Student Newspapers Pursue the Local Angles Aggressively

By Rhea Borja

At Yorktown High School in Arlington, Va., the newspaper staff was writing a story last week about a former student who was a pilot on the hijacked American Airlines jet that smashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11.

Students in a high school in Wauwatosa, Wis., meanwhile, published a former student's firsthand account of the World Trade Center attack in New York City.

And thousands of miles away in suburban Sacramento, Calif., student journalists chronicled the day of terrorism through the experiences of alumni and relatives who...