The Associated Press Sports Editors will return to Hampton University’s Scripps Howard School of Journalism & Communication on Wednesday, Nov. 11.
APSE’s Day of Diversity with emphasis on multimedia at the Hampton, Va., school will start at 10 a.m.
Students will learn from APSE members what tools today’s journalist needs to enter the workforce.
“This is an opportunity for APSE to live its diversity by interacting with students from a Historically Black University,” said Garry D. Howard, Assistant Managing Editor/Sports at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and President of APSE.
“For the students, it will certainly be an opportunity to meet, greet and work with some of the best sports journalists in the country in Jemele Hill of ESPN, Deborah Barrington of USA Today, Lynn Hoppes of ESPN and my good friend Emilio Garcia-Ruiz of The Washington Post.”
“Phil Kaplan has done a wonderful job putting this together for the second straight year,” added Howard, “and he knows that in the end, the students are the winners.”
Scripps Howard Foundation will award two paid internships for Hampton students for the summer of 2010 to work at APSE member newspapers.
“It’s gratifying to know that the program we co-hosted with APSE last year has grown into a stand-alone event,” said Sue Porter, vice president of programs for the Scripps Howard Foundation. “Having APSE at the school has created greater awareness and interest in sports journalism careers among the students, which will surely help diversify the profession.”
At APSE Day, editors and writers from ESPN, The Washington Post, The Virginian-Pilot, Richmond Times-Dispatch, USA Today and The Daily News Press will discuss careers in journalism and multimedia.
Richmond Times-Dispatch vice president and executive editor Glenn Proctor will deliver the welcome address to the student body at Hampton.
The morning session will be led by Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, Local editor of The Washington Post and the newspaper’s former sports editor. Panelists for the session are Jemele Hill, columnist and television personality for ESPN; Lynn Hoppes, senior director of Page 2 and commentary for ESPN.com and former APSE president; Deborah Barrington, senior editor at USA Today; and Nick Mathews, sports editor of The Daily Press.
A lunch and learn session will follow hosted by APSE members answering students’ questions. The Richmond Times-Dispatch, The Virginian-Pilot, USA Today and The Daily Press helped underwrite the lunch.
Workshop sessions with students will take place after lunch with the emphasis on multimedia. Panel members from the morning will be joined by Jamar Hudson, associate editor for NFL at ESPN.com; Colleen McDaniel, sports editor of the Virginian-Pilot; Maria Carillio, managing editor of the Virginian-Pilot; Marisa Porto, managing editor for online at the Daily Press; Diane Cebula, photographer at the Daily Press; Danny Finnegan, senior editor at the Richmond Times-Dispatch; and Phil Kaplan, deputy sports editor of the Knoxville News Sentinel and APSE first vice president.
APSE is committed to diversity in APSE member newsrooms and continues to focus on grass roots efforts like this.
APSE helps fund the Sports Journalism Institute, which helps train young journalists and works with the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ). SJI, which began in 1993, has more than 120 graduates who have gone on to work at newspapers throughout the country.
For more information on APSE’s Day of Diversity, contact Phil Kaplan at kaplanp@knoxnews.com or at 865-342-6285
