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10/05/2026

THIS WEEK: Cornell Seven. Play selection. Halloween.

Please note we will not publish a Weekly Scroll next week.

Read more: https://ow.ly/VcbZ50ZUvzN

09/28/2026

THIS WEEK: Press ban. Gas prices. Fat bears. Plus a class activity and assessment related to the conflict between the White House and the press pool.

Yearbook Excellence Contest entries are due Thursday — don't forget!

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Since President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s terms in the 1950s and 1960s, the White House press pool has been with every U.S. president for virtually every major event and public appearance. Last week, that changed. For a brief time, there wasn’t a major broadcast outlet following the president of th...

09/24/2026

The countdown is on to submit your best work in this year's Yearbook Excellence Contest! There are 40 categories to pick from, spanning design, writing and photography. Take some time today to consider your entries!

Submissions are due in one week: https://ow.ly/oS7450ZO2rH

09/21/2026

THIS WEEK: Bird migration. Sydney Sweeney. Emmys.

Also, the Yearbook Excellence Contest closes Oct. 1 — submit today!

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Twice a year, hundreds of species of birds soar en masse during the peak bird migration. This window comes in both the spring and the fall — in the spring birds fly north for the summer and in the fall they return south for the winter. Over the next two weeks nearly half a billion birds may fly ov...

09/21/2026

New to yearbook advising? Or new to Quill & Scroll? Well we'd like to introduce the Yearbook Excellence Contest. This annual contest recognizes excellent yearbook work from across the country. There are 40 contest categories to pick from and all submissions are done online. We'd love to have your school represented this year.

Learn more and submit by Oct. 1: https://ow.ly/h2pn50ZO2vT

P.S. send this post to your yearbook adviser friends!

09/17/2026

From all of us a ACP, NSPA and Quill & Scroll, we hope you have a wonderful Constitution Day!

Constitution Day celebrates the signing of the Constitution Sept. 17, 1787, almost 240 years ago. As student journalists, the rights guaranteed in the Constitution are ever present in your lives. Journalism and free speech matters, now more than ever.

We hope you are celebrating today!

09/14/2026

Welcome to the new school year! The Weekly Scroll is back. We publish most Mondays of the school year, unless we are out of office.

The Scroll starts with three national stories and ideas on how to localize them and then goes over important dates and reminders.

This week we discussed the midterm elections, AI use in journalism and the new iPhone Duo.

Read more: https://ow.ly/KBIS50ZM2RQ

06/09/2026

Week TWO of Influencer U is here! Tonight we will be joined by Chelsea Cox and Levi Ismail to learn what its like to be a creator journalist.

Learn more and register here: https://www.kent.edu/mdj/csj/influencer-u

06/08/2026

News Media Evaluation entries are due THIS WEEK! If you are looking to start next year with actionable goals, NMEs are a great place to start. All submissions are due by June 13 — that is this Saturday!

Learn more here: https://ow.ly/1E1w50Z5UkV

06/05/2026

Just over ONE WEEK left to submit to this year's Quill & Scroll News Media Evaluation service! There are four types of evaluations available depending on what type of media you want evaluated and what sort of feedback you want.

Learn more: https://ow.ly/9Ywj50Z5Ul4