Dialogue

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

Apply now for the Detroit Free Press Summer Apprentice Program For more than 30 years, the Free Press apprentice program has launched the careers of dozens of journalists throughout the industry.

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.

Gift to Detroit High School Journalism Program 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…

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.

How I went from an Auntie Anne's employee to apprentice at the Free Press 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

JENKINS-JONES: HBCU’s should become strictly Black 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.

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.

Students navigate college admissions during COVID-19 Cass Tech seniors have found themselves overwhelmed with college applications during the coronavirus pandemic, but there are ways to get ready for college.

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

Here’s how one school librarian survived as her colleagues disappeared across Michigan — and why she stayed “They responded positively because I was coming straight at them, like, ‘our children need to see ourselves in these stories,’” she said.

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.

A letter to Superintendent Vitti regarding the censorship of Dialogue 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. 

SJI 2019: A thirst for knowledge in the desert A look back at the experiences of the SJI Class of 2019 by Justin Parham.