LINKS

STUDENT MEDIA— great sites & resources for newspapers, radio, and TV

Want to get your paper online for free? Check out what other high school papers are doing and get tips for your writing & teaching? MY HIGH SCHOOL JOURNALISM is high school newspaper Web hosting service from the American Society of Newspaper Editors. This site will give you free software to get your paper online and provides other resources for both students and teachers working in journalism.

IBS--Intercollegiate Broadcasting System. IBS is a nonprofit association of mostly student-staffed radio stations based at schools and colleges across the country. 800+ IBS member-stations operate all sizes and types of facilities including Internet - Webcasting, closed-circuit, AM carrier-current, cable radio and FCC-licensed FM and AM stations.

JEA: The Journalism Education Association, Inc., is the only independent national scholastic journalism organization for teachers and advisers. It is a great resource for obtaining up to the minute information & assistance for the myriad things that go on with putting out a high school publication.
Among JEA's 2,000 members are journalism teachers and publications advisers, media professionals, press associations, adviser organizations, libraries, yearbook companies, newspapers, radio stations and departments of journalism.

They hold 2 annual journalism conventions/seminars each year, as well as lots of regional and state workshops for both students & advisors.

HIGH SCHOOL JOURNALISM.ORG is the most dynamic scholastic journalism site on the Web is for students interested in the craft, their teachers/advisers, guidance counselors and professional journalists. Content, which is updated several times a week, includes skills-building exercises, sample lesson plans, a spotlight on high school newspapers across the country, interaction with professional journalists, updates on scholastic press freedom issues, a database of journalism scholarships and links to university journalism programs.

ARTIST DIRECT: looking for all the information you could ever want on just about ANY (and we mean ANY) artist on the globe? This is the place. Get all the info, tours, merchandise, obscure fan sites, and much more on every artist that has ever put a note to tape.

POLLSTAR: Want to find out whose on tour, where, and when? Go to Pollstar. For over 20 years, Pollstar has provided the most reliable and accurate source of worldwide concert tour schedules. In addition to publishing the concert industry's leading weekly trade publication, Pollstar also maintains the world's largest database of international concert tour information.

CMJ: The CMJ Network connects music lovers with the best in new music through print and interactive media, as well as live events. CMJ.COM offers an interactive music discovery service for new music fans, professionals and artists.

CMJ NEW MUSIC MONTHLY -- the first consumer magazine to include a bound-in CD sampler -- connects music fans with the best new music, offering its readers multi-media opportunities to discover new music in print, on monthly CDs and online.

CMJ NEW MUSIC REPORT in the music industry's connection to new music. The NMR is the weekly source for proprietary charts of non-commercial, college and internet radio airplay.

CMJ EVENTS produces live music events and conferences, including the CMJ Music Marathon, the largest music industry event of its kind. CMJ DIRECTORY is the source for the most complete and accurate contact information on the music industry.