Check out brand new stories from student journalists at the Summer Journalism Institute at the ASU Walter Cronkite School! See local news from five of our young journalists studying in media broadcasting.
Congress Street in downtown Tucson, Arizona hosts many small businesses that have struggled during the pandemic (Sarai Juarez/SJI)
Local Tucson businesses gravitate toward the digital world as COVID-19 struck
Three Tucson business owners explore social media in hopes of surviving the year-long pandemic.
A Color Guard detail pre-records the presentation of the colors GUSD events (Courtesy of CVHS AF JROTC)
The Bonds in JROTC
A high school pandemic story
Austin’s Music Sector Recovering From COVID-19
Amid the pandemic, Austin’s local government and businesses are ensuring that the city’s famous music industry is kept alive.
Their jobs were to create a world ravaged by pandemic. Their lives were to survive one.
How game designers at Naughty Dog created a post-pandemic apocalypse while trying to avoid a real one.
Mike Russ fighting a fire in Los Padres National Forest. (Courtesy of Mike Russ)
How are firefighters adapting to the increased number of violent fires in Arizona?
The increasing wildfires in Arizona are destroying forests. See how firefighters are adjusting to combat these fires, and how it impacts their lives.
Map depicting Orange County as an urban community and Randolph county as a rural community (courtesy of the NC department of Health and Human Services)
A Teenager’s Fight Against Echo Chambers in North Carolina
It is nearly impossible to listen to a national news broadcast without hearing the mention of increasing political polarization, and although this seems like a difficult problem for a teenager to tackle, this is exactly what one of them did.
Six months of preparations, five days of performances, one Homecoming
Lynbrook Homecoming is the best thing in the world,” Ria Phelan said. “It is six months of grueling torture, but it is also fun and hard work put on by our class.”
Bookshelf full of books, Eborn Books, Layton, UT. June 12 (Spencer Nuttall/SJI)
The Sounds of Eborn Books
Spencer Nuttall, a student at the SJI Camp Cronkite at ASU, showcases images from a surviving book store in his local town. He provides backing noise and commentary to fully immerse the viewer in this captured moment in time.
Esteban Ramos works at his computer at his home. (Photo from the Ramos family)
“How Come Nobody Tells Us This?”
A high school student with autism is raising awareness for safe interactions between individuals with intellectual disabilities and law enforcement.