Taylor Blatchford’s “The Lead” is another great resource for student-journalists

Quill and Scroll editor’s note: Taylor Blatchford is sharing with Quill and Scroll the first edition of her e-newsletter for student journalists — The Lead — in both college and high school. We encourage all our members and their advisers…

Hammers, fists, anvils. Feathers, smiles, candles.

Whichever metaphor suits you, the key to our collective future is the pursuit of truth. Philosophers, poets and marketers often use metaphors to define truth. For some, the truth is literally hard. The autobiography of 18th-century American…

Your official permission to be a know-it-all

Chat with Jackie Majerus

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Jackie Majerus co-founded the educational non-profit Youth Journalism International in 1994. Since then, she has grown the organization into more than a phenomenal writing experience. Jackie goes above and beyond to ensure success for her students…

Quill and Scroll will honor past while looking to the future

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…

The Q&S Q&A: Journalist Michael Kodas talks wildfires, environmental journalism

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…

Global Student Square connects student journalists from around the world

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Q&S Q&A with Beatrice Motamedi Executive Director, Global Student Square How did Global Student Square begin? I started GSS in 2015 during a John S. Knight fellowship in journalism at Stanford. But the seed of GSS was planted…

Skills are best applied to solve real-world problems

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By Erinn Aulfinger Lakota East (Ohio) HS, Class of 2017 (Editor's Note: Erinn Aulfinger is one of two 2017 winners of the George and Ophelia Gallup Scholarship awarded by Quill and Scroll. She is a freshman at Ohio State University in Columbus.) I’ve…