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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

B-CC's 'Tattler' Is Back in Print

Students raised enough money to resume print publication of Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School's student newspaper, "The Tattler," this month.

Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School's student newspaper, The Tattler, is back up and running, after students worked hard to pull the paper out of $3,000 of debt, The Gazette reported. "The Tattler is safe for this year at least, but advisers and student business managers of papers countywide say they are having a hard time keeping their print product alive," The Gazette added. All 25 of the county's high schools have student newspapers—printed, online or both—Montgomery County Public Schools spokesman Dana Tofig told The Gazette. To ensure journalistic integrity, The Tattler does not accept school system funds, and must be self-supporting through advertisements and fundraisers. "It costs about $700 to print 1,700 copies of the 12-page …

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Whitman To Host News Literacy Project's Fall Forum

David Brooks and E.J. Dionne set to speak.

New York Times columnist David Brooks and the Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne will speak Wednesday evening during the News Literacy Project’s second annual fall forum at Walt Whitman High School. The News Literacy Project, a national news education program, was founded by Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter and Bethesda resident Alan Miller. The project brings journalists into the classroom to teach middle and high school students to sort fact from fiction in the face of an onslaught of information in the digital age. The project launched in the classroom in 2009 at a middle school in Brooklyn, a high school in Manhattan, and Whitman in Bethesda. Today, the program is in place at Whitman, Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, E.L. …

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