Aspiring journalist Michelle Navarro of Solorio Academy High School shares a few news literacy tips: Always check your sources and do your research.

 

“Our job is to always search and find the truth,” she says. Navarro also talks about her coverage of Latino health and process of interviewing community members this summer as part of the Pasos al Futuro 2014 program.

For two weeks in June, students from Benito Juarez Community Academy, Solorio Academy High School, John F. Kennedy High School, Whitney Young and other local schools—and a few from schools in California—did the work of reporters, videographers, photographers and editors. And under deadlines that would keep Anderson Cooper on his toes. Read the full story: “Want to get to the heart of a news story? Replace fear with curiosity.”

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