Students Gain Journalism Experience Across US

Across several programs and experiences, students are learning journalism through hands-on reporting, editing and newsroom exposure. Belpre students visited two Ohio newspapers to learn about newsroom careers and how reporters use and assess sources, while EdSource’s California Student Journalism Corps gives college students professional experience reporting on higher education with guidance from experienced journalists. In Nashville, college editors at the student-run SUNN mentor high school writers, helping them develop reporting and editing skills through one-on-one coaching. A Utah State student also brought classroom opinion writing into local debate, publishing an argument for a safer school crossing after a child was struck there; the examples show how student journalism can build skills and engage communities.