The Upstart

Feature Coverage students complete team storytelling packages

The Feature Coverage class completed a team storytelling exercise on July 31 during the afternoon session of the MIPA Summer Journalism Workshop. According to instructor Julia Satterthwaite, students had about […]

Speech and Debate Movie Review

Movies are supposed to be either happy, sad, scary, funny or some combination of that, but even though I didn’t hate the Speech and Debate movie, it can’t be categorized […]

Meet the Staff

This is a meet the instructors’ thinglink. If you scan over the dot on the staff member’s chest of in the grass, you will able to read the staff’s biography. […]

Participants in the News Editors class put their editorial skills to work

The students in Dean Hume’s News Editors course wasted no time this week perfecting their class. After a brief exercise to strengthen their descriptive skills, the class split off into […]

Pulitzer Prize winnner Farah Stockman speaks to MIPA students about resilience, experience

By Arianna Smith The term “Pulitzer Prize winner” may conjure the image of a stiff and buttoned up, grizzled veteran reporter. Farah Stockman is indeed a veteran columnist and reporter, […]

The Designing the Newspaper class create Alternative Story Forms

Multimedia stories help take websites to the edge

Katie Birecki, student of Taking your Website to the Edge, has been enjoying her time learning how to create multimedia stories. The class, led by Natalie Sekicky, has dove head […]

Pinterest comes to the rescue for yearbook students

Student of Taking Your Yearbook to the Edge, Hope Ma, enjoyed her time in class this morning perusing Pinterest for the latest and greatest yearbook ideas. Each student worked on […]

Passionate MIPA students in Yearbook Editors-In-Chief class

A classroom full of leaders hunch over their desks jotting down ten ways to describe their school. Future Editor-In-Chief’s prepare for the nearing school year, brainstorming ideas, planning covers and […]