North Central’s journalism program is highly regarded as one of the best in the state. The past members built a strong foundation for the current staff members and editors to work on, setting the future media members up for success.
Former journalism member from 2003-2006, Max Newman, emphasized how bought in the journalism team was. Everyone embraced the different challenges and was ready to take new ideas and tasks head on.
“Our sports teams were always competitive, and they were consistently spotlighted. If something rocked the school community, it was examined robustly with interviews, and the staff always tried to represent both sides to get to the truth” Newman said.
They worked excellent together as team. But Newman was an excellent member of the team. He excelled and stuck out and was able to make a name for himself.
“I believe I’m the only student to have their own school-published magazine. “Max Magazine” was definitely a highlight for me” Newman said.
Newman’s early prominence in high school journalism led him to his career in journalism. He now shines in writing and couldn’t have reached this point without his time at NC.
“I am a writer and I certainly carry journalistic instincts into my work. I wrote and produced a feature called Why Women Count about WWE’s trailblazing female referees”
The community was not just something that vanished after Newman’s time, Current member, Marc Zulaica, believes that is one of the strongest features of the team.
“ journalism is more than stories and tiktoks, it is a family and taught me many life lessons” Zulaica said.
Zulaica believes that being apart of journalism has not only bettered him as a person, but as a journalist as well. He has been able to improve his skills in journalism but those skills also connect to his other work as well.
“Determination and good social skills because they will help you communicate and interact with people and determination is important so that you get your work done and go out of your way to get things done”
The future of journalism is at one of its biggest turning points ever with Artificial intelligence. Zulaica strives to have truth and honesty in his work fro it to be as good as possible.
“I think AI is big issue obviously because so much can be done with it and hopefully it doesn’t ruin the true integrity that comes with being a journalist” Zulaica said.
Although the future of journalism may not look to be as genuine with AI becoming such a popularized tool. At NC the intro to journalism students are still working to become the genuine writers that we had in the past and we still have today.
Intro to Journalism student, Jake Lowey, believes that he is building the right skills to fulfill his potential in journalism.
“My communication and social skills will help me put in the hard work that comes with being apart of journalism” Lowey said.
Even though Lowey is determined he acknowledges that not everything will come easy and he will have to be able to persevere through the challenges.
“I realize it’s not as easy as it looked, and being able to pursue things even when obstacles come up is important” Lowey said.
North Centrals journalism program is stronger than ever. With the strong history in finding success in the journalism field from their past members like Max Newman and strong determination in current members like Marc Zulaica, to future members such as Jake Lowey, ready for the challenges. It is safe to say the NC journalism program is in strong hands.