Associate Press Sports Editors Locate at IUPUI

IU’s National Sports Journalism Center in Indianapolis will be the site of the Associated Press Sports Editors’ 2011 winter conference.

APSE, the nation’s largest professional sports journalism organization, made the decision to go to the School of Journalism’s IUPUI campus in 2011 during its recently concluded summer convention in Pittsburgh.

“Moving our winter Conference to Indianapolis in 2011 will offer APSE members the opportunity to interact with college journalists on the IUPUI campus,” said APSE President Garry D. Howard. “We have worked closely with Tim Franklin and Dean Brad Hamm and this is just the next logical step in what is turning out to be a great alliance with Indiana University.”

NSJC Director Tim Franklin called this "another milestone for the center,"

“This means that we’ll have 75 to 100 of the nation’s top sports news executives on our campus," said Franklin, who also is the Louis A. Weil, Jr. Endowed Chair at the School of Journalism. "And, we’ll be working with the association in coming months to set up opportunities for students and faculty in Indianapolis and Bloomington to meet and talk with APSE members about trends and issues in sports media.”

APSE meets twice annually, and its winter conference is largely devoted to judging its national sports journalism awards. The 2011 conference will be held over a four-day period, and the judging will take place in the Informatics/Journalism building and the Campus Center on the IUPUI campus.

The date has not yet been set, but it likely will be in either late February or early March of 2011, Franklin said. This marks the first time in 30 years that APSE will hold its winter conference in a cold-weather city.

APSE announced in May that it’s establishing its national headquarters at IU’s National Sports Journalism Center on the IUPUI campus. The NSJC launched in January, with Franklin as director.