CSPA’s 91st Annual Scholastic Convention March 18 - 20, 2015 at Columbia University in New York City Welcome to New York City and to Columbia University! For the 91st time, the Columbia Scholastic Press Association welcomes student journalists and their faculty advisers to Columbia University’s historic Morningside Heights campus in the City of New York. We hope that as delegates to this national convention, you gain both new knowledge and the fellowship of your peers. This three-day program offers 318 distinctive sessions exploring various aspects, techniques and values of the journalistic experience at the high school and collegiate levels and beyond. While some delegates may have received instruction in high Students at the 2014 Convention participated in the student swap shop where they networked and exchanged publications and information. school journalism classes, others take up the craft without any prior training. Whether you approach reporting and presenting the news with or without formal instruction, CSPA offers many sessions to help you to better your journalism. This convention is designed with you in mind so whether you work with newspapers, yearbooks, magazines, broadcast or digital media, we have sessions to match your interests and expand your knowledge base. You have the unique opportunity to learn from leaders in professional media as well as fellow student journalists in New York City, an international hub for news and communications. Learn as much as you can, network with your peers and future industry leaders, explore the city and, above all, be inspired. Students viewed at the publication display at the 1960 Convention in the Low Library Rotunda. Follow CSPA [@cspa] on Twitter for convention updates! Friend CSPA on Facebook [www.facebook.com/cspa.nyc] Columbia Scholastic Press Association Columbia University Mail Code 5711 New York, NY 10027 Tel. 212.854.9400 Fax. 212.854.9401 [email protected] http://cspa.columbia.edu On the cover: Alma Mater in front of Low Library as captured by Mark Murray. A view of Butler Library in the early 1950s before 1954 when 116th St. between Broadway and Amsterdam was closed to traffic. Columbia Scholastic Press Association 1 Session spotlight on Friday, March 20, 2015 Roone Arledge Auditorium, 1st fl., Lerner Hall At 10:45 a.m. At 11:45 a.m. Journalists from: Mario García Rhythms for Storytelling in the Digital Age Murder, Mayhem, and Cartoons: New Challenges for the Media This panel of professional journalists will discuss the practical and ethical challenges for reporters and editors deciding what is news and how to report news when reporters and cartoonists are being murdered, words are triggering riots, many expressions are considered “offensive” and extreme views are becoming The news cycle has changed and how commonplace. How does the coverage affect perceptions of the you report it has evolved. We now live objectivity and credibility of the reporters and news outlets? and survive in two tempos of receiving The panel will include reporters and editors from print, broadcast and streaming information: the 24/7 constant flow media, and will discuss topics such as: of always updated information; and • Journalism Standards — Is every news topic covered equally? the curated and carefully crafted • Reporter/Broadcaster Credibility in-depth pieces that have a definite • Dangers of the profession and how it impacts where editors send reporters, how beginning and end. Come to this they edit stories, and how they decide what stories to cover lively demonstration of how to • Controversial images, what is lost and what is gained by not publishing photos nurture and produce this balance. of horror? Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! CSPA thanks the exhibitors and advertisers at this convention We would to also thank Balfour • Dow Jones News Fund • Jostens our sponsors: Friesens New England Center for Investigative Reporting for the convention programs and Herff Lifetouch Yearbooks • Walsworth Yearbooks Jones for the Friday Adviser Award Luncheon. Columbia Scholastic Press Association 3 Who’s Who at the Convention continues on page 8 ACES = American Copy Editors Society Bios edited by Lauren E. Mack [@lmack] ACP = Associated Collegiate Press AEJMC = Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication A that award. She received the 2011 Cal-JEC AHSPA = Arkansas High School Press Association Journalism Educator of the Year award AIPA = Arizona Interscholastic Press Association Logan Aimone teaches journalism and (High School Division), was DJNF 2012 AmerSPA = American Scholastic Press Association AOJT = The Association of Orthodox Jewish advises the newspaper and the yearbook National Journalism Teacher of the Year, Teachers at University High School in Chicago. and is a CSPA 2014 Gold Key recipient. ASNE = American Society of News Editors After a decade teaching and advising at [@ellenaustin] ASPA = Alabama Scholastic Press Association ATPI = Association of Texas Photography Wenatchee (WA) High School, Aimone Instructors joined NSPA as executive director in Cal-JEC = California Journalism Education Coalition 2007 where he remained until 2013. He CASE = Council for the Advancement and Support B of Education stayed in Minneapolis working as the CCJA = Community College Journalism Association business development director of School Fidelity Ballmer is the incoming editor- CHSPA = Colorado High School Press Association Newspapers Online. His students have in-chief of The Foothill Dragon Press, the CMA = College Media Association CNPA = California Newspaper Publishers earned top individual and staff national online news site at Foothill Technology Association honors for newspaper, web site and High School in Ventura, CA. A 2014 alumna CSPA = Columbia Scholastic Press Association yearbook. He is a past DJNF Distinguished of AAJA J-Camp, her reporting has been CSPAA = Columbia Scholastic Press Advisers Association Adviser and Washington state journalism recognized by CSPA with three Gold Circles DJNF = Dow Jones Newspaper Fund adviser of the year. He is co-author of two this year. The Foothill Dragon Press (www. EPAA = Educational Press Association of America journalism textbooks. foothilldragonpress.org) has been honored FSPA = Florida Scholastic Press Association [@loganaimone] GLIPA = Great Lakes Interscholastic Press with two CSPA Gold Crowns and four NSPA Association Ann Gramlich Akers is Herff Jones Online Pacemakers. GSPA = Georgia Scholastic Press Association Yearbooks’ educational products manager. GSSPA = Garden State Scholastic Press Association IHSPA = Iowa High School Press Association Formerly NSPA’s associate director, Akers Anne Barr is a newspaper adviser and IHSPA = Indiana High School Press Association has done stints as journalism teacher/ teacher at Episcopal Academy in suburban IJA = Idaho Journalism Association publications adviser and yearbook Philadelphia. During the course of her ILPC (TX) = Interscholastic League Press Conference representative. She was the 2005 recipient tenure at Episcopal Academy, Barr has JEA = Journalism Education Association of the Carl Towley Award, JEA’s highest developed a journalism class for the JEANC = Journalism Education Association of honor, and has been awarded a CSPA Gold Northern California school’s innovative J-Term program and JSPA = Jewish Scholastic Press Association Key and a NSPA Pioneer Award. facilitated the newspaper staff’s growth KSPA = Kansas Scholastic Press Association toward broader use of web sites and social LISPA = Long Island Scholastic Press Association James Amato is the adviser of Hawk media. MIPA (MI) = Michigan Interscholastic Press [@AnneBarr15] Association Headlines (formerly WRHSmedia) at MIPA (MO) = Missouri Interscholastic Press Woodland Regional High School in Beacon Joe Bergantino is the executive director, Association Falls, CT. Started in 2001, the program managing editor and co-founder of NECIR MSPA = Maryland Scholastic Press Association NCSMAA = North Carolina Scholastic Media has gone through several program located at Boston University and WGBH Advisers Association enhancements in its short tenure. Starting News. Bergantino has been a national and NCTE = National Council of Teachers of English as a black-and-white, print-only program local investigative reporter for 35 years. NECIR = New England Center for Investigative Reporting (a CSPA Silver Medalist production), it He spent most of his career as the I-Team NESPA = New England Scholastic Press Association then explored AM radio, FM broadcast, Reporter for WBZ-TV in Boston, and spent NHSPA = Nebraska High School Press Association podcasting, web page design, CMS NIPA = Northern Interscholastic Press Association NMSPA = New Mexico Scholastic Press Association distribution, live web updates, full-color During his career, Bergantino has won NPC = National Press Club broadsheet print, online-only production, manyfive years of the as a broadcasting correspondent industry’s for ABC News. most NSPA = National Scholastic Press Association Twitter and Facebook integration and, now, prestigious awards, including an Alfred I. NYPC = New York Press Club NYSEC = New York State English Council live event, multi-camera broadcasting. duPont-Columbia Award and Citation, a OIPA = Oklahoma Interscholastic Press Association Amato’s journalists work with local news Robert F. Kennedy Award for reporting on OIPAA = Oklahoma Interscholastic Press Advisers outlets that often embed HHL broadcasts Association the disadvantaged,