Future journalists from area high schools can hone their skills and meet media experts at UNC Asheville’s annual WNC Media Day career workshop on Thursday, Oct. 23. Registration is now open for students and teachers from across Western North Carolina. The cost is $10 per person, which includes lunch.

Media professionals will discuss news writing, news and opinion writing, blogging, photojournalism, radio broadcasting and other topics during the daylong event. Special sessions for newspaper and yearbook advisors will also be available. Courses will be taught by UNC Asheville Mass Communication faculty and other experts.

WNC Media Day is organized by UNC Asheville’s Mass Communication Department in cooperation with the N.C. Scholastic Media Association based at UNC Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications.

For more information, call UNC Asheville's Mass Communication Department at 828/232-5027.