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UPdate 05.24.2019

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Experience The Experience.

Know your why. Why do you do what you do?

GOOD STUFF—

• The Dow Jones News Fund We asked several professional journalists about the future of journalism and why they love their jobs, here’s what they had to say: “Journalists Are Vital.”
  • “Journalists are Curious”
  • “Journalists are Prepared”
  • “Journalists are Resourceful”
  • “Journalists are Tenacious”
• Journalist’s Toolbox (an AMAZING resource presented by SPJ!)
• “We Need Writers Now More Than Ever. Our Democracy Depends On It” from Time Magazine
• “Ten Reasons You Should Hire a Journalist”
• The top 10 tools for journalism in 2018 (and 10 other things to bookmark)
• The Lead, a newsletter for student journalists created by MV Media graduate and Colorado and JEA National High School Journalist of the Year Taylor Blatchford! Sign up!
• “America Needs Journalists” t-shirts | Order one HERE.
• First Amendment t-shirts | SPJ is selling First Amendment T-shirts, with 100 percent of the proceeds going to the Capital Gazette in Maryland. Five of its employees were shot and killed on June 28. > Order one HERE.
• Take better smartphone photos with these simple tips and tricks
• Back to School Special: Tips every brand new reporter should know
• Hard News. Angry Administration. Teenage Journalists Know What It’s Like.
• Why Journalism Might Actually Be the Class of the Future
• Student Journalism in the Age of Media Distrust
• What I learned from student journalism changed everything
• How to Tell a Story from The New York Times
• Guide to building immersive storytelling projects from NPR

EXPERIENCES—

CONTESTS/SCHOLARSHIPS—

• New York Times | Learning Network 2018-19 Student Contests
  • Summer Reading Contest: June 14-Aug. 23, 2019

QUILL AND SCROLL INTERNATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY FOR HIGH SCHOOL JOURNALISTS—

• Quill and Scroll seeks to: (1) Encourage individual initiative in high school journalism, specifically in reporting, writing, design, leadership, photography and other related skills valuable to the journalistic endeavor; and (2) Recognize and reward the individual achievements of students engaged in journalistic activity. Eligibility requirements are: (a) must be of sophomore, junior or senior classification; and (b) must have the equivalent of a B grade average, or be in the upper third of their class in general scholastic standing.

• • Closed for the 2018-19 school year. Check back next year.

EPIC EXAMPLES and STORY IDEAS —

• 36 Teenagers Show Us Their Generation
• 48 of the Coolest Kids in New York
• NSPA Story of the Year Finalists have been added to the National JEA Flipboard Magazine.
• A Teenage Life from The California Sunday Magazine
• American Stories from The Washington Post
• Inside One of America’s Last Pencil Factories
• 8 Photo Stories That Will Challenge Your View Of The World
• Media Circus: The Best Journalism of 2017
• More Than 100 Exceptional Works of Journalism
• High School Students Explain Why They Protest Anthems and Pledges
• Mallory Pugh:
  • On Goal
  • USWNT’s Lindsey Horan, Mallory Pugh return to Colorado as trailblazers for American soccer
• DCSD students present on the floor of the Capitol
• Playing Tackle Football Before 12 Is Tied to Brain Problems Later
• #175Stories from Southwest Airlines
• Nederland’s Beth Buglione, the first female head football coach in Colorado high school history, ready to wade through adversity
• What Does America Stand For? We Asked Teenagers
• Why Are More American Teenagers Than Ever Suffering From Severe Anxiety?
• Not drinking or driving, teens increasingly put off traditional markers of adulthood
• The Resegregation of Jefferson County
• Rachel Martin’s High School Reunion on NPR
• New York Today: High School Regrets
• The Rooms Where Writers Work
• At the heart of every restaurant
• 2017 Pulitzer Prizes for journalism
• Teenage Documentarians Show the Power of Photography
• A Journey From ‘Real World’ to Homeless Shelter — and College
• Like. Flirst. Ghost: A Journey Into the Social Media Lives of Teenagers
• Inside Santa Monica High
• “The Moment” from the Dallas Morning News
• Justin Goes to College

WWW.4U.FUN—

• Comic Sans: The Man Behind the World’s Most Contentious Font
• Really, What Are Wingdings and Why Are They Important?
• Why the Wingdings font exists
• A typographic dating game!
• “Color” web game
• Oh Hell No: 12 Iconic Logos Redrawn Using Comic Sans
• The Elements of Style rap video (really!)
• The Evolution of the Web (really cool!)
• Comic Sans Criminal
• Reporter For High School Newspaper Most Professional Journalist In Nation (from the Onion)
• Check out this funny video, “Font Conference”

JOURNALISM OPPORTUNITIES—

• The Colorado Photographic Arts Center offers several photography workshops and hosts contests. CLICK HERE for all the details. Scholarships are available.

STUDENT MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISM ORGANIZATIONS—

• A student membership to the Student Press Law Center is only $15.
• Become a student member of the Society of News Design —$60 a year with some neat benefits.
• For Society of Professional Journalists student membership ($37.50) information, click here.
• Become a student member of the Radio Television Digital News Association for $65 a year.

JOURNALISM NATIONAL CONVENTIONS—

• November 21-24, 2019, Washington, D.C.
• April 16-19, 2020, Nashville
• November 19-22, 2020, Orlando
• April 8-10, 2021, Seattle
• Nov. 11-14, 2021, Philadelphia
• April 7-9, 2022, Los Angeles

SUMMER 2019—

• The Dow Jones News Fund has a Directory of High School Workshops for summer 2019.
• Please contact Mrs. Barnard or Mrs. Layton for more information.

COOL STUFF—

• Looking to create an online portfolio to showcase all of your epic work for college applications and/or contests, or just for you personal creativity? Take a look at Behance by Adobe.
• A mobile app is now available for free to help you learn the principles of the First Amendment. The app, available for your smartphone or your computer, explains the five freedoms protected by the First Amendment and features video clips of Dr. Dwight Teeter, a professor at the University of Tennessee and internationally known expert in First Amendment law. To download the app, click HERE.

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