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Article: Writing stories to reach young adults.(Young Readers)
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- Nieman Reports
- Article date:
- December 22, 2003
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I devoured Anna Quindlen's New York Times's columns as a teenager. I knew which days they appeared and ran to get the paper. I read about AIDS, motherhood, politics and feminism--definitely not light topics, I don't suspect they were written specifically for suburban high school students, but they helped me make sense of a world that seemed terribly confusing.
I am now a journalist working at the heart of my New Jersey newspaper's effort to reach young readers. Last December I moved from The Record's crime beat to its features section with the nebulous charge of writing for people in their 20's and early 30's. I often reflect back on what lessons I can learn from ...