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From: joeshmoe (Jascha Franklin-Hodge)
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>At 12:16 PM 7/23/95 -0400, you wrote:
>>Paul,
>>If I didn't state so in my letter, I am going to be a senior in high school,
>>so your attempts to create a wire service for high schoolers are very
>>relevant to me.  Can you give me the name or e-mail address of the people in
>>san jose??  Maybe we can get this thing up and running.  Although we are
>>undergoing negotioations to get some outside help, we are still in the very
>>preliminary stages.  If we work together, maybe this can actually happen.
>
>You know, the thought of a student wire service IS pretty nifty. Our own
>little Profnet or Quadnet.
>Yet, how many schools have actual Internet access in their schools? Would
>this be including journalism at the collegiate level as well?

I bet that a lot of high-school newspapers have at least a few people
on their staff who are net literate.  I for one think the idea of a
student wire service is really cool.  I suspect, however, that it
would be more useful if it carried features and opinions stories
rather than news (It's hard enough getting people to care about what's
going on in their own school never mind someone else's).  I think, however,
that the service should not combine high-school and college journalism.  I
(and I suspect a lot of other editors) would think twice about publishing
material that was written by college students.  I also think that there would
probably be enough differences in article subject matter to make a combined
wire service somewhat pointless.  I would be very interested in trying to
get a project like this started, and I hope that we here on sj can do some
brain-storming about how to get this going.  Assume it's just high school
journalism, we can call it "HighWire". :-)

-Jascha Franklin-Hodge
 editor, The Cadence of Brookline High School
 'sj' listowner