The East Rock Record Goes Online

After more than six years as a print-only publication, The East Rock Record is publishing its first online issue ever.
The newspaper, based at East Rock Community & Cultural Studies Magnet School and supported by Yale’s Office of New Haven Affairs, has made the move in response to the coronavirus pandemic that has shuttered schools and turned once-normal daily activities into risky (and even forbidden) exercises. Fortunately, reporters at The East Rock Record spent their final live meeting last month furiously working with Yale mentors in the “newsroom” to complete a variety of news stories.
Their reporting tackled matters from who is doing students’ homework (how often do parents pick up the pencil and can teachers tell?) to concerns about social judgment and pressures to be “perfect.”  Stories took the long view — speaking with a geologist to understand New Haven in the Pleistocene era — and the right-now world of TikTok videos, including a guide for adults about what they should know about the app of the moment.