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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...

Trey Baker works with the drone remote.

I got a drone, now what?

Jane Bannester, Ritenour High School broadcast teacher December 2, 2018

Fall 2018 was my first semester teaching a Drone Video and Photography course. Like any new course, we had our ups and downs. Here are the things that I learned: If your district is similar to mine,...

This staff works as a team to build a shoe tower during a team-building exercise.

Halloween and Justin Timberlake: An average October in the life of an adviser

Jessica Cordonier, CJE, Lee’s Summit High School, Lee’s Summit, Mo. October 25, 2018

Halloween isn’t the only thing scary in the month of October. Somehow, this is always when it starts to feel like the wheels begin to fall off of my yearbook crew’s wagon. My kids begin to panic under...

Be One of the Links: Joining organizations provides so many benefits

Be One of the Links: Joining organizations provides so many benefits

Christina Geabhart, MJE, Oak Park High School, Kansas City, MO October 1, 2018

I remember stepping into the journalism classroom that fall of 2003, trying to live up to the legacy of the award-winning program I was honored to inherit from one of the historically stellar journalism...

Using Google Classroom and Team Drives to Organize Your Program

Using Google Classroom and Team Drives to Organize Your Program

Leigh Rogers, Hermann, Mo., yearbook adviser August 13, 2018

I wasn’t the biggest fan of Google when I first started working with it as a new teacher five years ago. The overabundance of emails from shared assignments was not enjoyable. On a due date, my inbox...

Creating an Online News Site

Creating an Online News Site

Christina Manolis, journalism teacher at Washington High School, Washington, Mo. July 30, 2018

When I first started advising newspaper, an online news site was already part of the class. There was just one issue: despite being a journalism major in college, I didn’t have a lot of experience with...

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