Features

Meshing Young Ideas With Older Sensibilities

At the Orlando Sentinel, reaching a younger audience is happening without alienating their older one.

Writing Stories to Reach Young Adults

‘I put more of myself in stories by integrating my experiences and my thoughts and preferences in what I write.’

Mixing Young and Old to Create a New Approach

Youth Radio succeeds by ‘balancing young producers’ insights and new ideas about content with the professionalism and knowledge of their adult counterparts.’

L.A. Youth Partners With the Los Angeles Times

Its experiences offer valuable guidance for attracting younger readers.

Opening Up to Kids

Working to close the generation and credibility gap, post-Jayson Blair.

Winter 2003: Young Readers Introduction

Newspaper reading isn’t a daily habit for most young people. Instead they catch headlines on Web sites, share opinions on Weblogs, and see breaking news alerts along TV scroll bars.…

Seeing the Holocaust Through a Child’s Eyes

The following excerpt is from a longer piece, “Seeing Devastation Through a Child’s Eyes,” written by Kayla Conklin and published in Voices in April 2003. Conklin is a former Voices’…

A Racially Motivated Murder Leads to a Uniquely Reported Documentary

Whites interviewed whites. Blacks interviewed blacks. The stories came together.

Fall 2003: Introduction

Black and white journalists, at times working as colleagues, at other times separately, have produced the first draft of our nation’s difficult history of race relations. In this issue of…

Breaking News or Broken News

A brief history of the ‘first cloned human embryo’ story.