NorCal Media Day 2024

Registration is closed for NorCal Media Day.

We’ve had an overwhelmingly positive response to NorCal Media Day, and we are unable to accommodate any more participants this year. We will not be taking any registrations at the event and we will not accept walk-ins.

As we plan for NorCal Media Day 2025, we will look into ways of accommodating a larger number of participants.

Although we know you’re disappointed that you cannot bring students to this event, we hope advisers and other JEANC members will join us for our annual Teach-In on Jan. 18 in San Luis Obispo. Be sure to mark your calendars now and look for more details in the coming months, both on a JEANC-member E-blast and on our website.

Please join us for NorCal Media Day — from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024 — at Palo Alto High School, sponsored by the Journalism Education Association of Northern California.

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 conventions in Philadelphia (Nov. 7-10) and Seattle (April 24-26) this school year.

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 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 a captivating visual story. Regardless of whether you’re working on a magazine, yearbook, broadcast, website, social media, podcast or newspaper staff, you’ll hear from experienced advisers and students as well as experts in the field who can help you and your staff improve for the 2024-25 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. with four sets of sessions to follow, starting at 10 a.m. Plan on attending one each session or stepping away at some point in the day for a publication critique — so bring copies of your latest and sign up in advance to secure for a chat with an expert, or check-in at the critique desk when you arrive to see if there are any available spaces.

DETAILS

• Conference FAQs: Check here to see if your question has already been answered.
• Session Proposals: Let us know if you or your students would like to present a session. (Read our Guide to Good Presenting here.)
• Volunteer: Want to volunteer to provide a critique, host a promotional table or volunteer in some other capacity? Use the same form.
• JEANC Membership: Click here to learn more about JEANC membership and to join or renew your membership.
• Registration: Click here to register. You must be a current JEANC member to register. (See above.) Scholastic journalism professionals should register through the Volunteer form.

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 this Google map. 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.

Updated on Sept. 25 at 11:26 a.m. to add that registration to this event is now closed.