Scholastic Journalism

C. Dow Tate is a journalism teacher at Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, Kansas, and the director of the Gloria Shields All-American Publication Workshop sponsored by Dallas County Schools. In 2011, he was named a Kansas Teacher of the Year finalist. He was inducted into the Scholastic Journalism Hall of Fame at the University of Oklahoma and was named a Texas Legend, as one of the most influential people in the state's 75-year scholastic journalism history. His students' publications - the newspaper, yearbook and news website -- have earned the nation's highest honors, including the National Scholastic Press Association's National Pacemaker and the Columbia Scholastic Press Association's Gold Crown. Tate has been named the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund's National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year as well as the Texas Max R. Haddick Teacher of the Year.

For more than 60 years, Scholastic Journalism has served as an invaluable and comprehensive textbook and guide to the study and practice of journalism for high school students, teachers, and advisors. With ongoing technological advances continuing to reshape and redefine the roles of journalism, the new 12th edition of Scholastic Journalism is fully revised and updated to encompass the full range of cross platform multimedia writing and design at this crucial juncture in media development. Enhancements reflected in this new edition include the addition of cross platform multimedia writing and design within each chapter, all aspects of online journalism, blogging and social media, collaborative and multimedia/new media formats and opportunities, and many more. This edition also offers a wealth of new user-friendly features and includes supporting online resources available at wiley.com/go/ScholasticJournalism. Thoroughly revised to reflect dynamic changes in traditional media formats brought about by new technologies, the 12th edition of Scholastic Journalism propels a celebrated classic into the convergence age.