Next Advisers Workshop: Summer 2024

Mercer University's Center for Collaborative Journalism and the Georgia Scholastic Press Association will host a High School Journalism Advisers Workshop June 6-7, 2024, at the Center for Collaborative Journalism on Mercer's Macon campus. The workshop itself will be free to attend and will include sessions such as introduction to audio, introduction to photo and video, on writing and editing, crafting story ideas or others.

The workshop will be open to middle and high school teachers in Georgia who currently advise student media publications or who are interested in starting scholastic journalism programs at their schools.

The registration deadline is May 17. Registration is available at this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/137si2cXZks-WdUY3C9wI7fx0nm0oATH96H9Kog0cohg/viewform?edit_requested=true.

A few meals will be provided at no charge. Lodging, travel and other meals are not included. A hotel block has been established at the Hilton Garden Inn Macon Mercer University, 1220 Stadium Drive, Macon, GA 31204, at a rate of $159/night. Visit this website to make reservations by May 22.

Please contact Meg Donahue at Mercer University with any questions.

Previously, Mercer University's Center for Collaborative Journalism and the Georgia Scholastic Press Association hosted a High School Journalism Adviser Workshop in June 2022 at the Center for Collaborative Journalism on Mercer's Macon campus. Sessions were be led by the staff of the CCJ with special guest visual journalist Mark Johnson from the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications.