Join us to celebrate the return of NorCal Media Day on Saturday, Sept. 24, at Palo Alto High School, sponsored by the Journalism Education Association of Northern California. It’s a journalism party!

This event — which is free for all JEANC member advisers and their students — is your one-stop shop for upping your journalism game this year and also as a terrific warm-up for the NSPA/JEA national conventions in St. Louis in November and in San Francisco in April 2023!

Our program includes:

• four sets of 45-minute sessions starting at 10 a.m. and ending at 2:15 p.m.
• During each hour, you and your students can choose from among 15 sessions on everything from how to write a feature story to how to sell an ad to how to design an award-winning visual story.
• Regardless of whether you’re working on a magazine, yearbook, broadcast, web, social media podcast or newspaper staff, you’ll hear from award-winning advisers and students as well as experts in the field who can help you and your staff improve for the 2022-2023 school year.

And lunch is on us!

Check-in for the event starts at 9 a.m. at the school’s inspirational Media Arts Center. A large group introduction will begin promptly at 9:30 a.m.

We’ve moved our popular JEANC contests to the spring and decided to focus our energies on publication critiques — so bring copies of your latest, and sign up in advance for a chat with an expert.

More info below — including FAQs, how to propose a session, and more! We would love to see you there!

DETAILS

• Conference FAQs: Check here to see if your question has already been answered.
• COVID-19 health protocols: We will be following local health officials guidance at the time of the event regarding masking and other Covid-19 safety protocols. Please keep an eye out for updates from JEANC as needed. Participants are asked to remain home if exhibiting any Covid-19 symptoms.
• Session Proposals: Let us know if you or your students would like to present a session. Here’s a speaker bio list of who’s already presenting, and a tentative schedule of their presentations.
• Admission is free to JEANC members and their students. Students must attend with their adviser or a school-authorized adult.
• JEANC Membership: Click here to learn more about JEANC membership and to join or renew your membership.
• Registration: Click here to register!
• Sign up here for a constructive critique from a veteran adviser to help grow your publication!

Directions to Palo Alto High School: Paly — which is what locals call the school — sits at the corner of Embarcadero Road and El Camino Real in Palo Alto, directly across the street from Stanford University and also from the Town and Country Village Shopping Center. The school’s Media Arts Center is at the Northeast corner of the campus, next to the train tracks (and across the street from Trader Joe’s. You can see it on the school’s campus map, in the upper left-hand corner. Many NMD visitors will arrive by Caltrain, getting off at the Palo Alto University Avenue station and walking a quarter mile south along the tracks to reach the school.