Converged Media Changed our Approach and Culture
I first heard about converged media from Debra Klevens when she spoke at CSPA in 2023. She described her classroom
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Staff Structure
Veteran advice round 2 – the forgotten essentials of being a great leader and editor for your student publication
We’re back from the Jayhawk Media Workshop at the University of Kansas! I got the chance to talk to new
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5 tips to battle burnout for advisers and their journalists
From subbing on your plan period to sources not emailing your student journalists back about interviews (yet you see them
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We’ll be online-only next year, and that’s OK
The news arrived abruptly at the end of the 2020-21 school year: Starting in 2022-23, our school district was cutting
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4 months of school, 3 different teachers, 2 separate schools, and 1 converged group of high school journalists
There’s no question that the pandemic has drastically changed everything about the way your student media program operates in your
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Journalism program sees positive changes in move from traditional Journalistic Writing courses to Multimedia Communication Model
Change is hard. Change after 15 years? Now that can be downright painful. Yet that was the exact situation I
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Looking to get your staff content more organized using Google Drive? Michael Reeves shares his program’s system and online content calendar
A few weeks ago I shared a photo of a Google spreadsheet I was working on to help track what
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The Pandemic Changed Our Social Media Approach
Last spring, there was obviously a lot of change going on. But, there were also things in our journalism world
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Organize Your Staffs By Having Them Select a Major and a Minor
I have long organized my staffs and the work they do around the Rule of 3. With school changing so
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