Show Utah Tech Tech P Points West Host iT 9 n At i H i ill T ii DeA DeAnn nn Evans Managing Editor Ernie Ford Managing Editor Deseret News T TV V News Jo o Bruce Lindsay anchorman of Prime Time Access I y l f 4 s r a j J J. J V f J j jf 7 1 i AL i J 1 J A A AWalt Walt Schaffer City Editor Paul Swenson Editor UT Holiday SL Tribune Magazine t A r i e m jt L s 3 r Bruce Lindsay Marian Lindsay Dick Nourse Glen Proctor Se Seminar ninar Chair Chairman nan I I r I w 7 c DeAnn Evans consults with Roselyn Kirk Points West Faculty Advisor 0 V X ii 5 rw i Li K w y k w Glen Proctor consults with Ernie Ford and Larry Landward faculty consultant consul consul- tant for Points West St SJ S i J t J Dick Nourse anchor anchorman nan of Channel 5 TV Eyewitness News First Meeting of College Editors Conference Held at Utah Tech Points West Newspaper in conjunction with Utah Tech sponsored the first conference of the newly formed Utah Chapter of College Newspaper Editors on Thursday February 16 The conference focused on gathering the editors advisors and staff members of Utah's collegiate newspapers together for a day of workshops guest speakers and open open discussion By organizing this conference college editors had the chance to meet and discuss their responsibilities as editors and exchange information about the various publications DeAnn Evans managing editor of the Deseret News was the guest speaker at the opening breakfast meeting Evans spoke about her role as a woman editor and the responsibilities responsibilities responsibilities each writer has when producing a news story Evans said that readers view view the writers of news stories as insensitive and that the responsibility of a story remains remains with the writer Accuracy is another aspect that Evans highlighted in her address Guest speaker Ernie Ford conducted workshop number two Ford is the managing editor of TV News Ford addressed the area of investigative reporting Stressing certain qualities that a reporter needs for investigating a story Ford commented that if you cant can't prove it you cant can't say it Ford is a member of the Probe 5 Investigative team of He cited numerous ways for reporters to obtain information when beginning an investigation Walt Schaffer city editor of the Salt Lake Tribune conducted workshop number three Schaffer encouraged the college editors to learn as many parts of journalism as possible Editors who are seeking careers in journalism should be familiar with all areas of the field This knowledge will help secure better job advancement Dick Nourse and Bruce Lindsay anchormen of TVs TV's Eyewitness News spoke at the afternoon luncheon meeting Nourse and Lindsay conducted an open discussion workshop inviting questions from those attending the conference When asked about bout their most unique or memorable experience as a journalist Nourse commented that his trip to Viet N Nam am during the war not only affected his attitude but gave him the chance chalce to experience a different type of journalism Lindsay comme commented ted that his contact with different people plus the various sites his occupation takes him to were the most memorable in his career Paul Sw Swenson editor of Utah Holiday magazine was the fifth guest speaker at the conference conducted the last afternoon workshop Utah Holiday magazine has mainly lance free-lance writers said With a circulation of readers commented that 58 percent of the funding f for r Utah Holiday comes from advertisers provided the he c conference with another aspect another aspect of journalism Not being directly IY related to to the journalism field told the group about the different types of stories Utah Uta Holiday pursues and the problems a magazine can have Utah Holiday is a monthly publication The editors had had a ch chance nce to meet together r and discuss the various schools school's pu publications ina in ina ina a roundtable discussion workshop During this time editors talked about the different make up of staff me members b rs publication councils and th their ir various responsibilities Advisors to the to-the the student publications were also als present at the conference Future meetings for the have been tentatively set for early fall of 1984 k |