College v. High School journalism

Southern Connecticut, journalist, and alumni Jaylen Carr says “…if there were journalism opportunities in high school I think that would be great especially now with the rise of social media” after mentioning how his high school did not a have a journalism program, and how he believes that journalism in high school would be a great opportunity as well as a big help for universities taking in journalism students.

Advisor editing
College journalism has higher expectations and requirements; Southern Connecticut University Journalism professor Jodie Gill says, “When it comes to the newspaper, it’s just students doing it. Like there’s nobody telling them what to do or editing their work for them.” while talking about how students at her college go about making the newspaper and publishing their writing.

Unlike the high school level we have here at Morgan, “we try not to edit their work for them because we don’t want to get involved with what’s called prior restraints, where someone is telling you what you can or cannot publish,” says Gill when asked about how the students work is edited. In high school, students also have the freedom and encouragement to write about controversies and what they think should be changed within the school, but their work is reviewed more than college.

Student POV:
Southern Connecticut, journalist, and alumni Jaylen Carr says, “so I wrote like a little opinion piece and that got a lot of attention on the parking situation at Southern” while talking about the freedoms college students get with their writing.

Carr mentions that students have the freedom to talk about topics they believe need to be changed or just their own opinion piece; “so like the Super Bowl, like I would write my little opinion or reaction, or you know anything like that,” Carr says, explaining the editorial section in Southerns paper. Like Southern’s existing editorial section, the Morgan PawPrint has recently added a section in the magazine dedicated to editorials and student opinions.

Time management
Morgan journalism students are given more time to create their work as they have two-week intervals opposed to college. “Here at Southern, it’s every week; they have a paper and at some universities like UCONN, they put out a newspaper every single day,” says Gill. Students in college are given similar criteria and requirements but at the college level have a bit of higher requirements comparatively to high school students.