Aaron Broder, a junior at Martin Luther King Magnet, attended the 2008 presidential debate at Belmont as a correspondent of the Tennessee Chapter of Scholastic Journal.

“After the debate was over, though, a lot of politicians for both parties came in and the reporters just swarmed around them - it was really difficult to get a quote from any of them. I managed to catch Mitt Romney right after he got out of a one-on-one interview, so no one had seen him yet,” said Broder.

Scholastic Journal is a monthly publication on stories regarding national events.

Broder became a scholastic journalist by replying to an advertisement in Scholastic magazine asking what was special about the home cities of the writers. Broder enthusiastically responded to the letter to guarantee his spot as a Scholastic correspondent.

“They had an advertisement in one of their magazines asking for submissions with a paper about what made the writer's home city special and a letter about why they wanted to become a kid reporter - I guess that I came across as really excited in my letter,” Broder said.

Broder writes for Scholastic every once in a while depending on that month's happenings. During the months of the Presidential debate, Broder averaged two stories per month, but now that there is not that much to write.

“I don't really write stories regularly. They happen whenever something interesting happens. So, while the election was going on I was often writing at least two a month, and most of the time I was writing more often than that. Now, I don't really write as regularly,” said Broder.

Boder has had some bias based against him being a young high school reporter attending these events but has pushed past the negativity with a gleeful optimism.

Broder has no plans to become a journalist but is thankful for the experience.

“I write about a lot of local stuff - whether it's country music-related, political-related, or even just a one-time event in Nashville, like the Red Bull Flugtag Day that happened a couple years ago,” said Broder.

Flugtag is a psuedo-annual event sponsored by Redbull where people construct flying machines.