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Posted, Nov. 4, 2004
Updated, Feb. 19, 2008


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Tip Sheet for High School Journalists

By David Shedden (more by author)
Library Director, Poynter Institute

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Highschooljournalism.org
http://www.highschooljournalism.org/
Presented by the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

J-IDEAS
http://www.jideas.org/
J-Ideas was developed at Ball State University to develop and encourage excellence in high school journalism.

Journalism Education Association
http://www.jea.org/
An independent national scholastic journalism organization for teachers and advisers.

JEA Press Rights Commission
http://www.jeapressrights.org/
JEA's Scholastic Press Rights Commission is composed of journalism teachers and advisers who serve to make publication students and advisers more aware of First Amendment issues.

JPROF.com

http://www.jprof.com/
A Web site designed to help students and teachers learn about journalism.

Jteacher.com
http://www.jteacher.com/
An online resource for journalism educators and students.

National Scholastic Press Association
http://studentpress.journ.umn.edu/nspa/
NSPA helps students and teachers improve their publications.

Pacemaker Awards (NSPA)
Take a look at their links to earlier winners.
http://studentpress.journ.umn.edu/nspa/contests.html

Quill and Scroll
An international honorary society for high school journalists.

RTNDF's High School Journalism Project
http://www.rtndf.org/
Resources from the Radio-Television News Directors Foundation.

Student Media Sourcebook
http://studentpress.journ.umn.edu/sourcebook/
Resources compiled by the National Scholastic Press Association and Associated Collegiate Press.

Washington Journalism Education Association's blog
http://wjea.blogspot.com/
A blog for student journalists and journalism advisers

Writing and Reporting

Language Corner
http://www.cjr.org/tools/lc/
CJR resource page by Evan Jenkins.

Newsthinking.com
http://www.newsthinking.com/
Bob Baker from the Los Angeles Times maintains this site.

No Train, No Gain
http://www.notrain-nogain.org/
Newspaper training editors present their favorite exercises and ideas.

Navigator
http://nytimes.com/library/tech/reference/cynavi.html
Research links from The New York Times.

Power Reporting
http://powerreporting.com/
Bill Dedman's research tools for journalists.

Power of Words
http://www.projo.com/words/
The Providence Journal maintains this collection of writing tips.

The Pulitzer Prizes
http://www.pulitzer.org/
The Pulitizer site is based around a timeline that begins in 1917.

See Also:
Poynter Online Writing/Editing Resources
http://poynter.org/subject.asp?id=2

Photojournalism

National Press Photographers Association
http://www.nppa.org/
NPPA is dedicated to the advancement of photojournalism in all news media.

NPPA: The Best of Television Photojournalism 2003
Poynter Online, March 2003
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=22553

NPPA: The Best of Television Photojournalism 2004
Poynter Online, March 2004
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=62291

NPPA: The Best of Television Photojournalism 2005
Poynter Online, March 2005
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=79970

NPPA: The Best of Television Photojournalism 2006
Various Sources, March 10, 2006
http://www.poynterextra.org/NPPA2006/

See Also:
Poynter Online Photojournalism Resources
http://poynter.org/subject.asp?id=29

Ethics, Law, and the First Amendment

Ethics Codes Collection
http://www.asne.org/ideas/codes/codes.htm
ASNE maintains this page of ethics codes.

Ethics in Journalism
http://www.spj.org/ethics.asp
The ethics section of the Society of Professional Journalists website.

First Amendment Center
http://www.fac.org/
The First Amendment Center is located at Vanderbilt University.

First Amendment Handbook
http://www.rcfp.org/handbook/viewpage.cgi
The Reporters Committee For Freedom of the Press posted this handbook on their website.

Student Press Law Center
http://www.splc.org/
SPLC is dedicated to helping student media and journalism educators.

See Also:
Poynter Online's Ethics Resources
http://poynter.org/subject.asp?id=32

Poynter Online's First Amendment / FOI Bibliography
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=77627

Visual Journalism

Interactive Narratives.org
http://www.interactivenarratives.org/
Examples of great design, visual journalism and rich-media content on the web.

8 Million Ways to Tell Stories8 Million Ways to Tell Stories
Poynter's Sara Quinn built this slideshow to inspire creative thinking about story packaging.

Society for News Design
http://www.snd.org/
An international professional organization for news design.

SND College Student Chapter: Michigan
http://snd.jrn.msu.edu/

SND College Student Chapter: Missouri
http://www.missouri.edu/~jourdrm/

Society of Publication Designers
http://www.spd.org/

University and College Designers Association
http://www.ucda.com

See Also:
Poynter Online's Design/Graphics Resources
http://poynter.org/subject.asp?id=11

Poynter Online Resource Center
http://poynter.org/resource_center/

Scholarship Information

ASNE Scholarship Page
http://www.highschooljournalism.org/
Teachers/Teachers.cfm?id=19

Additional Poynter Resources

Poynter High
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=88

Poynter High: Make Yourself at Home
(Part of a series of Poynter articles)
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=73415
By Wendy Wallace

Tracking the Teenage Path to News
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=110852
By Leann Frola, September 22, 2006

Teens Learning -- and Challenging -- First-Amendment Values
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=110516
By Sharon Moshavi, September 18, 2006

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