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A digital love letter to yearbook staffs everywhere

Despite school closures and social distancing, Balfour staffs are determined to finish their 2020 yearbooks. Take a look at how staffs nationwide are making it happen.

Save the date! Join us for a virtual journalism festival, April 21

JUMPSTART your 2021 publications with virtual training for your newspaper and yearbook staffs.

Photography help to finish spring sports

Spring sports pages are about as empty as the nation’s stadiums and locker rooms. We have 30 images and illustrations to help you fill in those spreads.

Win cash for your best outside-of-school photos

The Great Shot Photo Contest is back! And the assignment is unlike any we’ve done before: Out of the Classroom. So grab you cameras and start snapping.

15 more ideas to fill pages

Fort Zumwalt South High School, 2019

Extended spring breaks, canceled games and school closures have made it challenging to finish spring coverage. Here are 15 more ideas to fill blank pages.

Resources for virtual teaching

To slow the spread of the coronavirus, schools across the country are closing campuses and moving to remote teaching. We’ve compiled a list of online resources to help journalism educators make this

Eight Balfour yearbooks win CSPA Silver and Gold Crown Awards

Eight Balfour yearbooks earned Silver and Gold Crown Awards today from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. The announcement was made via live video and Twitter because of the spring

Covering the coronavirus crisis

It's all we can talk about. It’s upended life as we know it. It’s a challenge to get in our yearbooks. With school closures and looming deadlines, here are six creative ways to include the

“You are strong enough to soldier this storm.”

Bridgeland Media staffers meet at a local coffee shop during spring break last week. With growing coronavirus concerns, the yearbook staff wanted to plan finishing the yearbook. The preemptive

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