When West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner announced last month that 22,518 high school seniors in the state had registered to vote in the past 18 months, it was a terrific sign that young people are feeling politically engaged. It also hinted at the very real possibility that this […]
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It was something Zoe Hill said that made me realize how important it is that members of the media do a better job of asking high school kids how they feel about the big social issues of the day. “It’s hard to even share opinions without someone absolutely tearing us […]
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The idea was to do something unexpected. If I was serious about reimagining the relationship between newsrooms and community members, then I knew I needed to think differently about where and how that relationship happens. When I first started talking with my friends at 100 Days in Appalachia about staging […]
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In 2016, reporter and producer Mary Quintas spent nine months in Ensley, Alabama, a city neighborhood of Birmingham that has struggled in recent decades with the closure of major industries, and now suffers high rates of unemployment and crime. The reporting project that resulted, The Junction, was one of 15 […]
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