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Elon University students joined hundreds of college print, broadcast
and online journalists attending the Spring National College Media
Convention in New York City March 16-20. The group included Pendulum
editors KeiSaundra Henderson, Sarah Moser, Virginia Galvez, Martha
Page Ransdell, Alana Dunn and Brittany Smith. 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 address by Gail Collins, editorial
page editor for the New York Times; a session on assigning photos
with Newsday Photo Editor Kim Chapin; a three-hour workshop on page
design sponsored by the Society for News Design; a roundtable with
sports journalism pros from the New York Times; a copy editing workshop
led by Don Hecker of the New York Times; a session titled "Thinking
Like an Editor" with Bill Elsen, former editor of the Washington
Post; and a panel discussion featuring editors from the Philadelphia
Enquirer, Newsday, the Stamford Advocate, the Glen Falls Post-Star
and the Newark Star-Ledger.
Anderson was
selected to lead 30 students, including Elon's group, on a two-hour
tour at the offices of the New York Times. The group visited the
gallery dedicated to Pulitzer winners from the Times and traveled
from level to level in the Times offices learning about the newspaper's
operations. Students said they especially enjoyed sitting in the
chairs Times editors occupy when they have their daily news budget
meetings.
While they
were in Manhattan, Elon students were fortunate to meet and be advised
by two Elon alums now working in the New York area. Sally Lynch,
an editor with Hearst's Shop Etc. magazine, and Steve Earley, a
reporter with the Kingston, N.Y., Daily Freeman, visited with the
students and shared their perspectives as 2004 Elon graduates just
beginning their careers in communications.
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