Find all of the information you need here to prepare to bring your scholastic journalists to Fall Fiesta in San Antonio on October 8-10, 2022.

Tony Plohetski is a national award-winning journalist whose work spans print, television and digital mediums. He has chronicled some of Texas’ biggest stories, and his investigative and accountability reporting has led to indictments and prompted new state laws and other government reform. He joined the Austin American-Statesman in 2000 and since 2013, he has worked in partnership...

  Thanks to a generous grant from the Scripps Howard Foundation, 18 students who were selected for the Scripps Howard Foundation Emerging Journalists Program (SHF EJP) multimedia workshop at UNT worked in 13 media outlets across the state over the summer. “My mentors are fantastic and I'm becoming very familiar with the newsroom,” said Genevieve Adame, a student from Ronald Reagan...

President Kari Riemer Hendrickson High School, Pflugerville Years Advising: 32 Media Advised: Newspaper, Yearbook, Literary Magazine BIO: My passion for journalism grew from my love of the written word and the belief that the press gives a voice to the voiceless. I have over 30 years in the public school classroom and have advised school publications for most of them. For the last...

TAJE welcomes Alicia Merrifield from The Village School in Houston as our new Private School Liaison. Alicia will act as a voice for our advisers from private schools as the board makes decisions as well as working on scholastic journalism resources and opportunities for private school advisers. Alicia has been teaching 30 years and specializing in journalism the last 11. She has been...