However, in 1976 at the Democratic National Convention, the focus of the organization changed forever when a 13-year-old CE reporter (Gilbert Giles) scooped the news that Walter Mondale would be Jimmy Carter's running mate.
This episode included one of CE's most famous interviews, in which 11-year-old reporter Suki Cheong asked vice-presidential candidate Dan Quayle if a girl should be forced to carry a baby to term if she was sexually molested by her father.
[1] Children's Express articles were created through an oral journalism process: interviews and commentary by 8- to 13-year-old reporters were transcribed and edited by teen and adult editors.
Subjects covered ran the gamut from teen drug abuse to abortion, youth-oriented legislation, divorce, school violence and interracial dating.
But with a flawed business model and increasing pressures on foundations and other funders brought about by 9/11, further funding proved impossible to obtain.