It is rare that journalism and literature intersect. At first glance, the two fields are too wildly different for reconciliation. Journalism, at its most basic, is a profession dedicated to telling the cold, hard truth. Literature, on the other hand, is essentially an...
My school has been shut down for a week now, and I have literally nothing to do. Yes, there are online classes and SAT prep, but those get extremely tiresome after awhile. For my school, online classes are not mandatory and have no impact on your grades whatsoever....
Claire Jones uses journalism as a way to write about her passion for attending concerts and capturing the moment.
I have spent many nights like these. Swaddled in my compulsory need to read and several layers of blankets, I scroll to the next article and ready to envelop myself in the comforting lilt of words. There is an innate and almost childlike joy in these stolen late-night...
Before the summer Medill-Northwestern Journalism Institute (which we fondly call “cherubs,”) I’d had exactly one close white friend. Before cherubs, I’d probably met one Jewish person. Before cherubs, I’d never been in a high school classroom where Asians were the...
Hosted by the Asian American Journalists Association, JCamp brings a multicultural group of high school students together for six days of intensive journalism. High schoolers are given the opportunity to listen to professional journalists and get hands-on training in...
I started my first journal at the age of 11. It began as something I would do each day, where I wrote about my friends, my crush, things that made me angry, and hobbies that I was into at the time. It was something that I did for fun, and it was something that I...
No journalism class will be offered at my high school next year. Last year, the journalism class was going to be cut. It was decided that it would stay, but it would be taught by a teacher that had not taught the subject before. With no journalism class to produce...
SPED stands for special education. Unified Sports is a program going on five years that allows special education students to participate in sports, with the help of general education. General ed and special ed both compete throughout the district against different...
It’s become a recycled joke—the online comments section is the place where humanity goes to die. Yet I always find myself lured to the comments of an online article, grossly curious, even though I know exactly what I’ll see: mansplaining galore, paragraphs of hastily...
