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“Journalism is a connection to humanity,” keynote speaker Gary Green told a roomful of high school journalists and teachers during the 2024 GSPA Spring Workshop and Awards March 25 at UGA’s Georgia Center. “What connects us as people are the stories and moments that we share together,” he said. Green, executive director of the Student Press Law Center, displayed images from his decades-long career as a photojournalist while discussing the stories behind each and the reasons they’ve stayed in his mind over time. “Journalism has taken me places I would never have gone without (it). I’ve met people I would have never met without journalism,” he said. “It’s a license to talk to anybody, to go anywhere, and it’s absolutely the most fun you can have and call it work." Read more here. Photos from the event are available here. The Student Press Law Center is a free legal service for scholastic journalists and teachers. Go to splc.org to set up a consultation.
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