The Montana Interscholastic Editorial Association (MIEA), one of the oldest state high school press associations in the United States, was founded on May 14, 1915 during the University of Montana’s 12th Annual Interscholastic Meet. The School of Journalism’s Dean, Arthur L. Stone, and the Montana Chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, a journalism honor society, invited high school newspaper editors to attend the meet for the purpose of forming a state-wide press organization. The organization was active during the 1915 and 1916 school years, but suspended its activities during World War I. In 1923, high school journalism students, instructors, and the School of Journalism formally founded the MIEA. By 1957 the school had begun hosting High School Day, an annual conference for MIEA members with press-related workshops and awards for outstanding Montana high school journalists. The MIEA was later renamed the Montana Journalism Education Association (MJEA). As of 2015, more than 100 MJEA members attended the High School Day event each year.
This is a collection of newsletters, handbooks, and pamphlets. It includes copies of the annual MIEA handbook, which was prepared jointly by the University of Montana School of Journalism and MIEA and served as a directory of publications and publication advisors at Montana high schools. The collection also contains copies of the MIEA newsletter,
The collection is organized alphabetically by publication title then chronologically.
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Montana Interscholastic Editorial Association Publications, Archives and Special Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, The University of Montana-Missoula.
Materials from this collection were removed from the Archives' University Publications collection (UPUBs) during reprocessing and placed in their own collection.
There are no expected additions to this collection.
The materials in this collection were filed with the Archives' University Publications (UPUBs) collection until 2016. Duplicates were not retained.
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