February 12, 2020
Pens and narrow notebooks in hand, the reporters of The East Rock Record march out of their newsroom and fan out on their beats. All of The East Rock Record’s newshounds are elementary and middle school students, most of them at East Rock Community and Cultural Studies Magnet School. But their journalism assignments are much more than a school project. Every semester they produce a full-size print newspaper packed with stories about their school and the city with a circulation of 3,000.