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We started with pencils and notepads. Now it’s smartphones and hand-held cameras. The objective, though, remains the same. For six decades, the California Scholastic Press Association has organized the best high-school journalism workshop in the country, equally mixing old-school fundamentals with the latest news-distributing technology.
Click here to view the first week’s schedule (PDF, updated July 14).
Click here to view the second week’s schedule (PDF, updated July 2).
The CSPA is proud to announce its 60th-annual workshop on the beautiful campus of Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, from July 17-29, 2011.
The workshop is limited to 25 students, and participants will complete approximately 35 assignments, and have the opportunity to:
- Attend several press conferences
- Publish their own newspaper
- Post breaking Web updates and publish blogs
- Write sports stories
- Conduct multiple interview and learn research techniques
- Report on a simulated major disaster
- Learn how to cover simulated breaking crime story|
- Cover a trial
- Tour the San Luis Obispo daily newspaper office and television station (pictured above)
- Produce and tape their own television newscast
- Shoot and process news photographs
Our all-volunteer staff of instructors — many of whom are workshop graduates — is made up largely of working journalists whose resumes include publications such as the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register, the Sacramento Bee, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Los Angeles Daily News and Forbes magazine, as well as top-notch retired high-school and college newspaper advisers.
We’re especially proud, in 2011, to be celebrating our 60th anniversary with a reunion of workshop graduates, many of whom have gone on to great achievements in journalism and other areas of media and communications.
Join us at the reunion! Purchase tickets here!
Our workshop is intense, but our students find it to be worthwhile and, yes, fun. Students become fast friends because they share an interest in journalism, and among the classes are recreational trips to the beach and local parks.
For 30 years, the workshop was guided by Ralph and Millie Alexander, who dedicated their lives to journalism education. Both died in 1981. It is with Ralph and Millie in mind that we announce this 60th workshop.
Every year, most all of our students leave San Luis Obispo saying that the CSPA Workshop was the most worthwhile part of their summer. We think you’ll agree.
