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Network in the nation’s capital
with top college media groups
and more than 100
media professionals.
NATIONAL
COLLEGE MEDIA
CONVENTION
Oct. 31-Nov. 3, 2019 • Grand Hyatt • Washington, D.C.
collegemediaconvention.org • #collegemedia19
ASSOCIATED
COLLEGIATE PRESS
Associated Collegiate Press
2829 University Ave. SE, Suite 720 NON-PROFIT ORG.
Minneapolis, MN 55414 U.S. POSTAGE PAID
Permit # 314
Twin Cities, MN
collegemediaconvention.org
OCT. 4, 2019
EARLY-BIRD DEADLINE
calling 202-582-1234.
Reserve your room through our convention site or by
Oct. 4, 2019.
$219 triple/quad, plus tax. Reservation deadline is Friday,
$65 $55 Spouse/Partner/Family
Reduced room rates are $209/night single/double and
lobby, with access to the red, orange, silver and blue lines. members
$215 $190 Adviser
destinations. The Metro Center train station connects to the Non-
Washington ensures that you’re never far from D.C.’s beloved $165 $140 Student
Just steps away from downtown, the Grand Hyatt
$160 $135 Adviser
1000 H St. NW, Washington, DC 20001 Members
$140 $115 Student
Grand Hyatt Washington
Standard Early-bird Registration Fees
Rates increase after Oct. 4.
will not be given. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Plan carefully. Cancellations are not allowed and refunds
your membership(s).
on registration. Visit either organization’s website to verify
Members of ACP and CMA receive significant discounts
Register online at collegemediaconvention.org.
HOTEL REGISTRATION
Press Law Center staff attorney.
with Sommer Ingram Dean, Student
Her keynote will be a conversation Award-winning movie “Spotlight.”
and Weekend Edition. Post. investigation portrayed in the Academy
All Things Considered, Morning Edition, political reporter for The Washington Prizes, including The Boston Globe
, 2019 • WAS critically acclaimed newsmagazines Before CNN, she served as national leadership have won 14 Pulitzer
3 HI
V. NG Her reports air regularly on NPR’s
winning legal affairs correspondent.
cover the Trump Administration.
Abby Phillip joined CNN in 2017 to
News organizations under his
800 journalists at the Post.
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AWARDS PRE-CONVENTION WORKSHOPS LOBBY FOR
SCHEDULE CMA Pinnacle Awards 9 a.m.-noon Thursday, Oct. 31 | $50
THE FIRST
AMENDMENT
Here’s our tentative schedule. Watch 4:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1
Pre-registration is required, and space is limited.
collegemediaconvention.org CMA honors 2018-19’s top college Not all college journalists
for updates going into the convention. newspapers, TV and radio stations, magazines, become professional
Covering Elections journalism through stronger visuals. You’ll
yearbooks, websites, apps and students with journalists. Some want to
2020 is already shaping up to be one of get a chance to work with Washington Post
Thursday, Oct. 31 organizational and individual Pinnacle Awards.
the most contentious American elections ever. designers to learn better practices, have your be activists, policymakers or
even politicians.
9 a.m.-noon Pre-convention workshops In this workshop a campaign reporter for work critiqued and gain new perspectives.
POLITICO will teach you the tactics of the Come prepared to think, collaborate and Lobby for the First
Noon Registration opens. ACP Pacemaker Awards critique. Amendment is a special
political reporter, from reading campaign
1-5 p.m. Breakout sessions 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2 finance reports and analyzing polling data This session will cover both print and political track at the
digital design. Bring copies of your publication convention, Oct. 31-Nov. 2.
Winners of this year’s newspaper, magazine, to covering debates and interacting with
You’ll learn the government
Friday, Nov. 1 yearbook and online ACP Pacemakers will be
announced at this awards ceremony, as will
campaign staff. or site, in print, screenshot or PDF, for the best
part — our group critiques. game from pro lobbyists
Zach Montellaro, POLITICO and then you’ll lobby
9-10:50 a.m. Breakout sessions ACP’s national individual awards. Aviva Loeb and Amy Cavenaile,
The Washington Post legislators’ offices on
11 a.m.-12:20 p.m. Keynote Student Leadership Capitol Hill.
12:30-4:20 p.m. Breakout sessions It’s not enough to worry just about your Our cause? Maintaining
Law of the Student Press/
BEST OF SHOW
4:30-6 p.m. CMA Pinnacle Awards section editors working with their reporters a free press and an open
and photojournalists to produce solid Supreme Court Tour
6-7 p.m. CMA Adviser Awards All proceeds go to Student Press Law Center. government.
content for your newspaper and site. Now One month before the
7-8 p.m. Adviser reception you lead a newsroom that provides news to Tour the U.S. Supreme Court with SPLC convention, two Skype calls
11 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 3 its community in many ways and on many Legal Counsel Mike Hiestand, a member of with a professional lobbyist
Saturday, Nov. 2 Will your staff claim the Best of Show schedules. And you’re doing it with tighter
budgets at a time when you’re accused of
the bar of the Supreme Court.
After viewing exhibits and meeting
will begin the track.
9-10 a.m. Breakout sessions title and leave D.C. with a trophy? More information is at
providing fake news to the public. with court staff, the group will walk to the collegemediaconvention.
All delegations that include students
10-11:30 a.m. Keynote Let’s sort this out and provide you with a Newseum, where Hiestand will brief you on org.
are eligible. Entries must be brought to the
11:30 a.m.-3:20 p.m. Breakout sessions compass to guide your newsroom. your rights as student journalists and take on
convention for on-site judging, and winners are Lynn Walsh,
Kenna Griffin, College Media Association your most vexing questions.
3:30-4:30 p.m. Keynote announced immediately following the closing Trusting News Project
keynote on Sunday morning. Mark Witherspoon, Iowa State Daily Mike Hiestand, Student Press Law Center
4:30-6 p.m. ACP Pacemaker Awards Joe Cohn, Foundation
The entry deadline is 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1. for Individual Rights
6:30-8 p.m. CMA Film & Audio Festival Entries are $20 each for ACP members and Storytelling for Video Journalists Helping Student Newsrooms Cover
the Whole Story with Solutions Journalism in Education
$30 each for nonmembers. Advisers can sign Today’s nonfiction video storytelling exists
LobbyIt lobbying firm
Sunday, Nov. 3 up and pay through registration, or you can on multiple platforms, from web to broadcast For advisers/faculty only
We’ll explore the key tenets of solutions
register on site. to social and mobile. The best of these videos
9-10:50 a.m. Breakout sessions rely on a key element — the story. journalism and how to apply it in college
11 a.m.-noon Keynote & This workshop will focus on how to identify newsrooms. We’ll look at college-level
NEWSEUM’S
ON-SITE CRITIQUES
ACP Best of Show Awards the components of a strong video story and reporting examples, as well as the abundant
provide a crash course in video shooting and resources available through the Solutions
editing. Leading the session is the producer Journalism Network. LAST CALL
and director of “Charlottesville: Race and Participants will gain story ideas and a
Want 50 minutes of an expert’s attention? Terror,” the Vice News Tonight documentary sense of how to guide student journalists who The Newseum,
CAREER
When you register online, add a critique with on HBO. want to incorporate the approach into their D.C.’s go-to destination
a CMA member and expert in media, who will Bring a laptop and camera (or mobile reporting. for journalists, closes
review your publication, cover to cover, or your device) to participate in hands-on portions of Samantha McCann,
NETWORKING
permanently next January.
website, page by page. You can also get the workshop. Solutions Journalism Network But thanks to the
a critique for radio/podcasts and TV/video. Josh Davis, San Francisco State University Student Press Law Center,
You’ll direct the conversation to focus on Google Tools for Journalists celebrating 2019 as its
whatever area you’d like to discuss the most
Through our career networking events, So, You Want to Start a Podcast Free Year of the Student
— content, coverage, writing, visuals, design,
students can find out what media outlets are Everyone from your favorite celebrity to Google Tools are essential for journalists, Journalist, registered
editing, deadlines, conflicts, leadership, etc.
looking for in new hires, submit résumés and your Aunt Sally now has a podcast. But making who use them for everything from verification conference attendees may
Critiques are $15 each. Sign up with your
meet with hiring professionals to talk about job something that is authentic and engaging — and research to digital visualization and visit the Newseum at no
online registration, and select a critique time
and internship opportunities. and that people will listen to — isn’t easy. mapping. charge during conference
on site.
Don’t miss this chance to network with pros A veteran NPR host/producer who recently You will learn a broad range of practical dates, Oct. 31-Nov. 2.
who could help launch your career. launched the new podcast “Spectacular tools that will enhance your reporting, At the museum, present
FILM & AUDIO FESTIVAL
Check the convention site, Failures” will walk you through planning including Google Search, Google Alerts, your convention name
collegemediaconvention.org on how to submit and producing a podcast and offer tips on Google Scholar, Google Maps/Earth, Google badge. The offer is not
your materials and for deadlines and the latest breaking into this expanding field. Translate, Google Trends, Google Public Data transferable to others.
information. Lauren Ober, “Spectacular Failures” Explorer and YouTube. Museum information is
6:30-8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2 Benét J. Wilson, Google News Initiative at newseum.org.
The CMA Film and Audio Festival will honor Fast and Furious:
and present top-notch projects in several The Society for News Design QuickCourse
collegemediaconvention.org categories, including documentary, creative For 40 years, SND has been the authority
and newscast. This year, we are featuring a on news design, shaping the future of
acp.studentpress.org | collegemedia.org new category — best DJ personality.
Submissions accepted in early August.
Associated Collegiate Press
2829 University Ave. SE, Suite 720 NON-PROFIT ORG.
Minneapolis, MN 55414 U.S. POSTAGE PAID
Permit # 314
Twin Cities, MN
collegemediaconvention.org
OCT. 4, 2019
EARLY-BIRD DEADLINE
calling 202-582-1234.
Reserve your room through our convention site or by
Oct. 4, 2019.
$219 triple/quad, plus tax. Reservation deadline is Friday,
$65 $55 Spouse/Partner/Family
Reduced room rates are $209/night single/double and
lobby, with access to the red, orange, silver and blue lines. members
$215 $190 Adviser
destinations. The Metro Center train station connects to the Non-
Washington ensures that you’re never far from D.C.’s beloved $165 $140 Student
Just steps away from downtown, the Grand Hyatt
$160 $135 Adviser
1000 H St. NW, Washington, DC 20001 Members
$140 $115 Student
Grand Hyatt Washington
Standard Early-bird Registration Fees
Rates increase after Oct. 4.
will not be given. Substitutions may be made at any time.
Plan carefully. Cancellations are not allowed and refunds
your membership(s).
on registration. Visit either organization’s website to verify
Members of ACP and CMA receive significant discounts
Register online at collegemediaconvention.org.
HOTEL REGISTRATION
Press Law Center staff attorney.
with Sommer Ingram Dean, Student
Her keynote will be a conversation Award-winning movie “Spotlight.”
and Weekend Edition. Post. investigation portrayed in the Academy
All Things Considered, Morning Edition, political reporter for The Washington Prizes, including The Boston Globe
critically acclaimed newsmagazines Before CNN, she served as national leadership have won 14 Pulitzer
19 • WAS
, 20
Her reports air regularly on NPR’s cover the Trump Administration. News organizations under his
HI
N 3
winning legal affairs correspondent. Abby Phillip joined CNN in 2017 to 800 journalists at the Post.
G V.
-N
O Nina Totenberg is NPR’s award- Based in Washington, D.C., Marty Baron oversees more than
TO
31
legal-affairs correspondent correspondent executive editor
.
N,
National Public Radio CNN White House The Washington Post
OCT
Nina Totenberg Abby Phillip Marty Baron
ASSOCIATION
D.C . PRESS
MEDIA COLLEGIATE
COLLEGE ASSOCIATED
ION
NATI
NT
ON
VE
AL
N
CO
LLEG CO
E MEDIA
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
PRE-CONVENTION WORKSHOPS LOBBY FOR
AWARDS THE FIRST
SCHEDULE CMA Pinnacle Awards 9 a.m.-noon Thursday, Oct. 31 | $50 AMENDMENT
Here’s our tentative schedule. Watch 4:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1
Pre-registration is required, and space is limited.
collegemediaconvention.org CMA honors 2018-19’s top college Not all college journalists
for updates going into the convention. newspapers, TV and radio stations, magazines, become professional
Covering Elections journalism through stronger visuals. You’ll
yearbooks, websites, apps and students with journalists. Some want to
2020 is already shaping up to be one of get a chance to work with Washington Post
organizational and individual Pinnacle Awards. be activists, policymakers or
Thursday, Oct. 31 the most contentious American elections ever. designers to learn better practices, have your
In this workshop a campaign reporter for work critiqued and gain new perspectives. even politicians.
9 a.m.-noon Pre-convention workshops Lobby for the First
POLITICO will teach you the tactics of the Come prepared to think, collaborate and
Noon Registration opens. ACP Pacemaker Awards critique. Amendment is a special
political reporter, from reading campaign
1-5 p.m. Breakout sessions 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2 finance reports and analyzing polling data This session will cover both print and political track at the
digital design. Bring copies of your publication convention, Oct. 31-Nov. 2.
Winners of this year’s newspaper, magazine, to covering debates and interacting with
or site, in print, screenshot or PDF, for the best You’ll learn the government
Friday, Nov. 1 yearbook and online ACP Pacemakers will be campaign staff.
part — our group critiques. game from pro lobbyists
announced at this awards ceremony, as will Zach Montellaro, POLITICO
9-10:50 a.m. Breakout sessions and then you’ll lobby
ACP’s national individual awards. Aviva Loeb and Amy Cavenaile,
The Washington Post legislators’ offices on
11 a.m.-12:20 p.m. Keynote Student Leadership Capitol Hill.
12:30-4:20 p.m. Breakout sessions It’s not enough to worry just about your Our cause? Maintaining
section editors working with their reporters Law of the Student Press/
4:30-6 p.m. CMA Pinnacle Awards Supreme Court Tour a free press and an open
and photojournalists to produce solid government.
6-7 p.m. CMA Adviser Awards BEST OF SHOW All proceeds go to Student Press Law Center.
content for your newspaper and site. Now One month before the
7-8 p.m. Adviser reception you lead a newsroom that provides news to Tour the U.S. Supreme Court with SPLC convention, two Skype calls
11 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 3 its community in many ways and on many Legal Counsel Mike Hiestand, a member of with a professional lobbyist
schedules. And you’re doing it with tighter the bar of the Supreme Court. will begin the track.
Saturday, Nov. 2 Will your staff claim the Best of Show
budgets at a time when you’re accused of After viewing exhibits and meeting More information is at
9-10 a.m. Breakout sessions title and leave D.C. with a trophy?
providing fake news to the public. with court staff, the group will walk to the collegemediaconvention.
All delegations that include students
10-11:30 a.m. Keynote Let’s sort this out and provide you with a Newseum, where Hiestand will brief you on org.
are eligible. Entries must be brought to the
11:30 a.m.-3:20 p.m. Breakout sessions compass to guide your newsroom. your rights as student journalists and take on
convention for on-site judging, and winners are Lynn Walsh,
Kenna Griffin, College Media Association your most vexing questions.
3:30-4:30 p.m. Keynote announced immediately following the closing Trusting News Project
keynote on Sunday morning. Mark Witherspoon, Iowa State Daily Mike Hiestand, Student Press Law Center
4:30-6 p.m. ACP Pacemaker Awards Joe Cohn, Foundation
The entry deadline is 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1. for Individual Rights
6:30-8 p.m. CMA Film & Audio Festival Entries are $20 each for ACP members and Storytelling for Video Journalists Helping Student Newsrooms Cover
the Whole Story with Solutions Journalism in Education
$30 each for nonmembers. Advisers can sign Today’s nonfiction video storytelling exists
For advisers/faculty only LobbyIt lobbying firm
Sunday, Nov. 3 up and pay through registration, or you can on multiple platforms, from web to broadcast
register on site. to social and mobile. The best of these videos We’ll explore the key tenets of solutions
9-10:50 a.m. Breakout sessions rely on a key element — the story. journalism and how to apply it in college
11 a.m.-noon Keynote & This workshop will focus on how to identify newsrooms. We’ll look at college-level
ACP Best of Show Awards the components of a strong video story and reporting examples, as well as the abundant NEWSEUM’S
ON-SITE CRITIQUES provide a crash course in video shooting and resources available through the Solutions
editing. Leading the session is the producer Journalism Network. LAST CALL
and director of “Charlottesville: Race and Participants will gain story ideas and a
Want 50 minutes of an expert’s attention? Terror,” the Vice News Tonight documentary sense of how to guide student journalists who The Newseum,
When you register online, add a critique with on HBO. want to incorporate the approach into their D.C.’s go-to destination
a CMA member and expert in media, who will Bring a laptop and camera (or mobile reporting.
CAREER for journalists, closes
review your publication, cover to cover, or your device) to participate in hands-on portions of Samantha McCann, permanently next January.
website, page by page. You can also get the workshop. Solutions Journalism Network But thanks to the
a critique for radio/podcasts and TV/video.
NETWORKING Josh Davis, San Francisco State University Student Press Law Center,
You’ll direct the conversation to focus on Google Tools for Journalists celebrating 2019 as its
whatever area you’d like to discuss the most
Through our career networking events, So, You Want to Start a Podcast Free Year of the Student
— content, coverage, writing, visuals, design,
students can find out what media outlets are Everyone from your favorite celebrity to Google Tools are essential for journalists, Journalist, registered
editing, deadlines, conflicts, leadership, etc.
looking for in new hires, submit résumés and your Aunt Sally now has a podcast. But making who use them for everything from verification conference attendees may
Critiques are $15 each. Sign up with your
meet with hiring professionals to talk about job something that is authentic and engaging — and research to digital visualization and visit the Newseum at no
online registration, and select a critique time
and internship opportunities. and that people will listen to — isn’t easy. mapping. charge during conference
on site.
Don’t miss this chance to network with pros A veteran NPR host/producer who recently You will learn a broad range of practical dates, Oct. 31-Nov. 2.
who could help launch your career. launched the new podcast “Spectacular tools that will enhance your reporting, At the museum, present
Check the convention site, Failures” will walk you through planning including Google Search, Google Alerts, your convention name
collegemediaconvention.org on how to submit and producing a podcast and offer tips on Google Scholar, Google Maps/Earth, Google badge. The offer is not
your materials and for deadlines and the latest
FILM & AUDIO FESTIVAL breaking into this expanding field. Translate, Google Trends, Google Public Data transferable to others.
information. Lauren Ober, “Spectacular Failures” Explorer and YouTube. Museum information is
6:30-8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2 Benét J. Wilson, Google News Initiative at newseum.org.
The CMA Film and Audio Festival will honor Fast and Furious:
and present top-notch projects in several The Society for News Design QuickCourse
collegemediaconvention.org categories, including documentary, creative For 40 years, SND has been the authority
and newscast. This year, we are featuring a on news design, shaping the future of
acp.studentpress.org | collegemedia.org new category — best DJ personality.
Submissions accepted in early August.
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