Category - New Year’s

Holidays • New Year's

My future will unfold in 2018

December 31, 2017

by Owen Ferguson

Doune, SCOTLAND – As a student halfway through my final year of high school, 2018 will undoubtedly...

Holidays • New Year's

Australian New Year’s: family, fireworks and drinking

December 31, 2017

by Alyce Collett

Portland, AUSTRALIA – Once again, it’s that time of year. New Year’s Eve. All around...

Holidays • New Year's

Exploring my favorite neighborhoods in Addis Ababa for Ethiopian...

October 12, 2016

by Dawit Leake

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – While celebrating Ethiopian New Year last month, I got a rare chance to go...

Holidays • New Year's

Welcoming Spring, and a New Year, In Iran

March 21, 2016

by Frida Zeinali

MASHHAD, Iran – Every year, March 20 marks a very important date on Iranians’ calendar – it’s the...

Holidays • New Year's • Photography

Happy 2016 From The Top Of The World

January 1, 2016

by Nischal Kharel

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Holidays • New Year's

Bonfire Begins An Ethiopian New Year

August 20, 2015

by Dawit Leake

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Holidays • New Year's • Photography

Brazilian New Year: Grapes For Good Luck

January 1, 2015

by Maria Luiza Lago

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Happy New Year From Athens!

December 31, 2014

by Eleni Grigovits

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Youth Journalism International

13 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/ ...

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

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Youth Journalism International

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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Youth Journalism International

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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Youth Journalism International

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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