Entries by Jeff Browne
Weekly Scroll for May 24, 2019
News, Tips and Advice from Quill and Scroll’s Jeff Browne “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set ye free.” — Quill and Scroll motto The Lede Remembering Our Fallen In the days leading up to Memorial Day 2019, the United States continues to be a country riven by political differences: The House […]
Texas journalist wins top Q&S scholarship
Six students from five states earn awards to help them study journalism in college Sophia Ryland from A. N. McCallum High School in Austin, Texas has been named the 2019 winner of the George and Ophelia Gallup Scholarship from Quill and Scroll, the International Honor Society for High School Journalists. Ryland, who will study journalism […]
The Weekly Scroll for May 10, 2019
News, Tips and Advice from Quill and Scroll The Lede Tragedy — again — in Colorado Politics have again intruded on grieving students who simply wanted to mourn and remember a deceased friend and classmate. Journalists heard about it straight from the survivors. Students walked out of a gun-control rally Wednesday night in Highlands Ranch, […]
The Weekly Scroll for May 3, 2019
It’s the May Day After, so it’s time for a Scroll through the news flowers! The Lede Chickens and politicians, Part I Fried chicken showed up in both the White House and Congress this week, for very different reasons. First, President Donald J. Trump served up another fast-food banquet (including a bunch of Chick-fil-A) to […]
The Weekly Scroll for April 26, 2019
News, tips and advice from the Quill and Scroll Honor Society for High School Journalists The Lede Kentucky students barred from DeVos event rip secretary of education Student journalists in Kentucky are crying “foul” after they were turned away from an 11 a.m. mid-week appearance in their hometown, Lexington, by U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy […]
The Weekly Scroll for April 18, 2019
The Lede Redacted report falls short of saying Trump committed crimes The Mueller Report landed Thursday and it appears it will turn out better for President Trump than even he anticipated when he heard two years ago about the appointment of Robert Mueller as a special counsel charged with investigating Russian interference into the 2016 […]
Texas adviser wins Benz scholarship
Andrea Negri of Alief Hastings HS in Houston earns $500 from Quill and Scroll Andrea Negri of Alief Hastings High School in Houston, Texas has been named the winner of the 2019 Lester G. Benz Memorial Scholarship, which is awarded annually to a high school journalism teacher by Quill and Scroll. Quill and Scroll will […]
The Weekly Scroll for April 12, 2019
The Lede Colorado news site looks at the 20 years since Columbine It has been nearly 20 years since unspeakable horror unfolded at Columbine High School in suburban Denver, where two school shooters firebombed and shot dozens of their schoolmates, killing 12 students, one teacher and themselves. The new online news site The Colorado Sun […]
The Chronicle wins Student Journalist Impact Award from Q&S, JEA
Quill and Scroll and the Journalism Education Association have named The Chronicle staff at Classical Academy High School in Escondido, California, as winner of the 2019 Student Journalist Impact Award. After the death of one of their classmates, the staff of The Chronicle knew it needed to do something to help the school and community […]
The Weekly Scroll for April 5, 2019
The Lede Mueller’s investigators say Barr memo isn’t quite accurate A little more than a week after U.S. Attorney General William Barr released a four-page memo purporting to summarize Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s two-year investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, some of the 19 attorneys from Mueller’s team are now saying Barr’s memo […]
