News Release

May 25 is registration deadline for high school journalism institute

CHAPEL HILL - The N.C. Scholastic Media Association will host its annual journalism institute from June 19-22 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Registrations must be postmarked by May 25.

High school students and their teachers are invited to participate. The Monday-through-Thursday institute is designed to teach creative and efficient ways to communicate through high school newspapers, yearbooks, literary magazines and broadcasts.

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.

Each student may choose one of the following sequences: newspaper, desktop publishing/design, photography, yearbook, literary magazine and TV news. Teachers may participate in sequences with their students or in an adviser sequence. By doing so, teachers may receive continuing education credits.

University and high school faculty will join area media professionals as workshop instructors. Speakers will include Mark Murray, technology director for Arlington (Texas) Independent School District; Bonnie Angelo, who wrote "First Families"; Bill Elsen, retired recruiting coordinator for The Washington Post; and Bruce Watterson, a yearbook consultant from Rome, Ga.

The institute fee is $160. Commuters may attend for $140. For more information and registration forms, visit http://www.ibiblio.org/ncsma/institute.html or contact the association at (919) 962-4639, (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