Pacemaker Master Class Archive
The Pacemaker Master Classes are an instructional webinar series on specific topics, and Town Hall meetings are informational webinars.
2025-26 Events
Empowering Student Storytellers with PBS News Student Reporting Labs
6 p.m. CT, Dec. 2, 2025
Join PBS News SRL Ambassador Trina Moore for a hands-on session exploring how multimedia journalism can transform your classroom. In this 45-minute master class, you’ll discover how SRL’s StoryMaker platform simplifies the process of teaching video production, journalism, and storytelling—no matter your experience level. Learn practical strategies for guiding students through authentic reporting projects that build media literacy, creativity, and confidence while connecting them to a national network of young storytellers.
Showcasing the NSPA Design and NSPA Photo of the Year Winners
With Gary Lundgren, associate director, National Scholastic Press Association
2-3 p.m. CT, Dec. 10, 2025
Join us for a showcase and discussion of the NSPA Design of the Year and the NSPA Photo of the Year high school and middle school/junior high winners recently named at the convention in Nashville. A Google slide show will be provided for classroom use.
Archive
Oct. 24, 2023
Pacemaker Master Class / Artificial Intelligence: Legal and Ethical Risks
with Jonathan Gaston-Falk, Student Press Law Center
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Sept. 13, 2022
Pacemaker Master Class: Reporting & Writing
with Jim Streisel
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Sept. 27, 2022
Pacemaker Master Class: Editorial Leadership
with Mitch Eden
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Sept. 22, 2022
Pacemaker Master Class: Design/Redesign
for newspapers & news magazines
with Michael Reeves
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Sept. 15, 2022
Pacemaker Master Class:
Your college essay — your chance to sell yourself
with David Knight
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Sept. 14, 2022
Pacemaker Master Class: Digital Media Planning
with Chris Snider
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Sept. 14 & 16, 2020
Town Halls: Editorial Leadership
Sept. 14 / yearbook
Sept. 16 / broadcast, newspaper/newsmagazine and online
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May 27, 2020
Pacemaker Master Class: Yearbook Pacemakers: The Best of the Best
WATCH
RESOURCES: Slideshows & insights from judges
