Benefits of Joining NPPA
After our meeting this afternoon I went home and thought about how we can manage a blog that will be beneficial to all of our members. I realize that we accept all journalism students into our group, as well as anyone else who wants to join, so how do we make sure that we are catering to the needs of the many rather than the few? If there any suggestions on how we can accomplish this feel free to let me know. If you are a writer and you feel that we are only dealing with photo issues, don’t be afraid to say something, we are all in this together and we all need to get something out of this organization.
I also wanted to talk about the benefits of joining the NPPA. For those who don’t know the National Press Photographers Association is an organization that offers photographers and other media types various services for membership. Students get an incredible discount on their membership fee’s, so now is the best time to join. Some other benefits include: job banks, critiques by professional journalists, equipment insurance, updates on seminars that are going on around the country and also a nifty magazine that has some pretty good pictures in it. The NPPA also sponsors competitions for photogs and video people. Although you don’t have to be a member of the NPPA to attend our meetings, we encourage you to become one.
We are going to be doing a lot of interesting things this semester; guest speakers, gallery showings and possibly trying to send some of our people to seminars. Our goal for the next meeting is 20. Everybody bring a friend. I have heard that if we hit 20 people we get fed at the meetings, so lets get a lot of people excited about this group and have a great semester.
-Kyle
