A teenager bought his town's newspaper. Now he'll cover his politician father.
Hayden Taylor has never taken a journalism class in his brief life. He’s never written for a newspaper before. He has yet to graduate college.
But now, he’s the main source for local news in Brinkley, Arkansas.
In recent months, a fire ravaged the offices of Brinkley’s sole local newspaper, the Central Delta Argus-Sun. While the fire did not completely destroy the building, it did convince the paper’s longtime publisher, Katie Jacques, that it was time to move on. So she sold the paper’s assets to Taylor, who is 19 years old and has no formal training in publishing a newspaper, for $5,000, per Arkansas Online.
As a result, Taylor is now the owner, publisher, editor and reporter for the Monroe County Herald, Arkansas’s newest weekly newspaper. He graduated high school in 2015 and attended college for one year, where he did not declare a major but studied history, economics, politics and religion, but not journalism.
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-world/national/article125111884.html
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