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Twenty-eight teachers from 16 states were the 2008 Fellows for Kent State's ASNE High School Journalism Institute. From July 6 - 18, they spent time learning how to create better media programs for their students.
A grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation enabled the American Society of Newspaper Editors to support institutes at Kent State and four other sites. Selected through a highly competitive screening process, Fellows received three graduate credits in an all-expense-paid workshop that teams classroom pros with newsroom pros.
Kent's workshop director, Candace Perkins Bowen, lead instructors John Bowen, Ohio; H.L. Hall, Tennessee; Susan Hathaway Tantillo, Illinois -- plus Ohio Scholastic Media Association board members Wayne and Georgia Dunn and Knight chair Mark Goodman -- enjoyed support from reporters and editors of the Akron Beacon Journal, The Washington Post and WKSU, the PBS station in Kent.
Glenn Proctor, executive editor of The Times-Dispatch in Richmond, Vir., addressed the teachers one their first day of classes. Proctor talked about the reality of newsrooms today and discussed the future of the industry as media change.
Frank LoMonte, director of the Student Press Law Center in Arlington, Va., spent a day at Kent, covering current issues and concerns in the field of high school publications with a special emphasis on legal issues teachers should know.
Others talked to participants about reporting and sources, Web sites, legal issues, InDesign and the future of mass media. This year’s new experience was multi-media storytelling with Susan Kirkman Zake, former managing editor for visuals at the Akron Beacon Journal and now a graduate student and adjunct professor at Kent State.
Even the work had its lighter moments. Trips to the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame and to Porthouse Theatre to see "Alice" resulted in reviews and photography opportunities.
The Fellows from the past six years often admitted they have never worked harder — or learned more. The 2008 group gathered tips and tricks and networking ideas to take back to their students in the fall.
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