By: At too many newspapers, the first casualty of the industry crisis was outreach to a new generation of newspaper readers and journalists. But to see how much newspapers can gain from even a very modest youth effort, just look at The Daily Independent, a 4,400- circulation GateHouse Media paper in the Mojave Desert town of Ridgecrest, Calif.
Staffers such as Sports Editor Cheeto Barrera helps kids at Burroughs High with their school paper, which the daily prints at cost. More important, it offers internships for the high schoolers. Jessica Shillings interned there for a couple of summers ? and now she's the city editor.
"It's nothing formal," says Publisher John Watkins. "Our managing editor, Nathan Ahle, takes the interns under his wing. They cover things, we correct them and help them. It's baptism by fire on a small paper."
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