Adriana Chavira

Excited to attend my first AEJMC conference. I'll be presenting with other educators from the California Press Foundation's board of directors on Saturday from 9:45 to 11 a.m. "JOUR•Ed Collaborative: Leading the Way for the Next Generation of Journalists."

Photo Essay: A transgender high school athlete navigates a fight she never asked for This 17-year-old transgender athlete has faced challenges on the track and in the national spotlight. We follow her through her tumultuous final semester of high school.

“No one asked me if I had the mental strength or not before they sued California over me or before they sent hundreds of students to protest against me all day, I just figured everything out on the go.”
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"The back of the barbershop he manages features a mural of the Virgen de Guadalupe, a cactus plant and a Mexican flag. Sneakers hang by their laces from barbed wire, dangling above two motorbikes."

The deadline is this week, so journalism advisers, have your students apply!

'Fight to keep these papers alive': Student journalists react to print budget cuts - Daily Bruin Stefano Fendrich had only been editor in chief of the Daily Trojan for a few weeks when he received bad news. The University of Southern California’s Student Life office told him the paper had a budge...

From @dailybruinan.bsky.social: College media across the country face serious budget crises. loom.ly/TPm_tqU

“It’s a real barrier to being able to do this work and being able to include a diversity of student perspectives in our reporting staff because we can’t afford to pay them for their labor."

Much of the ‘racial reckoning’ efforts after Floyd’s murder never emerged Hours into his second term, President Donald Trump started a campaign to dismantle DEI efforts, including those launched in response to George Floyd’s death.

“People really did believe these mass protests, these big, multicultural protests,” were going to be “transformative” in the fight for racial justice, said Hakeem Jefferson, an assistant professor of political science at Stanford University. They were just not the way people expected
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📚Before you dive into your #SummerReading, make sure that book you’ve heard about actually exists! A few newspapers recently published an AI-generated summer reading list featuring fake titles. Watch ... TikTok video by News Literacy Project

📚 Before you dive into your #SummerReading, make sure that book you’ve heard about actually exists!

📰 A few newspapers recently published an AI-generated summer reading list featuring fake titles. Watch to find out how it happened & what it means for #MediaLiteracy 👇🏾

10 performances we saw at Cruel World, ranked The Goldenvoice celebration of all things postpunk, new wave and alternative landed at Brookside at the Rose Bowl on Saturday, led by New Order and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Here's a list of the pe...

If you were at Cruel World, who was your favorite performance? Mine was Garbage followed by The Go-Go's.
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Just 5 minutes a day of these exercises can sharpen your brain as you age A recent study found that ‘huff-and-puff’ movements, like running or lap swimming, were associated with better brain functions including information processing, focusing and multitasking and short-ter...

Get moving!
"Researchers found that “huff-and-puff” movements, like running or lap swimming, were associated with better brain functions including information processing, focusing and multitasking and short-term memory."
www.latimes.com/lifestyle/st...

45 years later, New Order's music is ‘more successful’ than ever — but why? 'It's got soul' New Order headlines the Cruel World festival on May 17 alongside Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. It’s an unexpected ’80s revival that has maintained steady enough attendance to point toward becoming a st...

I'm excited to see one of my favorite bands at Cruel World on Saturday.
“Good music is good music, isn’t it? It always floats to the top,” he says. “Buy a New Order record, it’s a good investment for the rest of your life.”
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Their school can censor the student press. They are trying to change that. Student journalists at Alexandria City High School want the school system to change a policy allowing their principal to review stories before publication.

“We’re telling students: Don’t exercise your voice, don’t exercise your power of the press in any sort of meaningful way, because we don’t feel comfortable with it. It just seems like a lousy lesson to teach, especially right now.”
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Under Trump, student journalism is ‘trial by fire,’ reporters say - Poynter The country’s youngest journalists are on the front lines of one of the biggest news stories

"...these reporters have been grappling with tough questions over source and author anonymity, journalist safety, online harassment and the role of student journalism in Trump’s America. Their age belies the significance of their work, multiple of them said."
www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...

Are you asking what the difference is between a mass shooting and defensive gun use?

Opinion | This year there have been zero public deadly mass shootings The first third of the year saw the fewest mass fatalities involving firearms since at least 2006.

"Research I’ve conducted with colleagues shows, for example, that states requiring permits to purchase firearms have significantly fewer public mass shootings and those that maintain limits on magazine size have fewer casualties when there is such an incident."
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Opinion | Telling Americans what and how to speak is not American After 250 years, we don’t need an “official language.” Trump’s executive order sends a bad message.

"President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14224, making English “the official language of the United States,” is the polar opposite of what our society, one of the most linguistically diverse in history, is and has always been about."
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Judge releases the Turkish Tufts University student who was detained by ICE to continue her studies U.S. District Judge William Sessions in Burlington released Rumeysa Ozturk pending a final decision on her claim that she’s been illegally detained.

Great news! But now her immigration case needs to be dropped.
www.latimes.com/world-nation...

Column | Teacher appreciation starts with better pay, not gifts Teacher appreciation starts with better pay, not gifts.

If I asked teachers this week what would make them feel appreciated, I expect many would share what one teacher messaged: “I love teaching, but I do not love how our educational system is designed or how professionals are disrespected and underfunded...." wapo.st/4daJVSm

Commentary: Trump is wrong. My dad was a trucker, and he didn't need much English to do his job For Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy to huff that his department “will always put America’s truck drivers first” — as if people like my dad somehow don’t belong to that group — is hateful and ig...

“But this is also Southern California. Everyone knows a little bit of English, but a lot of people also know a little bit of Spanish, too.”
www.latimes.com/california/s...

DPMHS Student Media take a fun, memorable trip to the National High School Journalism Convention I went to the National High School Journalism Convention in Seattle knowing only two things. First, Seattle had good chocolate. Second, I knew about the people I was going with just as little as I kne...

“The convention really helped me get to know my classmates better & feel more comfortable opening up to them & building an overall connection with them. After only 5 days at the convention, I learned to not be afraid to join conversations & share my opinions.”
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What Teachers Make Ever heard the phrase "Those who can't do, teach"? At the Bowery Poetry Club, slam poet Taylor Mali begs to differ, and delivers a powerful, 3-minute response on behalf of educators everywhere.

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week to my educator friends!
Proud teacher moment from last week: Former student, now at Savannah College of Art & Design, said she probably would not have pursued art if I had not told her about a free animation summer workshop she attended.
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Congratulations to @gustavoarellano.bsky.social on being a Puliter prize finalist for commentary!

Migrants spell out 'SOS' with their bodies in a Texas detention center A group of Venezuelan nationals held at Texas immigration detention center was photographed forming an 'SOS' signal with their bodies by a Reuters drone.

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Trump signs executive order directing federal funding cuts to PBS and NPR President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aiming to slash public subsidies to PBS and NPR, alleging “bias” in the broadcasters’ reporting.

"...he alleged “bias” in the broadcasters’ reporting." He just comes after media who either fact-check him or are critical of him. SMH
www.latimes.com/world-nation...

Dave Roberts adopts Palisades High baseball team coping with fire's destruction Dodgers manager Dave Roberts has offered steady support to the Palisades Charter High baseball team ever since wildfires burned some of their homes.

“Just with what they’ve been going through, I just kept in touch with them,” Roberts said. “And then the bobblehead night comes up, and I was like, ‘I want to do something. I want to make this a special night for them.’”
www.latimes.com/sports/dodge...

News Analysis: 'Disrupt, break, defund': Trump's imperial first 100 days President Trump's first 100 days in his second term have been a blitz of executive orders, job and spending cuts, and global tariffs, in pursuit of expanded presidential power.

"Trump and his team are pressing a theory of the “unitary executive,” that constitutional power is concentrated in a single man, allowing the White House to move more aggressively and with greater speed facing fewer guardrails." www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Dear Canada-
Please accept our deepest apologies from all decent Americans embarrassed by the obnoxious trolling from our man-baby-in-chief who is lacking in both intelligence & any impulse-control whatsoever.

❤️ from your neighbors below, 🇺🇸

#MakeAmericaNormalAgain

Jesse Katz is a great writer

Great speakers!

How the War Over Trans Athletes Tore a Volleyball Team Apart (Gift Article) Blaire Fleming was a little-known college player. Then she suddenly became a symbol of injustice — to both sides of the controversy.

“To my knowledge, no one seemed to think that me being transgender was an issue. If it was, they didn’t indicate that to me.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/m...

LMAO!