Theo Baker:
I'm so proud to belong to this community.
I will fight for it constantly. I knew going into this that I enjoyed local journalism and student journalism, but now, being in the thick of it, I'm just so proud of my peers. I know that people across the country are making the difficult decision to report on people inside their own community, in some cases like ours, on people who have direct control over them.
And they're making that decision because they care about their communities, because people who are inside their communities will always push for transparency because they love it. Student journalism is hard. It's unsung work. Often, people are not credited. Certainly, they're not paid.
And so to see the work that my peers across the country are doing, including at Northwestern, but also The Crimson, where they published stories over $188,000 that went missing from a student club, or at The Columbia Daily Spectator, where they published stories about a toxic workplace environment that got stiff blowback from the university before it was published, to see them doing that is really inspirational.
And I'm so glad that student journalism is being talked about on the national stage.
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