The Art of Typography

We see and use type everyday, but the typefaces you use for your publication do more than facilitate reading comprehension, they set the mood for the entire publication. Find how ...

NSPA Picture of the Year

Check out the winners of the 2011 NSPA Picture of the Year Contest.  

Summer Planning Guide (and bonding too!)

Summer is an important time of year to make decisions about your publication’s content, policies and more. Learn what you can do this summer to make your publication even better ...

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Checkout This Newsroom

Checkout This Newsroom

Seoul International School explains how their students embrace journalism through competition. By ...
A Principal’s Perspective

A Principal’s Perspective

Evans Bryant Branigan III is the principal of North Central High School ...

Creative money-making strategies

By Brian Hayes Advertising dollars for student media are becoming harder and ...

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Create a Corrections Policy

It’s the most dreaded phone call – the dad who is upset with her son’s misspelled name or the mom who is livid over her daughter being misidentified in a photo. These situations are a fact of the life for even the most diligent yearbook programs. By Kim Green If your staff hasn’t adopted and [...]

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NSPA: Find Passion, Blaze a New Trail

By Logan Aimone In January, I came across a remembrance in The New York Times of a pioneering photographer who had died recently. I read with interest about Louise Serpa and how she came to love both photography and rodeo. She was a pioneer in both. I grew up in a rodeo town, and one [...]

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Ask Kim: Media Students Gain Edge

A senior marking off the days until graduation … a freshman deciding to which staff you will devote your high school career … a junior or sophomore trying to move into a leadership position …  this edition of “Ask Kim” is for YOU! Terrence: Hey, Kim! I’m having a hard time convincing my parents, my [...]

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Welcome from Brian

By no means would I consider myself a sports fanatic. I enjoy sports and have watched my fair share of high school, college and professional games over the years, but that has even dwindled to near nothing since I have three young girls at home. My magenta-saturated life is more about playing with baby dolls, [...]

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Branding Your Publications

Turn your publication staffs into a cohesive brand online, in print and through social media. By Tom Gayda/Adviser/North Central High School/Indianapolis, Ind. It must have been back in about 2004 when we started working through what was being called convergence journalism. The newspaper and magazine I advised would collaborate with the radio/TV program at our [...]

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