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April 3, 2008
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Directions
Most meetings of the New Jersey
Newspaper in Education and Youth Readership
Committee are held at the New Jersey Press
Association's offices: 840 Bear Tavern Road,
Suite 305, 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 (suite 305) of Building 840, which is clearly marked on
the top of the building.
For detailed directions to
NJPA's headquarters, click here or
use MapQuest for
the address above.
Agenda for the April 3, 2008,
Meeting
Meeting will begin at 10:30 a.m. at the New
Jersey Press Association's conference room in West Trenton (see
directions above).
New Business:
1) The Northeast Regional NIE Conference in Mystic, Conn.:
Who is going from N.J.?
2) The National NIE Conference in Phoenix: Who is going from
N.J.?
3) The National Student/Parent Mock Election Partnership: Should
we participate?
4) From Tom Engeman: The NJPF Teachers at Newspapers Program
results
5) From Chris Yatchyshyn (representing the Pa. NIE Committee):
Recap of the e-Edition Seminar in February
6) From Chris Yatchyshyn: America East PowerPoint presentation on
the 2008 election. Also, she will discuss the Abraham Lincoln Celebration,
a possible joint PNA
Foundation/NJPF project.
7) Need for a committee member to monitor the NAA Foundation NIE
list-serve
Lunch ... courtesy of the New Jersey Press Foundation
Old Business:
1) Atlantic City booth this year: Who Will Come? Should NJPF
sponsor this again? Should we add the administrators convention
this year or just do the NJEA convention?
2) Poster ideas for the Atlantic City booth.
3) Status of NJPA "Better Newspaper Contest" recognition of
youth pages for 2009: Whatever happened to that idea?
4) Status of current and future entries for NAA Foundation and
SNPA Foundation awards (for the N.J. NIE & Youth Readership
Committee)
5) Feedback from Thomas Paine serial
6) NIE Sharing: Set up a schedule on topics and presenters for
the next several meetings
7) Youth Readership: Partnering with schools (GSSPA project?)
Meeting will adjourn at approximately 1 p.m.
The next committee meeting is scheduled for Thursday, June 5.
Agenda for the February 7, 2008,
Meeting
Meeting will begin at 10:30
a.m. at the Bucks County Courier Times production facility in
Fairless Hills, Pa. (off of U.S. Route 13, a 10-minute drive from
U.S. Route 1 in Trenton). This is a joint meeting of NIE coordinators and
youth-page editors from New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Click here for directions.
The Program:
Building Youth Readership with Digital Editions
-
Demonstration of the Bucks County (Pa.) Courier Times Digital
Edition - Ed Fischer & Chris Yatchyshyn.
-
e-editions in NIE programs across the nation - Keynote Speaker -
Jim Abbott - NAA Foundation.
- The
Digital Edition and the BCCT NIE Program - Chris Yatchyshyn
(others who have e-editions and use them in their NIE programs
will be invited to describe how their programs work. Chris will
show her NIE Web site and explain how online NIE information and
materials complement the BCCT e-edition.
Lunch
@ Noon
Program Continues:
-
The Research Process/Selecting an e-edition Vendor - Antonette Bomentre-Walter
and George Stevenson from the Burlington County (N.J.) Times
and Liza Mattison from the Allentown (Pa.) Morning Call
- what to ask, what to look for, how to compare, etc.
Open Discussion/Questions and Answers
Adjourn @ 1:30 p.m.
Next Meeting - Thursday, April
3, at 10:30 a.m., at the New Jersey Press Association conference
room in West Trenton.
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