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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
