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Creating MMO- RABLE SUMMER 2019 ads20 INSIDE... Winning newspaper, yearbook and website entries Completed list of NEWSPA winners Benish named Skip Zacher award recipient Jamie Stark: ‘If you’re not nervous, you don’t care’ Sweet Success: Students compete for candy... 1 Keynote Feature 2 NEWSPA Highlights 4 Skip Zacher Award 5 Journalism Smackdown Photo by Ryan Taylor Berlin Highschool Arrives at the 2019 NEWSPA conference. Photo by Ryan Taylor Photo by Ryan Taylor Cedarburg Highschool Arrives at the conference. Alexis Hardin talks about social media. Photo by Ryan Taylor One of the exhibit tables inside the conference center displays the yearbooks. Jamie Stark: ‘If you’re not nervous, you don’t care.’ By Joe Schulz and Karly Curtin Preble High School alumnus Jamie Stark described the borders he’s had to cross in his life as international, professional and social at the 2019 NEWSPA keynote “Journalists Without Borders: Promoting Social Change.” “All borders are invisible; every border is human-made. God never came down and said, ‘This is the border, it’s going to be this way forev- er,’” Stark said. “But you know when you’re on one side or the other of a border. These three borders are very important to me and to the way that traditionally we do journalism.” Stark said he kind of fell into journalism because his high school girlfriend was the editor of the school paper, and he became the co-editor complicated than a headline,” Stark in San Francisco. He said that he want- before studying journalism in college. said. “This wasn’t just about banning ed to take what he learned volunteer- “If you’re worrying about what mining; it was about the government ing in El Salvador and apply it to the your life calling is and you’re trying to looking the other way while people U.S. figure out what you’re supposed to do suffered.” “I knew that someday I wanted to in life, there isn’t some passion hiding When the country banned mining, become an expert reporter on social for you, you can pick it and work at it hurt some of the locals who needed enterprise…,” Stark said. “I thought it,” Stark said. “I think it’s bad advice that income to survive. It also sparked I could do that better if I worked for when people tell you to go find your a lawsuit in the World Bank Court. one.” passion; you have to make it.” “I was able to uncover this story The border between opinion and Stark crossed international bor- of human complexity…,” Stark said. news writing is one that Stark has ders when he moved to El Salvador “There’s always details that make a been straddling since 2008. He said he after college in 2013, he said, where story more complicated, more human was the youngest elected delegate for he worked for a food pantry and as a than a headline.” the Democratic National Convention, freelance reporter. While Stark watched protesters which prevented him from covering “The project I was volunteering gather to promote the ban on mining politics for the Green Bay Press Ga- with is the project I now run in San while in El Salvador, it helped him in zette. Francisco,” he said. “It was a soup his next job running a non-profit to “Journalists, we are expected to hide kitchen that also had a farm that em- organize people and inspire change. our biases and write stories in a way ployed homeless folks to grow food “With that many unified protesters, that you can’t tell,” Stark said. “But I and cook food. The freelancing I did they were able to create a social move- do sense in the way that you see news to pay my bills; I had this journalism ment despite their differences,” Stark consumers gravitating to certain out- degree and wanted to cover the stories said. “In crossing my first border, I lets that people do want to know what where I was living.” realized how much power there is in writers and producers of their news Stark said the most important story simplicity to promote social change or content think.” he worked on in El Salvador was a sto- share a story.” Stark said his biggest advice to any- ry about a mining ban that was much In 2016, Stark crossed the border one trying to enter journalism is to just more than that. from reporter to practitioner when he show up because if you don’t show up “The truth is not necessarily black started his non-profit Farming Hope, you won’t have anywhere to start. and white, there’s always details which provides transitional employ- “If you’re not nervous, you don’t that make a story more human, more ment and training to homeless people care,” he said. • 1 • NEWSPA • Summer 2019 • 2019 NEWSPA HIGHLIGHTS Photo by Ryan Taylor Photo by Taylore Radtke Students compete in Journalism Smackdown at NEWSPA 2019 for the chance to win sweet prizes. Students learn about drone journalism with Jim Nelson Photo by Taylore Radtke Photo by Ryan Taylor Keynote speaker, Jamie Stark, with his former adviser, Terri Villiese. Andrew Winistorfer speaks about his carrer in music journalism. He is a UWO alumnus. • 2 • NEWSPA • Summer 2019 • 2019 NEWSPA HIGHLIGHTS Photo by Ryan Taylor Photo by Ryan Taylor Students compete in Journalism Smackdown at NEWSPA 2019 for the chance to win sweet prizes. Beth Plankey speaks about alternative story formats. Photo by Ryan Taylor Photo by Ryan Taylor Kimberly Kelling advises students on creating memorable advertisements. Andrew Winistorfer speaks about his carrer in music journalism. He is a UWO alumnus. • 3 • NEWSPA • Summer 2019 • Photo byTaylore Radtke 2018 Skip Zacher Award winner Cindy Schultz, right, presents the 2019 award to Barbara Benish, who has been involved in NEWSPA for decades as a speaker, judge, and for the last 11 years, as executive secretary. NEWSPA executive secretary awarded ‘Friend of Scholastic Journalism’ By Julia Holzschuh myself.” school advisers, speakers and others NEWSPA PR Assistant As executive secretary, she has a present during the luncheon and Board NEWSPA Executive Secretary and multitude of duties and responsibili- meeting. UW Oshkosh adjunct professor Barba- ties to ensure the conference’s success 2018 recipient Cindy Schultz, ra Benish was awarded the 2019 Skip annually. She covers all of the many academic department associate for the Zacher Friend of Scholastic Journal- details that go into organizing such a Department of Journalism, presented ism Award at the annual Northeastern large conference with 40 speakers and the award to Benish. Wisconsin Scholastic Press Association 400 students and advisers. “She is a proud alumna of the UW Conference on April 10. NEWSPA celebrated its 40th confer- Oshkosh department of Journalism, Benish has been involved in NEWS- ence this year and in her acceptance who credits her decades-long career PA for decades, first as a student from speech, Benish thanked NEWSPA in journalism to both NEWSPA and Plymouth High School who attended founder, Gary Coll, for his dedication the Department,” said Schultz, who the conference in the late 1970s, to and foresight to begin the organiza- attributed Benish’s contagious enthu- serving as a judge and speaker, and for tion. She explained that it was the siasm for growing the organization the last 11 years as executive secretary conference and hearing UW Oshkosh over the years. “Barb’s energy and in charge of organizing the high school journalism professors speak at the con- spirit have led to countless successes journalism conference and contests. ference that made her decide to enroll for NEWSPA, for the Department of Benish said the award came as no here as a student. Journalism and for UW Oshkosh.” surprise to her, but not because she was “NEWSPA has had such a huge The award is named after Skip expecting it. “The award is supposed impact on my life. It is the reason I Zacher, a former journalism professor to be a surprise, and we try to keep it became a journalist,” Benish said. and NEWSPA executive secretary. It that way,” she said. “But since I’m the “But the reason I have stayed with has been awarded annually since 2000 one who signs the certificate, it was this organization so long is because of to someone who has consistently made kind of difficult to keep it a secret from you, all of you…” she said to the high significant contributions to NEWSPA. • 4 • NEWSPA • Summer 2019 • Photo by Ryan Taylor UW Oshkosh journalism professor Miles Maguire leads students in a game of Journalism Smackdown at the 2019 conference SWEET SUCCESS Students compete for candy in NEWSPA journalism competition By Jelissa Burns each group to wager their points and submit an answer. Journalism Student The students had to answer true or false questions, multiple choice questions and correctly identify a grammar mistake High school students competed against each other in a and fix it. “Jeopardy!” style game at the 2019 NEWSPA conference at Mikayla Heath, one of the students on the winning team, UW-Oshkosh. said she was excited about Out of all seven groups, “Scott Hates “During the AP Style questions, I the team win and loved Us,” won the game after wagering all think a lot of us learned some of the the fact that she did learn their points for the final round and get- something new while still ting the correct answer. grammar aspects that we didn’t fully having fun. Miles Maguire, UWO journalism pro- know.” “During the AP Style fessor, and Gary Coll, professor emer- questions, I think a lot of itus, hosted the game for the visiting —Mikayla Heath, Oshkosh West us learned some of the students.

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