Clermont

My name is Racquel Asa.

This is me.

I’m a graduate student at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication. This summer I, and 10 other classmates, are working and reporting for the Carnegie-Knight Foundations news initiative called News21. Syracuse University is one of 12 colleges selected to participate in this program.

So this summer, News21 is paying me and several other students to report on you. Syracuse University in particular was assigned the topic of youth and technology

I’ll be going to Clermont, FL with another News21 fellow, Courtnee Lowe

We want to get to the heart of how technology is changing the lives of teenagers, how they are using it and what kind of opportunities there are to reach them and for them to reach out to others. Appropriately our website will be called “The Young and the Wireless”.

What a great topic to report on especially as the news industry tries to grapple with what is the next medium and model to keep the practice of journalism alive.

But the topic needs moving stories from you that really illustrate how technology is giving opportunity, enhancing relationships; but leaving behind the many that don’t have the technology to keep up.

Do you have a story? Tell me about it!This is my News21 parner.

Racquel Asa

rgasa@syr.edu