When New Glarus Youth Printed Their Own Newspaper
A short-lived but ambitious New Glarus student newspaper gave young writers, photographers, and editors a real newsroom experience in the early 1980s.
In the early 1980s, a group of New Glarus High School students stepped into a working newsroom and did something few teenagers ever get the chance to do. They published their own independent newspaper.
The New Glarus Gazette was not a school-sponsored publication, nor was it a class project. It was a student-run newspaper produced in the offices of the New Glarus Post, giving young writers, photographers and designers hands-on experience with the realities of journalism, from reporting and editing to layout, advertising and deadlines.
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