For three years, The Local has held a three-day free journalism workshop for Brooklyn teenagers every summer. This year, Lindsay Kalter interviewed Indrani Sen about the process of planning and executing the workshop, for an article she published on the International Journalists’ Network. The full, unedited interview is below. 1. How many participants did you have? We had 14 participants this year, which is twice as many as last year. We made a big push to promote the workshop on Facebook and Twitter, as well as on the blog itself. We also reached out to organizations that work with young people, and to high school journalism advisers. We ended up with so many applicants that we had to close registration for the class (though we have invited those who didn’t make it into the workshop to a teen journalism meetup this week). Most of the teenagers who took the class heard about it from a friend, teacher or relative who saw the listing and forwarded it along. 2. In The Local’s description of the workshop, Brooklyn natives were strongly encouraged to attend. How many locals participated compared to those who came from afar? All but two of our teen participants live in Brooklyn (the other two live in Queens). Half of the students live in or near Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, the neighborhoods that our hyperlocal blog covers, or go to school in those neighborhoods. 3. What was an average day like during the workshop? Which aspects of journalism were primarily discussed during the program? We spent the first day focusing on basic journalistic values and practice. We talked about the elements of a news story — ledes, nut grafs, quotes, etc. We discussed interviewing, note-taking, coming up with story ideas. And we...