Columbia Scholastic Press Association

Student Journalists Finish Intense Training

While their peers loll on beaches, or trek over tree-studded mountains, high school students from across the country and overseas met in New York City recently to attend the Columbia Scholastic Press Association Summer Journalism Workshop.

Now in its 27th year, this summer journalism program offered five days of intensive classes where over 250 young people learned techniques ranging from the fundamentals to more advanced levels of, among other things, reporting, writing editing, leadership and design. In other words, many of the comprehensive skills they will need to publish a newspaper or yearbook in the upcoming school year.