COVID-19 BEST PRACTICES BLACK LIVES MATTER VOL. 54 | ISSUE 1 Over some 10 weeks of virtual A student photojournalist in FALL 2020 school and lockdown, students Kansas City set out to document kept covering their schools and the rallies downtown. She said it A PUBLICATION OF THE JOURNALISM INSIDE. communities despite isolation. was an “eye-opener.” EDUCATION ASSOCIATION. COMMUNICATION: JOURNALISM EDUCATION TODAY Distribution Problem? Now Offering Bulk- Mailing Services Printers of quality student newspapers, newsmagazines, literary magazines, playbills and more. [email protected] 845-297-9900 Parker King - editor of The Hurricane, Cape Fear Academy, Wilmington, North Carolina “Instead of focusing on what politicians are saying, let’s center our news coverage on the people who elected them. What are the needs of voters, workers, employers, job-seekers, nurses, doctors? What do they want to know?” | BRIAN STELTER, CNN BUSINESS REPLY ALL 3 | PHOTOJOURNALISM FROM THE JEA LISTSERV PHOTO ASSIGNMENTS Sarah Verpooten, MJE, Lake Central Karl Grubaugh, CJE; Kate Peterson; and High School (St. John, Indiana), Jeff Gabbard, CJE, developed creative [email protected] | My students have decided to change photo assignments. | By Bradley the names of the yearbook and Wilson, MJE newsmagazine. We are the Lake Central • More assignments by Debra Klevens, Indians and, while the kids can’t change Cary Conover, Pia Longinotti and the mascot themselves, they do have Kim McCarthy control over their products, which had JEA CURRICULUM LINK: https://curriculum.jea.org/wp/ Native American references as names planning-visual-coverage-to-attract-attention/ (Scout and Quiver). They did an in-depth piece on the 8 | TECHNOLOGY mascot in April and the outgoing EIC challenged the incoming editorial board ZOOM in print to make the switch. They are. Zoom’s videoconferencing tool became As advisers, we had no real hand in the the de facto standard almost overnight. change, and we were super proud of YEAH! | By Bradley Wilson, MJE them for doing what they felt was right. JEA CURRICULUM LINK: https://curriculum.jea.org/wp/ Avvie Jones and Harlie Leeper celebrate their 22nd point of the match against the Bulldogs during leadership-and-team-building/ their first set. The celebration was short-lived, however, as the Lady Rebels fell in two sets to Anne Reamer, Lexington Two Gideon High School (Missouri). Photo by Dacie Ritch, Richland R-1 School (Essex, Missouri) Innovation Center (Cayce, South 14 | PHOTOJOURNALISM Carolina), [email protected] | I am preparing for the fall with my CTE MY LIFE director. We are migrating from iPads to For some instructors, being in isolation Chromebooks for students’ one-to-one COVID-19 presented an opportunity. | By devices. I have iMacs in my lab but and the scholastic media Shannon Oden feel certain that we will not be on a JEA CURRICULUM LINK: https://curriculum.jea.org/wp/ traditional schedule this fall. Can anyone what-makes-a-photo-powerful/ tell me what I need to tell IT and my CTE FALL 2020 | VOLUME 54 | NUMBER 1 director to get the ball rolling? 48 | COVERAGE IN THE FIELD COVER Erin Ailworth, a correspondent with FOR THE TEACHERS Yelling with the The Wall Street Journal, discusses how crowd, senior Eliza Kidder along with she covers breaking news. more than 200 other students left . JEA CURRICULUM LINK: https://curriculum.jea.org/wp/ fourth-hour classes to show their contentCOVID-19 s interviewing-basics/ and the scholastic media support Jan. 31 on the school’s front BEST PRACTICES | COVERAGE (and some of the best work) 20 lawn. The walkout protested the by student media during a 54 | COVERAGE board of education’s contract offer BEST PRACTICES to teachers after negotiations with GLOBAL Last spring, the National Scholastic Press Association EYE-OPENER National Education Association and PANDEMIC invited schools to submit material related to their coverage A high school junior discusses how By GARY LUNDGREN Shawnee Mission broke down. After National Scholastic Press Association, associate director she covered Black Lives Matter ocked out of their schools and journalism labs by a global pandemic, of COVID-19. Despite the fact that schools were closed, scholastic journalists accepted the challenge of safely covering what federal mediation, the board offered Larguably is the story of the decade or perhaps a lifetime. In most years, “readers first” is the mantra of journalists. However, this year “safety first” became the paramount concern. demonstrations in Kansas City, Missouri. Whether working remotely at home or in the school parking lot, sitting in a car with a laptop remotely accessing the school server, COVID-19 proved to be students had no access to servers and advisers couldn’t a three-year unilateral contract that Visit the NATIONAL a defining moment for scholastic journalism. 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NSPA added COVID-19 categories to its spring Best of Show competition, Kansas Department of Labor later held remotely after the cancellation of the National High School Journalism convention in Nashville. NSPA also added COVID-19 categories to the 2020 practices regardless of medium. | By Gary Lundgren news-gathering/ NSPA Individual Awards. 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