Category - Perspective

by Frida Zeinali

Isfahan, IRAN – A few weeks ago, I observed something bizarre while traipsing around campus...

Perspective • Reporter's Notebook • Top

Put awkwardness aside and talk about periods and pads

November 21, 2018

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by Sarah Se-Jung Oh

Seongnam, SOUTH KOREA – With only 10 minutes left on your final exam, you rapidly walk...

Appreciation • Perspective

Excelsior! A Stan Lee tribute

November 12, 2018

by Thomas Barrett

Rotherham, England, U.K. – From comic booksto movies and TV shows, Marvel is one of the world’s...

Perspective • Top

Have Brazilians lost hope?

October 31, 2018

by Julia De Cunto

“Brazilian, occupation: hope.” This is a famous phrase once said by Antonio Maria, an important...

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...

Perspective

Breaking a world record, in the name of peace

October 15, 2018

by Irha Nadeem

Lahore, PAKISTAN – In hopes of breaking a world record, a team of young people on kick scooters...

My Hometown • Perspective • Top

My hometown: a crime-ridden city in England

October 11, 2018

by Thomas Barrett

Rotherham, England, UK – When someone asks me where I live, I tell them a lie. I tell them I live...

Featured • Perspective • Sports

The day I swam from Europe to Asia

October 8, 2018

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by Megan Higgo

Çanakkale, TURKEY – Some say that you can’t call yourself a true open water swimmer until you’ve...

Keeping the people united in Union City, California - 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/ ...

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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