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Adelphi to Host Virtual Press Day and Quill Awards for High School Students

Garden City, NY (02/11/2022) — Nearly 250 high school students from across Long Island will participate in Adelphi University's annual Press Day on February 18. The day-long online event will give student-journalists an opportunity to explore their passion for journalism through workshops, panels and the expertise of experienced print and digital media professionals and Adelphi communications faculty.

This year, Adelphi's Press Day will explore how journalists address traumatic, tragic stories. A panel of journalists, professors and mental health experts will discuss how student journalists should deal with trauma. There will also be a series of workshops about how journalists can be sensitive when interviewing people about tragic events as well as how they can protect themselves mentally from the trauma they are writing about.

The keynote speaker will be Bradley Wilson, PhD, adjunct faculty member at Adelphi, editor of the National Journalism Education Association's magazine Communication: Journalism Education Today, and managing editor of College Media Review for the College Media Association. In 2020, he received the David Adams Educator of the Year Award from the Scholastic Journalism Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Press Day runs from 8 a.m. to noon and concludes with the Quill Awards, an annual competition in which student editors, reporters and writers are recognized for their work. This year will feature nine categories: Most Outstanding Newspaper (Printed or Online), Most Outstanding Reporter, Best News Article, Best Feature Article, Best Sports Story or Column, Best Opinion Piece (Column or Editorial), Best Visual (Photograph or Artwork), Best Arts Review and Best Layout.

High schools participating:

- Brentwood High School

- Chaminade High School

- East Meadow High School

- Freeport High School

- Hampton Bays High School

- Hauppauge High School

- Hewlett High School

- Jericho High School

- John L. Miller Great Neck North High School

- Kellenberg Memorial High School

- Lynbrook High School

- New Hyde Park Memorial High School

- Roslyn High School

- Shoreham-Wading River High School

- Smithtown High School West

- The Mount Academy

- Valley Stream North High School

- Wheatley School

To learn more about Adelphi's Press Day, visit adelphi.edu/virtual-press-day.

About Adelphi: A modern metropolitan university with a personalized approach to higher learning

Adelphi University, New York, is a highly awarded, nationally ranked, powerfully connected doctoral research university dedicated to transforming students' lives through small classes with world-class faculty, hands-on learning and innovative ways to support academic and career success. Adelphi offers exceptional liberal arts and sciences programs and professional training, with particular strength in our Core Four-Arts and Humanities, STEM and Social Sciences, the Business and Education Professions, and Health and Wellness.

Recognized as a Best College by U.S. News & World Report, Adelphi is Long Island's oldest private coeducational university. It serves more than 7,500 students at its beautiful main campus in Garden City, New York -- just 23 miles from New York City's cultural and internship opportunities -- and at dynamic learning hubs in Manhattan, the Hudson Valley and Suffolk County, as well as online.

More than 118,000 Adelphi graduates have gained the skills to thrive professionally as active, engaged citizens, making their mark on the University, their communities and the world.

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Nearly 250 high school students from across Long Island will participate in Adelphi University’s annual Press Day on February 18.

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