Partner organizations

Journalism Education Association is the largest scholastic journalism organization for teachers and advisers. Put simply, we educate teachers on how to educate students.

We fulfill this goal through numerous activities: We provide training around the country at national conventions and institutes. We offer national certification for teaching high school journalism. We publish print and online resources on the latest trends in journalism education. We provide avenues for virtual discussion among teachers, as well as curriculum and mentoring to learn best practices. We monitor and actively defend First Amendment and scholastic press rights issues across the country.

Among JEA’s more than 2,500 members are journalism teachers and publications advisers, media professionals, press associations, adviser organizations, libraries, publishing companies, newspapers, radio stations and departments of journalism.

Since 1924, JEA has been leading the way in scholastic journalism and media education.

National Scholastic Press Association provides journalism education services to students, teachers, media advisers and others throughout the United States and in other countries. Its members are student media organizations at high schools, junior high schools and middle schools.

A nonprofit educational association based and incorporated in Minnesota, NSPA provides journalism education training programs, publishes journalism education materials, provides media critique and recognition programs for members, provides information on developments in journalism and student media and provides a forum for members to communicate with others and share their work.

Its renowned national awards programs honor exceptional student media work from across the nation and around the world. The NSPA Pacemaker Awards are the top publications prizes. Its Individual Awards recognize student achievement in dozens of categories. Its Best of Show competitions celebrate current achievement in student media.

Through these activities, NSPA promotes the standards and ethics of good journalism as accepted and practiced by print, broadcast and electronic media in the United States.

NSPA also endorses and advocates free expression rights for student media.

NSPA cooperates with other student media associations and other non-student groups and businesses that share its mission to educate and recognize the work of student journalists, to improve the quality of student media and to foster careers in media.