Delbert (Del) Ellerton, Journalism Teacher, Midtown High School (Atlanta)

It's Scholastic Journalism Week - On this episode we're joined by Del Ellerton. Del is a journalism teacher at Midtown High School, formerly Grady High School, in Atlanta, where he's also the school's track and field coach (he previously coached football too) for a school that has won a bunch of city and region championships.

Del is a Mississippi native whose experience includes 10 years as a journalist at places including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Bloomberg News and 22 years as a teacher. He's advised student media since 2008. Del is a grad of Grady himself as well as the University of Georgia College of Business with a masters in journalism from Columbia.

Del talked about becoming a teacher, how he teaches his classes, balancing teaching and coaching, and the stories his students report on.

Read the work of Del's students in The Southerner

https://thesoutherneronline.com/

Del's salutes:

William Raspberry, Byron Pitts, Robin Roberts, John Blake, Monica Kaufman Pearson, and Max Robinson

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