For Immediate Release
October 1, 2009
Media Contact: Julie Cooper or Deborah M. Martin
jcooper72@alamo.edu or dmartin82@alamo.edu
(210) 486-0882 or (210) 486-0881
jcooper72@alamo.edu or dmartin82@alamo.edu
(210) 486-0882 or (210) 486-0881
Journalism, Friends of Journalism Welcome
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| SAN ANTONIO, TX (Oct. 1) – More than 100 students representing 14 area high schools spent Saturday, Sept. 26, at San Antonio College at the fifth Charting Your Course: An Itinerary for High School Journalists and Their Advisers. La Vernia High School attended for the first time, and students also traveled from Bandera for the daylong event. The conference, sponsored by the journalism program of Media Communications and the alumni group, Friends of Journalism at San Antonio College, provided sessions designed to jump-start high school publications for the fall. Tracks for editors, photographers, beginning and advanced reporters, designers and advisers brought to campus freelancers and professionals from the San Antonio Express-News and KSAT-12 television.  Mass communications Professor Kym Fox of Texas State University delivered the keynote address on ethical decision-making in journalism.Journalism program faculty also conducted sessions in headline writing, news writing, opinion writing, design and photography.
Members of Texas Association for Journalism Educators Region 5 selected the conference for their professional training day, enabling the association to pay the $10 registration fee for advisers and fete them with lunch on the patio at Luther’s. |
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