Interviews

Q&A with Jim Asher

JRNOLA students with Pulitzer Prize-winning editor, Jim Asher “The only way America is going to survive is if people of courage and character tell stories about what’s true.” – Jim Asher In yesterday’s newsroom session, our journalists were joined by Jim Asher. Asher is a… Read More »Q&A with Jim Asher

Tajh Watts, a senior at St. Augustine High School, uses his bed as a school desk, propping two laptops against pillows. With the lack of in-school teaching, he sometimes resorts to guidance from YouTube videos when he struggles with his chemistry homework. PHOTO PROVIDED BY TAJH WATTS

Can schools make a coronavirus comeback this semester? Students share thoughts and concerns

This story was originally published in an ongoing partnership with The Gambit. The following is that article, verbatim. For two months this past spring, Tajh Watts used his bed as a school desk, propping two laptops against pillows each morning as he hunched over, diligently… Read More »Can schools make a coronavirus comeback this semester? Students share thoughts and concerns

"MEC Bheki Ntuli monitors Covid-19 guidelines at Dlambula Primary School in Durban" by GovernmentZA is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0

Back to School Plans Are Leaving Some Immunocompromised Students Behind (Originally Published in Teen Vogue)

We here at JRNOLA are extremely pleased to announce that Isabella Brown was published today (9/1/20) in Teen Vogue. The following is that article, verbatim. Jack Bryan’s family has been wary of getting him sick ever since he was born. Long before the pandemic, they… Read More »Back to School Plans Are Leaving Some Immunocompromised Students Behind (Originally Published in Teen Vogue)

The Lost Senior Year

The isolation caused by COVID-19 restrictions placed a strain on Kayla Andrus’ relationships with teachers and friends. Now Andrus, an 18-year-old graduating senior at Mount Carmel, finds herself staying up until two in the morning and waking up later in the day to begin incessant… Read More »The Lost Senior Year

Sweet Crude by Nick Amoscato Sweet Crude by nick.amoscato is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Sweet Crude’s Alexis Marceaux on Everything from Voice Lessons to The Voice

Alexis Marceaux—singer for the Louisiana French / English bilingual band Sweet Crude— grew up in Chalmette, wanted to be a singer her whole life and thought that she would go to art school and then Loyola. But then Katrina came along and those plans changed.… Read More »Sweet Crude’s Alexis Marceaux on Everything from Voice Lessons to The Voice