The Concord Monitor is accepting applications for our second annual Student Advisory Board. The board, modeled after our long-running Reader Advisory Board, will convene a diverse group of high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors from our coverage area for monthly conversations and presentations about local journalism and how it connects to their lives.
The primary purpose of the board is to introduce the Concord Monitor to a new generation that increasingly gets their news outside of traditional media outlets. We hope the board also sparks conversations about what matters to young people in our community and how we can evolve as a newsroom to better include youth voices in our coverage.
The board will meet on the third Tuesday of each month from November to May over pizza at our office in Concord from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Over seven meetings, participants will have conversations with Monitor reporters and editors, get the opportunity to write published pieces about issues that matter to them for our Opinion section, tour our printing press in Penacook and hear from Monitor alumni at publications like the Boston Globe and The New York Times.
Participants will also get to meet fellow students from schools across the region and will help us shape the future of the Student Advisory Board.
The board will meet on the following dates: Nov. 17, Dec. 15, Jan. 99, Feb. 16, March 16, April 20, and May 18.
Anyone interested can complete a short application below. You do not need to live in Concord to apply. The deadline has been extended to Tuesday, October 16, 2026.
The board will be run by Education Reporter Yasmeen Saadi and Growth/Development Reporter Finley Williams. If you have any questions, you can contact them at ysaadi@cmonitor.com and fwilliams@cmonitor.com.
