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It's really just been so much more amazing than I could have ever imagined.

We've really had the community really help us out a lot.

I brought so many young people together to contribute to it.

It's so great. Welcome to Kid News Convo's. I'm Torrey. And that's Billy Stern, who along with

a group of other teenagers, started a weekly summer newspaper in their hometown of Montauk, New York.

It's gotten a lot of attention with a big article about it in the New York Times.

So why did they decide to start an old school printed paper? How they talk their friends and

adjoining them? And does the paper actually sell? Here's my conversation with Billy. So thank you

for taking the time to join us today. How are you doing, Billy? I'm great. Really hot where I'm right now, so I'm just enjoying the sun. So tell me your age and your title at The Ditch

Weekly. I'm 15 years old, and my title is editor-in-chief and publisher. Awesome. Well, congratulations.

That's a pretty big title. What made you want to do this? You know, this is not the typical activity for most 15-year-olds.

Yeah. There was kind of like a space that was open in our community. There was no weekly newspaper in the summer.

There's like a magazine that comes out once a month, but that's not really like, that's the only other publication that's specific to Montauk.

So there was a space that we could show and we did.

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