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foot of the Appalachians.
On Visiting Professionals Day, professionals
around the state came to campus to work one-onone with students to edit students’ stories for print,
and suggest multimedia angles. Students also visited
The Birmingham News magazine and many local
tourist attractions.
Students learned not only about beat reporting,
but also produced original stories of their own, which
are in the MJP Journal (with an expanded version
that includes video and audio online).
Student work can be seen at http://MJW2014.
weebly.com.
Illinois
Susie Knoblauch, formerly with the Illinois High
School Association, received the Friend of Scholastic Journalism Award from the Illinois Journalism
Education Association at its Fall Conference at the
University of Illinois. Knoblauch has been at the helm
of the statewide journalism contest for the past nine
years and has been a supporter of advisers and their
students.
IJEA’s board of directors has three new members:
FALL 2014
Angie Brown, an adviser at Greenfield HS; Katie
Comeford, an adviser at Phoenix Military Academy;
and Trudy Hurd, an adviser at Cisne HS. Brenda
Field, a former board member from Glenbrook South
HS, became the new JEA state director for Illinois
when the position was vacated by Stan Zoller, now
the East Region director for JEA.
KEMPA
Missouri
FEEDBACK — Junior writer Abigail Faircloth and sophomore writer
Hydeia Nutt receive feedback on their features assignment for The
Royal News from adviser Chris Waugaman. Photo by Ronnie Dayvault/
The Royal News
A group of journalism
teachers in Missouri officially
rolled out the Missouri Journalism Education Associ-
ation in late August to help protect and
enhance scholastic journalism in Missouri.
Benefits of the new JEA-affiliate include:
• More than a dozen individual student
contests
• The first All-State Journalism Team in
Missouri
• Access to an Adviser Help Button if
troubles arise
• The only state-sponsored summer workshop Media Now STL and member-only
student scholarships
• A monthly e-newsletter
• Opportunity to apply or recommend
someone for the State MJEA Student
Journalist of the Year, Adviser of the Year
and Rising Star Awards
• Opportunity to nominate someone deserving for the State Administrator of the Year
and Friend of Scholastic Journalism.
• Support from colleagues statewide
MJEA is working to form Missouri’s
largest organization of scholastic advisers
from schools of all sizes throughout all
parts of Missouri.
For more details, check out the site:
www.missourijea.org or contact Mitch
Eden, president, at eden@thekirkwoodcall. HONOR — Teresa Johnson, Chantilly (Va.) HS principal, has been named JEA’s 2014 Administrator of the
com.
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