Children's Express

Children’s Express was a news agency reported and edited by children and teenagers between the ages of 8 and 18.

CE was founded in 1975 in New York by Wall Street attorney Robert Clampitt. Initially, CE published light and fluffy stories in its own magazine. 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. From then on, CE reporters would almost exclusively concentrate on hard-hitting political and social topics.

Over the next two decades, Children's Express expanded from New York to establish bureaus in Salem, MA, Washington, DC, Oakland, California, Newark, NJ, Harlem, NY, Marquette, Michigan, Springfield, Ohio and Indianapolis, Indiana. In 1994 CE-UK was established; a Tokyo bureau was also founded in the late 1990s.

CE articles appeared both in local markets and in national publications that subscribed to the CP Newswire, including the New York Amsterdam News, Bermuda Royal Gazette, Indianapolis Star, The Mining Journal, New York Times, New York Daily News, The Plain Dealer, Family Life, Houston Chronicle, El Diario/La Prensa, Seattle Times, Maryland Sentinel and many others.

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