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Summer Camp Highlights

MLTHS recognized with Press Freedom Award

Mountlake Terrace High School was awarded the First Amendment Press Freedom Award at the JEA/NSPA Spring Conference opening ceremony April 20,2023...

GiveBig Campaign 2023:

WJEA's Summer Journalism Camp (J-Camp) for students is a fast-paced, intensive four days on the Washington State University campus at the Edward...

Emerald & Critique submissions now open!

The 2023 Emerald Award and Critique service submissions are open. Washington state publications who are members of WJEA are eligible to submit...

Adviser Lindsay Webster and Editor in Chief Kareiana Taumaletia hold the newly revived issue of the Sentinal Sound at the WJEA State Convnetion March 4 at Mountlake Terrace HIgh School.

Steilacoom High School journalists and Adviser put New Voices Law into Action

When the student editors of the Sentinel Sound at Steilacoom High School published their inaugural reboot of the newspaper after a five-year...

2023 J-Camp Registration Information

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