The National Scholastic Press Association has elected three new members to its Board of Directors. They are:<\/p>\n
Ron Johnson:<\/strong> Mr. Johnson is director of student media at Indiana University. He is past president of the College Media Association, the Western Association of University Publications Managers and Kansas Associated Collegiate Press. He taught and directed student media at Kansas State University and Fort Hays State University. He holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Kansas.<\/p>\n Valerie Kibler:<\/strong> Ms. Kibler just finished her 25th<\/sup> year of teaching; for 15 of those years she has been at Harrisonburg High School in Virginia. She teaches advanced placement English Language with an Intensive Journalistic Writing focus, freshman journalism, and Journalism in the Digital Age for the online Virtual High School. She is the 2010 Dow Jones News Fund’s National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year. A 1988 graduate of Virginia Tech, she is currently working toward a master’s degree in journalism education from Kent State University.<\/p>\n Sara Quinn:<\/strong> Ms. Quinn is on faculty at the Poynter Institute, specializing in multimedia innovation and news reading behaviors. She also directs Poynter’s College Fellowship. Quinn has conducted eyetracking research on print, online and mobile news technologies, and leads workshops on multimedia storytelling and news reading. Previously she was a designer, art director and assistant managing editor for visuals at newspapers in Kansas and Florida. She holds a master’s degree in illustration from Syracuse University.<\/p>\n The three join current board members Peter Bobkowski, Tim Dorway, Laura York Guy, Monica Hill, Chris Ison, Seth Lewis, and Ann Visser. Board president is Al Tims, director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153NSPA has built a very strong board that includes some of the most distinguished scholastic and collegiate journalism leaders in the nation,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Tims said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ron, Valerie and Sara will help provide leadership that will assure NSPA will continue as a leader in this field for many years to come.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n The National Scholastic Press Association is a 92-year-old non-profit educational association that provides journalism education services to students, teachers, media advisers and others throughout the United States. In addition to its original mission serving high school journalism, its Associated Collegiate Press division serves college, university and professional and technical school media. Student media in its headquarters state are organized under the Minnesota High School Press Association.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The National Scholastic Press Association has elected three new members to its Board of Directors. They are: Ron Johnson: Mr. Johnson is director of student media at Indiana University. He is past president of the College Media Association, the Western Association of University Publications Managers and Kansas Associated Collegiate Press. He taught and directed student […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/nspa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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