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May 9, 2005 -- No. 224 |
High school journalism workshop
scheduled for June 20-23 at UNC
By MONICA HILL
N.C. Scholastic Media Association
CHAPEL HILL — The
N.C. Scholastic Media Association will host its annual four-day journalism institute for high school students June 20-23 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Interested high school students from across the state and their teachers are encouraged to participate. The institute is designed to teach creative and efficient ways to communicate through high school newspapers, yearbooks, literary magazines and broadcasts.
Registrations must be postmarked by May 25. Registration forms are available at www.ibiblio.org/ncsma or from the association office at 919-962-4639, 1-888-562-6276.
The institute, housed in the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication, also gives students a chance to experience college life — dorms, roommates, classes and more.
Students may choose one of the following sequences to study: newspaper, desktop publishing/design, photography, yearbook, literary magazine and TV News. Teachers may participate in one of these tracks along with their students, or they may choose the adviser track. By doing so, teachers may receive continuing education credits.
University and high school faculty will join area media professionals as workshop instructors. They will be joined by nationally-recognized journalism educators Mark Murray, technology director for the Arlington (Texas) Independent School District; Dr. Gloria (Lori) Eastman,
English education professor at Buffalo State College of the State University of New York; Pulitzer Prize winner Walter Mears, a veteran political correspondent for the Associated Press, who wrote "Deadlines Past: Forty Years of Presidential Campaigning: A Reporter’s Story"; Bill Elsen, a retired recruiting coordinator for The Washington Post; and Bruce Watterson, a yearbook consultant from Rome, Ga.The workshop fee is $160. Commuters may attend for $140.
For more information, visit www.ibiblio.org/ncsma or contact the association at 919-962-4639, 1-888-562-6276, ncsma@unc.edu or 284 Carroll Hall, CB 3365, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3365.
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School of Journalism and Mass Communication contact: Monica Hill, 919-962-4639, ncsma@unc.edu
News Services contact: L.J. Toler, 919-962-8589