Conference Celebrates Student Journalism in Maine
Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571; Kathryn Olmstead at (207) 581-1278
ORONO — More than 160 students and teachers from throughout Maine will gather at the University of Maine May 22 for a conference celebrating 10 years of “Building Community” among student journalists in the state.
Staff members and advisers from 20 schools and home school groups will convene in Orono from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. to showcase their papers and increase their knowledge of journalism.
Headquartered at the Donald P. Corbett Business Building on the UMaine campus, the annual conference marks the 10th anniversary of the Maine Center for Student Journalism, founded in 1993 to foster the teaching and practice of newspaper journalism in Maine schools.
A 1:30 p.m. birthday celebration in the Atrium of the D.P.Corbett Building will recognize the community of student journalists that has grown through the activities of the center.
Workshops, discussion groups and panels will bring together students and their professional counterparts from Maine’s daily and weekly newspapers in sessions focused on both skills and issues important to publishing student newspapers.
The day culminates with an awards ceremony naming the state’s outstanding student newspapers and individual journalists. The winner in the General Excellence category will take home the James Russell Wiggins trophy identifying the state’s outstanding newspaper for the year.
The Maine Center for Student Journalism is funded by the Maine Daily Newspaper Publishers Association with support from the University of Maine Department of Communication and Journalism.