STS: Success through storytelling
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STS is a core group of media professionals who will establish a central online hub for education news with five satellite sites operated by students attending four targeted under-served high schools and one school for adults in Stockton, CA. for a total of five networked template sites connected to a central hub. The focus is to establish operating newsrooms in each school that expand beyond the campus to cover the surrounding community, telling stories that are over-looked by traditional news organizations.
Stockton is a widely diverse community with four main high schools with majority populations of Hispanic, Black and Filipino students. Additionally, Stockton's continuing education for adults highlights learning English. These students will learn real-world media skills: reading, writing, interviewing, editing, research, photography, videography, photo and video editing, sound editing, etc. They will perform the job expected of new media journalists (mojos — mobile journalists).
Traditionally, media have served to root out stories and present them to the public. Through STS, communities will be equipped to tell their own stories. STS satellites can also act as community bulletin boards that provide journalists insight and a better understanding of the communities they cover.



