Kadjata Bah has been named Wisconsin’s Journalist of the Year by Wisconsin Journalism Education Association (WisJEA). The award is open to high school seniors with student media experience. Kadjata has that and more. She is an education reporter and teen editor for the Simpson Street Free Press, which is where she got her start when she was 11. She has served as editor for East’s school newspaper and literary magazine.
She has also completed internships with The Cap Times and Madison Magazine, and he has written for the Eastside News.
Kadjata joins us on A Public Affair to tell us about being a young journalist and the joy of telling stories.
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