The Authors
Who we are
Katina Paron, MJE, lives at the intersection of teens and journalism. For more than 30 years she’s helped create byline opportunities for young reporters and professional development workshops for journalism teachers. She is training and curriculum lead of the Journalism for All initiative for Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. She’s the editor of teen fellowships for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the editorial director for Journalism New England’s Career Lab. She’s helped launch high school journalism initiatives at Baruch College (CUNY) and Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism.
A journalism educator and an editor, she has helped thousands of young people earn their first professional bylines in publications including Ms. Magazine, Daily News, Newsday, Metro, Ebony, Minneapolis Star-Tribune and ESPN.com, among other places. She was the senior project editor on The Trace’s award-winning national youth media gun violence reporting project, “Since Parkland”. She was the founding editor of Teen Voices, a global girl news site at Women’s eNews, Ms. Magazine’s The Future is Ms teen-written column and former managing director of the youth news agency, Children’s PressLine. She’s written about youth journalism for The New York Times, The Daily News, WNYC SchoolBook and more. She spends her free time powerlifting, making bread and trying to give New York State student journalists their First Amendment rights. You can find her on Instagram @DearTeenJournalist.
Javier Güelfi is an Argentine-born cartoonist, illustrator and graphic designer. He has worked for companies and NGOs like BuzzFeed, Univision, Unicef, The Women’s Building and many local and international media outlets. He has illustrated children’s books for Spain and Latin América, and collaborated with US Hispanic campaigns like #Latinación, an initiative to shed light on the lives of hispanic people in the US and #EnMiPaís, a graphic campaign on the differences and similarities of Latin American countries. He works as a freelance illustrator and plays some funky music on the electric bass whenever he can. Find him on Twitter: @javierguelfi
The authors would also like to thank the following people and organizations for their support in bringing “A Newshound’s Guide To Student Journalism” to life.
