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2016 students

Stories created by the 2016 journalism workshop participants

  • Exhibit Paves Way for Civil Rights Teaching and Discussion

    2016 students
    July 21, 2016
    by Kourtni
    The Chrysler Museum of Art has an extensive collection of 30,000 items; 5,000-6,000 of these items are photographs. Joan and Macon Brock curator of American art Alex Mann has put ...
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  • Let them remind us how far we have come, and how much farther we must ...

    2016 students
    July 20, 2016
    by Rhiannon Smith
    With haunting eyes that silently speak the loud truth of the injustice of the 1960s staring into the camera lens of photographer Declan Haun, Genora Covington stood outside the Union ...
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  • Friends call Dominic Pistritto a whiz kid, he calls himself a writer

    2016 students
    July 20, 2016
    by Rhiannon Smith
    R.S. Dominic Pistritto The youngest of three, Dominic Pistritto is a Grassfield High School senior with aspirations to pursue writing. He joined The Virginian-Pilot high school journalism workshop in the ...
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  • Chrysler Museum of Art's New Exhibit a Haunting and Educational Echo of the Past

    2016 students
    July 20, 2016
    by Jordan Houston
    A black woman runs, her purse falling into the street as a white man with a baseball bat tries to assault her. Hundreds march with signs across their chests, reading ...
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  • The Beavering Weaver

    2016 students
    July 20, 2016
    by Jordan Houston
    Hope Weaver leans forward in her chair, her eyes fixed on the computer screen. She’s rewritten the lede of her news story several times and now she’s staring at the ...
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  • Kourtni Tucker is a Poem Writing, Music Listening, Video Game Fanatic

    2016 students
    July 20, 2016
    by Logan Reardon
    Logan Reardon “Quirky, fun, loyal.” Those are three words used by Olivia Tyler to describe her friend Kourtni Tucker. Tucker, a 17-year-old student from Kempsville High School in Virginia Beach, ...
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  • For Shelly Slocum, three's far from Company

    2016 students
    July 20, 2016
    by Cam'ryn Rascoe
    On any given Friday evening, Shelly Slocum will not be found at the movies.  She will not be perusing a local boutique, or even embarking on a late night study ...
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  • Logan Reardon: silent busboy, soaring journalist

    2016 students
    July 18, 2016
    by Kourtni
    Logan Reardon, 17, attends Landstown High School in Virginia Beach. He said Landstown is a diverse school, and his favorite part about attending would have to be the people and ...
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  • Jordan Houston loves "the worst ideas"

    2016 students
    July 18, 2016
    by Hope Weaver
    One of Jordan Houston’s favorite things to do is to watch especially horrible basketball and football games. Not just any game qualifies. They have to be laughably bad. Only games ...
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  • Cam'ryn Rascoe on the rise

    2016 students
    July 18, 2016
    by Shelly Slocum
    Busybody senior Cam’ryn Rascoe runs his school newspaper at Warwick High School in Newport News, is the 2016-2017 student representative for the Newport News Public Schools school board, and participates ...
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