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Join Raider Media for the 2025-2026 school year!
We’re growing and we need you! If you have an interest in writing, sports, videography, photography, design, marketing, computers or just having fun – take a journalism class! We’re looking for photographers, writers, videographers and more! Join the national award-winning Raider Media program. Fill out the application below! Reach out to Miss Schreiner with questions!
Did you know?
- Most journalism students are involved in other sports or activities. We have a student from most sports teams, band, choir, theatre, AFJROTC and more.
- Journalism/Student Media students earn college scholarships from UIL.
- Over 800 people purchase our yearbook, The Legend, each year. And that number has increased almost every year.
- The Legend yearbook has won the title of a Jostens Program of Excellence for the last four years!
- We have been nationally recognized by Jostens for the last three years, including winning Grand Prize for their annual photo contest, in which the photographer won $1,000 and a brand new camera.
- Raider Media graduates have gone on to attend the University of North Texas Frank W. and Mayborn School of Journalism, Sam Houston State University, Texas A&M College of Communications, University of Texas, and the United States Navy as Mass Communications Specialists.
Classes Offered ( No Application Needed):
- Journalism I
- Photojournalism
Classes offered that require an application:
- Advanced Broadcast Journalism I, II, & III
- Advanced Journalism: News I, II, & III
- Advanced Journalism: Yearbook I, II, & III
Application Process for Advanced Journalism (News) and Broadcast:
- Fill out the application (coming soon)
- Select two teachers for references (form coming soon) *we will contact your teachers and give them the forms. No need to print.
- If selected, Miss Schreiner will contact you for a brief meeting and to give you a parent permission slip/student agreement that must be signed and returned prior to enrollment or any schedule changes.
Yearbook Application Process:
- Fill out the application (coming soon) and return it to room 216 (if you can’t print, stop by 216 and grab a copy!)
- Select two teachers for references (form coming soon) *we will contact your teachers and give them the forms. No need to print.
- Interview with Miss Schreiner and current yearbook Editor in Chief – she will reach out to you! (Only required for Yearbook Staff applications)
- You (and your parent) will sign a parent permission slip/student agreement