The Scholastic News Kids Press Corps, the award-winning reporting program for kids, announced 27 new student journalists for the 2015-2016 school year.
The reporters, who are between ages 10 and 14, will be joining eight returning journalists to write “news for kids, by kids” for Scholastic News and other classroom magazines, the company announced on Nov. 17, 2015. They will cover a range of topics from their hometowns, including current events, breaking news, entertainment, and sports.
Charlotte Fay, one of the new reporters to join the Kids Press Corps team, hails from New York City. Fay joins Adedayo Perkovich, a current reporter from Brooklyn. The 35 journalists are from 22 different states across the country.
“Through the stories on our blog, and the reporting in Scholastic News magazine and on Scholastic News Online, Kid Reporters provide a relevant and age-appropriate look at contemporary news for readers just like them,” Suzanne McCabe, editor-in-chief of the Kids Press Corps, said in a statement.
The reporters will have the honor of covering the 2016 presidential election, from the campaign trail to Election Day and Inauguration Day.
“We’re gearing up for an exciting year of news coverage that will offer these young reporters tremendous opportunities to grow as journalists and writers,” McCabe said in the statement.
Last year’s reporters interviewed some of the 2016 Republican presidential candidates, such as Jeb Bush and Carly Fiorina. Others had the opportunity to speak with Dav Pilkey, creator of the Captain Underpants novel series; actor Jack Black; and former astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
Scholastic News Kids Press Corps is the oldest and largest student reporting program in the U.S. The news stories appear in some of the Scholastic classroom magazines that are distributed to 25 million students across the country.
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Main image: A few of the new and returning reporters for Scholastic News Kids Press Corps.
