Aisha Sultan

Aisha Sultan, syndicated columnist

Aisha Sultan is a nationally syndicated columnist, award-winning filmmaker and features writer. Her work has run in more than a hundred publications, including The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal and Newsweek. She has won several national honors recognizing her writing. Her work explores social change with an emphasis on education, families and inequality. She has…

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Design

Instructor: Whether you’re new to designing pages or want to take your skills to the next level, this course is for you. All levels of designers from any print publication type will benefit from learning the concepts and design principles while gaining practice with the premiere desktop publishing program Adobe offers. This course will include…

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Editorial Leadership

Instructor: The Editorial Leadership classes will help you reimagine the way you see your student media program and yourself as a leader in it. Students will learn how to strengthen their teams as well as how to improve the work those teams produce with emphasis on how to communicate, motivate and innovate. Leaders of all…

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Motion Graphics in After Effects

Instructor: This Motion Graphics class is for a video or broadcast student looking to create their own custom animated graphics on screen. Whether you’re starting from square one or have worked with templates in After Effects before, this course will meet you where you are and take you to the next level. Come with some…

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Photography Essentials

Instructor: Whether you’re new to photography completely, looking to take your skills to a more advanced level or eager to understand why some shots turn out better than others, this class will meet your basic photography needs. Participants will get hands-on training with their cameras — whether it’s a fancy DSLR, a smartphone camera or…

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Photography Advanced

Instructor: Already have a good understanding of shutter speed, aperture and ISO? This class will help take your photography skills to the next level. Participants will work on a variety of skills that go beyond the basics from using light and creating a photo story to advanced compositional techniques and tips for making great photos.…

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Communications: PR & Marketing

Instructor: If you like what you’re doing in your journalism classroom there are a lot of great options for you to explore for college and life after high school. While working for a newspaper or magazine is an option, there are many others where you can utilize your skills from working in Public Relations or…

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Social Media

Instructor: Running the social media accounts for your school is more than just posting a photo here and there, and you know that. Social Media management for your school publication takes planning, strategy, creative thinking and ability to execute from writing and photography to video and audio stories. In this class, you’ll determine what channels…

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Gary Hairlson

Gary Hairlson has been the video director for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch/stltoday.com since 2006 and has overseen newsroom video training and daily video coverage. After joining the Post-Dispatch’s photo staff in 1999, he has worked as a picture editor, assignments editor and assistant director of photography. Before joining the Post-Dispatch, he’s worked as a photo…

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Sports Broadcasting

Instructor: Michael Admire Our sports journalism course brings together writing, social media, video, interviewing and the skills to make your work stand out in all aspects. You’ll get guidance on how to conduct interviews, cover live events, write effective briefs, game previews, personal profiles and recaps. Dive into some of the best sports reporting available…

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