2016-17 Cub Reporter earns All-Kansas distinction
Each year the Sterling High School journalism staff submits its yearbook and magazine to contests hosted by the Kansas Scholastic Press Association in hopes of earning top […]
Dallas Morning News turns focus to digital, arouses questions about GateHouse-owned Hutchinson News
By the middle of the year, The Dallas Morning News will have eliminated at least 20 positions as it outsources its design and print layout work in […]
Building relationships with future news consumers
As I’ve mentioned, I’m a high school journalism adviser and educator. I love journalism, and I love to help my students do great journalism. I am […]
Online video fails to engage users
With services like Snapchat, Facebook Live and Instagram providing platforms for video sharing, not to mention the perennial video king in YouTube, various online players are […]
Engage students with Snapchat
My students are all on Snapchat. I have an account too, and so I often get students asking me for my account name because they want […]
2017-18 Student Publications staff announced
Updated at 11:27 a.m., April 19, 2017 The Sterling High School Student Publications Department will once again be offering multiple products for the 2017-18 school year. These […]
Determining when to give children tech
In September, my wife and I will be having our first child. It’s an exciting time, but it has caused us to discuss a lot […]
Treat news sites with care of a chef
The traffic numbers for Sterling Student Publications, the site operated by my journalism students, is abysmal. This is especially true for our homepage, so I started […]
Newsletters create engagement
During my 45-minute commute home from my job as a high school journalism teacher, I was thinking about what I could have my magazine students do […]
Thought Paper: Facebook Live in Scholastic Journalism
NOTE: This was a paper I wrote for J7700 Participatory Journalism that was supposed to discuss concepts concerning “the sharing of digital journalism.” In the class, […]
Talking About: Pod Save America
A little while back, I mentioned a podcast called Pod Save America. When I mentioned it, I was specifically talking about it, but I did say I needed […]
Sterling student journos qualify for 2017 State competition
Several members of the Sterling Student Publications punched their tickets to the State Journalism Contest on May 6 in Lawrence on the campus of the University of Kansas. […]
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