NASHVILLE, Tenn. – For every future Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, high-powered magazine editor or trusted television news anchor, there is a humble beginning. For many, that beginning comes in the long hours put in at high school newsrooms and television studios learning the fundamentals of journalism.
On Tuesday, March 9, Vanderbilt University will host the Middle Tennessee Scholastic Press Association’s 2004 Student Media Workshop. More than 400 future titans of the journalism industry from 27 Middle Tennessee high schools will be on hand to learn the latest on topics ranging from maintaining objectivity when writing or editing to redesigning one’s newspaper or yearbook so that it better catches the eye.
Registration for the workshop begins at 8:30 a.m. at the Sarratt Student Center promenade, followed by the opening session at 9:30 a.m., titled "Opinion, Fairness and Objectivity," by Frank Sutherland of The Tennessean. Three blocks of sessions follow throughout the day featuring panelists from The Tennessean, News Channel 5, The City Paper, The Vanderbilt Hustler, the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt and the Journalism Education Association, among others. All sessions take place at the Sarratt Student Center. A full listing of the sessions can be downloaded from http://www.vscmedia.org/PDFs/MTSPA_Program(2004).pdf .
A closing awards ceremony is scheduled for 1:35 p.m. in the Sarratt Cinema and will give prizes for Middle Tennessee’s best high school newspaper, yearbook, literary magazine and television station, as well as the 2004 Student Journalist of the Year and Adviser of the Year.
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Media contact: Kara Furlong, (615) 322-NEWS
Kara.c.furlong@vanderbilt.edu