CBI Conference Registration Now Open
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The largest and best student media convention is now accepting registrations for its annual fall conference! ~2,250 students and advisers get it! They will converge in Louisville this October for the National College Media Convention! Register now and order a CBI T!
This is not about homogenization, rather learning about our differences, sharing our plights, sharing and most importantly learning from each other. You will come back re-energized and with lots of new ideas and a few new friends. See the convention page for details.
Sessions Announced for CBI Fall Convention!
CBI is very pleased to announce the lineup of sessions for the Fall Conference in Louisville this coming October. There are over 80 sessions and events planned just by CBI. Together with ACP and CMA, there are over 400 at the largest student media annual convention in the nation! With well over 2000 people attending each year, there will be plenty of opportunities to meet your peers from across the nation and to network outside of the sessions. We are also working on a career fair for those so inclined. Employers, now is the time to contact CBI to reserve your space and help meet your EEO requirements! The convention is at the Galt House which is located a short (enclosed and air conditioned) walk from shopping and all types of dining, including quiet cafes, ethnic restaurants, bourbon lounges, casual eateries, and popular national chains. Keep the energy going outside the convention. The Fourth Street Live! entertainment district is just up the street.
For hotel rates, registration fees and other information about the convention, please see the Fall Convention Page.
There is also a facebook page for the CBI Fall Conference! Become a fan today!
And now for the list of sessions!*
National Student Media Career Fair in Louisville, KY
National Student Media Career Fair
Saturday, October 30, 2010
8:30a.m. to Noon
Galt House Hotel,
140 N 4th St.
Louisville, KY
Employer pre-registration is required! Please use registration form (PDF).
Media recruiters will conduct 20-minute interviews with students who have submitted resumes and/or portfolios.
Recruiters can seek candidates for both internships and job openings. Only those students who submit resumes and have their names posted for interviews may participate in the Career Fair. Recruiters will have resumes/portfolios in hand on Friday morning and will have the opportunity to select which students they wish to interview.
Cost: $75.00 (which includes boxes to collect resumes, lunch for up to two recruiters on Saturday and a table for each recruiter to conduct interviews).
About Us: The National Student Media Convention is an annual convention. Three large student media organizations, College Media Advisers, Associated Collegiate Press and College Broadcasters, Inc. join forces for the largest student media conference in the United States. College student media (newspaper, magazine, television, radio and online) advisors and their students from across the nation gather to attend sessions and network with each other.
CBI is now accepting session proposals for the Fall Conference!
Galt House - Home of the 2010 Fall National College Media Convention with CBI, CMA and ACP
CBI is a member driven organization that provides learning opportunities for its members through various means including two annual conferences, email lists, twitter, facebook and legal initiatives before the FCC, Copyright Royalty Board, and US Congress in matters relating to broadcasting, cable, and Internet (including webcasting) on behalf of its members and future members.
The next (and largest) conference will be held in late October in Louisville! For anyone involved with electronic student media, this is a must attend event as CBI partners with College Media Advisers (CMA), and Associated Collegiate Press (ACP) to produce the 2010 National College Media Convention.
CBI handles the electronic (broadcast, cable, unlicensed station, and Internet) media portion of sessions and events. As the coordinator of these sessions and events, CBI now accepting proposals for sessions. CBI is also accepting proposals for “Track Chairs” who will volunteer to coordinate a series of sessions of concern to members in specific areas. The general call for proposals can be viewed by clicking here.
To submit a session proposal or to become a Track Chair, click here.
To see general information about the convention and the great hotel rates, click here.
CBI is also collecting submissions for its annual Nation Student Production Awards! Details to be posted soon!
If you are interested in exhibit space or other sponsorship opportunities, please contact willr@rice.edu or call 713-348-2935.
Robert Windrem – Download
Robert Windrem, Senior Producer, Investigations Unit, NBC Nightly News delivered a wonderful session concerning tools available to do quality research. A full description of the session, as it apppeared in the program is below. Robert stressed that these tools allow you to go beyond the obvious and gather information to ask substanitive questions of sources and to find leads for new stories.
You may download the documents he used to demonstrate some of the valuable tools available.
Beyond Google – Knowing the Unknowable
Our thanks to Robert for bringing this great presentation to the CBI conference and for sharing these valuable resources!
Title: Research Skills for the Investigative Journalist
Description: With the right tools and skills, student journalists can do quality investigative reporting. Emmy-award winning producer and investigative journalist Robert Windrem will show attendees readily available resources, many of them free, that students and advisors use to for investigative stories on campus, local, and state issues.
Presenter: Robert Windrem, Senior Producer, Investigations Unit, NBC Nightly News
Tours of Bloomberg, WFAN and Fresh 102.7!
CBI has li
ned up tours for the Bloomberg facilities, WFAN and Fresh 102.7 during the spring convention to be held next week (March 14-16, 2010). The latter two tours will be led by well known air personalities and will be limited to 5 people! This is a rare opportunity and worth far more than the convention registration fees! Don’t tell anyone, but we also expect to have a tour of the ABC-TV times square studios! Contact the CBI Executive Director (Will Robedee) via the contact page today to reserve your space on these tours. You will need to provide your own transportation (but in NYC, that should not be a problem!).
Keynote and going home
The Keynote for the last day John Burnett. He did a great job in his speech. If you left early you have no idea what you missed out on. Mr. Burnett is a from NPR. He talked about some of the big stories that he covered like going to Iraq for a while and traveling through there. He shared his experience of Hurricane Katrina which he thought would just be another hurricane. This one turned out unlike any other. Then he talked about covering the war at the Mexican American boarder. He summed up the stories and gave details like a reporter would and since that is my field of study it was really inspiring to hear.
I got the chance to talk to him after and I told him what I wanted to do. I told him that I would love to do what he is doing and be able to just pick up and go to Iraq and cover a story. I also told him that I wanted to be able to travel and do a documentary on something like poverty. He told me how he got started and how I should not just expect to be able to pick up and leave, especially since I will be the newbie in the business. Many need to start out at the bottom and work their way up, which I expected. Just shows what a lot of hard work can do.
Anyways, it was a great way to end the conference. Congrats to all finalists and winners in the Pacemaker Awards. Good luck and have a safe trip back home!
critiques
I went to a session today, almost on accident which turned out to work to my benefit. The advisor did not show up to the original session I planned on attending so I jumped over to another session that was held. It was critiquing others production samples and DJing styles. I thought it was very interesting. Just hearing what everyone else around the country is doing. One of the girls who was brought on as a guest DJ to one of the FM stations did a fantastic job. I honestly thought that she was a co-host and then I found out she just won a contest to be on air it was crazy. She did awesome. She was so confident and hyped up about what she was doing. It was refreshing to hear.
Another guy came in from NC. He brought in a lot of the production samples. The techniques they used worked really well. Their effects added a lot to their station whether it was lines, ID’s, or whatever…it was good. They also used an example with a great band they had on so safe to say, I will be contacting Nova Stella ASAP and I’m listening to them as I’m writing this. They were great.
Another great sample that I heard was from Ithaca. For their “rush”, which would be our recruitment day, they made a promo that said everything that they did at the station. Usually, our station just gets up and gives a speech about what we do but this station is taking that next step and actually incorporating what they really do at the station into their “rush”. I thought that was a really good idea. They had their liners, a few examples of promos and things like that in the tape with a little bit of their history. GREAT IDEA!
Everyone have a fun and SAFE Halloween and see you at the closing tomorrow!
The Last Day
It’s our final full day in Austin. So far I’ve been to two round table discussions for radio: Traffic and News.
The traffic session turned out to be very beneficial. Contrary to what I thought, it wasn’t about congested highways and construction, but rather about the traffic within a station and who controls what is played when. It was interesting to hear that other stations have specific directors that have the job of programing everything, like the PSAs, music, sales ads, etc. At 89.1 the Point the job of scheduling is broken in to little bits that everyone takes part of. DJs have to make playlists, the Sales Director schedules sales ads, and Production schedules promos and PSA, with the Programming director overseeing it and making sure everything is cool.
The next session I went to was the News roundtable for radio. A few of us talked about the differences in our departments, which was cool. A lot of other stations do feature news shows and broadcasts, compared to our station’s 2 minute hard news reports. I found out that every station seems to have the problem of motivating their news department, so we brainstormed for a bit on how to get everyone more involved.
Something that was discussed at both roundtables was software called i Media Touch. This program records everything that goes over air digitally and separates the voice sections from music as well, from what I could understand. We don’t have anything like this really, so I definitely want to look into it!
I’m just hanging out now with Christy as the session we wanted to go to (How To Make A Promo When You Aren’t Creative) was cancelled. We’re hoping our next session (Rock and the Vote) will still be scheduled at 2:30! After that I plan on going back to the hotel and catching up on all the homework and election night coverage stuff that I’ve ignore the past few day, then Christy, Koz , and I are off to an Austin Stars hockey game! Should be a blast!!!
Happy Halloween everyone!
making the best first impression
So, I went to this session today on making the best first impression on a job interview or just in general to future employers. Great session. The session taught us everything from where to put your hands after you give a handshake, to how to sit during the interview. These are things that not many of us think about when we are at the interview. It was extremely helpful. Let me give you a quick rundown of what we covered:
Alright, so starting off with a firm handshake, we all want to know what to do after. So do this right now… stand up. Place your feet in line with your shoulders and make sure you aren’t toppling over. Put your elbows to your sides so it kind of looks like you are holding candlesticks. Then, just touch your fingertips together. YOU ARE ALLOWED TO MOVE YOUR HANDS, just don’t make your arm motions too wide or extreme.
Another thing that I heard was girls, we are not allowed to cross our legs. This is going to be hard for me I am not going to lie. I cross my legs all the time. I’m a girl and the girls can back me up… its a habit. Also, sit all the way back so you aren’t slouching.
It is the little things that we do not think of that we should do.
She also gave an example of a student who originally got booted out of the running for a job. Turns out the guy that got the job in the first place did not take it. The employer then called Jason back. Jason came in with something along the lines of telling the employer they realized that they made a mistake about letting him go. It was not those words! I’m guessing you do not want to say that to a possible employer but along those lines. The little cockiness and confidence that he had landed him that job.
Alright now that I bragged about that one so much, I also went to a session about fixing our station. I would reccommend these to anyone. I am a radio girl and it was great. Critiquing our website and just our station in general gave us a lot of ideas.
Finally, Congrats to all the finalists and winners for the CBI awards!
Remember: tomorrow is the last day so make the best of it!
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