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CSMA Adviser Update

America needs journalists... and journalism teachers

CSMA AdviserUpdateAmerica needs journalists... and journalism teachers

CSMA / The First 50 Years

J-Day has been hosted in the Lory Student Center at CSU since 2002, and has grown over those years. Since 2010, we have averaged 1,425 total attendees. The lowest total was 1,124 in 2013, when J-Day was moved to Mountain Vista HS due to the LSC being renovated. The highest total, 1,681, was just last year, when Mary Beth Tinker was our special keynote speaker.

Deadline to register for J-Day, our state conference, is Friday

As of Sept. 19 at 10 a.m., we have 1,091 registered for J-Day from 50 schools.


If you have at least one student attending J-Day, you can enter our fun J-Day Best of Show competition. Read all about it here, and the deadline to submit has been extended to Saturday, Sept. 21 at noon. This allows schools to enter this Friday night's coverage, if they wish. All entries MUST be from the 2019-20 school year. Winners are announced during the Awards Ceremony that concludes J-Day.


You can find many details about J-Day, which returns to the Lory Student Center on the CSU campus on Sept 26, on our site.


All registration is done using an online form, and payment may be made online. We will be happy to invoice you, of course.


Pro Tip: Buses may park free on the CSU campus, near Moby Arena. It is a short walk directly east from this parking area. Buses are not allowed to drop off near the Lory Student Center. All advisers from schools registered for J-Day will receive a campus parking map through email next Monday.


Bonus Pro Tip: Campus parking tags went in the mail on Sept. 9, so please be on the lookout for those to arrive in your campus mail. Any schools requesting parking tags now need to pick up the tags at the CSMA registration table the morning of J-Day. Again, parking tags are available to purchase, but they need to be picked up in the Lory Student Center on the morning of J-Day.

This week's 'news you can use'

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A roundup of recent content from the Scholastic Press Rights Committee

If you are a JEA member, you know about the many resources that come your way through the JEA listserv. Here is some recent information you missed if you are NOT a JEA member:


Constitution Day was Sept. 17, but why not keep returning to one of our nation's founding documents all year long? Need materials? We have you covered. Once again, we’re providing a collection of lesson plans and activities. Check out this year’s featured lessons and feel free to use the content in whatever manner is best for you and your class.


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John Bowen maintains that Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier contributes to people’s inability to trust journalists, since much of what today’s society grew up with as journalism appeared in student media under conditions of censorship, prior review or intimidation. The content that resulted – incomplete information that conveniently omitted unfavorable details or entertainment as news – led fledgling citizens to expect the same from commercial media. This created a lack of trust that has limited news media’s ability, in some cases, to effectively perform their civic responsibility and watchdog roles. In his post, Bowen suggests several areas of emphasis for scholastic media to rebuild that trust in this Year of the Student Journalist.


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As always, we’re here to help you. While your first contact on censorship issues should be the Student Press Law Center, if you or your students need assistance, use the Panic Button to generate an online form to explain your situation. This form will go to a Scholastic Press Rights Committee member who will assist you quickly and notify others in your state so they can offer support. This outreach capability is a direct result of JEA’s Adviser Assistance Program and is designed to combat censorship issues advisers and students might face.

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Thinking about how to organize all those digital photos

From a recent JEA listserve discussion thread:


Q: We're trying to create one unified photo bank for our newspaper/online publication and our yearbook. We're planning to just use a shared Google Drive folder (but if there are stronger methods, please let us know!).

The trouble we're having is whether to organize folders the way the yearbook has done it (e.g., Student Life, Underclass, Arts, Academics, etc.) or the way the newspaper has done it (e.g., News, Opinion, Arts & Lifestyle, etc.).


Any suggestions for what works for your combined programs?


A: (from Sarah Nichols, MJE, and JEA president)
We organize by date. Folders are labeled by month. Inside the directory "September" will be a million folders, one for each photo shoot this month. Folders and their images inside are labeled using Batch Rename in Adobe Bridge to fit this format: topic_dateShot_lastname.


For example, VFB_sept6_rodriguez01, VFB_sept6_rodriguez02 (etc) for all of the photos shot by Rodriguez during the varsity football game Sept. 6.



Students upload to and download from/use these images across all of our media.

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Free news literacy workshop coming to Denver

Join the News Literacy Project for a NewsLitCamp® in Denver!

Join the News Literacy Project, 9NEWS, The Colorado Sun and Denver Public Schools for a highly engaging, teacher-centered NewsLitCamp featuring breakout sessions with journalists and news anchors.


Register today (it’s FREE!)


Space is limited. Sign up in advance to reserve your seat!


NewsLitCamp is a day-long professional development experience that uses an “edcamp” style of continuing education. It features topical sessions (developed with input from participants) in the morning and educator-driven planning and development time to empower you to teach news literacy skills. This format gives education professionals (primarily middle school and high school educators) an opportunity to come together in the engaging, fast-paced environment of a news organization for a day of news literacy training and conversations with journalists and news literacy experts.


Details: Educators will meet at 9NEWS on Monday, Oct. 21, for a full day of free workshops and interactions with experts from the News Literacy Project and journalists from The Colorado Sun and 9NEWS. Lunch will be provided.


Who can attend: NewsLitCamps are designed primarily for middle school and high school teachers and media specialists. Space permitting, we welcome other educators and school administrators. Denver Public Schools educators will receive 7 recertification hours (please use your DPS email when registering); participants from other schools can apply for credit within their districts.

Time to renew your CSMA memberships... or join us for the first time

We are sending this e-newsletter to members and non-members, but the newsletter will go to ONLY members after Oct. 3 (our membership year runs Oct. 1 - Sept. 30).


Colorado Student Media Association memberships are by school medium, and we offer four options: print news, yearbook, online, and video media. A single membership is $65. We offer a convenient online membership form, and you can choose either to pay with a school credit card or ask to be invoiced.


Many schools choose to have more than one of their student media join our association, since all contest fees and critique fees are included in our dues. We offer modest price breaks to those schools, so check that out.


Can't remember if you have renewed or joined? You can always check out current membership list on our site.

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Connect with CSMA

Email: jpkjournalism@gmail.com
Website: colostudentmedia.com
Location: 9253 Sori Lane, Highlands Ranch CO
Phone: 303-550-4755
Facebook: facebook.com/coloradostudentmedia
Twitter: @ColoradoSMA