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Seven Elon
University students were among the more than 1,000 college print,
broadcast and online journalists attending the Spring National College
Media Convention March 18-20 in New York City. The group included
Pendulum editors Jessica Patchett, Colin Donohue, Nuri Abdur Rauf,
Matt Belanger, Jessica Kemp, Kaitlyn North and Jay Dorne, and they
were led by Pendulum adviser Janna Anderson.
Sponsored by
College Media Advisers, the annual gathering in Manhattan is the
world's largest spring meeting for college journalists. Attendees
selected from more than 200 educational programs, including keynote
addresses, breakout sessions, discussions, critiques and media tours
during the three-day event.
In addition
to programs relevant to all media, many sessions focused on one
medium, including newspaper, magazine, yearbook, radio and television
broadcast and Web-based news production.
Among the highlights
for Elon students were the keynote addresses by Arthur O. Sulzberger,
chairman and publisher of the New York Times; by Tim Harrower, a
news-design guru and author of "Newspaper Designer's Handbook";
and by Ron Hutcheson, senior White House correspondent for Knight
Ridder.
Other highlights
of the conference included: a roundtable with sports journalism
pros Dave Anderson, Mike Freeman and Jill Agostino of the New York
Times; a copy editing workshop led by Don Hecker of the New York
Times; an investigative reporting session with Chris Adams, a Pulitzer
winner with the Washington Post who now works in Knight Ridder's
Washington bureau; a business reporting session with Pradnya Joshi
of Newsday; a session on photo essays with Susan Watts of the New
York Daily News; a resume workshop with Walter Middlebrook of Newsday;
a computer-assisted reporting session with Richard Dalton of Newsday;
a session on media law with Mike Hiestand of the Student Press Law
Center; a news design workshop with Ron Johnson, editor of "Best
News Design 24" and "Best News Design 25"; a look
at ethics and photo manipulation led by Porter Binks of Sports Illustrated;
"Anatomy of a Pulitzer," a look at the reporting process
behind a 1995 winner, led by one of its reporters, Stephanie Saul
of Newsday; a typography session with Gina Bowden-Pierce of the
St. Petersburg Times; and a session on trauma and journalism led
by New York Daily News photographer David Handschuh.
Anderson was
selected to lead a two-hour tour at the offices of the Associated
Press at 50 Rockefeller Plaza. The students and advisers in the
group heard from AP executives John Lumpkin and Robert Naylor in
addition to being briefed about internship opportunities by Will
Chang, senior recruiter for the AP. The AP will be abandoning it's
historic headquarters at "50 Rock" in July, moving to
a bright, newly remodeled space near Penn Station.
While they
were in Manhattan, Elon students were fortunate to meet and be advised
by four Elon alumni now working in the New York area. To read more
about it, click
here.
If you would
like to see a useful Media Map of New York that locates most of
the major national and international media organizations in Manhattan
for you, click below:
http://www.publicityclub.org/mediacapital.htm
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