NEW VOICES AT WORK — Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student journalists Rebecca Schneid, Emma Dowd and Dara Rosen at a special editorial planning meeting at The Guardian US. (Photo by Ali Smith for The Guardian, used with permission)

Daring to let teenagers take over the news

By Aralynn A.A. McMane

Right now, Frankfurter Neue Presse in Germany is letting secondary students take over an entire Saturday edition, and U.S. students are preparing a documentary that will be broadcast by Urbana, Illinois, public radio, as their predecessors have done since 1993.

News executives find giving young people a real voice in their established media a…