On this episode, we’re joined by eight students who attended the College Media Association convention a series of mini-interviews that ran 2 to 3 minutes each. The students come from schools in Boston, Virginia, Ohio, and California

In these interviews we talked about some of their early-career highlights, important lessons they learned, and how being a journalist impacted them as a person.

Students interviewed and their salutes:

Maeve Bauer (VCU) – Virginia Walker, Woodgrove High School

Maren Halpin (Suffolk University) – practitioner in residence Charles St. Amand

Ranjini Shank (Ohio University) – Andrea Lewis, director of student media

Ava Jelepis (Ohio) – The staff of The New Political

Joseph Dimino (Suffolk) – Charles St. Ahmand

Michael Najarian  (Suffolk) – former Suffolk Journal editors J.D. Conte and Jamie Taris

Brooklyn Leighton (Suffolk) – Shealagh Sullivan and Sally Rooney

Nikki Yunker (El Camino College) – Gary Kohatsu, Kate McLaughlin, Stephanie Frith

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