Bill Greene, a Boston Globe photographer whose specialty is multi-media work, described how journalism has changed, is changing now, and could change even more in the future.
“Delivering the truth promptly will let journalism live on,” he said.
Greene gave the keynote speech Friday, May 2 at Boston University’s College of Communication during the New England Scholastic Press Association’s 60th annual conference.
Speaking to more than 650 school journalists and their teachers representing all six New England states, Beam said that 40 years ago, people got their news from five sources: Channels 4, 5, 7, the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald.
“The pie was cut into fifths,” he said. “Now the pie is in tiny pieces.”
Now, he said, there is a deadline “not every day but every minute.”
“Print circulation has been cut in half,” Greene said, but he emphasized that journalism is definitely not dead and urged his listeners to keep changing with the field and to build versatility in communicating through a range of media.
Also at the conference, other professional journalists, Boston University faculty and advisers gave workshops.
Among those from the professional press were Jon Amorosino, sports director at Channel 7; Alicia Blaisdell-Banon and Susan Moeller, editors on the Cape Cod Times; Barbara Findlen, managing editor of Disney’s FamilyFun magazine; and John Lenger, director of Harvard University’s office of news and public affairs.
Along with Prof. Lou Ureneck, the chair of the journalism department at College of Communication, faculty gave sessions on topics including multimedia communication, news writing, photojournalism in the digital age, public relations, web sites’ roles in news publications and writing for publication.
Advisers on the program represented award winning magazines, newspapers and yearbooks.
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For his innovative work in the school press, the New England Scholastic Press Association presented George Abbott White with the Robert Baram Award.
With this award, the Association honors distinguished advisers from this region who have helped students raise their sights and their standards in the practice of school journalism.
The award is named for Robert Baram, founder and for 46 years the executive director of the Association. Mr. White has taught in the Newton Public Schools since 1970 and has advised Denebola and taught journalism since 1989.
At Mr. White’s initiative, school newspapers across Massachusetts collaborated in an innovative project. They worked together to report on the sights, sounds and images of Gov. Deval Patrick’s inauguration. With Mr. White’s efforts and inspiration, school journalists in eight high schools together built the MassYouth Redeye Gazette.
Thanks to Mr. White, the Barnstable High Insight, Algonquin Harbinger, the Lincoln-Sudbury Forum, the Newton North Newtonite, the Newton South Denebola, the Manchester-Essex Independent, the West Springfield Terrier Times and the Westport Villager were invited to cover celebrations over the course of five days at locations around the state. Under Mr. White’s supervision, Denebolaonline.net served as the host for the publication with two Denebola editors, Jason Kuo and Jason Agress, putting the publication together.
Because of Mr. White’s enterprise, the scholastic press took a giant step forward.
Nicholas Paleologos has changed the lives of all public high school journalists in Massachusetts and has provided inspiration to countless others around the United States.
This award of special recognition honors his courage and enterprise on behalf of students’ First Amendment rights.
This year, 2008, marks the 20th anniversary of a law Paleologos sponsored that since 1988 has counteracted the effects of the Supreme Court’s Hazelwood decision.
When the Supreme Court ruled on the Hazelwood case, it was January 13, 1988. By January 27, 1988, Mr. Paleologos, then a state representative from Woburn, filed legislation, H5264, to put Massachusetts back onto the Tinker standard, where students themselves take responsibility for their own expression.
Mr. Paleologos, now the executive director of the Mass. Film Office, had been on his school paper at Woburn High School as its news editor.
After hearings at the Mass. State House, notably one March 24 that more than 100 school journalists and advisers attended, Gov. Michael Dukakis signed the measure into law on Bastille Day, July 14, 1988.
In Massachusetts, this law has kept it possible for students to take responsibility for their own expression.
Mr. Paleologos, moreover, has helped students and teachers nationwide to raise their sights and their standards regionally and nationwide in the practice of school journalism.
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