The Fall Convention at ASU

August 19, 2019

Registration is open for the Fall Convention at Arizona State University in Tempe. The convention is held in the Memorial Union on the second floor. Please check-in at the Turquoise Room between 8:30 - 9:15 as the opening Welcome "assembly" begins at 9:30. The convention ends at 1:30 p.m. School Bus Dro...

2019 Contest Entries Due June 15. Enter today!

June 12, 2019

2019 Contest Entries Due June 15. Enter today!

Previous Fall Convention Video Highlights

November 21, 2017

See our convention in action! Check out this short reel!  Fall Convention 2017

Membership Information

August 20, 2017

For more than 60 years, AIPA has been serving Arizona’s student journalists and their advisers. All advisers and publications are encouraged to join AIPA and to involve their journalists in the many exciting events and contests available to them from this valuable organization. Annual membership runs...

Could you use a little help?

August 19, 2017

AIPA Mentoring Teachers in their first or second year of advising: AIPA currently sponsors two JEA mentors,  specifically trained by the Journalism Education Association (JEA) to mentor new teachers. Mentoring support is free for two years, and it is non-evaluative with no assignments. The only requ...

Use Remind to connect with staff

Kris Urban, Adviser, Corona del Sol High School, Tempe

January 10, 2016

Although I’m not one of those advisers who worries about trading cell phone numbers with my journalism students, I can still see the many benefits of using Remind. Remind, formerly Remind101, is a method of communicating with your students via text message without sharing cell phone numbers. It’s...

AZCentral sports awards provide opportunities for teen journalists

August 18, 2015

The Arizona Republic and azcentral sports will honor student-athletes during the upcoming school season. We’ll also pay tribute to the unsung heroes in our communities, reward the ultimate game-day experiences and celebrate with a year-end awards gala. Awards The Arizona Sports Awards will reco...

Use Trello to start the year organized

Kris Urban, Adviser, Corona del Sol Sunrise

August 5, 2015

I started using Trello about a year ago, and now I can't imagine advising a publication without it. Trello can explain itself better than I can: "Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, Trello tells you what's being worked on, who's working on what, a...

SPLC: Protections inconsistent for student journalists

Dani Kass, SPLC

December 17, 2014

Anonymous sources often play a crucial role in the hardest-hitting journalism. But in stories where they are used, student reporters must first consider ethics, laws and institutional policies.