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Minute-to-Win-It games make great ideas for playing with the staff. A little friendly competition can lead to loads of laughs. Plus photographers can practice their skills while documenting the staff’s fun for your year-end banquet.

4 days led to 50 minutes of Wow

Christina Geabhart, MJE, journalism adviser at Oak Park High School, KC, Mo June 22, 2019

Two years ago, I wrote on this site about how to use a few hours before school starts to jump start your staff. Today, we wrapped up an eight-hour, four-day camp with the newsmagazine staff; and it was...

Q and A with the Pros: Dana Marquart

Q and A with the Pros: Dana Marquart

Michelle Turner, Washington, MO and 2016 JEA Broadcast Adviser of the Year June 3, 2019

Recently, SJ picked the brain of portrait photographer Dana Maquart. Her love for photography started in high school.  SJ: How did you get interested in photography? Dana: "I majored in...

Tips for Reporting the Legalization of Marijuana

Tips for Reporting the Legalization of Marijuana

SchoolJournalism.org staff May 28, 2019

As more and more states legalize medical and/or recreational marijuana, journalism advisers and students are finding themselves in new territory. As of May 2019, federal laws treat marijuana as a controlled...

The results are in on the third annual First Amendment Matters PSA contest

The results are in on the third annual First Amendment Matters PSA contest

SchoolJournalism.org staff May 14, 2019

SchoolJournalism.org’s third annual First Amendment Matters PSA contest had many great entries. Choosing a winner was not an easy task. Entries needed to follow the contest specifications that included,...

Separating Work and Home

Separating Work and Home

Leigh Rogers, Hermann, Mo., yearbook adviser May 8, 2019

Is this even possible or applicable for every teacher? This is the first question that pops in my head as a I begin to write this article. As I enter my fifth year of teaching, I feel I have largely...

New Voices marches on in more states

New Voices marches on in more states

Paul Aubrey, journalism teacher and publications adviser at North Kansas City High School, Kansas City, MO April 25, 2019

New Voices legislation expanded again with more states introducing bills this legislative session. After North Dakota passed the John Wall New Voices Act in 2015, the movement grew. This year, Arizona,...

SchoolJournalism.org launches First Amendment Video PSA Contest 2019

SchoolJournalism.org launches First Amendment Video PSA Contest 2019

April 2, 2019

Multiple surveys and studies have shown Americans remain unaware of the five freedoms the First Amendment guarantees. When more Americans can name characters from an animated television series than the...

Just go to Tune In Radio and “search for The GROWL.”

Century Link Helps Dunnellon High School Put “Reading for Radio©” On The Air

Barry Carrus, Dunnellon High School, The GROWL radio February 28, 2019

As a media professional since 1972, I found myself in South Florida in the new millennium working as audio engineer for the Miami Dolphins and Florida Marlins. A move to Central Florida several years later...

Lindsay Alfermann on her study abroad in Ireland.

New collegiate majors open wider doors

Michelle Turner, Washington High School, Washington, MO, and JEA 2016 Broadcast Adviser of the Year January 25, 2019

With digital storytelling and production majors on the rise, more students who would have pursued a journalism degree in college now roll the dice on a degree that some say allows more freedom and flexibility...

Introducing the Institute for Environmental Journalism

Introducing the Institute for Environmental Journalism

Katina Paron, InsideClimate News January 7, 2019

Are you looking to strengthen your journalistic skills? Do you want to deep dive on a single issue that reaches across politics, social justice, science, policy, human interest and animal wellbeing? Come...

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