• 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!
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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

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Hundreds of student journalists and their advisers gathered at the IJEA Fall Conference at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on Sept. 15, 2017.

Advisers, student journalists learn, collaborate at 2017 IJEA Fall Conference

By Amanda C. Bright, Co-Secretary and At-Large Board Member • September 19, 2017

Student journalists and advisers from across Illinois were able to share ideas and enjoy like-minded conversation during this year's IJEA Fall Conference on the campus of the University of Illinois...

Advisers gather together after a luncheon at the 2017 IJEA Fall Conference.

Holley-Bruns, Doerner receive IJEA honors for their service

By Amanda C. Bright, Co-Secretary and At-Large Board Member • September 18, 2017

For one, it was her final year directing the IJEA Fall Conference at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. For the other, it was a lifetime of service as past president of the Illinois Journalism...

Chicago-area advisers learn from each other at 2017 Teach-In

Chicago-area advisers learn from each other at 2017 Teach-In

By Amanda Bright, Co-Secretary and At-Large Board Member • August 21, 2017

Scholastic media advisers gathered in a high rise on Wacker Drive on Aug. 8 to not only enjoy the Chicago newsroom of Northwestern University's Medill School and its view of Lake Michigan, but also to...

Attendees gather in the Illini Union during the start of the IJEA Fall Conference on Sept. 16.

2016 IJEA Fall Conference in Review: Empowered staffs, empowered advisers

By Amanda Bright, IJEA Co-Secretary and Region 5 Board Member • September 19, 2016

With more than 320 Illinois high school journalists and their advisers in attendance this year, the 2016 IJEA Fall Conference is now in the books, or yearbooks, as the case may be. Students were...

'Empower your students' for great scholastic journalism at 2016 IJEA Fall Conference

‘Empower your students’ for great scholastic journalism at 2016 IJEA Fall Conference

August 15, 2016

URBANA — Now that the Speech Rights of Student Journalists Act is the law of the land in Illinois, there is no better opportunity to "Empower Your Students" than at the IJEA Fall Conference. The...

Become a Certified or Master Journalism Educator at the 2016 IJEA Fall Conference

Become a Certified or Master Journalism Educator at the 2016 IJEA Fall Conference

By Amanda Bright, IJEA Co-Secretary and Region 5 Board Member • June 11, 2016

For the second year, the Journalism Education Association will be offering the exam to become a Certified Journalism Educator or a Master Journalism Educator at the 2016 Fall Conference (Friday, Sept....

Apply NOW: 2016 Summer Journalism Workshops

Apply NOW: 2016 Summer Journalism Workshops

By Amanda Bright, IJEA Co-Secretary and Region 5 Board Member • May 19, 2016

Journalism education doesn't stop when the school year ends. There are many opportunities to keep learning, practicing, and engaging with other student journalists throughout the summer months. Take a...

Des Moines Register tech writer Marco Santana, right, conducts a Q&A with students in a write-off contest at the 2014 IJEA Fall Conference. Santana delivered the conference's keynote address, and students competing in the contest wrote a news feature about him. This year's keynote will be delivered by a panel of staffers from DNAinfo Chicago on the topic of the newsroom of the future.

Save the date for #IJEA15!

By Dave Porreca, IJEA Website Editor • May 15, 2015
The newsroom of the future is here, and you can learn all about it at our Fall Conference in September. Staffers from DNAinfo Chicago will deliver our keynote, and the conference will offer plenty of expert sessions.
The Twitter presence of Marco Santana illustrates the technological savvy he applies to his job at the Des Moines Register on the innovation beat. Come see him speak at this year's IJEA Fall Conference.

IJEA Fall Conference set for Sept. 12

May 19, 2014
Advisers should mark their calendars for the 2014 Illinois Journalism Education Association (IJEA) Fall Conference coming up on Friday, Sept. 12 at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Campaign.
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