Globe editor to deliver NESPA keynote
65th Annual conference set for May 3
For details and procedures on membership, conference and workshop registration and entry forms, please download the PDF.
Brian McGrory, the new editor of The Boston Globe, will give the keynote speech at the New England Scholastic Press Association’s 65th annual conference Friday, May 3.
With the doors opening at 8, sessions will be from 9 until 2:30 at Boston University’s College of Communication, 640 Commonwealth Ave., Boston.
Students, teachers, Boston University faculty and full-time journalists and media specialists will share information with the aim of supporting excellence in scholastic journalism.
McGrory, whose first job with The Boston Globe was his paper route while he was growing up in Weymouth, will speak on the future of newspapers.
After McGrory graduated from Bates and worked for the New Haven Register and the Patriot Ledger in Quincy, he joined the Globe in 1989.
Since then he has been a general assignment reporter, a White House correspondent, a roving national correspondent and a deputy managing editor for local news. He became a metro columnist in 1998. In addition, he is the author of a memoir ands four novels.
Also at the conference, delegates will find panels, exhibits, round-tables, lectures and workshops where they can learn about the latest trends, and share concerns and ideas.
For Advisers
- Working with editors to develop a vision for a publication
- Round-table on professional concerns
- Sign-ups for detailed publication critiques and on-site visits.
For Staffs
- Careers in broadcast journalism
- How to go online and then succeed once you get there
- Interactive graphics
- Interview techniques
- Investigative reporting
- Law and the scholastic press
- Majoring in journalism
- News writing
- Opinion coverage and writing
- Photojournalism
- Responsive Design fundamentals
- Sports writing and editing
- Starting a literary magazine
- Yearbook coverage, design and writing tips.
Awards and Recognition
Presentation of the All New England Awards will honor outstanding broadcast, print, print/online and online productions and publications in their school population categories.
Productions and publications will also receive Special Achievement Awards based on the excellence of individual submissions.
In addition, two advisers will receive the Robert Baram Award for helping students raise their sights and their standards in the practice of school journalism.
Benefits of Pre-registration
Those whose forms arrive at Boston University by March 29 will receive a preliminary conference program and speakers’ list, and a list of places to have lunch.
Contests Under Way
The NESPA Publications and Productions Contests are open to all school print and online publications and broadcasts, both NESPA members and non-members.
Awards will be given to broadcast (audio and video) productions, magazines, newspapers, yearbooks, online/print and online publications. To qualify as online/print, a site must include multi media, not pdfs only.
Judges will consider only entries with working URLs. Submit URL to blogs.bu.edu/nespa.
DEADLINE for receipt of entries at the College of Communication: March 29, 2013.
The NESPA Special Achievement Contests are designed to identify and reward excellence in individual work and teamwork for New England’s secondary school media.
Entries should be those that advisers and staffs decide have contributed significantly to a student broadcast, print, online/print or online publication.
DEADLINE for receipt of entries at the College of Communication: March 29, 2013.
Categories
- Broadcasting: Advertisement, Documentary, Feature story, News story, PSA
- Magazine: Artwork, Cover design, Fiction, Nonfiction, Photography, Poetry, Typographical design
- Newspaper: Advertisement, Artwork/cartoon, Bylined column, Editorial, Feature page design, Feature photo, Feature story, Informational graphic, News page design, News photo, News series, News story, Opinion page design, Personality profile, Photo illustration, Sports page design, Sports photo, Sports story, Review, Typographical design
- Online/multimedia: Advertisement, Feature, Breaking news, News, Opinion, Home page design, Interactive graphic, Podcast, Slide show with audio, Slide show with photos
- Yearbook: Advertisement, Caption writing (three spreads), Theme development and cover, Feature photo, Feature spread, Feature story, Headline writing (three spreads), Sports photo, Sports spread, Sports story, Typographical design
Summer Workshop for News Publication Advisers
The New England Scholastic Press Association invites news publication advisers to a workshop, How to Advise a Scholastic News Publication, July 1, 2, 3 and 5 at Boston University in the College of Communication.
Based on participants’ priorities, sessions will include how to:
Keep a journalistic balance
- Deal with legal and ethical considerations
- Teach the staff to cover the school and its community
- Teach the staff to write and edit news, features and sports along with maintaining a lively forum for student opinion
- Motivate the staff
- Teach fundamentals of photojournalism and design
- Maintain a good relationship with the principal, faculty and parents
- Use special pages, special sections and spreads as training vehicles
- Plan, set goals and schedule copy flow for print and online
- Manage the business side
- Critique the publication
- Make the most of professional resources.
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 10-4 with a break for lunch.
Participants should bring with them a set of news publications students have produced during the 2012-2013 academic year. The fee is $300. The deadline for registration is Friday, May 31. Click here for the application.
NESPA provides PDPs to Massachusetts teachers.
Helen Smith, executive director of the New England Scholastic Press Association, will be the lead teacher.
For more information, please contact Helen Smith at phsmith@igc.org.
For details and procedures on membership, conference and workshop registration and entry forms, please download the PDF.
