K-12 Student Workshops on Journalism for Impact at JEA/NSPA

The Pulitzer Center is excited to connect with middle and high school journalists and journalism advisers at the 2025 national convention of the Journalism Education Association/National Scholastic Press Association (JEA/NSPA) in Nashville, Tennessee!

Connect With Us at Our Booth in the Trade Show

Come see us at booth #328 in the Trade Show all day Thursday and Friday to learn about our free resources for educators and students. We will have giveaways, a raffle, and a pop-up experience from our Ode to Healthy Futures project, which invites you to make connections to the science that shapes our lives and share your vision for a healthier world. You can contribute lines of poetry to a virtual gallery, and get resources to bring this initiative into your classroom or community.

Join Us for Student Workshops

Our Education team staff will be co-leading three interactive workshops on journalism and its relationship to healthy lives and democracies for students and advisers.

Friday, November 14, 11:00-11:45am CST

“Dispelling Misinformation Through Science, Journalism, and Poetry”

How can you use creative storytelling to dispel dangerous myths about health and the human body? In this workshop, we will reflect on how misinformation affects our communities and examine strategies to combat its spread. Participants will analyze excerpts from news stories about hot topics in health science and human rights, and will be invited to contribute personal responses (in poetry or prose) to the Pulitzer Center's online gallery, Ode to Healthy Futures.

Friday, November 14, 12:00-12:45pm CST

“Defining Your Impact: Can Journalism Really Change the World?”

How will your journalism build a better world? In this workshop, we will analyze the strategies journalists use to heighten the impact of their stories by evaluating examples of how journalism by Pulitzer Center grantees from several news outlets has inspired change in their communities. Participants will then define the impact they want to have as journalists. Guided by those definitions, we will use an impact framework to plan how our stories can reach the people who need to hear them most and equip communities with the information they need to make change.

Friday, November 14, 2:00-2:45pm CST

"Digging Deeper: How to Get Started Reporting on Big, Systemic Issues"

Do you want to tell underreported stories about challenges your classmates and school community are facing? Do you want to go beyond campus and report on your local community? Join the Pulitzer Center Education team as we explore how you can seek out and investigate the systemic roots underlying any story idea, from sports to beauty to wellness and beyond. By looking for the systemic angles in your stories, you can strengthen your research and reporting skills, find new audiences, and deepen your impact.

The JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention is the nation’s largest gathering of scholastic journalists, advisers, and journalism teachers. The JEA/NSPA convention has become the place to seek solutions to the most challenging publishing and broadcasting problems, share and celebrate success stories, see what’s new in the media marketplace, discover trends and network with students and advisers from throughout the United States.