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HKHS Cougar Chronicle Newspaper Advisor

Job in Little City, Connecticut, USA
Listing for: Regional School District 17
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-06-19
Job specializations:
  • Creative Arts/Media
    Journalism
  • Education / Teaching
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 30000 - 50000 USD Yearly USD 30000.00 50000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Location: Little City

Position Type: Athletics/Activities/Activity Sponsor

Date Posted: 5/19/2025

Location: Haddam Killingworth High School

Responsibilities
  • Produce a journalistically professional learning atmosphere and experience for the students, allow students to make decisions concerning content of the publication, and ensure the publications will remain an open forum.
  • Work with students to increase their competence in the following areas:
    • Determining news values
    • Selecting news stories and in-depth stories
    • Selecting feature stories
    • Selecting sports stories
    • Selecting opinion articles
    • Developing and applying legal and ethical knowledge
    • Learning aspects of the interviewing process
    • Learning aspects of journalism and research skills
    • Learning aspects of journalism note‑taking skills
    • Learning source‑identification aspects, use
    • Learning aspects of proper attribution in stories
    • Writing news stories
    • Writing feature stories
    • Writing sports stories
    • Writing in‑depth stories
    • Writing editorials
    • Writing columns and commentary
    • Writing reviews
    • Learning journalism‑editing procedures as part of the writing process
    • Developing art ideas and producing artwork
    • Designing and laying out pages
    • Learning the photographic process
    • Identifying new trends in content and design
    • Learning advertising procedures
    • Learning to use the computer in publication work
  • Provide the students with an educated, professional role model as adviser and serve as a motivator and catalyst for ideas and professionalism.
  • Evaluate student participation by using journalism standards.
  • Act as an educational resource for legal freedoms and restrictions for students and encourage discussion of ethics and content.
  • Provide the opportunity for students to produce a publication consistent with the First Amendment and court decisions, without faculty or administrative censorship, within the standards of professional journalism and the Society of Professional Journalists/Sigma Delta Chi’s Code of Ethics.
  • Act as a helpful adviser, but not as a censor, to students in all steps of publishing. In terms of unprotected speech, the adviser’s role will be to act as a consultant and as an educator.
  • Develop, with the staff, an editorial policy consistent with legal precedent, court decisions and professional journalistic freedoms, which will also be agreed upon and signed by the principal.
  • Help the staff establish policies that include:
    • Roles of all staff positions
    • Role of the editorial board
    • Standards of professional journalism and procedures for the staff
    • Style and design guidelines
    • A code of ethics for the publication and staff
    • Advertising procedures
    • Staff application and selection policies
    • Staff member removal policy
    • Photography rules and guidelines
    • Computer training
    • Office guidelines
    • Decision making and consultation
  • Work with students in regular planning sessions with the staff,
    • Regular training session in all aspects of journalism
    • Meeting schedules and deadlines
    • Counseling staffers in coverage of school life
    • In the process of gathering information
  • Order supplies and equipment; supervise the distribution, collection, maintenance and inventory control of such equipment in accordance with publication needs and school policy.
  • Supervise the financial status of the publication, and encourage fiscal responsibility.
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