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CLARIFY: The City Limits Accountability Reporting Initiative For Youth

We are proud to extend our legacy as NYC’s oldest nonprofit investigative news agency by empowering youth and strengthening communities through this unique training program for high school students in public service journalism.

CLARIFY is generously supported by the Google News Initiative, The Pinkerton Foundation and The Harman Family Foundation.

FROM THE CLARIFY NEWS ROOM

This fall, City Limits worked with more than two dozen reporting interns from…
Councilmember Joseph answered questions from CLARIFY student reporters about her priorities for the…
The NYPD said Thursday that the month-long gun detector pilot yielded 12 knives,…

OUR MISSION

We believe an informed citizenry is a critical component for a healthy, thriving community. Introducing youth to the power of public-service journalism not only gives them real-world work, civics, and writing experience, it can also have a significant downstream impact on the student, and society.

NYC CLARIFY partner schools across 5 boroughs
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NYC youth trained in journalism
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Retention rate average for the past three cohorts
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of students considering journalism as a career*
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*Summer/Fall 2021 program

OUR Goals

  • Empower students through public service journalism
  • Help youth become more news literate and media aware
  • Amplify civics and fuel civic engagement
  • Give students a successful paid work experience
  • Improve students’ research, writing and interviewing skills

Apply to Clarify

Applications will soon open for the next sessions in Summer 2023 and Fall 2023. This is a paid journalism training program for NYC high school students across the five boroughs who will be entering their junior or senior year of high school (11th or 12th grades) in the upcoming school year. Students graduating from high school this June are also eligible.

Questions about City Limits’ internships? Email us.

CLARIFY Partner Schools

 Students from any high school in NYC are eligible to apply. More than 50 schools across NYC have been represented so far.

Program History

CLARIFY launched in 2014 in the Bronx and has grown to include students from all boroughs.

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