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27th Annual Associated Collegiate Press
National College Journalism Convention March 3-6, 2011 Renaissance Hollywood
SHORT COURSES in management, digital media, ad sales, sports reporting, news reporting and more…
FEATURED SPEAKERS in online publishing, press law, and the most relevant and important topics of today
REGISTER by Feb. 9, 2011, to get reduced rates. Hotel rooms $170/night for any occupancy. Free Internet in guest rooms. Stay in the heart of Hollywood!
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ACP welcomes the members of the California College Media Association to this convention. See page 2.
hollywood media + TO-DO LIST FOR DELEGATES ❏ Reserve hotel
room at the Renaissance Hollywood ❏ Register for the
convention online with ACP ❏ Plan
transportation ❏ Review all
deadlines ❏ Register for a
pre-convention workshop or short course ❏ Volunteer for a
student panel ❏ Bring best paper
for Best of Show contest ❏ Bring extra
papers for display, critiques, exchanges ❏ Bring ad rate
cards and marketing brochures
Today’s journalist knows being successful at telling the story takes more than one medium, more than one platform. Words, sounds and images don’t exist in isolation. Print, broadcast and online converge to communicate the message and to allow the reader or viewer to create an experience. To tell the story, it takes media plus so much more. At ACP’s 27th annual National College Journalism Convention, expect professional, idea-packed and sometimes provocative or humorous keynotes, breakout sessions and workshops from some of the best journalists, advisers and students in the country. It opens Thursday, March 3, with intensive workshops, a stimulating keynote address and networking receptions, and continues on Friday and Saturday with a full program of more keynotes, scores of breakout sessions, displays and critiques. The convention ends Sunday morning after another set of breakouts, a final keynote and the presentation of the Best of Show awards. All sessions will be led by media professionals, accomplished student media advisers and a select group of student journalists. See page 4 to CALIFORNIA volunteer. Media + Knowledge. Learn new information about the basics, from writing to design to photography. Apply your knowledge to management, editing, ethics or the law. The program includes award-winning professionals and experienced media advisers all ready and willing to help you get better. Media + Skills. Delve into a single topic in one of seven short courses, including new sessions in multimedia and accessing public records. Learn from a veteran expert and share with your peers.
COLLEGE MEDIA ASSOCIATION
The CCMA will hold its annual awards ceremony on Saturday, March 5, during the ACP convention. The event will be 6:30-10 p.m. at Twist restaurant at the Renaissance Hollywood. It begins with a no-host reception at 6:30 p.m. followed by a banquet dinner with awards. Tickets are $50. See Page 7 to register.
Media + Networking. With hundreds of students and advisers from every part of the United States (Canada, too), you’re sure to make new friends and contacts at the ACP convention. Bring your work samples for a critique, and chat with professionals between sessions to make a connection. Media + Fun. After hours, enjoy the relaxed warmth of Southern California in February. Make plans with your new friends to enjoy the food and nightlife in Hollywood, downtown, Universal Studios or beyond. Media + We know what you need and where you want to go. We’ll help you get there.
+ Keynote Speakers Bill Plaschke
K.C. Cole Bill Plaschke, a sports columnist at the Los Angeles Times since 1996, has made nationally recognized contributions in both journalism and public service.
In more than 21 years with the Times, Plaschke has been named National Sports Columnist of the Year by Associated Press, Sigma Delta Chi and other organizations. He has been a Pulitzer Prize entrant, and his work has been featured in several editions of the annual “Best American Sports Writing” book. He has also published a collection of his columns entitled, “Plaschke: Good Sports, Spoil Sports, Foul Balls and Odd Balls.” Plaschke was named Man of the Year by the Los Angeles chapter of Big Brothers/Big Sisters for his longtime involvement as a Big Brother. In 2002, he helped carry the Olympic Torch on its way to Salt Lake City for the Winter Olympics. Plaschke is also a regular panelist on the ESPN daily talk show, “Around The Horn” and made his film debut with three lines in the Will Smith movie, “Ali.” In what some more cynical colleagues considered a stretch, Plaschke played the part of a sportswriter.
K.C. Cole, a long-time science writer for the Los Angeles Times, is a professor at USC Annenberg’s School of Journalism. Cole’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Smithsonian, The Columbia Journalism Review, Newsweek, Esquire, Ms., The Washington Post and many other publications; her work was featured in The Best American Science Writing 2004 and 2005, and The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2002. Described by Amazon.com as “the Leonardo da Vinci of science writing,” she is the author of eight nonfiction books, most recently, “Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the World He Made Up” — a memoir/ biography of her late mentor, the self-proclaimed “uncle” of the atomic bomb and founder of San Francisco’s world-renowned “museum of awareness,” the Exploratorium. Cole’s recent radio commentaries can be heard on American Public Media’s Marketplace. Additional keynote and featured speakers to be announced. Check ACP’s website for the latest information.
+ Breakout Sessions In addition to the essentials ACP considers important at every convention, a lineup of specific skill and issues breakouts are on the program. These breakouts focus on a variety of needs and include topics of current urgency. Some breakouts offer basics and many offer more advanced training. Here’s a sample of topics from recent conventions or tentatively planned for this convention: Writing and Reporting News Writing • Feature Writing • Editorial Writing • Sports Writing • Copy Editing • Headline Writing • Writing Better Leads • Government Records and Other Resources • Writing the Film Review • Writing the Music Review • Using Data to Report News • Investigative Reporting • Entertainment Writing • Travel Writing • Finding Stories on a Two-year Campus • Covering College Sports • Getting People to Talk Print Newspaper Design Page One Design • Inside Page Design • Typography, Art, Graphics • Design with Color • Young Designers Show and Tell • From Blah to Bling • Trends in Newspaper Design • InDesign Ins and Outs Leadership and Management How to Successfully Manage a Four-year/Two-year College Newspaper • Qualities of a Successful Newspaper Editor • How to Survive Being an Editor • What Do I Do Now: Confronting
Ethical Issues • Selecting the Next Editor • Using Google Docs Photography Qualities of a Good Newspaper Photo • Ethics of Photo Manipulation and Editing • Photography and Privacy Issues • Take Eye-popping Pictures with Your Flash • Photojournalism for Multimedia • And more Advertising Selling More Local Ads • Getting Your Share of National Ads • Special Sections • Servicing Your Accounts • Sales Research • Improving the Bottom Line Online Managing a Multimedia Web Site • Ways to Soup Up Your Web Site Today • Multimedia for Journalists • Social Networking • Live Blogging/Livestreaming The Issues Plagiarism, Fabrication and How To Prevent Them in Your Newsroom • Sensitive Coverage of Underrepresented Groups • Freelance Freedom • Covering Tragedy with Compassion • Covering a Disaster • Reporting Controversial/Sensitive Stories For Advisers Training Programs for Your Students • Diversity in the Newsroom and on the Paper’s Pages • Budget Planning: Cost-saving Ideas • Performance Evaluations: What Works and What Doesn’t • Q&A Problem-solving Roundtable
TENTATIVE CONVENTION SCHEDULE Thursday, March 3 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Registration, Contest entries 10 a.m. - 3:45 p.m. Pre-convention workshops: Newsroom Management, Newspaper Advising, Print Newspaper Design, Digital Media 1 - 3:45 p.m. Vendor Displays Pre-convention workshops: Advanced Reporting, Ad Sales, Accessing Public Records 4 - 5 p.m. Convention opening keynote session 5 - 6:30 p.m. Welcome reception
Friday, March 4 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Registration, Contest entries 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Vendor displays 9 - 11:30 a.m. Breakout sessions 11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Keynote speaker 1:10 - 4:30 p.m. Breakout sessions
Saturday, March 5 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Registration, Information, Newspaper displays 9 - 11:30 a.m. Breakout sessions, Vendor displays 11:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. Keynote speaker Noon - 1 p.m. Adviser luncheon 1:30 - 4 p.m. Breakout sessions
Sunday, March 6 9 - 11 a.m. Registration, Information 9 - 10:05 a.m. Breakout sessions 10:15 - 11 a.m. Closing keynote speaker, Best of Show Awards
+ Pre-convention Short Courses The following extended-length workshops will be held Thursday, March 3, and will end before the convention’s opening keynote at 4 p.m. Advance registration and an extra fee are required for each of these workshops. Enrollment is limited.
Covering Collegiate Sports NEW
Print Newspaper Design
10 a.m. - 3:45 p.m. • $59 • From the field to the locker room to the athletic office, sports is a staple of a college news organization. Learn to cover the basics of a beat, to discover and cover the bigger stories, to incorporate multimedia and SEE A PRO HOCKEY blogging, and to GAME & TOUR THE avoid the clichés STAPLES CENTER spouted by players and coaches alike. Thursday night, see This workshop will the Los Angeles Kings include instruction hockey team take on from experienced the Phoenix Coyotes college advisers at the Staples Center. as well as top Tickets are just $27 when sports reporters purchased through ACP. and editors from Getting there is easy on Los Angeles. There the subway. Before the will be a one-hour game, tour the press box lunch break in the and meet a pro covering schedule. Extend the game. Open to any your learning convention attendee. with a special sports experience Thursday night to watch the Los Angeles Kings hockey team and take a tour of the Staples Center press area. See box for details.
10 a.m.-3:45 p.m. • $59 • Your newspaper’s readers deserve good content — and the best possible design to present it. The session begins with the basics and moves quickly into the tips and trends from awardwinning newspapers of all sizes. Led by Ron Johnson, the five-time editor of The Best of Newspaper Design, the Society for News Design’s competition annual, the session will cover front pages, inside pages, strong visuals, packaging, typography, color, informational graphics and navigational tools. And along the way, we’ll see some really cool pages and story ideas. Johnson will lead a critique session, so bring copies of your newspaper to receive specific advice you can put to work this year.
The Hollywood Experience: Audio & Video for the Web “Split session”: Thursday 10 a.m. to noon and Friday 1-4:30 p.m. • $69 • Whether you’re new to multimedia or know the basics, this course will show you how to bring stories alive on the Web. Experts in college and pro media will teach you to use today’s tools to report and produce multimedia projects. Participants will learn tips to collect audio and video Thursday morning before being set loose in Hollywood to capture a story Thursday afternoon. Participants will return Friday to edit audio and video into packages for the Web. Participants should commit to both sessions. Bring your own tools — a camera to capture video/audio or a video camera and a digital audio recorder, and a laptop to do your editing and to save files.
Newsroom Management Training for Top Editors 10 a.m. - 3:45 p.m. • $69 • For all editors and those aspiring to become one, this “crash course” in student newsroom management and leadership is designed to present practical solutions for many of the important procedures and problems that are part of publishing a college newspaper. Some of the essentials covered include: recruitment; hiring and firing; pay and other compensation and incentives; mediating disputes; evaluating work; staff meetings; assignments; deadlines; morale and motivation; relations with student government, publishing boards and advisers; building the paper’s credibility; crisis management and more. This workshop is one of the most popular conducted by ACP and will again be led by Mark Witherspoon of Iowa State University. There will be a one-hour break in the schedule. Each participant will receive a copy of ACP’s “Managing the College Newsroom.” Open only to students.
Advanced Reporting 1 - 3:45 p.m. • $39 • Go beyond news writing and reporting basics and learn how to build and write a complex, multi-sourced story or series. Learning to gather facts and opinions from diverse sources and craft them into a coherent, relevant and interesting story will be a centerpiece of this intensive short course, led by the popular instructor from Sacramento State University, Holly Heyser. Explore
the differences between narrative story-telling and traditional inverted pyramid story development. Discuss related issues such as the use of anonymous sources and information gathered from the Internet. Learn how to detect bias in your writing. Leave with more confidence in your abilities as a reporter.
Newspaper Advertising Sales 1 - 3:45 p.m. • $39 • If your newspaper depends upon advertising income, then this workshop is for you. Instructor Paul Bittick of Cal Poly will focus on the most important aspects of successful newspaper advertising, including training the sales staff and servicing accounts. Participants will also learn ways to build their advertising revenue in new and creative ways. Bring copies of your ad rate cards and promotional materials to use as a reference.
Accessing Public Records 1-3:45 p.m. • $39 • The best college newspapers do a better job covering their community by using a resource that’s close to home but sometimes hard to get: public records. From university budgets to campus police reports, learn how you can use freedom of information laws to report the news at both public and private schools. Mark Goodman, formerly of the Student Press Law Center, will cover what’s public and what isn’t (and how you may be able to get access to both), a step-by-step process for requesting and receiving records you’re entitled to and translating records into stories. Examples of records sought and received by other college journalists will be discussed.
Effective Newspaper Advising 10 a.m. - 3:45 p.m. • $69 • A cooperative venture with College Media Advisers and taught by CMA leaders and other veteran advisers, this workshop will benefit advisers of all experience levels. A special emphasis will be placed on managing a student staff working in print and online, utilizing the latest technology, special legal situations and working with college administrators. Don’t be stuck in dial-up while your student media operation moves ahead at broadband speed. Bring materials you would like advice on, and your questions. Open only to advisers.
Enter Your Newspaper and Website in the Convention Best of Show Contest Student delegates can enter a single issue of their paper and three online media categories in ACP’s annual Best of Show on-site competition. Only student delegates attending the convention can enter. Winners go home with an award and bragging rights as one of the best college papers or Web sites at the convention. Delegates enter a single, regular issue of their choice, published since Sept. 1, 2010, into one of these categories: four-year dailies, four-year weeklies, four-year less than weekly and two-
year papers of any frequency. The entries will be judged for general excellence, including the quality of reporting, writing, editing, design, photography and examples of special project reporting and editorial page leadership. Backto-School or other special editions should not be entered. Online categories include two divisions for websites based on enrollment (updated since Jan. 1, 2011), audio podcast (created Jan. 1, 2011, or later) and multimedia story. The contest is not a written critique and no
scoring or comments are returned following the judging. Entries are brought to the convention and submitted to ACP at the registration desk no later than 4 p.m., Friday, March 4. Awards are presented at the convention’s closing keynote on Sunday morning, March 6. Winners and runners-up receive awards. There is no cost for ACP members to enter the Best of Show contest. For nonmembers, the cost is $25 per entry.
+ Los Angeles sights…
On the Web Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau
Find tour and event discounts online: http://discoverlosangeles.com/play/activities-and-recreation Step outside the Renaissance Hollywood convention hotel onto Hollywood Boulevard, and you’re surrounded by Hollywood history in all directions. You’ll find plenty to do and see on whatever budget you have, starting with Hollywood and Highland, the theater-dining-shopping complex. Adjacent to the Renaissance Hollywood is the Kodak Theater, home to the Academy Awards, and Mann Chinese Theater, where you can see a movie as well as match your foot and hand prints with those of legendary stars. Want to see the stars’ homes or the L.A. highlights? Tours depart from in front of Mann’s Theater. Next door is Madame Tussaud’s, where stars and celebrities of every type are immortalized in wax. Across the street is the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, where the first Academy Awards were presented in 1929 and where today’s young Hollywood stars reportedly frequent. Around the corner from the hotel is a Lucky Strike bowling alley. Or, follow the stars of the Walk of Fame along surrounding streets. Venture a little further and experience the Universal Studios, with its movie-themed rides, tours of movie sets and demonstrations of filmmaking tricks and technology, is a great way to experience the magic of Hollywood and re-live some of your personal movie thrills and chills. Universal City Walk, where you will often find Jay Leno filming his popular “Jay Walking” program segment, is a massive entertainment complex with shops, restaurants and clubs connected by colorful and lively walkways and outdoor patios. Downtown Los Angeles is rejuvenated with the justopened complex of shops, restaurants and entertainment at LA LIVE. Catch a game at the Staples Center, a show at the Nokia Theater, or experience LA’s vibrant music recording industry through the engaging and interactive
Students: Be on a panel Student journalists who would like to talk about their on-the-job experiences can volunteer to speak as one of three to five students on a panel during one of these convention sessions: • How To Successfully Manage a Two-year College Newspaper • How To Successfully Manage a Four-year College Newspaper (daily and nondaily) • Reporting on Private Universities • Covering College Sports • Reporting Controversial Stories and Sensitive Topics • Investigative Stories on College Campuses • Managing a Multimedia Web Site To volunteer, e-mail ACP at logan@studentpress. org no later than Feb. 9. You don’t have to be an expert, just someone with experience, helpful ideas and success stories you want to share with others. It's fun and a good résumé-building experience.
exhibits at the Grammy Museum. Getting to other fun parts of the city is easy and inexpensive — just use the Metro subway. The Hollywood and Highland stop on the Red Line will take you to one stop to Universal Studios or a few stops in the other direction downtown to LA LIVE. Spots not served by the subway, including Beverly Hills, Santa Monica or West Hollywood, canbe reached by bus or taxi if you don’t have a car. The famous Hollywood sign, built in 1923 to advertise a real estate development called Hollywoodland, can best be seen from the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Bronson Avenue. Each letter is about 50 feet high. Some 5,000 lights illuminate it at night. It’s probably the most famous sign in the world. If you have a car, you can get closer by driving through the residential area up into the Hollywood Hills. If you’ll have a car and want to go to the beach, drive to Venice Beach for the funky boardwalk ticky-tacky atmosphere, to Huntington Beach where the real surfers go, or to Santa Monica Beach, with its old-style amusement pier and a nice, sandy beach. Bear in mind that the Pacific Ocean is cool, literally. Typically, there’s more to see and do in a convention host city than there’s time and Los Angeles is no different. In addition to what’s already listed, you can try these popular spots: La Brea Tar Pits, Griffith Park, Los Angeles Zoo, The Hollywood Bowl, Farmer’s Market, Rodeo Drive and, with some planning because of the distance, Disneyland. Don’t forget the many museums, churches and buildings with interesting architecture. The hotel concierge will have brochures and information on these and many other area attractions, including tours and dinner recommendations.
http://discoverlosangeles.com
Getting there and getting around: Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) www.airport-la.com Ontario International Airport (ONT) www.lawa.org/welcomeont.aspx Bob Hope Burbank Airport (BUR) www.burbankairport.com Long Beach Airport (LGB) www.longbeach.gov/airport John Wayne Orange County Airport (SNA) www.ocair.com Metro Buses/Light Rail www.metro.net
Hollywod & Highland Center www.hollywoodandhighland.com
Los Angeles Times www.latimes.com
LA Weekly www.laweekly.com
Associated Collegiate Press acp.studentpress.org
+ Critiques & Exchange Convention Critiques for Student Media
Bring Your Papers to the Convention
You can get your newspaper or magazine critiqued during the convention. Those who want to participate on Friday or Saturday are asked to submit up to three issues when they arrive at the convention.
In addition to your contest and critique entries, bring extra copies — a couple dozen or so — of your best papers, ad rate cards and marketing materials for display in the student lounge and to exchange with other students.
Online journalists need only to provide their site’s URL; ACP will provide an Internet connection and hardware to access each site. We’ll do what we can to accommodate everyone, but we cannot guarantee space will be available. Signup is first-come, firstserved, and space is limited.
This is your opportunity to see what your peers are reporting and get some design and coverage ideas. An exchange of ad rate cards and other sales materials will help ad staffers get new ideas and compare rates.
Photo credits: Los Angeles Skyline © LACVB. Beach scene © Kenna Love. Walk of Fame star © Christain Haugen via Flickr. The Hollywood Sign™ & © 2002 Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, Licensed by Global Icons, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
+ Hotel / Transportation IMPORTANT DEADLINES Feb. 9, 2011 • Hotel reservations due. After this date, phone the hotel for availability. If you have problems booking a room, phone ACP. • End of discounted, earlybird convention registration fees • Last day for students to volunteer to be a convention panel speaker (see page 4)
Feb. 10, 2011 • Regular convention registration fees in effect through the convention
Feb. 22, 2011 • Last day to mail registrations to ACP. You can still use fax or register online.
Feb. 28, 2011 • Last day to register online or by fax. Walk-in registrations in Los Angeles will be accepted.
REGISTER ONLINE http://acp.studentpress.org Convention delegates can register via the ACP Web site and receive instant confirmation of their registration. Delegates may send the confirmation to ACP with their check or purchase order or submit credit card information to ACP via our secure form. For more information, visit the ACP Web site: acp.studentpress.org.
Convention Hotel: Renaissance Hollywood The glamour and excitement of the world’s moviemaking capital comes to life at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel & Spa, cornerstone of the spectacular Hollywood & Highland Center, L.A.’s hottest shopping and entertainment destination. Each one of the Renaissance Hollywood’s elegantly appointed rooms is designed to reflect the hotel’s unique character and commitment to luxury. Mid-century modern artwork complements stylish, comfortable furniture. The hotel is attached to the Hollywood & Highland Center, an entertainment and shopping mecca that offers plenty to do, buy and eat. A Metro subway stop at Hollywood & Highland will take you to sports venues, museums, Universal Studios and connect with buses to the beach. Whether in your room or the lobby, enjoy the convenience of free high-speed Internet. To revive or relax, enjoy the fitness center, spa or rooftop pool. Other than the convenience, the real reason to stay at the headquarters hotel is the price. The reduced room rate for ACP delegates is $170 plus tax for any occupancy. It’s a bargain when you compare it to other Los Angeles or New York hotels. When you stay in the official convention hotel, you have the most convenient arrangement in proximity to the learning sessions and social events. You also help offset the expenses of the convention by booking your room in ACP’s block. There’s one catch to all of this hotel good news: To get this reduced rate you must book your room no later than Feb. 9, 2011. But don’t wait that long because availability
Book rooms directly online: http://cwp.marriott.com/laxrh/acp is limited. After Feb. 1, you can still call the hotel to check on availability and make a reservation if rooms are still available. When you phone the hotel, always mention the name of the convention, National College Journalism Convention, and the Associated Collegiate Press. If you have trouble reserving a room, please call ACP for assistance: (612) 625-8335. Since the hotel has a limited number of rooms, ACP cannot guarantee availability before or after the cut-off date. To reserve a room: Call the Renaissance Hollywood at (323) 856-1200 or Marriott reservations at (800) 2289290, or send a fax to Reservations at (323) 491-1047. You can also use the link above. The hotel is located at 1755 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood, CA 90028.
Airline and Transportation Fly American or Delta Airlines and Save Money American Airlines offers delegates 5 percent off the lowest applicable published fare. Some restrictions apply. All taxes and fees apply. To reserve a discounted American Airlines fare, you or your travel agent should call 1-800-433-1790 and use the code A4121BS or go to aa.com and use the code 4121BS. Delta Airlines is offering a discount of 5 to 7 percent off full fares and 2 to 5 percent off discount fares if tickets are ordered via phone. Call 1-800-328-1111 and give the code NM64Y. Ask the agent for the lowest fare. Keep in mind that fares sometimes vary by departure time and day of the week. Book your flight early.
Airport and Ground Transportation Los Angeles is served by several airports: Los Angeles International (LAX), Long Beach International (LGB), Ontario International (ONT), Bob Hope Burbank Airport (BUR), and John Wayne Orange County Airport (STA) and numerous airlines. Check more than one for the best value as several airlines serve more than one airport. Your best bet for ground transportation to the Renaissance Hollywood is a shared van shuttle service. Fare will vary depending on your arrival airport. Be sure to allow plenty of time to get from the airport — L.A. traffic is legendary. The Renaissance Hollywood Hotel is located at a Metro Red Line light rail/subway stop, Hollywood and Highland. Hourly parking is available at Hollywood and Highland garage with a maximum charge of $10 per day.
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Thursday Pre-convention Workshops: The Hollywood Experience: Audio & Video for the Web • Covering Collegiate Sports • Print Newspaper Design • Newsroom Management Training for Top Editors • Advanced Reporting • Newspaper Advertising Sales • Accessing Public Records • Effective Newspaper Advising
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Keynotes Breakouts Multimedia training in computer labs Workshops Best of Show contest Design, publication website critiques Vendor displays Professional networking
National College Journalism Convention March 3-6, 2011 • Renaissance Hollywood
Who Should Attend? The National College Journalism Convention is open to students and advisers from four-year and two-year colleges and universities, public and private, from the United States, Canada and other countries. Those who should attend include print and online editors, reporters, photographers, columnists, designers and artists, ad sales staffers and managers, advisers and those who oversee student newspaper work and all others who are interested in learning more about student newspaper journalism.
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