Dialogue

04/19/2022

Many Detroit High School Journalism Program participants also worked as Free Press apprentices.

For more than 30 years, the Free Press apprentice program has launched the careers of dozens of journalists throughout the industry.

10/11/2021

Please help amplify the voices of Detroit high school students by supporting the MSU Detroit High School Journalism Program. Our quarterly print newspaper has been on hiatus due to the pandemic. We need your financial support to bring it back.

Support MIPA and our work with the MSU Detroit High School Journalism Program to publish Dialogue, a citywide print and online student newspaper, and to provide additional resources to journalism c…

05/18/2021

King's Destiny Jenkins-Jones: "The Detroit Free Press Summer Apprentice Program was nothing like that job at the mall. I took that job at Auntie Anne’s simply to make money. But I completed the apprentice program to do what I love. And I did that — even during a pandemic."

The deadline to apply for this summer's program is Tuesday, May 25.

I went from working in the mall to working for the largest news organization in Michigan. The COVID-19 shutdown has blessed me in various ways.

04/13/2021

Congratulations to Detroit High School Journalism Program alumnus Marlon Walker, who graduated from Renaissance High School.

Marlon A. Walker, an award-winning journalist, takes over leadership at the Clarion Ledger, Mississippi's largest daily newspaper.

02/03/2021

King's Jaylen Reed is the winner of the 2020 Black Athlete of the Year for football. 

12/31/2020

Former Detroit High School Journalism Program participant Kirkland Crawford is now the sports editor of the Detroit Free Press. Crawford is a graduate of Renaissance H.S.

The Detroit Free Press has a new sports editor in Kirkland Crawford, a Detroit Renaissance and CMU alum and Freep staffer since 2006.

12/16/2020

Destiny Jenkin-Jones of King High School writes, "HBCUs should be something people of color can experience for their ancestors, who were unable to."

Destiny Jenkins-Jones argues that the point of an HBCU is to give Black students -- and only Black students -- a chance to receive a higher education.

12/14/2020

Overwhelming is the word most seniors used to describe their college application process, and many of these struggles stem from changes due to the pandemic.

Cass Tech seniors have found themselves overwhelmed with college applications during the coronavirus pandemic, but there are ways to get ready for college.

03/09/2020

Detroit School of the Arts journalism adviser Karen Lemmons is featured in this story about school librarians.

“They responded positively because I was coming straight at them, like, ‘our children need to see ourselves in these stories,’” she said.

03/05/2020

We, the staff of the Mustang Voice, are writing to challenge the decision to delay release of the Feb. 27, 2020 issue of The Detroit Dialogue. Preventing distribution of the paper is a violation of our First Amendment press rights.

We, the staff of the Mustang Voice, are writing to challenge the decision to delay release of the Feb. 27, 2020 issue of The Detroit Dialogue. Preventing distribution of the paper is a violation of our First Amendment press rights. 

10/23/2019

A look back at the experiences of the SJI Class of 2019 by Justin Parham.