The Iowa High School Press Association Fall Convention is October 24, 2013 in the Iowa Memorial Union at University of Iowa, Iowa City.

  We have sessions to interest writers, photographers, editors, designers and advisers. Yearbook, newspaper, online and broadcast students.

Here are some of the speakers and the topics. (More are being confirmed). Check our website for the latest.

Bobby Hawthorne, a popular instructor at journalism workshops and seminars for high school students nationwide is our headliner. He has been published in every national scholastic press association periodical and is the author of The Radical Write, a textbook on reporting and writing for student publications that is used nationwide. Bobby will share three presentations.

STORY TIME.
The road to journalism hell is paved with dumb quotes, pie charts, goofy lists, and dead-on-arrival articles that plagiarize the Internet and/or regurgitate the obvious. Give readers what they can’t find anywhere else: a great story.

MUSCULAR DEVELOPMENT.
A dozen or so tips on taking your writing — newspaper, yearbook, college entrance essay, whatever — from vague to va-va-voom, from weak-knee to weapons-grade.

WHO READS YEARBOOK COPY?
No one. And why should they? It’s rarely written to be read. It’s written to fill a hole on a spread, which is sad because you cannot capture the truth of the year without interesting, insightful text.

We will have presentations from Iowa high school advisers, University of Iowa faculty and area media leaders.  We will also host student led panels, on the spot contests critiques.

Some of the presentations include:

·   Localize and be aggressive – Jonathan Rogers (adviser)

·   The Social Media why – Kyle Phllips (adviser)

·   Digital Stories for Digital Times – Brian Ekdale (UI associate professor)

·   Digital tool tops and opportunities – Max Fruend (Gazette online editor)

·   Still a place for investigative journalism – Lyle Muller (Iowa Watch Executive Director)

·   Starting a website – Rogers (adviser)

·   Tyler Buller on law issues

·   Top 20 yearbook tips – Ann Visser (adviser)

• Basics of using WeVideo– Joann Gage & Suzette Kragenbrink (adviser)

• Dunk the Deadlines – Betty Christian (adviser)

For sports enthusiasts:

• It isn’t all football, basketball, & baseball – John Campbell (KCRG sportscasters)

• How to write a good sports story – JR Ogden (Gazette sports editor)

• Why your sports sucks – David Schwartz (UI Phd candidate & former sports reporter/editor)

For photographers:

·      Everything you wanted to know about photography – Liz Martin

·      Leading lines – Natalie McDermott (adviser)

·      On the spot photo contest

For advisers we have sessions on:

• Google Docs – Gina Rogers (Grant Wood AEA)

• JEA Curriculum project– Holly Soborf (adviser)

• Life as an Adviser: Are you nuts? – Stacy Haynes-Moore (adviser)

• Plan to attend the advisers meeting

For student considering a journalism career:

• A panel of UI journalists who interned in interesting places this summer

• Tour Adler Journalism Building

Contests:

There will also be on-the-spot contests in:

·   Newsmaker

·   Sports writing

·   Opinion writing

·   Cartooning

·   Photography

·   Yearbook – design

·   Yeook- copy/caption

·   Copy editing

There are more sessions being detailed so stay tuned but i wanted to give you an idea of some of what we will doing at the Fall Conference October 24 – Join us.

Paul

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