The Journalism Education Association, as the nation’s largest association of scholastic journalism educators and secondary school media advisers, denounces the practice of administrative prior review as serving no legitimate educational purpose. Prior review leads only to censorship by school officials or to self-censorship by students with no improvement in journalistic quality or learning. Better strategies…
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Answer: To celebrate. Not to protest the war. Not to protest cold winter temperatures nor how the economy is affecting their college plans. But they wear them to honor a 40-year-old U. S. Supreme Court decision. Tinker v. Des Moines, originally about the right to wear black armbands to protest an unpopular war, laid the…
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At the closing ceremony of the JEA/NSPA convention in Phoenix, JEA announced the recipient of the $5,000 Journalist of the Year scholarship and runners up. 2009 NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR and winner of $5,000 Sister Rita Jeanne Scholarship: Henry Rome, Conestoga High School, Berwyn, Pa. (Susan Houseman, CJE, and Cyndi Crothers-Hyatt advisers)…
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Note: These minutes are not considered official until approved by the JEA Board of Directors at its next meeting. Minutes of the Journalism Education Association General Membership Meeting Friday, April 17, 2009 Hyatt Regency, Phoenix President Jack Kennedy called the meeting to order at 8:05 a.m. In attendance were: Jack Kennedy, MJE, President and Executive/Finance…
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New board members elected Of the potential 2,175 potential voters, 616 people actually voted for a voter turnout of 28.3%. In the regional elections, Region 4 (south central), the largest region, also had the largest voter turnout without a voter turnout of about 30 percent. The Board members take office July 1. President Jack Kennedy…
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