If you have been on the yearbook staff and been to a workshop or national JEA/NSPA convention in recent years, there’s a decent chance you know Mike Taylor.
This week Walsworth announced that Taylor, a popular and respected yearbook instructor, has joined the company in a Journalism Specialist/Key Accounts role.
Kansas City, Mo. (Oct. 14, 2011) – The Journalism Education Association (JEA) announced the winners of its annual fall individual awards. The recipients of JEA’s fall awards will be honored at the Fall National High School Journalism Convention in Minneapolis, Nov. 17-20.
Walsworth just announced the first group of monthly prize winners in The Big Event promotion they are running this school year, working with yearbook staffs to make yearbook signing parties premiere events.
Just what exactly did September winners Wayzata, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Chippewa Valley and Warren High School win? They won a whole lot of valuable materials to be used with promoting their own signing party.
Kansas City, Mo. (Sept. 14, 2011) – Aaron Manfull, the yearbook, online media and newsmagazine adviser at Francis Howell North High School in St. Charles, Mo., has been named the 2011 National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year by the Dow Jones News Fund.
This weekend will mark the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. Many yearbook staffs will likely choose to include some form of 9/11 anniversary coverage in this year’s book, particularly those in areas directly impacted.
This week on the JEA’s website, their quarterly publication – Journalism Education Today – created a slide show looking back at some of the coverage student publications provided on the attacks 10 years ago.
Kansas City, Mo. (Sept. 2, 2011) – The National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) announced that seven individuals have been selected to receive a 2011 Pioneer Award, NSPA’s top individual honor.
Marceline, Mo. (Aug. 24, 2011) – Executives and managers from Walsworth Publishing Company, along with several elected officials and local business leaders, welcomed in U.S. Senator Roy Blunt on Tuesday afternoon at the company’s printing facilities in Marceline, Mo.
U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt (Mo.) continued one of his annual swings through the state of Missouri on Tuesday by visiting the yearbook printing facilities at Walsworth in Marceline.
Sen. Blunt took a quick tour of the Walsworth presses and Bindery, then held a roundtable discussion on the economy with local business leaders and elected officials.
Marceline, Mo. (Aug. 22, 2011) – U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.) will get a first-hand look at a Missouri manufacturing business that is growing and thriving when he makes a stop on Tuesday at the printing facilities of Walsworth Publishing Company in Marceline, Mo.
Here’s a fun story this week from the Victorville (Calif.) Daily Press about an Oregon woman who just got back her long lost yearbooks from the 1960s.
Pat Anderson and her family moved out of their home in Buena Vista, Calif., 31 years ago and Anderson left two of her high school yearbooks behind. By the time she realized it, Anderson figured the books were gone for good.