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Free, Introductory Journalism Course Online

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Our Program

The Young Journalists program offers a series of student-taught classes over a five-week period that will provide middle schoolers and incoming freshmen with baseline experience in journalism. This course will even help students prepare to be a part of a newspaper, yearbook or literary magazine staff in high school! 

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Weeks 1 and 5 are required upon registration, but students can choose to attend any combination of classes from Weeks 2-4 (one, two or all of them).

Week 1 (6/22 & 24): Introduction

During the first week of classes, we will spend time getting to know each other and beginning to introduce the basics of journalism. After these two classes, students will have enough background to dive into more specific types of journalistic writing and media.

Week 2 (6/29 & 7/1): News and Sports

Now is the time to begin learning how to write an article! Students will get to choose between focusing on news or sports writing, and will be assigned a short article to write that can be used as their final project.

Week 3 (7/6 & 8): Photography and Design

If you love take pictures, this week will be for you! We will explore the ways in which photography and graphic design can be used in journalism. Students will create a mini portfolio that they can choose to use as their final project.

Week 4 (7/13 & 15): Opinions and Reviews

Explore the most creative side of journalism! Students will learn how to write a short article expressing their opinions about a certain topic or a review of a book, movie, restaurant, etc. 

Week 5 (7/24): Final Meeting

Students get to present to us their final projects! Teachers will provide everyone with feedback on their pieces and publish everyone's work to the Explore page of this website!

Who Are We?

We are a team of five rising seniors at Lyons Township High School. We all hold editing positions for the LT Lion Newspaper and have taken various courses in journalism and media.

Contact Us & Get Started!

Fill out the Google Form linked to the right and we will get back to you shortly with meeting details! All classes are free of charge.

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