Writing stories to reach young adults.(Young Readers) From: Nieman Reports | Date: December 22, 2003| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2003 Harvard University, Nieman Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

I devoured Anna Quindlen's New York Times's columns as a teenager. I knew which days they appeared and ran to get the paper. I read about AIDS, motherhood, politics and feminism--definitely not light topics, I don't suspect they were written specifically for suburban high school students, but they helped me make sense of a world that seemed terribly confusing.

I am now a journalist working at the heart of my New Jersey newspaper's effort to reach young readers. Last December I moved from The Record's crime beat to its features section with the nebulous charge of writing for ...

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