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From the opening session: Haiku poems from journalists, for journalists

  • July 31, 2012
  • by JimStreisel
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During the opening session, workshops director Chad Sanders and assistant director Rod Satterthwaite had two teams of students compete against each other in an ice-breaker relay. Part of the relay required a participant on each team to write an original haiku about journalism. Here are the poems:

Poem #1
Newspapers involve

Smart kids who like writing
Like us at MIPA.

Poem #2
Journalism is

writing what no one wants to read.
All else is PR.

To see more on the opening session, click here.

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MIPA welcomes journalists to 2012 summer workshop « The Upstart says:
Jul 31, 2012

[…] To see the haiku poems students wrote during the relay race during the opening session, click here. […]

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