Members of the Branding Iron editorial board will be traveling to New York City during Spring Break to participate in the College Media Association Conference from March 11-14. No time will be wasted and no funds will be wasted.
The CMA Conference is an excellent opportunity for the Branding Iron staff to improve their journalistic skills and interact with college newspapers across the U.S. This experience will provide us with invaluable experience that will help us to produce the highest quality paper for you, our readers. This trip is the opportunity of a lifetime and will not be taken for granted by any of us.
We will get the opportunity to attend an exorbitant amount of sessions where we will get to learn about journalism in the current day and age, and what we should be doing to provide the best content in our newspaper and online section.
Editors will be required to attend as many workshops as possible in order to not only grow as individual journalists, but to bring the knowledge back to Laramie with them. Workshop topics range from reporting during the Trump administration to what it means to be an effective Editor in Chief and everything that falls in between. The members of the editorial board that will be attending the conference hope to learn valuable lessons to bring back to our writers.
To ensure that we are learning the material well enough to bring home, we will be preparing presentations of the content covered so that we may share our experience with others. We plan to show these to our writers on Fridays at some point during our weekly budget meetings so that we are able to grow as an entire paper from the knowledge gained from this opportunity.
Our editorial board is filled with students from different backgrounds and majors. However, this does not mean that students majoring in journalism or communications are the only ones who will benefit from this opportunity.
As mentioned before, there are many different topics being covered at this conference, with many being deeply involved with politics. It just so happens that we not only have two editors who are political science majors, but that we also have many student writers who are as well. We believe that all of these students will be able to benefit from the knowledge gained.
For example, they will be able to take away how the media covers politics. In a vitriolic environment between the media and politicians, seeing the relationship from both sides of the equation can help provide clarity and understanding for those who study both politics and media. We hope to take this knowledge and apply it to the Branding Iron and how we report on such topics.
