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CLARIFY:
The City Limits Accountability Reporting
Initiative For Youth

 

Since the fall of 2014, City Limits has operated a paid training program for high-school and college-aged students who learn and apply the skills of investigative journalism as they report on issues affecting their own neighborhoods.


CLARIFY is generously supported by The Google News Initiative and The Pinkerton Foundation.



Apply here.

Questions about City Limits’ internships? Email us. Click here to support the program.

 

Meet Our Fall 2021 Interns

Latest News

  • Plastic Bags Still Ubiquitous in NYC Shops, Months After Enforcement of Ban Began

    The effectiveness of New York's plastic bag ban could serve as a portend for other, similar bans on single-use plastics either already approved or under discussion at both the city and state legislative levels. To get a better sense of how its implementation is going, City Limits’ CLARIFY interns spoke to more than 50 bodega owners and store workers in the outer boroughs to see if they’re still using plastic, and if so, to tell us why.

    By Liz Donovan
  • Community Change-Makers: The New Yorkers Combating Climate Crisis, Hunger
    By City Limits
  • Meet City Limits’ Fall 2021 Youth Reporting Interns
    By Jeanmarie Evelly
  • Deadline Extended! City Limits’ Youth Reporting Internship This Fall
    By Jeanmarie Evelly
  • A Year and a Half Into Pandemic, NYC’s Mutual Aid Movement at a Turning Point
    By Arden Sklar
  • Apply Now For Fall: Youth Reporting Internship with City Limits
    By Jeanmarie Evelly
  • Meet Our Summer 2021 NYC Youth Reporters
    By Abigail Savitch-Lew

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Must Reads

  • Apply Now: City Limits Youth Journalism Internship for Summer 2021

    The City Limits Accountability Reporting Initiative for Youth (CLARIFY) is now accepting applications for its 2021 summer internship. This is a paid journalism training program for New York City high school students who will be entering either their junior or senior year of high school (11th and 12th grades) by the upcoming fall 2021 semester.

    By Jeanmarie Evelly
  • Incluso después de que una vacuna contra COVID-19 sea aprobada, la distribución será difícil

    Incluso después de que una vacuna COVID-19 se finalice, los expertos dicen que hay una serie de obstáculos para administrarla con éxito en una ciudad como Nueva York.

    By Kate Griem, Lauren Pehlivanian and Arushi Talwar
  • The Other Communicable Diseases —Besides Coronavirus—That Call NYC Home

    The city’s Health Department has been monitoring a number of sources for potential communicable diseases outbreaks for more than 20 years. Here are some of the illnesses, other than COVID-19, that have seen recent upticks in New York.

    By Madison Garrett, Karla Munoz, Muna Saed, Rainier Harris and Jeanmarie Evelly
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    Applications Open for City Limits’ Paid Youth Training Program

    CLARIFY is a paid, 8-week vocational training program for New York City high school students that teaches the essentials of writing and reporting the news, with an emphasis on investigative techniques.

    By City Limits
  • Even After a COVID-19 Vaccine is Approved, Distribution Will Be Challenging

    If and when a vaccine becomes available, legislators and health officials will have to decide how to best distribute it across the city, as well as overcome public skepticism.

    By Kate Griem, Lauren Pehlivanian and Arushi Talwar
  • Cholera, Yellow Fever, Flu: Pandemic Lessons from NYC’s Past

    Historians say there are many parallels between COVID-19 and past city pandemics, from increased xenophobia to masks campaigns. But the complexities of each outbreak are unique.

    By Mia Gindis, Samuel Hyland and Julia Stern
  • When Labs Go Online: For Some College Majors, Remote Learning Means Extra Hurdles

    Classes for certain college majors, the move to remove learning has been especially jarring, as science labs and acting workshops don’t translate so easily to Zoom.

    By Mykel Barrett, Nuha Dolby and Jeanmarie Evelly
  • In Fight to Save Summer Youth Employment, Advocates Push City to Let Teens Work Remotely

    Youth advocates and SYEP participants say cancelling the program this summer will be a financial hit to low-income youth who rely on those jobs.

    By Rainier Harris
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Meet our Summer 2021 interns!
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Meet our Summer 2019 interns!

Jeanmarie Evelly

City Limits’ youth interns hear from a guest speaker, Jeff Mays of the New York Times

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Jeanmarie Evelly

City Limits’ youth interns hitting the streets of Harlem to interview residents.

CLARIFY interns

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City Limits’ 2019 summer interns outside City Hall after covering a press conference

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