The competition is now CLOSED, but we have extended the registration for the LSPA Spring CONFERENCE happening Tuesday, January 27, 2026

NEW Conference ONLY Registration Deadline: January 9, 2026

Hear from mass communication professionals, Manship faculty and staff as well as Manship students on exciting career topics in the world of mass communication!

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Sharief Ishaq, WDSU Sports Anchor/Reporter

Topics Covering Experiences with LSU Manship School's Cold Case Project or Statehouse Bureau as well as the Latest in LSU Athletic's Broadcast Operations. Tour LSU Student Media Production Offices.

LSU Athletic Executive Director of Design + Photography

Jason Feirman, a nationally-acclaimed designer and communications professional, serves as executive director for LSU Athletics Creative Services team. Learn about what it takes to run one of the largest and most dominating creative sports departments in the country.

Yearbook Presentations

Kathy Beers spent 29 years in the classroom and 22 years advising the award-winning yearbook at Timber Creek High School in Fort Worth. She is now a Creative and Adobe Specialist for Walsworth Yearbooks. She loves to help guide advisers and staffs through their crazy ideas on their journey to make their yearbook vision a reality.

LEARN MORE

LEARN ABOUT THE LSU SMAC LAB

The Social Media Analysis and Creation Lab is a collaborative research space, teaching facility, and tool for student media designed to track, synthesize, and interact with the world through social media

Our goal at LSU SMAC Lab is to increase civic engagement and empower citizens in the effective and responsible use of social media.

LEARN ABOUT THE LSU COLD CASE PROJECT

The LSU Cold Case Project is part of a class for advanced journalism students at the university that investigates Civil Rights era killings and obtains long-buried answers. Since 2009, students have pored over 175,000 pages of FBI files and interviewed witnesses and family members of African Americans killed by the Ku Klux Klan from the 1950s through the early 1970s.

Agenda at a Glance

8:00 a.m.: Check‑in, LIVE Social Media Competition BEGINS

9:00–9:30 a.m.: Welcome + Keynote Speaker

9:45 –10:20 a.m.: Various Sessions/Topics to Choose From; Student Media Tour Option

10:30–11:10 a.m.: Various Sessions/Topics to Choose From; Student Media Tour Option

11:30 a.m.–12:10 p.m.: Various Sessions/Topics to Choose From; Student Media Tour Option

11:30 a.m. - LIVE Social Media Competition ENDS

12:15 - 1:30 p.m.: Lunch, Awards Presentation & Close

Questions?

Email: lspamanship@lsu.edu

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