Beacon Academy

Preston Anderson, the Editor–in–Chief at Beacon Academy’s “The Wolf Street Journal,” tries to avoid anything too political or controversial in the paper. The paper was started just over a year ago by Anderson and his co-editor. “Something that’s a little too political, or something that contains profanity, we’ll censor it because we want to make sure the newspaper is very unbiased,” Anderson said. “We don’t know what the school environment is and how it will feel.”

Unlike other schools where censorship often stems directly from the administration, Anderson and the faculty advisor often censor their own work before publication. “When we started the paper last year, it was in the heat of a very political environment,” Anderson said. “I thought, along with the other co-Editor–in–Chief, that it might be best that we don’t do anything political. Keep it unbiased, so everyone can enjoy a break from politics.”