Top Stories from Student Journalism
- arbrauchler
- Oct 13, 2021
- 2 min read
These are some of my favorite web stories from my years as a student journalist.
When it was published, this story was a breaking news piece, because I tried to write it within the time of this Instagram "trend" (which only lasted a week in the realm of my high school). Within days of initially reaching out to spam accounts for interviews, their accounts disappeared or were removed. This story resonated not only with my audience of high school students but also their parents and our surrounding community— any and everyone had experienced these fake, social media "charities."
I faced backlash for publishing this opinion piece; which I think only solidifies the question I ask the audience: How do you choose to remember Kobe Bryant? Especially from a Colorado high school, a few towns away from where Bryant's rape case took place, it was crucial that I remind our audience of his true legacy.
I reported live updates while crouched under a desk in my history classroom for two hours, during our school's lockdown while the STEM Shooting occurred miles away. The school could not effectively communicate live updates to all parents waiting in traffic to pick up their kids from our high school and middle school. I reported the live updates that our school gave the students and teachers during the lockdown and what news we had from STEM itself.
I published this piece the night that it was announced our spring break would be extended an extra week. I updated it over the course of two weeks, while College Board, Douglas County School District, and our high school continuously changed their COVID adaptations. This was the go-to source for our school's parents and students, because it was the only guide wholly pertinent to their questions.
After the Colorado High School Activities Association postponed the football season to spring 2021, three cities organized a joint protest to motivate a restoration of the fall season. I took photos and reported on the scene of the protest for our district and tracked the COVID adaptations for the football season.
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