Student journalists, professors and professionals converge on conference March 14-16
Journalism students, advisers and working media professionals from coast to coast and beyond will meet March 14-16 in New York City for the annual spring National College Media Convention, hosted by the College Media Advisers.
For the third consecutive year, the event will be held at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel in the heart of midtown Manhattan's theater district and Times Square.
The gathering of some 1,600 students and advisers is the largest in the world and will feature more than 200 educational workshops covering everything from incorporating social networking media, blogging and podcasts into your traditional print publications to photography, reporting, magazine writing and poetry. Advertising, ghostwriting, job-seeking strategies, layout and design, the latest multimedia innovations and broadcasting will be represented as well.
Daytona State College journalism professor Elena Jarvis, who is adviser for the campus newspaper In Motion and literary magazine, Ole, will stage two presentations. The first, "Getting in the Zone" is an overview of the iTunes University project at Daytona State and will be at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, March 14. DSC's College of Online Studies employee Casey Penn will co-present with the instructor. Professor Jarvis will offer an entertainment law and reporting workshop, along with professor Toni Albertson of Mount San Antonio College in Los Angeles, at 1:30 p.m. Monday, March 15.
Ten editors representing In Motion and Ole magazine raised the money to attend the event through the sale of advertising in the campus newspaper. Those editors will be posting updates to this story during their stay in New York City. For more in the workshops, go to:
http://www.collegemedia.org/2010sessions
Other highlights include inspirational keynote addresses from media movers and shakers, a trade show and job fair, onsite critiques and competitions, and tours of the city and surrounding attractions.
The object of the CMA extravaganza is to "to provide leadership and training for students who will be charting the course of an exciting and evolving new world of media."
Professionals from the New York Times, Washington Post, the Associated Press, WABC-TV in New York, CBS television and Self, Seventeen and New Yorker magazines also will present during the event. The Student Press Law Center and First Amendment Center, as well as other First Amendment rights groups, will be on hand as well.
The conference culiminates the afternoon of March 16 with the annual Apple Awards. Competing in 12 categories - for both 4 and 2-year schools - student journalists vie for the coveted prize in print and broadcast media, yearbook and magazine writing.
Following is an overview of keynote speakers at the conference.
SUNDAY: Brian Stelter is a media reporter for The New York Times. He writes about television, digital media and journalism for The Times, and is a lead contributor to The Times' Media Decoder blog. Stelter joined The Times in 2007 after spending three and a half years as the editor of TVNewser, a popular blog tracking the television news business. He founded the blog in 2004 during his freshman year of college and sold it to the media company Mediabistro six months later. In 2006, a front-page profile in The New York Times called Stelter "The Kid With All the News About the TV News."
MONDAY: Terry Moran is co-anchor of ABC News' "Nightline" and Supreme Court correspondent for the network. At "Nightline," Moran has led the program's distinguished coverage of many of the major news stories over the past several years.
TUESDAY: He's No. 1 on The New York Times Best Seller List for his book, "Game Change." Author Mark Halperin will provide the closing keynote address in New York. Halperin is editor-at-large and senior political analyst for Time magazine. He is the author of "The Undecided Voter's Guide to the Next President" and the coauthor of "The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008." He has covered six presidential elections, including during his decade as the political director for ABC News. He lives in Manhattan. Halperin will present Tuesday's keynote at 10 a.m. His book will be available for sale prior to and after his keynote address. He is scheduled to be available to autograph the book after his keynote.