Illinois JEA

Yearbook award announced

January 24, 2014

Congratulations to all the winners, both overall and individual, for the 2013 IJEA Yearbook Contest. Below are the overall winners in all six enrollment divisions, and a link to the individual category...

Video: Press on! Film critic Dann Gire honored as 2013 Friend of Scholastic Journalism

September 15, 2013

URBANA — Dann Gire, film critic for the Daily Herald in Arlington Heights, was named the 2013 Friend of Scholastic Journalism by the IJEA Sept. 13 at the Colonial Room of the Illini Union on the campus...

2012-13 All-State Team to be honored June 1 at Executive Mansion

May 8, 2013

Each year the IJEA names members of the All-State Journalism Team, those MVPs without whom their student media would not run as smoothly. Advisers nominate students who rise to the challenge, who work...

Video: Top 10 great things about advising from Educator of the Year Laurie Bielong

April 29, 2013

CHARLESTON — Belleville West newspaper adviser Laurie Bielong, along with sound effects, gave a fantastic acceptance speech for the 2013 Illinois Scholastic Journalism Educator of the Year award at the...

Bielong named Illinois Scholastic Journalism Educator of the Year

April 11, 2013

Laurie Bielong, longtime adviser of the Hy News at Belleville West, was surprised Wednesday, April 10, at a faculty meeting by being named IJEA's 2013 Illinois Scholastic Journalism Educator of the Year. Carol...

Karen Waldron honored as Friend of Scholastic Journalism

September 24, 2012

Karen Waldron, longtime administrative aide at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and SISPA and IHSA coordinator, was honored Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, as IJEA's Friend of Scholastic Journalism. Waldron,...

2010-11 All-State high school journalists honored

2010-11 All-State high school journalists honored

June 15, 2011

At a ceremony Saturday, June 4, 2011, at the Executive Mansion in Springfield, the IJEA honored the state's top high school journalists. At this annual event, co-sponsored by the Illinois Press Foundation, students,...

IJEA Newspaper contest winners announced.

May 6, 2011

The results of the 2011 IJEA newspaper contest were announced Friday, May 6, at the IJEA Advisers' Breakfast at the IHSA state journalism finals. U-High Midway from University High School in Chicago,...

News from the JEA/NSPA convention April 14-17, 2011, in Anaheim, California

News from the JEA/NSPA convention April 14-17, 2011, in Anaheim, California

April 18, 2011

Congratulations to IJOY Alexandria Johnson, of Rolling Meadows High School, for being named one of six runners-up for the Journalist of the Year at the closing ceremonies in Anaheim. She will receive a...

Southern Illinois School Press Association Adviser Winners!

March 5, 2011

At the Southern Illinois School Press Association annual spring conference in Carbondale, two advisers were honored by their peers. Yearbook Adviser of the Year was Kathy Stone of Greenville High School....

Sad news

September 25, 2010

From the president Friends, I am sorry to report that Diana Peckham, former IJEA president and Hall of Fame member, passed away in the hospital Wednesday in Morton, Ill.  The Knapp-Johnson Funeral...

IJOY 2010 – Jimmy Hibsch

August 30, 2010

Jimmy Hibsch, editor-in-chief of The Pacer at Rolling Meadows High School, was named the IJOY for 2010. Hibsch received a plaque and a check for $300, and his name was forwarded to the national competition...

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