By: Erin Olson While other 7-year-olds were playing tag and building forts back in the summer of 1999, Henry Rome was busy launching his own newspaper. Now 13, Henry boasts a multiple-page resume that includes editing his middle school paper, working as a reporter for Time for Kids magazine, and covering this year's GOP convention in New York.
Time for Kids, which chose Henry and 14 other reporters out of a pool of nearly 1,000 applicants in 2003, sent the Pennsylvania teenager to the Republican National Convention, where he was the youngest credentialed reporter. Speaking with the likes of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Henry said, gave him confidence.
"When you're feet from them, or you see them, all the 'I'm a little kid' kind of thing goes away," Henry says. "I just want to go up and talk to them, because that could be a once-in-a-lifetime thing."
Henry also appeared on CNN, Fox News Channel, and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ? which, when he got back to school, "took a lot of explaining to do about what I did on my summer vacation," the young reporter remarked.
During summers with his family in Woods Hole, Mass., Henry writes and publishes his own newspaper, Henry's Paper, every two weeks, using a home computer and printer. What began five years ago as a single-page joke has become a 10-page paper with color photos, drawing a readership of about 100.
"I'm having a lot of fun with newspapers, so I think that I'd like to go into it," Henry says of his future career. "I like interviewing people."
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