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Founders Joshua Grady and Dayyan Chaudhri presenting their app, CentIQ. For young students, financial literacy can feel overwhelming. Financial education often does not begin in a classroom; it begins on social media. Every day, young people scroll past videos promising quick wealth, sports betting wins, cryptocurrency success stories, and luxury lifestyles that appear attainable overnight. Yet behind those messages are financial realities that many students never fully lear

What began as Van Billet's real-life experience has now become a film — one that he would later give actors to recreate for the screen. For actor Kevin Dunn, bringing that story to life meant stepping into a character whose experiences were rooted in the screenwriter's own life. Billet never expected his grandfather’s double-life love story to become a story told on the big screen. But years later, those experiences became the foundation for “YALE,” a film now coming to the P

"How Is It Going To End?" Quote mentioned by Rob Pezzeca at 8/25's event. Thirty years is enough time to become a different person. At SCI Phoenix, the men who sat on the panel were not asking for sympathy–they were offering clarity. They spoke about the harm they caused, the decades they have spent confronting it, and the slow, deliberate work of becoming better men in a place designed to remember their worst moment forever. For the five students in the room, it was not theo

Hello, my name is Rob Pezzeca. I am in a Pennsylvania state prison for taking a man’s life in August of 1998. I was sentenced to death by incarceration. I am a father; my daughter, Krista, is 28 years old. My grandbaby, Maddy, is almost 2. My girlfriend, Kat, is my age. We are 49. I have been in here for 28 years. I am the product of a broken childhood. We all know the saying: “Hurt people hurt people, and healed people help people.” I am no longer hurt. I can look in a mirro

For 39 days, Philadelphia became a shared home for people from around the world. The Great American Sleepover looks at what happened when the world came to experience the city as it really is.

If you scrape every headline from PSPA’s student newsrooms across the region – you will notice something funny. The stories are always honest – it’s a portrait of what students actually care about. Coding every headline from the past year, the dataset would reveal the truth every student journalist eventually learns: campus life is the real breaking news. Across campuses, logistical reporting reigns supreme. Dining hall updates, housing shortages, Wi-Fi outages: these stories

Philadelphia is a city that prides itself on grit — the kind of place where people work hard, stay late and keep the lights on. But what if the future of that grit isn’t about working more, but working less? What if the next major labor innovation doesn’t come from Silicon Valley or Washington, D.C., but from right here — a city of students, startups and civic experimenters? What if the spark came from one software developer who simply asked his boss for Fridays off? “I star

As Pride Month comes to a close, take a look back at Philadelphia's role in the LGBTQ+ rights movement, from the Annual Reminder demonstrations outside Independence Hall to the city's first Pride march and the lasting impact of local activists.

On a warm June afternoon in the Gayborhood, music thumps through a packed drag brunch at Bourbon & Branch. A performer in towering heels and hairspray-ridden hair steps up to the mic – not to introduce the next number, but to remind the crowd to check their voter registration status. Between lip-syncs and laughter, clipboards circulate, and by the end of the event, dozens of Philadelphians have signed up to vote. Moments like this are becoming increasingly common across the

Kensington Avenue beneath the Market–Frankford El, the street littered with debris and shadowed by the elevated tracks. While I was in high school, it was mandatory for each student to have a certain amount of service hours per academic year. Those hours only began to increase the more we went up a grade. During my sophomore year, I got my credits for the required hours by going with my grandfather to the soup kitchen down in Kensington called St. Francis Inn. My pop has alwa

Philadelphia is preparing for one of its most significant summers in decades, as global sporting events, national celebrations, and cultural moments converge on the city—yet public anticipation feels surprisingly muted.

Tools to navigate a complex legal landscape are essential for student newsrooms It’s production night. There’s a rhythm to the chaos. Final copy edits are made, the design is locked in place, and page after page, the spread of your newspaper takes form. In those last minutes, someone catches something that sounds alarm bells. Maybe it’s a quote that reminds you of that libel lesson from your media law class. Or an image that’s been borrowed from a source outside the newsroom

At 6:15a.m. in Taramindo, Costa Rica, the sun rises fast, but the line outside the mobile clinic rises faster. By the time our MEDLIFE group arrived in El Palenque, mothers were fanning their children with folded papers, elders leaned patiently on their walkers, and kids watched us with a mix of hope and hesitation. My peers, future doctors and nurses from Temple University and universities across the country, unpacked BP cuffs and pharmaceutical materials with practiced effi

Hannah Bonanducci, former Editor-in-Chief of Eastern University's The Waltonian, poses with her final printed article of the Spring 2026 semester. Photo by Jason Karch. I found my way into journalism accidentally; the school newspaper was the only “creative writing class” my high school had to offer, and as an insufferable 14-year-old who thought she was going to be a fiction writer, I took it on with no clue what I was getting myself into. Over time, though, I began to reali

As a full-time student, my circadian rhythm is not governed by sunlight, which, between November and March, comp resses into an overcast 9-10‑hour window, but, instead, by caffeine intake (measured in milligrams). I emerge from a near-sleepless night in dire need of espresso; my pending chemistry assignment begs for my vitalized & undivided attention. At 8:10 a.m., I step into Greek from Greece on 33rd Street. The door opens into dim lighting, grey and configurated seating

Get ready for the PSPA Inaugural Journalism Summit—two days of panels, workshops, and networking in Philadelphia designed to connect student journalists with industry professionals and real opportunities.