Advanced Journalism is where the features of the learning community can be seen most clearly.  Students enter the program as juniors when they can become page editors, writers, artists and photographers.  Later, as seniors, they can be editors-in-chief, associate editors, business managers, and art directors.  Every student in the class writes for each of the issues produced every three weeks.  The four senior editors-in-chief run the class and oversee the production week.

Students learn about leadership and responsibility.  They also learn about their community and about ways to interact with the business world. They are required to sell advertising and maintain their accounts during the school year. This provides them with a real world connection and shows them the role of advertising in a newspaper and in the economy.

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