Providing NYC public schools with the resources and support to start and sustain student journalism programs

Check out some of the journalism work our partner schools are doing…

  • Bronx River News

    The Student News Site of Bronx River High School
    Advisor: Ms. Porterfield
    Student Journalism Leaders Fellows: Sara Singh & Jocellyn Velez

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  • The Eagle Express

    The Student News Site of The Laboratory School of Finance and Technology (HS 223)
    Adviser: Mr. Fulco

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  • Lead News

    The Student News Site of Leadership and Public Service High School
    Adviser: Mr. Feyder
    Student Journalism Leaders Fellows: Denisse Merino & Ana Teodoro

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  • The Cleveland Chronicles

    The Student News Site of Grover Cleveland High School
    Adviser: Candice Lief
    Student Journalism Leaders Fellow: Lila Murillo

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  • The Queens Inquirer

    The Student News Site of Queens School of Inquiry
    Adviser: Deborah Rebore

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  • TCA Heights

    The Student News Site of The College Academy
    Adviser: Andrew Averill

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THE PROBLEM

Media distrust, civic disengagement, news illiteracy, and profound inequity in access to student journalism, the surest pipeline to a journalism career; these are some of the challenges we face today and some of the reasons for reviving student journalism in our public schools as we work to rebuild an educational system that empowers, engages and informs.

 

OUR APPROACH

Press Pass NYC equips under-resourced schools with the free faculty training, student resources, and program support necessary to start a sustainable school newspaper program. Seeing a school newspaper in every public school in New York City, in the form that’s best for that school and those students, is how our approach will and does make all the difference.

Meet Press Pass NYC’s 2022-23 Student Journalism Leaders Fellows! Each one committed to helping their school’s newspaper program succeed!

 

 OUR VISION

A city where every student has the opportunity to experience journalism—to learn what it means to make news responsibly as well as consume it, to use that knowledge to amplify their own voice and those of their fellow students, and to use those skills to maximize their success in school and beyond; A city where every school can boast of a culture of critical thinking, media literacy and community.