This year’s Scholastic Journalism Week theme is “Amplifying Voices,” and that’s what this podcast — along with Episode 36 and Episode 37 — do. The voices we’ll amplify are those of the Quill and Scroll Student Advisory Board.

In this episode, you’ll hear from four young journalists who are working to make their communities a better place. They are McKenna Hudson from Saint Charles, Missouri; sisters Kasey and Riley Thompson of Harrisonburg, Virginia; and Melissa Liu of Johns Creek, Georgia.

You’ll hear them talk of the important stories they’re working on and their Quill and Scroll projects, both in their own communities and as part of the national Student Advisory Board.

In addition, they’ll address Student Press Freedom Day and its theme — Unmute Yourself.

This year’s theme is “Amplifying Voices,” and that’s what this podcast — along with one released last week and another in the next few days — will do. The voices we’ll amplify are those of the Quill and Scroll Student Advisory Board.

In this episode, you’ll hear from three young journalists who are working to make their communities a better place. They are Sandra Koretz from Los Angeles, California; Aric Shah from Austin, Texas; and Caroline Mascardo from Iowa City, Iowa.

You’ll hear them talk of the important stories they’re working on and their future in journalism. In addition, they’ll address another important part of Scholastic Journalism Week — Student Press Freedom Day. This year’s Student Press Freedom Day theme is Unmute Yourself.

For more information about Scholastic Journalism Week and Student Press Freedom Day, please visit the Journalism Education Association and the Student Press Law Center. And as always, go to Quill-and-Scroll.org to learn more about the great work that student journalists are doing and about how you can honor your students for their exemplary work covering their communities.

Stay tuned for Parts Three of this series due on Thursday, Feb. 24, which is Student Press Freedom Day.

On Sunday, Feb. 20, we shine a light on their work because it’s Scholastic Journalism Week across the United States.

This year’s theme is "Amplifying Voices," and that’s what this podcast — along with two more released in the next few days — will do. The voices we’ll amplify are those of the Quill and Scroll Student Advisory Board.

In this episode, you’ll hear from four young journalists who are working to make their communities a better place — They are — Aleen Gul from McLean, Virginia; Kathleen Ortiz from Kingwood Park, Texas; Emma Diehl from Trinity, Florida; and Kate Farr from Antwerp, Ohio.

You’ll hear them talk of the important stories they’re working on and their future in journalism.

In addition, they’ll address another important part of Scholastic Journalism Week — Student Press Freedom Day. This year’s Student Press Freedom Day theme is #unmuteyourself.

Enjoy.

Lauren White interviews scholar, journalism adviser and all-around ethical guy Patrick Johnson about Quill and Scroll's eight principles and how they intersect with journalistic codes of ethics. He tells some compelling personal stories and provides student-journalists with some valuable advice. This is the first of two. Check for Episode 35 in early February.

WALKER WATSON

There are four different types of evaluation:

• Single news medium (newspaper, news magazine, online site) with extensive comments for students and advisers
• Multimedia news operation (all of the above) with extensive comments
• Single news medium, ratings only (No comments)
• Multimedia news operation, ratings only (No comments)

It's required listening if you're in scholastic journalism or care about it.

Your host is Sylvia Clubb

1. The purpose of the contest
2. The 34 categories, including the four new categories
3. The history of the contest
4. Tips on what and how to enter
5. The value of competing (and winning)

Enjoy!

Annie Wooden's journalism career began more than 20 years ago as a high school sports reporter at her hometown weekly, the Sanders County Ledger in Thompson Falls, Montana. She graduated from Colorado State University with a degree in journalism and eventually landed at the Dallas Morning News as a copy editor and page designer. Eventually, though, the call of her hometown led her back to Thompson Falls, where she's now the editor and publisher of the Sanders County Ledger.

In this episode of THE SOURCE, Annie shares with host Sylvia Clubb what she values in news design and what she looks for as a judge for Quill and Scroll's annual Writing, Photo and Multimedia Contest, the deadline for which is Feb. 5, 2021. She also talks about how her paper's mission is very similar to the mission of a student newspaper.

Enjoy!

In this episode of THE SOURCE, Quill and Scroll's podcast, host Sylvia Clubb speaks with CNN digital producer Erica Hernandez about:

• Her path from Coral Gables HS in Florida to the University of Florida to CNN
• How to serve mobile audiences with fresh, in-depth and important news
• How to snap audiences out of their numbness regarding COVID-19
• What to submit to Quill and Scroll's Writing, Photo and Multimedia Contest before the Feb. 5 entry deadline

Erica will be judging coverage of the pandemic for the 2021 WPM Contest. She serves on the Q&S Board of Directors.

In the episode, Erica mentions the following resources for anyone reporting on the pandemic:

• Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center
• The Centers for Disease Control
• The COVID Tracking Project

Enjoy!

This year's WPM Contest is open for entries. The final deadline is Feb. 1. Check out all the categories before deciding what to enter.

In the podcast (below the photos), Martin speaks of three entries from last year's contest.

Here's the first-place news feature photo from Claire Dierkman of Carmel HS in Carmel, Indiana.

Here's the first-place winner in Photo Illustration, from Paras Bassuk at Iowa City West HS in Iowa City, Iowa.

And here's the second-place photo illustration, from Grace Hu and Nicole Kalishman from Ladue Horton Watkins HS in St. Louis, Missouri.

Enjoy this latest episode of THE SOURCE.

HOSTED BY SYLVIA CLUBB

Your host is Sylvia Clubb.

Barbara graduated from Shawnee Mission North High School in suburban Kansas City, and her high school journalism teacher was Becky (Lucas) Tate.

This year's Quill and Scroll Scholarship application deadline is May 10, and you can learn more about the scholarships on our website: https://quillandscroll.org/resources-2/.

Tolentino was inducted into Quill & Scroll during her stint as editor of her high school newspaper at a Christian school in Houston, Texas in the late 2000s.

In her interview with THE SOURCE, Tolentino discusses her book, vaping, the #MeToo movement, writing while listening to music, and cheerleading.

The interview was conducted in the Dey House, which is the home of world-famous Iowa Writer's Workshop, and where Tolentino is a Writer-in-Residence for the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts Magid Center for Undergraduate Writing.

Nichole Shaw sits down with author Michael Zapata to talk about the writing process, the value of storytelling, the importance of listening and the role that journalists can play in our strange new world. Zapata is the author of "The Lost Book of Adana Moreau" and is a former English teacher.

Mira Bohannon Kumar, a member of Quill and Scroll's Student Advisory Board and the co-editor of The Little Hawk at Iowa City High School, discusses student freedom of expression rights with her co-editor, a law professor and a politician.

The Journalism Education Association celebrates SJW Feb. 24-28, 2020, and the Quill and Scroll student board is happy to partner with JEA and SJW Chair Adam Dawkins on SJW activities. Listen as Emily and Jordyn discuss how your school can get involved with SJW — in both big ways and small.

Here's a link to the JEA SJW page for more information.

THE SOURCE welcomes Kai Wright, author and host of WNYC's "The United States of Anxiety," about podcasting, racism in the U.S., his high school journalism career and so much more. Quill and Scroll's Nichole Shaw hosts.

Join us as Quill and Scroll host Nichole Shaw speaks with award-winning photojournalist Barbara Kinney about what life was like as one of the White House photographers during the Clinton Administration and a campaign photographer for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election. Together, they discuss the photojournalism industry—alongside Barbara's career and the progress of women over the last five years—and advice for budding photojournalists on how to get their career started.

Kinney's photograph of President Clinton and the leaders of the Middle East straightening their ties before an event won her a First Place for “People in the News” in the prestigious World Press Photo competition. The photo was on display in the exhibit “Pictures of the Year: 75 Years of the World’s Best Photography” at the Newseum in Washington D-C. Her work at large has appeared on the covers of TIME, Newsweek, People, and more. 

In this episode, host Sylvia Clubb interviews Susanne Fowler, a former senior staff editor for The New York Times, a University of Iowa School of Journalism graduate and a native of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 

Susanne is an alumna of Kennedy High School, where she worked on the newspaper, The Torch, and where she was inducted into Quill & Scroll.

As a journalist and teacher, Susanne has traveled the world to cover important stories.

She was an editor in the London and Paris offices of The New York Times from 2006 through 2017.

She began working in Paris at The International Herald Tribune, now the global edition of The New York Times, in 2006 as an editor of financial news. She transferred to London in 2013 to be part of The Times’s digital transition, editing business and international news.

Sylvia spoke with Susanne about her career as an international journalist — some of the interesting stories she’s told and people she’s interviewed — and the value of a strong journalism education and being a part of Quill and Scroll Honor Society for High School Journalists.

We’ve been focusing this year on the eight guiding principles for our organization. Our initiation ceremony notes that “Friendship is the link that binds humanity.” Like Aristotle, we recognize the importance of friendship and the synergy it brings to the journalistic endeavor.

In late February, Nichole Shaw had the chance to meet with two siblings — two of scholastic journalism’s best friends, John and Mary Beth Tinker.

The names should ring a bell. The Tinkers, along with John’s friend Christopher Eckhardt, in 1965 were suspended from their Des Moines, Iowa schools because they wanted to protest the Vietnam War. They proposed wearing black armbands emblazoned with a peace symbol. With the help of the Iowa Civil Liberties Union, they sued the school district. The case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court, where in February 1969 the justices ruled in favor of the Tinkers. The “Tinker Case” has forever burned in our minds the sentence: “Students do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”

Last month the Tinkers set out on a 50th anniversary celebration of that decision. Nichole Shaw spoke with them in the studios of KRUI, the student radio station at the University of Iowa.