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December 7, 2006
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Meetings of the New Jersey
Newspaper in Education and Youth Readership
Committee are held at the New Jersey Press
Association's offices: 810 Bear Tavern Road, Suite 307, West Trenton, N.J. 08628. Our phone
number is (609) 406-0600 (dial 19 for the
foundation director or zero for the
receptionist).
The NJPA offices are located in
the Mountain View Office Park, which is adjacent
to Exit 2 of Interstate 95 in central New Jersey
... less than two miles north of the Delaware
River bridge (the Scudders Falls Bridge) linking
New Jersey and Pennsylvania. (this is
NOT exit 2 of the New Jersey Turnpike, which is
just north of the Delaware Memorial Bridge
leading to/from I-95 in the state of Delaware)
When leaving I-95 at Exit 2,
turn left at the top of the exit ramp. Then turn
right at the first traffic signal to enter the
Mountain View Office Park.
Our offices are on the third
floor of Building 840, which is clearly marked on
the top of the building.
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the address above.
Agenda for the December 7, 2006,
Meeting
Meeting will begin at 10:30
a.m. at the New Jersey Press Association
headquarters in West Trenton, N.J.
Approval of Minutes from the
October 5, 2006, meeting.
Business to be Discussed:
-- Update on the Thomas Paine
biography, to be published for distribution in
September 2007 by NJNF
-- NIE Week activities or Read
Across America
-- Mid-Atlantic regional
conference attendance and workshops
Agenda for the October 5, 2006,
Meeting
Meeting will begin at 10:30
a.m. at the New Jersey Press Association
headquarters in West Trenton, N.J.
Approval of Minutes from the
August 3, 2006, meeting.
Business to be Discussed:
-- Update on the Thomas Paine
biography, to be published for distribution in
September 2007 by NJNF. Three newspapers have
signed up to participate so far. Question 1:
Which other papers will participate? Question 2:
Which ones want the tab version and which ones
want the serialized version?
-- Participation at the NJNF
booth at the New Jersey Education Association
convention November 9-10 in Atlantic City.
Question 1: Which committee members will come to
the convention and what days/hours will they be
at the booth to meet with teachers? Question 2:
Which newspapers will be providing promotional
materials to be displayed on the backdrop panels
at the booth? Those materials (11 X 17 maximum)
will be laminated and affixed to the booth
display backdrop by NJNF.
-- Printing the Read for Life
poster featuring Miss New Jersey. Question 1:
Which newspapers want to be listed on the front
of the poster? Question 2: Would one newspaper
volunteer to print the poster, with the printing
bill paid by NJNF? Note that graphic design will
be done by the North Jersey Media Group and a PDF
of the poster will be provided to the printer.
The poster will be autographed by the 2006 Miss
New Jersey at the New Jersey Education
Association convention.
-- Printing the updated roster
of NIE & Youth Readership Committee members.
Question 1: Which newspapers want to be included
in this roster, to be distributed at the New
Jersey Education Association Convention. Question
2: Would one newspaper volunteer to print the
roster?
-- Articles about youth
readership and NIE for future issues of InPrint.
Question: Which committee members will write
articles?
-- Mid-Atlantic Regional
Conference, summer of 2007 in New York State.
Question: Which committee members would be
interested in helping put together a session for
that conference, which is a sequel to the
conference our committee operated this May in
North Wildwood.
-- World Association of
Newspapers Conference.
Lunch delivered at
approximately 11:30 a.m. (courtesy NJNF)
Adjournment at approximately 1
p.m.
Next meeting: Thursday,
December 7, 2006
Agenda for the August 3, 2006,
Meeting
Meeting began at 11 a.m. at the
New Jersey Press Association headquarters in West
Trenton, N.J.
The following people in the
photo below attended the meeting:
From left: Steve Gondelman, The
Press of Atlantic City; Chris Yatchshyn (guest
from the Bucks County Courier Times, representing
the Pennsylvania NIE Committee); Jackie
Mickelburgh, The Star-Ledger, Newark; Antonette
Bomentre-Walter, Burlington County Times; Tom
Engleman, NJNF Program Director; Aamir Musharraf,
Home News Tribune, East Brunswick; Cynthia
Forster, The Record (Bergen County); Shirley
Sasor, Hunterdon County Democrat; Cathie DeFusco,
Daily Journal, Vineland; Kathy Pietras,
Courier-Post, Cherry Hill; Nathan Hale, Herald
News (Passaic County); Gretchen Van Benthuysen,
Asbury Park Press. (Photo by Catherine Langley,
NJPA)
Approval of Minutes from the
June 7, 2006, meeting.
Old Business:
- Courage in NJ, the final
wrap-up
- Minority Journalism
Workshop at Monmouth University, the new
administration
- Constitution Day
programming--any update on the First Amendment
- Report from the Garden
State Press Association meeting
New Business:
- Mae Silver, Thomas Paine
Society--Another NewsBook for NJ?
- Report from the national
Young Reader Conference in St. Louis--New ideas,
research findings AND OUR AWARD
- Youth pages--A critique
from St. Louis teens
- Online newspaper
distribution--How one paper works this in Denver
- NJEA Conference--Our
presence November 9-10 in Atlantic City
- Mid-Atlantic NIE &
Youth Readership Conference, September 2007--New
York State as the host?
- Website--Additions of newspaper logos to the
NJReadForLife site
- Future committee meetings--What day of the
week works best for our committee members?
Next Meeting: Thursday,
October 5?
Minutes of the June 7, 2006, Meeting
Attendance: Cynthia Forster,
Steve Gondelman, Tracey DuFault, Sonia Andresson,
Nathan Hale, Jill Murphy, Antonette
Bomentre-Walter, Selina Franklin, Eleanor Novek
(Monmouth University), Chris Yatchschyn
(Pennsylvania NIE Committee), and Tom Engleman
(NJNF).
The meeting began at 11 a.m.
Old Business:
Mid-Atlantic NIE and Youth
Readership Conference - Evaluations from the
conference sessions were distributed, reviewed,
and discussed. Looking ahead to 2007, the
suggestions included operating the conference in
July at a site in the Poconos or southeastern New
York State, with input from the Pennsylvania and
New York NIE committees. If a venue isn't found
by this fall, the conference may be pushed
forward to 2008.
Courage in New Jersey essay
contest - A report was distributed, reviewed, and
discussed. There were nine winners, each of whom
will receive U.S. Savings Bonds of $1,000 for
first-place winners, $500 for second-place
winners and $100 for third-place winners.
Certificates were distributed to those present at
the meeting and will be mailed to other
newspapers, in hopes the papers will have local
ceremonies for their winning students. Contest
judges were NIE coordinators from Pennsylvania,
Virginia and Massachusetts. The committee
suggested that the 2007 contest should tie-in
with the publication of a serialized story or
NewsBook.
Serialized story or NewsBook
for 2006-2007 school year - The Herald News said
it will publish chapters of the "Ditch
Digger's Daughter" twice a week (Tuesdays
and Thursdays) and that the series will tie in
with the author's statewide tour.
NAA Foundation NIE Contest -
Cynthia reported that she mailed information to
NAA before the deadline.
NAA Foundation's NIE and
Youth Readership Conference - The conference is
in St. Louis in July. Cynthia reported she will
facilitate a workshop there and that she will
meet on June 14 and 16 with the NAA Foundation to
review and critique drafts of youth pages.
New Business:
New Jersey contest for youth
pages - Tom said he will find out if the eight
New Jersey youth page editors are interested in
having their own category in the NJPA Better
Newspaper Contest. He suggested that NAA
Foundation may give us their judging criteria.
Cynthia said she would put this on the agenda for
discussion at the next meeting.
Minorities Journalism
Workshop - Tom reported that NJNF will again send
a grant to support the workshop, which is held at
Monmouth University. Dr. Eleanor Novek, director
of the workshop, spoke about the program to the
committee. The journalism workshop is a two-week
program (in July) where high school students
learn every aspect of putting together a
newspaper. The students are recruited in
February and March from high schools across the
state. The goal of the program is to have the
students see the steps to becoming a journalist,
so they can apply to college and major in
journalism. Dr. Novek would like the newspapers
to help keep the students interest peaked after
the workshop is over by allowing the students to
be contributors to youth pages, by having the
students become ambassadors in their schools for
the NIE program and by using the students as
interns at newspapers.
Teachers at Newspapers
Program - Tom reported that one high school
journalism teacher works at a local newspaper for
four weeks in the summer (@ $500/wk). NJNF
underwrites the program (i.e. pays that teachers
salary). Tom suggested that the Committee adopt
the program by submitting nominations to NJNF and
that the newspaper that nominated the winning
teacher actually hire that teacher for the
internship. A motion was made by Cynthia Forster
that the NIE and Youth Readership Committee adopt
the program. The motion was seconded and approved
unanimously.
NJEA Convention - The
convention will be November 9-10 in Atlantic
City. NJPA will have a booth at the
convention and the NIE/Youth Readership Committee
members are invited to come to the convention and
use the booth to advertise their newspapers/
educational programs. Miss New Jersey will be at
the booth to sign Read for Life posters.
Question: Should the committee submit an
application to NJEA to facilitate workshops at
the next convention?
Constitution Day - Tom has
been trying to obtain First-Amendment materials.
It was suggested that if if nothing is received
for Constitution Day in September that the papers
might be able to use materials for the Bill of
Rights Day in December.
Miscellaneous - The
committee will discuss ideas for a statewide
project at the next meeting. One possibility is
using materials from the Thomas Paine Society.
The meeting ended at 1:45
p.m.
Next meeting: August 3, 2006.
Respectfully submitted by: Selina Franklin,
Asbury Park Press
Agenda for the April 5, 2006, Meeting
Meeting will begin at 11 a.m.
at the New Jersey Press Association headquarters
in West Trenton, N.J.
Approval of Minutes from the
February 2, 2006, meeting.
Old Business:
- Planning for the
Mid-Atlantic NIE Conference ... this is the last
meeting prior to the conference on May 4-5
- Courage in New Jersey
essay contest ... please bring your entries with
you to this meeting
- NIE Week ... use of the
template provided by the statewide NIE committee
New Business:
- National Literacy Month
... what plans do we want to make for this
September event?
- Constitution Week in
September ... First Amendment curriculum guide,
posters, other materials
- Celebrate New Jersey ...
is any newspaper participating in this project?
- NAA Awards ... do we want
to enter the work of the statewide committee?
Next Meeting: Wednesday,
June 7
Agenda for the February 2, 2006,
Meeting
Meeting will begin at 11 a.m.
at the New Jersey Press Association headquarters
in West Trenton, N.J.
Approval of Minutes from the
December 7, 2005, meeting
Welcome new committee
members (including editors of N.J. Teen/Youth
Pages)
New Business:
- Celebrate New Jersey tab
with content from 4th grade students- Karen
Melito
- Changing the name of the
committee to: Newspaper in Education and Youth
Readership Committee
- Consider changes to
By-Laws of the committee to reflect name change (By-Laws
e-mailed on 1/26/2006)
- Finalize plans for the
statewide essay contest in March: Courage in New
Jersey
- Finalize program for the
Mid-Atlantic Regional NIE Conference on May 4-5
- NJPA Circulation
Conference attendance ... contest update and
program plans
- Brief tour of the
"Read for Life" website
- Youth Readership (ASNE
Foundation High School Newspaper Project)
- NIE Week March 6-10 (free
house-ads and Teacher's Guide from NAA
Foundation)
- Entering the Nellie Bly
project in the NAA Foundation's awards
competition.
- So you want to enter your
program in the NAA Foundation's awards
competition? How to do it.
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