Special events

Break with a Pro

9 and 10 a.m. Friday • $5
Registration deadline: April 7
Online preregistration required.

Tailored, small-group discussion sessions with journalism professionals in traditional and specialized areas. Media professionals share information about their work and backgrounds. This career exploration event is an excellent opportunity to meet people working in the fields.

Break with a Pro sessions categories —

Broadcast sports
Copy editing
Design and art direction
Feature writing
Music, arts and culture reporting
News writing
Opinion writing
Photojournalism
Podcasting
Public relations
Social media
Sports writing
TV news
Videography 

Students should develop questions on career-preparation requirements, nature of work, salary-level expectations, job availability and how to handle issues as a student journalist.

Media Swap Shops

8 and 9 p.m. Friday • Free
Registration deadline: April 7
Online preregistration required.

Meet with students from other publication staffs to share with one another and to gather new ideas.

Media Swap Shop categories —

Broadcast
Literary magazine
Newsmagazine
Newspaper
Online
Yearbook

Bring at least nine copies of recently published newspapers, newsmagazines or literary magazines to exchange. Yearbook participants should bring one copy of the most recently published work to show and, if they choose, enough to exchange. Students with online media and social media efforts and broadcast participants should bring a laptop to show your work and bring notecards with your media URLs to exchange.

These one-hour sessions are conducted as round tables with 10 students, each from a different school.