Workshop attracts area media students
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| Students view the final version of their work at the end of the Airing a Television Newscast session. This was one of the sessions offered during the department's annual High School Journalism and Broadcasting Workshop.
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More than 80 high school media students and their advisers from four schools participated in the annual Journalism and Broadcasting Workshop at Murray State University Sept. 28.
The workshop was designed to provide high school media students and their advisors ways to improve their newspapers, yearbooks and broadcast productions.
Sessions were conducted by journalism and mass communications faculty/staff and included sports columns and reporting, newspaper design, use of the digital camera, promoting your publication, covering a beat, advertising sales, writing broadcast news, producing the TV news show, feature writing, mining story ideas, community journalism, legal aspects of the media and advertising design.
David Greer of the Kentucky Press Association, who directs the Kentucky High School Journalism Association, conducted sessions on community journalism and covering a beat.
JMC faculty/staff members included workshop director Dr. Bob McGaughey, Joe Hedges, Dr. Roger Haney, Gill Welsch, Dr. Ann Landini, Dr. Jeanne Scafella, Robin Orvino, Orville Herndon, Brian Siddens and Bob Valentine.
Next year's workshop is tentatively scheduled for Sept. 26 at the Curris Center.
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