SPRING 2011
Adviser Update
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ROUNDUP
Post your state, regional or
national association’s activities in
Adviser Roundup by dropping editor
George Taylor (GTay200@verizon.
net) a line with your information.
Photos with captions from events
are welcome. Next deadline is June
1, 2011.
ILLINOIS
Brenda Field, yearbook adviser
at Glenbrook South, has been
appointed to serve Region 3 on the
Illinois Journalism Education Association Board of Directors. On tap
for IJEA: the IHSA state journalism
competition May 6 and honoring
the IJOY and All-State Journalism
Team on June 4.
JEA
The Journalism Education
Association has announced its new
recently elected leadership team.
Mark Newton was elected
president; Sarah Nichols, vice
president; Lori Oglesbee-Petter,
secretary.
Commission heads are Kim
Green, certification; Tom Gayda,
development/curriculum; Anita
Wertz, junior high/middle school;
Norma Kneese, multicultural; and
John Bowen, scholastic press
rights.
Regional directors are Sandra
Coyer, Region 1; Carrie Faust,
Region 2; Gary Lindsay, Region 3;
Wayna Polk, Region 4; Brenda Gorsuch, Region 5; Rod Satterthwaite,
Region 6; and Jane Blystone,
Region 7.
Of the 2,209 potential voters,
633 people actually voted and
seven abstained for a voter turnout
of 29 percent. The board members
take office July 1.
JEA’s Scholastic Press Rights
Commission is compiling the work
of student journalists that has
made an impact in school or community.
“We want to show scholastic
journalists can — and consistently
do — develop stories which demonstrate professionalism, make
a difference in the lives of peers,
school and community and exemplify research, responsibility and
courage,” said commission
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Advise Update photo by Clark Hadley
INDIANA
Victoria Ison, Bloomington HS North, was named Indiana’s 2011 Indiana Student Journalist of the Year.
Above: SJOY finalists Carmen Huff, Floyd Central HS; Lauren Chapman, Ben Davis HS; Ison; Jade Washburn,
Lafayette Jefferson HS; Hannah Ishikawa, Ben Davis HS; Daniel Morgan, North Central HS; Lauren Cain, Crown
Point HS (Indiana SJOY runner-up) and Michael Majchrowicz, Lake Central HS.
9/11 Project teaches narrative art
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See 9/11 on page 10A
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John O’Brien
NJPF Director
the children of Sept. 11.
While it may be hard to grow
up in the northern part of New
Jersey and not know someone
with connections to the events of
Sept. 11, 2001, the 9/11 Student
Journalism Project challenges
student journalists to tell these
stories in a compelling and compassionate way. The project teams
30 student journalists, photographers and videographers with
professional newspaper editors to
publish sensitive stories that look
at how the children of those who
perished in the 9/11 attacks are
doing 10 years after this tragedy.
Sponsored by the Rutgers
Journalism Research Institute
and funded by a grant from the
New Jersey Press Foundation,
this three-credit, 15-week college
course in narrative journalism
has never been done before, said
Ron Miskoff, one of the course’s
professors. Miskoff, who is also
JRI’s associate director, said the
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Our goal is to gain
additional support
from within and
outside the industry
to supplement this
commitment.
igh school and college jourH
nalists have a rare opportunity to write narrative stories about
10 high school students selected
for the project were screened by
the Garden State Scholastic Press
Association, a statewide organization of high school newspaper
advisers.
The course, which includes
narrative journalism techniques,
the Web, video, and social media,
prepares the journalists to conduct sensitive interviews and to
cover the 9/11 anniversary story.
These interviews with the children of Sept. 11 will run as part
of the 10-year anniversary of the
terror attacks.
In addition to being excellent
writers, photographers, videographers or Web designers, the
journalists involved in the project
knew someone who was touched
by the events of Sept. 11, said
Miskoff of how the students were
chosen for the project.
As part of the course, the journalists are gaining background
information from readings and
from speakers like former New
Jersey Governor Tom Kean Sr.,
who was chairman of the 9/11
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Ron Miskoff
By CAROL SMITH
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Former New Jersey Governor
Tom Kean Sr. provides background for the 30 students
participating in the 9/11
Student Journalism Project.
Kean was the chairman of
the 9/11 Commission. He
told the students that 9/11
might have been prevented
if the agencies empowered
to stop terrorism had carried
out their jobs.