Baruch College’s High School Journalism Program [“HSJP”] is an initiative to inspire and support public high school student journalists, teacher-advisors and school newspapers while encouraging experiential news literacy education through our educational programming.
The HSJP is part of Baruch College’s Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions. This grant-funded program, directed by Professor Geanne Belton, offers, free of charge, an annual NYC High School Journalism Conference, an annual NYC public high school journalism competition, and a new course for teachers to help public high schools that don’t have newspapers to launch newspapers. The program is also responsible for research on high school newspaper prevalence:
In addition to working with student journalists and high school newspaper advisors, the HSJP has partnered with The Google News Initiative and collaborates with many journalists and journalism educators and with organizations that also promote NYC high school journalism, including Press Pass NYC and The Bell.
If you are a NYC public high school administrator, teacher or student journalist seeking information, interested in getting involved with our program, or starting your own high school newspaper, please contact Professor Geanne Belton at geanne.belton@baruch.cuny.edu.
