NSPA Board of Directors adds two members
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National Scholastic Press Association Board of Directors adds two members
MINNEAPOLIS (Sept. 28, 2009) — The Board of Directors of the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) has appointed two new members to its Board of Directors. The two new directors join nine directors. The new members have two-year terms.
Chris Ison is an award-winning journalist and a former reporter and editor for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis. He was the paper’s assistant managing editor for investigative projects for three years and won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1990. He has won numerous national, regional and state awards. Ison was editor-in-chief at The Minnesota Daily at the University of Minnesota. Now, as an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Ison teaches public affairs reporting, news reporting and writing, advanced reporting methods and media ethics. Ison is one of three representatives from the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication outlined in NSPA’s charter.
David Therkelsen is currently the executive director of Crisis Connection, a nonprofit agency that provides crisis counseling by telephone. From 1978-2006, he served in a variety of senior management roles with the American Red Cross, including CEO of the St. Paul Area chapter. He holds a B.A. in journalism and political science form Metropolitan State University and the University of Minnesota and a M.B.A. from the University of St. Thomas. He also writes, teaches and lectures in journalism and public relations. Therkelsen has participated on NSPA’s Finance and Investment Committee for the past year and joins the Board of Directors as treasurer.
About NSPA
NSPA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit membership organization headquartered and incorporated in Minnesota. Memberships for middle school, junior high school and high school student media are organized under the Minnesota High School Press Association division of NSPA. Memberships for college, university and professional and technical school student media are organized under the Associated Collegiate Press division of NSPA. Memberships are open to all student media at public and private schools at an annual membership fee.
Each division of NSPA provides journalism education training programs, publishes journalism education materials, provides media critique and recognition programs for members, provides information on developments in journalism and student media and provides a forum for members to communicate with others and share their work. NSPA and its divisions cooperate with other student media associations and other non-student groups and businesses that share its mission to educate and recognize the work of student journalists, to improve the quality of student media and to foster careers in media.
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