Journalism: September 2011

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Journalism Field Trips

If you are interested in attending the journalism day described below, or the one at the University of La Verne on Oct. 28, let me know.

Dear Student Media Adviser:
On behalf of our faculty, I'm pleased to invite you and the editors/staff of your school newspaper to our annual half-day high school journalism day on Saturday, October 15, 2011 on the CSUN campus. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.

Workshops will focus on multimedia storytelling, breaking news, photojournalism, and more. In addition to panel and hands-on workshops, students will also have the opportunity to compete in news, features, opinion and sports writing competitions and the photojournalism contest. If your students are planning to enter the photojournalism contest, please have them bring digital cameras.

All of the presentations are designed to enhance the skills and ideas students will need to produce solid, interesting school newspapers and other campus media.

Attached, please find all the information relevant to this event including a flier, registration form, and parking map. If you and your students plan to attend, please fill out the registration form and return it as soon as possible, as we will need to plan for space and lunch.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Amazing Meet and Greet!

We did an amazing job on today's Meat and Greet! I think that everything came together smoothly even if not everybody showed up. It doesn't matter, the few people that did show up were impressed with us. Go Journalism! P.S We need t-shirts to look more like the newspaper staff when the paper arrives.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Meet and Greet

Remember to bring your selected refreshment tomorrow and to dress nicely for our mixer. The faculty members are guests. Make an effort to engage them in conversation. Just be your smart, funny selves and they will be impressed.

About This Class

This course is designed for those students who desire experience in print journalism and an in-depth production of a newspaper. Students have the unique opportunity to create and publish a student-driven newspaper. Newspaper students practice the fundamentals of journalistic writing, photojournalism, graphic design and budget management. Students will also develop their abilities to work as a team as they produce the newspaper.
Researchers have found that both college and non-college-bound students benefit from taking journalism in high school. A study of college freshmen found that journalism experience correlated with higher efficacy in a beginning English class (Collins and Bissell, 2002). Even teachers report less burnout and higher job satisfaction from advising the school newspaper or broadcast class, according to a study by Reinardy, Maksl and Filak (2009). Numerous studies by Dvorak and his associates have shown a correlation between journalism students and higher test scores on college readiness tests and in higher grades in high school classes.

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