CMA in the APPLE

In the spring, CMA starts a week (March 14-16, 2012) with three days in a convention of unconventional education and learning opportunities with movers and shakers in the media center of the world. The New York experience provides top notch educational opportunities well as giving delegates a chance to explore New York City. Read this page for information and when you are ready to start your journey, CLICK THE BIG RED APPLE.

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• Convention at a glance
• Convention Speakers
  
• Early Bird Registration Rates
• Planning Guide
• Convention Hotel
• Media Pro Workshops
• On Site Critique

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Use the CMA's convention website to register your delegation, pay convention fees online, and more. To begin your registration, click on the big apple button below.

CONVENTION AT A GLANCE:

Who: Students and advisers from coast to coast and beyond.

What: The annual 2010 National College Media Convention, the largest spring assembly of student journalists in the world who gather together for three days to attend over 200 educational sessions, hear inspirational keynote adresses from media movers and shakers, participate in a trade show, learn from onsite critiques and competition, and much more, including preconvention Media Pro Workshops.

When: Sunday-Tuesday, March 14-16, 2010, with workshops starting Saturday, March 13, 2010.

Where: Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City at Times Square, the crossroads of the world.

Why: Because we have to provide leadership for our students who will be charting the course of an exciting and evolving new world of media.

How: Just click on the Big Red Apple to begin the registration process.

SPECIAL NOTE: Collegiate Broadcaster. Inc. members qualify to register for the convention at CMA rates. For help in setting up discount registrations, please contact the Conention Help Desk at and CLICK THE LINK FOR NON-MEMBERS & CBI MEMBERS, then verify your CBI membership status. Membership status subject to verification to qualify for the discounted registration fees.

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Convention Speakers

SUNDAY: Brian Stelter is a media reporter for The New York Times. He writes about television, digital media and journalism for The Times, and is a lead contributor to The Times' Media Decoder blog. Stelter joined The Times in 2007 after spending three and a half years as the editor of TVNewser, a popular blog tracking the television news business. He founded the blog in 2004 during his freshman year of college and sold it to the media company Mediabistro six months later. In 2006, a front-page profile in The New York Times called Stelter "The Kid With All the News About the TV News."

MONDAY: Terry Moran, co-anchor of ABC News’ “Nightline” and Supreme Court correspondent for the network, is a keynote speaker for the National College Media Convention, March 14-16, in New York City. At “Nightline,” Mr. Moran has led the program’s distinguished coverage of many of the major news stories over the past several years.

TUESDAY: No. 1 on The New York Times Best Seller List for his book, Game Change. author Mark Halperin will provide the closing keynote address in New York. Halperin is editor-at-large and senior political analyst for Time magazine. He is the author of The Undecided Voter's Guide to the Next President and the coauthor of The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008. He has covered six presidential elections, including during his decade as the political director for ABC News. He lives in Manhattan. Halperin will present Tuesday's keynote at 10 a.m. His book will be available for sale prior to and after his keynote address. He is scheduled to be available to autograph the book after his keynote.

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Early Bird Registration Rates

(Through February 9, 2010)

Registration Type

• Student Delegate - $ 95.00 (After 2/9/2010 -- $125.00)
• CMA Member - $ 105.00 (After 2/9/2010 -- $135.00)
• CMA Member (Renewing Now - $90 dues included) - $ 195.00 (After 2/9/2010 -- $225.00)
• Non-member $150 (After 2/9/2010 -- $180.00)

Media Pro Workshops

Find out more about the workshops by CLICKING HERE

SATURDAY

• Photo Prep for Print and Web (9 a.m.-11:30 a.m.) (Early Bird $39/Regular $59)
• Audio Editing with Audacity (12-2:30 p.m.) (Early Bird $39/Regular $59)
• Multimedia Storytelling with Soundslides (3-5:30 p.m.) (Early Bird $39/Regular $59)
• Photojournalism Techniques and Digital Photo Workshop (9 a.m.-5:30 p.m.) ($59/$79)
• Narrative Storytelling with Pulitzer Winner Tom Hallman (9 a.m.-4 p.m.) ($59/$79)
• Newsroom Management for Newspaper Editors (9 a.m.-1 p.m.) ($39/$59)
• Web Publishing with Content Management System (2-5 p.m.) ($39/$59)
• Society for News Design Quick Course (9 a.m.-5 p.m.) ($59/$79)
• Multimedia Storytelling (9 a.m.-5 p.m.)($59/$79)

SUNDAY

• New Media Coverage of Events – Breaking and Planned (9 a.m.-1 p.m.) ($39/$59)

MONDAY

• Code Breaking (8 a.m. to 12 p.m.) ($39/$59)

Tentative workshops scheduled for March 13, 2010- Please see the convention program for more information. Select the workshops you will be attending. Plan carefully -- no refunds will be made but substitutions are permitted. Act now as workshop space is limited.

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Planning Guide

Use our forms to help you plan you and your students needs for registration and hotel registration. For the CONVENTION REGISTRATION FORM CLICK HERE. The Early Bird Special rates are good through February 10, 2010.

For the HOTEL REGISTRATION FORM CLICK HERE. Special room rates are good through February 19, 2010.

Downloads as PDFs.

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Convention Hotel

Click here to learn more about the Marriott Marquis Hotel at Times Square.

JUMP ONLINE NOW and book your room at the Marriott online at very special CMA rates. These special rates extend through February 19, 2010, so act quickly in reserving your rooms.

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Check back at CMAonline for more information about our speakers.

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Media Pro Workshops

This year marks the return of the popular and educational Media Pro Workshops, taught by some of the leaders worldwide in the art and craft of media.

Six pre-convention workshops will be launched Saturday, March 14, including some that will be offering hands on training using CMA's new mobile computer lab as part of CMA's Digital CAMPUS initiative. And, for the first time, CMA will sponsor an advisers' workshop on New Media Essentials to better equip advisers on how to provide leadership and training for the newsroom of the future.

Half-day workshops are $39 each and full-day workshops are $59 each. Registration numbers are limited so register soon to ensure availability. The price for workshops goes to $59 and $79, respectively, after February 9, 2009, provided space is available.

Workshop registrations are on a first come, first served basis. Some restricitons may apply.

Find out more about the workshops by CLICKING HERE

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Give a helping hand: Volunteer for Critiques

It is time for advisers to consider volunteering to critique student media at the CMA Spring Convention in New York City. Critiquers for newspapers, magazines and yearbooks are needed on Sunday, March 14, and Monday, March 15, 2009.

The critiques are done in half-hour-session, cold-read critiques. Volunteers can do as many or as few as they have time or the desire to do them, said Bill Neville, interim critiques chair.

To volunteer to critique:

1. Decide which day or days you want to work, either Sunday afternoon or Monday morning.
2. Decide at which times you want to work, ie., which half-hour session(s) you can do critiques.
3. E-mail Bill Neville with your preferred days and times.

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