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Great Plains meetings will include roundtable on high school sports, special-section talk, visit to MLS soccer game and more.

Tuscaloosa News’ sports editor will serve a two-year term before becoming region chair in 2013.

 Save the date: The Southwest region is meeting July 22-23 in Austin, region chair Brad Lehman of the Houston Chronicle has announced.Details of the program are forthcoming.

Save the date: The Great Plains region is meeting July 30-31 in Kansas City, region chair Reid Laymance of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has announced.Details of the program are forthcoming.

Session topics include high schools, colleges, social media and how to cope with the 24-7 news cycle.

Sessions on preps, the Associated Press and the web highlight the program.

Title IX has helped to level the playing field But there are still some arenas in sports where women are struggling to establish themselves in relation to their male counterparts. In the April installment of the AWSMNow free monthly webinar series, the Association for Women in Sports Media presents "Women breaking gender barriers", a panel [...]

Among the topics will be recent guidelines established by ESPN regarding its announcing staff and commercial relationships; reporters and columnists attempting to juggle multi-responsibilities to newspapers, websites, television and radio stations and constantly changing relationships among reporters, teams and athletes.

Young readers, infographics and high schools among the panels to be featured.

Sessions on social media, high schools and investigations highlight the program. White Sox game also planned.