Auburn University 2008 High School Journalism Workshop
Up to 20 students from Alabama and
Georgia high schools will gain hands-on experience in journalism and
other communication fields during a summer workshop hosted by the
Auburn University Department of Communication and Journalism. Link
to Application
The workshop will be held June 8 through 13 and is free to selected
participants. During their week-long visit to Auburn, students will
have opportunities to work closely with communication professionals
and professors, take field trips and interact with staff members from
the university’s campus newspaper and radio station.
Students
will stay in a campus residence hall with college-age chaperones.
Room and board is free.
Dr. Jennifer Adams and Associate Professor Nan Fairley will
serve as co-directors of the sixth annual workshop.
“To get the very best high school students to select journalism
as a career, we need to fuel a passion for journalism in those students,”
Adams said. “We hope through this journalism institute that
we are able to help spark that passion in the next generation of newspaper
reporters and editors.”
Applications for the workshop will be accepted through April 30, and
student selections will be announced by May 15. The Alabama
Press Association Foundation, the AU College of Liberal Arts and The
Mobile Register are providing financial support for the workshop,
which is the sixth hosted by the AU Department of Communication and
Journalism.
“Our
faculty are eager and excited about this wonderful opportunity to
work with top students in the region,” Fairley said. “It
will be a fun-filled program that will put students in direct contact
with leading professionals in the media.”
For more information and application forms, contact
Fairley at (334) 844-4593 or by email at fairlln@auburn.edu.
For other information on this years workshop,
click here
To view the June 2008 edition of Tiger Times, the student publication created by the workshop participants, click here.