• 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.
  • Advisers! Join IJEA today! Annual memberships and lifetime memberships are available. Use our online form or fillable PDF to join!
Illinois Journalism Education Association, 2501 Chatham Road, Suite 200, Springfield, IL 62704

Illinois JEA
Illinois Journalism Education Association, 2501 Chatham Road, Suite 200, Springfield, IL 62704

Illinois JEA
Illinois Journalism Education Association, 2501 Chatham Road, Suite 200, Springfield, IL 62704

Illinois JEA
Get recognition for your students: Nov. 18 is the deadline to enter our 2016 Yearbook Contest!

Get recognition for your students: Nov. 18 is the deadline to enter our 2016 Yearbook Contest!

August 20, 2016
Our annual yearbook contest honors and celebrates the best in IJEA member yearbooks, focusing on the crucial elements of photos, design, graphics, coverage, copy writing and theme development. So enter now!
Meet the Winners: IJOYs and All-State Team honored at annual IPF/IJEA Luncheon

Meet the Winners: IJOYs and All-State Team honored at annual IPF/IJEA Luncheon

By Amanda Bright, IJEA Co-Secretary and Region 5 Board Member • June 6, 2016

Keynote speaker Jamey Dunn-Thomason noted that it was so good to see so many great student journalists. It gave her hope for the future of journalism. All of the advisers, parents, and student...

Upcoming scholastic journalism events!

Upcoming scholastic journalism events!

February 28, 2015
Need a timeline? Check out the dates and events below for student journalists and their advisers to continue to learn and grow!

IJEA Board approves new dues structure effective July 1

June 19, 2014

In order to continue providing important services for its membership, the IJEA Board of Directors at its June meeting voted to increase annual membership dues for the first time since its founding in 1988. Effective...

Don't forget...you can follow us..

Don’t forget…you can follow us..

February 20, 2014

Keep up with IJEA news and information on Twitter.  We're @IllinoisJEA. Check us out at https://twitter.com/IllinoisJEA

Brenda Field named state director

Brenda Field named state director

February 13, 2014

Brenda Field, yearbook adviser at Glenbrook South High School in Glenview, has been selected JEA State Director for Illinois.  She replaces Stan Zoller, MJE, who was elected to the new position of east...

Write-Off winners at Fall Conference

September 15, 2013

Congratulations to our 2013 Fall Conference Write-Off winners and their advisers: First Place: Sarah Foster, Mattoon High School. Adviser: Amanda Bright. Second Place: Haley Washington, Washington Community...

Congratulations to…

February 11, 2012

Brenda Field and staff of the Etruscan at  Glenbrook South High School in Glenview for being selected one of  55 Yearbook Pacemaker finalists.  The editors are  Taylor Rech and Kyle Redden. Pacemaker...

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