Who are those people?

  If you read the paper carefully, you've noticed over the past month new bylines at the top of local stories.

They are written by our interns, and an impressive bunch they are this year.

The 14 college students who are calling Buffalo home for the summer come from Columbia University, Amherst College, Boston University, Syracuse, Ohio University, Taylor University, University of Oklahoma, University of Central Florida, the Pratt Institute, Canisius and St. Bonaventure.

The college upperclassmen/women accepted into The News' program know they will be working hard and getting a lot of first-hand newspaper experience. The first day on the job is not about watching other reporters and editors do their work. Rather, the interns jump right in to report and write stories, take photographs, edit stories and design pages.

They leave at the end of the summer exhausted, but also bearing a portfolio of impressive work.

From the staff's perspective, we love the energy they bring into the newsroom, and their willingness to try anything - from covering the Taste of Buffalo to writing reviews of bands performing long before they were born.

Working with these young journalists gives us hope for the future of quality journalism.

Comments

[karen]

If I were speaking to your "young gournalists" I would say:

As a newspaper reader, I want to read factual reports about what happened. I don't want to read "dime-store" novel re-creations with wordy stage-setting intro's. So many stories lately sound like scripts for a soap opera.

As for pictures for the newspaper...ignore the make-shift memorials. They are mindless and do nothing for the victims. They just create a mess for someone else to clean up.

If a person feels an uncontrolled need to do something...make a donation to any charity, take flowers to a nursing home or stuffed toys to a childrens hospital. That makes more sense.

This world gets crazier and crazier....lets get some common sense back into newspaper reporting.

Thank you.