"You can find them on the ground": Reporting on Vaping at High Schools
Alex calls on four student journalism superheroes raising the public awareness of vaping in their high schools. How do you tell your readers about the dangers of something with few facts and so many u...
31 Jan 201925min
Winning Awards with Brian Higgins
Brian Higgins, adviser at Liberty High School, talks to Alex about why the SNO Distinguished Sites program matters, how it sets the table for future success, using it in the classroom, and why there s...
16 Jan 201916min
Recruiting and Marketing Your Journalism Class
Chris Grazier, journalism adviser at Cathedral Catholic High School, talks to Alex about the sensible, achievable ways he has recruited and marketed his journalism class, thus growing El Cid's publica...
9 Jan 201928min
Localizing the "Issues" with The Kirkwood Call
Jack Rintoul, editor-in-chief of The Kirkwood Call, talks about the publication's "Issues issue," which localized a broad set of national topics and news, bringing it closer to home for their readers.
12 Des 201821min
Scholarship Opportunity
Got summer plans? Catherine Cheney explains why high school juniors serious about journalism should consider the Al Neuharth Free Spirit and Journalism Conference, a week in D.C. with journalism nuts ...
26 Nov 201817min
Music journalist Gary Graff
On location in Lansing, Mich., Alex talks to music journalist Gary Graff about why perspective and context is everything to a review, the most important details to dig for in a music feature, and a fe...
8 Nov 201821min
Creepy and Unexplained
Student journalist America Moreno discusses the origins of her developing series of columns, titled "Creepy and Unexplained," and the first unsolved case she researched.
31 Okt 201813min
Media Law with Jonathan Peters
Jonathan Peters, a media law professor at the University of Georgia and press freedom correspondent for the Columbia Journalism Review, reviews student press rights, specifically in covering an electi...
24 Okt 201822min
