MINNEAPOLIS (April 27, 2007) – Dr. Albert R. Tims, director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota and president of the National Scholastic Press Association, announced today that Logan Aimone has been selected by the association’s board of directors to lead the National Scholastic Press Association as executive director. Logan will begin immediately working with NSPA as a consultant on planning and transition issues and will take office on July 2nd, 2007.
In announcing the appointment, Tims commented that “Logan Aimone brings visionary leadership, high ethical standards and an unflinching commitment to promoting free expression in the student media.”
“NSPA has a track record of strong leadership in scholastic and collegiate journalism, and I am excited to help move this organization forward,” Aimone said. “I look forward to working with high school and college journalists and advisers as well as with NSPA’s partner organizations to enhance current offerings and to build for the future.”
Aimone comes from Wenatchee (Wash.) High School, where he has been a student journalism and English teacher and student publications adviser for 10 years. His publications, the Apple Leaf newspaper and the WaWa yearbook, have won numerous awards during his tenure, including NSPA’s most prestigious publication award, the Pacemaker.
He has served on the Journalism Education Association’s (JEA) awards and certification committees and directed or co-directed the summer journalism workshops for Washington Journalism Education Association (WJEA) from 2000-2006, while teaching and serving as an award judge at many other national workshops and conventions.
In 2005, Aimone was named a Distinguished Adviser by the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, from which he also received a Special Recognition Adviser award in 2002. WJEA honored him as Washington Adviser of the Year in 2005 and Fern Valentine Freedom of Expression Award winner in 2004.
Aimone has a Master of Education in English Education with a focus in Journalism Education from the University of Missouri, Columbia and a B.A. from Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Wash. He received Master Journalism Educator (MJE) certification from JEA in 2005.
About NSPA
NSPA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit membership organization headquartered and incorporated in Minnesota. Memberships for middle school, junior high school and high school student media are organized under the National Scholastic Press Association division of NSPA. Memberships for college, university and professional and technical school student media are organized under the Associated Collegiate Press division of NSPA. Middle school, junior high school and high school student media in Minnesota are organized under the Minnesota High School Press Association division of NSPA. Memberships are open to all student media at public and private schools at an annual membership fee.
Each division of NSPA publishes and provides journalism education materials, media critique and recognition programs for members, information on developments in journalism and student media and a forum for members to communicate with others and share their work. NSPA and its divisions cooperate with student media associations and non-student groups and businesses that share its mission to educate and recognize the work of student journalists, to improve the quality of student media and to foster careers in media.
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