College Media Advisers Blog

This is just an update on the status of the CMA weblog. We are right now redesigning our entire web site, and the weblog is going to be included in the new website at www.collegemedia.org. The new web site should be up and running by the middle of January.

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CMA Fall Convention

Wednesday Sessions

Broadcast
~8:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
National Public Radio Orientation Workshop: Part I
Those selected for the National Public Radio Next Generation Radio Journalism Project should attend this orientation session. (By invitation only)
/Rhythm & Blues Room,4th floor, Renaissance Hotel
Doug Mitchell, National Public Radio

CMA
~8:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
CMA Board Of Directors Meeting IIl
By invitation only. Third of four meetings of CMA's officers. CMA President Jenny Tenpenny Crouch presiding.
/Jazz Room, 4th floor, Renaissance Hotel
Kathy Lawrence, University of Texas-Austin

Special Session
~1-5:30 p.m.
Newspaper Business & Advertising Workshop--part 1
This intensive workshop will cover the latest developments in newspaper advertising and business procedures. Topics such as knowing your product, campaigns and presentations, market research, business systems, selling skills, advertising acceptability and customer service will be covered.(Preregistration and additional fee required. Limited to 70 participants.)
/Belmont Three, 3rd Floor, Renaissance Hotel
Annette Forbes, Iowa State University

Special Session
~1-5:30 p.m.
Digital Photography Workshop, Part I
In the quagmire of digital imaging, knowing LPI from DPI from PPI or a megapixel from a TIFF file can be daunting. In this demonstration and hands-on session, photographers will discuss everything from (1) how to know what kind of digital camera or scanner to buy to (2) how to get good scans of prints or negatives to (3) how to improve the reproduction quality of your digital images. Bring a laptop loaded with Photoshop 7. And bring some of your own digital images on CD to "fix" as part of the demonstration.covered.(Preregistration and additional fee required. Limited to 50 participants.)
/Belmont Two, 3rd floor, Renaissance Hotel
Bradley Wilson, North Carolina State University

Special Session
~1-5:30 p.m.
Coaching Writers, Part I
How to teach student reporters to be better writers is a question most advisers and student editors face regardless of the size of their publication staff or campuses. John Wicklein, writing coach for The Washington Post, will head this add-on workshop. Some of the issues that Wicklein will discuss include coaching techniques, writing critiques, finding holes in stories, localizing news and copy editing. (Preregistration and additional fee required. Limited to 50 participants.)
/Belmont One, 3rd floor, Renaissance Hotel
John Wicklein, writing coach, The Washington Post
Laura Widmer, Northwest Missouri State University

Special Session
~1-5:30 p.m.
Newsroom Management for Newspaper Editors
This workshop will cover most of the essentials of managing a newsroom regardless of the frequency of publication and size of the staff. Topics include recruiting, hiring and firing staff, organizational structure, mediating staff disputes, staff meetings, deadlines, working with advisers and governing boards, staff manuals, pay or other incentives for work, staff morale, building credibility with readers, handling controversies and other essentials. (Preregistration and additional fee required. Limited to 50 participants.)
/Ryman One, 3rd floor, Renaissance Hotel
David Waddell, California State University-Chico
Ian Newman, SUNY-Rockland

~2-4:00 p.m.
CMA Packet Stuffing
All CMA members are invited to packet stuffing for Nashville 2004--and to see your friends from across the country
/Exhibit Hall, lower level Convention Center
Kathy Lawrence, University of Texas -Austin

~4:00-7:30 p.m.
Early-Bird Convention Registration
Sign in for the convention here. If you have questions or need help, this is your convention information center.
/Exhibit Hall, lower level, Convention Center

~4:00-7:30 p.m.
Early-Bird Best of Show Entries
Registration for the on-site "Best of Show" college media contest is available to those students who brought along copies of their newspapers, yearbooks or magazines--or to those who call home and have them express delivered by Friday. Winners of print and broadcast categories (mailed in ahead of the convention) will be announced Sunday at the closing session.
/Exhibit Hall, lower level, Convention Center

Broadcast
~4:30-5:20 p.m.
CBI Board Meeting
Current and newly elected members of the board will meet to discuss CBI business.
/Jazz Room, 4th Floor, Renaissance Hotel
Will Robedee, CBI chairman, Rice University

The board of directors of CMA voted today to censure Kansas State University for the reassignment of media adviser Ron Johnson.

The text of the letter sent to KSU President Jon Wefald is here.

Things come in threes, they say. Vincennes University has reassigned the adviser to its campus newspaper.

University newspaper adviser removed
Vincennes professor says job change is retaliation for printing controversial articles.

The new Blogger allows comments. We'll see how they work.

Kansas State student publications adviser Ron Johnson has been removed from his duties after weeks of controversy over the student newspaper's coverage of minority groups.

The winners of the 2004 Apple Awards are posted at the CMA website.

Indiana Daily Student Managing Editor Jane Charney, left, poses a question for New York Times Chairman and Publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. Sulzberger departed from the standard keynote address format by taking questions from members of the audience. Questions covered everything from media consolidation to the Jayson Blair scandal.