Best practices Contests Honored Work 

Best of Show, Online and Innovation Pacemaker Winners Announced From JEA/NSPA 2022 Spring National Convention

April 11, 2022April 18, 2022 Aaron Manfull 130 Views 0 Comments Best of Show, Convention, innovation pacemaker, JEA, NSPA, online pacemaker, Pacemaker

The spring national high school journalism convention took place in Los Angeles April 7-9. This past weekend, at the convention, NSPA announced

Read more

Advanced Tips and Tricks Best practices Engaging Your Audience Featured Multimedia Resources Staff Development Starting From Scratch Tips 

Don’t stick to the status quo: 3 questions to ask yourself when developing digital innovations

April 8, 2022April 10, 2022 Amanda Bright 325 Views 0 Comments credibility, digital media, embedded video, innovation, innovation competition, new ideas, News Literacy, reporter annotations, RJI competition, teams, trust, video annotations

Cassidy Hettesheimer is a sophomore at the University of Georgia majoring in Journalism with a minor in General Business and

Read more

Apps Audio Audio Best practices Equipment Hardware Livestreaming Mobile/Online Video Software Tips Videography 

If you’re looking to get started with Livestreaming, or level up your game, Mashable has some nice lists to check out

February 1, 2022February 1, 2022 Aaron Manfull 428 Views 0 Comments broadcasting, live, livestream, podcasting, sports broadcast

My staff has been livestreaming for years now. They’ve done everything from ball games and pep assemblies to the campus

Read more

Best practices Resources Staff Structure Tips 

5 tips to battle burnout for advisers and their journalists

January 25, 2022January 18, 2022 Spencer O'Daniel 661 Views 0 Comments adviser tips, collaboration, morale, staff structure

From subbing on your plan period to sources not emailing your student journalists back about interviews (yet you see them

Read more

Advertising Best practices Staff Structure Tips Writing 

We’ll be online-only next year, and that’s OK

January 18, 2022January 15, 2022 Jim Streisel 707 Views 0 Comments hilite, moving online, newsmagazine, online only, Pacemaker, print publication

The news arrived abruptly at the end of the 2020-21 school year: Starting in 2022-23, our school district was cutting

Read more

Best practices Tips Writing 

JEA Curriculum Highlight: Chunking, Linking and Liking – Making Online Stories Reader-Friendly

January 11, 2022January 10, 2022 Aaron Manfull 523 Views 0 Comments linking, links, writing

If you’re looking for a nice 45-90 minute activity for class that should help your writers level up their online

Read more

Best practices Resources Staff Structure Tips Writing for Broadcast 

4 months of school, 3 different teachers, 2 separate schools, and 1 converged group of high school journalists

December 20, 2021December 20, 2021 Spencer O'Daniel 820 Views 0 Comments

There’s no question that the pandemic has drastically changed everything about the way your student media program operates in your

Read more

Best practices Multimedia Resources Staff Structure Tips 

Journalism program sees positive changes in move from traditional Journalistic Writing courses to Multimedia Communication Model

December 16, 2021December 13, 2021 Jason Block 1260 Views 0 Comments curriculum, introductory courses

Change is hard. Change after 15 years? Now that can be downright painful. Yet that was the exact situation I

Read more

Apps Beat Systems Best practices Resources Staff Structure Tips 

Looking to get your staff content more organized using Google Drive? Michael Reeves shares his program’s system and online content calendar

December 14, 2021December 13, 2021 Michael Reeves 1530 Views 0 Comments content calendar, Google Drive, google sheets, newspaper, online stories, organization, web

A few weeks ago I shared a photo of a Google spreadsheet I was working on to help track what

Read more