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If you haven’t seen them yet, you will: prompts from the happy folks here at SNO, telling you it’s time to change your password. You’ll roll your eyes, maybe groan a little, then click away to do something else. We know. It’s annoying and we’ve never asked you to do it before. But, while we […]
In Defense of Twitter Trolls Someone has been trolling the president on Twitter from an anonymous account. Actually, there are dozens of Trump Twitter trolls out there, but only one in particular caused the Trump admin to demand the unmasking of that Twitter user’s personal info. That happened in March. Twitter, predictably, said no, and […]
A Good Problem Fake news is hard to deal with, but it’s a thing, and it’s going to be a thing for the foreseeable future. So it’s super important to teach kids how to spot it, right? Fifth grade teacher Scott Bedley turned finding fake news into a game, and it was so effective that […]
Insta-glam Using social media to sell products isn’t new, but Vogue is doing it a little differently. First, they’re not selling weight loss tea or those weird gummy bears that make your hair grow, they’re selling a publication, and they’re using Instagram stories to do it. With Instagram stories, the staff at Vogue (and they’ve […]
Sarah Elbeshbishi is an Editor-in-Chief at Watkins Mill High School’s publication, The Current. She’s smart, she’s well-spoken, and she’s passionate about journalism. So when her adviser, Sara Confino, brought a must-tell story to the editorial team, Elbeshbishi jumped on it. The story? Watkins Mill junior Je’Nan Hayes was benched during a basketball game for wearing […]
For-Real News Cries of “fake news!” are pretty much commonplace these days. It’s not surprising; lately there actually is a lot of fake news out there. But it’s also a buzzword easily used to discredit legit news: call it fake, people stop listening. So when it happened to these student journalists, they refused to sit […]
The More You Know We all know that our internet search history follows us (sometimes it’s downright creepy, actually). But it turns out that a majority of students might not be aware of news personalization. That is, the way Facebook, Google and other sites filter stories based on interaction. That’s problematic, because it also means […]
Daylight savings time is this weekend, can you believe it?! That means more light (thank goodness!), warmer temps, and fresh air. And with the new season will come the pushing-up of sleeves everywhere as we freshen our homes and lives. So, since you’ve got all that spring energy anyway, why not apply the same vigor […]
Evening Edition You’ve probably noticed it: lately, all the big stories are breaking at night. It seems weird; we’re not used to waking up to a big story that broke at 10 p.m. So why does it happen? Simply: because it can. We’re totally hyper-connected, and when one org breaks a big story that will […]