Important Stuff You Should Know • REGISTRATION the Registration Desk Is Located on the • TOPS in TEXAS Iaas Ground Floor of Welch Hall from 8:30 A.M
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Important Stuff You Should Know • REGISTRATION The registration desk is located on the • TOPS IN TEXAS IAAs ground floor of Welch Hall from 8:30 a.m. to 3 Winners of the Tops in Texas Individual p.m. Saturday. On Sunday, the registration desk Achievement Awards will be announced and will be open from 8 - 9:30 a.m. medals presented at 5 p.m. Saturday in WEL 2.224. Those eligible for Tops in Texas IAAs are • IN-SERVICE CREDIT the first place winners in each conference of the We will have professional development in- yearbook and print newspaper IAA contests. service certificates at the registration desk. This awards assembly generally takes no more than 30 minutes to complete. • ADVISERS, ARE YOU HUNGRY? Stop by the Balfour Publishing Company Hungry? • MEDALS Luncheon, 11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m. Saturday in WEL How about a All other IAA medals can be claimed at the 2.304. free lunch? registration desk. Extra medals are $5 each and TAJE will have coffee and pastries for advis- may be purchased at the registration desk also. ers and presenters Sunday morning at 8:30 a.m. Jim Tops in Texas medals are $10 each. Unclaimed in WEL 2.304. Anderson and medals will be mailed to the schools during the Balfour Publish- week following the convention. ing Company will VISIT EXHIBITORS • provide lunch for PARKING Check out the exhibits on the ground floor advisers at 11:45 a.m. • of Welch. Exhibitors will have a wide range of Saturday in WEL Please park in a parking garage or in a legal instructional material, handouts and assorted 2.304. Signs will be parking spot. If you get a ticket, it’s yours. We other goodies. Check them out! posted. can’t make tickets go away. • CERTIFICATES • BADGES Certificates, lists of award winners, news- You can pick up your badges from the regis- paper rating booklets and other materials will tration desk. Please wear them. be mailed to schools after the convention. Un- claimed medals and plaques will also be mailed after the convention. UIL Executive Director welcomes you CONVENTION STAFF On behalf of in a quality student journalism the University program. It is our hope that you • Jeanne Acton — convention director Interscholastic will develop a deep appreciation for • Jessica Ramirez — event coordinator League, it is the communications process and a my honor to greater understanding of the press • Glenda Muñoz — event coordinator welcome you to in our society. The press brings us • Jenny Nichols — event coordinator The University of a better understanding of the world • Lisa Parker — program coordinator Texas at Austin around us and should be truly • Jim Busby — IT guru for the 89th appreciated. • John Trowbridge — convention assistant annual ILPC Whether you later attend The • Lauren Kelley— student intern State Convention. University of Texas at Austin or For almost nine decades, the another university to pursue a career UIL and The University of Texas in journalism or follow another BUILDING KEY at Austin have worked closely to path to the future, we are pleased •WEL- Welch Hall provide student journalists with the to introduce you to Austin and • WCH - Will C. Hogg Building best possible resources to develop The University. I hope you have a • PAI - Painter Hall a passion for journalism because successful convention. Welcome to •GEA - Gearing Hall we understand the educational Austin! • WAG - Waggener Hall benefits derived from participation Charles Breithaupt • PHR - Pharmacy Building 2 ILPC Convention • 2016-17 Overview of Schedule Saturday, April 22 8:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. — Registration in Welch Hall (ground level) 11 - 11: 45 a.m. — Keynote Speaker • Doualy Xaykaothao, a correspondent for Minnesota Public Radio news, 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 23 9 - 9:45 a.m. — Break-out sessions 10 - 10:45 a.m. — Break-out sessions 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. — Grand Awards Assembly at LBJ Auditorium Important Stuff You Should Know TAJE Meeting Tops in Texas 3 p.m. Saturday, April 22 Winners of the Tops in This semi-annual general meeting of the Texas Individual Texas Association of Journalism Educators Achievement Awards provides teachers a chance to get involved, will be announced to make their voices heard and to discuss and medals presented at 5 p.m. Saturday in issues and events affecting Texas scholastic WEL 2.224. Follow journalism. Officers will be introduced and the signs. committees will report during the meeting. This awards convocation should last no Please note: this is one hour earlier than more than 30 minutes. Medals not received usual. WEL 2.304. during the presentation will be mailed to schools after the convention. 3 ILPC Convention • 2016-17 Texas Featured Speakers R.B. Brenner (10 a.m. a part in team coverage of the reaction to the O. J. Sunday) is the director of the Simpson murder trial. More recently, Crawford directed School of Journalism at the coverage of a year-long, award-winning series on University of Texas at Austin. domestic violence and is currently overseeing a project Previously, he was the deputy on how juvenile criminals are punished in Texas. In director of Stanford Univer- his other role as director of the newspaper’s highly- sity’s journalism program and acclaimed college intern program, Crawford oversees taught courses in public issues the selection of the newspaper’s interns. Before coming reporting, digital journalism and to The News in 1988, he worked as a reporter for narrative writing. seven years at the Orlando Sentinel. He joined the faculty at Stanford in September 2010 after leaving The Washington Post, where his roles included metropolitan editor, Sunday editor Andrew Chavez (9 a.m. and deputy universal news editor. He was one of the Sunday) is a journalist and Web primary editors of the newspaper’s coverage of the developer at The Dallas Morning Virginia Tech shootings, which was awarded a Pulitzer News and a lecturer at the Uni- Prize, and played a leadership role in merging the digital versity of Texas at Austin. Before What does and print newsrooms. joining The News in January His reporting career started at the Winston-Salem 2016, Chavez was a news ap- it take to Journal in North Carolina, followed by reporting and plications developer at the Austin editing jobs at newspapers in California and Florida. American-Statesman. There, he win? built interactive and special presentations for stories, assisted reporters with data-heavy reporting projects Selwyn Crawford (2 p.m. and was the developer for the Statesman’s Longhorns Take a look. Saturday) is the Justice hub editor sports website, Hook’Em.com. and director of the college intern Prior to joining the Statesman in September program at The Dallas Morning 2014, Andrew was the director of digital media at the The Yearbook News. Previously, Crawford has TCU School of Journalism. At TCU, Andrew advised Individual worked as a general assignments and managed the technology for TCU 360, the student reporter and another stint as news website, and the109, a student-run hyperlocal Achievement an assistant metro editor at the newspaper. During reporting project. He taught an undergraduate course that time, Crawford covered courts in Tarrant County on digital tools for journalists, Intro to Media Web Tools, Award winners, (Fort Worth) and has had several special assignments and co-authored a media writing textbook, “Writing Newspaper IAA including coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, for Media Audiences: A Handbook for Multi-platform the 1992 Democratic National Convention, the 1996 News, Advertising and Public Relations.” winners and Summer Olympics, coverage of two Super Bowls and Broadcast winners (first through third place) will Out-of-State Speakers be posted online. Look for handouts at the registration table with the links. Moore xx Watterson xx Kenney xx Knight xx Winter Pulitzer-Prize Winning Getty Photographer John Moore, New York, “The Yearbook Whisper- er” Bruce Watterson, Roma, GA. Director of the Photojournalism Department at Western Kentucky University, James Kenney. Entertainer and journalism instructor extraordinaire David Knight, Lancaster Schools, SC. Professor and journalism guru Scott Winter, Bethel University. 4 ILPC Convention • 2016-17 Keynote Speaker sponsored by Doualy Xaykaothao Saturday 11 a.m. in WEL 2.224 Doualy Xaykaothao is a Hmong-Texan, dent for MPR news, covering race, demo- born in Laos and raised in Texas. She got graphics, and culture. her journalism chops in New York City, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Portland, She got her start in journalism at Duncan- Dallas, and most recently in Minnesota. ville High School, in Mary Pulliam’s news- paper class. If you can’t pronounce her Xaykaothao also spent a decade report- name, she also answers to Shadow of ing overseas for NPR from Southeast and the Moon — which is what her first name Northeast Asia. Now she’s a correspon- means. 5 ILPC Convention • 2016-17 1 p.m. Saturday, April 22 Can I Tweet This? Be a Good Sport(s) … Photographer Sharpen your Focus WAG 420 PAI 2.48 WEL 2.312 Description: Since journalists often use their personal Want to improve your time on the sidelines and click Data storytelling drives change. In this session, I’ll bust social media accounts for work, how do they know a bunch of great images to use in your publication? the myth that data’s boring.