NO LONGER EXTRA PLAY WITH LIGHT VOL. 54 | ISSUE 4 Social media is the story, in many Photography means “to write with SUMMER 2021 different forms, all by itself. And light.” Photographers need to look advisers need to learn how, why for texture, shape and changes in A PUBLICATION OF THE JOURNALISM INSIDE. and when to use different forms. light according to Mark Murray. EDUCATION ASSOCIATION. COMMUNICATION: JOURNALISM EDUCATION TODAY Introducing our Short Run Magazine Quality Full Color Hybrid Tabloid Sizes up to 9.5” x 13” Quick turnaround Printed on 70# white offset Your one source for quality student newspapers news-magazines www.schoolpaperexpress.com literary magazines 845-297-9900 playbills and more [email protected] News consumption used to be about daily habits — reading the paper every morning, watching the 6 o’clock news every night. Now it seeps into our days as much or as little as we want it to. | JOSHUA BENTON, DIRECTOR, THE NIEMAN JOURNALISM LAB REPLY ALL 11 | SOCIAL MEDIA FROM THE JEA LISTSERV STORYTELLING Rod Satterthwaite, MJE, adviser, Palo Social media is no longer an option, Alto High School (California), rod. an extra. It’s just as important as other [email protected] | I have some sad news to share from Northern media, if not more so, according to California about the passing of a JEA Sarah Nichols, MJE. | By Louisa Avery, and JEA NorCal legend, Hilda Walker. MJE Hilda, 94, died Feb. 2. JEA CURRICULUM LINK: https://curriculum.jea.org/wp/ fair-use-and-social-media/ Excerpts from a brief obituary written by Ed Galdrikian | For nearly 15 years, she was the JEA National 18 | PHOTOJOURNALISM Write-Off director. Winner of the Carl Towley Award, she taught for 33 years PLAYING WITH LIGHT at Webster Middle School in Stockton, Four characteristics — quantity, quality, California. direction and color — describe all light, according to Mark Murray. | By Emily Katherine Olson, Monte Vista Jorgensen High School (Danville, California), JEA CURRICULUM LINK: https://curriculum.jea.org/wp/ [email protected] | My staff wants to lighting-in-photography/ use Instagram to promote stories and drive traffic to our website. Has anyone else used Instagram in this way? 27 | PHOTOJOURNALISM Susan Sutton, CJE, Archbishop MY EYES ON YOU. Kasey Dean watches as pitcher Makena Geist winds up to pitch the ball so she can WRITING CAPTIONS Riordan High School (San Francisco), lead off first base while standing next to Kaylie Stitch at the Erie High School Tournament Aug. 28, Photo captions are the most-read body [email protected] | My staff does 2020. The Bulldogs beat the Mustangs 11-1. “I want to put myself in scoring position so getting a type in a publication. Good captions this. They create a calendar for days to head start off first base gives me the best opportunity to steal second,” Dean said. Photo by Jespyn promote certain stories on Instagram Bishop, Brighton High School (Colorado) tell stories. View some of the winning and Twitter. They try to pair similar entries in the Quill & Scroll caption stories or post them on days that writing contest. | By Bradley Wilson, correlate with the story. SUMMER 2021 | VOLUME 54 | NUMBER 4 MJE JEA CURRICULUM LINK: https://curriculum.jea.org/wp/ COVER caption-writing-headlining-photos/ From photographer Peyton Sims, Texas High School (Texarkana) | “During April when my town was pre- 33 | PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH paring to enter lockdown, I was travel- STEPS TO AUTONOMY ing throughout Texarkana to document . contents Extracurricular advisers face unique the pandemic from vacant grocery store Make your staff an challenges in fostering autonomy. As shelves to hospitals. One of my stops Editing 2 | EDITING was my grandmother’s house where part of her master’s degree program at MachineBY LAURA NEGRI, CJE EDITING hange your staff mindset to accept Kent State, Coppens created a website I could visit with her only from the critique from the beginning of the Cprocess. That is the first step to “Make Your Staff an Editing Machine,” presented by Shari Adwers, MJE, of Loudoun Valley High School (Purcellville, Virginia) at the 2020 Advisers For advisers and student leaders, deciding who should do to serve as a resource for such advisers . opposite side of her glass door. As I was Institute. “Take a good, hard look at yourself,” Adwers told participants in her session, “and that doesn’t mean just as an adviser. That’s what you need to ask your staffs to do.” talking with my grandma, Frieda Sims, Reflection on strengths and weaknesses sets what and when is a delicate balance. | By Lindsay Coppens the staff up to be open to critique throughout the process. Editors and advisers need to “intervene early and often” in the creation process, from fied as first readers look at the story angle, SHARI ADWERS the pitch meeting through the planning, early the basic facts, sources used, and questions teaches a class on through the other side of the glass, digital workflow at JEA CURRICULUM LINK: https://curriculum.jea.org/wp/ drafts and designs, to the editor and adviser’s answered. Second readers look for originality, the 2017 Journalism previews at the end. Adwers said final review logical flow, strength of writing and journalistic Education Association is almost unnecessary if the early interventions style. Adwers does second reads for younger Advisers Institute at the Linq Hotel in have sent the students in the right direction. students and for those who have weaknesses Las Vegas. Photo by Even the newest staff members can intervene if in specific areas. Larger staffs may use a three- Bradley Wilson • Megan Fromm suggests that advisers work to ease the understanding-journalistic-forum-status/ this powerful moment inspired me to they understand the process and how critique read system with copy editors completing the improves the work. third review. All the reads are done within 24 Adwers uses the video “Austin’s Butterfly: hours of the completed draft. Building Excellence in Student Work,” show- Adwers said the key is to make the revision ing educator Ron Berger leading a critique in process part of the culture. It should be pub- Austin’s Butterfly: take out my camera and capture this Building Excellence in an elementary classroom, to demonstrate feed- lic, it should be constructive, and it should be editing burden by setting editing goals and coaching Student Work back through multiple drafts. expected. https://vimeo. Forms such as a pitch page and a story plan- “Too often, beginning writers think they do com/38247060 ner guide students’ thinking in the early stages a draft, they get a read, they get a second read of creation. Adapting her methods toward the and they’re done,” she said. “You should expect end of the academic year, Adwers created a multiple revisions.” There should not be a set photograph.” hyperdoc with links to a Netflix pitch meeting number of drafts; the process should continue for “Tiger King” and to coverage of the coro- until the deadline. Yearbook spreads might be their staff. | By Trisa Dyer navirus to help her beginning students under- posted in the room so everyone has a chance stand a strong pitch and effective coverage. to give feedback. She used a Google Sheet to compile pitches Students need to understand feedback is for other students to review and give feedback. not personal, Adwers said. A multiple-read system involves many stu- “They are not up on the table being cri- dents in the critique process. Each read has tiqued; their product is,” she said. “But it’s an specific goals, Adwers said. Students identi- important way to grow.” n ADVERTISERS SUMMER 2021 COMMUNICATION: JOURNALISM EDUCATION TODAY | a publication of the Journalism Education Association | 3 • Shari Adwers, MJE, recommends that advisers turn their A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass staffs into editing machines. | By Laura Negri, CJE Communications, Kansas State University ........ 24-25 ArchiveInABox ...................................................................44 • The Associated Press Stylebook issues hundreds of Association of Texas Photography Instructors .26, 47 updates each year. Includes two ready-to-use exercises. 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