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.
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
FCC Due Dates + Public File

Attorney Cary Tepper has supplied a memo concerning various FCC requirements.

