With the Arizona State and University of Texas at Austin conferences now just a happy memory, the 101 high school teachers participating in the three remaining ASNE High School Journalism Institutes are immersed in their own intensive two-week journalism curricula.

Aug. 24, 2006

RESTON, Va. – The High School National Ad Network has launched, providing advertisers with an effective, easy and reliable way to engage teens – via their school newspapers.

“Teens pay attention to every word and image when their newspaper is written by an

RESTON, Va. – The American Society of Newspaper Editors Foundation has awarded $132,200 to 43 schools being mentored by 40 dailies to start or dramatically improve student media.

As part an aggressive national effort to grow youth journalism, news literacy and access to new-media tools, this year's five ASNE Reynolds Institute programs trained 162 high school teachers from 41 states and the District of Columbia. The programs focused on helping teachers develop an educational framework to teach students to make sound news judgments; improve the reporting, writing, editing, photo, Web, multimedia, graphics and business skills necessary to operate high-quality, independent student media; and to instill a greater understanding of, and appreciation for, the First Amendment.

RESTON, Va. –– The American Society of Newspaper Editors has created a section on its Web site for postings by journalism educators seeking to secure summer work at newspapers.

Interested educators should write a four-sentence description using the following format:

RESTON, Va. – The American Society of Newspaper Editors has named 24 educators to participate in the third Institute for Journalism Excellence. The 1997 Fellows, representing colleges and universities from around the country, will be working this summer at newspapers across the country and in Canada. The project is funded by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

RESTON, Va. – ASNE will receive a $2.3 million, three-year grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to provide intensive two-week training programs to enable high school teachers to become effective journalism advisers.

Sept. 17, 2007

RESTON, Va. – As part of ASNE’s aggressive national effort to grow scholastic journalism, 99 teachers from 33 states plus the District of Columbia have completed the Reynolds High School Journalism Institute.

That’s what ASNE President Milton Coleman told the 34 high-school journalism instructors who arrived in Phoenix on Sunday for the ASNE Reynolds High School Journalism Institute held at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. “(Our) credibility comes from the fact that people believe that we are going as straight down the middle as we can,” Coleman said. The ASU event is the first of the five, two-week ASNE Reynolds programs that will be held this summer.

In October, the Cook County state's attorney subpoenaed e-mails, grades, and notes and recordings of witness interviews from students at the Medill School of Journalism who were investigating a 1978 homicide case for the school's Innocence Project. Medill is fighting the subpoenas. This afternoon, ASNE joined 17 other media organizations in filing an amicus brief (PDF) in support of the school's position.