You and your students will have the opportunity to meet Mary Beth Tinker and hear her talk about Student Press Rights in three different breakout sessions.  Her opening keynote address will focus on “The First Amendment and You.” The First Amendment is one of the most basic principles of our democracy, but does it apply to students? In the past, legal experts didn’t think so.  That changed...

During the first semester of the 2018-2019 school year, three KEMPA scholarship recipients from last year successfully began their college careers as journalism majors and received their scholarship checks to help them on their way. Alexandra Landman is a freshman at the University of Dayton, and Katrina Troy and Kaylee Schreiner are both studying in the school of journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Alexandra...

Dear KEMPA advisers and students, KEMPA now offers several individual contest categories in Newspaper, News Magazine, Yearbook, Online Multimedia, Broadcast, and Photography for student work published by member schools in the 2018-19 school year. This is an opportunity for your students to enter their individual work to compete against other student journalists as writers, photographers, designers,...