NOW is the time to get excited

Staff

We are two and a half weeks away from the best place to be this summer--the WJEA Summer Workshop on the campus of Western Washington University July 27-30. Registration and check-in starts on Thursday, July 27 at 1 p.m....

July 11, 2017 • No Comments

2017 Critique Service Now Complete

All members of WJEA are eligible to have their student media (newspaper, yearbook, or newsmagazine) critiqued. Broadcast contests are coming in the future. This year's entry date was June 19, which has now passed. Cri...

June 9, 2017 • No Comments

WJEA to sponsor Adobe software training

For a second year, WJEA will  sponsor an intensive three-day Adobe Workshop, August 15, 16, 17 at Cleveland High School in Seattle. The classes will be taught by Teresa Scribner, who spent years as a professional Visual Journ...

May 26, 2017 • No Comments

Student Press Rights Legislation Awaits Approval

Kathy Schrier, WJEA executive director

  While Washington’s Student Press Rights Bill passed in the State Senate (SB 5064) in the recent session, it stalled in the House Education Committee during its caucus, and a vote was not taken. The Bill now has...

February 7, 2017 • No Comments

Crouch emphasizes importance of teaching students to be smart journalists

Sandra Coyer, WJEA

In his speech to a room of advisers at Western Washington University July 29, Bothell High School adviser and WJEA Adviser of the Year Jacob Crouch stressed the importance of journalism in our cou...

August 3, 2017 • No Comments

STEPHI SMITH: WJEA JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR (2017)

Dave Riggs, WJEA

Dave Riggs Dave Riggs The name of the workshop was “How to cover a tragedy.” A reporter who had covered the Virginia Tech shooting was leading the workshop. Seated in the audience was a diminutive ...

August 1, 2017 • No Comments