SPRING 2012
Adviser Update
Page 23A
Stapp, Stencel named to SPLC board
for the International Business
Chronicle. Stapp taught journalism
at Wilson HS in Washington, D.C.,
from January 2008 through June
2011 and co-advised the school’s
student newspaper, The Beacon.
The Board also re-elected to
three-year terms three incumbent
members: attorneys Pat Carome
of Washington, D.C.; Mike Godwin
from San Francisco; and Laura Lee
Prather of Houston. The SPLC’s
15-member all-volunteer board
includes representatives from the
journalism, legal, education, philanthropic and nonprofit management field
grants
Journalism Program; New England Journalism Workshop, Boston; San Antonio College; Texas
Christian University, Fort Worth;
Temple University, Philadelphia;
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa; University of Arizona, Tucson;
University of Miami; University
of Missouri, Columbia; University
of Oklahoma, Norman; University
of Texas at El Paso; Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond;
Western Kentucky University,
Bowling Green; Wayne State University, Detroit, and ThreeSixty
was held in conjunction with the Illinois
Press Foundation and the McCormick
Foundation March 23-25 on the campus of Eastern Illinois University.
Three Illinois regional conventions
were also held this spring.
An adviser breakfast was held at
the finals of the Illinois High School
Association state journalism tournament April 27 at Eastern Illinois University, with IHSA President Sarah Doerner
presiding.
Contact Sally Renaud at [email protected].
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ifornia Chicano News Media Association, Mosaic/San Jose, Calif.;
Columbia College of Chicago;
Indianapolis Association of Black
Journalists; Eastern Illinois University/Illinois Press Foundation,
Charleston; Florida A&M University, Tallahassee; Marquette University, Milwaukee; SUNY - Stony
Brook, N.Y.; New York University;
Princeton University Summer
roundup
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An additional $7,000 was granted
to promote the program through
travel and speaking engagements
for the Teacher of the Year at news
industry, scholastic and academic
conferences. The program will
receive in-kind support from the
Poynter Institute for Media Studies, Columbia Scholastic Press
Association and The Wall Street
Journal Classroom Edition. The
postmark deadline for teachers to
apply is July 1.
OPERATING EXPENSES
The Fund will update and
reprint “The Journalist’s Road
to Success: A Career Guide,” its
sister publication in Spanish “La
ruta al éxito del periodista,” as
well as its booklet on starting
high school newspapers, “In the
Beginning.” More than 5,000 high
school journalism teachers, college
professors and media professionals will receive Adviser Update,
the free quarterly newspaper on
journalism education and major
media issues published by the
Fund.
share it with the students, the faculty and the administration. It’s what
inspires me and fuels the passion in
the students.”
JEA named two Distinguished Advisers: Lizabeth Walsh, MJE, Reno HS
in Reno, Nev.; and Brian Wilson, CJE,
Waterford Kettering HS in Waterford,
Mich.
Michael Simons, CJE, West HS in
Painted Post, N.Y., and Eric Thomas,
MJE, St. Teresa’s Academy in Kansas
City, Mo., were selected as Special
Recognition Advisers.
Green previously earned honors as
a Dow Jones News Fund Distinguished
Adviser and an Indiana Journalism
Teacher of the Year. She serves as
JEA’s Certification Commission chair.
The Log yearbook has earned awards
from the National Scholastic Press
Association, the Columbia Scholastic
Press Association and the Indiana
High School Press Association. She is
a well-known instructor at workshops
and conventions around the country.
Kelly Furnas, JEA executive director,
and H.L. Hall, JEA’s Yearbook Adviser
of the Year Committee chair, surprised
and honored Green in a special ceremony at a faculty meeting at Columbus
North Jan. 9.
Green was recognized during the
adviser luncheon April 14 at the 2012
JEA/NSPA Spring National Journalism
Convention in Seattle. She will receive
$1,000 for the yearbook program at
her school or to fund scholarships to
summer workshops and a $1,000 personal prize. JEA also will pay her travel
and hotel expenses to the convention.
The Distinguished Advisers’ schools
receive $500 to use for their yearbook
programs or scholarships.
Jacoby is the director of this event.
KEMPA also holds its annual meeting at the luncheon where board members are elected for next year. This year
founding board member and former
executive director Jan Kohls was honored at the luncheon. Lake Zurich (Ill.)
HS student Krystyna Keena received
the Gebhardt Award for feature writing
for her story on divorce’s impact on
children.
Contact: Linda Barrington at [email protected]
KEMPA
Kettle Moraine Press Association’s
fall journalism conference was Oct. 14
at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
More than 1,000 students and advisers attend this yearly event where they
can choose from dozens of presentations at each of three time slots.
Media Impact on Politics was a special feature this year. Dr. Steve Brown,
Northeastern Illinois University professor of Educational Leadership and Law
and WGTD Executive News Producer,
moderated the panel of local political
and news experts: Wisconsin State
Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca;
Policy Initiatives Adviser at the Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction Jeff
Pertl; and Kenosha News Editorial Page
Editor Steve Lund. JEA State Director and KEMPA Board member Sandy
NESPA
The New England Scholastic Press
Association is hosting a “How to
Advise a Scholastic News Publication”
workshop July 2, 3, 5 and 6 at Boston
University in the College of Communication.
In addition to a variety of lab
assignments, participants will present critiques and complete curriculum
projects.
There will be lectures, discussions
and lab work. Sessions will be from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. with a break for lunch.
NESPA provides PDPs to Massachusetts teachers.
For more information, please contact Helen Smith, executive director of
the NESPA, at [email protected].
P01.V52.I4
Journalism Intermediate Camp,
St. Paul, Minn.
Up to eight students will be
awarded $1,000 college scholarships for the best writing,