HKHS Cougar Chronicle Newspaper Advisor Job Little City Connecticut USA,Creative Arts/Media

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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