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Featuring veteran yearbook adviser Jim McCrossen, get invaluable insights on the art of photo cropping and the ethical considerations that must guide yearbook photography practices.
Cropping and Photojournalism Ethics
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Jim McCrossen is in his 34th year helping journalism students find their voice in a very loud and busy world. McCrossen has spent his entire teaching career in the Blue Valley School
District in Overland Park, Kan. teaching and advising two years at Blue Valley North and the past 32 at Blue Valley Northwest, where he advises the Horizon yearbook, The Express newspaper and the BVNWnews.com website. McCrossen is a JEA Distinguished Yearbook Adviser, an NSPA Pioneer Award recipient, a Ball State University Marilyn Weaver Scholastic Journalism Award winner and a former Kansas journalism teacher of the year. He is a former award-winning photojournalist in Ventura County, Calif. He loves teaching photography mostly because he’s not very good with words. His students have won numerous awards for their work, and they have not won numerous awards, as well. McCrossen likes red meat, chocolate and Cheetos.
Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan is the former yearbook adviser at Del Campo High School in Fair Oaks, California, and now a special consultant for Walsworth Yearbooks. He was a yearbook adviser for 35 years, and over the years the Decamhian yearbook earned numerous Pacemaker and CSPA Gold Crown honors. The Decamhian was recognized in 2022 as having earned the second-highest number of Pacemakers in NSPA’s 100 year history. Jordan was the 1996 JEA Yearbook Adviser of the Year, and has received CSPA Gold Key, NSPA Pioneer, JEA Medal of Merit and JEA Lifetime Achievement awards. He received the Linda S. Puntney Teacher Inspiration Award in 2021. He now shares his expertise with students and advisers at workshops and conventions across the country and leads mentorship through the Adviser Mentor Program. He was among the first to embrace desktop technology in the 1980s and apply it to yearbook, and he remains an innovator in the yearbook industry. Be sure to check out his yearbook-focused podcast, Yearbook Chat with Jim that highlights the stories of great yearbook advisers from around the country.
Sabrina Cady
Sabrina Cady, CJE, is a Walsworth Yearbooks representative, key accounts specialist and the former publications adviser at J.W. Mitchell High School in Trinity, Florida. Under her leadership, The Stampede yearbook earned multiple CSPA Crowns, an NSPA Pacemaker, and was a Design of the Year Finalist. She was Teacher of the Year in 2013, a District Teacher of the Year Finalist, and teaches at workshops and conventions nationwide.
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