by Bob McGaughey
The annual High School Media Workshop drew 316 students and advisers to Murray State Sept. 26.
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| Andrew Buhler, Jostens, showed students yearbook design ideas in the session Latest Trends in Memory Books.
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The students were from 12 regional high schools. They were Calloway County High School, Carlisle County High School, Murray High School, Graves County High School, Paducah Tilghman, McCracken County High School, Ft. Campbell High School, Ballard Memorial High School, Caldwell County High School, Fulton County High School, Christian Fellowship School and Union City (Tenn.) High School.
MSU president, Dr. Bob Davies, welcomed the students and their advisors to the Curris Center before they participated in sessions conducted by MSU faculty/staff and regional media professionals.
The sessions covered yearbook design and production, advertising sales, photojournalism, feature writing and interviewing, sports writing, TV production, public relations, opinion writing, website design and careers in the media.
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| Dr. Bob McGaughey shared his experience in the session on Feature Writing and Interviewing.
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In the high school yearbook competition, the staff of the Ft. Campbell Falcon won 10 awards including first place for sports feature, non-sports feature, sports section, school life section and cover design to win the best overall yearbook title. Its staff also had two second-place awards, one third and one honorable mention.
The Caldwell County Tiger took second place for sports section, cover design and in the best overall competition.
The Union City (Tenn.) Tornado was third in the overall competition and the Fulton County Pilot finished fourth overall.
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| Chris Haynes (standing, left) helped high school students gain hands on control room experience in the TV Studio Production super session.
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In the television production/programming competition, Calloway County High School won 11 awards, including first-place for best sports package, best sports program, best news feature and best digital short program.
Graves County High School won first place for best news/feature package while Mayfield High School took second place for news/feature. Graves County had two entries tie for third in the digital short category while Murray High finished fourth.
In the newspaper competition, three schools dominated the awards, according to high school workshop director, Leigh Wright. They were Calloway County, Paducah Tilghman and Graves County.
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| Ryan Alessi (standing) demonstrates a point in the On-camera Presentation and Interviewing super session. The super session concept was used to handle the large number of students interested in TV production.
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The Calloway County Laker Review won 25 awards, including first place for feature writing, reviews, personality profiles, editorial and opinion pages, sports design and overall newspaper design.
The Paducah Tilghman Bell won eight awards, including first place for photography and best column.
The Graves County Eagle’s Eye had 14 awards, including first place for news writing and feature design.
Graves County High School was judged to have the best website.
The annual one-day workshop is conducted by the MSU Department of Journalism and Mass Communications and co-sponsored by the Arthur J. Bauernfeind College of Business, the MSU Office of Regional Outreach and the MSU Office of Recruitment.
