HKHS Cougar Chronicle Newspaper Advisor

Position Type:

Athletics/Activities/Activity Sponsor

Date Posted:

5/19/2025

Location:

Haddam Killingworth High School

Responsibilities

Produce a journalistically professional learning atmosphere and experience for the students, allow students to make decisions concerning content of the publication, and ensure the publications will remain an open forum.

Work with students to increase their competence in the following areas:

Determining news values

Selecting news stories and in-depth stories

Selecting feature stories

Selecting sports stories

Selecting opinion articles

Developing and applying legal and ethical knowledge

Learning aspects of the interviewing process

Learning aspects of journalism and research skills

Learning aspects of journalism note‑taking skills

Learning source‑identification aspects, use

Learning aspects of proper attribution in stories

Writing news stories

Writing feature stories

Writing sports stories

Writing in‑depth stories

Writing editorials

Writing columns and commentary

Writing reviews

Learning journalism‑editing procedures as part of the writing process

Developing art ideas and producing artwork

Designing and laying out pages

Learning the photographic process

Identifying new trends in content and design

Learning advertising procedures

Learning to use the computer in publication work

Provide the students with an educated, professional role model as adviser and serve as a motivator and catalyst for ideas and professionalism.

Evaluate student participation by using journalism standards.

Act as an educational resource for legal freedoms and restrictions for students and encourage discussion of ethics and content.

Provide the opportunity for students to produce a publication consistent with the First Amendment and court decisions, without faculty or administrative censorship, within the standards of professional journalism and the Society of Professional Journalists/Sigma Delta Chi’s Code of Ethics.

Act as a helpful adviser, but not as a censor, to students in all steps of publishing. In terms of unprotected speech, the adviser’s role will be to act as a consultant and as an educator.

Develop, with the staff, an editorial policy consistent with legal precedent, court decisions and professional journalistic freedoms, which will also be agreed upon and signed by the principal.

Help the staff establish policies that include:

Roles of all staff positions

Role of the editorial board

Standards of professional journalism and procedures for the staff

Style and design guidelines

A code of ethics for the publication and staff

Advertising procedures

Staff application and selection policies

Staff member removal policy

Photography rules and guidelines

Computer training

Office guidelines

Decision making and consultation

Work with students in regular planning sessions with the staff,

Regular training session in all aspects of journalism

Meeting schedules and deadlines

Counseling staffers in coverage of school life

In the process of gathering information

Order supplies and equipment; supervise the distribution, collection, maintenance and inventory control of such equipment in accordance with publication needs and school policy.

Supervise the financial status of the publication, and encourage fiscal responsibility.

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