On churning out story after story and scooping many national news outlets: “We have a perspective as student journalists at Harvard that really nobody else has,” says managing editor Miles Herszenhorn.
Last year dealt heavy blows to the American news industry with turmoil in legacy newsrooms, local papers disappearing, the collapse of BuzzFeed and other digital news giants, and major firings and r.
Student journalism is the seedbed of the American news industry. If we want a vibrant free press and, for that matter, a functioning democracy we need to make significant investments in it.
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The student journalists of the Harvard Crimson have had a front row seat to one of the most pressing crises in Harvard’s illustrious history, breaking several crucial stories even as they continued their full-time scholarship.