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November 13, 2012
\nBy Katy Murphy<\/p>\n
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Student journalism in Oakland has popped up at yet another high school. At Castlemont High, students have launched an online site with a wonderfully old-school newspaper name, the Castle Crier.<\/p>\n
AP English language students are the publication\u2019s first reporters. \u00a0Guided by teacher Marguerite Sheffer, they post updates three or four times a week. This winter, the Crier will have its first print edition.<\/p>\n
Today, we can read all about John Lynch, the new principal of the newly consolidated school, an ethnic studies partnership with San Francisco State, and what it\u2019s like to be an Asian-American at Castlemont. Not to mention an exclusive interview with Castlemont\u2019s Freshman Princess, photographed in a Raiders hat and Holy Names University sweatshirt.<\/p>\n
As a journalist who wrote for her own high school newspaper (The Torch\u00a0looks so 21st Century now!), I find it heartening to see teenagers learning how to tell newspaper stories and report what\u2019s going on around them.<\/p>\n
Across town at McClymonds High, the Mack Smack blog is still going strong, and Fremont High\u2019s Green and Gold newspaper is award-winning. Oakland Tech\u2019s paper, The Scribe, came back to life four years ago, and Skyline\u2019s\u00a0Oracle\u00a0keeps students up to date on the latest administrative changes and policies.<\/p>\n
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