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Discover more about our program with the recruiting slide show .
Currently Walnut Hills High School offers four different journalism courses. The complete course descriptions can be found here.
Apply for yearbook, news production, and journalism production by completing this application.
Why Journalism?
A 2008 study mirrored the results of a similar study 21 years earlier, finding “students with journalism experience in high school did better than non-journalism students in terms of both high school grades and ACT scores.”
Joining the yearbook or news production class at Walnut Hills High School helps you become part of a team of students dedicated to telling the story of our community. You become part of a publication team that is the only organization that can tell the stories of Walnut students and life under the dome in an authentic and accurate way.
You will get the chance to travel to the National High School Journalism Convention each fall. The 2023 fall convention will take place in Boston. In 2022 we attended the conventions in L.A. and St. Louis, winning multiple writing and design awards. In 2019 the convention was in Washington, D.C. and our teams won 1st and 2nd place in the National High School Journalism Quiz Bowl, and awards in 10 National Media Contests. In 2018 the convention was in Chicago, and we won the quiz bowl and won nine Write-off Awards.
Can’t fit the yearbook or news production class into your schedule?
Join as a club member. All class members are also club members, but if you are really dedicated it is possible to become a part of our staff as a club member. Apply to join the club at any time.
Journalism Clubs Information Sheet
Steps to joining the newspaper or yearbook club:
- Have your parents sign you up for Chatterbox in FinalForms https://cps-oh.finalforms.com/ — we run both yearbook and newspaper club members through Chatterbox.
- Complete the membership information sheet. https://forms.gle/dAUnGRYHL1Uafbsj9
- Join the club GroupMe and introduce yourself.
- Get added to the Walnut Student Journalism Google Drive folder by following this link. You will have to request access. https://bit.ly/walnut-student-journalism (Add a shortcut to this folder to your drive.)
- Come to a meeting and get your club buddy (a returning club member) who will help show you the ropes.
- Fill out the Press Pass agreement and submit a photo for your press pass. https://forms.gle/KjLgK4vikpC4aa2B7
- Get started on your first article! This guide will help: bit.ly/cboxcrashcourse
For 2024-2025 The Journalism Club meets:
- during all three lunches on Thursdays in room 2306 (YOU MUST PACK A LUNCH SINCE NO FOOD CAN LEAVE THE CAFETERIA)
- any Tuesday from 3-4 for one-on-one help with articles from an editor or the club adviser
- Tuesday, 9/10/2024
- Tuesday, 9/24/2024
- Tuesday, 10/15/2024
- Tuesday, 10/29/2024
- Tuesday, 12/10/2025
- Tuesday, 1/28/2025
- Tuesday, 2/18/2025
- Tuesday, 3/11/2025
- Tuesday, 4/22/2025
- Tuesday, 5/6/2025
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