Our 2025 Newspaper & Digital News Media Contest is now open for entries! Advisers, we want to recognize your students' great work! Deadline is March 15.
Congratulations to IJEA Executive Director Linda Jones on receiving the national JEA's Lifetime Achievement Award! She will be honored at the 2025 Spring JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention in Seattle.
Congratulations to IJEA member Leslie Fireman, journalism adviser at West Chicago High School, on winning the national JEA's Rising Star Award! She was honored at the 2024 Fall JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention in Philadelphia.
Congratulations to IJEA Hall of Fame member Stan Zoller, MJE, on being the inaugural winner of the National JEA's Candace and John Bowen Adviser First Amendment Leadership Award! He was honored at the 2024 Fall JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention in Philadelphia.
It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Sarah Doerner, IJEA’s longest-serving president. Sarah died Nov. 29 in Du Quoin at the age of 86. Services were held Dec. 7. See below for our tribute to this great journalism educator.
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JEA/NSPA Fall Convention in St. Louis


Barb Thill, James Tidwell and Mike Doyle enjoy the JEA awards luncheon Saturday, Nov. 15 in St. Louis.	Charlotte Titcomb, Deerfield High School, enjoys her Lifetime Achievement Award from JEA with her mother Saturday, Nov. 15 at the JEA awards luncheon in St. Louis.	Deb Malcolm, former IJEA board member, prepares her students to help celebrate the Administrator of the Year Award given to their principal, Tim Wernentin, principal at Davenport Central High School. Wernentin received his award at the JEA awards luncheon Saturday, Nov. 15 in St. Louis.

Jason Block, Patty Merris and Janet Levin enjoy the JEA awards luncheon Saturday, Nov. 15 in St. Louis.	Karen Barrett (left) and Susan Tantillo, current and former advisers at Wheeling High School, visit at the JEA awards luncheon Saturday, Nov. 15 in St. Louis.	IJEA President Sarah Doerner and O’Fallon High School adviser Mary Dempsey visit at the JEA awards luncheon Saturday, Nov. 15 in St. Louis.

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JEA/NSPA Fall Convention in St. Louis