Idaho Journalism Conference to Be Held for Second Year at Idaho State University; 400 Students, Teachers to Converge at ISU Oct. 29-30

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October 28, 2010

Idaho Journalism Conference to Be Held for Second Year at Idaho State University;
400 Students, Teachers to Converge at ISU Oct. 29-30

What: More than 400 journalism students from high schools around Idaho will attend 25th annual Idaho Student Journalism Association fall conference, to be held Oct. 29-30 on the ISU campus.

Schedule: Students will be signing up between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 29, in the Pond Student Union outside of the Bengal Theater. The keynote address for the conference will be at 1 p.m. Friday in the PSUB Bengal Theater. After the keynote, students will be attending presentations at several locations on campus on Friday and Saturday.

Contact Information: Contact Tom Hallaq, (208) 282-6453 (office) or 801-232-9173 (cell), or halltom@isu.edu, for information on the conference and additional schedule information, or contact Andy Taylor, (208) 282-3209.

Additional Information: (from a press release sent out earlier):
The conference will feature contests, seminars, workshops and speeches, all revolving around broadcasting, advertising, public relations, photography, video production, graphic design, and writing for print and the web.
The keynote speaker is Chris Huston, news director at KIDK-TV, Pocatello and Idaho Falls. He will speak Friday afternoon, October 29.
Competition categories include writing news stories, features, sports stories, video productions, reviews and headlines. Students may also submit editorial cartoons or photos, and newspaper or yearbook advertising entries.
Among the judges will be ISU mass communication students, some of whom participated in the conference themselves while in high school. The ISJA was originally formed in 1964 as the Idaho State High School Press Association. Afton Bitton, a teacher from Idaho Falls High School, was the first president.
The aspiring journalists, broadcasters, advertising agents, photographers, graphic artists and public relations professionals will attend educational workshops, hear from a keynote speaker, submit competitive entries and just plain have some fun.
About 200 high school journalists attended the fall conference at ISU in 2009.

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