Spotlight on Reynolds Institute

September 19, 2011  
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Sofia Denise Marie Close is a 25-year teaching veteran in her fourth year at Middle College High School, an award-winning campus within a campus at Contra Costa Community College in San Pablo. Her students have launched Panthers Present, a web-based news site for the campus. Here, she recounts her experience... Read more »

Spotlight on Web publishing

March 15, 2011  
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Jon Becker, online editorial director for the Bay Area News Group, tells journalism students from Contra Costa County about the need for speed when publishing news on the Web. Increasingly, he said during his visit to Las Lomas High School, journalists compete to be the fastest to get their stories out... Read more »

Spotlight on editorial cartooning

January 27, 2011  
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During a visit to Clayton Valley High School in Concord, Calif., editorial cartoonist Tom Meyer shows students that art is much more than a pretty picture. Meyer, whose sometimes satirical and always thought-provoking cartoons appear across the state, doesn’t simply pull images out of thin air.... Read more »