New faculty student media adviser, Stephanie Elder Anderson, and newly-elected editor-in-chief of The Murray State News, Connor Jaschen, attended the College Media Association (CMA) and the Associated Collegiate Press (ACP) summer workshop in July in Minneapolis.
The workshop provided hands-on training, critiques, an idea forum and resource room giving attendees the opportunity to spend one-on-one time with the workshop’s speakers and instructors to examine coverage issues, learn digital processes, develop newsroom policies, critique portfolios and resumés, discuss newsroom management as well as the direction the student publications would like to explore in the future.
Jaschen and Elder Anderson spent four days learning their new roles and interacting with advisers and EICs from around the country. The training allowed the two to bring new ideas back to Murray State.
“The CMA/ACP conference really helped me learn how to lead the newsroom,” Jaschen said. “I got the chance to connect and figure out ways to help our organization across the board.”
The leadership track for editors focused on audience analysis, content, management, leadership, engagement and media law.
“It was a once in a lifetime opportunity that I would recommend for any student in journalism,” Jaschen said.
The adviser’s training focused on how to manage, recruit, train and motivate millennials and what advisers need to know about technology, media law, ethics, campus relationship and the business side of the business.
Elder Anderson also earned the College Media Association’s adviser certification.
