JDay Program 2012

Get excited about the future of JOURNALISM!!!

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Harrisonburg High School, Harrisonburg, VA

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Getting Around HHS1st floor 2nd floor

FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2011

(auditorium)Welcome - Chris Waugaman, VA-JTA DirectorKeynote Speaker, Bradley Wil-son, NC StateMass media 2022 Doomsayers and prognosticators predict the demise of the printed newspa-per within the next five years. But they’ve been saying that for more than 20 years. We’ll look at the future of the media and what the students of today can do to prepare themselves for jobs after high school.

Be A Trend Setter (room 466)Mary Strickler (Harrisonburg HS) and Glenn Russell (Balfour) Get a jump start on next year’s book with a sampling of visual and the-matic trends found in print media, and trends utilized in award win-ning yearbooks. It’s your turn to take these ideas to the next level and become a trendsetter!

Let’s Get Engaged (room 436)Logan Aimone (National Scholas-tic Press Association) What type of Facebook status updates increase “likes”? How can you crowdsource your story? Learn how journalists are using social media to engage their audiences — both to gather information and to promote con-tent.

Starting a Broadcasting Program (room 179)Seth Stratford (Harrisonburg HS) Where do you start? What do you need? This session will give an overview of what it takes to get a broadcasting program started and will identify a startup strat-egy for those who attend.

Literary Magazine : The Arts in the Digi-tal Age(room 463)Gardy Loo Staff (James Madison University) Come learn about the transformation of a lit mag to the

Welcome to Harrisonburg High School and jDay sponsored by VAJTA. We hope you enjoy your stay here in Harrisonburg. We encourage your staff to take advantage of all the won-derful speakers who have volunteered their time here today. Divide up so you can expe-rience as many of them as possible! Don’t forget to turn in your raffle ticket at the end of each session to be eligible for door prizes. Spend some time in the exhibit area talking with our vendors. If you need anything at all or have any questions, check in at the regis-tration desk and we will find someone to help you out. Have a great weekend!

Sincerely, Chris Waugaman (VAJTA Director) and Valerie Kibler (State JEA Director)

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7:30 - 8:30 p.m.(auditorium)Welcome - Chris Waugaman, VA-JTA DirectorKeynote Speaker, Bradley Wil-son, NC StateMass media 2022 Doomsayers and prognosticators predict the demise of the printed newspa-per within the next five years. But they’ve been saying that for more than 20 years. We’ll look at the future of the media and what the students of today can do to prepare themselves for jobs after high school.

8:45 - 9:45 p.m.Be A Trend Setter (room 466)Mary Strickler (Harrisonburg HS) and Glenn Russell (Balfour) Get a jump start on next year’s book with a sampling of visual and the-matic trends found in print media, and trends utilized in award win-ning yearbooks. It’s your turn to take these ideas to the next level and become a trendsetter!

Let’s Get Engaged (room 436)Logan Aimone (National Scholas-tic Press Association) What type of Facebook status updates increase “likes”? How can you crowdsource your story? Learn how journalists are using social media to engage their audiences — both to gather information and to promote con-tent.

Starting a Broadcasting Program (room 179)Seth Stratford (Harrisonburg HS) Where do you start? What do you need? This session will give an overview of what it takes to get a broadcasting program started and will identify a startup strat-egy for those who attend.

Literary Magazine : The Arts in the Digi-tal Age(room 463)Gardy Loo Staff (James Madison University) Come learn about the transformation of a lit mag to the

digital world with members of the Gardy Loo staff, James Madi-son University’s premier literary and arts magazine. Published quarterly and funded by the JMU Media Board, it is student run, de-signed, and accepts submissions from students of all majors each semester. The magazine is in the process of digitizing its records and most recent issues in order to be more widespread and acces-sible to its readers. They hope to have developed its own app by the end of the semester.

Beyond the Scoreboard: Improving Your Sports Coverage (room 444)Ellen Austin (Palo Alto HS) The adviser of The Viking, the nation’s first all-sports magazine, will talk about ways to extend your cur-rent coverage and entice new readers to your print pages and your online sites. The Viking uses long-form creative non fic-tion techniques in its coverage of sports in award-winning feature pieces on controversial issues from dog fights to weight-cutting to AIDS in sports. This session will feature tips, topics, and sugges-tions for your own publication’s sports coverage.

It’s Not All About Winning (room 181)Bradley Wilson (NC State) We’re going to spend some time look-ing at winning publications from all over the country to discuss what separates a top-notch pub-lication from all the others.

10 - 11 p.m.(auditorium commons) Student ice cream social.

(room 136) Adviser Reception.

SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 2011

7:30 - 8:30 a.m.7:30 - 8:30 (room 136) continental breakfast for advisers

9 - 9:45 a.m.ONLINE BOOTCAMP (room 174)Alan Weintraut (Annandale High School) Whether launching your website or just looking for ideas to revive your existing site, this special 3-session seminar will provide a look at best practices and provide you with easy tools to make your online publication shine. This workshop will cover everything from design and struc-ture to multimedia and interac-tivity. Participants should bring a laptop.

The Complete Sports Section (room 444)Chris Waugaman (Prince George HS) Bench the boring, old follow-up sports stories that have your readers putting your paper down for something better. Learn how to develop a complete sports section which includes sports features, game-stories, opinion columns, interesting alternative copy and much, much more.

They Wrote That? Really? (room 466)Jeff Moffett (Balfour) Let’s have some fun and try to figure out what some of these student and professional writers were trying to say by looking at their pub-lished work. Why didn’t they just cut to the chase and say it? Busy people do not want to try to wade through excess words with information they don’t want. Clear succinct writing communi-cates and keeps it simple. Word choice can greatly effect the mes-sage. Lack of style causes confu-sion. Spelling is still importnat. texting has ruined capitalization and punctuation. (Most of the er-rors in this description are on pur-pose, i think.)

Reporting Techniques That Work (room 446) Candace Sipos (Northern Vir-ginia Daily)

Flash Fiction - Writing a Super Short Story (room 440)

Charlotte Wood, Albemarle High School. Whoever said writing a short, short story is easy? Try writing a good story in 100 words or less! Participate in this exercise where you will leave the session with a completed short story and an exciting activity to spark lit mag submissions!

High School Press Freedom (room 448) Brian Schraum and Adam Gold-stein (Student Press Law Center) What are your rights as a pub-lic high school student journal-ist? This presentation discusses the major court cases that have helped define the First Amend-ment protections that apply in school. It also provides practical suggestions for maintaining a free and responsible student press.

Online Pacemakers: From Meh to Epic (room 442)Logan Aimone (National Scholas-tic Press Association) Learn about the judging and criteria for NSPA’s Online Pacemaker, then see ex-amples of where award-winning sites excelled in areas such as multimedia content and naviga-tion. Leave with tips to serve your audience, something that could get you an epic win.

Cropped (room 181)Bradley Wilson (JEA Publications) Chopped is a cooking competi-tion show that’s all about skill, speed and ingenuity. Cropped is a session that uses those same ideas to teach about photojour-nalism. Four volunteers will be selected, so bring your digital camera and participate. But be prepared to be eliminated.

Getting the most out of NewsU (room 439)Sandy Woodcock(NAAF) Poyn-ter’s News University is one of the world’s most innovative online journalism and media training programs. Largely free and open to journalism advisers and stu-dents, it is an invaluable resource

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Friday, April 20, 2012

6-7 p.m. Registration - Auditorium Commons area (Turn in Carry-in & Best-in-Show entries)

7:30 - 8:30 Welcome - Auditorium

Keynote Speaker, Bradley Wilson

8:45 - 9:45 Class Sessions #1

10 - 11 Student social: Ice cream (au-ditorium commons)

10 - 11 Adviser Reception (room 138)

11:30 Report to local hotels

Saturday, April 21, 2012

7:30 - 8:30 Continental breakfast for advisers (room 138) Registration continues

9 - 9:45 Class Sessions #2

10 - 10:45 Write-Off Competitions (individual rooms) & Swap Shop (audi-torium commons)

11 - 11:45 Keynote Speaker, Ellen Austin (auditorium)

Noon - 1 Adviser Luncheon/Official VAJTA annual membership meeting; Lunch provided for students in audito-rium commons

1:15 - 2 Keynote Speaker, Logan Aimone in Auditorium

2:15 - 3 Class Sessions #3

3:15 - 4 Class Sessions #4

4:15 - 5 Awards Ceremony, Auditorium

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10 - 10:45 a.m.SWAP SHOP - HHS Auditorium CommonsStudents not involved in write-off competitions should bring copies of their publications to the tables in the auditorium commons area where there will be moderators to lead them in a swap shop ses-sion to exchange ideas and expe-riences.

WRITE OFF COMPETITIONSStudents who have registered for a write-off contest should report to their respective contest room. Be early. Contests will begin promptly at 10 a.m.

11 - 11:45 a.m.11- 11:45 (auditorium)Keynote Speaker, Ellen AustinIn this changing media climate, scholastic publications are try-ing to grow their audiences, find speciality niches, evolve to more time-sensitive and quickly-re-sponsive news cycles, and meet the ever-growing possibilities presented by social media. The best way to reach these goals also means reaching out to read-ers through authentic inclusion — and sports is a great means to do just that. The Viking is the na-tion’s first “all sports, all the time” sports magazine, founded five years ago as a print-only publi-cation. Since then, its coverage has evolved into a hybrid print and online 24/7/365 news source for all campus sports. Video, live-blogging, online columnists and bloggers, daily game briefs, Twit-ter feeds, Facebook, and Tumblr all augment the core of Viking’s mission, which is to tell the story of Palo Alto High School students and staff through the lens of sports. Ellen Austin, the Viking’s adviser, brings stories from the fields, locker rooms, and sidelines of high school sports and how sports can tell anyone’s story.

Noon - 1 p.m.12-1 Adviser Luncheon (room 136)

12-1 Student lunch (auditorium commons)

1:15 - 2 p.m.1:15 - 2 (auditorium)Keynote Speaker, Logan AimonePrint, Pixels and PeopleHow connected are you to digital media? Whether your platform is printed on paper or composed of pixels, the root of your cover-age is people. You’ll learn some important facts about your audi-ence and leave with a list of tips for how you can improve what you do regardless of how you de-liver the content.

2:15 - 3 p.m.The Writing Process (room 446)Doug Cumming (Washington and Lee University) News and features aren’t “reports” or stenographic records. They’re stories. Stories have shape, tone, delight and sur-prise. In this workshop, you’ll get some of the basic shapes stories can take, and an understanding of why even more reporting -- a thicker layer of facts -- is neces-sary for more creative storytell-ing, if it’s going to be non-fiction.

InDesign Basics (room 444)Chris Waugaman (Prince George HS) Send your young or new staffers to this session to learn the basics of InDesign, the software used by most publication staffs. Pick up cool tips and tricks to ad-vance your design.

Copyright 101 (room 448) Brian Schraum and Adam Goldstein (Student Press Law Center) Copy-right law limits your ability to use the works of others, including car-

toons and photos, and protects your work as well. Learn what is legal and what is not.

f/8 and be there: Getting Great Sports Photos (room 442)Ellen Austin (Palo Alto High School) The Viking’s pages are full of award-winning action-stop-ping sports images from first-year photographer, from “sportraits” to studio cover shots to live-action surfing and underwater photos. The Viking’s adviser, who is also a professional photographer, will talk about strategies for improv-ing your sports pages through better images, more videos, stron-ger visual skills, and bolder use of images on the pages and web-sites of your publications. With enough vision and enthusiasm, anyone can shoot better sports.

From Acrobatics to Wrestling(room 181)Bradley Wilson (JEA Publications) Visual sports coverage is essential to newspapers, yearbooks and online media. The key to success, however, isn’t just filling space, it’s providing sports photos that are full of action and emotion, pho-tos that tell stories.

Remix: Recruit to Increase Diversity(room 473)Anthony Whitten (Westfield HS) Hear an adviser’s journey of in-creasing diversity and learn strat-egies to create and maintain a staff that includes the varied eth-nic, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds of your school.

Speak For Yourself (room 466)Kara Peterson (Herff Jones) And for your 2013 yearbook. And for your school. Learn how yearbook designers and writers create and maintain a consistent voice for the book. See (and hear) ex-amples from across the country. Then, you can go home to make your book consistent and surpris-ing, journalistic and fun.

We Deliver(room 436)Jeff Moffett (Balfour) There are

many ways to tell a story. How you assemble the pictures, words and graphics are integral to bringing the story to life. It’s all about pack-aging the details. Some things require a traditional format, but often alternative copy might be better. Consider what the readers want and find a way to cover your school and deliver it all.

3:15 - 4 p.m.Putting It All Together (room 442)Doug Cummings (Washington and Lee University) Students today can produce multi-media news websites on a Wordpress template at little cost, but they need to establish journalistic standards in their work. This means doing reporting, writing, photojournalism, video, copy ed-iting and all the other news-gath-ering practices in the traditional way. But now, it also means using social media, sound-slides, inter-active links, reader comments, streaming video, audio and other digital options in ways that make your news site useful and popu-lar. It’s a tall order -- a lot to learn. This workshop will share some ex-periences from college-level mul-timedia news websites, with an emphasis on the reporting, news writing and storytelling pieces of the puzzle.

Going Online With The Yearbook (room 181)Bradley Wilson (JEA Publications) Newspapers have embraced so-cial media as have student radio and student television stations. But not yearbooks. This is crazy. Come learn some new ways to use social media and a Web pres-ence to increase the presence of the yearbook and yearbook cov-erage.

Your rights and responsibilities as a student journalist (room 448) Brian Schraum and Adam Goldstein (Student Press Law Center) The law recognizes that every per-

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son sometimes has the right to be left alone, even by journalists. Understand where the legal lines have been drawn. Also, learn how you can use freedom of informa-tion laws to get facts about your school that can make great sto-ries. Finally, learn to understand and identify libel. This session will include a number of true-to life examples and ends with a list of practical suggestions that will help student journalists avoid common libel traps.

Coverage That Counts (room 466)Jo Ellen Sholl (Stone Bridge HS) Don’t be that yearbook - the one that forgets to cover the real highlights of the year. You’ll take home ways to increase and im-prove coverage.

Lead, So Others Follow (room 473)Katheryn Sebunia (Woodson HS) and Kara Peterson (Herff Jones) For editors and those who wish to be! Find out how different editors and their staffs set expectations, manage their time and work to-gether to get it all done. There will be a special focus on staff routines, traditions and celebra-tions because, really, if it isn’t fun, why do it?

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Logan Aimone, MJE, is executive director of the National Scholas-tic Press Association, the nation's oldest and largest association of student media orga-nizations. From 1997 to 2007, Aimone taught journalism at Wenatchee (Wash.) High School and ad-vised The Apple Leaf newspaper and Wa Wa yearbook, both of which earned top na-tional honors. He is a past Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Distinguished Adviser and Washington state journalism adviser of the year. He is co-author of the most recent edi-tions of two textbooks, High School Journalism and Junior High Journalism. He earned a bach-elor of arts and teacher certification from Central Washington University and a master of education from the University of Missouri–Columbia.


Bradley Wilson, Friday keynote speaker and Photography Strand Instructor

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T-shirts Available

While They Last

45words by JEA-Scholastic Press Rights is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 US license.

If your group wants to make a donation to the SPLC in your name and also cite the 45words logo it would be ap-preciated. The logo was created by Carrie Faust for the Commission.

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Logan Aimone, Saturday keynote speaker and Online Strand Instructor

Ellen Austin teaches journalism and AP English at Palo Alto High School in Cali-fornia, where she also advises The Viking sports maga-zine and co-advises InFocus, the broad-cast program. She served as JEA’s regional director for the southwest region from 2009-2011, and is a JEA (Northern Califor-nia) board member. In 2007, Austin and her students created the first scholastic all-sports newsmagazine. The staff’s goal is pushing the boundaries of sports journalism with both print coverage and online coverage through embrace of “backpack jour-nalism” ideas that lead to up-to-the-minute game coverage through social media, video, and interactive graphics.

Ellen Austin, Saturday keynote speaker and Sports Writing Instructor

Bradley is the editor of the publications for the national Journalism Educa-tion ASsociation and active in local and regional asso-ciations related to media design, pho-tojournalism and education. As the coordinator for stu-dent media advis-ing at North Caroli-na State University, Bradley advised the student media which won numer-ous state and national awards including the Gold Crown and Pacemaker. He has received the Gold Key from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, and the Pioneer Award from the National Scholastic Press Associa-tion. In 2006, JEA awarded Wilson its highest honor, the Carl Towley Award.

Featured Keynote Speakers

Room # Friday, April 20: Session #1 8:45 - 9:45 p.m.

444 - lab Beyond the Scoreboard: Improving Your Sports Coverage- Ellen Austin (Palo Alto)

466 Be A Trendsetter - Mary Strickler (Harrison-burg HS) and Glenn Russell (Balfour)

463 Gardy Loo staff (James Madison University)

179 - broadcast studio Starting a Broadcasting Program - Seth Stratford (Harrisonburg HS)

436 - lab Let’s Get Engaged- Logan Aimone (NSPA)

181 - lab It’s Not All About Winning - Bradley Wilson

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SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2012

All audiences Newspaper Yearbook Lit Mag Online Media Advisers PhotographyBroadcasting

Turn in a raffle ticket at every session you attend to be eligible for special door prizes during the closing session in the auditorium. Raffle tickets are located in each school’s registration packet.

Room # Friday, April 20: Session #1 8:45 - 9:45 p.m.

444 - lab Beyond the Scoreboard: Improving Your Sports Coverage- Ellen Austin (Palo Alto)

466 Be A Trendsetter - Mary Strickler (Harrison-burg HS) and Glenn Russell (Balfour)

463 Gardy Loo staff (James Madison University)

179 - broadcast studio Starting a Broadcasting Program - Seth Stratford (Harrisonburg HS)

436 - lab Let’s Get Engaged- Logan Aimone (NSPA)

181 - lab It’s Not All About Winning - Bradley Wilson

Room # Session #2: 9 - 9:45 a.m. WRITE OFFS/ SWAP

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Session #3 2:15 - 3 p.m. Session #4: 3:15-4 p.m.

444 - lab

The Complete Sports Sec-tion - Chris Waugaman (Prince George HS)

SWAP SHOP in Auditorium Commons

ELLENAUSTIN

LOGAN AIMONE

InDesign Basics- Chris Waugaman (Prince George HS)

Using Publication Critiques to Improve Your Media - Chris Waugaman (Prince George HS)

446 Reporting techniques that work- Candace Sipos (North-ern Virginia Daily)

11-11:45 1:15-2 The Writing Process- Doug Cummings (W & L)

448 High School Press Freedom - Brian Schraum and Adam Goldstein (Student Press Law Center)

Copyright 101 - Brian Schraum and Adam Gold-stein (Student Press Law Center)

Your Rights and Responsibili-ties as a Student Journalist - Brian Schraum and Adam Goldstein (Student Press Law Center)

466 - lab

Jeff Moffitt (Balfour) They wrote that? Really?

Kara Petersen (Herff Jones) Speak for Yourself

Jo Ellen Scholl (Stone Bridge HS) Coverage That Counts

473 Jason Baranowski (Jostens)Yearbook Evolution

Anthony Whitten (Westfield HS) Remix: Recruit to In-crease Diversity

Katheryn Sebunia (Woodson HS) and Kara Peterson (Herff Jones) Lead, So Others Fol-low

176 - lab

Magazine Design - Susan Sul-livan (Oakton High School)

Even Creativity Needs To Be Organized - Kimberly Schell (Osbourn High School)

Increasing Submissions - Su-san Sullivan (Oakton High School)

440 Flash Fiction- Writing a Super Short Story - Charlotte Wood (Albemarle High School)

Using Fonts - Suzanne Ab-delrazaq (South Lakes High School)

Using InDesign to layout ter-rific magazines - Suzanne Abdelrazaq (South Lakes High School)

436 lab Jeff Moffitt (Balfour) We De-liver

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Online Bootcamp - Alan Weintraut (Annandale High School)ALL DAY STRAND



442 Online Pacemakers: From Meh to Epic - Logan Aimone (NSPA)

f/8 and be there: Getting Great Sports Photos- Ellen Austin (Palo Alto)

Putting it all Together - Doug Cummings (W & L)

439 Using Resources like NewsU-Sandy Woodcock (NAAF Foundation)

Driving traffic to newspaper websites -Sandy Woodcock (NAAF Foundation)

Recruiting your staff -Sandy Woodcock (NAAF Founda-tion)

181 - lab

Cropped-Photojournalism at its finest - Bradley Wilson (JEA publications editor)

From acrobatics to wrestling - sports photography is es-sential! - Bradley Wilson (JEA publications editor)

Going online with the year-book- Bradley Wilson (JEA publications editor)

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Logan Aimone Logan Aimone, MJE, is executive director of the National Scho-lastic Press Association, the nation’s old-est and largest association of student media organizations. From 1997 to 2007, Aimone taught journalism at Wenatchee (Wash.) High School and advised The Apple Leaf newspaper and Wa Wa year-book, both of which earned top national

honors. He is a past Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Distinguished Adviser and Washington state journalism adviser of the year. He is co-author of the most recent editions of two textbooks, High School Journalism and Junior High Journalism. He earned a bachelor of arts and teacher certification from Central Washing-ton University and a master of education from the University of Missouri–Columbia.

Irene Asuncion is a self-proclaimed fon-taholic. She is currently a junior English major, Secondary Education and Span-ish double-minor at James Madison University. She has been working with print publishing since joining her high school yearbook staff, and has attended multiple publication workshops includ-ing Gettysburg Yearbook Experience, Columbia Scholastic Press Association,

and others. For the past three semesters she has served as head designer for the JMU’s literary magazine Gardy Loo.

Ellen Austin Ellen Austin teaches jour-nalism and AP English at Palo Alto High School in California, where she also ad-vises The Viking sports magazine and co-advises InFocus, the broadcast program. She served as JEA’s regional director for the southwest region from 2009-2011, and is a JEA (Northern California) board member. In 2007, Austin and her stu-

dents created the first scholastic all-sports newsmagazine. The staff’s goal is pushing the boundaries of sports journalism with both print coverage and online coverage through embrace of “backpack journalism” ideas that lead to up-to-the-minute game coverage through social media, video, and interactive graphics.

Tammy Bailey has been a representative for Balfour/Taylor Publishing for over 12 years. She was involved with yearbooks long before serving staffs profession-ally; Tammy was the Editor-in-Chief of her high school yearbook and served as an editor for Texas A&M University’s Aggieland, one of the nation’s largest yearbooks. She has helped countless

yearbook staffs win state and national awards and all of her advisers rely on her expertise in design, copywriting, marketing, motivating and technology. Tammy currently resides in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Jason Baronowski is a senior repre-sentative with Jostens and was recently asked to serve the NoVA area after help-

ing over 130 schools the past 9 years in the Richmond/Central VA area. Jason brings his hybrid of skills which include concept/theme development, writing, design, marketing and project management to the schools he serves. He loves bringing out the creativity and work ethic that lies within each student. In his former Baltimore/DC agency life he was a successful mar-keting and branding professional where he’s helped conceive logos, taglines, ad copy, web sites and more for big time clients. Now he applies all of that to big time schools’ yearbooks. In his mind, every school is a big time school. He has a family of five of five, with a wife and three children living in Herndon, Va.

Doug Cumming has been a professor at Washington & Lee University’s historic journalism department since 2003, af-ter 26 years as a working journalist. His career as a news reporter and maga-zine editor took him from Raleigh, N.C., to Providence, R.I., and back to Atlanta, his childhood hometown. He has won numerous journalistic awards, includ-

ing a George Polk Award, a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard, and a Freedom Forum Fellowship at UNC at Chapel Hill, which al-lowed him to get a Ph.D. in mass communications in 2002.

Cumming is particularly interested in the amalgamation of news facts and storytelling, that hard but satisfying mix of careful reporting and artful writing. This is what led him from newspapers to magazines, and to his academic interest in New Journalism, literary journalism and media history. He is the au-thor of The Southern Press: Literary Legacies and the Challenge of Modernity (Northwestern University Press, 2009). As hobbies, he writes poetry and plays the tenor saxophone in W&L’s jazz band.

Adam Goldstein Adam is the Attor-ney Advocate for the Student Press Law Center in Arlington, Virginia. The SPLC is the nation’s only legal assistance agency dedicated to helping high school and college journalists, advisers, and those working on their behalf. Since Sept. 2003, he has responded to over 11,500

legal requests.Currently, he is also an assistant professor teaching Michi-

gan State Unversity’s online course in Student Media Law. Some of his contributions also appear in the SPLC’s textbook, Law of the Student Press.

Adam graduated from Fordham University School of Law and Fordham College at Lincoln Center.

Rosie Grant has been a part of Gardy Loo: JMU’s Literary Arts Magazine since her freshman year. Now a Senior English and Media Arts and Design double-ma-jor, with a minor in Creative Writing, she works in the JMU English department. She is also the Senior Editor for the Promising Young Authors, working with

The Washington Pastime literary magazine in Washington DC. This is her final year as Editor-in-Chief for Gardy Loo and hopes continue working in the literary community after graduation.

Ansley Luce grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia. She is a Junior Anthropology/Pre-Med Major, rows on the JMU Crew Club, and works as a Program Advisor for the Office of Residence Life. Since her freshman year at JMU, she has been an active, involved member of Gardy Loo,

and is currently the Assistant to the Editor of Gardy Loo, JMU’s Literary Arts Magazine.

Jeff Moffitt is Balfour’s Key Account/Education Manager. Prior to joining Balfour, Jeff advised The Oracle news-paper and The Torch yearbook at Olym-pia High School in Orlando, Florida. He is a National Board Certified teacher in Career and Technical Education and is a Master Journalism Educator. In the 10

years he was an adviser, his students won multiple state and na-tional wards. He was Olympia High School’s Teacher of The Year in 2007. The Journalism Education Association honored him as a Special Recognition Adviser in 2010 and he was a Rising Star in 2006.

Meghan Percival, CJE, teaches photo-journalism and AP Psychology and ad-vises The Clan yearbook staff at McLean High School in Fairfax County, Virginia. The 2009 Clan won an NSPA Pacemaker and a CSPA Silver Crown and the 2010 Clan is once again a Pacemaker and Crown finalist. Meghan loves helping

staffs work on theme, coming up with new coverage ideas, pho-tos that are so stunning they give you goosebumps, hanging out with other yerds, “Glee” and puns.

Kara Peterson began her yearbook ca-reer as a high-school editor, and when she moved on to the University of Vir-ginia, she served as the Organizations Editor, Student Life Editor and Literary Editor of Corks & Curls. After graduation, Kara taught English and advised the Leg-end yearbook at Atlee High School in Me-

chanicsville, Virginia. In those five years, the Legend earned a host of state and national awards including Pacemaker Finalist. She currently works as a Herff Jones representative in Northern Virginia.

Glenn Russell is a native Texan and graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, and is proud to call himself a life-long yearbook nerd. Glenn is a longtime customer service rep for Balfour/Taylor Publishing in Dallas, and has recently relocated to DC/NoVa teaming up with salesreps Tammy Bailey and Ashby Smith in the company’s Virginia office. Glenn

has participated annually in successful yearbook workshops on the west coast at Pepperdine University, and also in Texas at both Sam Houston and Texas A&M Universities. A student of design, Glenn loves assisting staffs with ideas for their year-books, and uses his extensive knowledge of in-plant manufac-turing processes/materials for cover/print production to help them achieve their goals for the tone and design of their book

Katherine Sebunia, advises the Cava-lier Yearbook at Woodson High School in Fairfax. The 2011 Cavalier is a National Scholastic Press Association Pacemaker Award finalist.

Brian Schraum is the McCormick Foundation Publications Fellow at the

Student Press Law Center. He received his master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri, where he stud-

Speaker Bios

ied media law and policy, and gradu-ated from Washington State University. Schraum previously interned for the First Amendment Center in Nashville and for newspapers in Washington and Missouri. He also initiated efforts to enact student press rights legislation in Washington and was a high school, community col-lege and university student journalist.

Jo Ellen Sholl, CJE, has been teaching journalism and supervising student publications for 16 years in both Texas and Virginia. She has advised Trophy Class and All-American publications. She has a Bachelor of Journalism from The University of Texas at Austin and a M.Ed from The University of Missouri.

Seth Stratford is in his tenth year of teaching. He is the Co-Instructional Team Leader of the Career & Technical Educa-tion department at Harrisonburg High School. Stratford started the broadcast-ing program at HHS and has been teach ing broadcasting for the last six years. He is happily married to his wife of more

than 12 years and is a father of four!

Mary Strickler is a 30-year yearbook ad-viser at Harrisonburg High School. She has collected 17 Trophy Class Awards from VHSL, and multiple Gold Medalist Ratings at Columbia Scholastic Press As-sociation. She earned the Virgina Gazette Award in 2002 and the prestigious Colo-nel Savedge Award in 2004. Strickler has

spoken at CPSA in New York, VHSL workshops and has hosted regional summer workshops at Harrisonburg. She wrote the First Year Advisors Guide for Taylor Publishing Company and has spoken at Taylor regional sales meetings across the country. Strickler started the Newsstreak, the Harrisonburg newspaper, in the late 1980’s and served as the adviser for five years.

Chris Waugaman, CJE teaches Print Journalism and Advanced Placement Language and Composition at Prince George High School in Prince George County, VA. He has taught there for 14 years, and for the past nine years has advised the student newspaper, The Royal News, and the online news site, TRNWIRED.org. His print and online staffs

have won CSPA Crown Awards and Pacemaker Finalist Awards, and the Charles E. Savedge Award for Sustained Excellence in Journalism. Currently he serves as the Director of the Virginia Association of Journalism Teachers & Advisers. A 1996 gradu-

ate of The College of William and Mary, he is currently completing his master’s in mass communications through Kent State University.

Alan Weintraut has been advising The A-Blast newspaper and website at An-

nandale High School in suburban Washington, D.C. since 1994. He is a frequent speaker at national conventions and he was the 2006 Dow Jones Newspaper Fund National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year.

Anthony Whitten currently advises the Guardian yearbook and the Watchdog newspaper at Westfield H.S. in Chantilly, Va. The publications have earned state and national awards including VHSL Tro-phy Class and two CSPA Silver Crowns.

Bradley Wilson Bradley is the editor of the publications for the national Journal-ism Education ASsociation and active in local and regional associations related to media design, photojournalism and edu-cation. As the coordinator for student media advising at North Carolina State University, Bradley advised the student

media which won numerous state and national awards includ-ing the Gold Crown and Pacemaker. He has received the Gold Key from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, and the Pioneer Award from the National Scholastic Press Association. In 2006, JEA awarded Wilson its highest honor, the Carl Towley Award.

Charlotte Wood For 14 years, Charlotte has been teaching creative writing, film-making, and English at Albemarle High School in Charlottesville, VA. She is the adviser for The Lantern Literary/Art Magazine of Albemarle High School. Her staffs have earned top rankings in both state and national competitions. Many

of her writing students have won various writing contests and been published in local, state, national, and international pub-lications.

Sandy Woodcock Sandy Woodcock di-rects scholastic and professional press programs, research and outreach for the Newspaper Association of America (NAA) Foundation. She is a former journalist and high school publications adviser whose student publications were award-ed highest honors by national and state

scholastic press associations. She is a recipient of CSPA’s Gold Key; NSPA’s Pioneer Award; JEA’s Friend of Scholastic Journalism Award; SIPA’s Beth Dickey Distinguished Service Award; and a member of the Executive Board of the Southern Interscholastic Press Association, the Journalism Education Association, and the Society of Professional Journalists.

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