PSPA and Waynesburg University Host Regional Conference
November 19, 2008 in News by Darcy Goshorn
Editors of California High School’s Burgundian listen as Janice Hatfield offers suggestions for improving their newspaper.
Waynesburg University and the Pennsylvania School Press Association collaborated to welcome 177 local yearbook and newspaper students and 11 advisers to Media Day on the University campus on October 30.
Participants included students from Laurel Highlands, Laurel Valley, Belle Vernon, California Area, Bentworth, Carmichaels, Canon McMillan, John Marshall (WV), Greater Latrobe, and Kiski Area High Schools, as well as middle school students from Ben Franklin School.
Cari Frei of Taylor Publishing and Cheryl Franzmann and Kathryn Phillips of Walsworth introduced students to new yearbook trends and offered pointers on yearbook theme development and creating award-winning yearbooks.
Guided by Waynesburg Department of Communications Chair, Professor Richard Krause, a team of Waynesburg’s Communication students, headed by Kristen Corbett, Student Event Coordinator, and Erin Crawshaw, Public Relations senior, planned and implemented the workshop. Janice Hatfield, Newspaper Chair, represented PSPA in helping to organize the event.
Students could choose sessions on sports writing, convergence, headlines, generating story ideas, feature writing, editorial writing, newsroom, management, feature writing, and newspaper design. On-site critiques of newspapers and yearbooks were also conducted.
Both advisers and students were impressed by the amount of valuable information offered. One adviser described the experience as “very invigorating.”
