Student journalists (and advisers), share what you know, what you’ve learned, what works and what doesn’t.
Can one woman connect young and old journalists?
The Editor & Publisher Website is putting the task to blogger and multimedia consultant Maegan Carberry, Poynter’s Amy Gehran reports. Carberry’s new blog, -31-, will “be exploring how younger… Read more
High school journalism students attended the Florida Scholastic Press Association annual convention in Tampa on April 17-19. Students attended workshops on broadcasting, yearbook, newspaper, literary magazine and online and participated in contests. Two students shared… Read more
The online Pacemaker finalists have been announced, and winners will be named at the Journalism Education Association/National Scholastic Press Association convention in April. Here’s what I liked about a few finalists:
Silver Chips
Montgomery Blair High School
Silver Spring, Maryland
If you’re serious about pursuing a journalism career, start building a resume. How? Find internships. Internships have taught me valuable lessons about having a journalism career, increased my skills in writing and reporting, and have been a confirmation that… Read more
A newspaper that claims to be the largest in the country by and about teens, L.A. Youth, celebrates its 20th anniversary this month. L.A. Youth, a nonprofit organization, launched the paper in 1988 after the Hazelwood… Read more
Take risks but be fair and comprehensive when investigating a story, advises a student editor whose staff broke the news of hidden cameras in their school hallways.
The Boston Globe wrote in an article:
Staff members on the Harvard-Westlake Chronicle began a series of “How to” infographics that ran throughout their 2006-2007 issues. Take a look at an award-winning one, “How to Jujitsu.” Michael Kaplan, editor in chief, and artist Andrew Lee… Read more
My former high school newspaper, Smoke Signals from Choctawhatchee High School in Fort Walton Beach, FL, had the chance to cover a racial controversy that arose from another local high school’s attempt to perform the play “To Kill… Read more
After a 5.6 earthquake hit the San Francisco Bay area, students on The Paly Voice online staff at Palo Alto High School in Palo Alto, Cal. published a story online within about 30 minutes.
Michael… Read more