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Do you want to know the proper way to hold an edge of your seat interview? Join The Kiosk for this exciting workshop that will serve as the introduction to conducting journalistic interviews.
This workshop will help students understand how to write compelling and thoughtful opinion pieces that add to the conversation on a current event topic, with focus on brainstorming ideas, opinion structure, identifying the call to action, word choice, and research-based writing. Participants will receive resources to refer to as they develop their own opinion articles.
About the Presenter
The presentation will be led by special guest Katina Paron, an editor and journalism educator who has been creating byline opportunities for new writers for more than 25 years. She is the manager of Teach for Chicago Journalism at Medill (Northwestern University); editor of Newmark Graduate School of Journalism’s Dateline: CUNY and Ms. magazine’s The Future is Ms teen-written column; and an adjunct associate professor at Hunter College.
She was the senior project editor on The Trace’s award-winning national youth media gun violence reporting project, “Since Parkland'' and founding editor of Teen Voices, a global girl news site at Women’s eNews. As the former managing director of the youth news agency, Children’s PressLine, she has worked with thousands of teens to develop professional quality media that has been published in the Daily News, Newsday, Metro, Ebony, Minneapolis Star-Tribune and ESPN.com, among other places. She received her certification as a Master Journalism Educator from the Journalism Education Association in 2018. Paron has written about youth journalism for The New York Times, The74, The Daily News, WNYC SchoolBook and more. She is the author of the comic book-style high school textbook, “A NewsHound’s Guide to Student Journalism” (McFarland). You can find her on Twitter and Instagram.