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Episode 38: Students Unmute Themselves, Part Three It’s finally Scholastic Journalism Week across the United States. Today, Thursday, Feb. 24, is also Student Press Freedom Day. This year’s Scholastic Journalism Week theme is “Amplifying Voices,” and that’s what this podcast — along with Episode 36 and Episode 37 — do. The voices we’...

Episode 36: Students Unmute Themselves, Part Two On Sunday, Feb. 20, Scholastic Journalism Week begins across the United States. This year’s theme is “Amplifying Voices,” and that’s what this podcast — along with one released last week and another in the next few days — will do. The voices we’ll amplify are those of the Quill and Scr...

Students Unmute Themselves: Part I We’re at a time in our country when local newsrooms are being hollowed out by rapacious hedge funds and other corporate entities that have no interest in local journalism. Because of that, the work being done by student journalists — at universities, colleges and high schools — takes on even m...

Episode 35: Ethics with Patrick Johnson, Part Two In the follow-up to last week's show, scholar and journalism adviser Patrick Johnson finishes his talk with Lauren White about ethics in journalism, specifically how to discern the best possible version of the truth, and how friendship can be both a help and a hindrance.

Episode 34: Ethics with Patrick Johnson, Part One Lauren White interviews scholar, journalism adviser and all-around ethical guy Patrick Johnson about Quill and Scroll's eight principles and how they intersect with journalistic codes of ethics. He tells some compelling personal stories and provides student-journalists with some valuable advice. Thi...

Episode 33: Covering Politics in High School and at College Host Lauren White talks about politics with two reporters from The Daily Iowan newspaper at the University of Iowa — Editor Caleb McCullough and reporter Natalie Dunlap. Caleb and Natalie discuss their time as high school journalists and all the things they've learned about political reporting sin...

Episode 32: Walker Watson and DocuFriends In this episode, listen to the story of Mira Costa HS senior Walker Watson and his efforts teaching elementary-age students in Southern California about how to produce good journalism. His work embodies the Quill and Scroll principle of "friendship." WALKER WATSON

Episode 31: Jack Kennedy on critiques Quill and Scroll board member and former JEA president Jack Kennedy visits with Sylvia Clubb about the importance of news media and yearbook critiques, specifically the value of the Quill and Scroll News Media Evaluation service. The deadline for entering is June 15, but there's no need to wait if y...

Episode 30: Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg Writer, novelist, memoirist and poet Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg joins Jeff Browne to talk about sports writing — specifically how sports memoir and sports profiles can be enlivened by looking to poetic and literary devices to make your work sing on the screen or page. Mirriam-Goldberg is the former po...

Episode 29: JEA President Sarah Nichols We welcome Sarah Nichols to the SOURCE, and she obliges by discussing how she uses Quill and Scroll's eight guiding principles as lessons for her students to share. In addition, you'll hear about managing JEA during the pandemic, the status of the JEA Advisers Institute, the National High School Jou...

Episode 28: Scholastic Journalism Week Here is Quill and Scroll's Student Advisory Board speaking about the issues that matter the most to them and how they value scholastic journalism both as a means for learning about the world around and for connecting with their peers and their communities. Sylvia Clubb hosts.

Episode 27: Entering the WPM Contest Host Sylvia Clubb talks with Quill and Scroll Executive Director Jeff Browne and Administrative Assistant Judy Hauge about the Writing, Photo and Multimedia Contest, which has a Feb. 5 entry deadline. They discuss: The purpose of the contest The 34 categories, including the four new categories The h...