TikToker Kelsey Russell, 23, is teaching Gen Z how to read newspapers to make journalism ‘sexy again’
NY Post
Journalism is starting to be “sexy again” — and papers everywhere have this Gen Zer to thank.
Columbia grad student Kelsey Russell is on a mission to be more media literate — and she’s taking her 89,000 TikTok followers on the journey with her.
The sociology student got a subscription to the Sunday edition of the New York Times for her recent 23rd birthday and suddenly realized she didn’t know how to respond when current events came up.
“I was entering conversations — whether it be with friends, dates, even just my colleagues and parents — where topics of war or topics of climate change, all these things would come up and I didn’t feel like I even had enough information to ask questions or be curious about it,” Russell told The Post Friday.
The sociology student vows to make the ever-changing — and often described as “dying — newspaper industry “sexy again.”
“If you want young people to care about journalism, you have to make it an appetizing career for them.”
