About the Institute

 

The High School Journalism Institute is an intensive two-week training program for high school teachers. Instruction is based on the core tenets of journalism and the skills needed to produce a top-notch scholastic publication, on paper or online.

The Institute enables and energizes a corps of teachers to:

• Help students start a campus newspaper.
• Dramatically improving the quality of an existing newspaper.
• Enhance their teaching in areas that include journalism, English, social studies and civics.

Since 2001, more than 1,000 high school teachers have completed the Institute, and most continue to teach journalism and/or advise a student newspaper.
This ground-breaking initiative is funded by a three-year, $2.3 million grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

ASNE is the principal organization of the top editors at daily newspapers. Founded in 1922 as a non-profit professional organization, ASNE focuses on professional development and journalism-related issues, including the First Amendment, diversity in newsroom staffing and coverage, journalism education, editorial innovation and credibility.

The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation is a national philanthropic organization founded in 1954 by the late media entrepreneur for whom it is named. Headquartered in Las Vegas, it is of one of the largest private foundations in the United States.

For more information:

www.highschooljournalism.org
www.my.highschooljournalism.org
www.highschoolads.org