Every year journalists work so hard to report news, interview people, and make the newspaper happen. In our school, the Bulldog Barker Staff work so hard every month to report the news going around the school. There is a whole process for coming up with ideas, then writing, and editing. Every year we celebrate Scholastic Journalism Week, which is a whole week to honor awareness for education for journalism. 

There is normally a theme for the week, and this year’s theme is “Here to Stay” and through the week we will do activities that relate to that theme. The different days are First Amendment on Monday, Journalism Then and Journalism Now which are on Tuesday and Wednesday. Then on Thursday  it is Student Press Freedom Day. Last on Friday is Journalism Next. These themes for each day reflect different parts of journalism and how we can approve journalism.

“I think Scholastic Journalism Week is important because it is a whole week of focus on journalism. We honor scholastic journalism week for our journalism as well as our school and around the world. It is important to the students because it honors their work in writing. It helps students outside of journalism by inspiring them to honor other students that do journalism,” Anna Schomburg, seventh grade student, said.

Then on Feb. 22 the  seventh and eighth grade journalism staff took a trip up to the high school for the Journalism Next Day. At the high school they played best headline wins. Where you get five cards and you try to make the best headline with them and it makes sense. Each card was worth a certain amount of points as well. The team with the most points at the end wins.

“I think it is important for us to have journalism week because it should be celebrated because people do know how much journalism works, they actually work a lot. If I was a journalist I would probably want people to know about this month,” Lucy Tyler, fifth grade student said.