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Recent News ASNE's Youth Journalism Initiative website attracts record numbers of visitors

Weekly visitors to ASNE's Youth Journalism Initiative website, SchoolJournalism.org, increased to more than 18,000 last week. Since it launched on Oct. 7, SchoolJournalism.org has attracted nearly twice as many visitors as the former website. 
ASNE staff |  11/7/2013

ASNE's Youth Journalism Initiative launches new website

SchoolJournalism.org launched Monday, Oct. 7, with brand-new content for secondary school journalism advisers and students. SchoolJournalism.org is the newest offering from ASNE's Youth Journalism Initiative. The goal of the initiative is for every student to learn why news matters and acquire the skills needed to succeed as 21st-century citizens.
  
Replacing hsj.org and my.hsj.org, the new website offers journalism teachers and advisers information relating to news and media literacy, writing and technology. Comprehensive lists of training opportunitiesand lesson plans are also available.

ASNE staff |  10/10/2013

Save the date for the 2014 ASNE/APME convention

Save these dates for the 2014 ASNE/APME convention:
Monday, Sept. 15 - Wednesday, Sept. 17, at the Hyatt Regency Chicago.
  
That's right, it's official, and you have one year to prepare!
  
We told you in August that we were thrilled to announce that ASNE and APME were joining forces to present a joint convention in Chicago. In the past week, we finalized details with our convention hotel, the Hyatt Regency, in the Loop area at 151 E. Wacker Drive. It's a great location and, by all accounts, a terrific convention hotel.

ASNE staff |  10/3/2013

ASNE welcomes new staff member

We are happy to announce that Jiyoung Won has joined ASNE as our communications coordinator. Her first day was Sept. 9.

 

Jiyoung says that among her work experience, the internship in 2011-12 at The Associated Press in Seoul, South Korea, stands out. Working as a news assistant for eight months, she learned hands-on journalism and experienced the fast-paced working environment often associated with a wire news service. Her main duties included doing research on North Korea and providing the information to the bureau chief for her extensive coverage on the country, interviewing sources and contributing to stories written by the staff, writing briefs and attending press conferences. 


ASNE staff |  9/19/2013

ASNE signs on to five amicus briefs, one set of comments

Overshadowed by the exciting news that S 987, the Free Flow of Information Act, passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 12 is the fact that ASNE signed on to five amicus briefs in various federal court cases and one set of comments filed with the Department of Health and Human Services in the past two weeks. Read more to see a quick description of each brief. 

ASNE staff |  9/19/2013

2013 Convention
We are thrilled to announce the preliminary details of our upcoming convention! The 2013 ASNE Convention will be held June 24-26 at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C. Register here by May 30 for the best deal, and remember to reserve your hotel room ahead of time. Our theme this year is reinvention, and speakers include Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Gannett CEO and President Gracia Martore, and more! For more information, check out all the recent convention news, and be sure to sign up for our weekly newsletter -- just email asne@asne.org and ask to be added to our mailing list.

See you in D.C., and lots more to come!
First Amendment

Since its founding in 1922, ASNE has been a fierce advocate for First Amendment freedoms and open government. Every year, we help organize 1 for All's Free to Tweet scholarship program, a two-week competition where high schoolers tweet about the First Amendment. Five winning tweets are chosen annually, and each winner receives a $5,000 college scholarship. We also sponsor Sunshine Week, an annual inititative designed to facilitate conversation about the importance of transparent government. During the celebration, many news organizations choose to publish content about open government, and our partners host a number of events celebrating and promoting the public's right to know. Visit the Sunshine Week website for more information and free resources.

Youth Journalism
We know many teens get their news from social media, websites and blogs. That’s why it’s so important to inspire teens to read analytically and critically consider the source of their news. For more than a decade, ASNE has led the youth journalism movement by promoting the values of news literacy and excellence in journalism. We host my.hsj.org, the world’s largest online youth journalism network, as well as hsj.org, which provides hundreds of journalism resources to help teachers increase news literacy at their schools. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation funded this initiative. We’ve also trained more than 1900 teachers at the Reynolds High School Journalism Institute, which is held annually at five universities and funded with a grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation. To read more about youth journalism, click here.
    
 
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