NLP Student Project: East Harlem IS

The five-minute video, East Harlem IS, depicting changes in the students neighborhood, was the culmination of an 11-week apprenticeship for a dozen students at STARS Prep Academy MS45 in East Harlem. The students learned about journalism and news literacy, along with how to write a script, use a camera and sound equipment, conduct interviews and edit video.

Five New York Times journalists and former CNN financial editor Myron Kandel — all News Literacy Project fellows — worked with the students in partnership with the nonprofit Citizen Schools. Citizen Schools is a national model that provides low-income middle-school students with after-school programs that blend real-world learning projects and rigorous academics.

The apprenticeship culminated with a WOW! — a presentation, made by the students to members of the community, that demonstrates their mastery of new skills. The students in the Make a News Show group screened their video for more than 60 guests at the Museum of the City of New York on May 12. They also demonstrated what they learned as they produced it.

This was one of just four apprenticeships in New York that Citizen Schools selected to highlight with such a high-profile event. It ran a total of 58 apprenticeships citywide during the spring of 2009.

Jane Bornemeier, editor of New York Times Radio, was the project leader. The other Times participants were video journalists Kassie Bracken, Emily Hager, Robert Harris and Michele Monteleone. Myron Kandel was CNNs founding financial editor and an economic commentator for 25 years.

I hadnt spent time with middle school students in many years and had no idea what to expect in a New York City school, Bornemeier said. I was thrilled and challenged by the students enthusiasm, curiosity, intelligence and enormous energy. Ill never forget a single one of them.

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News & Politics

Tags:

• news literacy
• News Literacy Project
• journalism
• after school
• citizen schools.

[jlomax]

Wow thats my old JHS...John S Roberts!

[joeswan59]

are there any white people in the u.s.

[jackasskidzify]

my family has been living in east harlem since 1926

[TheSobieski555]

very dark

[imthatdudeify]

@jgnena Are you from Carver?????

[seigneurvoland666]

@joeswan59 ?? what are you trying to say?

[jgnena]

Excellent job. I grew up in east Harlem...99th and Park.

[BruceBoi2]

Well done.

[ChangoSun]

Good Job kids! I was born and raised in El Barrio and its seen its highs and lows. The people in the neighborhood haven't been giving the best chances to succeed and have suffered from a corrupt police dept for decades. The last 10 years its been steadily improving tho. The worst thing about the gentri. is big businesses are getting the money that the ppl of the community should be getting to develop their own businesses and jobs. Another + is the Barrio will have Hunter College on 3rd ave!

[armusisag]

new york citty the birth place of everything

[sk8forlife90]

wow fuck that their kicking all the people out of their homes, that's bullshit man.

[bluewaterjones]

Young Men and Women.... nice job! We really like your video. Well spoken and nice video. A beautiful video on East Harlem. Please consider that people moving to Harlem may not be moving into your neighborhood by social choice. Those families may have been displaced from their own neighborhoods by rising economic costs and therefore are trying to find more affordable housing for their families. It is not their intention to displace families in your neighborhood. It's just economics!