Student magazine celebrates region

Alumni can keep in touch with the region they once called home through Southeast Ohio magazine. The publication, in its 30th year, features the people and places that make southeastern Ohio unique.

The 42-page magazine is produced three times a year by Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism students. They learn various aspects of magazine production, including writing, design, management, ad sales and marketing during the 10-week academic quarter.

"It provides magazine journalism students real-life experience producing a magazine," says faculty adviser Melody Sands. "The magazine's purpose also is to present the Appalachian region in a positive manner."

Southeast Ohio magazine, which covers news and feature stories in 24 area counties, was the regional first-place winner of the 1999 Mark of Excellence Award presented by the Society of Professional Journalists.

The spring 2000 issue, published in April, includes articles on local sculptors, a man who has packed his Williamstown, W.Va., home with hundreds of historical artifacts, fast-talking auctioneers, an annual poetry festival and a regional shelter for survivors of domestic violence.