The Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School’s new broadcast center and its students. Photo credit: Allison M. Slocum, APS © Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School recently marked a milestone with the grand opening of its state-of-the-art broadcasting center, which was made possible through a partnership with the College Football Playoff (CFP) Foundation, AT&T, Extra […]
By Kimberly Willis Green Atlanta Public Schools’ Henry W. Grady High School received the 2015 Columbia Scholastic Press Association’s (CSPA) Gold Crown Awards for its publications The Southerner newspaper and Nexus magazine. Both publications were one of 20 nationwide to win a Gold Crown in their respective categories. The Awards Convocation for Scholastic Crown recipients […]
Students at Perkerson Elementary have been busy practicing their broadcast news skills each morning as they prepare the ‘Perk up Perkerson’ daily newscast. The newscast is broadcast to students and staff providing news and announcements for the day. The students involved in the production write the scripts for the show and develop new and innovative […]
For the past two months, Marietou Keita, Derralyn Morgan, Sanovia Dossie, and Mercedes Brown from South Atlanta CAD have been participating in the Turner Voices competition with their Social Studies teacher, Rhea Gupta. Ms. Gupta was given the opportunity to take four students to the CNN center for three writing workshops. The purpose of the […]
Shaun Kleber, Grady alumnus and 2011-2012 co-managing editor of Grady’s newspaper The Southerner, received the David S. Barr Award at The Newspaper Guild-Communication Workers of American Freedom Fund Award Banquet. Kleber presented a phenomenal speech prior to accepting his award among professional award-winning journalists from The Miami Herald, The New York Times, and National Public Radio. Kleber’s […]
The journalism students at Maynard Jackson High School are privileged to gain hands-on experience in the classroom. They are learning photography, video production, and post production while exploring their creativity and talents. Mr. Henderson Maddox is their broadcast/video production teacher who joined Jackson last year. He is a filmmaker himself, with 8 years of teaching […]