Category - Photo Essay

by Selvaganeshamoorthi Balakrishnan

Street vendors sell a variety of food in Panang, Malaysai. Photos by Selvaganeshamoorthi...

Photo Essay • Photography • Top • Travel

Exploring Batu Caves Temple

December 10, 2018

by Selvaganeshamoorthi Balakrishnan

These three images are by Selvaganeshamoorthi Balakrisnan for YJI. They’re from the Batu...

Art • Photo Essay • Photography • Top

Palm trees, Cuban sunset

November 23, 2018

by Thea Gribilas

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Natural beauty in Ontario

November 5, 2018

by Thea Gribilas

Tory Hill, Ontario, Canada. (Thea Gribilas/YJIHaliburton, Ontario. (Thea Gribilas/YJI)Tory HIll...

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Abandoned student housing named for first president

October 29, 2018

by Gideon Arinze Chijioke

Photo Essay • Photography

International Youth Day in Lewiston, Maine

August 27, 2018

by Ash Knight

Photo Essay • Photography • Top • Travel

Photo essay: Turkish holiday

August 15, 2018

by Abdulrahman Al Rayyis

News • Photo Essay • Photography

Slideshow: Signs at a Scottish anti-Trump protest

July 15, 2018

by Beth Criado-Band

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

16 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.

6 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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