News, tips and advice from the Quill and Scroll International Honor Society Compiled and written by Quill and Scroll journalist Caitlyn Martin The Lede: Navigating Bad News Pennsylvania’s Elizabethtown Area High School’s student newspaper found themselves in a tricky spot after posting a controversial interview with a school board member online without administration approval. Read […]
News, tips and advice from the Quill and Scroll International Honor Society Compiled and written by Quill and Scroll journalists Marni Wax and Caitlyn Martin The Lede: Parkland Teens teach power of passion and persistence. Empowered student survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting are making waves in the battle for gun control. […]
News, tips and advice from the Quill and Scroll International Honor Society Compiled and written by Quill and Scroll journalist Marni Wax The Lede: The tragedies go unaddressed. Almost two decades later, countless mass shootings and dozens of killed students, it’s clear that nothing has changed (or has even started to). Every debate is the […]
News, tips and advice from the Quill and Scroll International Honor Society Compiled and written by Quill and Scroll journalist Marni Wax The Lede: The Truth Shall Set You Free So your cranky Uncle Jethro keeps telling you: “There is absolutely no way that the Legacy Media (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, NYT, WashPo, etc) will […]
Oprah, Dianne and Katharine. And Scroll. News, tips and advice from the Quill and Scroll International Honor Society Compiled and written by Quill and Scroll journalists The Lede: Celebrity Presidents? Oprah in the Oval Office? You all have probably at least heard about — if you haven’t watched it — media mogul Oprah Winfrey’s speech […]
News, tips and advice from the Quill and Scroll International Honor Society Compiled and written by Quill and Scroll journalists The Lede: Access and Credibility “You can’t make this (stuff) up.” That was former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s motto while he worked for President Trump for most of 2017. Now there’s more evidence, […]
My name is Jeff Browne, and it is my distinct honor to address you for the first time as the executive director of Quill and Scroll. I come to this role after 27 years spent as a journalism educator and adviser, from Smoky Hill High School to Colorado State University, the University of Kansas and […]
News, tips and advice from the Quill and Scroll International Honor Society. Compiled and written by Marni Wax, Allison Wunder and Emily LaGrange. The Lede: #GirlBoss In this day and age, nothing is more important than freedom of expression, especially in the opinionated generation many of us belong to. Someone who emcompasses this is Hadar […]
Wildfires are ravaging the American West, hurricanes are pounding the South, so there’s never been a more appropriate time for all journalists to produce useful stories about the environment — but those stories don’t all need to be treatises on the impact of climate change. There are good environmental stories out there for high school […]
News, tips and advice from the Quill and Scroll International Honor Society. Compiled and written by Marni Wax, Allison Wunder and Emily LaGrange. The Lede: The water is coming, the water is coming! For all of our teacher or adviser readers…first day of school jitters this year? Just think about how jittery these teachers were, […]
News, tips and advice from the Quill and Scroll International Honor Society. Compiled and written by Allison Wunder, Marni Wax and Emily LaGrange. The Lede: More fake news and how to fight it The investigative reporting of six students at Pittsburg (Kansas) High School’s newspaper led to the resignation of a newly hired principal, Amy […]
