Veteran reporter John Solomon touts alternate media as winning  ,’counterforce’ to yesterday’s ‘ battle on truth ‘
Truth is your most important goal, and your most potent weapon is truth.
At The College Fix’s annual dinner in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, former reporter John Solomon gave that advice to a room full of young reporters.
” If you stick to the truth, do n’t worry about the prevailing narrative, do n’t worry about what people are saying at the book parties in Washington D. C., or the think tanks”, said Solomon, editor- in- chief of Just The News whose award- winning journalism career spans four decades.
” Stick to the truth, stick to the facts, you can succeed. … You can make a change, the British people are hungry for truth”.
About 100 budding writers and some gathered for a networking event and socializing with peers and instructors at the Heritage Foundation, where Solomon delivered the keynote address.
The College Fix‘s 2024 summer media fellows, graduates of the business, supporters and donors, as well as supporters and donors of the Student Free Press Association, the nonprofit that publishes The College Fix and provides funding for its internships at different ring media outlets, were present at the meeting.
” As a virtual operation, we’re a lean, mean, fighting machine — but once a year we come collectively in person to celebrate our important goal of finding ambitious students interested in news, nurturing that skills, then launching their internet jobs”, said Jennifer Kabbany, director of The College Fix.
( Pictured from left: John Miller, executive director, Jennifer Kabbany, editor in chief, Matt Lamb, associate editor, Dave Huber, associate editor, Micaiah Bilger, assistant editor ).
Over the past ten years, nearly 80 percent of The College Fix’s journalism fellows have continued to work in fields like book publishing and speech writing.
At the event, this year’s crop of summer journalism fellows were feted onstage. They are ( from left to right ):
Audrey Baker of Kenyon College: Washington Examiner ( news )
Rafa Oliveira of King’s College: New York Sun
Cole Murphy of Georgia Tech: The Dispatch
Brandy Perez of University of Alabama: Daily Caller
Benjamin Rothove of UW Madison: Washington Examiner ( commentary )
Tanner Nau of Rhodes College: Washington Free Beacon
Solomon, in his speech, said The College Fix, Just The News, and similar news outlets represent a solution amid the “war on truth” underway in the nation.
” There’s two ways to deal with the moment we’re in right now. The left prefers censorship”, Solomon said. ” Every time in American history
when we have faced a great internal crisis, there are two forces that have always worked: more speech, not less speech. … The other is competition, the free market”.
” What you have created here with all these extraordinary people in this room, what I am trying to do with Just The News… what so many of you are trying to do today is use the free market competition that we are still blessed to have in this country to begin to create the counterforces,” he said.
” Censorship ca n’t succeed if someone is able to get around it— and that’s what you’re doing everyday”.
Described , as a training ground and talent pipeline for aspiring conservative journalists,  , The College Fix , reports stories that lead to higher education reform.
Its editors also provide advice to young, tenacious journalists and support the launch of their media careers.
The 14- year- old organization boasts some 130 fellowship alumni, many of whom were in the audience Thursday. In sum, the organization has worked with nearly 550 student journalists in its lifetime.
Today they work at , The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, Reason, The Hill, Washington Free Beacon, Just the News, National Review, The Dispatch, Washington Examiner, Washington Times, Yahoo News, National Catholic Register, Daily Caller, USA Today , and Sinclair Broadcast Group, among many other news outlets across the nation.
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