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Show BYU Holds Student Journalism Meet On Saturday More than 15 guest experts including in-cluding a nationally-honored editor from Colorado will address student stud-ent editors and staffs from inter-mountain inter-mountain high schools and junior colleges in the 17th annual Journalism Jour-nalism Conference at Brigham Young University Nov. 8. Houston Waring, editor of the Littleton, Colo., Independent, will give the keynoteaddress of the conference on The Important Job of a School Newspaper. Mr. Waring War-ing is the founder of the Colorado Editorial Advisory Board and has been honored by the Nieman Foundation Foun-dation and the U.S. State Department De-partment for his editorial leadership leader-ship in community journalism. Specialized talks on all phases of publication work including writing, writ-ing, editing advertising and photography, photo-graphy, are listed for staffs in the conference program sent to schools in the intermountain area. Student reporters will hear Hayes Gorey, city editor of the Salt Lake Tribune, talk on The Meaning of Objectivity in Reporting, Report-ing, and N. LaVerl Christensen, managing editor of the Provo Herald, Her-ald, in Tips for Young Reporters. Feature Writers will hear Les Goates, columnist for The Deseret News, on Newspapers, Columns and Newsmen. Elaine Cannon, Hi-Tales columnist colum-nist for the Deseret News, will talk to co-ed writers on The Woman's Wo-man's World in Journalism, and Bill Coltrin, assistant sports editor ed-itor of the Salt Lake Tribune will brief would-be sports scribes on The Inside of Covering Sports. Business managers of student 'publications will hear What Advertising Ad-vertising Means to You and Your Publication by Wendell J. Ashton, account executive of Gillham Advertising Ad-vertising Agency, Salt Lake City. An illustrated lecture on Better Pictures Plus a Lot of Things Make a Better Yearbook will be presented. Other speakers and discussion leaders to be heard in special sessions ses-sions include Vernon Castleton, Springville, president of Utah County Photographers Association Virgil Wootton, Thornwood Studios, Stud-ios, American Fork; Lester Olsen, and F. M. Steadman, Mimeograph 'division, ZCMI; Leslie Wheeler, 'Provo High School, president of Utah Association of Journalism Directors; and Mrs. Mabel Blay-ney, Blay-ney, Weber High School, vice-president, UAJD. The conference schedule listed in the advance program includes a series of nine round table discussions dis-cussions and workshop sessions in the afternoon periods in addition to seven "shop-talk" sessions to be addressed by visiting experts in the field. As an added feature of the 1952 conference and editor's roundtable for representatives of daily and weekly newspapers in Utah will be held at 11 a.m. following the keynote session. Mr. Waring will speak to the editors on the work- ings of the Colorado Editorial Advisory Ad-visory Board. Harrison Conover, Springville Herald editor, and member of the business committee of the Utah State Press Association, Associa-tion, will chairman the meeting. |