KEMPAs fun, knowledgeable, high-energy instructors will bring you up-to-date on the latest trends in writing, photography, layout, and web design!
This four-day workshop is for creative, hard-working students and advisers from Wisconsin and northern Illinois.
This is a great way to start the school year refreshed, re-charged and re-focused on improving journalism at your school!
There are a number of reasons why the KEMPA Summer Workshop is just for you:
Special Interest workshops to broaden your workshop experience
Hands on time to develop stories and layouts
Small class sizes
Journalism professionals ready and willing to share their techniques and expertise
Networking with other student journalists and exchanging publications
Computer labs to provide you with more than just lecture and theory
Fun, games, food, new friends
Informal critiques
If you want your school paper or yearbook informally critiqued at the workshop, bring it along with you. This critique gives students a head start on improvements for 2009-2010.
(This critique is not to be confused with the fall contest/critique. Member schools have received special forms for submissions for the fall contest/critique. Those results are announced at Fall Conference, Oct. 16.)
Special Interest Sessions
For two days, workshoppers can select from small group special interest sessions. Choices may include the following:
Improving Your Sports Section
Dealing with Death and Tragedy
Copy Editing
Sports Photography
Leadership for Editors
Private School Issues
Dealing with Mugs and Seniors and Other People Issues
Magazine Design Trends
Headline and Caption How-Tos
Dealing with Photography and Digital Issues
Alternative Marketing/Fundraising
Fees
Residential campers $325 ($350 after June 1, 2009); returning LA&S Academic Summer campers are eligible for a $25 discount on request. Register now, Speech Camp fills quickly! For more information contact Mark Pietrowski, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences External Programming: call 815-753-1456, e-mail pietrowski@niu.edu, or visit www.niu.edu/clasep (Click on Summer Academic Camps")
KEMPA Journalism Workshop Director: Jim Killam is adviser for the Northern Star, the daily student newspaper at NIU. This past year, the Star won a national Pacemaker Award, considered the Pulitzer Prize for collegiate journalism. Jim has advised the paper for 14 years, and also teaches journalism classes at NIU. Previously, he spent 10 years as an editor and reporter at three daily newspapers in Illinois and Wisconsin.
For more information about KEMPA Summer Workshop 2009: www.kempaonline.com