Bronx Youth Journalism Initiative

Students will learn the fundamentals of writing, reporting, and photojournalism through classroom instruction and hands-on reporting in their own neighborhoods. We will take them on field trips - including the newsroom of a daily newspaper. And they will learn about community activism and civic responsibility, how their neighborhoods work (or don't), who has power, who doesn't and why.

Guest speakers will include reporters from the city's daily newspapers.

Student work will be published in a special youth supplement called Bronx Youth Heard, which appears in the Norwood News, as well as the Mount Hope Monitor and Tremont Tribune, giving youth a powerful voice in their own communities.

Students who complete the course will receive a recommendation letter from our program coordinator. Depending on the school's policy, there's also the possibility of students earning class credit.

We are looking for students of all academic abilities, but they should be highly motivated, love to write, be naturally inquisitive, and care about what's going on in their communities.

 

For more information, please call Jordan Moss or James Fergusson at (718) 324-4998, or e-mail bronxyouthheard@gmail.com.