News Brief

The N.C. Scholastic Media Association has extended the registration deadline for its annual four-day journalism Institute at UNC June 14-17. Materials now must be postmarked by Monday (June 7).

All interested high school students and their teachers are encouraged to participate. The workshop is designed to teach creative and efficient ways to communicate through high school newspapers, yearbooks, literary magazines and broadcasts.

The institute also gives students a chance to experience college life — dorms, roommates, classes and more.

Students may choose one of the following sequences: newspaper, desktop publishing/technology, photography, yearbook, literary magazine and TV news. Advisers may participate in one of these tracks along with their students, or they may choose the adviser track. Teachers may receive continuing education credits.

University and high school faculty will join area media professionals as workshop instructors. They will accompany nationally recognized journalism educators Mark Goodman, director of Student Press Law Center in Arlington, Va.; Mitzi Neely, a journalism teacher at Springhill High in Longview, Texas; Bill Elsen, recently retired as copy chief at The Washington Post; and Bruce Watterson, a yearbook consultant from Rome, Ga.  

Daniel Wallace, author of "Big Fish," will deliver a keynote address to the group.

The workshop fee is $160. Registration materials are available at www.jomc.unc.edu/specialprograms/NCSMI.pdf. For more information contact the NCSMA office 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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Contact: Monica Hill, 919-962-4639 or 1-888-562-6276, ncsma@unc.edu