CHANTILLY, VA. — Mary Kay Downes, yearbook adviser at Chantilly High School, learned on Dec. 3 that the Journalism Education Association has named her as the 2007 National Yearbook Adviser of the Year. In a special ceremony her school, H. L. Hall, JEA’s Yearbook Adviser of the Year committee chair, and Linda Puntney, JEA’s executive…
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2,191 participants 664 award recipients (30.3%) 116 Superiors (17.4%) 195 Excellents (29.4%) 353 Honorable Mentions (53.2%) CONTEST RATING RECIPIENT SCHOOL – STATES Newswriting Superior Elizabeth Beilman Assumption High School – KY Newswriting Superior Alyson Halpert Community High School – MI Newswriting Superior Laura Valentine DuPont Manual High School – KY Newswriting Superior Sarah Bufkin Henry…
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Students at Snoqualmie Valley’s Washington High School will not face prior review and will publish their first issue Friday. Meeting Thursday, Nov. 5 with district administrators, publication students and their adviser, Washington Journalism Education Education (WJEA) representative Fern Valentine reports the principal agreed to have a policy without prior review. The news comes on the…
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Student Press Law Center Executive Director Frank LoMonte said the third edition of the SPLC’s Law of the Student Pressis ready for sale at the JEA/NSPA convention in St. Louis. The book is 416 pages and updates the last edition, published in 1994. Updates include the latest developments in online publishing law, “fair use” of…
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed one of the nation’s toughest and most forward-looking laws protecting teachers against unfair retaliation when they stand up for their students’ First Amendment rights. For the SPLC story, go here.
