My first journalism job

From 1989 to 1992, Pamela Hughes’ class at the Waldorf School of Cape Cod published a class newspaper called The Waldorf Weekly. We published 11 editions in all: six in third grade, four in fourth grade and one in fifth grade.

Headlines were mostly handwritten, stories were mostly typed on a manual typewriter, printing was done by photocopier, and the paper was illustrated primarily by clip art. (And I don’t mean the Microsoft Word kind of clip art — I mean the kind of clip art that had to be literally clipped from a page.)  Sports stories were accompanied by hand-drawn illustrations; we didn’t run any photos until the final issue, in 1992.

At the risk of being self-indulgent, here’s a collection of pages from The Waldorf Weekly, from the first issue to the last:

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