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WELCOME TO THE 2009 STATE CONVENTION! Thank you for joining us at the 2009 Indiana High School Press Association state convention! While there are a few changes to the schedule from years past, the tradition of great activities and sessions that will benefit you and your publication “From This Point” continues! The Thursday night lineup has everyone in the beautiful Napolitan Student Center for a casual night of contest and collaboration. The best in scholastic journalism will be on display in the on-site contests on the second floor of the student center. Participants will test their skills against their peers in everything from writing to photography to design. Those not participating in the contests can enjoy spending time with fellow journalists during the activities planned by the IHSPA student board members. Friday starts off with our keynote speaker, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas French, detailing what you’ll need to know to be successful in your work at school and within the professional ranks. The day will continue with numerous 45-minute quick sessions focused on every element of journalism, and intensive workshops where you’ll receive one-on-one instruction to produce work that can be put to use the minute you walk through the classroom door. The day wraps up back in the Spurlock Center Gymnasium at 1:15 p.m. with the awards ceremony. Sure, that may seem like a lot of changes. However, we wanted to provide only the best in relevant, applicable programming that will prepare you and your fellow student journalists to reach the highest levels of success!
CONVENTION RULES To help make the state convention an enjoyable experience for all who attend, IHSPA officials ask that you follow a few guidelines: • Wear your namebadge at all times. • Remember that you are representing your school and should act accordingly. • Please be on time to sessions and avoid disrupting speakers. • Plan ahead; map out your day in advance with the convention schedule and campus map. • Be courteous; pay attention to speakers and be respectful. • Should individual students prove disruptive, IHSPA reserves the right to declare fees forfeited and send students home at the expense of their parents or guardians; breaking convention rules will result in disqualification from contests and forfeiture of awards. • Follow your lunch schedule!
HOTEL CONDUCT (ADVISER RESPONSIBILITY) • Rudeness to hotel guests and employees, excessive noise in all hotel areas, destruction of property, or any other inappropriate behavior is not acceptable and can lead to severe consequences for anyone involved. • Remember to keep your room key with you at all times. • Please don’t slam doors. • Don’t run from room to room. • Don’t make prank or random phone calls. • Boys are not allowed in girls’ rooms; girls are not allowed in boys’ rooms. • Students should be in their rooms by midnight, making no excessive noise. • The possession or use of illegal drugs, including alcohol, by minors, is absolutely prohibited. • All students should be accompanied outside the hotel by at least one other student or adult at all times.
SPECIAL THANKS The Indiana High School Press Association would like to thank the following groups and individuals for all of their help with the convention and other events throughout the year: Ball State University Department of Journalism Franklin College Office of Admissions Franklin College Pulliam School of Journalism Friesens Herff Jones Hoosier Authority
Indiana University School of Journalism Jostens Learn More Indiana Taylor Publishing Company Walsworth Publishing Company Winters Associates, Bloomington
IHSPA EXECUTIVE BOARD President: Sarah Verpooten (Lake Central HS) President Elect: Carrie Wadycki (Lake Central HS) Vice President: Chad Tuley (Scecina Memorial HS) Secretary: Rachel McCarver (Columbus North HS) At-Large: Robin Bilinski (NorthWood HS), Jim Lang (Floyd Central HS), Nicole Wilson (Carmel HS) Past President: Kande McKay (Madison Consolidated HS) Student President: Tyler Wildman (Plainfield HS) Student Vice President: Jessica Wray (Franklin Community HS) Student At-Large: Arden Gervase (Greenwood HS), Navya Kumar (Carmel HS), Patrick Reidy (Fishers HS) IHSPA Executive Director: Diana Hadley IHSPA Adviser: Dennis Cripe Convention Chairman: Ryan Gunterman (Bloomington HS North)
SCHEDULES AT A GLANCE Thursday @ Napolitan Student Center: 7 to 8 p.m. • Register for convention 8 p.m. • Convention opening in dining room 8 to 10 p.m. • On-site contests on 2nd floor • Student activity in dining room • Adviser gathering in atrium
Friday @ Franklin College Campus: 8 to 9 a.m. • Register for convention in Spurlock Center Lobby 9 to 9:30 a.m. • Keynote Thomas French in Spurlock Center Gym 9:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. • Three rounds of quick sessions • Topic-specific intensive workshops 10:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. • IHSPA business meeting, luncheon in Branigin Room 1:15 to 2 p.m. • Awards ceremony, closing in Spurlock Center Gym
Keynote Address
Spurlock Center Gymnasium @ 9 a.m.
Thomas French
A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, Thomas French began his career as a high school journalist in Indianapolis. After three decades at a Florida newspaper, covering hurricanes and murder trials and the secret lives of high school students, he has recently returned to his home state to teach journalism at Indiana University. French worked on both the newspaper and yearbook staffs at Pike High School and then attended journalism school at IU’s Bloomington campus, where he was a Poynter scholar and editor-in-chief at the Indiana Daily Student. After graduating in 1980, French spent the next 27 years as a reporter at the St. Petersburg Times. In 1998, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing for Angels & Demons, a series that chronicled the murder of an Ohio woman and her two teenage daughters while they vacationed in Tampa Bay. One of his other projects, South of Heaven, followed a year in the life of a Florida high school and was expanded into a book. His most recent project, Zoo Story, explored life and death (and sex and power and deception and exile and the limits of freedom) among the species at Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo. A book version of that project is scheduled for publication next year Throughout his career, French has coached high school journalists across the country, from Texas to Kansas to South Carolina. He is a Writing Fellow at the Poynter Institute and has led reporting workshops in newsrooms and at conferences around the world, from Singapore to Johannesburg to Paris. This fall, he began teaching full time at IU’s j-school. He is proud to be back at his alma mater and looks forward to working not only with his students in Bloomington but with high school journalists and their teachers from all around Indiana.
Intensive Workshops
lunch in student center after seminar ends
contact dhadley@franklincollege.edu to enroll students in the following seminars: INTRO TO INDESIGN & PHOTOSHOP w/Ryan Sparrow Shirk 114 9:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. ADVANCED PUBLICATIONS DESIGN w/Larry Buchanan Shirk 103 9:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT w/David Studinski Old Main 321 9:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. BROADCAST w/Chad Tuley & WRTV Ch. 6 Hamilton 221 9:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. preregistration not required for the following seminars, but it is encouraged: STORY DEVELOPMENT w/Thomas French Spurlock Center Gym 9:45 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. LEADERSHIP w/John & Candace Bowen JCFA Henderson Conference Room 9:45 a.m. to Noon PHOTOJOURNALISM SKILLS w/Tim Lisko Chapel Wymer Room 9:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
Quick Sessions
check your nametag for group assignment Group A 9:45 a.m. = class 10:45 a.m. = lunch 11:15 a.m. = class 12:15 p.m. = class 1:15 p.m. = awards
Schedule at a glance
check nametag for group assignment
Group B 9:45 a.m. = class 10:45 a.m. = class 11:45 a.m. = lunch 12:15 p.m. = class 1:15 p.m. = awards
9:45 a.m. Session 1 Groups A & B Don’t do that! Why photo ethics still matter Zach Dobson JCFA 101 Conducting the journalistic interview Tony Willis JCFA 102 A journalism education and experience will serve you well – whether or not you land a job on the editorial side Jim Bright JCFA 103 Five things I learned about writing (after I thought I knew it all) Nancy Comiskey JCFA 104 Five-minute design makeovers Lindsay Hadley HAMILTON AUDITORIUM New business models for yearbook and newspaper Dick Maurer SPURLOCK 225 What it takes to cover sports (and be good at it) Curt Cavin CHAPEL SANCTUARY 10:45 a.m. Lunch Group A (Student Center Dining Room) 10:45 a.m. Session 2 Group B Don’t do that! why photo ethics still matter Zach Dobson JCFA 101 What you need to know for college Panel discussion JCFA 102 A journalism education and experience will serve you well – whether or not you land a job on the editorial side Jim Bright JCFA 103 11:15 a.m. Session 2 Group A Want to be published? Statewide professional publication seeking content and photos from Indiana students Elizabeth Crouch SPURLOCK 225 PR career opportunities for those with media training Ray Begovich JCFA 104 What you need to know for college Panel discussion HAMILTON AUDITORIUM 11:45 a.m. Lunch Group B (Student Center Dining Room) 12:15 p.m. Session 3 Groups A & B Rethink your yearbook - From coverage to details, be prepared to open your mind to some new ideas to bring your 2010 yearbook up-to-date! Kim Green JCFA 101 Covering government for high school readers Panel Discussion JCFA 102 Three steps to great writing: report, report, report. Amy Wimmer Schwarb JCFA 103 Kanye West, Taylor Swift and Beyonce: Is this really news? Brian Hayes JCFA 104 Twilight’: How the Sexy Vampire Novels Can Improve Your News Stories (Seriously). Colleen Steffen HAMILTON AUDITORIUM Journalistic Games: The Power of Play Megan McNames CHAPEL SANCTUARY Want to be published? Statewide professional publication seeking content and photos from Indiana students Elizabeth Crouch SPURLOCK 225 1:15 p.m. Awards Ceremony Celebrate the winners of the Hoosier Stars, on-site contests, and more! SPURLOCK CENTER GYMNASIUM
SPEAKER BIOS DR. RAY BEGOVICH teaches public relations, advertising and mass media courses in the Pulliam School of Journalism. A former vice president of an Indianapolis public relations agency, Begovich brings an extensive amount of professional experience into the classroom. Outside the classroom, he does writing coaching, media training, book editing, advertising copywriting, and PR writing. He writes public relations plans and provides public relations counseling to businesses, government agencies and nonprofit organizations. His current research projects are focused in two areas: on the massive public relations efforts mounted by the U.S. Office of War Information in World War II and on public relations efforts to promote cultural tourism. CANDACE PERKINS BOWEN directs both the statewide Ohio Scholastic Media Association and the Center for Scholastic Journalism at Kent State University. She is an assistant professor who teaches media writing plus journalism teaching methods and desktop publishing for Integrated Language Arts majors. A former high school journalism teacher with a BS in newspaper journalism and an MA in journalism education, Perkins Bowen is a past president of the Journalism Education Association serving on the Scholastic Press Rights Commission and the Certification Commission and overseeing the JEAHELP listserv. In addition, she is on the Steering Committee of the SPLC Advisory Council and is the current head of the Scholastic Journalism Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. JOHN BOWEN is JEA Scholastic Press Rights chairman and has been a member of the SPLC Board of directors. Retired from 30+ years of scholastic journalism teaching and advising, Bowen now teaches journalism at Kent State University and is on the staff of Kent State’s Center for Scholastic Journalism. While teaching journalism and social studies in high school, Bowen’s students were awarded print and online Pacemakers, Gold Crowns and Gallup Awards. JIM BRIGHT is an IU graduate who spent 32 years as a journalist and public relations professional before returning to Bloomington to teach at the IU School of Journalism in 2006. Before joining the School of Journalism as a visiting faculty member, Mr. Bright worked in public relations at Ford Motor Company for 24 years, rising to the top of the organization. In his last public relations position, he directed the activities of more than 300 public relations professionals in North America, South America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa and emerging markets. LARRY BUCHANAN was 7 years old when he began making one-page broadsheets of the news in his house to put in front of his parents’ door every morning. Well, he, like the rest of the current newspaper industry, fell victim to skyrocketing printing costs, declining ad sales, and layoffs. He was short staffed and was forced to cut back. The newspaper only lasted a few weeks. Since then, Buchanan has gone on to become an award-winning college newspage designer at the Indiana Daily Student. He spent the summer of 2009 designing newspages for the Hartford Courant, America’s oldest, continuously published newspaper. CURT CAVIN is in his 22nd year of sportswriting at The Indianapolis Star, and his career began much like those of you attending this convention. His introduction to journalism came on the yearbook staff at Western High School, where he was the assistant editor as a senior. He attended Franklin College as a Pulliam scholarship winner, majoring in journalism, political science and Canadian studies. He was the sports information director and had internships at several Indiana newspapers (Greenfield, Franklin, Zionsville, Columbus and Indianapolis), which helped him land a job at The Star right out of college. His career has centered on auto racing, but he has covered high school and college teams. His auto racing expertise has led him to write regularly for two magazines, host a weekly radio show and serve as an analyst on WTHR-13. He has led The Star’s movement into alternative forms of communication, such as Twitter. NANCY COMISKEY has taught newspaper and magazine classes at Indiana University since 2002. Before coming to IU, she worked for 15 years at The Indianapolis News and The Indianapolis Star as a reporter, an editorial writer, a columnist and an editor. She was managing editor of The Indianapolis News and became deputy managing editor of The Indianapolis Star when the two papers merged. She continues to freelance for a variety of magazines. ELIZABETH CROUCH joined Learn More Indiana in August 2007 as the public relations and media coordinator. She is responsible for all statewide media outreach and manages grassroots PR efforts for local college success coalitions. Most recently, she handled the media relations effort for the KnowHow2GO Indiana campaign and secured over $3 million of earned media. Elizabeth has a degree in marketing from the University of Dayton. ZACH DOBSON is a full-time freelance photojournalist based in Indianapolis. He holds a degree in photojournalism from Indiana University and is a regular contributor to The Indianapolis Star. His work has been published in the Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times, Indianapolis Monthly and the Indianapolis Business Journal. Other clients include Indiana University, St. Francis Hospital, the Brotherhood of Teamsters, AARP, Damar Services, Brenwick Development, Luczo Dragon Racing, Samax Motorsport and U.S. Catholic Magazine. Zach has received awards from the Hoosier State Press Association, the Wedding Photojournalists Association and the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.
KIM GREEN, MJE, advises student media at Columbus North High School. She is a 2004 Indiana Journalism Teacher of the Year, a 2006 Dow Jones Distinguished Newspaper Adviser and a 2009 Journalism Education Association Distinguished Yearbook Adviser. A former IHSPA president, she serves on the JEA Certification Commission. LINDSAY HADLEY is a Creative Director for Indianapolis advertising agency, The HEAVYWEIGHTS, who recently won a 2009 North American Effie Award. Hadley teaches Publications Design at Franklin College, and taught Advertising Design for four years at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Since 2005, Hadley’s students have been placed in art director or designer positions with companies such as Walt Disney, The Cartoon Network, Lands End, Nine West, Apple, Vanity Fair, Martha Stewart and Ralph Lauren. Most recently, her students have been recognized by CMYK Magazine, Computer Arts Magazine and in the Hollywood Reporter’s Key Art Awards. BRIAN HAYES worked as a professional newspaper designer and secondary journalism teacher/publications adviser after earning his bachelor’s degree from Ball State University in the mid-90’s. In 2005, Hayes joined the Ball State faculty as the Sequence Coordinator for Journalism Education and is the Director of the Secondary Education Services office. TIM LISKO is an Indianapolis-based photographer and educator with an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design. He has studied and helped teach at the Maine Media Workshops under some of his personal photographic idols and has taught at the Jack Leigh Summer photo camp in Savannah, Ga. for the last two years. Tim’s own photography covers the spectrum from abstract fine art to very literal documentary work. RICHARD MAURER was a yearbook representative for Jostens in central Indiana for 25 years, and has been involved in the graphic arts and printing industry for over 40 years. Prior to his involvement in the yearbook business he worked in packaging design in Chicago and New York specializing in the cosmetic, personal care and pharmaceutical industries. He is presently the owner of Creative Publishing Concepts, a yearbook and printing consulting firm. Maurer lives in Carmel, Indiana, with his wife Barbara and cats, Sunny and Peaches. MEGAN MCNAMES is the assistant director of journalism workshops at Ball State University. She teaches game design as part of the digital media minor program at Ball State and has freelanced for a number of publications including CiNWeekly Magazine, Metromix.com, The Yorktown Press and M Magazine. COLLEEN STEFFEN has a BA in journalism from Franklin College and a MA in English literature from the University of North Florida, and is only slightly embarrassed by her love of the “Twilight” novels. She worked for 15 years as a feature writer and editor at newspapers in three states. Now an adjunct instructor at Ball State and new mom is working on a historical nonfiction book about a 9-year-old girl who disappeared from New Castle in 1913. Cool subject -- no vampires, though. DAVID STUDINSKI is Community Manager for mtvU’s College Media Network, which serves 600+ college newspapers in the United States. Studinski holds an MA in Telecommunications and B.S. in Journalism from Ball State University. A former two-term editor-in-chief at BSU, he also served three years as president of the Indiana Collegiate Press Association. Studinski is the recipient of numerous state and national awards including an online news story Pacemaker and honors in the inaugural UWIRE Top 100 College Journalists list. RYAN SPARROW worked at newspapers across Indiana, Kentucky and Florida before teaching at Ball State. As part of the university’s journalism graphics program, Ryan teaches classes in news design, multimedia storytelling and visual communication. In addition to teaching, Ryan continues to work as a freelance photographer and designer and a media consultant, specializing in helping publications and businesses develop strategies in enhancing their multimedia potential. Ryan is a 1994 graduate of Franklin College. TONY WILLIS advised the student newspaper at Jeffersonville (Indiana) High School from 1979 to 1990 and at Carmel (Indiana) High School from 1990 to 2004. His students earned Gold Crown, Pacemaker and Hoosier Star honors. He was named the 1988 Indiana Teacher of the Year and the 1992 Indiana Publications Adviser of the Year. He has taught summer journalism workshops and classes for both students and teachers at Indiana University, Ball State University, Franklin College and the University of South Carolina. Currently, he teaches English and AVID at Carmel High School and previously served as the Carmel Clay Schools communications specialist and curriculum coordinator. AMY WIMMER SCHWARB started working for a local newspaper, the Warren Weekly, when she was 12 years old, and she used her first “paycheck” - a $20 gift certificate to The Outfit in downtown Warren - to buy a really awful 1987-era purple paisley sweater. Since then, she has covered everything from police shootings and hurricanes to the antics of a foul-mouthed parrot named Bubba. She spent nine years as a reporter and editor at the St. Petersburg Times in Florida and is now executive editor of Indianapolis Monthly.
Noteworthy Items
jot down useful information from sessions
Vendor Tables
stop by the student center atrium to visit Ball State University Franklin College Friesens Herff Jones Heron Printing
Hoosier Authority Indiana University Jostens Walsworth
Membership Gatherings
get involved with IHSPA
10:45 a.m. Membership Meeting
BRANIGIN ROOM EAST executive board elections and scholastic journalism happenings
11:45 a.m. Adviser Luncheon
BRANIGIN ROOM WEST celebrations and conversations with advisers from across the state
Important Dates
what’s coming up for the association Nov. 13, 2009 Yearbook Hoosier Stars Due Jan. 23, 2010 Newspaper Hoosier Stars Due Feb. 15, 2010 Journalist of the Year Applications Due March 3, 2010 First Amendment Symposium For more information: Diana Hadley IHSPA Executive Director 317.738.8199 dhadley@franklincollege.edu http://ihspa.franklincollege.edu
Big News...
we’re starting a magazine! The IHSPA magazine will showcase all of the happenings within Indiana scholastic journalism as well as the best work from all across our state. We’re currently looking for some scholastic journalists to help with the production of this new venture, so contact Ryan Gunterman at prgunter@mccsc.edu if you’re interested in getting involved with the creation of this new magazine!
New IHSPA Gear!
good shirt, good cause
only $10!
Get yours at the registration tables before they’re all gone! A portion of the proceeds benefits the Student Press Law Center.
johnson center for fine arts (jcfa)
shirk hall
old main
hamilton library
sessions will be in these buildings
spurlock
student center
chapel