A blueprint for expanding journalism access in high schools
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Ask a room full of journalists where they got their start, and many point to the same place: a high school classroom, an inspiring adviser, a first byline in a student newspaper.
This was my story. I used my high school newspaper clips to land an internship at my hometown paper; those clips, in turn, paved the way to a national newsroom internship. It is a well-trodden path, but it requires that the first rung of the ladder actually exists. Today, for too many students that first rung has been r
This was my story. I used my high school newspaper clips to land an internship at my hometown paper; those clips, in turn, paved the way to a national newsroom internship. It is a well-trodden path, but it requires that the first rung of the ladder actually exists. Today, for too many students that first rung has been r
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