President's letter: Convention date set, planning in progress
Sarah Hale
Issue date: 5/20/08 Section: News
Dear Missouri College Media Association Members,
The gut-wrenching wait is nearly over: In less than two months, we'll be hounding sources, snapping photos, absorbing red ink through our pores and rocking our publications to bed before the sun rises on deadline day.
I speak for many of us as I anticipate a return to our shared journalistic fix. Media production resumes next month for most MCMA members. We've re-shuffled staff boxes and face a year's worth of delicious potential, waiting to be set in ink.
MCMA member efforts culminate every year with the spring convention, a two-day conference, ceremony and networking opportunity for all dues-paying papers and yearbooks. I extend sincere thanks and congratulations to Missouri Southern State University's The Chart for hosting a memorable 2008 convention in Joplin, Mo. Their hard work and example are thankfully recognized.
This academic year's MCMA convention will be held in St. Louis, Mo. on the campus of Saint Louis University with assistance from The University News. It is scheduled for April 17-18, the third weekend of the month (the traditional second-weekend-in-April date coincides with Easter). As a save-the-date reminder, an edition of this newsletter will be distributed on the 17th of every month leading up to the big weekend.
We hope to make this the best, most useful MCMA convention in institutional memory. This means that we want to realize your good ideas. Over which potential session topics have you been salivating? Are there new categories that should be covered in the award ceremony? Which journalism celebrities are you dying to meet? Your input is essential.
And so is your membership. We hope to see every paper and yearbook in the state represented at the April convention. Official registration and banquet forms will be available in January 2009.
Finally--the MCMA executive board is searching for a 2008-09 secretary. See "MCMA seeks new secretary" above for more details. If you (or one of your colleagues) are responsible and relatively organized, shoot us an e-mail. Materials should be sent before the Midwest College Newspaper Workshop in Kansas City, Mo., scheduled for the first weekend in August. At that conference, we'll hold a brainstorming and planning meeting for the April convention. All are welcome!
So enjoy the rest of the summer, fearless investigators, pundits and historians of all stripes. Visit www.mcmachronicle.com, and e-mail your napkin-scrap bits of genius to mcma2009@gmail.com.
Signing off,
Sarah E. Hale
MCMA President, 2008-09
The gut-wrenching wait is nearly over: In less than two months, we'll be hounding sources, snapping photos, absorbing red ink through our pores and rocking our publications to bed before the sun rises on deadline day.
I speak for many of us as I anticipate a return to our shared journalistic fix. Media production resumes next month for most MCMA members. We've re-shuffled staff boxes and face a year's worth of delicious potential, waiting to be set in ink.
MCMA member efforts culminate every year with the spring convention, a two-day conference, ceremony and networking opportunity for all dues-paying papers and yearbooks. I extend sincere thanks and congratulations to Missouri Southern State University's The Chart for hosting a memorable 2008 convention in Joplin, Mo. Their hard work and example are thankfully recognized.
This academic year's MCMA convention will be held in St. Louis, Mo. on the campus of Saint Louis University with assistance from The University News. It is scheduled for April 17-18, the third weekend of the month (the traditional second-weekend-in-April date coincides with Easter). As a save-the-date reminder, an edition of this newsletter will be distributed on the 17th of every month leading up to the big weekend.
We hope to make this the best, most useful MCMA convention in institutional memory. This means that we want to realize your good ideas. Over which potential session topics have you been salivating? Are there new categories that should be covered in the award ceremony? Which journalism celebrities are you dying to meet? Your input is essential.
And so is your membership. We hope to see every paper and yearbook in the state represented at the April convention. Official registration and banquet forms will be available in January 2009.
Finally--the MCMA executive board is searching for a 2008-09 secretary. See "MCMA seeks new secretary" above for more details. If you (or one of your colleagues) are responsible and relatively organized, shoot us an e-mail. Materials should be sent before the Midwest College Newspaper Workshop in Kansas City, Mo., scheduled for the first weekend in August. At that conference, we'll hold a brainstorming and planning meeting for the April convention. All are welcome!
So enjoy the rest of the summer, fearless investigators, pundits and historians of all stripes. Visit www.mcmachronicle.com, and e-mail your napkin-scrap bits of genius to mcma2009@gmail.com.
Signing off,
Sarah E. Hale
MCMA President, 2008-09