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Philadelphia Sessions and Speakers

Here’s a preliminary list of some of the sessions accepted so far! Expect a full lineup in September.

  • From transcript to archive: Putting coding agents to work on your newsroom records
  • Roundtable: Advisers Only
  • Doing a lot with a little: Taking your live broadcast on the road
  • How to Integrate Sports Programming Into Your Campus Radio Station
  • Adobe Audition: How to Make Great Sound
  • How to Ask the Music Industry for What You Want (and Actually Get It)
  • College Radio Picks Up The Pieces
  • Ask the Awards Committee
  • I’m In Charge. Now What?!
  • Digital Accessibility for Student Media
  • Non-students in a student station: the good, the bad and the ugly
  • 50+ Low-Cost or No-Cost Promotions and PR Ideas in 50+ Minutes
  • TV/Video Production roundtable
  • Women in College Media roundtable
  • Producing or Directing your first Live Sports Broadcast
  • Resolving Conflict in Difficult Situations
  • Saving the Signal: How Advocacy, Innovation, and Partnerships Transformed a College Radio Station
  • Radio 360: Understanding the Many Opportunities in the Radio Industry
  • Breaking into the News Business
  • Print, Promotion, and Presence: Marketing and Physical Media tactics to help your Station Stand Out
  • Style Guide and Brand Image Workshop
  • Don’t Graduate With the Passwords
  • Integrating Student Media into a Higher Education Curriculum
  • Beyond the Sportscast: The New Playbook for Sports Journalists
  • Be a Master Storyteller
  • How to Get Your First Journalism Job
  • Build a Better Resume Reel
  • Preserving College Media History and Your Station’s Documents
  • Roundtable for High School advisers
  • Roundtable for Student Advisory Council
  • Increasing Student Involvement: Campus Radio as a Component of the Edu-Metaverse
  • Authenticity in the age of artificial intelligence: Ethical challenges of generative AI in podcast production
  • Online Only Radio Station Roundtable
  • Building a broadcast training program
  • Expanding Video Operations for a Radio Station
  • Roundtable: How to stay professional while keeping your identity in production
  • So what is “Educational Content” anyways? Attempts at Making our FCC Requirements Approachable
  • Roundtable: Effective and Executive Leadership in Young Adults (for student leaders)
  • Who Is the Storyteller? Teaching Media Production in the Age of AI
  • Roundtable: What Makes for Successful Specialty Programming?
  • Connecting With the Audience
  • Roundtable: Social Media for College Radio
  • Beyond the Broadcast: Turning College Radio into Academic Credit
  • AI In Media: Ethical Choices
  • Roundtable: Small School Student Media Programs
  • How Not to Suck at Podcasting: Make Something People Actually Want to Hear
  • Micro-Budget Filmmaking Roundtable
  • The state of news media, Consolidation, the FCC and a free press
  • Live and Local: Building Community through Student Radio Events
  • Writing for the Screen: From Idea to Scene – Part 1 — Screenwriting Basics
  • Writing for the Screen: From Idea to Scene – Part 2 — Story, Character & Structure
  • Writing for the Screen: From Idea to Scene – Part 3 — Scenes, Dialogue & Rewriting
  • Get Comfortable Being Uncomfrotable
  • Beyond the Basic Questions
  • Tune In, Stand Out AND Stand Out: Why Creating Distinctive Content Is Crucial to the Future of Your Student Media Outlet
  • From Airwaves to Offers
  • Roundtable: Mental Health
  • Collaboration Across Media Platforms (TV, Radio and more!)
  • News Deserts: Turning Them into Oases
  • Don’t Throw It Away Yet: Electronics Repair for Student Media