Watch: Two Top High School Journalists on Rewards and Challenges
Get inspired by a 4-minute highlight from last week’s wide-ranging live Zoom interview.
New voices: Joining me on Zoom were Tali Liebenthal (top right), Oliver Mason and Joelle Keene.
Dear Reader,
Many of us have become acutely aware of the strong negative impact of biased reporting when it comes to Israel, anti-Semitism and other issues of importance to the Jewish community. Who will tell our story accurately?
Journalists, charged with that role, often become interested in the field when they are in high school. So I invited two award-winning editors of Jewish high school newspapers – trained to combine rigorous journalism through the lens of Jewish ethics – to talk about their experiences covering their schools, their community and the wider world.
Bellow is a brief clip from our conversation, which I found inspiring, with Oliver Mason, who was editor this past year of Palette, the school newspaper of the Atlanta Jewish Academy; Tali Liebenthal, who edited The Boiling Point, the school newspaper of Shalhevet high school in Los Angeles; and Joelle Keene, a journalist/educator and founder of the Jewish Scholastic Press Association (JSPA), based on the practice of independent journalism and Torah values.
To watch, click HERE.
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