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2006 HBCU Newspaper Conference and Job Fair

"Building a Legacy, Featuring Our Past"

The 8th annual HBCU National Newspaper Conference and Job Fair will be held on February 8-11, 2006 at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, N.C.

The first HBCU Newspaper Conference was held on March 7, 1997. It was planned and organized by minority journalism students on the campus of Morgan State University in Baltimore. The theme was "Preserving Our Voice: Strategies for Empowerment."

The students aim was to focus on the survival and development of Black College journalism and to establish a national Black College newspaper coalition. The conference was held for a second year at Morgan State University and for two years at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tenn.

The conference ended with a two year hiatus. In 2003, the conference was resurrected when Jackson State University, in Jackson, Miss., hosted 125 students, professors and journalism professionals. The American Society of Newspaper Editors joined in with a dozen recruiters and interviewed 55 students for possible internships, jobs and career advice in journalism.

The conference also included its "Excellence in Journalism" awards banquet for BCCA member colleges and universities. Alabama State University, in Montgomery, Ala., hosted the 2004 conference with almost 250 attendees and continued the focus on providing educational sessions by professionals, an awards banquet and an ASNE Job Fair.

Today the conference is now annually scheduled for the first or second week in February. It has been adopted as a major project of the Black College Communication Association. Southern University, in Baton Rouge, La., hosted the 2005 conference and had 240 in attendance. Future hosts for the conferences include Florida A&M University, in Tallahassee, Fla., and Morgan State University in Baltimore, Md.

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