KET credits Manual RedEye staff

A KET production used photos and audio from a Manual RedEye story about Wil Craig and credited our department.

You can watch the KET story and the Manual RedEye [...]

CMA Ice Cream Social

All current CMA students and their families are invited to the first annual CMA ice cream social on Wednesday, September 17 from 6:30 PM to 8 PM in the [...]

Desktop Publishing class seeks freshmen!

We are in the process of transitioning the Desktop Publishing class (DTP) to a freshman CMA course. Previously, DTP was a sophomore-only course. By 2012, we hope that the transition to the new schedule will be complete for all students. We invite freshmen, especially those interested in print publishing, to take DTP this year!

DTP is a [...]

Having a good summer so far?

We hope all of the current, former and future CMA students are having an excellent and relaxing summer so far. Several of our yearbook staffers just returned from the wonderful Bluegrass Yearbook Experience camp at Eastern Kentucky University. Some of our student journalists enjoyed the Exposure camp at Western Kentucky University.

If you’ve shot any interesting pictures [...]

Teacher Elizabeth Palmer named KY JEA State Director

Our own CMA teacher Elizabeth Palmer was named the Journalism Education Association Kentucky State Director at the JEA/NSPA annual spring convention in Portland, Oregon. As the director, Ms. Palmer will create a network of Kentucky journalism teachers interested in achieving high journalistic standards, and promote participation on the local, state, and national level in conferences [...]

Professional photo opportunities for CMA photographers

CMA is proud to announce that five of their photojournalism students, Josh Beal, Sally George, Lauren McKay, Tim Haag, and Patty Gray, along with photojournalism teacher Ms. Elizabeth Palmer, have been invited by the Kentucky Derby Festival to photograph festival events. Along with having their work displayed prominently on the Kentucky Derby Festival site, these individuals [...]

CMA T-shirt design contest

You still have a few days left to submit a design for a new CMA T-shirt. The deadline is Friday, February 5 at 2:20 PM. Bring your design to Mr. Miller in room 251 or Ms. Palmer in room 252. The winner receives a FREE Manual yearbook (or a full refund if you’ve already [...]

ManualRedEye.com

To keep up with changes in the journalism industry, CMA Multimedia students have developed a new student news site and produced multimedia content for the site. The new publication is called RedEye and can be found at manualredeye.com. The students will unveil the web site today in a ceremony to be attended by teachers and the [...]