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5, 2001 High school students to compete at Journalism and Broadcasting Day The 63rd annual Journalism and Broadcasting Day will be Saturday, March 10, at Arkansas State University, according to Dr. Joel Gambill, chair of the Department of Journalism and Printing. Students from high schools throughout the state will compete in seven writing contests: news, broadcast news, features, editorials, sports, headlines and radio-TV commercials. Other contest categories are web site design, photography, editorial cartooning, advertising copy and layout, radio-TV announcing, and newspaper copy reading. Medals will be given to all first place winners in the individual contests, and certificates of merit will be given to other contest winners, Gambill said. A sweepstakes plaque will be awarded to the school scoring the most points in the various contests. Plaques will also be given to schools winning second, third and fourth place in the sweepstakes competition. Registration begins at 8 a.m., and the contests start at 9 a.m. The awards ceremony will begin at 2:30 p.m. in the television studio of the Communications Building. The event is sponsored by the College of Communications and six student organizations within the college: Society of Professional Journalists, Public Relations Student Society of America, American Advertising Federation, International Radio and Television Society, Association of Women in Communications, and the Photographic Society of ASU. For more details, contact Dr. Joel Gambill at 870-972-3075. |
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