Why I built a coalition for Philly’s student journalists
I started to notice the pattern during my time at The Clerk, Haverford College’s independent student newspaper.
Conversations with my fellow student journalists had less to do with writing and more with how long the newsroom at our small liberal arts college just outside Philadelphia could realistically sustain itself.
We talked about finances as often as we did about story ideas, and about continuity as often as we did about deadlines.
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