Training Programs for High School, College Students and Advisers

American Society of Newspaper Editors
11690B Sunrise Valley Drive
Reston VA 20191-1409
Phone : (703) 453-1122
Fax: (703) 453-1133
E-mail: asne@asne.org http://www.highschooljournalism.org/

The High School Journalism Institute is an intensive two-week summer newspaper journalism training program for high school teachers. Teachers who have never advised a school newspaper but want to are encouraged to apply. Experienced teachers seeking to update their journalism skills are also welcome. Most expenses are paid by the High School Journalism Program. For more information, contact Diana Mitsu Klos, ASNE Senior Project Director, at (703) 453-1125 or dmk@asne.org

ASNE Partnership Program works to establish links between daily newspapers and the high schools in their communities. Its immediate goal is to create high school newspapers where none exist or to dramatically improve existing papers; grant money is available, if needed, to fund technology purchases to help realize this goal. Partnerships are initiated by the daily newspaper.

Asian American Journalists Association
1182 Market Street , Suite 320
San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone: (415) 346-2051
Fax: (415) 346-6343
E-mail: National@aaja.org
http://www.aaja.org

J Camp is a free six-day training camp that brings together a multicultural group of high school students from across the nation to sharpen their journalism skills and work together in a learning environment. The curriculum consists of interactive workshops, hands-on training and field trips. For any questions or inquiries about student-related programs, contact Brandon Sugiyama, student programs coordinator, at (415) 346-2051, ext. 102, or e-mail: brandons@aaja.org.

Detroit Free Press High School Journalism Program
Joe Grimm
600 W. Fort Street
Detroit, MI, 48226
Phone: (313) 222-6490 ext.600
E-mail: grimm@freepress.com
http://www.freep.com

Specially prepared high school pages are part of Free Press editions. Those editions are delivered to high schools and their feeder middle schools (about 72,000 copies per month). In the summer of 1991, the Free Press inaugurated an annual five-week summer apprentice program for high school journalists. High school juniors and seniors from the Detroit and Flint areas receive intense journalism instruction at the University of Michigan and Oakland University before starting their Free Press apprenticeship. While at the Free Press, students receive four weeks of hands-on experience working with Free Press staffers who serve as their mentors. For information, e-mail Pat Hartley, high school journalism coordinator, at pchartley@freep.com.

Freedom Forum
1101 Wilson Blvd.
Arlington, VA 22209
Phone: (703) 528-0800
Fax: (703) 284-3770
E-mail: news@freedomforum.org
http://www.freedomforum.org/diversity/
http://www.usd.edu/press/news/news.cfm?nid=153&uid=user

American Indian Journalism Institute, South Dakota. AIJI gives Native American college journalism students the opportunity to train as newspaper reporters, editors and photographers at the Al Neuharth Media Center at the University of South Dakota. AIJI teaches journalism fundamentals in a four-credit course. Students attend classes, receive practical experience in journalism labs, go on field trips and produce two editions of an institute newspaper, The Native Journal. Follow-up programs for institute graduates include paid internships at three daily newspapers, further schooling and assistance with eventual job placement. For more information, contact Jack Marsh at (605) 677-6315 or jmarsh@freedomforum.org.

Chips Quinn Scholars program offers students of color mentoring and hands-on training in journalism. The aim is to provide support and encouragement that will open doors to news careers and bring greater diversity to the nation's newspaper newsrooms.

Chips Quinn Scholars program offers students of color mentoring and hands-on training in journalism. The aim is to provide support and encouragement that will open doors to news careers and bring greater diversity to the nation's newspaper newsrooms.

Hispanic Link Journalism Foundation
1420 N St. N.W.
Washington, DC 20005
Phone : (202) 234-0280
http://www.hispaniclink.org/foundation/fellowshipinternship.htm

The Hispanic Link Journalism Foundation offers reporting fellowships on a continuing basis. They include a one-year fellowship for an aspiring Hispanic print journalist to train as a reporter in the nation's capital. It offers a stipend of $20,800, plus benefits. Other paid and unpaid internships, including work-study, are available throughout the year. Each placement is designed to provide a challenging work environment in which individuals can expand their expertise and develop new skills.

Los Angeles Times Student Journalism Program
Student Journalism Program Hotline
Phone : (213) 237-5195
http://www.latimes.com/extras/studentjournalism/

This program is designed to support the education of high school and college students in the greater Los Angeles area who exhibit talent and interest in journalism. The program helps prepare participants for print media careers, with an emphasis on cultivating journalists of color who will reflect the diverse communities of Southern California in the newsroom. For information about specific events, call the Student Journalism Program Hotline at (213) 237-5195.

Knight Ridder Minority Scholarship Program
http://www.knightridderscholars.com/index.html

Knight Ridder chooses four or five exceptional high school seniors each year for a package that includes up to $40,000 over four years, four paid summer internships and guaranteed employment after college. Candidates should apply to their nearest Knight Ridder company, where editors will select local winners. National winners are chosen from these nominees.

There are two scholarship categories: News Scholars work in Knight Ridder newsrooms - writing and editing stories, taking photographs, crafting illustrations and designing news pages. Business Scholars work in advertising, marketing, information technology and circulation.

For application details, call or write the nearest Knight Ridder newspaper or bureau. Contact information for Knight Ridder companies can be found at http://www.knightridderscholars.com/apply.html.

National Association of Hispanic Journalists
1000 National Press Building
529 14th St., N.W.
Washington, DC 20045-2001
Phone: ( 202) 662-7145 / (888) 346-NAHJ
Fax: (202) 662-7144
http://www.nahj.org/educationalprograms/educationalprograms.shtml

Creating Future Journalists is built around a full day of activities held in conjunction with annual conventions of the NAHJ. Over the past three years, the program has helped 300 middle school and high school students and their journalism advisers explore the benefits of media careers. It includes post-convention events such as essay contests and field trips.

Native American Journalism Association
High School Project - Project Phoenix
555 N. Dakota St.
Vermillion, SD 57069
Phone: (605) 677-5282
Fax: (866) 694-4264
E-mail: info@naja.com
http://www.naja.com/programs/students/project-phoenix/

Project Phoenix meets in the host city of the Native American Journalists Association's annual convention. Each year, 10 to 15 students gather to find out what it takes to put together their own newspaper. The students of Project Phoenix learn the basics of newswriting and photojournalism. During the course of about a week they produce a 12-page newspaper called Rising Voices.

The Poynter Institute
801 Third Street South
St. Petersburg, FL 33701
Phone: (888) 769-6837
http://www.poynter.org/seminar/seminar_view.asp?int_seminarID=3170

Florida High School Writers Workshops are designed for high school students and teachers in the Tampa Bay area. This program is modeled after Poynter's highly successful National Writers Workshops for professional journalists. Each daylong workshop will be on a Saturday and will offer intensive sessions on writing, reporting and editing taught by Poynter faculty and visiting professionals. Contact: Jeanne Nissenbaum, jnissenbaum@poynter.org

Radio and Television News Directors Foundation
1600 K Street, NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20006-2838
Phone: (202) 659-6510
Fax: (202) 223-4007
E-mail: rtnda@rtnda.org
http://www.rtnda.org/resources/highschool.shtml

The RTNDF High School Journalism Project, funded by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, seeks to identify, inspire, train and challenge the next generation of diverse radio and television journalists and First Amendment advocates. Its mission is to develop scholastic broadcast journalism programs and to strengthen existing projects through collaborations with the professional journalists who are members of the Radio and Television News Directors Association.

Summer Journalism Workshops for High School Students of Color

ALABAMA

University of Alabama
207 Student Media Bldg.
Box 870172
Tuscaloosa AL 35487

Contact: Ed Mullins
Phone: (205) 348-8592
E-mail: emullins13@netscape.net

ARIZONA

University of Arizona
Department of Journalism
Tucson, AZ 85721

Phone: (520) 621-7556
Contact: Kathy D'Assis
E-mail: dassis@u.arizona.edu
http://journalism.arizona.edu/

This serious, but fun, intensive summer journalism workshop is intended to help high school students of color understand the demands of today's and tomorrow's journalism, the opportunities for a higher education and the possibilities for success in the newspaper field. The workshop covers reporting, interviewing, writing, editing, layout, design, photojournalism and visual communication. Students will be introduced to state-of-the-art digital imaging and design. Each student will construct a web page.

CALIFORNIA

California Chicano News Media Association/San Diego
Leonel Sanchez
The San Diego Union-Tribune
P.O. Box 120191
San Diego, CA 92112-1023
Phone : (619) 293-1023
E-mail: leonel.sanchez@uniontrib.com
http://www.ccnmasd.org/

Students spend two weeks each summer at a journalism boot camp, guided by professional journalists in the classroom and in the field. That field experience in a student's journalism career is commonly reserved for junior and seniors at the university level. The students produce a newspaper, a television newscast and a radio newscast. They also attend classes on writing and grammar and participate in panel discussions on ethics in journalism and interviewing techniques. The workshop is open to high school junior and seniors from San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino and Imperial counties. Applications are available in January and the workshop is usually held in June at a local university.

California Chicano News Media Association/San Jose
Daniel Vasquez, director
San Jose Mercury News
750 Ridder Park Drive
San Jose, CA 95190
Phone: (408) 920-5406
http://www.mosaicworkshop.org

Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism
San Francisco State University
Doris Y.S. Owyang, Program Manager
Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94132-4028
Phone : (415) 338-7434
www.ciij.org

The Bay Area Multicultural Media Academy is a two-week residential program built around developing journalism skills and careers for Bay Area high school students. The Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism at San Francisco State University has sponsored BAMMA since 1990. Its graduates work in print, radio, television and online journalism. BAMMA is dedicated to providing opportunities to youth from underserved communities to develop skills as journalists that will open doors for them in media careers and help the profession do a better job covering news for everyone.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Howard University
Department of Journalism
525 Bryant Street NW
Washington, DC 20059
Phone: (202) 806-7855
http://www.howard.edu/schoolcommunications/

FLORIDA

Florida A&M University (FAMU)
Professor Diane Hall, director
School of Journalism
Tallahassee, FL 32308
Phone : (904) 599-3357
E-mail: dhall@sjgc.net
http://www.sjgc.net/index1.html

Florida International University
North Campus
Professor Don Sneed, director
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
3000 N.E. 151st St.,
North Miami, FL 33181
Phone : (305) 940-5625
http://jmc.fiu.edu/sjmc/

University of Miami
Professor Tsitsi Wakhisi, director
School of Communication
P.O. Box 248127
Coral Gables, FL 33124-2030
Phone : (305) 284-6493
E-mail: communication@miami.edu
http://www.miami.edu/com/

ILLINOIS

Eastern Illinois University
Professor Joseph Gisondi
Department of Journalism
600 W. Lincoln Ave.
Charleston, IL 61920
http://www.eiu.edu/~journal/

Youth Communication/Chicago
Phil Costello
Columbia College and Roosevelt University
600 S. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60605
Phone : (312) 922-7150
http://www.uiowa.edu/~journal/faculty/

KENTUCKY

Western Kentucky University
Professor James L. Highland, director
School of Journalism and Broadcasting
1 Big Red Way
Bowling Green, KY 42101-3576
Phone: (270) 745-5837
E-mail: james.highland@wku.edu
http://www.geocities.com/wkumjw

University of Kentucky
Dr. Beth Barnes
School of Journalism
107 Grehan Building
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0042
Phone: (859) 257-4275
Fax: (859) 323-3168
E-mail: bbarnes@uky.edu
http://jat.uky.edu/indexALL.html

MASSACHUSETTS

New England High School Journalism
Professor Carole Remick, director
University of Massachusetts
Regis College
100 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02125-3393
Contact: Carole Remick
Phone: (617) 287-7932
E-mail: carole.remick@umb.edu
http://www.mijohn.com/hsjc/index.htm

MISSISSIPPI

University of Mississippi
331 Farley, P.O. Box 1848
University, MS 38677
Contact: Beth Fitts
Phone : (662) 915-5396
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/journalism/

MISSOURI

University of Missouri
Dr. Anna Romero
School of Journalism
76-K Gannett Hall
Columbia, MO 65211-1200
Phone : (573) 882-2422
E-mail: journalism@missouri.edu
http://www.journalism.missouri.edu/contact.html

NEW JERSEY

Monmouth University
Dr. Eleanor Novek, director
Communications Department
400 Cedar Ave.
West Long Branch, NJ 07764
Phone : (732) 571-4427
http://www.monmouth.edu/academics/deptlinks/comm.asp

NEW YORK

New York University
Professor Pamela Newkirk
Department of Journalism
10 Washington Place
New York, NY 10003
Phone : (212) 998-7980
E-mail: pamnewkirk@nyu.edu
http://journalism.nyu.edu/ujw/

OHIO

Kent State University
Gene Shelton, director
School of Journalism and Communication
P.O. Box 5190
Kent, OH 44242-0001
E-mail: eshelto1@kent.edu

PENNSYLVANIA

The Pennsylvania State University
Joseph M. Selden, Director/Assistant Dean and Lecturer
Office of Multicultural Affairs College of Communications
208 Carnegie Building
University Park, PA 16802-5101
Phone: (814) 863-6081
http://my.highschooljournalism.org/pa/universitypark/mhsjw

SOUTH DAKOTA

Native American Journalists Association (NAJA)
Kim Baca, Interim Executive Director
555 N. Dakota St.
Vermillion, SD 57069
Phone: (605) 677-5282
Fax: (866) 694-4264
E-mail: info@naja.com
http://www.naja.com/

TEXAS

San Antonio College
Irene Abrego, director
Journalism Department
1300 San Pedro Ave.
San Antonio, TX 78212-4299
Phone: (210) 733-2870
http://www.accd.edu/sac/j-p/jlsm.html

Texas Christian University
Elizabeth Faulk, director
Department of Journalism
294 Moudy South
Fort Worth, TX 76129
Phone: (817) 257-6274
E-mail: e.faulk@tcu.edu
http://www.jou.tcu.edu/

University of Texas at El Paso
Zita Arocha, director
Department of Communication Studies
500 W. University Ave., Room 202
El Paso, TX 79968-0550
Phone: (915) 747-6287
E-mail: zarocha@utep.edu
http://www.utep.edu/comm/

VIRGINIA

Virginia Commonwealth University
June Nicholson, director
School of Mass Communications
901 W. Main St.
P.O. Box 842034
Richmond, VA 23284
Phone: (804) 367-1260
E-mail: jonichol@vcu.edu
http://www.has.vcu.edu/mac/

WASHINGTON

Seattle University
Tomas Guillen, director
Communications Dept.
Casey Building Room 232
900 Broadway
Seattle, WA 98122-4340
Phone: (206) 464-2045
E-mail: tomasg@seattleu.edu
http://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/communication/

WISCONSIN

Marquette University
Rose Richard
College of Communication
1131 W. Wisconsin Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53201
Phone: (414) 288-5227
http://www.marquette.edu/dept/comm/

Multi-State Programs

Hispanic Link Journalism Foundation
1420 N St NW
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 234-0280
http://www.hispaniclink.org

Reporting Fellowships: For 20 years, Hispanic Link has been the training host of 25 full-year fellows and provided shorter term internships for more than 100 aspiring journalists. Participants cover national news in Washington, D.C., alongside correspondents, with emphasis on how current events affects Hispanics. Their work is published in Hispanic LinkWeekly Report and distributed to subscribers nationally. Dozens of still-connected, Link-trained "change agents" continue to work and advance at major dailies and broadcast outlets throughout the country.

Freedom Forum Grants for Native American High School Journalism Students.
Dr. Richard W. Lee
Department of Journalism and Mass Communication
South Dakota State University
Brookings, SD 57007
Phone: (605) 688-4171
Fax: (605) 688-5034
E-mail: Richard_Lee@sdstate.edu

Native American high school students may apply for grants to attend the South Dakota State University summer journalism institute held each summer in mid-June. Grants cover transportation and workshop costs.

The Poynter Institute
801 Third Street South
St. Petersburg, FL 33701
Phone (888) 769-6837
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=9260

Poynter College Fellowships

News Writing & Reporting
Poynter is looking for the best graduates in the arts and sciences and journalism who will become leaders in tomorrow's newsrooms. It seeks people who can write with clarity and flair, who have the education and insight to understand the world they report on, who recognize the important role the profession plays as a public service, and who have great ambition to succeed in life.

Visual Journalism
Fellows will learn (or relearn) the fundamentals of visual journalism from Poynter faculty and guest experts. This is a visual boot camp where students will explore typography, color and architecture for news and feature page design; information graphics; traditional and photo illustration; documentary photojournalism; online design; and interactivity.

The Washington Post
1150 15th Street NW
Washington, DC 20071
http://washpost.com/community/education/yjdp/index.shtml

The Post'â„¢s Young Journalists Development Program provides a range of services to local high school journalism programs. They include equipment donation, printing services, technical assistance, seminars and workshops, and scholarships. For more information, contact director Athelia Knight, (202) 334-7132 or knighta@washpost.com.