CLARIFY (The City Limits Accountability Reporting Initiative for Youth) is working with more than two dozen talented high school students from across New York City, who are reporting on issues impacting their communities.
Dozens of young New Yorkers gathered at City Hall Thursday calling for the city to expand support for journalism programs and student newspapers at its schools.
CLARIFY (The City Limits Accountability Reporting Initiative for Youth) program is accepting applications from New York City high school students for its summer 2024 and fall 2024 sessions.
Adi Talwar
A CLARIFY participant conducts an interview by phone in the summer of 2022.
CLARIFY (The City Limits Accountability Reporting Initiative for Youth) program is accepting applications from New York City high school students for its summer 2024 and fall 2024 sessions.
This program offers training in public service reporting and news writing. Participants will collaborate in teams, and under the guidance of an instructor, receive training to report on a public service story. Student work has in the past been published in City Limits. See some of our recent reporting interns’ work here.
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Fall Program Details:
APPLICATION DEADLINES:
The deadlines for the summer and fall 2024 sessions have passed. Applicants who applied for fall will hear back with a decision soon.
You may apply for both programs. Due to the limited number of spots, students can only participate in one of the sessions.
This is a highly competitive program and we can only accept a select few candidates due to the limited size. If we are unable to offer you a reporting internship, we encourage you to reapply for future sessions, and to continue your pursuit of journalism. If you have questions about CLARIFY or the application process, please contact info@clarifynews.org.
Since 2014, City Limits has run a paid internship program to train New York City high school students in public service journalism. Read more about our latest CLARIFY News reporters, who are investigating Mayor Eric Adams’ progress on housing and homelessness halfway through his term.
City Limits Accountability Reporting Initiative for Youth (CLARIFY) program is accepting applications from high school students in New York City for its fall 2023 session.
Student journalists to be hosted by the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and CUNY campuses in Queens and Brooklyn for summer reporting workshops.
The City Limits Accountability Reporting Initiative for Youth (CLARIFY), in partnership with NYC’s Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP), is working with two dozen talented high school and early college students from across the five boroughs.
Focusing on investment partnerships and empowering teens through public service journalism.
The City Limits Accountability Reporting Initiative for Youth (CLARIFY), with the CUNY Journalism Council and Press Pass NYC, is now taking applications from New York City high school students for two journalism training camps this summer in Brooklyn and Queens.
Yevgenia Albats, a Russian investigative reporter who is currently the Distinguished Journalist in Residence at the NYU Jordan Center, recently spoke to City Limits’ youth reporting interns about what it’s like to be a journalist in a country that does not have a free press.
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