D-11 takes on media trust crisis with new high school journalism course

By Debbie Kelley | Denver Gazette

With longstanding principles of objectivity, truth and fairness in news reporting up for debate in recent years, a homegrown Career and Technical Education course launching in Colorado Springs School District 11 for the fall semester will explore such topics under an overarching theme of “ethics in journalism.”

So while juniors and seniors receive real-world training in broadcast, podcast, video and print media creation and production, they’ll also be schooled on how to do it all by “upholding the highest standards of journalistic integrity,” said course founder Chaim Goldman.

He’s also the executive producer and host of The Peak News, a “hyper-local news” radio show that’s on hiatus from the airwaves over the summer.

In May 2024, Goldman formed The Peak News Educational Foundation, and through that nonprofit organization as executive director, started a “citizen journalism” program for adults and teens.

“We had developed a curriculum for people to help us at The Peak News,” Goldman said.

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