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M.L. Schultze and Rick Senften, formerly with The Repository in Canton, Ohio, talk to students about coaching and story selection in a 2006 session.
ASNE summer training institute
returns to Kent State in 2008
Kent State University will again host free summer training with graduate credit for high school journalism teachers and media advisers. KSU, site of ASNE Institutes for 2001 - 2006, will join four other universities as a location for the 2008 Reynolds High School Journalism Institute. Universities and their dates are:
• Arizona State University, Tempe, June 15-27
• Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, July 6-18
• University of Nevada, Reno, July 13-26
• University of Texas at Austin, July 20-Aug. 1
• Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., July 6-18
Applications must be postmarked by Feb. 29, 2008, and are incomplete unless they include:
• The completed form (either paper or online version)
• A two-page essay explaining need and how the Institute will benefit students and the campus press
• A copy of the school paper (if available)
• A current resume
No faxes, please.
The Reynolds Institute is an intensive two-week newspaper journalism training program for high school teachers. Instruction is based on the core tenets of journalism and the skills needed to produce a top-notch scholastic publication, on paper or online.
Topics include: reporting, writing, editing, photojournalism, layout and design, opinion pages, journalistic credibility ethics and responsibilities, the future of daily newspapers and business-side skills.
First Amendment matters, privacy and the state of scholastic press freedoms are also key topics
One hundred and seventy-five teachers will be competitively selected for the 2008 program.
The Institute enables and energizes a corps of teachers to:
Help students start a campus newspaper.
Dramatically improving the quality of an existing newspaper.
Enhance their teaching in areas that include journalism, English, social studies and civics.
The Institute pays for air transportation, lodging, meals, cost of instruction, and graduate or continuing education credit hours (at the discretion of the university) for participants. Additional benefits include: memberships to scholastic journalism associations, subscriptions to journalism magazines, an NIE subscription to the local daily newspaper delivered to your school, and the beginnings of a journalism library.
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Pam Harr, a 2006 workshop participant, takes part in an interviewing activity with Kent State adjunct professor Deborah Davis. The session and others were taped for future use.
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