State Convention
Save the Date for the 2025 OSMA State Convention!
April 11-12, 2025 at Kent State University
Registration links and other details will be available in early 2025.
Registration costs $50 per student/adviser attending or $30 per attendee without the Friday evening banquet. Schools that participate must have a current OSMA membership.
Friday – April 11, 2025
*Franklin Hall
- 11 a.m.- 1 p.m. – Registration
- 12-12:45 p.m. – Session 1
- 1-1:45 p.m. – Session 2
- 2-2:45 p.m. – Session 3
- 3-3:45 – Session 4
- 4-4:45 – Session 5
*Kent State Student Center Ballroom
- 5 p.m. Banquet doors open
- 5:30 Welcome and dinner
- 6:30 – Keynote speaker
- 7 p.m. Journalist of the year announcement
- 7:15 contests and pre-entered contests announced
Saturday – April 12, 2025
*Franklin Hall
- 9-9:45 a.m. – Session 1
- 10-10:45 a.m. – Session 2
- 11-11:45 a.m. – Session 3
Highlights include:
50 or more learning sessions, everything from writing to photography, photography to broadcast, print to social media, journalism to public relations to film. That’s Friday afternoon, April 11. We’ll send you a draft program at least a week before the convention.
Then, Friday evening we’ll host the banquet. Enjoy a buffet with plenty to eat, a keynoter you will enjoy (name to be released in late March), and a chance to receive kudos for what went well and suggestions on how to keep improving your student media. Your publication’s name — and YOURS — can be up on the screen at the awards banquet so everyone can cheer.
Also, if you live far away and want to make this into an overnight stay, we can provide you with a list of reliable hotels, and Saturday, April 12, we’ll have more learning sessions OR you can meet as a staff with a top journalism education facilitator to work with your staff on just what YOU want and need to know.
Be sure you have a current membership and be sure to enter the contests/critiques by this year’s deadline. The OSMA annual membership costs $100 for your school, and it covers the cost of entries from all your student media. You can pay in person at the convention or ahead of time by check.
Interested in speaking at the convention? Come back soon and the Speaker Registration Form will be up and running – we’ll get you scheduled!
QUESTIONS? email Julieanne McClain [email protected]