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Oakland High's Tommy Tran is honored as Contributor of the Issue for his work on "OUSD grieves again for boys gunned down" (October 2009)
December 10, 2010
Staff report
Journalists Tommy Tran of Oakland High and Kim Mejia of Media Academy provide this issue with some of the best reporting by teens we have seen.
Tran is well-liked by other journalists at Oakland High, who look up to him for his sense of humor as well as his reporting smarts.
“Tran is a good-willed person who is always ready to make jokes and have fun. He loves to express his feelings and spread the word through his tremendous articles,” writes fellow student Destiny Stewart.
“We are fortunate because we have writers who don’t just write because they have to; they write because they love to write,” Stewart added.
Mejia is news editor of the Green & Gold newspaper and a varsity debater. She wrote the Prop.19 editorial plus a thoughtful piece on public education after watching the documentary “Waiting for Superman.” Further, Mejia jumped at the chance to cover a late-breaking story on the Norteños gang injunction. “It is clear that Kim’s participation in debate has helped hone her analytical skills, which carry over to make her a star newswriter and arts critic,” said Mejia’s journalism adviser, Lisa Shafer.
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