising for 31 years, and is 2014 JEA H.L. Hall Yearbook Adviser of the Year. the JEA’s national contest chair. She is also the 9 and 10 a.m. Saturday, Room 211, CC; 11 a.m. CAROL STRAUSS is a JEA mentor from MJEA vice president. She has been named an Saturday, Room 212, CC Newport Beach, Calif. She taught photography NSPA Pioneer Award winner and a DJNF Special and advised newspaper and yearbook for 40 Recognition Adviser and Distinguished Adviser. ASHLEY STEWART is technology and finance years at Los Amigos H.S. in Fountain Valley, She is a JEA Medal of Merit winner and is the reporter for the Puget Sound Business Journal. California. 2016 H.L. Hall Yearbook Adviser of the Year. Before landing at PSBJ, she covered Washington 9 a.m. Friday, Everett, 3rd Floor, Sheraton 1 p.m. Thursday, Hall 4F, CC; 8 a.m. Friday, state government for two legislative sessions as Hall 4F, CC; 1 p.m. Friday, Juniper, 2nd Floor, an Olympia bureau reporter for KUOW Public JOHN TAYLOR oversees editorial content for Sheraton; 6 p.m. Friday, Metropolitan A, 3rd Radio, TVW and The Seattle Times. the websites of six Townsquare Media radio Floor, Sheraton; 10 a.m. Saturday, Aspen, 2nd 10 a.m. Friday, Room 3AB, CC stations in Yakima. He edits and coordinates the Floor, Sheraton; noon Saturday, Metropolitan blogs and videos of about a dozen on-air DJs. Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Sheraton; 3:30 p.m. DYLAN STEWART, a senior at John W. North Until 2014, he was a print journalist, working Saturday, Juniper, 2nd Floor, Sheraton; 8:30 a.m. H.S., is a photographer who specializes in as a reporter, editor and page designer at nine Sunday, Hall 4E, CC aerial videography and photography. His work different newspapers around the West. has been used in collaboration with many Noon Friday, Room 310, CC SUE SMITH is the library director at The Harker accredited outlets, such as Dreamers Athletics, School in San Jose, California. She holds an MLIS City of Riverside and more local publications. MIKE TAYLOR, CJE, is a journalism specialist/ from San Jose State University, and a B.A. from Noon Friday, Room 213, CC key accounts with Walsworth Yearbooks. He

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Twitter: @nhsjc/#nhsjc JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE — 85 graduated from the University of Washington APRIL VAN BUREN, MJE, is a media specialist SPEAKER BIOS with honors in journalism and has worked on at La Follette H.S. in Madison, Wisconsin. publications in India and the Puget Sound. She is president of the Kettle Moraine Press taught yearbook, newspaper and television 1 p.m. Friday, Room 305, CC Association and a member of the JEA Write- production at Lecanto (Florida) H.S. for 13 years. off committee. The 2013 New Mexico Adviser He served as president of the Florida Scholastic CINDY TODD formerly advised the yearbook of the Year has taught journalism for more Press Association and has received the FSPA at Westlake H.S. in Austin, Texas. Her students than 10 years, including as an adjunct for the Gold Medallion and JEA Medal of Merit. earned top awards from ILPC, CSPA and NSPA. University of New Mexico, faculty at George 10 and 11 a.m. Friday, Room 303, CC; 2 p.m. Todd received the 2012 H.L. Hall National Mason University’s WJMC and at KEMPA Kamp Friday, Room 4C1-2, CC Yearbook Adviser of the Year, Max Haddick (Wisconsin). Teacher of the Year, TAJE Trailblazer, CSPA Gold 8 a.m. Friday, Willow, 2nd Floor, Sheraton; 8 a.m. ERIC THOMAS, MJE, teaches journalism at Key, NSPA Pioneer and JEA Medal of Merit. Todd Saturday, Willow, 2nd Floor, Sheraton the University of Kansas and leads the Kansas will become the Texas Association of Journalism Scholastic Press Association. His focus in Educators executive director in June 2017. T. ANDREW WAHL is a lifelong journalist in teaching at KU is visual journalism and writing. 11 a.m. Friday, Room 2AB, CC; 1 p.m. Friday, the Pacific Northwest and currently heads KSPA promotes journalism throughout Kansas Room 201, CC the Journalism and Media Communication through mentoring, critiques, contests and program at Everett Community College. conferences. Thomas previously advised HEATHER TREANOR is an English/journalism He’s worked in nearly every capacity at publications at St. Teresa’s Academy in Kansas teacher at Estacada (Oregon) H.S. She has newspapers around the state and served as City, where he was named Missouri Journalism been a journalism adviser for two years. communications director for the nonprofit Teacher of the Year. Her journalism class produces a yearbook Humanities Washington. Wahl was named Noon Friday, Room 2AB, CC; 2:30 p.m. Saturday, and quarterly newspapers, and Treanor the 2016 Journalism Educator of the Year by Ballard, 3rd Floor, Sheraton is working on expanding her program to the Society of Professional Journalists Western include multimedia journalism and broadcast Washington chapter. ANNABEL THORPE is editor-in-chief and journalism. Treanor also interns with the 1 and 2 p.m. Friday, Room 213, CC broadcast director for The Talon News. The first Pamplin Media Group, occasionally writing year she started the broadcast program it place about local high school sports. CATHY WALL, MJE, advises the student second in the nation. Thorpe is a back-to-back 10 a.m. Saturday, Kirkland, 3rd Floor, Sheraton newspaper, The Purple Clarion, at Harrisburg UIL state champion in documentary, winning (Illinois) H.S. Wall has 20 years’ experience first, second and third. She interned with Dallas SUSAN TURNER JONES advises three advising student publications. She holds a Morning News for two summers, was a student publications at Sierra Canyon School in M.Ed. with a focus in scholastic journalism from correspondent for Fox Sports, and freelances for California. The literary magazine she advises the University of Missouri and was awarded four companies. has twice received the CSPA Gold Crown and the James A. Tidwell Award for Excellence Noon and 1 p.m. Saturday, Aspen, Sheraton Pacemaker Finalist awards. She also teaches in Scholastic Media Education by the Illinois Honors English and oversees an active human Journalism Education Association last spring. HOLLY THORPE is an Arts & Entertainment rights club. Turner Jones dedicates herself to 2 p.m. Friday, Cedar B, 2nd Floor, Sheraton; 9 editor at the Wenatchee World and editor of poetry and journalism with a focus on diversity, a.m. Saturday, Leschi, 3rd Floor, Sheraton BUZZ NCW, a blog about the craft alcohol creativity, race equality and human rights. industry. She is responsible for social media 10 a.m. Friday, Room 213, CC; 10 a.m. Saturday, LIZABETH WALSH, MJE, is the Re-Wa-Ne and other digital outreach at the paper. Thorpe Issaquah, 3rd Floor, Sheraton yearbook adviser at Reno (Nevada) H.S. She Meet JEA’s new executive director: Kelly Glasscock The Journalism Education Association and the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Kansas State University have hired Kelly Glasscock as JEA executive director and an instructor in the school. The new position start date is Aug. 1. Glasscock has a history with both JEA and Kansas State University. A 2004 print journalism graduate, he was first introduced to JEA when he traveled to conventions as part of a student support team for the executive director. He said that influenced him to become a teacher. In August 2010, he accepted a teaching position at Derby (Kansas) High School, where he advised the yearbook and the newspaper, and in 2014, he returned to Kansas State as associate director of Collegian Media Group, where he advises the Royal Purple yearbook and Manhappenin’ magazine and manages a student staff of IT support technicians. Glasscock enhances his teaching experience with his passion for photography. His first job after graduating from K-State was as a staff photographer for the Jackson Hole (Wyoming) News and Guide. He continues to freelance for The Wichita Eagle, Powercat Illustrated, The Associated Press, Getty Images and Wichita State University.

86 — JEA/NSPA Spring 2017 • SEATTLE Visit jea.org/eval to evaluate sessions has advised publications for 25 years. Her staffs University of Oregon and Northwest Scholastic have earned CSPA Gold Medals, NSPA All- Press executive director. He previously SPEAKER BIOS Americans, and have placed in NSPA’s Best of advised The Guardian yearbook and The Show. She teaches at camps and conventions Watchdog newspaper at Westfield H.S. in p.m. Friday, Room 4C1-2, CC; 4 p.m. Friday, Hall and evaluates/judges publications. She holds Chantilly, Virginia, for seven years. He also 4E, CC; 9 a.m. Saturday, Room 2B, CC CSPA’s Gold Key and was a 2011 Distinguished advised The Stone Observer, a middle school Yearbook Adviser. Request materials at newspaper. In 2013, JEA awarded him its Rising CASANDRA WORKMAN, CJE, is the co- [email protected]. Star Award. president and co-founder of the Southern 1 and 2 p.m. Friday, Medina, 3rd Floor, Sheraton 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Kirkland, 3rd Floor, Sheraton Nevada Society of Journalists. She has advised yearbook for 13 years, 11 at Centennial H.S. PEGGY WATT is an associate professor of LAURA WIDMER serves as executive director in Las Vegas. She teaches graphic design and journalism at Western Washington University, at National Scholastic Press Association. previously taught English. She has written a longtime member of Society of Professional Previously, Widmer advised yearbook, curriculum in English and journalism for her Journalists and a board member of the newspaper, digital and magazine staffs for 34 school district and helped write the design Washington Coalition for Open Government. years at the college, high school and middle curriculum for JEA. She is a former newspaper and magazine school levels. Her publications have been 1 p.m. Friday, Diamond, 1st Floor, Sheraton; 10 reporter and editor, and was online news editor awarded the Pacemaker from Associated a.m. Saturday, Medina, 3rd Floor, Sheraton for PCWorld. Her first journalism job was as Collegiate Press. She is a recipient of NSPA’s founding editor-in-chief of the Troy InVoice at Pioneer Award, College Media Association’s KAREN XIA serves as co-editor-in-chief of the Auburn (Washington) H.S. Multimedia Adviser and Distinguished Yearbook Mountain View H.S. Oracle. Her work includes 9 and 10 a.m. Friday, Room 310, CC; 1 p.m. Adviser of the Year awards and is a member of recent article on history teacher Frank Navarro, Friday, Room 308, CC; 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Room the CMA Hall of Fame. allegedly suspended for drawing comparisons 2A, CC 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Hall 4E, CC; 9 p.m. Thursday, between the rise of Hitler and Trump. She is Room 4C1-2, CC; 9 a.m. Friday, Room 305, CC; a prolific writer and passionate about social CHRIS WAUGAMAN, MJE, teaches journalism noon Saturday, Metropolitan Ballroom, 3rd justice and other world-shaping events. In the at Prince George (Virginia) H.S., and advises the Floor, Sheraton; 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Hall 4E, CC fall, she will be attending Columbia University Royal News newspaper, trnwired.org online as a journalism major. news, PGTV News broadcast, Peerage yearbook MELANIE WILDERMAN is an assistant 1 p.m. Saturday, Room 204, CC and Etcetera literary magazine. His staffs have professor of journalism at Gaylord College, won NSPA Pacemakers and CSPA Gold and University of Oklahoma, as well as the director JESSICA YOUNG, MJE, advises the Torch Silver Crowns. He was the DJNF 2014 National of Oklahoma Scholastic Media, a conference yearbook, Musket newspaper and photography High School Journalism Teacher of the Year. and contest for scholastic media publications. programs at Orange Glen H.S. in Escondido, 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Ravenna, 3rd Floor, She has taught news reporting, feature writing California. She is the San Diego JEA president, Sheraton; 9 a.m. Friday, Room 205, CC; noon and design. She is former college newspaper Quill and Scroll board member and a frequent Friday, Room 203, CC adviser and a former news reporter. She writes presenter at scholastic journalism workshops freelance magazine features monthly. around the country. CARMEN WENDT, MJE, has been a teacher 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Leschi, 3rd Floor, Sheraton 11 a.m. Friday, Room 308, CC; noon Friday, and adviser more than 30 years, advising both Room 303, CC; 11 a.m. Saturday, Room 205, CC yearbook and newspaper staffs. She was a SHANNON WILLIAMS has partnered with member of the Phoenix local committee, is thousands of yearbook staffs and creative JASON ZHU serves as the executive director JEA Arizona state director and is in the Arizona groups across the country over the last 15 years of JEA China. Once a management consultant Adviser Hall of Fame. with one goal: do something amazing. He is a and now an international educator, he travels 11 a.m. Friday, Everett, 3rd Floor, Sheraton; 2 crusader for advisers and staffs who deserve a a lot both locally and globally. He is passionate p.m. Friday, Room 401, CC better yearbook experience. about broadening student’s horizons by sharing Noon Friday, Room 201, CC; 2 p.m. Friday, insights through stories. AMANDA WESTRICH is the director of Diamond, 1st Floor, Sheraton; 2:30 p.m. 11 a.m. Friday, Room 213, CC operations at Northwestern University’s The Saturday, Room 211, CC Medill Justice Project, an award-winning JO ZIMMERMAN, MJE, is a JEA mentor from investigative journalism enterprise that JACOY WILLIS is a former Washington Thousand Oaks, California. examines potentially wrongful convictions Journalist of the Year and editor-in-chief of the Noon Friday, Everett, 3rd Floor, Sheraton and probes systemic criminal justice issues. national award-winning Nordic News. She has Prior to joining MJP in July 2013, she worked worked on newspaper, yearbook and broadcast, STAN ZOLLER, MJE, is lecturer in journalism as the general manager of The Journal, the as well as won superior awards at the state and at Lake Forest (Illinois) College. He is a JEA at- student newspaper at Webster University in St. national levels over her five years as a student large director, chair of its Diversity Committee Louis. She received her bachelor’s degree in journalist. She is studying political science and and a member of its Scholastic Press Rights journalism from Northwestern University. law at the University of Washington. Committee. Zoller is on the Illinois JEA’s board 1 p.m. Friday, Room 303, CC 1 p.m. Saturday, Room 213, CC of directors, president of the Chicago Headline Club, and board member of the Northern BAILEY WHITNEY is the television and BRADLEY WILSON, MJE, Ph.D., advises Illinois Newspaper Association. He also handles broadcasting teacher at Cold Spring Harbor the weekly newspaper at Midwestern State projects for the Center for News Literacy. Jr./Sr. H.S. She holds a master’s degree in art University in Wichita Falls, Texas. He is the 6:45 p.m. Thursday, Hall 4E, CC; 11 a.m. and education from Hofstra University and is on the editor of JEA’s magazine — Communication: noon Friday, Room 307, CC; 2 p.m. Friday, Room faculty of USDAN Summer Camp for the Arts. Journalism Education Today. He is a recipient 310, CC; 8 a.m. Saturday, Everett, 3rd Floor, 1 p.m. Friday, Capitol Hill, 3rd Floor, Sheraton of the NSPA Pioneer Award and the JEA Carl Sheraton; 11 a.m. Saturday, Ballard, 3rd Floor, Towley Award. Sheraton ANTHONY WHITTEN serves as the scholastic 1 p.m. Thursday, Ballard, 3rd Floor, Sheraton; 8 journalism outreach coordinator at the a.m. Friday, Ravenna C, 3rd Floor, Sheraton; 1

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