“Thanks for doing what you’re doing. It feels almost like a rebellious thing to be doing right now, to be interested in journalism,”
That’s what somebody said to me during the reporting process, and it got me thinking, why is journalism considered so defiant?
Journalism as an industry challenges authority, something my mom would begrudgingly attest that I do often. The High School Journalism Institute has taught me just how important it is to question and fact-check everything — no matter who is saying it…