Philadelphia 2021: Journalism and Life Lessons from the Annual Convention

At the NSPA high school journalism convention this year, an advanced reporting workshop called “Streets of Philly” sent student journalists to  report at the Reading Terminal Market, one of the largest markets in the state, about how Covid-19 had affected business owners and customers over the past two years. Students from schools across the country were put in groups together and assigned to...

        The Journalism convention gave us a taste of experiences beyond being a high school journalist at Eastside – good and bad. Compared to the small school where we interview people we see everyday, we were pushed out of our comfort zones to report on people we didn’t know, in the middle of Philadelphia’s largest market, amid the hustle and bustle of it al...

“Why do we want it? What do we want? Why do we want it?” chanted a group of American protestors in Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia. We could hear the anger, frustration, concern, desire and yearning in their voices. We were visiting Philadelphia for a Journalism convention and happened to come upon them by chance, but the impact that moment left in our minds was powe...