By Grace Anne McKenna As the Bob Greene institute comes to a close, the team is putting all our effort into wrapping up our story packages. For lunch, we ate pizza in the conference room and reflected on our week. We
Long Island Ducks to Host 2018 All-Star Game

By Grace Anne McKenna Wantagh Senior High School and Janet Song Ward Melville High School A week after they learned they would host next year’s Atlantic League All-Star game, the Long Island Ducks are making plans for the big event.
Brandon Ortega: Journalism instinct inspired by lyricists

At age 17, Brandon Ortega has already begun to focus on the field he admires most.
Crunch time
By Grace Anne McKenna Today began with news over breakfast, the usual. After that, we headed to the newsroom to converse about stories released in the morning news. These included the emoji artist, the Melville drowning and the closing of a
Broadcast, geometry and video
By Grace Anne McKenna Today began with an introduction to broadcast journalism. Since the broadcast room is relatively small, my team along with a few others went in the later session. This alotted us time to work on our Ducks article
Introduction to the world of journalism
By Grace Anne McKenna
Full day of Newsday exploring and Ducks newsgathering ends with bang
By Grace Anne McKenna This morning, we started the day with news over breakfast once again. It was interesting to compare the follow up story about the immigrants in the tractor trailer to the original story from yesterday. This led to