Category - Art

by Yunkyo Kim

The halo around the subject represents an air of self-reflection and introspection that radiates...

Art • Photography

Scottish swans a swimming

December 28, 2018

by Owen Ferguson

A single swan pictured at Doune Ponds in Scotland this week. (Owen Ferguson/YJI)

Art • Photo Essay • Photography • Top

Palm trees, Cuban sunset

November 23, 2018

by Thea Gribilas

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Cartoons • Opinion • Perspective • Top

Searching for ethics and truth in a world full of lies

October 23, 2018

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by Isabel Slippen

Croton-on-Hudson, NEW YORK – Growing up, most children are taught to tell the truth. They are...

Art • Photography • Top

Photo essay: Norwegian tranquility

October 15, 2018

by Dawit Leake

Environment • Holidays • Illustrations • New Year's

New year brings dreams of a green Earth

January 7, 2018

by Joanna Koter

Scarborough, ENGLAND – When offered the chance to write about my dreams and hopes for 2018, I...

Art • Holidays • New Year's • Photography

In 2018, she vows to be kind, bold, daring

January 3, 2018

by Garret Reich

Art • Photo Essay • Photography

SteelStacks loom large over Bethlehem

December 30, 2017

by Beth Criado-Band

Keeping the people united in Union City, California - Youth Journalism International

12 hours ago

Check out this debut piece by student Jason Macaranas about his hometown of Union City, California: www.youthjournalism.org/keeping-the-people-united-in-union-city-california/ ...

youthjournalism.org

5 days ago

Today marks our 25th anniversary.
Back on January 11, 1994, a single teenage boy showed up with his mother for the first-ever meeting of what became Youth Journalism International.
He came to the Connecticut newspaper office of The Bristol Press in response to a notice in the paper announcing the formation of a journalism education group for young people.
The paper’s former editor, Frank Keegan, believed strongly in the concept, but wasn’t quite as keen on actually working with teenagers. So he asked reporter Jackie Majerus-Collins if she had any interest in taking the lead on it.
Majerus, now Youth Journalism International’s executive director, agreed and also enlisted her husband, Steve Majerus-Collins.
So that first night Keegan, Majerus and Collins welcomed the sole student to show up, Geremy Wallace, from neighboring Terryville, Conn.
They talked for about journalism for a while and decided to try again to round up more teens for the next meeting, which ultimately took place a month later.
Wallace, who graduated from Terryville High School in 1996, returned for the next session, which had better attendance, and ultimately helped out with a stellar project students did later that year about teen pregnancy.
Geremy also took YJI's first photograph, published in our first printed issue in April 1994. Here it is: ...

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5 days ago

#holiday #wreaths along the #vietnamveteransmemorial in #washingtondc #washingtonmonument in the background Image by Tamar Gorgadze of #virginia for #youthjournalisminternational #reflection #night #darkness #veterans #respect #vietnamwar #thewall #war #peace #journalism #education ...

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Youth Journalism International added a cover video.

5 days ago

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1 week ago

Loved reconnecting with #youthjournalisminternational student Tamar Gorgadze and trying out a #georgetown #pizzeria after the #monunents #tour when we made it to #washingtondc #journalism #education #travel #sandwich ...

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