Adviser Update Spring 2014
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■ Who are we?
The Dow Jones News Fund, a nonprofit foundation supported by the Dow Jones
Foundation and other newspaper companies,
encourages young people to consider
journalism careers.
■ Adviser Update’s mission
Adviser Update, a newsletter published by the
Dow Jones News Fund for high school journalism teachers and publications advisers, is
a free quarterly serving the inexperienced as
well as the veteran. It will be the seminal free
resource for these educators, a clearinghouse
of practical, topical information.
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■ Contacting Adviser Update
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George Taylor, Adviser Update editor.
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BY RANDY HAMM
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P.O. Box 300
Princeton, NJ 08543-0300
609-452-2820
WINNERS — For the first time The Newsies! offered a Best Middle School Newspaper and the
staff of The Clinton Post at The Clinton School for Artists and Writers (pictured here) received
an honorable mention.
Best in
the Big
Apple
F
orty-one teens were honored
at the 2013 Newsies!, the only
high school journalism competition for New York City student
journalists.
The big winners were The Murrow Report (Edward R. Murrow
HS), Dow Jones Best Overall
Print Newspaper, and The Classic (Townsend Harris HS), Dow
Jones Best Overall Online News
Site.
The Classic, Murrow Report
and Brooklyn Latineer (Brooklyn
Latin School) each walked away
with six awards.
The ceremony, which took place
as part of the 10th NYC High
School Journalism Conference,
was hosted by Michael Aronson of
the New York Daily News editorial
board and produced by the NYC
High School Journalism Collaborative at Baruch College.
Winners were published on the
New York Daily News Online at
http://www.nydailynews.com/newyork/education/newsies.
https://www.Newsfund.org
GOING FOR THE GOLD — The
Murrow Report took home the
gold for the second year for Dow
Jones Best Overall Print Newspaper at the 2013 Newsies! at
Baruch College. Update photos by
Glenda Hydler
SHUT
DOWN
Elimination of an established
journalism program is a
huge loss for a school
ast Bakersfield (Calif.) HS celebrated its 75th anniversary this
past fall with a community celebration. Among the many traditions
that began with the founding of the
school is the school newspaper,
produced through the decades by
a single journalism class. But the
principal cancelled the class for
this year.
Principal Lee Vasquez told The
Bakersfield Californian he hated to
put an end to The Kernal but said
he made the call due to budget
constraints, lack of sufficient numbers in the journalism class, and
the need to focus on test scores
and the core academic subjects.
“It was a tough decision we
had to make,” Vasquez told the
local paper. “I hate the idea of The
Kernal being shut down on my
watch.”
A group of committed student
volunteers, led by a volunteer
adviser, have stepped up to produce quarterly issues of The Kernal during their after-school hours
in hopes of keeping up student
interest in journalism on campus.
They are lobbying Vasquez to
reinstate the class next year, but
if he doesn’t, there are no plans to
continue the paper.
This is not an isolated incident.
East High is the latest of several in
this district of 18 comprehensive
high schools to lose its student
journalism class in recent years.
Only seven journalism programs
remain in the Kern High School
District, and none of the three new
campuses opened in the past six
years have included journalism as
an elective.
Although some have suggested that top district administrators want a journalism-free district,
recently retired members of the
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