SPRING 2013
Adviser Update
Mastering the art of staff recruiting
By Kathy Craghead
S
ROUNDUP
California
Beatrice Motamedi, CJE, has
accepted the role of California
state director for JEA, effective
immediately.
Motamedi, CJE, teaches and
advises print and web journalism at
The Urban School of San Francisco,
where her students have won more
than 100 state, regional and national
awards, including a 2012 Newspaper
Pacemaker. She is also co-director
of Newsroom by the Bay, a digital
journalism program at Stanford
University, and program director
for the Student Voice Project, a
nonprofit that seeks to raise literacy
rates in high-need schools through
journalism study.
She can be contacted at
[email protected]
Chicago
The Robert R. McCormick
Foundation awarded DePaul
University’s journalism program
Pasos al Futuro, a summer
journalism workshop that
encourages Latino high school
students to pursue careers in
journalism, with the largest grant
— $120,000 — the College of
Communication has ever received.
Pasos al Futuro, Spanish for
“steps towards the future,” teaches
students of all ethnicities and
backgrounds the skills and tools
necessary in the professional field
of journalism, such as reporting,
interviewing and editing, while
instilling in them the significance and
impact of Latino culture in America.
More than 50 students from the
Chicago Public HS League will be
given the opportunity to benefit from
this workshop. There is no cost
for students to participate in this
program, and many participants
After 32 years of advising
Missouri high school yearbooks
and newspapers, Kathy
Craghead has retired. She is a
past National Yearbook Adviser
of the Year and a former
member of the Journalism
Education Association Board of
Directors. She is the recipient
of the Pioneer Award from
the National Scholastic Press
Association, Medal of Merit
from JEA and is a Master
Journalism Educator. She is
currently the Newspaper in
Education coordinator for her
hometown newspaper. She
can be reached at k.crag@
sbcglobal.net.
often go on to enroll at DePaul. The
grant will enable DePaul to expand
the program even further and reach
out to more of Chicago’s Latino high
school students. Pasos al Futuro has
grown by almost 700 percent since
its inception three years ago.
JEA
Mitch Eden, MJE, has been
named
secretary of
the Journalism
Education
Board of
Directors.
JEA President
Mark Newton,
appointed
Eden to
serve an
Eden
interim
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treasury, Dow Jones & Company;
and Richard S. Holden, executive
director of the Fund.
Other directors re-elected were:
Pam [H