Journalism students at Charles Sturt University (CSU) will produce a daily newspaper for the Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers’ Association (PANPA) annual conference – PANPA ’08 – on Queensland’s Gold Coast from Monday 8 to Wednesday 10 September.Mr Chris McGillion, senior lecturer in journalism at the CSU School of Communication, congratulated the students on winning the job to produce the daily conference newspaper, a first for any journalism school in Australia.
"Producing this newspaper at such an important gathering is further evidence of the high regard in which the CSU journalism course is held nationally," Mr McGillion said.
"The students will create a professional, eight-page, full-colour newspaper from scratch – called PANPAper08 – doing it in under a month. We will then pitch the paper to perhaps the hardest audience conceivable – 500 newspaper executives who represent the best in their fields.
"The venture will benefit our students and the industry; students can pitch their talent to some of the most influential people in newspaper publishing, while industry gets a daily insight into how ‘Generation Y’ views their industry and what it produces."
In 2007, CSU journalism students were the first students to be invited to participate at a PANPA conference. They delivered a presentation outlining what their generation wanted from newspapers of the future.
Seven students selected for the PANPA ’08 conference are Ms Tully Smyth, Ms Kerrie Armstrong, Ms Chi Tranter, Ms Liz Ackroyd, Mr Nathan Dukes, Mr Louis Andrews and Mr Tom Dougherty. They will report on the conference and will be responsible for content, images, design and layout. External production assistance to print the newspaper will be provided by the Gold Coast Bulletin.
CSU journalism student Mr Nathan Dukes said, "I think it’s going to be a lot of fun. I think writing the newspaper is half the challenge. The idea is for us to meet people from the industry and give them an idea of what the next generation want a newspaper to look like.
“It'll be a great opportunity for us to show what we can produce, especially with so many industry leaders and potential employers at the conference."
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