- See Who Won the Contests!
- See the Photos! (More Coming Soon)
- Register Online!!
- Enter the Contest! (PDF)
- Speaker Form
- Download the Sessions (PDF)
- See Who’s Speaking
- Student Worksheet (PDF)
- Map to the MSU Union
- Parking
- Eating at the MSU Union
Cost is $6 per person for MIPA members, $6.50 for non-members.
Registration: 8 a.m. to 9 a.m.
Sessions will be 9–9:30 (Keynote); 9:40–10:15; 10:25–11:00; 11:10–11:45 (Awards 11:50–12).
You’re invited to attend the eighth annual Middle School Journalism Conference sponsored by Michigan Interscholastic Press Association. We want to offer you a great opportunity to meet and share ideas with other yearbook and newspaper advisers. In addition, your students will enjoy the interactive sessions and go back to school motivated and excited. Speakers will be professionals from the area and knowledgeable publication advisers from around Michigan. And enter student work in the contest! Awards ceremony is at the end of the morning.
Proposed topics:
How to interview someone
How to cover sports
Photography: How to get good shots
Hot trends in yearbooks
Writing good leads
Caption writing
Writing reviews for your newspaper
Writing good headlines
You can write great feature stories
Creating advertisements
Finding good sources and stories
Editors roundtable
Newspaper design
What to include in your yearbook
Writing neat info boxes
Bring copies of your newspaper to put out on the exchange table. If you have extra yearbooks to exchange, bring those as well!