WKU Hosting Regional
Journalism Conference April 2-3

March 25, 2004

Bowling Green, Ky. - Student journalists from Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois will visit Western Kentucky University April 2-3 for the Society of Professional Journalists' Region 5 Conference.

The conference, hosted by WKU's School of Journalism and Broadcasting, begins with registration and a reception at 5 p.m. April 2 at Mass Media and Technology Hall.

The program on April 3 includes sessions on writing, photojournalism, community journalism and broadcast news reporting as well as an awards luncheon. All events are at Mass Media and Technology Hall.

Session panelists include weekly newspaper editors and publishers from Franklin, Greenville, Morgantown, Hartford; television reporters from Nashville, Tenn.; and newspaper reporters from Louisville, Lexington, Jackson, Miss., and Orlando, Fla.

For more information, contact Jim Highland at (270) 745-5837. More WKU news is available on the World Wide Web at www.wku.edu. If you'd like to receive WKU news via E-mail, send a message to WKUNews@wku.edu.

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