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REPORTING
Kayla Hamlett’s
dream is to one
day become a
news anchor
on CNN, Good
Morning America,
or The Today
KAYLA HAMLETT
Show to inform
others about news in a positive
way. To reach her goal Hamlett is
studying journalism at the College
of Communication and Information
Sciences at the University of Alabama,
where she attended the Multicultural
Journalism Workshop.
Workshop director Meredith
Cummings nominated Hamlett
noting her prior experience was only
in broadcast journalism but through
“sweat and sheer will” she got the
story.
Read Hamlett’s article “Fighting Dirty,”
about the recent machinations of a
century-old “super fraternity” at the
University of Alabama called The
Machine in the workshop newspaper,
The MJP Journal (p.12).
Cummings wrote: “Kayla not only
took the lead on the website for our
workshop, but also did a phenomenal
job writing and understanding a
100-year-old issue in Tuscaloosa
at the University of Alabama. She
scouted out interviews from ex
school-board members and was
tenacious in her reporting. She
was able to capture and convey an
incredibly complex and nuanced
issue after only three days with us.”
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Alex Schley participated in the New
England High School Journalism
Collaborative Summer Workshop
in collaboration with The Boston
Globe at Regis College. Schley
wrote the cover story for The Zephyr
newspaper titled “Getting a Grip on
Heroin Addiction,” which focused
on a 19-year-old recovering addict.
According to NEHSJC director Milton
Valencia, “Massachusetts is suffering a
deadly crisis and Alex got to the core
of it.”
Schley’s personal
essay shared a
formative lesson
from high school
in which she
was involved
in a long battle
ALEX SCHLEY between teachers
and the school administration - first
as a student, then as a journalist. “It
was after this experience that I really
understood the power of writing, the
power of journalism.”