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Amaryllis

(9,524 posts)
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 02:49 PM Mar 2018

Parkland student journalists guest edit Guardian US for 48 hours - great stuff here

Parkland students take over Guardian US

Guardian US has invited student journalists from the Florida high school where 17 people were shot dead to direct our coverage of March for Our Lives, a historic protest against gun violence

No one is better placed to tell the story of the burgeoning movement to change gun laws in America than the young survivors of the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida.

That’s why the Guardian’s US colleagues are stepping aside today.

They’ve invited student journalists from the Eagle Eye, the award-winning newspaper at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school, to serve as our guest editors for the next 48 hours and oversee the Guardian’s coverage of March for Our Lives, the massive student-led protest unfolding in Washington and across America. We’re sending 11 students to the nation’s capital as Guardian correspondents, contributing to our live coverage all day on Saturday.

In addition, the students have assigned and commissioned more than 10 stories to be published on the Guardian over the next three days, including a manifesto to end gun violence, an exclusive interview with Bernie Sanders , and a harrowing feature about the impossible choices their teachers faced when an active shooter entered the school. They also wanted to make sure the project included the voices of students in urban communities struggling with high rates of gun violence.


More, plus lots of links in this article to great stuff:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/23/parkland-students-take-over-the-guardian

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Parkland student journalists guest edit Guardian US for 48 hours - great stuff here (Original Post) Amaryllis Mar 2018 OP
K&R for visibility. nt tblue37 Mar 2018 #1
Their manifesto is GREAT - very common sense. CousinIT Mar 2018 #2

CousinIT

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2. Their manifesto is GREAT - very common sense.
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 04:34 PM
Mar 2018

That we can't even get that done here in the US is UNACCEPTABLE. It needs to change. I hope this changes it.

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