Quarantine Journalism School

UPDATE: We now know the cause of the Covid outbreak on the Marlins: they left their hotel in Atlanta to go to a strip club, reported by Bob Nightengale of The Athletic and Tweeted by Andrew Fillipponi of 937 The Fan in Pittsburgh. On Sunday, reports came out that members of Major League Baseball's Miami Marlins had contracted the coronavirus. Four Marlins had tested positive, and on Monday morning it was reported by ESPN's Jesse Rogers and Jeff Passan that ten more members of the team had tested positive : eight players and two coaches. Their game, scheduled for Monday night in Baltimore, was cancelled, as was the Philadelphia Phillies' game against the New York Yankees. Players, coaches, and owners alike were reported to have had emergency meetings about what to do. At the time of writing on Tuesday afternoon, the Marlins now have nineteen positive cases. The Phillies' test results have not yielded any positive cases yet, however their game tonight is also cancelled a...

Welcome!   Who Are You? My name is Harrison Markfield, I am eighteen years old from Greenwich, Connecticut. What's Quarantine Journalism School? QJS is my blog where I hope to showcase my writing as a way to make it into journalism as a full time career. I was going to attend journalism school this coming fall, however Covid-19 has scuttled those plans for now, so here we are.  Why The Name? I suppose this is really only a 'school' for myself, trying to teach myself how to be a journalist during a time where I can't learn from real professors. Other than that, it was the best name I could come up with. What Made You Want To Be A Journalist?  Crooked Letters by Steven Godfrey is usually what I attribute to wanting to pursue this career path. I always liked finding out how things work and the power dynamic of the NCAA - as exposed in that story - is fascinating, but I've always liked writing and feel like it's what I'm best at, and I look ...