Journalism 101
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Lesson 8: News Satire
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we take a look at satire journalism, including what separates a good idea from a bad one, the writing process, and how it must distinguish ...
Lesson 7: Live Streaming
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we discuss live streaming high school sports and other extra curricular activities with Mark Koski, vice president of the NFHS Network whic...
Lesson 6: Watergate Retrospective
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we ask retired journalism adviser Karl Grubaugh about his viral Twitter thread that reflected on a 1994 side project asking public figures ...
Lesson 5: Pandemic Journalism
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we turn the spotlight onto The Tower student publication at The Masters School (New York) and talk to journalism adviser Ellen Cowhey about...
Lesson 4: News Literacy
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we discuss a future in which news literacy is standardized education, why it's so important and what it would look like with Darragh Worlan...
Lesson 3: Polls and Surveys
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kansas Scholastic Press Association executive director Eric Thomas explains what makes him nervous about student journalists trying to be p...
Lesson 2: Beginner Interviewing
15 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, journalism curriculum expert Ivy Kaplan teaches us how to conduct an interview. She outlines a few easy, transferrable strategies to be bet...
Lesson 1: Forced Adaptability
01 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Teaching is a hard job. The coronavirus pandemic has complicated it even more. How can you carry on when your situation is so fluid, when you don't kn...
"You can find them on the ground": Reporting on Vaping at High Schools
31 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Alex calls on four student journalism superheroes raising the public awareness of vaping in their high schools. How do you tell your readers about the...
Winning Awards with Brian Higgins
16 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Higgins, adviser at Liberty High School, talks to Alex about why the SNO Distinguished Sites program matters, how it sets the table for future s...
Recruiting and Marketing Your Journalism Class
09 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Grazier, journalism adviser at Cathedral Catholic High School, talks to Alex about the sensible, achievable ways he has recruited and marketed h...
Localizing the "Issues" with The Kirkwood Call
12 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Rintoul, editor-in-chief of The Kirkwood Call, talks about the publication's "Issues issue," which localized a broad set of national topics and n...
Scholarship Opportunity
26 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Got summer plans? Catherine Cheney explains why high school juniors serious about journalism should consider the Al Neuharth Free Spirit and Journalis...
Music journalist Gary Graff
08 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On location in Lansing, Mich., Alex talks to music journalist Gary Graff about why perspective and context is everything to a review, the most importa...
Creepy and Unexplained
31 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Student journalist America Moreno discusses the origins of her developing series of columns, titled "Creepy and Unexplained," and the first unsolved c...
Media Law with Jonathan Peters
24 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Peters, a media law professor at the University of Georgia and press freedom correspondent for the Columbia Journalism Review, reviews studen...
ProPublica reporter Jessica Huseman
10 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
National politics reporter Jessica Huseman calls to talk about covering elections — not candidates — to investigate the voter experience and the p...
How to Start a Podcast
03 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Alex reviews everything he's learned (so far) about starting a podcast, including finding a site to store it, using an editing software, recording rem...
The Daily Iowan on Covering Mollie Tibbetts
26 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Editors for The Daily Iowan, the student newspaper of the University of Iowa, recount covering the Mollie Tibbetts case, staying relevant when nationa...
The New York Times Design Team
19 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Three design team leads who worked on The New York Times' revamped desktop homepage discuss the research that went into it, prototyping, creating sect...
MediaWise reporter Allison Graves
12 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
MediaWise reporter Allison Graves calls in to talk about MediaWise's mission (3:43), Instagram (7:26), the climate of misinformation for teens (12:22)...
Finally Getting It with Emily Smith
05 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Journalism adviser Emily Smith, of Pittsburg (Kan.) High School, calls the podcast to discuss the common struggles of operating a news site at full ca...
Structuring a Newspaper Staff with Annabella Strathman
28 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
SNO Sites launches its new podcast by sitting down with former student newspaper editor Annabella Strathman for a discussion about successful staff st...