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A summary of journalism news and pop culture brought to you by The lede “The FDA is “troubled” about Juul’s marketing and outreach efforts, particularly in high schools, Sharpless said. He pointed to a testimony from a student who said that a Juul representative came into his school touting it as “much safer than cigarettes” […]
We know the start of a new school year is the busiest. We’re feeling it, too. You’re trying to teach a new batch of students what journalism is and introduce them to your news site, all the while finding yourself in a tense cat-and-mouse game with whatever new firewall blocks your school snuck into the system […]
A summary of journalism news and pop culture brought to you by The lede The No. 1 true-crime podcast on the market, Crime Junkie, is facing plagiarism accusations and removed several of its episodes in response to specific charges, so far avoiding lawsuits. But is it just being picked on? Variety: “Those in the true-crime podcast world […]
Hello, you! Welcome to another school year with the SNO Patrol. Summer’s been fun, hasn’t it? But it’s time to get to work. Here are a couple of new toys and another change we want you to know about: The new FLOW A new version of FLOW is here to hopefully help make overseeing your journalism program […]
SNO’s Distinguished Sites national recognition program, developed six years ago in an effort to more-clearly outline a set of standards for online student journalism excellence, saw more participation and success than ever before during the 2018-2019 school year. SNO recognized 49 student publications as distinguished sites, compared to 27 last year, and awarded a total of 219 […]
Alright, so automating Best of SNO really worked. It created a project (new jobs!) for a full-stack developer and a few gray hairs (who’s counting!) for an education/training specialist. It had an MVP-caliber year. Here’s proof: At the time of this email, Best of SNO had… More than 12,900 stories submitted to it, since September 416 participating […]
Whether your school’s still making up for a bunch of snow days or you’ve already been dismissed for the summer, we hope we can ease your brain a little bit with a straightforward list of tasks to do before your website goes to sleep. Turn your site’s departing staff members into subscribers. Doing this retains […]
Several months ago we announced that we were working on a complete overhaul of our SNOMobile platform, and we asked for help in shaping the new app. Over 100 SNO customers took the time to provide feedback, and here’s what they said: Make the new app seamlessly integrate with SNO websites, fill it with useful features like […]