Five Tips for Great Feature Writing

From Pulitzer Prize Winning Writer Michael Vitez Greetings students!  Thomas McHale, an English teacher at Hunterdon Central Regional High School, who is passionate about good writing, has asked me to provide five tips for feature writing. I’ve been a feature writer most of my professional life, and these following tips have served me well. I hope [...]

Happy Scholastic Journalism Week from the SPLC

By Frank LoMonte, Executive Director of the Student Press Law Center Forty years ago, the Supreme Court reaffirmed in the Tinker case that students are “persons” entitled to the protection of the First Amendment, and that they do not “shed their rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”  What John Tinker, [...]