On Thursday, students, with the help of professionals Greg Bilbrey, Nora Maberry, Sean Stangland, Kristina Peters, Matt Daniels, Kristy Mellendorf, David Porter, Alex McNamee and Audrey Sawyer, laid out the eight-page paper, East Side Stories, with articles and reviews from last week’s reporting.
Nora Maberry of the Leader works with Rae Denham and Luke Karmazin on Pages 2 and 5.
Greg Bilbrey works with Christine Schmidt, Sierra Lowe and Kevin Houston on Pages 6 and 7.
David Porter helps Austin Keating and Kapri Burns with the review page.
Kristina Peters helps Kristine Yoon and Javiera Green polish Page 3.
Sean Stangland works on Page One of East Side Stories with Matt Horacek, Terrianna King and Kyle Hess.
Matt Daniels works with Layne Hillesland and Jeni Bergles on design.
Daniela Vidal, Kristy Mellendorf, Eric'el Johnson and Audrey handle all the photos for the issue.
Some journalists share their experiences at the workshop.
An introduction to the town of Oakland, Illinois.
A chat with Coles County Judge Teresa Righter.
A chat with some of the folks at the Little Theatre.
A tour of the Lincoln Home
A look at printing a newspaper.
Students worked on their video stories Tuesday night under the guidance of Jay Grabiec, Audrey Sawyer and Marcus Smith.
Audrey Sawyer and Marcus Smith of EIU work with students on downloading their video.
Matt Horacek and Christine Schmidt work on their video of Oakland, Ill.
Kyle Hess, Daniela Vidal and Jeni Bergles work on their video of the production 'Footloose.'
Luke Karmazin and Terrianna King work on their video of a newspaper production.
Monday through Wednesday, our three-day internships.
Students leave at different times each morning for their trips to internships at daily newspapers around the East Central Illinois area.
A special thank you to the six papers in East Central Illinois who work with our interns:
• Champaign News Gazette
Managing editor: Dan Corkery
Kevin Houston
Terrianna King
Christine Schmidt
• Decatur Herald & Review
Editor: Dave Dawson
Javiera Green
Luke Karmazin
Kristine Yoon
• Effingham Daily News
Editor: Donna Riley-Gordon
Jeni Bergles
Kapri Burns
Austin Keating
• Mattoon Journal Gazette/Charleston Times-Courier
News editor: Penny Weaver
Shivia Hardiman
Kyle Hess
Layne Hillesland
• Robinson Daily News
Editor: Greg Bilbrey
Reggie Hardney
Sierra Lowe
Daniela Vidal
• Taylorville Breeze Courier
Editor: Marylee Lasswell
Rae Denham
Matt Horacek
Eric’el Johnson
Christine Schmidt, Terrianna King and Kevin Houston start their day as interns at the News-Gazette in Champaign, Ill.
On Sunday, we had a picnic and games, courtesy of our counselors and hosts. On Saturday, students toured the Lincoln Home, the State Capitol and Lincoln’s Tomb. Stephen DiBenedetto, an intern at the Chicago Sun-Times, gave them a tour of the pressroom and told them about covering state government.
Luke Karmazin and Eric'el Johnson proved to be pretty competitive in the egg toss, being the last ones with an unbroken egg.
Layne Hillesland films a park ranger prior to the tour of the Lincoln Home in Springfield as Eric'el Johnson takes pictures and Anton Jefferson listens.
Matt Horacek and Austin Keating explore the neighborhood where Lincoln lived while working in Springfield.
Rae Denham takes pictures in the Lincoln Home during the tour.
Rachel Keyes of the Terre Haute Tribune Star and Greg Bilbrey of the Robinson Daily News gave overviews of photojournalism and design to start the morning. Nora Maberry of the Leader in St. Joseph, Amanda Bright of Mattoon, Alex McNamee of the Daily Eastern News and Marco Santana of the Daily Herald in Arlington Heights helped students design their eight-page paper on Oakland. In the afternoon, pressman Tom Roberts showed students how the paper went from production to the press, and they watched the paper, the Breaking ‘New’dles, come off the press about 5 p.m.
Rachel Keyes of the Tribune Star works with Terrianna King and Eric'el Johnson to select photos for Friday's paper. Audrey Sawyer of the Daily Eastern News has been working with the students all week to make sure their photos are ready for production.
Daily Eastern News Editor Alex McNamee advises Kevin Houston and Daniela Vidal on their pages.
Pressman Tom Roberts monitors the color as the pages come off the press. (Photo by Eric'el Johnson)
- Amanda Bright oversees Shivia Hardiman and Kristine Yoon as they design pages.
Austin Keating makes a call to the mayor of Oakland to confirm some information as he copy edits pages.
Jeni Bergles reads the paper as it comes off the press.
Marco Santana of the Daily Herald says goodbye to the students after spending a week with them.After all long day in the newsroom, on Friday night workshop participants bowled in the MKL Union to kick off the weekend.
After a long day in the newsroom, workshoppers hit the bowling alley in the MLK Union to kick off the weekend.
Students traveled to Oakland, Ill., to write stories on the Oakland Noodle Co., the Rutherford House, Mayor Sharon Houchin and Miss Oakland 2011, Stefanie Borntreger. Beth Heldebrandt, features editor of the Mattoon Journal Gazette and the Charleston Times-Courier, Marco Santana of the Daily Herald and Lola Burnham, adviser to the Daily Eastern News were the guest journalists who helped with stories and editing.
Daniela Vidal interviews the owner of the Oakland Noodle Co., after the general tour.
Christine Schmidt films Clarence “Happy” Ethington during a tour of his noodle company in Oakland June 23.
Kevin Houston, Terrianna King and Jeni Bergles interview Oakland Mayor Sharon Houchin at the Meeting House in Oakland.
Kathy Pardi shows Shivia Hardlman, Sierra Lowe and Terrianna King the Rutherford Home.
On Wednesday, students finished their stories from the county courthouse and began learning about another kind of writing, feature writing, from Marco Santana of the Daily Herald, Herb Meeker of the Mattoon Journal Gazette and Dan Hagen, former editor of the Sullivan News-Progress and instructor at the journalism department at EIU. In the evening, they toured the Little Theatre on the Square in Sullivan and saw a production of “Footloose.”
Kristine Yoon, Reggie Hardney and Kapri Burns work on their multimedia reporting package from the Coles County Courthouse. They have to find a story, edit video and sound, and write their news story to accompany the visual images.
Dan Hagen, who reviewed the play "Footloose" for the Sullivan News-Progress, spoke to students about review writing. Here, he and Lisa Green talk about the afternoon's events.
Sierra Lowe, Jesseca Rhymes and Layne Hillesland listen to John Stephens discuss the Little Theater on the Square in Sullivan.
Daniela Vidal tried a new angle during the tour of the Little Theatre in Sullivan.
After the tour, play and actor talk-back, we had ice cream in Sullivan. They opened up just for us!
Covering government is one of the most important things the media do. And covering local government is the primary job of the local media. Journalists Dave Dawson of the Decatur Herald and Review and Rob Stroud of the Charleston Times-Courier joined Marco Santana and Herb Meeker to introduce students to beat reporting. In the afternoon, the groups went to the Coles County Courthouse to meet with Coles County’s State’s Attorney Steve Ferguson, 5th Circuit Judge Teresa Righter, staff from the county clerk’s office and County Treasurer George Edwards. Stories they write will appear in one of their three publications.
Kristine Yoon takes notes during Rob Stroud's discussion of beat reporting.
Rob Stroud of the Charleston Times-Courier talks about beat reporting and covering local government.Layne Hillsland asks about the effect breaking news has on other news of the day, and the reporter's responsibility of what to cover.Kristine Yoon takes notes during Rob's discussion.
Layne Hillsland asks what happens to regular news coverage when breaking news is reported.
Marco Santana of the Daily Herald in Arlington Heights helped students find a focus for their stories on the Coles County Courthouse.
Dave Dawson of the Decatur Herald & Review talks about the nuts of bolts of journalism and covering the community.
Jay Grabiec, a photographer and multimedia journalist, on Monday night gave an overview of multimedia and handed out six video assignments for the week. Each group is responsible for documenting one story through multimedia.
Jay Grabiec shows examples of how still photography can be used with multimedia to create new visual images.
Shi Hardiman, Reggie Hardney and Sierra Lowe listen to Jay Grabiec discuss the basics of composition and capturing images.
Sierra Lowe and Christine Schmidt watched examples of multimedia at a session Monday night.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
These are the words of the First Amendment to the Constitution and part of a talk by journalism law professor James Tidwell Monday to the workshop students. He also discussed other legal issues journalists should know.
James Tidwell listens to a discussion of some speech that is limited by the government.
Matt Horacek adds to the discussion.
Javiera Green prepares for the news discussion Monday in the Student Publications newsroom at EIU.
Professionals from the Daily Herald, the Mattoon Journal Gazette, the Robinson Daily News and Know College helped Assistant Director Lisa Green of the Ft. Wayne (Ind.) Journal Gazette discuss news, interviewing, leads and journalism ethics. Students started the day by reading newspapers and discussing how and why news items get in the paper. Afterward they learned about interviewing, note-taking, research and lead-writing.
Daniela Vidal spends some time with the local newspaper as part of the first day of the summer workshop. Reading the paper is a daily event in the mornings.
Layne Hillsland reads the local paper before the discussion on news begins.
Jeni Bergles learns about the community from the Times-Courier.
Matt Horacek takes notes while he interviews for a profile story.
Sarah Ruholl, a reporter at the Robinson Daily News, and Ardiana Colindres, feature editor for public relations at Knox College, listen to the newsroom discussion.Eric'el Johnson practices interviewing and note-taking for her profile story.
Herb Meeker, a reporter at the Mattoon Gazette, is interviewed by the workshop students as a practice run for their first one-on-one interviews.
Eric'el Johnson practices note-taking and interviewing for her first profile story.
Students in the 2011 IPF/EIU High School Journalism Workshop posed for their first group picture Sunday, June 19, on the campus of Eastern Illinois University. As part of their orientation, they toured the camps, reviewed the two-week agenda and met their counselors and some of the professional staff.
After reading Marquise Brown’s recent post, I wanted to echo his kind words toward the people who made this happen … for everyone: kind teachers, family and professionals.
Tonight is the last night of camp. We just finished stuffing section two into the A section (16 pages) after pressman Tom Roberts printed it for us.
Mellissa Runnion, Esmeralda Moreno, America Cordero, Shelby Jones, Mary Nguyen and Chris Wimbley stuff newspaper in the pressroom.
Linda Romero and Neel Thakkar take over stuffing duties.
After papers were counted and stuffed, Mary Nguyen and Kelsey Smith cleaned the newsroom for the last time in anticipation for family and friends tomorrow. The camp ends with a luncheon on Saturday.
As the journalism camp comes to a close, I have a few final comments I would like to make about the program as a whole. I feel that over these last two weeks I have learned a lot of things that will help me in my future. I’ve never written or edited a newspaper. I am so used to broadcast journalism. I feel now I understand what it takes to work on a newspaper staff.
The people here were overall receptive and open-minded toward each other. Thanks to Kelsey Smith and Sydney Bickers and all of my Bros (Kevin Quin, Chris Wimbley, Neel Thakkar, and Mahir Khan) and the other campers for being such great friends through the time we spent together. I would really like to thank Sally Renaud for allowing me to have the opportunity to work with the Illinois Press Foundation/Eastern Illinois University. I would like to thank my aunt, Felicia Brown, for giving me permission to attend this workshop. I would like to thank Mike Huguelet and Ruth Martin for helping me apply for the workshop. I would like to thank all of the editors and reporters who came out to speak to us about journalism and who gave us tips on how to become better journalists. I would like to also give thanks to Tom Compton, Greg Bilbrey, and Nicole Weskerna for allowing me to intern at the Robinson Daily News. I have experienced the chance of a life time and I hope to experience even more.
I hope that all of my fellow campers do well in their future and I really enjoyed my time spent at Eastern Illinois University.
With Gratitude,
Marquise Brown
Thursday and Friday, aided by professionals Nora Maberry, Matt Daniels, Greg Bilbrey, David Porter, Sean Stangland, Stephen DiBenedetto and Kevin Murphy, students put together two issues of Charleston Lately.
Nora Maberry of the St. Joseph Leader helps her staff edit stories for Page One.
Greg Bilbrey of the Robinson Daily News helps layout the entertainment pages with Kelsey Smith and Whitney Haywood.
Matt Daniels of the Kendall County Record work with Melissa Runnion and Kevin Quin on inside pages.
EIU graduate Stephen DiBenedetto and Marquise Brown edit a story before laying out page 3.
Springfield, Illinois’s capital, is home to many people, including one of the most famous people in American history, Abraham Lincoln. Today, his house still stands, a tribute to his life. People from all over the world have traveled to this house to view this important piece of history.
The Dental Hygiene program at Lakeland Community College has been in operation for over a quarter century. The selective program accepts about 30 applicants each year, with students applying after taking one year of classes at the college. For the next two years, students learn the basics of cleaning and caring for teeth. The students interviewed in this segment are beginning their third semester in the program, treating the general public for the first time.
This video contains footage taken by Mahir Khan and America Cordero during a visit to see “Smokey Joe’s Cafe” at The Little Theatre On The Square in Sullivan, Ill. The group was offered an exclusive tour of the facility by Executive Director John Stephens. On the opening night, we watched the performance from the front rows of the theater, and workshop members wrote reviews and articles after the visit. Please view the video by clicking on the link below!
2010 Eastern Illinois Journalism program went to Lake Land College to interview the cosmetology department. Students interviewed a cosmetology instructor who talked about the different types of programs offered at the college. Students also talked to a cosmetology student who spoke of the benefits of a cosmetology degree and the different skills that can be applied in the field. Students were given a tour of the cosmetology department were they saw students doing hands on learning with their instructors.
Video By: Whitney Haywood, Melissa Runnion, Kevin Quin
