High School Student Newspaper Conference
Eric Russell
Starting in 1993, the student journalism conferences have seen large turnouts. Each year between 150 and 300 students converge on the University of Maine to learn, compete and share information about what they do.
Student newspapers entered into the student journalism contest compete for prizes and honors including the James Russell Wiggins trophy for general excellence.
Students who attend the conference also have an opportunity to listen and interact with professionals like biology teacher and journalist Robert Klose, UMaine assistant professor of journalism and journalist Katherine Heidinger and Student Press Law Center President Mark Goodman. Local professionals representing members of many Maine newspapers have also served as speakers and presenters at the student journalism conferences.
The Tenth Annual MCSJ Conference
2003 marked the tenth year the Maine Center for Student Journalism provided student journalism conferences for Maine High School journalists. The year's theme was "Creating Community: the Role of a Student Newspaper."
The 2002 theme was "Freedom Under Fire: Student Journalism in a New World." Mike Hiestand, staff attorney at the Student Press Law Center, and Roger Catlin, arts writer for The Hartford Courant, were keynote speakers at the conference. Over 230 students attended the 2002 conference.
For more information, you can access a request for information sheet or a contest registration form online. These sheets must be mailed to the Center at The University of Maine, 5724 Dunn Hall, Orono, Maine 04469-5724.
Information is also posted on the MCSJ site as the conference approaches.
Information is also posted on the MCSJ site as the conference approaches.
About the Conference:
The day-long conference Wednesday, April 30, 2008, held at D.P.Corbett Hall on the University of Maine campus in Orono will include training sessions and the announcement of newspaper contest winners. No pre-registration is required this year!
Registration will begin at 8 a.m. with the Roll Call at 9. Eric Russell, graduate of the University of Maine, winner of the 2007 Bob Drake Young Writer Award and staff member at the Bangor Daily News, will be the keynote speaker. Contest winners will be announced and awarded at 2:15 p.m. For more information contact the MCSJ office.
Annual Newspaper Contest information was sent to school journalism advisers in autumn of 2007. Newspaper contest information and entry forms are linked here. Criteria for judging in each category is linked here for Writing; Editorial; Feature; Review; Cartoon; Sports; Layout; Photography; New Entrants; General Excellence. Contest judging will be done this year by The Sun Journal newsroom.
The day-long conference Wednesday, April 30, 2008, held at D.P.Corbett Hall on the University of Maine campus in Orono will include training sessions and the announcement of newspaper contest winners. No pre-registration is required this year!
Registration will begin at 8 a.m. with the Roll Call at 9. Eric Russell, graduate of the University of Maine, winner of the 2007 Bob Drake Young Writer Award and staff member at the Bangor Daily News, will be the keynote speaker. Contest winners will be announced and awarded at 2:15 p.m. For more information contact the MCSJ office.
Annual Newspaper Contest information was sent to school journalism advisers in autumn of 2007. Newspaper contest information and entry forms are linked here. Criteria for judging in each category is linked here for Writing; Editorial; Feature; Review; Cartoon; Sports; Layout; Photography; New Entrants; General Excellence. Contest judging will be done this year by The Sun Journal newsroom.
Eric Russell
Student newspapers entered into the student journalism contest compete for prizes and honors including the James Russell Wiggins trophy for general excellence.
Students who attend the conference also have an opportunity to listen and interact with professionals like biology teacher and journalist Robert Klose, UMaine assistant professor of journalism and journalist Katherine Heidinger and Student Press Law Center President Mark Goodman. Local professionals representing members of many Maine newspapers have also served as speakers and presenters at the student journalism conferences.
The Tenth Annual MCSJ Conference
2003 marked the tenth year the Maine Center for Student Journalism provided student journalism conferences for Maine High School journalists. The year's theme was "Creating Community: the Role of a Student Newspaper."
The 2002 theme was "Freedom Under Fire: Student Journalism in a New World." Mike Hiestand, staff attorney at the Student Press Law Center, and Roger Catlin, arts writer for The Hartford Courant, were keynote speakers at the conference. Over 230 students attended the 2002 conference.