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NBC Sportscaster Bonta Hill shares advice to the attendees. In the session, he highlighted important points, such as staying persistent and demonstrating humility to succeed.

Students enrich skills and perspectives at JEA NorCal workshops

by Charlene Li, Sam Li, Shreyas Karnam, and Chelsea Xie September 27, 2025

SAN FRANCISCO — Student reporters, advisers and professional journalists explained concepts ranging from the legal aspects of coverage to the creation of page layouts to impactful editing at the annual...

Harker Journalism Advisers and EICs assemble in a group after leading the "Leadership Roundtable." They shared Harker Journalism's management initiatives and drew inspiration from other schools over the course of the workshop.

Harker Journalism leads “Leadership Roundtable” at JEA Norcal Media Day

by Heather Wang and Victoria Li September 27, 2025

SAN FRANCISCO — Harker Journalism Editors-in-Chief Lily Shi (12), Tiffany Zhu (12) and Hannah Jeon (12) and Managing Editor Alvira Agarwal (12) discussed tips for leadership through a roundtable session...

Sophomores Aileen Jiang, Liana Barooah and Dyuthi Vallamsetty talk about the workshops they attended. Workshops included topics such as developing character-driven ledes and working in sports broadcasting.

Journalism staff explores, connects at JEA NorCal Media Day

by William Jiang, Chelsea Xie, and Sam Li September 27, 2025

SAN FRANCISCO — Nineteen Harker journalism students, Director of Journalism Whitney Huang and TALON Yearbook Adviser Stephen Baxter attended the Journalism Education Association NorCal (JEANC) Media...

Behind the bylines

by Eva Cheng and Lily Shi September 1, 2025

Harker Journalism leadership kicked off the year with Editors' Week 2025, collaborating on articles and Winged Post pages while hosting workshops and team bonding activities. Follow along with the staff...

Yearbook adviser Kevin Oliver joins TALON editors to show off their Best of Varsity Yearbook prize, celebrating the staff’s national recognition. Oliver led the yearbook staff to win a Pacemaker Award from the National Scholastic Press Association this April.

Three years of laughter and excellence

by Chayce Milheim and Yifan Li June 13, 2025

If there’s one thing unforgettable about our time in high school, it’s TALON Yearbook Adviser and Coach Kevin Oliver: our loving, supportive and often-hilarious mentor.  We met Oliver on our first...

Winged Post Editor-in-Chief Katerina Matta and Managing Editor Young Min were selected as first place winners from a pool of around 2,000 students. “This page [shows] how much we paid attention to detail and how much we pushed ourselves to ensure the best quality that we could,” Young said.

Winged Post editors earn first place at National High School Communications Contest

by Ashley Mo, Winged Post Editor-in-Chief May 19, 2025

2024-25 Winged Post Editor-in-Chief Katerina Matta (12) and Managing Editor Young Min (12) placed first in the Single Page Layout category to represent California at the 2025 National Federation of Press...

Humans of Harker Editor-in-Chief Disha Gupta presents the “Humans of [Your School] workshop. Presenters highlighted HoH project’s mission and went over the process of building a senior’s profile.

Harker Journalism leads workshops at JEA convention

by Suhani Gupta and Leah Krupnik April 30, 2025

Journalism staff editors led four workshops — “Humans of [Your School]," “Rethink Repeaters,” “It's the Little Things” and “ChaRIZZmatic Communication” — at the Journalism Education Association...

Former CNN foreign correspondent Atia Abawi speaks to a Newspaper journalism class on Nov. 7. "Sometimes people call you naive as a journalist because you want to make a difference," Abawi said.

Award-winning journalist Atia Abawi speaks to journalism class

by Victoria Li and Heather Wang November 16, 2024

Foreign correspondent and author Atia Abawi spoke about her journalism career to one period of the Newspaper classes on Nov. 7 in the journalism room. Abawi started reporting after graduating from college...

Harker journalism staff members, Director of Journalism Whitney Huang and Talon Yearbook Adviser Kevin Oliver pose in front of the Palo Alto Media Arts Center after sessions conclude for the day. Workshop topics ranged from local election coverage and student media law to understanding design.

Harker Journalism attends JEA NorCal Media Day

by Mendy Mao, Lily Shi, and Tiffany Zhu September 28, 2024

PALO ALTO, Calif. – 41 Harker journalism staff members, Director of Journalism Whitney Huang and TALON Yearbook Adviser Kevin Oliver participated in the 11th JEA NorCal Media Day at Palo Alto High School...

Oliver poses with Harker journalism members stand in front of the library in Columbia university during the 2024 Columbia Scholastic Press Association convention. A former patent lawyer, Oliver joined the journalism program in 2023.

Harker Journalism staff tours and triumphs at 100th New York CSPA Spring Convention

by Felix Chen and Vika Gautham March 16, 2024

NEW YORK — Twenty Harker journalism staff attended the Columbia Scholastic Press Association 100th annual Spring Convention at Columbia University in New York from March 13 to 15.  1599 participants...

Harker convention attendees hold their Gold and Silver Crowns following the awards ceremony. Harker Aquila and HELM received Silver Crowns, while the Winged Post received a Gold Crown.

Harker receives recognition at annual CSPA conference

by Felix Chen and Vika Gautham March 16, 2024

NEW YORK — Harker student publications Harker Aquila, The Winged Post and literary magazine Harker Eclectic Literature & Media (HELM) received Crowns while attending the 100th annual Columbia...

Kathleen Neumeyer, former adviser of the Harvard-Westlake Chronicle, introduces her book "Advising the Chronicle: How I taught high school journalism students to run billion-dollar companies (and you can too)." She presented the session, "J-ism Is Training for Anything,” which emphasized how journalistic skills are applicable to a wide range of fields.

‘Training for Anything’: From Gaza to sports photography to video journalism

by Felix Chen, Katerina Matta, Aishani Singh, and Claire Yu October 14, 2023

PALO ALTO, Calif. - Harker Journalism staff members attended speaker sessions with experienced professionals and fellow high school students in the journalism field to learn how to improve their own journalistic...

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