Samantha Ramey | NABJ High School Workshop 2011

Samantha Ramey

Profile: Samantha Ramey

by Baker on Jun 23, 2012 • No Comments

By Malik Ross Samantha Ramey’s first love is the arts. The 16-year-old from Saint Mary’s Dominican High School said she loves drawing and animation. Ramey draws detailed people and faces. Her favorite things to draw are figures and abstract art because they have multiple meanings. The picture is not just telling one story, she said,...

2012 Student Work: New Orleans / Samantha Ramey / Trenton Turner

Heated Discussion in NABJ Town Hall Meeting on Post-Katrina Education

by Baker on Jun 22, 2012 • No Comments

By Samantha Ramey and Trenton Turner Education advocates discussed on Tuesday the current state of charter school education in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The National Association of Black Journalists organized a town hall meeting on Dillard University’s campus, where a panel of four speakers talked about issues including school performances, funding and admissions. Audience...

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What impact does journalism have today?

"The impact on journalism today is that many people depend on having news every day. If there was no journalism, no newspaper, no news at all we won't know what the weather is. Who and what we need to look out for. What I’m trying to say is that we wont know what we know now. That is what I think about the impact on journalism today."

- Nashali Maldonado

"I think without journalism the world wouldn’t be a great and up to date with things. The news keeps the world informed on many problems in the world . If there was no journalist to write up what’s been going on there wouldn’t be action news. So journalism has a huge impact on the society. "

- Que Scott

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