IndyKids Journalists Interview 73-Year-Old Marathoner
This story was published on NPR’s Only a Game Dec 2018.
Training for a marathon is hard work. So why do it? That was the question on the minds of a hard-hitting group of investigative journalists who gathered in an elementary school classroom in mid-October.
IndyKids is a national newspaper produced by kids and for kids. The piece was produced by Rachael Bongiorno and Clara Ibarra of the Grandparents Story Lab, an intergenerational storytelling project that connects New York’s youngest and oldest generations through podcasts and art.
I worked with the kids to interview Jillian and then edited it into a feature story.