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Making the Grade: Tips to Assess students in Broadcast Journalism

Making the Grade: Tips to Assess students in Broadcast Journalism

AJ Chambers, convergence media teacher and RNE-TV adviser at Richland Northeast High School March 12, 2017

Many students know the pain of trying to make a perfect score on a history test or the anxiety of a less than desirable grade on a math quiz.  The difference between a student’s grades in math class...

Women’s History Month: Trailblazing Female Journalists

Women’s History Month: Trailblazing Female Journalists

Leigh Kolb, English and Journalism Instructor at East Central College February 28, 2017

Resource and Lesson Roundup One of the most powerful aspects of journalism education is the interdisciplinary nature of the field. Teachers can tackle writing skills, critical analysis, history and...

Application for the Missouri Urban Journalism Workshop 2017 ready to go

Application for the Missouri Urban Journalism Workshop 2017 ready to go

Stephanie Green, Missouri Urban Journalism Workshop Coordinator February 20, 2017

MUJW is excited to announce the application for the Missouri Urban Journalism Workshop 2017 is available. We are in the process of changing the format of the workshop and will be offering a unique opportunity...

Elections and Marches Provide a Sense of Journalistic Purpose

Elections and Marches Provide a Sense of Journalistic Purpose

Jennifer Somers, Plumage Media Staff, Reporter and Photo Editor February 6, 2017

East Central College has held multiple events related to the election to draw in students and promote participation in government. The library, for example, held a session about fact checking during the...

Lesson Learned: Check Your Default Images

Lesson Learned: Check Your Default Images

Mary Gillis, Journalism teacher at Rolla High School, Rolla, Mo. January 23, 2017

The community that is served by our high school newspaper in Rolla, Missouri has buried five alumni in the past two months because of heroin overdose. Most of those students graduated from the high...

Building a Broadcast Studio

Building a Broadcast Studio

Eric Adams, broadcast journalism teacher at Lebanon High School January 13, 2017

Broadcast studios are notoriously expensive and complicated. In the last six years, I have attempted again and again to create a studio that is effective and affordable. Thanks to a $500 Lowe’s Toolbox...

Boehringer Named JEAs 2017 National Broadcast Adviser of the Year

Boehringer Named JEA’s 2017 National Broadcast Adviser of the Year

December 19, 2016

Boehringer Named JEA's 2017 National Broadcast Adviser of the Year. For the full story visit HERE.

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Advice for our Students

November 25, 2016

Here are some tips from four professionals for students interested in pursing a career in print, broadcast, or radio. Feel free to share these tips with your students: “I'd say my best advice for...

Giving our audience their money’s worth with little money

Giving our audience their money’s worth with little money

Brandon Martin, adviser at Helias Catholic High School, Jefferson City, MO November 7, 2016

I’ve taught the novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” for the past nine years in my creative writing class. One of the most powerful quotes from the book, is from the character Randle Patrick...

Making News Literacy a Trending Topic

Making News Literacy a Trending Topic

Leigh Kolb, English and Journalism Instructor at East Central College October 31, 2016

United States Media Literacy Week - Oct. 31 - Nov. 4, 2016   When asked, teenagers--high-schoolers and college students alike--will typically say that if they feel connected to the news at all,...

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