NSPA announced the following award winners on Saturday, Nov. 14 at the D.C. convention:
JEA announced the winners of their Write-off Awards on Sunday morning, Nov. 15.
Congratulations to all the winners!
NSPA Best of Show winners were announced at an award ceremony Saturday afternoon. Here is the list of winners:
http://nspa.studentpress.org/winners/f09bs.html
Pacemakers and Individual Award winners to follow. JEA award ceremony starts at 8:30 am on Sunday.
Props to Jeff Stern and Jordan Michnoff from Ward Melville HS in New York for this great time-lapse video shot in the elevator at the convention hotel:
NSPA Elevator Video from Jeff Stern on Vimeo.
Jeff and Jordan shot this on their own initiative and presented it to NSPA staff at registration. We were so impressed with it, we showed it during the opening of the Saturday afternoon award ceremony. Nice work!
Conversation is already buzzing on Tue. evening on the D. C. convention Twitter feed. If you’re tweeting, be sure to add #hsjdc (that’s short for High School Journalism D.C.) to your posts to get them into the feed. To follow the conversation, go to search.twitter.com and search for #hsjdc. See you there!
We’re trying something new for the Washington, D.C., trade show. Students — about 3,000 individuals and teams — will be able to participate in a trivia contest that involves visiting certain booths at the trade show. The questions are all about Washington, D.C. Cards are available at the registration desk.
Here’s how it works:
1. Find the trivia question at each of the 13 booths listed on the card.
2. Tell your answer to the designated person at the booth, and have that person initial your card on the star for that booth. Only correct answers get initials!
3. Return the completed card to the registration desk by Friday, Nov. 13, at 4 p.m.
Prizes include summer workshops, sweatshirts, books, gift cards and more! Winners in the drawing will be announced Saturday afternoon at the awards ceremony.
The trade show will also feature a small lounge area where students and advisers can relax in confortable chairs and review the convention program, look over their notes or just chat with some new journalism friends. Spend some time in the trade show and learn something new!
Attention, high school journalists: In a culture obsessed with physical appearance and sexual relationships, how much influence does the media have on how you view yourself? Here’s your chance to sound off!
Bring your questions to The American Forum: Sexuality, Teens, and the Media, a discussion led by a high school journalist, a nationally-recognized sexuality educator, and American University School of Communication (SOC) news media expert Jane Hall (moderator).
We need you AND your questions to be with us in the hall for the American Forum, which will be taped for broadcast on WAMU, the public-radio station in the natiion’s news capital. The event will take place during the journalism convention, in Lincoln 2 Room during the convention, at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 13!
Your voices will be heard as the event is recorded and broadcast on WAMU 88.5, and the program likely will air on other NPR stations.
Students are encouraged to help shape the debate by pre-submitting questions and comments on the American Forum Facebook group http://tinyurl.com/yzmbjyc , by tweeting using #amforum or by visiting the American University School of Communication booth at the convention.
When you submit a question at the School of Communication booth, we would like for you to be present in the audience during the Forum to ask your question there. We will also read from some of your questions — but we’d like for as many students as possible to submit questions AND be present to ask them. We’ll ask you to leave your contact information with your question at the booth. Students will also be invited to ask questions live at the event.
After the event, School of Communication will be holding a contest for student coverage of the event – news stories, broadcast, blog entries, photography, etc. Ten winners each will receive a $10 iTunes gift card, and the best coverage will be highlighted on the SOC web site and on the American Forum Facebook group. In order to participate, students can send their work to americanforum@american.edu or by posting links to online work on the American Forum Facebook group.
The conference is this month — amazing how quickly time has passed. With NSPA/JEA coming up so soon, the write-off coordinators have offered up some last-minute reminders (PDF) for entrants. Additionally, you can take a look at who’s doing the write-off judging, both alphabetically (PDF) and by event (PDF).
If you’re coming to D.C., you can start planning which sessions you’re going to attend by downloading the convention program, now available for download in PDF format or viewing onscreen below via Issuu.com.
If you are flying to Washington, D.C., and arriving at Ronald Reagan National Airport (DCA), Dulles (IAD) or Baltimore-Washington/Thurgood Marshall International Airport (BWI), Super Shuttle is offering a discount of $2 for a one-way trip and $5 for a round-trip with an advance reservation.
Group Code: http://www.supershuttle.com/default.aspx?GC=DQBL8
Tips: http://shuttletips.com/buttons/
For instructions, use the attached flyer: supershuttledc
Subscribers to the JEA e-mail list have received daily “D.C. Truths” e-mails from the planning committee. Each of these “truths” is a wonderful sight, restaurant, event, or activity that visitors to D.C. can take advantage of to take fullest advantage of our convention locale. All of these come from local advisers; they’re the kind of things the locals love to do but regular tourists sometime miss out on (don’t tell our neighbors we’re sharing DC’s secrets!).
For those of you not subscribed to the JEA e-mail list, an archive of the first round of D.C. truths e-mails is now available (PDF). You also can search the JEA e-mail list archives.
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