{"id":36643,"date":"2023-07-24T14:40:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T18:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?post_type=bu-article&#038;p=36643"},"modified":"2023-08-03T10:51:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T14:51:44","slug":"publishing-the-next-generation-of-journalists","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/publishing-the-next-generation-of-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Publishing the Next Generation of Journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin bu-blocks-block-editorial-leadin is-style-side-by-side has-media has-wider has-box has-media-focus-center-middle\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container-lockup\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-leadin-media\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"525\" height=\"700\" src=\"\/com\/files\/2023\/07\/comtalk-summer-jo-freep-banner.jpg\" class=\"\" alt=\"From left to right: Cami Culbertson, Cindy Cui, Sienna Bevan, Samantha Gamero, and Maggie LeBeau pose in front of the Daily Free Press office on Comm. Ave. Photo by COM.\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/files\/2023\/07\/comtalk-summer-jo-freep-banner.jpg 525w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/files\/2023\/07\/comtalk-summer-jo-freep-banner-477x636.jpg 477w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/files\/2023\/07\/comtalk-summer-jo-freep-banner-500x667.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin-caption wp-prepress-component-caption\">From left to right: Cami Culbertson, Cindy Cui, Sienna Bevan, Samantha Gamero, and Maggie\u00a0LeBeau pose in front of the Daily Free Press office on Comm. Ave. Photo by COM. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-outer\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-inner\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"head\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPublishing the Next Generation of Journalists\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"deck\">For the first time, high schoolers at the BU Summer Journalism Academy wrote for the Daily Free Press<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-categories\">\n\t\t\t<ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/category\/journalism\/\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJournalism\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/category\/student-work\/\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStudent Work\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-date\">July 24, 2023<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul data-credit-type=\"By\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/authors\/steve-holt\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSteve Holt\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<div style=\"display:none;\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-share-tools\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-share-tools-inner js-prepress-component-share-tools\">\n\t\t<h4>Share<\/h4>\n\t\t<p class=\"wp-prepress-component-share-tools-article-title\">Publishing the Next Generation of Journalists<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-share-tools-article-link\">\n\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" value=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/publishing-the-next-generation-of-journalists\/\" readonly>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<label>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Copy URL:<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<button class=\"js-prepress-component-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Copy<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t<\/label>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">New at the BU Summer Journalism Academy (BUSJ) this year, a pilot partnership allowed high school participants to pitch, report, and write stories for the <em>Daily Free Press<\/em>\u2014BU\u2019s independent, student-run newspaper. In the past, stories written during the three-week immersive experience were published primarily on The Terrier, a news site created expressly for the academy, or in participants\u2019 high school publications. But Burt Glass, the BUSJ director and director of marketing and communications at COM, says he and BUSJ program manager Ermolande Jean-Simon began looking for a bigger platform that would publish student stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI knew that the idea of getting a clip is so important to a student, especially high school students who are thinking about applying to college, exploring whether they want to go into journalism as a profession, or just want the satisfaction of seeing their name in print,\u201d says Glass. They first looked for a local newspaper to pitch the idea. But amid the closures of small- and medium-sized newspapers across the commonwealth, they were unsuccessful. \u201cThe answer has been right here in our backyard the whole time, and that\u2019s the <em>Daily Free Press<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So Glass and Jean-Simon reached out to the paper\u2019s student advisory board last winter with their plan: the <em>Daily Free Press<\/em> would get an influx of pitched and assigned stories that have been edited by an institute instructor, to publish during the summer and start of the academic year, when news production is typically slower. BUSJ participants would get coveted clips in a multimedia daily newspaper with a print circulation of 3,500 and more than 180,000 monthly pageviews online. The <em>Daily Free Press<\/em> board was enthusiastic, and incoming editor Chloe Patel (\u201924) says she saw the win-win right away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m really excited, honestly, to have content to publish [in the summer] and to get high schoolers published,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BUSJ was launched in 2009 by the New England Center of Investigative Reporting (NECIR), which was housed at the time at COM, with 23 student journalists participating, Glass says. BU faculty and area journalists teach courses on news reporting and photojournalism in the morning, and participants report stories each afternoon. With their provided MBTA passes in hand, students explore Boston in groups on the weekends and in the evenings. This summer, 66 high school juniors and seniors from as far away as Brazil, Colombia, Greece, and China piled into Warren Towers for the three-week residential academy. Another 60 students joined a learn-from-home BUSJ experience, reporting and writing stories on their local communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/com\/files\/2023\/07\/comtalk-summer-jo-freep-inset-class.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36700\"\/><figcaption>BUSJ Instructor Jan Brogan (far left) and her class of high school journalists. Photo by COM.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/com\/files\/2023\/07\/comtalk-summer-jo-freep-inset-chloe.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36702\"\/><figcaption>Daily Free Press Editor Chloe Patel on the COM lawn. Photo by Kerlin Campos.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>While academy instructors edited student stories and oversaw fact-checks, Patel approved the initial story pitches and edited them for house style before publishing. For Patel, the experience brought her full-circle: she attended BUSJ in 2019, an experience that helped her choose to attend COM as an undergraduate. \u201cIt would have been so cool\u201d to have the stories she wrote that summer appear in the <em>Daily Free Press<\/em>, she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey asked great questions, and they seemed super engaged,\u201d Patel says. \u201cThey were a very engaged group who were all very eager to write.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BUSJ stories published by the <em>Daily Free Press <\/em>include features about the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyfreepress.com\/2023\/07\/28\/how-barbies-marketing-captivated-audiences-and-garnered-success\/\">viral marketing machine behind the <em>Barbie<\/em> movie<\/a> and a BU student\u2019s vintage clothing startup, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyfreepress.com\/2023\/07\/29\/student-entrepreneur-grows-vintage-fashion-business-with-build-lab\/\">Girls With The Fits<\/a>. Patel says additional stories will be published into the fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It wasn\u2019t all reporting, however, at BUSJ. Guest speakers like WBUR arts and culture reporter Cristella Guerra, Michael Holley of NBC Sports Boston and an associate professor of the practice of journalism, and NBC10 Boston investigative journalist Ryan Kath (\u201905) showed BUSJ participants what a career in journalism might look like. Jean-Simon says that while most participants this year came into the program with a goal of working at a print publication, tours of the NBC10 Boston and WBUR newsrooms may have changed a few minds. She\u2019s just thrilled to see where they all go from here, she adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-end-of-article\">\u201cAfter the program ends, I get to hear how many of them come to BU or another journalism school and flourish in the industry, all because they came to our program and got to write stories they care about,\u201d Jean-Simon says. \u201cThis year, they got to have them published in the [<em>Daily Free Press<\/em>]. This brings me, our program staff and instructors so much joy. 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