Developing a Beat, Establishing a Voice and Launching a Career

The annual Puffin Nation student journalism conference on May 31, 2024 featured writers and editors from The Nation and publications like The Intercept, Teen Vogue, Grist and Mother Jones engaging with more than 100 student journalists on a range of subjects, practical and political. Here, a group of young writers discusses how they broke in and what they wish they knew when they were starting out. Featuring Jake Bittle (Grist), Amy Littlefield (The Nation), Luis Feliz Leon (Labor Notes), Zoya Qureshi (The Atlantic) and moderated by Bhaskar Sunkara, president, The Nation.