UH Mānoa journalism students were welcomed into Civil Beat Plaza Wednesday for a tour of the newsroom and to mingle with Civil Beat journalists. Civil Beat is a local non-profit news organization that covers civic affairs in the state. The partnership between UH’s journalism program and Civil Beat started a few years ago with the creation of UH Beat, a section of the website where student journalists are able to publish their work in a professional setting. Civil Beat staff members, including Editor Patti Epler, helped to advise students on their careers and about their work going forward in journalism. As well as showing students different amenities of the Civil Beat office, such as the podcast room, noise-canceling phone booths and a great view of Diamond Head and the Waialae area, staff members including Jessica Terrell, Naka Nathaniel, Chad Blair, and Blaze Lovell talked with the students about how to improve their craft. The heart of Civil Beat and UH’s partnership, they said, is to pass on the community-storytelling mantle from one generation to the next.