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Coppell Student Media

The official student news site of Coppell High School

Coppell Student Media

The official student news site of Coppell High School

Coppell Student Media

The Sidekick daily news/assignment editor Anjali Vishwananth reports from the Aug. 24 Coppell City Council meeting at Town Center. In the spirit of Scholastic Journalism Week, Vishwanath appreciates the opportunity to cover countless meetings as preparation for a future career in policy.

#SJW2022: The oddest staffer you ever did see

Anjali Vishwanath, Daily News/Assignment Editor February 25, 2022

My job responsibilities on The Sidekick are as follows: Anjali Vishwanath, daily news and assignment editor, City of Coppell and Coppell ISD Beat writer. The latter two are the reason I applied for...

Scholastic Journalism Week is a yearly celebration of student reporting, held from Feb. 21-25 with the theme of amplifying voices. In the spirit of #SJW, The Sidekick adviser Chase Wofford thinks that true adrenaline rush in the D115 newsroom comes from the urgency of reporting and deadlines.

#SJW2022: Adrenaline rush of deadlines encompasses spirit of top scholastic journalists

Chase Wofford, The Sidekick adviser February 24, 2022

Deadlines make a newsroom. And news makes a newspaper. Put them together and you get quite the adrenaline rush. When a Coppell football player scores a touchdown under the Buddy Echols Field lights,...

The 2018 Sidekick Awards Dinner is a banquet in which staffers are recognized for their work in the newspaper. The Sidekick co-student life editor SofĂ­a Guerrero writes about what journalism means to her for Scholastic Journalism Week, another opportunity for student journalists to be celebrated.

Lasting impression: how journalism has impacted me, allowed me to find my own story

Sofia Guerrero, Co-Student Life Editor February 23, 2019

It was freshman year, and I had to make a decision. I was currently in Principles of Arts, A/V Tech and Communications, and I was having trouble choosing between the newspaper and the broadcast course.   Both...

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