Journalism: February 2016

Sunday, February 7, 2016

The National High School Journalism Convention Is Coming!

Registration is now open for the spring national high school journalism convention that will be at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles April 14-17. The organizers are the Journalism Education Association and the National Scholastic Press Association.

In addition to various sessions by journalism advisers from across the country, you and your students will have an opportunity to hear from many Pulitzer Prize winning journalists. The Thursday night keynote speaker is former Washington Post reporter Jose Antonio Vargas and the Friday afternoon keynote speaker is MSNBC reporter Jacob Soboroff.

More than 3,000 students and journalism advisers from across the country are expected to attend this convention. There will be breakout sessions on Friday and Saturday, publication critiques, a Best of Show contest, an opportunity to participate in the Break with a Pro roundtable discussion and a write-off competition.

Here is the convention website that has all the information on registration, activities and speakers. You can also download the registration booklet on this site.

Any students who need to apply for a scholarship to cover their registration, fill out this form. http://la.journalismconvention.org/need-based-scholarships/, Students can also volunteer for four hours to cover their registration. Two of those hours have to be done on Thursday from 10 a.m. to noon.

About This Class

This course is designed for those students who desire experience in print journalism and an in-depth production of a newspaper. Students have the unique opportunity to create and publish a student-driven newspaper. Newspaper students practice the fundamentals of journalistic writing, photojournalism, graphic design and budget management. Students will also develop their abilities to work as a team as they produce the newspaper.
Researchers have found that both college and non-college-bound students benefit from taking journalism in high school. A study of college freshmen found that journalism experience correlated with higher efficacy in a beginning English class (Collins and Bissell, 2002). Even teachers report less burnout and higher job satisfaction from advising the school newspaper or broadcast class, according to a study by Reinardy, Maksl and Filak (2009). Numerous studies by Dvorak and his associates have shown a correlation between journalism students and higher test scores on college readiness tests and in higher grades in high school classes.

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The National High School Journalism Convention Is Coming!

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