Minutes of NINA Executive Board Meeting
Aug. 10, 2000
Northern Star office, NIU

Meeting called to order at 9:15 a.m.
Attending: President Rick Nagel, Cheryl Wormley, Lonny Cain, Dana from NINA office, Lois Self, Jan Larsen, Jim Killam.
Minutes of April were accepted with some name corrections, Self moved, Wormley seconded.
Education:
Scholarship: NINA high school journalist of the year was very successful again. Etheredge posted our scholarship on a cash for your education site. We had 26 applicants.
Writing seminar: 50 attended, many benefited from it. Costs were $300 for the speaker, $80 for snacks, we made maybe a $100 profit. Cheryl said the price was great and Lonny said it may be more valuable to writers than the conferences.
Membership:
Jan Larsen reported there are 15 new members, which certainly makes our goal of a 25 percent increase. However, several of last year's members did not sign up. Dana will be contacting them by email or letter. Crain's is not a member and Lois will call them. Shaw is sometimes a member, usually not. IE, the Sycamore paper usually joins up but the Northwest Herald does not. Southtown is not a member and really should be.
FYI, Tona Kunz has left the Chronicle.
Class of 2000 on committee includes Ray Karges, Will Conkis, Joan Heyers, Phil Jurik, Class of 2001 includes Gale Baldwin. Jan will check with 2000 members to see if they want to be on board again.
Programs: Lonny said the spring conference was not well attended. We had 22 people, we charged $20 each, we had $277.98 expenses because NIU picked up the important expenses. We made a little bit of money. Knight-Ridder has expressed some interest in the Thomson j school now that Thomson is out of it. Discussion on October program. May do the medial reporting one for spring. For fall, Lonny proposed a seminar on The Pulitzer Prize, it's not out of reach. How do you enter it?? What do judges look at. What forms do you fill out? What ideas have Pulitzer potential? Slides for this fall's conference will be just on first place winners.
NIU: High school contest ideas have not proceeded, Killam said. Self said the college contest needs board's help, we need to contact community colleges to enter. Etheredge will lead this.
Bylaws: Nagel said he, Lonny and Etheredge are the committee.
Meeting adjourned about 10 a.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Jan Larsen, secretary