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This originally appeared March 26, 2020 in the Society of Professional Journalists <\/em>Quill magazine <\/u><\/em><\/a>and online.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was about to begin dress rehearsals for the school play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sam Shelenberger, a senior at Saegertown High School in Saegertown, Pennsylvania, had scheduled a week off of work at a local gas station to prepare for his role in \u201cMatilda,\u201d a play about a precocious five-year-old girl. Then on March 12 Shelenberger, who also is the editor in chief of Saegertown High\u2019s Panther Press, got the word: Schools throughout Pennsylvania were shutting down. The gut-punch realization soon set in: His senior year was over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He contacted his media adviser Stacey Hetrick and visited her house that night to come up with a plan. \u201cTheir initial thinking was, \u2018Let\u2019s get everything online that we know right now,\u2019\u201d Hetrick said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The students at the newspaper and website started a Slack channel and created a document of guidelines for the rest of the 25-person staff (grades 9-12). They plowed forward with a robust Instagram presence, as well as \u201cSaegertown Shutdown\u201d stories and photos from the community. The goal is to post one every day during the Coronavirus pandemic, in addition to regular coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next morning, alumni of The Panther Press \u2013 forced home from college closures \u2013 gathered on Hetrick\u2019s porch (practicing social distancing) to see how they could help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About 30 percent of the residents of Saegertown \u2014 a rural community of about 1,000 \u2014 don\u2019t have home internet access. The primary local industry is tool and dye, so many businesses remain open making medical equipment. There are stories to be told.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The staff released a print issue of The Panther Press \u201ceven though we haven\u2019t been in school all week,\u201d Shelenberger said. He has a stockpile of evergreen stories in a Google Drive folder in case things get dire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really been interesting to say the least,\u201d Shelenberger said. \u201cI didn\u2019t think when I started journalism three years ago that I would be stuck at home from school writing about history we will be talking about when I grow up. I never expected that I would be writing the first draft of history.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They speak for their generation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently many high school teachers across the country are not allowed to make assignments or require students to do work for a grade, yet student media staff continue to put out a product. Media advisers often have to request permission (and sometimes sneak into) schools to grab cameras, iPads and other equipment students might need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Staffs mimic professional newsrooms. Those who covered beats like sports, for example, jump into special COVID-19 coverage. They do it all while schools are closed, on a volunteer basis. They speak for their generation. For example, at Saegertown a story on how COVID-19 affects students enlisted in the military was posted this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey are reaching out to each other and saying, \u2018What we\u2019re doing here is important. Get on board.\u2019\u201d Hetrick said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leslie Dennis, Director of the Southern Interscholastic Press Association, which serves schools in 15 states, has been impressed with the \u201cwealth and depth of coverage\u201d student journalists have shown during the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStudent journalists have not stopped as their classrooms have been shuttered and continue to cover how COVID-19 is affecting their community and peers from a variety of angles,\u201d Dennis said. \u201cThe storytelling they are doing right now illustrates the importance of journalism in secondary education.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s helpful, students said, that they are already connected hourly by technology, so that if a source is needed, a connection is not much further than a quick check on Instagram or Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Cawtawba Ridge HS student Ella Becze edits the daily student-run broadcast from home.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Cawtawba Ridge HS student Ella Becze edits the daily student-run broadcast from home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karin McKemey, adviser at Catawba Ridge High School, oversees the student-run Catawba Ridge News and CRN-TV newsroom in Fort Mill, South Carolina Her staff puts out a daily broadcast despite not being together in school. She sees the dichotomy of technology and in-person interaction and how that helps her staff get out the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey sit close together on a couch \u2013 maybe three or four of them \u2013 texting, but they\u2019re all together,\u201d McKemey said, thinking back to more normal daily operations. \u201cThey\u2019re more well equipped to handle this but they do realize they miss the social interaction of being near people. They are getting creative with how to do interviews. I mean, how many stories can you really do from your family room?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her staff of eight students posts every day despite the fact that there are no seniors to lead the way in school, which only opened in fall. They have held Virtual Spirit Week and are debunking myths propelled into social media by teens, such as \u201cif you gargle with vinegar and hot water it won\u2019t be in your system,\u201d McKemey said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She always tells students \u201cYou are not the story.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut now I\u2019m going back on my word,\u201d she said. \u201cThey are the story. This is a chance to really document history.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes that has challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNone of these kids have taken television [class] before,\u201d she said, and added that not all of her students have access to equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At CRN-TV students send encouraging messages to one another over the news channel\u2019s YouTube channel called \u201cFriday Feels,\u201d positive messages that keep up student body morale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although her students, like many others across the country, have not covered all curriculum material, COVID-19 coverage allows students on-the-job training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEven though they use their phones every day they are used to better quality with depth of field in cameras,\u201d she said. \u201cInstead of nonlinear editing they really have to start thinking in a linear way so they can capture to edit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paige Bell, 17, a reporter with CRN-TV, said her classes dismissed March 15 but learning continues at home with online instruction. Bell, who said she was \u201craised old school in West Virginia, where you don\u2019t have your phone at the table and you go outside to play,\u201d values face-to-face interviews and has found it difficult to give that up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDefinitely the hardest part has been trying to get an interview, but if you really want the interview you\u2019ll do whatever you can to make it work,\u201d Bell said. \u201cEven though I\u2019m as involved in media as I am as a student journalist, I\u2019m just not crazy about my phone. With my interview process, I\u2019m like, \u2018Can you please just meet me out, anywhere, even in the middle of the road?\u2019 It\u2019s definitely been really frustrating for me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CRN-TV, like other student media, hopes to instill a sense of normalcy for students with features like Copperhead Challenge, where students take videos of what they are doing in their free time and challenge two or three people to do the same.The Morning Daily helps students keep routine in their mornings and \u201clets them see how they are affected directly, locally, instead of watching national news,\u201d Bell said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes it affects reporters directly, not just their readers and viewers. High school reporters get early practice at checking emotions at the door while getting the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSometimes whenever I get really thinking about it I think, holy crap this is my senior year and this is happening,\u201d Shelenberger said. \u201cThat aspect has been kind of taxing \u2013 to think that my senior year has gone a different way than I thought it would.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bell echoed that sentiment and reflected on other national tragedies, such as school shootings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith those we kind of move on with our day and shove it under the rug,\u201d she said. \u201cBut with Coronavirus, it\u2019s just so in your face all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Signs of hope<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Across the country in California Justin Raisner, media adviser for the newsmagazine Highlander and the Scot Scoop website, saw his students launch features such as \u201cBored and Quarantined\u201d after school closed March 16. The site is updated daily with help from 20 students on the COVID-19 coverage team at a school with 2,200 students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs the world is falling apart around you, to see a group of students come together to work together to create something and do such amazing work is the one thing that gives you hope,\u201d Raisner said, by phone from his home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Audrey Boyce, a junior, is the editor in charge of the Scot Scoop News COVID-19 section and said the online product drives to help people stay informed and calm anxiety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe most fun part about it is definitely that I really like serving the community in this way,\u201d Boyce said. \u201cThe student response has been pretty awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her staff sent out a form to students asking what questions they had about COVID-19 so the school media could answer them with expert commentary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think not being at school is difficult because we like to do a lot of meetings with everyone to check in,\u201d Boyce said. \u201cKeeping in contact with everyone has been probably the most difficult part. Zoom calls are good, but 15 people not everybody gets to share those ideas as they would in person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scot Scoop Editor-in-chief Veronica Roseborough said social media has been a helpful tool to ask students what concerns they might have so that the staff could cover those angles and the \u201cyearning for knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m really proud the way our team pulled together to make this happen. We had to rearrange all of our deadlines to make this work. What really amazed me was everyone\u2019s dedication to it. Everyone is so enthusiastic about learning about it. Most of us are 16 or 17 and we haven\u2019t gone through something like this that affected us so greatly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes learning has meant surprises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re kind of known as the generation that is consumed by our phones,\u201d Roseborough said. \u201cI think we\u2019ve kind of come to realize that we need that social interaction \u2026 to maintain that connection with people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new normal<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erinn Harris, adviser at Thomas Jefferson HS for Science and Technology in Alexandria Virginia, advises TJ Today online as well as broadcast and yearbook staff. The print magazine will go online this month because \u201cThere\u2019s no point in printing a March issue,\u201d she said, since the last day was March 12. Her new normal is waking each morning to take her temperature to make sure she doesn\u2019t have a fever. Then she checks her phone to see what students have posted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey are doing without any sort of external motivation,\u201d Harris. \u201cThey are just doing it because they love their jobs. If I wanted to find joy in all of this, my biggest joy is watching them do without being asked to do. The biggest accomplishment and bright spot that I\u2019m getting out of all of this is that they are really taking the lead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris thinks pushing forward with coverage has another, added benefit in addition to serving the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne of the things is motivating them is the distraction, \u201c Harris said. \u201cIf they are proofing pages or designing spreads they can\u2019t really think about the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back in Pennsylvania, Shelenberger is thinking about the world and how he will tackle the next task as editor. As he wraps up this interview, the professional journalist in him kicks in. One more thing he really wants people to know about his staff, covering the Coronavirus pandemic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been trained well enough by my adviser to plug our Twitter,\u201d he said. \u201cSo follow our Twitter @pantherpressshs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check out the work of these student journalists at the links below.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

McCallum HS (Austin, Texas<\/strong>) <\/a>\u2013 Adviser David Winter<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catawba Ridge HS (Fort Mill, South Carolina)<\/strong> <\/a>\u2013 Adviser Karin McKemey<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomas Jefferson HS for Science and Technology (Alexandria, Virginia)<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Adviser Erinn Harris<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clarke Central HS (Athens, Georgia)<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Adviser David Ragsdale<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coppell HS (Coppell, Texas)<\/strong> <\/a>\u2013 Adviser Chase Wofford<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saegertown Jr.\/Sr. High School (Saegertown, Pennsylvania)<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Adviser Stacey Hetrick<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carlmont High School (Carlmont, California)<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Adviser Justin Raisner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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