Special events
Break with a Pro
9 and 10 a.m. Friday • $5
Registration deadline: Oct. 28
Online preregistration required.
Break with a Pro offers tailored, small-group discussion sessions with journalism professionals in traditional and specialized areas. Media professionals share information about their work and backgrounds. This career exploration event is an excellent opportunity to meet people working in the field.
Break with a Pro sessions categories —
Broadcast sports
Copy editing
Design and art direction
Feature writing
News writing
Opinion writing
Photojournalism
Podcasting
Public relations
Social media
Sports writing
TV news
Videography
Students should develop questions on career-preparation requirements, nature of work, salary-level expectations, job availability and how to handle issues as a student journalist.
Media Swap Shops
8 and 9 p.m. Friday • Free
Registration deadline:Oct. 28
Online preregistration required.
Meet with students from other publication staffs to share with one another and to gather new ideas.
Bring at least nine copies of recently published newspapers, newsmagazines or literary magazines to exchange. Yearbook participants should bring one copy of the most recently published work to show and, if they choose, enough to exchange. Students with online media, social media efforts and broadcast participants should bring a laptop to show your work and bring notecards with your media URLs to exchange.
These one-hour sessions are conducted as round tables with 10 students, each from a different school.
Movie screening: “Storm Lake”
Friday evening • Free
“Storm Lake,” an award-winning documentary film about The Storm Lake Times and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Art Cullen, will presented Friday evening at the convention.
The News Literacy Project, a sponsor for the fall convention, is providing the showing, open to both students and advisers.
Adobe certification testing
9 and 10 a.m. Saturday
$70 Adobe Certified Professional exam
$110 Adobe Certified Professional exam and practice test
Registration deadline: Oct 28
(The earlier you register the more time you have to take the practice test.)
Advisers and students will have the opportunity to take certification exams for Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop. These exams are for intermediate- to advanced-level users.
The 50-minute exams will be administered Saturday morning in the convention computer lab — no personal devices will be allowed. The optional practice tests will be available to testers to practice on their own prior to the fall convention.
This certification is recognized by industry leaders. It also supports high school journalism classes to become funded CTE pathways.
