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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
By Erica A. Hernandez CNN During the last two weeks of January about 1,000 jobs in media lost as the result of layoffs announced at BuzzFeed, HuffPost and Gannett — the nation’s largest newspaper chain. Let that sink in for a minute. As someone currently working in media, this scares me. As a student journalist, […]
The Lede: Attorney General William Barr released a four-page memo over the weekend that purports to summarize the report generated by Special Counsel Robert Mueller report, who led a team of more than a dozen attorneys and investigators in looking into how the Russian government and Russian oligarchs helped interfere in the 2016 U.S. elections […]
