welcomes you to the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS

for the SPRING CONVENTION April 16-17, 2016 Welcome to the 2016 Convention Experience the sessions... And make a difference with your stories ep. That’s me in the top photo. My senior Texas have converged on Austin each spring to attend year. Big hair. Lots of eyeliner and chubby the state scholastic journalism convention. In that time, Ycheeks. Below that photo, you see me now. famous and infamous have been here as students and Not exactly now, but this year (thanks to Hal teachers. The famous, ranging from Walter Cronkite Schmidt who talked me into taking a photo). to U.S. Representatives such as Martin Frost and Kay So you may be asking yourself, “Why on earth Granger to celebrities such as Sissy Spacek and writers would she publish those photos? Is she crazy?” such as Rob Thomas, have learned from the best of the Probably. But mostly I wanted to show you how best in Texas scholastic journalism. much I’ve changed and how much I’ve stayed the ILPC’s involvement in education began same. approximately 88 years ago. The University of Texas It’s pretty much what’s happening in journalism Department of Journalism hosted a small group of high today. It is changing. It’s maturing. It’s moving. But school students and advisers for the first Interscholastic it’s also staying the same. League Press Conference convention. The convention Confused yet? had its beginning with Paul J. Thompson, a UT Don’t be. If you listen to the rumors and gossip, journalism professor who believed that wherever you may hear that journalism is dying. Don’t believe journalism was taught, it should be taught well. it. Journalism isn’t dying. It’s changing, but it’s not To that end, he was instrumental in setting up dying. summer courses for high school journalism teachers. He Throughout this year, we have seen great originated the idea of spring meetings for high school journalism from the professionals covering the journalism students. The first two-day conference was bombing in Brussels to the torandoes ripping conducted on May 8-9, 1925. According to an article through the South. And it’s not just at the in the Interscholastic Leaguer, 30 delegates attended. professional level where we are seeing stories The second conference was held in the spring that change lives. At the scholastic level student of 1928. This time lapse occurred because Governor journalists are reporting about everything from racism to teen Miriam Ferguson had vetoed the appropriation for the UT suicide. Department of Journalism in 1926, and the department was not Powerful stories. Life-changing stories. Stories that make a reinstated until the fall of 1927. difference. That same year, DeWitt Reddick assumed responsibility for So don’t believe the rumors. Don’t fear the future. the ILPC program. Under his guidance, ILPC grew into one Journalism is not dying. Just listen to our presenters as they of the nation’s largest student press associations and directors share their stories and their experiences, and I think you will such as Reddick, Max Haddick, Bobby Hawthorne and Randy agree. Journalism is strong, my friends. And I hope as you grow, Vonderheid have been instrumental in making Texas scholastic you will make it stronger. journalism the best in the nation. Embrace the sessions and the speakers. Attend as many as Questions you can. Ask questions and take notes. Listen to the stories. Don’t be afraid to ask questions of me and of any veteran Make contacts. Get motivated. teacher/adviser here. Journalism teachers are the best bunch of Many, many years ago when I was in high school, ILPC people to know. If we’ve never met, please stop by the registration changed my life. It gave me direction and inspiration. I hope we table and introduce yourself. can do the same for you over the next two days. In the beginning of this welcome, I said “we host.” I The Convention did not, nor could not, organize this convention by myself. This year we again are headquartered in Welch Hall but are Glenda Muñoz, Jenny Nichols and Lisa Atkins — all UIL using six other buildings. That means you will have to go on a event coordinators; Stephanie Marcu, our graduate assistant; bit of a treasure hunt to find your sessions. Lauren Kelley, my intern; and the other UIL interns did a Don’t be afraid to venture out to find that great presenter. huge amount of hard work to make this convention a success. Use the map printed in the this program and look for our Bobby Hawthorne, former UIL academic director, and Randy UIL workers ready to help give you direction and answer any Vonderheid, the former ILPC director, also gave us much- questions you have. We are wearing the crazy bright, multi- needed advice and direction. colored tie-dyed T-shirts, so we shouldn’t be hard to miss. Finally, I must thank the advisers who volunteered their Before selecting your sessions, read the bios of our speakers. time to present a session or two or three or six. We couldn’t put We have so many impressive journalists, professors and advisers on this show without them. Thanks. donating their time this weekend. My advice: Split up your staffs Now stop reading and go enjoy your adventure. so you can get as much variety as possible to take home with you. Enjoy the adventure. Jeanne Acton ILPC History ILPC Director For the past 88 years, students and teachers from all points of 2 ILPC Convention • 2015-16 Important Stuff You Should Know

• REGISTRATION • TOPS IN TEXAS IAAs The registration desk is located on the ground Winners of the Tops in Texas Individual floor of Welch Hall from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sat- Achievement Awards will be announced and med- urday. On Sunday, the registration desk will be als presented at 5 p.m. Saturday in WEL 2.224. open from 8 - 9:30 a.m. Those eligible for Tops in Texas IAAs are the first place winners in each conference of the yearbook • IN-SERVICE CREDIT and print newspaper IAA contests. We will have professional development in- This awards assembly generally takes no more service certificates at the registration desk. than 30 minutes to complete. • ADVISERS, ARE YOU HUNGRY? • MEDALS Stop by the Balfour Publishing Company Hungry? All other IAA medals can be claimed at the Luncheon, 11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m. Saturday in WEL How about a registration desk. Extra medals are $5 each and 2.304. free lunch? may be purchased at the registration desk also. TAJE will have coffee and pastries for advis- Tops in Texas medals are $10 each. Unclaimed ers and presenters Sunday morning at 8:30 a.m. in Jim medals will be mailed to the schools during the WEL 2.304. Anderson and week following the convention. Balfour Publish- VISIT EXHIBITORS ing Company will PARKING • provide lunch for • Check out the exhibits on the ground floor advisers at 11:45 a.m. Please park in a parking garage or in a legal of Welch. Exhibitors will have a wide range of in- Saturday in WEL parking spot. If you get a ticket, it’s yours. We structional material, handouts and assorted other 2.304. Signs will be can’t make tickets go away. goodies. Check them out! posted. • BADGES • CERTIFICATES You can pick up your badges from the regis- Certificates, lists of award winners, newspaper tration desk. Please wear them. rating booklets and other materials will be mailed to schools after the convention. Unclaimed med- als and plaques will also be mailed after the con- vention.

UIL Executive Director welcomes you CONVENTION STAFF On behalf of student journalism program. It is the University our hope that you will develop a deep • Jeanne Acton — convention director Interscholastic appreciation for the communications • Lisa Atkins — event coordinator League, it is process and a greater understanding • Glenda Muñoz — event coordinator my honor to of the press in our society. The press • Jenny Nichols — event coordinator welcome you to brings us a better understanding of • Stephanie Marcu — ILPC graduate assistant The University of the world around us and should be Texas at Austin truly appreciated. • John Trowbridge — convention assistant for the 89th Whether you later attend The • Lauren Kelley— student intern annual ILPC University of Texas at Austin or State Convention. another university to pursue a career BUILDING KEY For almost nine decades, the in journalism or follow another UIL and The University of Texas at path to the future, we are pleased •WEL- Welch Hall Austin have worked closely to provide to introduce you to Austin and • WCH - Will C. Hogg Building student journalists with the best The University. I hope you have a • PAI - Painter Hall possible resources to develop a passion successful convention. Welcome to •GEA - Gearing Hall for journalism because we understand Austin! • WAG - Waggener Hall the educational benefits derived Charles Breithaupt • PHR - Pharmacy Building from participation in a quality UIL Executive Director 3 ILPC Convention • 2015-16 Welcome to the 2016 Convention

Overview of Schedule Saturday, April 16 8:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. — Registration in Welch Hall (ground level) 10 - 10:45 — Featured Q&A session • Lisa Falkenberg, Houston Chronicle WEL 2.224 11 - 11: 45 a.m. — Keynote Speaker • Jessica Luther, freelance writer/reporter WEL 2.224 11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m. — Advisers’ luncheon • WEL 2.304 1 - 1:45 p.m. — Break-out sessions 2 - 2:45 p.m. — Break-out sessions 3 - 3:45 p.m. — Break-out sessions 4 - 4:45 p.m. — Break-out sessions 5 - 5:30 p.m. — Announcement of Tops in Texas IAA champions • WEL 2.224

Sunday, April 17 9 - 9:45 a.m. — Break-out sessions 10 - 10:45 a.m. — Break-out sessions 11:10 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. — Grand Awards Assembly at LBJ Auditorium

Important Stuff You Should Know TAJE Meeting Tops in Texas 4 p.m. Saturday, April 16 Winners of the Tops in Texas Individual This semi-annual general meeting of the Achievement Awards Texas Association of Journalism Educators will be announced and provides teachers a chance to get involved, to medals presented at 5 p.m. make their voices heard and to discuss issues Saturday in WEL 2.224. and events affecting Texas scholastic journal- Follow the signs. ism. Officers will be introduced and com- This awards convocation should last no mittees will report during the meeting. WEL more than 30 minutes. Medals not received 2.312. during the presentation will be mailed to schools after the convention. 4 ILPC Convention • 2015-16 More Important Stuff You Should Know Special Presentation ... What does it take to win? Q&A Session Take a look. (moderated by Bobby Hawthorne) The Yearbook with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Individual Columnist Lisa Falkenberg Achievement 10 a.m. Saturday • WEL 2.224 Award winners, Lisa Falkenberg has been a Houston Chron- icle metro columnist since 2007. She writes twice Newspaper weekly on topics ranging from politics to education IAA winners to the death penalty. A sixth-generation Texan, Lisa is the daughter of a truck driver and a homemaker, and Broadcast born and raised in Seguin. She got her start in journalism at the high school newspaper, the Cricket Chirps, and was the first in her family to winners will be attend college. While studying journalism at the University of Texas, she posted online. covered the Texas Legislature for two news bureaus. She joined The Associated Press’ Dallas bureau in 2001 and the Houston Chronicle in Look for 2005. Her columns have earned numerous state and national awards, handouts at the including top honors from the American Society of News Editors and the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors. In 2014 she was named a fi- registration table with the links. nalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. In 2015, she won the Pulitzer Prize. She is the proud mother of two daughters, ages 6 and 3. Featured Speakers

◆ Ross Ramsey is executive editor and ◆ Jason Stanford, a politcal con- co-founder of The Texas Tribune. Before sultant, a syndicated columnist and blog- joining the Tribune, Ross was editor and ger, got into politics because he wanted to co-owner of Texas Weekly for 15 years. be a spy. He majored in Russian at Lewis He did a 28-month stint in government as & Clark College. Unfortunately, (well, just associate deputy comptroller for policy and for his career), the Cold War ended while director of communications with the Texas he was in college, and the job market for Comptroller of Public Accounts. Before Russian-speaking spies dried up. So in that, he reported for the Houston Chronicle 1992 Jason spent his last semester in from its Austin bureau and for the Dallas Moscow and landed two jobs in journalism. Times Herald, first on the business desk in In one, he led a partially successful strike Dallas and later as its Austin bureau chief, of foreign workers against a Russian boss. and worked as a Dallas-based freelance business writer, writing In the other, for the Moscow bureau of the Los Angeles Times, he for regional and national magazines and newspapers. Ross got his uncovered the diversion of U.S. economic aid to Boris Yeltsin’s start in journalism in broadcasting, covering news for radio stations political party. in Denton and Dallas. After two years of long, bitter winters and odd career choices, He will present “How to Get Ready for a Career in Journalism” Jason moved to Texas and went to work for Gov. Ann Richards’ re- at 1 p.m. Saturday in WEL 2.308 election campaign against George W. Bush. As a political consul- tant, he has worked on more than 200 campaigns in 41 states. His ◆ Rodney Gibbs ensures The Texas Tribune leverages technology wisely and cre- clients have included 25 Members of Congress, three Governors, atively across all aspects of the organization. Fortune 500 corporations, the AFL-CIO, and the National Abortion He has started two digital media companies. Rights Action League, among many others. The first, Fizz Factor, developed handheld Several national media sources have featured Jason’s views games for Nintendo and Sony platforms. on negative campaigning and modern politics, including NPR’s “All The second, Ricochet Labs, created social- Things Considered” and “To the Point,” CNN Money, the Fox News mobile games for news and entertainment Channel, Late Night Live on ABC Australia, Columbia Radio News, brands, including the BBC, Lollapalooza, Jane Magazine, Harper’s, Atlantic Monthly, the Christian Science and The Texas Tribune. Active in the digital Monitor, the New York Times, the National Journal, Australian media community, Rodney serves on the Magazine, and FHM. Jason has written op-eds for the Austin boards of KUT, Austin’s NPR affiliate; the American-Statesman, is a semi-regular contributor of opinion Austin Film Society; and KLRU, Austin’s PBS affiliate. He has a pieces to The Texas Tribune, and is a frequent talk show guest on bachelor’s degree in sociology from Rice University and a MFA from KRLD, the Dallas CBS radio affiliate, and “Inside Texas Politics,” the The University of Texas. Sunday morning news show on Dallas’ ABC affiliate. He will present “Social Butterfly” on Sunday at 10 a.m. He will present “How to be a Horrible Columnist” at 1 p.m. in WEL 2.308. Saturday in WEL 1.316. 5 ILPC Convention • 2015-16 Keynote Speaker sponsored by Walsworth Publishing

Jessica Luther Saturday 11 a.m. in WEL 2.224

Jessica Luther is an independent writer and investigative journalist living in Austin, Texas. Her work on sports and culture has appeared in the Texas Observer and the Austin Chronicle, and at Sports Illustrated, Texas Monthly, Vice Sports, Guardian Sport, and Bleacher Report. Her work gained national attention in August 2015 when writing for Texas Monthly. She and Dan Solomon broke open the story about a Baylor football player on trial for sexual assault, a case known by only a few in the community and not reported in the media for nearly two years. She is currently writing a book for Akashic Books on the intersection of college football and sexual assault, due on shelves in fall 2016. Luther did not attend journalism school but instead took a winding path through aca- demia to get to where she is now. She earned her Masters in Latin Literature in 2004 from the University of Texas, then transferred into the history department. Many years later and without a PhD in hand, she decided academia was not for her and decided to leave graduate school to pursue writing full time.

6 ILPC Convention • 2015-16 STAFF SPIRIT.

Because you share goals and spend so much time together, your staff may feel more like a family than a class or club. With activities to get to know each other better, suggestions for strengthening staff ties and ideas for inevitable celebrations, yearbookdiscoveries.com with its showcase, blog and resources has something for everyone.

AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO JOE HARDT, BOBBY SPEARS, SHAY TSCHIRHART DALLAS RONDA CULLEN, ANGIE HACKETT, STEPHANIE HECKE ILPC Convention • 2015-16 7 NORTHEAST TEXAS BEN CARTER 1 p.m. Saturday, April 16

10 Shots You Got to Get Saving Face: Everyone on Staff Takes Benjamin Franklin and (Well, maybe more than 10) Photos the Skills that Last WAG 101 WEL 3.502 WEL 2.256 Get these shots every time to go out to shoot, Students say they appreciate beautifully de- Come talk with this veteran journalist and learn and you’ll produce award-winning packages signed and well-written yearbooks but all of us how Franklin’s story shows the immense value and PSAs and movies. David Knight are awed by great photography. Starting now: of learning jouranlism, even if you might not Staff members must pick up a camera and do become a journalist. John Lowe How to Get Ready more than take posed photos of teachers sit- for a Career in Journalism ting at clean desks and students posing in the What’s Old is New Again: WEL 2.308 hallways...time to kick those age-old images to Why Community Papers Matter This session will explore what will set you the curb! Bruce Watterson WEL 1.308 apart, what you can expect and how to think Even as the big metros downsize and Internet about a career that will almost certainly change Mastering the One-Person Band sources aggregate “content” -- stories -- for — dramatically — every time you start to get WEL 2.312 the latest digital devices, good, old-fashioned comfortable. The short form: Read your head This session will look at how a one-woman- print reporting continues to have an impact in off. Mind your writing. Be terrified by mistakes band journalist handles multiple roles in report- local neighborhoods through niche community and sloppy thinking. Don’t do this if your curios- ing, shooting and editing. Alicia Inns newspapers.The trick today is combining the ity is weaker than your shyness. And don’t solid print product with these emerging plat- over-specialize. Ross Ramsey Done Isn’t the Goal. Great is forms. Thomas Edwards GEA105 The Unsung HERO We’ve just suffered through spring delivery How to be a Horrible Columnist WEL 2.246 deadline. It’s worth the extra work to make WEL 1.316 Adobe Bridge to the file management rescue. it great. Start planning now for great. Lori This nationally syndicated columnist and politi- Learn how to use this under-utilized, time- Oglesbee cal consultant knows. He’s been a columnist saver for your publication and photography twice in his life, once as a 22-year-old editor of workflow. Incorporate batch color correction in Love Your Environment an expatriate weekly magazine in Moscow, and RAW to save time and achieve consistency in PAI 4.42 now, almost twice again that old, with a weekly your photos. Use ratings and editing cues so Learn the basic dos and don’ts for Environ- syndicated column and regular contributions that the best photos make it into the publica- mental Portraits. Look at examples and discuss to the Austin American-Statesman and Texas tion. Most advisers know about this program, practical strategies. Kristen Scott. Monthly’s website. Learn how to avoid the mis- but few use it effectively within their workflow. takes he’s learned, how to write a solid column, Come get some ideas to start incorporating its Build your Dream Home for your Words how to place it and how to be really, really good super power. This session is especially helpful WAG 420 at it. Jason Stanford for advisers, editors or photography students. Our mission: to entertain and inform high school Angela Garrison student athletes who are girls or gender noncon- How Not to Lose your Mind in the forming to make the world better for them. Want Modern Age of Internet-based Reporting Don’t Be Afraid! to help us build a platform for these stories? PHR 2.108 WAG 201 We’ll feature reported pieces and essays—by Online journalism is a terrifying frontier filled with Do you hate interview assignments? Are you journalists like you, plus established writers and fake news sites that routinely game Facebook, afraid of upperclassmen? Does the football college and/or professional athletes. In this ses- predatory business models that run on exploit- coach scare you? Come learn simple tips and sion, help us build an outlet you’d love to write ing young writers, dishonest tabloids, and we’re techniques that will help you overcome the fear for (or have your students write for). We’ll have all at the mercy of social media. Where is the in- of interviewing. Dixie McGrath prompts, and we’ll mostly be listening. **Journal- centive to invest the resources required for long ism educators are very welcome, and will have features that require actual reporting when LOL What About College? a separate mini-session and prompts.** Katie cat videos are going to get 100 times as much PHR 2.110 Matlack and Jessica Luther traffic? This session will tackle the modern chal- So you’ve got all these communications skills lenges to bringing real journalism to the online from your years on the varsity journalism team. ATPI Portfolio Drop-off age, by an editor of a media organization that is What can you do with them in college? Here WCH 1.120 thriving in this arena. Ramon Ramirez are your options. Here are the possibilities. Students can drop off portfolios to Andrea Negri. Scott Winter Always a Distinguished Merit Break Free but Never a Star? About Face PAI 2.48 WAG 214 PAI 3.02 Most writers dream of becoming a freelancer. Or stuck at Achievement but don’t know where Taking a picture of someone mugging for the It’s a chance to be your own boss, call your to go next? Critiques usually hit the highs camera is easy. Making a meaningful portrait is own shots, write the stories you want to write. and lows, but miss the details. While carefully another story, a deeper story that goes beyond Freelancing can be wonderful, but only if you comparing your publication to state and na- the surface. This session will show you how to approach it with your eyes open to practical tional score books, you’ll learn where to apply make powerful portraits for your school publi- realities. This session will explain some of those competition standards to pull in more points. cations through trust, technique and expres- realities and show ways to make freelancing Must have a copy of your publication. Editors sion. James Kenney work. Sean Price and advisers only. Rebecca Plumley 8 ILPC Convention • 2015-16 June THINK 27-30 SUMMER Think Gloria Shields All-American Publications Workshop

Newspaper Classes| • Feature Writing| • Newspaper Editorial Leadership • | Specialized Writing • Publication Design| • Online Publishing| • Boot Camp for Newspaper| • Yearbook Classes| • Yearbook Design and Concepts | • Yearbook Editors | • Boot Camp for Yearbook| • Photography/Video/Graphics Classes| • Beginning InDesign| • Advanced InDesign| • Beginning Photo| • Intermediate Photo| • Advanced Photo| • Beginning Video| • *prices increase June 6 Advanced Video • REGISTRATION $110 * * yearbook company consultant sessions will be available (Bonus classes in Photoshop, illustrator, basic photo, Profile writing on June 26) sponsored by Dallas County Schools Dallas Marriott quorum Hotel www.gloriashieldsworkshop.com @gs|workshop #gloriashields • http://www.facebook.com/GloriaShieldsWorkshop 9 ILPC Convention • 2015-16 2 p.m. Saturday, April 16

Writing Power Columns Covering Hurricane Katrina Thinking Outside the Pie Chart WAG 101 WEL 1.308 WAG 420 Great personal columns can change your read- This Dallas Morning News Photographer was Creating visualized articles for print and online is ers’ lives. Bad ones are a waste of paper. among the team of eight photojournalists who vital for your publication. Learn how to go from Get tips on writing the great ones. David Knight won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News graphic designer to graphics reporter by syn- Photography for their gripping images that thesizing interviews, survey data, and research Interviewing for Video showed the pain, chaos and suffering after to create engaging, in-depth infographics for WEL 2.312 Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. Come see your readers. Be prepared to brainstorm visual- Good interviews make good video. But how the photos and share in the experiences. Irwin ized article ideas to use in your print or online do you ask the right questions to get good Thompson publication. Erin Cristales answers? The success of your stories hinges largely on the quality of video and audio you Beginning InDesign capture for your interviews. Alicia Inns PHR 2.114 Making the Transformation Get a start on the premier layout software for WEL 1.316 What’s Your Story? publishing. See how the basic tools of the Documentaries and docu-series are powerful WEL 2.224 program can give you the look to attract your vessels for sharing factual content. Ever won- As a former NYC-based field producer for ABC readers. Hal Schmidt dered what it takes to transform information News and Al Jazeera America, Ashley Jennings into powerful docs? Tips on how to turn pivotal spent years covering some of the country’s DOF & Sports and cultural moments into long-form storytell- most devastating and influential news stories. PAI 3.02 ing. Laura Annalora She’ll take students through her network news Do you want your sports pictures to stand out journey and discuss the importance of network- and get noticed? Understanding depth of field Behind The Story ing and digital storytelling in an ever-changing is a key factor to making clean sports images. PAI 2.48 media landscape. Ashley Jennings. This session will show you how to make imme- Let’s take a close-up look at the process diate improvements in your sports photography behind one good feature story. We’ll discover Immigration and Border Security (and the rest of your photography) by breaking what the writer did that worked, what didn’t WCH 1.120 down the three key elements that control depth work, and how he made adjustments on the Immigration is more than a debate. It’s about of field. James Kenney fly. Then we’ll find some takeaways so we can real people, real lives. For the last seven years, produce great stories as well. Corey Hale this Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist has The PSA: So Many Feels been working on a long-term photo essay on PHR 2.110 Questions Anyone? immigration and border security issues. He Use video public service announcements to GEA 105 traveled to southern Mexico and rode atop bring your audience’s attention to an important An informal Q&A session regarding report- freight trains with Central Americans as they issue or topic. In this session, you’ll laugh. ing and writing. No need to bring or think up made their perilous journey north to try and You’ll cry. You’ll learn how it’s done. Alyssa questions. The speaker will bring his own. cross illegally into the United States. He flew Boehringer All you need to do is listen and learn. Bobby in helicopters with U.S. immigration agents as Hawthorne they looked for smugglers bringing people and Shooting for the Edit drugs into Texas, Arizona and California. He WAG 201 Title I Adviser Roundtable photographed in U.S. immigration prisons and Come learn how to maximize your editing WEL 2.256 documented deportations. John Moore choices and improve the visual appeal of your Meet with other Title I teachers and share ideas video journalism stories. David Robb about funding, recruiting and more. Bring your Let’s Have Some Fun questions about and solutions to challenges WAG 214 There’s An App For That! you’ve faced in your school and community. Promise you’re going to have a little more fun WEL 2.308 Andrea Negri and Laura Negri every year, then deadlines happen? Me, too! Whether it’s for a journalism class, another sub- Sprinkling happiness through the 2017 year- ject or school assignment, multimedia apps are You Can Copy if You Want book cycle can be easier if you pre-purchase your buddy for interactive stories or projects. In PHR 2.108 supplies and pre-plan the activities. Come to this session you will learn about the best apps Photos are awesome but you can’t tell the get a planner full of ideas (with a shopping list) to enhance your yearbook including photogra- story of the year without a STORY--any kind. and be prepared to share fun ideas that have phy, design, writing, etc. Also get the lowdown Copy any and all of these ways to write great worked for your staff. Rebecca Plumley on the latest sites that will boost your multi- yearbook copy. Charla Harris media game whether you choose to use these Personality Type sites for additional content that didn’t make it in Get the Sports Ball Rolling PAI 4.42 your yearbook or for a personal project, these WEL 2.246 The basics of typography and how to use fonts sites will help your content shine and make you Sportswriting: It’s not all about games and to develop and sustain identity in your publica- look like the pro you already know you are! Alex statistics. What you can do now to land the tion. Kristen Scott McCauley and Mary Elam coolest job in the world when you graduate college. Suzanne Halliburton

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24 Great Leads – and Some Bad And You Thought Print was Dead. You Can’t Do it Alone Ones, too No way! WEL 2.246 WAG 101 WEL 2.256 One of the toughest things about being an edi- A boring lead can doom a great story that But it has changed. Many of us are getting our tor is realizing that you can’t do everything. But you spent hours interviewing, researching and news from places like Twitter where we can get then, you ask, how will anything ever get done writing. See examples of great leads that grab snippets on info in 140 characters and move if I don’t do it myself? This session will help you readers/ And get tips on avoiding cop-out leads on, but what happens when we want more figure that out. From learning how to delegate that turn readers off. David Knight details? There’s a journalist somewhere, hope- duties to determining what gets covered and fully, writing that story for us to find and peruse. who should cover it, this session will help young Ebola in Liberia Whatever the medium, there are certain skills editors develop a game plan to keep their publi- WCH 1.120 every journalist needs. And while some print cations and websites running smoothly, even The Ebola epidemic, which began in 2014 outlets are closing their doors and transitioning under the most stressful situations. Be ready to and ended in January 2016, killed more than to more digital formats, there is one in Texas share your own thoughts, ideas and questions. 11,000 people, making it the worst outbreak in who is doing the opposite and thriving. This But first, here’s a simple pre-session tip: it’s OK history. John Moore was the first photojournal- session is part presentation and part Q&A. to say no. Selwyn Crawford ist to travel to Liberia to extensively cover the Bring your questions and let’s have a conversa- epidemic. Working in some of the most life- tion about what’s happening in the print world Social Media and Journalism threatening conditions, he worked in hazmat today: good, bad or otherwise. And what you WEL 2.224 suits to keep himself safe while photographing need to know as you pursue a career in journal- Social media has dramatically shifted how sick and dying people in Liberia’s capital city ism. Melinda Brasher journalists do their jobs, giving the additional of Monrovia, as the disease spread for the first responsibilities, as well as an outlet to connect time in a dense urban area. His coverage has The Big Sports Story directly with the public. This session will explore been credited with bringing the humanitarian PHR 2.110 the benefits of using social media as a journalis- disaster to the world’s attention and adding a Our job in sports is to take readers and viewers tic tool, as well as prepare the students to avoid sense of urgency to the halting international where they can’t go. And always chase stories the pitfalls. Gina Chen response to the crisis, months before the virus that could make the front page. What’s the came to Texas. John Moore sports story you have to tell? Ricky Bobby’s story? Jackie Moon’s? Radio’s? Scott Winter The Sales Pitch The Big Reveal WEL 1.316 WEL 2.312 This time of year, most of you look at your book As a comedian, you can’t give away the punch- Covering Hurricane Katrina sales and your heart goes to your feet. Book line right away. Storytelling is the same way – a WEL 1.308 sales could be low due to lower enrollment look at how to keep the viewer on their toes This Dallas Morning News Photographer was number or that you simply haven’t had time to through specific writing. Alicia Inns among the team of eight photojournalists who focus on it. Regardless of why, it’s not too late won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News to get those numbers back up. Let us help you Engage, Listen and Follow Up Photography for their gripping images that discover new ways to sell more books. Joe WEL 3.502 showed the pain, chaos and suffering after Hur- Hardt and Bobby Spears Learn how to create a concrete connection (in ricane Katrina hit New Orleans. He will share his words) with your readers. Solid student-centric photos and his experiences with the audience. Need a Boost? storytelling eliminates cliche and annoying Irwin Thompson PHR 2.108 editorializing. The result: No more impatient That’s what a journalism booster club can do readers who hesitate but actually stop and read Video Storytelling: Merging Word, for your program. Find out how to start one and your stories!! Bruce Watterson Image and the Timeline how a booster club can help with events and WEL 2.308 activities --and help you raise money. Guaran- It’s All About Me There’s more to a video story than grabbing a teed to make your life easier. Charla Harris and PAI 2.48 few shots to slap onto a script. This session Rebecca Potter Well, it’s not really about me, but this new will help students learn to “think visually” as teacher session will share some tips and tricks they conceptualize video stories, plan them, Mastering the Basics to make your job as an adviser a little easier. shoot the elements, then combine them into WEL 2.304 Take it from this seasoned adviser- letting go stories that will make site visitors want to click The print adviser for Texas Student Media (Uni- can be a lifesaver. Cindy Berry and click again. Mary Angela Bock versity of Texas) who has 20 years experience in the newspaper industry will share how to go Why is this so Good? Beginning Photoshop beyond the 5Ws and H, how to carry yourself in WAG 201 PHR 2.114 an interview and why attribution is so important. In this session, we’ll analyze several video jour- Get a start on the premier photo-editing soft- The session will also explore how to generate nalism stories and determine what makes them ware. See how the basic tools of the program story ideas and review basic story structure. effective. David Robb can give improve your photos and make your Peter Chen publications pop. Hal Schmidt

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TAJE Business Meeting Searching for Answers Jocks, Jerk, Jugheads & Journalists WEL 2.312 WEL 2.256 GEA 105 All advisers are encouraged to attend the TAJE Non-paid search drives half of all Internet traffic. You have an opinion about Jerry Jones? Well, business meeting. TAJE (Texas Association Join two search engine optimization (SEO) I do, too. What a shock. And guess what? No of Journalism Educators) officers will discuss experts in learning how to give your news site one cares because I don’t know Jerry Jones upcoming events and opportunities. more visibility on Google and other search and I have no insight beyond what I read or engines. You’ll come back to school with some hear on TV. To be taken seriously as a sports The Story of LearnTV easy tips and tricks for SEO that you can use columnist, you need access and intelligence. WAG 101 to get more visitors to your website. Julianne Otherwise, you’re just another squawking horn How students produce more than 250 30-min Coyne and Meg Nanson in the traffic jam. Bobby Hawthorne shows a school year to air on their local cable channel. David Knight Journalism and the Law Hindsight is 20/20 WEL 2.246 WAG 201 America at War This media lawyer will give a survey of legal Training new staffers is no easy task. Come WCH 1.120 Issues for journalists and give brief overviews learn tips from this broadcast staff on how they This Lone Star native will share some of his of important media laws. He also will give the train newbies, and hear the staff’s lists of things best work and harrowing experiences from audience time for questions. David Donaldson they wish they knew when they joined the staff. years of traveling to war zones. John Moore Tasha Shelton and staff traveled to northern Iraq and Syria last No- Reporting Responsibly vember to show how America’s Kurdish allies on Gender Issues Hone Your Skills. are fighting ISIS on the ground and just this WEL 2.308 Become a Journalism Commando! January got rare access to a US base at an Telling the truth in a fair and factual way seems WAG 214 undisclosed location in the Middle East where simple, until we’re faced with the everyday Mission: Enlist and conquer your assignments American drones fly airstrikes against ISIS tar- realities of people and politics. This session with the skills reviewed in this session. No gets in the region. WARNING: Graphic photos. will address how to cover some of the more military experience required. How do photog- John Moore controversial and sexy issues of the day without raphers get “that” shot that makes an editor falling prey to stereotypes. Mary Angela Bock scream, “Cover!”? How can you engage your Show Me Something readers and ‘tell the story’? This session will PHR 2.110 “How Do I” using InDesign? explore these topics and how the tech you use It’s one thing to say the crowd was electric. It’s PHR 2.108 has progressed and what you can do with your another to say the three nuns behind the home Have you ever asked that question? Here’s journalism skills in the future. Ron Burke bench swore up a storm at officials in the fourth your chance to ask it. Go beyond the basics quarter. Show us your stories folks, don’t tell of this powerful layout program. Come with Q & A with Texas Student Media Staff them. Scott Winter questions about your publications and layouts. WEL 2.304 Hal Schmidt What’s it like to work in college media? What Navigating in a World of too Many do students need to know for college? Bring Color and Type Options... Radio’s So Rad your questions to a team of editors and staffers WEL 3.502 WEL 2.224 from the award-winning University of Texas Ready to walk out of a session with at least a Sound has a unique way of captivating its publications. After the session, students have dozen ideas you can use to make pages more listeners while also letting them run free to the option to tour the Daily Texan offices with visually attractive? Ready to create graphic imagine the scene they’re hearing. This leads the presenters. patterns and “can’t stop looking at” spread to fun radio journalism like Radiolab, Criminal designs? Join us! Bruce Watterson and memory palace. In this session, we’ll hear Student SWAP examples of creative use of sound. Then, using WEL 1.316 If you Organize it, They Will Follow our smartphones and the world around us, This is an informal session for students to swap PAI 2.48 we’ll try it out ourselves. Audrey McGlinchy newspapers and/or other material. Bring your Trello is a free online staff organization tool that ideas, your questions, your conversations. is powerful and can be used for any kind of Do the Write Thing Academic Director David Stevens will serve as tasks you need completed. Come see how us- PAI 3.02 the guide/moderator, if necessary. ing Trello has helped our staff not only organize As a photojournalist, you have an obligation to task for both yearbook and our online newspa- report the story with both your images and your per but also helped us track story progress and words. This session will cover techniques that deadlines. We will provide live examples and will help you write powerful captions that will have staff members on hand to give you first significantly contribute to the stories revealed in hand advice on how to navigate the process your photographs. James Kenney and use this powerful online tool. James Rich

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It’s the Little Things Celebrate Later —Take Photos Now Consider This WAG 101 PAI 2.48 PAI 3.02 Find out what makes a great editor. And So many times photographers forget When working with people to accurately how the little things make great writing what they are at the event for. Do not and truthfully tell their stories, journalists even better. David Knight get caught up in the moment and miss sometimes find themselves in the midst of the best photos of the day just because an ethical dilemma. This session will pose Q&A you are cheering for your team. Nearly all some ethical questions through examples WCH 1.120 the great shots happen within seconds that will help prepare you for the difficult Students will have the opportunity to ask after the play is over. Do not be a victim of decisions you will face while covering the questions of this globetrotting photogra- image surfing or shouting and miss your news. James Kenney pher. John Moore prime opportunity. Come see some Award Winning shots that were taken merely sec- How to Turn a Story into a Feature Interested in CTE? onds after the play ended. James Rich GEA 105 WEL 2.256 I’m going to tell you a couple of stories. This roundtable session provides tips for Don’t Fear the Long Story One or two of them are funny and happy. advisers on taking the CTE ExCet and how WEL 2.312 One or two are serious and sad. Then, I’m CTE can help journalism classes thrive. Su- Well developed narrative stories scare going to show you how I turned each story san Duncan, Shannon Page, Becky Davis page designers, but they’re the ones that into a personality portrait, a news-feature students talk about on campus and win or an opinion column. Bobby Hawthorne Start a Movement awards. This session will give tips on how WEL 2.224 to find and write vivid stories that capture Back to the Basics Student publications should be doing the and hold the attention of your audience. PAI 4.42 kinds of media that would leave a mark on LaJuana Hale Tired of seeing fuzzy, dark sports pho- their schools. The kinds of stories that start tographs in your publications? Using the movements in your hallways. We’ll look What Not To Wear right equipment and camera settings make at some examples of journalists who are WEL 2.246 all the difference. This session will offer making a difference. Scott Winter Let’s look at the yearbook, examine its tips for getting quality photographs under wardrobe and then shop for more flattering difficult lighting conditions. Demonstrations Designer’s Tool Kit: Part One looks. Lori Oglesbee will include wireless flash photography us- WEL 3.502 ing commander flashes and pocket wizard In this first of a two-part series, students 10 Keys to Better Writing units. We also will use tethered shooting to from yearbook and newspaper publica- WEL 1.316 immediately illustrate the different f-stops, tions will engage in a closer look at design An examination of ten time-tested ways to shutter. Wade Kennedy concepts including design inspiration, improve your writing today. This presenta- appeal to emotion, marriage of elements, tion covers everything from personal style, photography and photo packaging. Bruce to use of clauses, eliminating extra words, Watterson tone and inflection. Brian Davis

Taking Home the Win A Day at the Ballpark WEL 2.308 WEL 1.308 Two experiences judges will talk about How to find sports stories no one else is what it takes to win state and national doing — even if you know nothing about awards. They will have examples and tips sports (includes short documentary video for improving your publications. Bring and story-finding exercise). Kevin Robbins your questions. Mary Pulliam and Rhonda Moore

16 ILPC Convention • 2015-16 ADVISER ACADEM‘‘ Y KANSAS CITY | JULY 11-13, 2016

Hands down the best professional development training I have ever attended. My confidence is through the roof! As a first-year adviser, I am walking in the door on day one excited and ready to create something awesome with my yearbook staff! ‘‘ - David Mitchell, yearbook adviser, Spokane High School, Spokane, Missouri Prepare yourself for your best year yet by joining us at our 2016 Adviser Academy in Kansas City! YOU WON’T WANT TO MISS: • Track sessions specifically designed for new Knowledgeable yearbook instructors will show you how and veteran advisers to find inspiration, get organized and tap into the latest • Track for middle school advisers trends to help you teach your staff. Get three full days • General sessions with Mike Taylor of classes, with the option to tour Walsworth’s printing • Intensive Online Design 2017 training, facilities or attend advanced tech training in Online Design beginning through advanced 2017, InDesign or Photoshop. Plus, meet and brainstorm • InDesign and Photoshop training with advisers from across the country and leave with the • Specialized breakout sessions support of an entire network and amazing resources. AWARD-WINNING TRACK INSTRUCTORS: DATES: • Track 1: Jill Chittum, MJE, and July 11-13; optional plant tour or advanced tech training Sabrina Schmitz, CJE, Walsworth Yearbooks on July 14 sales representatives and former advisers • Track 2: Renee Burke, NBCT, MJE, PLACE: 2015 Yearbook Adviser of the Year, adviser, Kansas City Marriott Downtown Boone High School, Orlando, Florida, and Lori Oglesbee, M.Ed., MJE, 2009 Yearbook COST/DEADLINE: Adviser of the Year, adviser, McKinney High • $400 until May 31 School, McKinney, Texas • $450 June 1 - June 10 • Middle School: Allie Staub, yearbook adviser, Westfield Middle School, Westfield, Indiana REGISTER ONLINE AT: walsworthyearbooks.com/adviseracademy

17 ILPC Convention • 2015-16 walsworthyearbooks.com 10 a.m. Sunday, April 17

30-seconds to Change the World Duct Tape and High Funkadelity Social Butterfly WAG 101 WEL 2.224 WEL 2.308 See some great public service announce- Just because we’re journalism-geeky Anyone can snap or tweet. Driving social ments that will change the way you see the enough to spend nights and weekends media for a news org also demands an world and get tips on making your own. making newspapers and yearbooks and understanding of analytics, experimenta- David Knight broadcasts, even traveling across the state tion, research and partnerships. Using The and country to talk journalism, doesn’t Texas Tribune’s social media channels as a What Deadline? mean we can’t enjoy it. We’ll cover 437 starting point, we’ll examine how engaging WEL 1.316 ideas to make journalism more fun. And users with news content requires much Growing your personal brand in a 24/7 most of them aren’t even that naughty. more than penning clever tweets. Rodney news environment. More publications are Scott Winter Gibbs shifting away from the traditional print product and going online. With that move, Designer’s Tool Kit: Part Two editors are now watching your analytics WEL 3.502 Storytelling on Facebook and Twitter. How can you In this second session, designers will begin WEL 1.308 write, publish and flourish in this digital to dream their publications into the future If the copy is not strong and compelling, environment when — and this is the truth by analyzing type, dominance, design you will lose your readers. In this ses- — journalism is now measured in clicks. hierarchy, scale and relationship, contrast, sion, students will learn how to use their Brian Davis negative space and mods. Join us to begin interviews and material to weave a story to filling your tool kit with graphics you can captivate their readers. Kevin Robbins Pakistan on the Brink implement immediately. Bruce Watterson WCH 1.120 From Idea to Moment John Moore was based in Islamabad, Here Comes the Pitch: Now What? PAI 3.02 Pakistan, for three years and documented WEL 2.256 Great images are made long before you the country’s slide into instability, with the Let’s have a true rundown meeting with push the shutter button. Coming up with Pakistani Taliban gaining control of much pitches and story ideas on the table. We’ll good ideas, doing your research and talk- of the territory near the Afghan border and discuss where and how to begin the pitch- ing to the key people involved in a story extremists continuing to carry out suicide to-package process. Bring your ideas – in other words, good reporting – is the bomb attacks in urban centers formerly and be ready to take plenty of ideas back key to making photographs that make a considered safe. John will show his years to your newsrooms. Broadcast and print difference. James Kenney of work covering the hard news events media welcome. James Longoria that made international headlines and delv- New Technology Sharing Session ing deeper into a country rarely glimpsed You Don’t Suck PAI 2.48 anymore by Western journalists. John WEL 2.312 What types of mobile apps, cameras, Moore Failing in every way possible-- including not recording equipment is your newspaper finalizing a ladder for a spring book until using? This session offers the techies from Not Your Parent’s Online Newspaper mid-March-- my group knows a lot about all over the state to share what is working WAG 201 failure. Enjoy commiserating with me while at their school so that others can learn In modern scholastic and professional also learning about your true successes. from those on the front lines of high school journalism, it’s not enough just to create Take it from this type A perfectionist who journalism. Session features an explanation a digital counterpart to your print edition. has failed all year. It is through failure that of how to use Trello, Slack and Aurasma. This session will consider the ways that we learn. Rebecca Plumley David Doerr social media and your website can expand your audience and create greater interest Satire both on your campus and beyond it. Mak- WEL 2.246 ing your online presence an equal to your This election season requires that you print work can make your journalistic work master the art of satire. Lori Oglesbee more real and have a much greater impact on the world around you. Dave Winter

18 ILPC Convention • 2015-16 NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED STUDENT MEDIA by Columbia Scholastic Press Association

Start at a community college. Newspaper ranked Graduate from Baylor. Top 10 in 2013, 2014, 2015 Through Baylor Bound, students Yearbook ranked begin their college education at Top 5 in 2013, 2014, 2015 a participating institution, follow a prescribed course sequence, and ultimately earn a degree from 2016 National Champion Baylor University. Newspaper Website baylorlariat.com Baylor Bound makes it possible to complete your Baylor degree in Baylor is the only university in the country to receive four years as a transfer student. CSPA Crown Awards for all three print categories www.baylor.edu/baylorbound of newspaper, yearbook and magazine - 2015 & 2016

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based in Nicaragua, then India, South Africa, Mexico and Egypt. He joined Getty JAMES KENNEY Images in Pakistan and worked throughout the Middle East before moving back Professor James H. Kenney received to the U.S. in 2008. his bachelor’s degree from California State Moore won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for his team coverage of the war University, Fresno, and his master’s degree from in Iraq, four World Press Photo awards over the years and the Overseas Syracuse University. He has taught at Western Press Club’s Robert Capa Gold Medal for courage in journalism for his photos Kentucky University since 1993 and has been of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan. His was the 2015 Sony the coordinator of the photojournalism program photographer of they year for his Ebola coverage in Liberia, where his work was since 2001. Kenney has taught courses in credited with speeding the international response to the epidemic, which killed photojournalism, multimedia, design and picture more than 11,000 people in West Africa. editing. He is also the director of the Mountain He travels domestically, often photographing immigration issues on the Workshops. He received the WKU Teaching U.S.-Mexico border and continues to work internationally, having returned to Award in 2001. the combat zones of northern Iraq and Syria to cover the fight against ISIS last Kenney was a photographer and photography editor for newspapers in November and gaining rare access to photograph at a secret U.S. airbase in the Las Vegas, Nevada, before entering the teaching profession. He has spent his Persian Gulf area this January. summers photographing projects in China, Thailand, Vietnam, Mongolia, Nigeria and Jamaica. He spent a summer as a photographer for the Lexington Herald- BRUCE WATTERSON Leader and worked a summer for National Geographic in their faculty fellowship Nicknamed the “yearbook whisperer” by his colleagues in the industry, C. program. In 2012, Kenney made three trips to Haiti for a documentary project Bruce Watterson has been inspiring young that was part of his sabbatical. With his son, Weston, he photographed the 2015 journalists for years, particularly those editing Tennessee Titans NFL home football games for the Associated Press. yearbooks. A pioneer in the training and use Some of Kenney’s professional credits include still photography and of Apple’s Macintosh nationwide, Watterson multimedia awards in the Best of Photojournalism 2007 and 2008 contests, a worked closely with yearbook publishers to multimedia award in the 2008 Pictures of the Year International contest, a Best make desktop publishing (DTP) resources of Show in the 2007 Southern Short Course, AEJMC’s 2008 First Prize in its available to students and advisers on both Creative Project Competition and multiple awards in the Kentucky Newspaper the scholastic and collegiate levels. Photographers Association’s Photographer of the Year contest. A frequent presenter at state, regional Kenney has spent the last two summers teaching in the Kentucky and national conventions, Watterson Governor’s Scholars Program in Louisville and will spend this summer with GSP has chaired the CSPA Crown Award at Northern Kentucky University. Kenney’s greatest reward in life is being blessed competition, judged for NSPA and CSPA with a wonderful wife, Nancy, and six incredible kids – James III, Weston, Will, critical services, and continues to maintain a Olivia, Luke and Ian. rigorous schedule of workshops, consulting with advisers and staffs across the country DAVID KNIGHT and abroad. David Knight is the public information director for Lancaster County School From the first day of his career, Watterson has worked to help staffs District and he teaches two kick-start their thinking about yearbook production. He believes innovation and broadcast journalism courses. creativity help staffs and advisers create a better, a fresher, a more desirable He has advised newspapers yearbook. His goal has always been for members of the student body to come at the high school and middle away thinking that their yearbook is essential and that their expectations have school level and a high school been fulfilled by the yearbook staff. “Readers know when some kind of ‘magic’ literary-arts magazine. He’s been is taking place as they open their yearbook. They want to be awed by creativity, presenting at ILPC longer than he uniqueness and the unexpected. It is not a coincidence that staffs pushing to do can remember. He also teaches more and to do it better sell books. They simply don’t settle for second-best.” summer workshops all over the country including the Gloria Shields SCOTT WINTER Workshop in Dallas. David has Scott Winter has been a won a few awards, but he failed to journalist and high school adviser put them in his bio. to unmentionable acclaim in three states. After nine years as JOHN MOORE the least distinguished professor John Moore is a New York City-based at the College of Journalism and senior staff photographer and special Mass Communications at the correspondent for Getty Images. He had University of Nebraska-Lincoln, previously been based internationally for he now teaches journalism at 17 years. Moore grew up in Irving, Texas, Bethel University in St. Paul, where he worked on the Irving High School Minn. newspaper and yearbook as photographer and Winter’s students have won national awards and their publications have photo editor. He graduated from the University placed in Best of Show competitions and earned Pacemakers and Hearst of Texas at Austin with a degree in Radio- Awards. Winter also has an unhealthy fascination with the band Sleater-Kinney. Television-Film and worked on The Daily Texan He eats red meat, even as a snack. for a record 11 semesters… and had four He somehow found a wife, who is a better journalist than him and made newspaper internships. After college, he began some kids. He once had a left-handed serve that made your mouth water, even working abroad for the Associated Press, first as the ball glanced off your rib cage. 20 ILPC Convention • 2015-16 **NEW CLASS** INTENSIVE UIL WRITING CLASS taught by the AMAZING Mikyela Tedder - the journalism coach with the most Team State Championships

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Photos by Summer Workshop participants Photos by Summer Workshop Austin Since 1980, ILPC summer publications workshops have set the standards for excellence. Our reputation as a workshop that stresses “work” is unequalled, and staffs that are serious about producing high-quality, journalistic publications return to UT each year. For four days, students and advisers participate in an intensive learning environment, headed by many of the nation’s finest journalism instructors. These instructors are dedicated to one goal: helping others create the finest school newspapers and yearbooks possible. Students and advisers alike return to school in August ready to tackle their jobs, whether they’re beginning reporters or veteran advisers. We offer classes in new media and video editing, web-design, various newspaper and yearbook strands, photography and design. Tuition, room and board is $225 per person, based on double-occupancy and community bath.

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Laura Annalora is a Development and marketing and as a journalism educator in Selwyn Crawford is the Justice hub editor Producer based in Austin, TX. With over 15 central Texas public schools. She thinks ILPC and director of the college intern program at years of experience, Laura has taken on various is one of the greatest assets for scholastic The Dallas Morning News. Previously, Crawford roles in production for Independent Production journalists in Texas and is happy to be back here has worked as a general assignments reporter Companies and major cable Networks. Laura’s presenting. and another stint as an assistant metro editor work has aired across multiple platforms in over at the newspaper. During that time, Crawford 170 countries; from Emmy-nominated First Ron Burke is a former Army covered courts in Tarrant County (Fort Worth) Ascent, to Banff World Television Award-winner photojournalist and English/journalism teacher. and has had several special assignments “Don’t Tell My Mother.” He joined the Army Reserves in 1995 while he including coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles was attending the University of Houston. He riots, the 1992 Democratic National Convention, Cindy Berry is in her 25th year teaching deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation the 1996 Summer Olympics, coverage of two and advising and, after 20 years in the same Enduring Freedom (2003) and to Iraq in support Super Bowls and a part in team coverage of the spot, she took a position at Eaton High School, of Operation Iraqi Freedom (2009) where he reaction to the O. J. Simpson murder trial. More a brand new school in North Fort Worth, and covered events for the Army. His work has been recently, Crawford directed coverage of a year- managed to convince her kids to complete a published throughout the military via their DIVIDS long, award-winning series on domestic violence yearbook with only freshmen and sophomores. Hub and via hometown news programs. He and is currently overseeing a project on how Challenge is in her vocabulary this year, but was the editor-in-chief of the Crossed Sabers, juvenile criminals are punished in Texas. In his change is always good. When she’s not advising the newspaper of the 1st Calvary Division while other role as director of the newspaper’s highly- publications, she’s probably creating a wedding in Iraq. He and his soldiers have won several acclaimed college intern program, Crawford cake for a local client or buying shoes 81 percent military writing and photography contests while oversees the selection of the newspaper’s off at a local department store. Oh, and she’s deployed overseas. Despite his military training, interns from an application pool of approximately the biggest UIL nerd around, still hanging on to he is a teacher first. He taught Pre-AP English at 600. A native of Gainesville, FL, Crawford is some practice material from the 80s, when she North Shore Middle School since 1998 and later a 1981 graduate of the University of Georgia. was in high school. taught yearbook and newspaper for more than a Before coming to The News in 1988, he worked decade. He got his start in journalism serving as as a reporter for seven years at the Orlando Mary Angela Bock is a former TV the sports editor on his high school’s yearbook Sentinel. journalist turned academic with an interest in staff. His students’ work has won multiple ILPC the sociology of photojournalism. Most recently, Stars and placed in the top of the state along Erin Cristales is the adviser for Red Oak she co-authored Visual Communication Theory with several CSPA Crown Awards. He loves the Middle School’s online news website RO: In the and Research with Shahira Fahmy and Wayne fact that more than 15 of his former students Know. Prior to teaching, Cristales worked as a Wanta. Her 2012 book, Video Journalism: are now teaching or are in college education journalist for 10 years, serving as features editor Beyond the One Man Band, studied the programs. He currently is kept busy as a for the Killeen Daily Herald, lead designer for relationship between solo multi-media practice Technology Instructional Specialist. the Abilene Reporter-News, and assistant news and news narrative. She teaches courses about editor for The Dallas Morning News, where she gender, reporting, and visual communication at Gina Masullo Chen is an assistant specialized in news and feature design. Cristales the University of Texas at Austin. professor in the School of Journalism at The lives in North Texas with her husband, Victor, University of Texas at Austin. She spent 20 years who also co-advises RO: In the Know. Alyssa Boehringer is in her 11th year of as a newspaper and online reporter and editor, advising broadcast and online news at her alma mostly at The Post-Standard in Syracuse, NY. Becky Davis is a former journalism mater, McKinney High School. She loves taking Prior to coming to Texas, she was an Assistant (newspaper and yearbook) adviser, state-winning kids to journalism conventions where they wear Professor for two years at The University UIL coach and CTE teacher. She currently works ugly sweaters instead of staff shirts. She also of Southern Mississippi’s School of Mass as an instructional designer for Hallsville Virtual serves as secretary for the Texas Association of Communication and Journalism. School and serves the journalism community Journalism Educators and is a JEA Distinguished through judging UIL competitions and helping Broadcast Adviser. Peter Chen is the print adviser for Texas teams hone their journalistic writing style. Student Media at The University of Texas at Melinda Brasher is general manager Austin, which means he oversees The Daily Brian Davis covers University of Texas for the Georgetown edition of Community Texan, the Cactus Yearbook and Texas Travesty athletics, primarily football and men’s basketball. Impact Newspaper, Texas’ fastest-growing humor magazine. He has 20 years experience as He started his journalism career in 1998 news organization and the most widely a daily metropolitan newspaper photographer, and started covering the Big 12 conference distributed news source for relevant and useful reporter, and videographer, mostly in Upstate extensively in 2001 for The Dallas Morning information at the community level. Since its New York. He also spent 2.5 years teaching News. He joined the Austin American-Statesman launch in 2005, Community Impact Newspaper multimedia storytelling at The University in December 2013. has restructured an antiquated model—the of Southern Mississippi’s School of Mass community newspaper—and turned it into an Communication and Journalism. David Doerr teaches Journalism 1, essential tool by providing readers with useful, newspaper, graphic design and commercial informative news. Melinda is responsible for all Julianne Coyne manages a team of 20 photography. He has taught at Akins High aspects of production, managing the editorial, Search Engine Optimization specialists, interns School in Austin for six years and currently sales and design teams to ensure the paper and team leads at an ecommerce company in advises the student newspaper The Eagle’s Eye. meets the company’s mission and serves the Austin. After graduating from UT in 2011 with a Before teaching Doerr worked as a reporter community well. In her role, Melinda works bachelor’s degree in public relations, Julianne for the Waco Tribune-Herald for almost three with local business leaders as well as leaders used her journalism and PR background to years. Doerr enjoys finding new technologies to in city, county and education sectors to tell the springboard into a career in SEO, where she enhance print and online publications. hyperlocal stories that are relevant to its readers. could user her love for writing to help small Prior to Community Impact, Melinda worked businesses find new customers. in higher ed communications, yearbook sales David H. Donaldson, Jr. is a 1973 22 ILPC Convention • 2015-16 Sessions brought to you by ...

philosophy major graduate summa cum laude a fantastic year! advises newspaper and broadcast journalism at Texas A&M and earned his J. D. in 1976 programs at Marcus High School in lovely Flower with high honors from the University of Texas Lisa Falkenberg has been a Houston Mound. She is fortunate to have staffs that Law School. After law school he clerked Chronicle metro columnist since 2007. She also think journalism is fun, and they have won for the Honorable Tom Gee on the U.S. 5th writes twice weekly on topics ranging from the NSPA Pacemaker, two CSPA Crowns and Circuit Court of Appeals before joining Graves politics to education to the death penalty. A several ILPC Gold Stars. Dougherty. He has practiced law in Austin, sixth-generation Texan, Lisa is the daughter of a Texas, since 1977 with an emphasis on media truck driver and a homemaker, born and raised Joe Hardt, a former yearbook adviser, law, intellectual property and trade secrets in Seguin. She got her start in journalism at the art teacher, and yearbook cover artist, has disputes, and general commercial litigation. He high school newspaper, the Cricket Chirps, brought a wealth of creativity and enthusiasm to has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in and was the first in her family to attend college. his customers’ yearbook classes in the Austin America in the category of First Amendment While studying journalism at the University of and Waco areas as a yearbook rep for Herff law. He served 15 years a member of the Texas Texas, she covered the Texas Legislature for Jones since 2011. He graduated from Hardin Pattern Jury Charge Committee. Mr. Donaldson two news bureaus. She joined The Associated Simmons University in Abilene with a Bachelor is a Life Fellow of the Austin Bar Foundation Press’ Dallas bureau in 2001 and the Houston degree in Graphic Design and has taught and the Texas Bar Foundation. Before retiring Chronicle in 2005. Her columns have earned secondary art, photography, graphic design, and in 2008, for over 30 years he represented numerous state and national awards, including commercial photography at the high school level numerous media clients, both print and top honors from the American Society of over a period of eight years in several districts broadcast, including The Wall Street Journal, News Editors and the Texas Associated Press throughout Central Texas. Forbes Magazine, the Associated Press, Texas Managing Editors. In 2014 she was named a Daily Newspaper Association, the Texas Press finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. Charla Harris has advised the Association, Austin American-Statesman and In 2015, she won the Pulitzer Prize. She is the publications and broadcast programs at small local newspapers, Courtroom Television, proud mother of two daughters, ages 6 and 3. Pleasant Grove High School in Texarkana for KXAN-TV, KVUE, K-EYE, and Time-Warner. 31 years, and this is her 25th straight ILPC He is on the Advisory Board for the Freedom Angela Garrison is the Walsworth Convention. Obviously, she loves journalism of Information Foundation of Texas. He has yearbook representative in the DFW area. She and ILPC and bus rides, but she is also fond of been the recipient of the Foundation’s James received her education degree from Midwestern her students who have won lots of Star, Crown Madison Award, and has received a Society University in Wichita Falls, Texas. Angela has and Pacemaker awards for their work. When of Professional Journalists’ “Friend of the First owned and operated her own photography she did one of those quizzes on Facebook, she Amendment” award. He began teaching Media studio, giving her great insight for her schools. discovered that the words she had used most in Law as an adjunct lecturer at the University of As a yearbook rep she is passionate about her posts were “Yearbook,” “Staffs,” and “Love.” Texas in the Fall of 2009. teaching photography and the entire Adobe She’s also president of TAJE and loves working Suite to make the job of publications easier and with journalism teachers across the state (join Susan Duncan is a long-time adviser of more enjoyable. TAJE at taje.org) newspapers, online newspapers, yearbooks and most recently broadcast classes. She currently Rodney Gibbs ensures The Texas Tribune Bobby Hawthorne teaches a lot of dog- teaches CTE and journalism classes at Sabine leverages technology wisely and creatively and-pony show workshops for high school High School. She is a former TAJE state director, across all aspects of the organization. He has journalists and writes a column and various president and regional representative. started two digital media companies. The first, feature stories for an education magazine Fizz Factor, developed handheld games for published by an association of Texas school Thomas Edwards is the executive editor Nintendo and Sony platforms. The second, administrators. When Bob first got involved of LOCAL Community News, a 4-year-old chain Ricochet Labs, created social-mobile games in student journalism, Richard Nixon had yet of six free, direct-mailed community newspapers for news and entertainment brands, including to hear of Watergate, the cow pastures of in San Antonio serving an audience of about the BBC, Lollapalooza, and The Texas Tribune. Woodstock remained a muddy mess after 200,000 readers. He is the former editor of Active in the digital media community, Rodney the hippy invasion, and the Beatles were two the River Cities Daily Tribune in Marble Falls; serves on the boards of KUT, Austin’s NPR albums away from splitting up. For his efforts, an editor at the Neighbors section of the San affiliate; the Austin Film Society; and KLRU, real and imagined, Bob has won a lot of cool Antonio Express-News; executive editor of Austin’s PBS affiliate. He has a bachelor’s degree honors including TAJE’s Trailblazer Award, ILPC’s Prime Time Newspapers Inc.; a longtime police in sociology from Rice University and a MFA from Edith Fox King Award, CSPA’s Charles O’Malley reporter at the Express-News; and worked as a The University of Texas. Excellence in Teaching Award, and JEA’s Carl general-assignment reporter at the Alexandria Towley Award. Bob also wrote several books, Daily Town Talk in Louisiana while still attending Corey Hale has advised high school including “The Radical Write,” which you all college. He also has had his own radio show on newspapers for 14 years and is in his first year should own and study religiously. crime topics. with The Red Ledger at Lovejoy High School. Hale cut his journalistic teeth in the wilds of Mary Elam has joined the Houston Central Arkansas, where he wrote, edited and Alicia Inns joined the KXAN News team Walsworth yearbook team and is the rep for the designed in the sports department of medium- in December 2014 as a morning show multi- North Houston/East Houston/Beaumont area. sized daily. His students make him look good by platform journalist. After earning her Bachelor’s With a background in yearbook and teaching, winning lots of awards and he returns the favor degree in Broadcast Journalism for the University Mary will guide your staff through the exciting with a never-ending stream of groan-inducing of Oregon, Alicia started her broadcast career at process of creating your yearbook. Her passion puns. KTVZ-News Channel 21 in Bend Oregon. In her for delivering exceptional customer service 4 years there, she worked as an anchor, reporter began early in her career while training with the LaJuana Hale worked as a journalist for and producer while shooting, writing and Walt Disney corporation. She is looking forward over a decade then found out that teaching editing her own stories. She recently won ‘Best to bringing her high level of customer service to was a lot more fun. 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to become part of the faculty for the National create the DP News 42 program. Expanding the staffs have consistently won top awards. Press Photographers Association Spring focus from campus events to larger stories within McGrath, a recipient of ILPC’s Edith Fox King Workshop—teaching fellow journalists and the Houston and South Texas communities, Award also received a Trailblazer Award from the students from across the country. Alicia enjoys News 42 brought a fresh approach to student- Texas Association of Journalism Educators. all of the great Austin food, music and outdoor news productions and captured 16 awards in activities including hiking, biking and kayaking in just four years. With Porter High School entering Rhonda Moore taught journalism for 30 her free time.If you have a story idea you want to its sixth year in existence, the Sparta Today years, and in 2015 she retired from teaching but, share, Alicia wants to hear it! You can send her Show sets the new program in the right direction luckily, not from judging. She is the 2004 Max an email at [email protected] or follow her on with three awards after one full year in existence. R. Haddick Teacher of the Year and is an Edith Twitter: @aliciainns Fox King Award recipient. Her former students’ John Lowe worked for 36 years as a publications won the Pacemaker Award, CSPA’s Ashley Jennings is an award-winning sportswriter, the last 28 of them at the Detroit Silver Crown and ILPC’s Silver and Bronze producer, media consultant and international Free Press as the Detroit Tigers beat writer. For Stars. She is the executive director of the Texas lifestyle photographer. She is currently the Senior his final 16 years with the Free Press, Lowe Association of Journalism. In 2008, Rhonda was Producer (and Possibilitarian) of Capital Factory’s served as a volunteer mentor for the sports staff a CSPA Gold Key recipient. CF Studios, and works closely with advertising, at The Michigan Daily, the student-run paper at pr firms and startups to help run the TV and the University of Michigan. He helped dozens Meg Nanson has been a writer her whole web production side of campaigns. She also of Daily writers improve their writing and assess life. A few years back, she figured out how to produces for conferences, events and festivals, their career options. He aims to do the same turn her writing skills into a profitable career by including SXSW. Prior to moving back to Texas with students at Texas. integrating search engine optimization (SEO) from New York, Ashley helped launch Al Jazeera principles into her writing. Now, she gets to write Media Network’s American channel, Al Jazeera Jessica Luther is an independent all day and bring new customers to her clients’ America, and was part of the ABC News field journalist residing in Austin, Texas. Her work has ecommerce stores. team who was nominated for five Emmy Awards appeared at Sports Illustrated, Bleacher Report, for their coverage of the Sandy Hook Elementary Texas Monthly, and in the Texas Observer and Andrea Negri is in her seventh year School shooting, Boston Marathon bombings Austin Chronicle. Her book Unsportsmanlike at Alief Hastings High School in Houston. and the destructive EF5 tornado that hit Moore, Conduct: College Football and the Politics of She teaches journalism, photojournalism, Oklahoma, in May 2013. They also won a Rape hits shelves in September 2016. and commercial photography, advises the Peabody Award for their overall coverage of newspaper and yearbook, and serves as UIL Hurricane Sandy. Katie Matlack is an independent writer academic coordinator in addition to coaching Ashley’s greatest joy is getting to mentor with bylines at Vice Sports and in the Texas the journalism team. She is secretary for the students and young storytellers at local high Observer and Austin Chronicle. She captained Association of Texas Photography Instructors, a schools and at the University of Texas at Austin. Yale’s Division I women’s cross-country team, JEA Master Journalism Educator and an Edith and writes about equality and inequality in sports Fox King recipient. Wade Kennedy is a high school and culture. journalism adviser and a professional freelance Laura K. Negri was forced to take photographer. Kennedy has advised yearbook Alex McCauley is the Walsworth journalism by her older sister, who was editor of and newspaper classes at Richardson High yearbook representative for the West, Southwest the high school paper. Her journalism teacher School for six years. Kennedy is a former ILPC and Central Houston area. She received her made it her mission to destroy any vestige of Tops in Texas award winner for photography. journalism degree from San Francisco State shyness by making Laura interview the district He has won numerous college and professional University with an emphasis in magazine writing. superintendent and other intimidating people. photography awards including CSPA, NSPA She covered beats for her college magazine Those lessons, while traumatic, stuck with her and TAPME honors. His students have also including fashion and San Francisco nightlife. through four years at the University of Texas at won numerous state and national yearbook and While attending SFSU she interned in the sales Austin, where she interned with Texas Architect newspaper awards. division at Your TV20. She quickly learned she magazine. After graduation, she moved to had a knack for marketing and sales. After a small town in East Texas and worked as a Entering his seventh year in teaching, college she went on to start her own swimwear reporter, photographer, page designer and James Longoria engraved a new start last year line where she was principal and head of sales sportswriter for a tiny bi-weekly newspaper. at Porter High School (New Caney ISD) with the and marketing. She has a love for writing, Eventually Laura went back to school to get school’s first-ever Broadcast Journalism award. talking to people, and helping others achieve a teaching certificate and started advising the Longoria began his teaching career in 2009 at their goals. high school newspaper and yearbook in that Deer Park High School, however, Longoria’s small town; she was tackled on the sidelines career in the media and entertainment industries Audrey McGlinchy is the City Hall reporter by a football player while demonstrating sports began many years prior. After following in his at KUT, Austin’s NPR station, where she covers photography at her first game as a journalism mother’s footsteps as a touring and studio the Austin City Council and the policies they adviser. Thirteen years ago, she landed in musician during his Junior in high school, discuss. She comes to Texas from Brooklyn, Houston, at Texas’ strangest little high school, Longoria began working in the broadcast where she tried her hand at publishing, public where she advises the yearbook, newspaper and industry with Fox News, PMTV - Nashville, relations and nannying. Audrey holds English morning announcements and teaches whatever CBS Sports and other broadcast outlets. In and journalism degrees from Wesleyan University technology courses they put on her schedule. 2005, while obtaining a Communication Arts and the City University of New York. She is the author of Scholastic Yearbook from degree at the University of the Incarnate Word TeachingPoint. in San Antonio, Texas, Longoria helped build Dixie McGrath is in her second year the university radio station KUIW. In Deer Park, as adviser of the yearbook at Hyde Park Shannon Page is a former East Texas Longoria faced the challenge of rebuilding a High School in Austin, Texas. She has taught journalism (newspaper and yearbook) adviser, defunct Broadcast Journalism department by journalism in Austin area schools for more than state-winning UIL coach and CTE commercial recruiting new, highly-motivated students to 30 years, and her yearbook and newspaper photo teacher. She currently works as an

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Instructional Technology Specialist at Hallsville James Rich is in his 14th year of advising the University Interscholastic League including ISD and loves to work with UIL journalism teams student publications. He currently serves as a Bronze star in 2014 and a Silver star in and yearbook staffs whenever possible. the advisor of Panther Prints newspaper and 2015. Scott has spoken at national and state Panther Tale yearbook at Duncanville High conventions and workshops and was named The 2016-2017 Stony Point Teacher School. Over his years of advising publications, a JEA Rising Star adviser in 2015. She hopes of the Year, Rebecca Plumley coaches the his staff photographers have received awards that some of her challenges and experiences Touchstone yearbook and Prowler print and as NSPA sports picture of the year, First place as a middle school adviser can benefit other online editions at Stony Point High School. Her and Tops in Texas photo awards at ILPC, journalism programs. students’ publications have earned top awards Individual photography awards from JEA, ATPI, from TAJE, ILPC, CSPA and NSPA. Plumley was TAJE, SIPA, Quill and Scroll, NSPA and CSPA. Tasha Shelton has advised NTV, the a recipient of the Edith Fox King award in 2008. His publications staff photographers have also broadcast program at McKinney North High been winners of the Dallas Morning News top School, for the past ten years. Her students have Rebecca Potter advises the yearbook portfolio and Top Photographer awards. In won many awards over the years, but she feels and print/online newspaper at Texas High School 2014 one of his photographers received the she deserves little, if any, credit for that. She will, in Texarkana. Her publications consistently win Award of Excellence in Journalism from the however, take full credit for her ability to eat an Star, Crown and Pacemaker awards, as well National Federation of Press Women. Mr. Rich’s entire large pizza in one sitting. as CSPA Gold Circle and ILPC Tops in Texas publication The Stinger from Azle High School awards. She is an Edith Fox King award winner won the George H. Gallup Award from Quill and Bobby Spears graduated from LSU and currently serves as secretary for TAJE. Scroll in 2005 and was selected for multiple and taught high school English and journalism ILPC Star awards. Panther Prints online has before taking over a Herff Jones yearbook Sean Price has worked in the been selected as the top website in the Dallas territory in south Louisiana. An award-winning communications field for over 30 years. He Morning News contest and has been nominated sales representative, Bobby annually hosted the has written more than 50 books for young for star awards with IlPC and been named largest summer workshop in Louisiana and was people and served as a managing editor at both as an All-Southern News site by Southern a popular speaker at workshops throughout the Scholastic Inc. in New York and the Southern Interscholastic Press Association multiple times. South. He then served as an area sales manager Poverty Law Center. Price freelanced full-time for His publications have received Silver Crowns for Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas for 13 years 11 years and has done projects with freelancers from CSPA and has been nominated for multiple before moving to Austin last summer to lead a throughout his career. He currently serves as the NSPA pacemakers. He received the Edith Fox sales team that covers Central Texas. chief editor at EnviroMedia, an advertising firm King award in 2010. in Austin. Senior staff photographer Irwin David Robb has advised the newspaper Thompson joined the Dallas Morning News Mary Pulliam advised publications at and broadcast at Pflugerville High School since photojournalism staff in April 1990. Before Duncanville High School for more than 30 years. 2010. His newspaper staffs have won the NSPA coming to Dallas, he was a staff photographer And before retirement, she won just about every Pacemaker, CSPA Crown and ILPC Bronze Star. at the Times-Picayune in New Orleans (1987- award out there — including the UIL Sponsor Individually, his students have been awarded the 90) and The News-Star in Monroe (1984-87). Excellence Award, JEA’s Teacher Inspiration ILPC Tops in Texas, CSPA Gold Circle and NSPA Thompson has received numerous awards, Award, ILPC’s Max Haddick Journalism Multimedia Story of the Year. Their work has also including recognition from the Texas Associated Teacher of the Year and Edith Fox King awards, been featured on PBS NewsHour. Press, the Louisiana Associated Press, the TAJE’s Trailblazer Award, CSPA’s Gold Key Texas Headliners, the Press Club of Dallas and and NSPA’s Pioneer award. Her publications Kevin Robbins teaches journalism at the National Press Photographers Association. also won just about every award, state and the University of Texas at Austin. He worked 22 He was among The News’ team of eight national. During her tenure, both publications years in daily newspapers in Austin, Memphis photojournalists that won the 2006 Pulitzer were inducted into the NSPA Hall of Fame. and St. Louis, and has written for the New York Prize in Breaking News Photography for their She has retired from the classroom but not Times, espnW, Texas Monthly, Sports on Earth, gripping images showing the pain, chaos, and from judging and taking amazing photos of Epic Magazine, Kansas City Magazine and suffering after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. everything from country western concerts to her Golf Journal. His first book, a biography of golf His work has been published around the world five beautiful grandchildren. Pulliam is an author professional and author Harvey Penick, was and in People Magazine, Life Magazine, TIME of Springboard to Journalism, The Second released April 5 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, National Page and Get the Picture. But her true claim to Geographic Magazine and Sports Illustrated. fame — she was Jeanne Acton’s high school Hal Schmidt has been working with Thompson was born in Lake Charles, LA., journalism teacher. student publications for more than 29 years, grew up in DeRidder, and attended DeRidder training staffs to get the most from their High School. He graduated in 1984 from the Ross Ramsey is executive editor and co- software. He is a representative for the Houston University of Louisiana at Monroe with a B.A. founder of The Texas Tribune. Before joining the Office of Balfour Yearbooks and co-owner of PS degree in photojournalism. He is the son of Mae Tribune, Ross was editor and co-owner of Texas Graphics in Fredericksburg, Texas. Helen Buckley. Weekly for 15 years. He did a 28-month stint in government as associate deputy comptroller for Kristen Scott advises The Vespa, Dave Winter is in his first year as the policy and director of communications with the yearbook for Kealing Middle School in Austin, adviser of The Shield (newsmagazine) and The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. Before TX. In just a few years, she has taken the Vespa Knight (yearbook) at McCallum High School that, he reported for the Houston Chronicle from a picture book to a nationally award- in Austin. He spent the 14 years prior to this from its Austin bureau and for the Dallas Times winning publication. Ms. Scott’s students have year as an adviser of Nexus magazine and The Herald, first on the business desk in Dallas and earned recognition from NSPA, CSPA and JEA, Southerner newspaper at Henry W. Grady High later as its Austin bureau chief, and worked as a including Crown awards, Best in Show JEA School in Atlanta. Before coming to Grady in Dallas-based freelance business writer. Ross got convention honors and an NSPA Pacemaker, 2001, he taught and advised newspaper and his start in journalism in broadcasting, covering and is both a Crown and Pacemaker finalist yearbook for nine years at Wheeler High School news for radio stations in Denton and Dallas. in 2015. In addition, the Vespa has been in Marietta, Ga. honored with a number of individual awards in 25 ILPC Convention • 2015-16 Welch Hall first floor WCH 1.120 is here (across the street from Welch Hall) - there is an entrance that will take you almost immediately into the classroom

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