3
L E T TER FROM EDITOR
By Adrienne L. Forgette, MJE
W
ith the presidential
election only
weeks away, I am
sure most of us are
looking for ways to go beyond
the polarizing presidential
candidates to make the issues
of the election meaningful to
our students and our schools.
My online news staff is
exploring how to adapt
The New York Times’
#HereIsMyAmerica project
to have a conversation about
race relations at our school as
a way to localize the national
issues the election brings up.
On page 12, Gary Clites shares
five election coverage ideas
publication staffs can use to
provide local angles to cover
the national election. If the
candidates happen to be
coming to your town, consider
obtaining press credentials
for your students to cover the
event.
Have your publication staffs
decide now how to capture
students’ reactions to the
outcome on Wednesday,
Nov. 9 so this historical race is
captured in the pages of your
yearbooks, newspapers or
broadcasts. Send me copies of
your coverage to be featured
in our next issue.
For a historical perspective on
presidential election coverage
and the impact it can have
on a budding journalist, read
Richard J. Levine’s recollection
of his days as a reporter at
Cornell covering the KennedyNixon election on page 6.
Maggie Gottlieb, broadcast
reporter for Maryland
Newsline: CNS-TV and our
collegiate contributor for this
month’s “What I Wish I Had
Known” column, shares tips
she learned from covering
the Democratic National
Convention and gives us an
inside look on what it’s like
to be in a college broadcast
program on page 17.
If you have a former student
who is currently actively
involved in a college media
program to nominate for our
next issue’s column, please
email me.
~ Adrienne Forgette
Editor-in-Chief
Adrienne Forgette is the Media
Arts Director at the Darlington
School in Rome, Georgia, where
she advises the Jabberwokk
yearbook, Darlingtonian online
newspaper and Inkslinger
literary magazine. Forgette
was recently named a 2016
Lindblad Expedition and
National Geographic Grosvenor
Teacher Fellow. She holds a B.A.
from Colgate University and
an M.A. from the University of
Maryland, College Park. E-mail:
[email protected]