Timberlane “Kid Reporter” on the Job for Scholastic

Timberlane 8th grader Taylor Galgano was recently chosen to be a member of the Scholastic News Kids Press Corp. Scholastic, the children’s publishing and media company, has chosen 59 students, ages 10-14, from around the country to report and write “news for kids, by kids” to be published on its website, scholastic.com, and in other media.

The reporters will cover topics ranging from the 2012 presidential election to entertainment to other current events. “Kid reporters” have interviewed everyone from President Barack Obama to director Steven Spielberg to Jeff Kinney, author of the Wimpy Kid book series.

Taylor, who is in Honors Language Arts at Timberlane, applied for the post during the summer by filling out an application and writing an article about her nine-year-old brother’s baseball team winning the Mid-Atlantic Regional Finals.

Taylor said she will get assignments from her editor at Scholastic as well as coming up with ideas of her own.

“I really like writing and I like current events, too, so I thought this would be a really cool thing to try,” said Taylor, who lives in Pennington and went to Stony Brook Elementary. “I’m really excited to get started.”