Future journalists from area high schools can hone their skills and meet media experts at UNC Asheville’s Media Career Workshop on Tuesday, Oct. 27. Registration is now open for students and teachers from across Western North Carolina. The cost is $10 per person, which includes lunch.

Check-in for the Media Career Workshop begins at 9 a.m. in UNC Asheville’s Highsmith University Union, Alumni Hall. Workshops last from 10 a.m-2:30 p.m. and will take place in UNC Asheville’s Highsmith University Union, Mountain Suites. Media professionals from the Asheville Citizen-Times, WLOS-TV, WNCW Radio and Mountain Xpress will discuss photography, broadcasting and online news reporting during the daylong event.

The Media Career Workshop is organized annually 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 Communication.

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