Urban Journalism Workshop
More than 300 Washington-area high school students interested in media careers have participated in the Urban Journalism Workshop, which has been co-sponsored by the Young Journalists Development Program (YJDP) and the Washington
Association of Black Journalists (WABJ) since 1997.
Many of these eager students have returned for successive workshops. Dozens of participants have or are pursuing journalism careers in college. Some also have been selected for college scholarships.
Professional journalists teach the students on eight consecutive Saturdays. The students choose one of three segments: newspaper, radio news or television news. At the end of the workshop, the students produce a newspaper, a 30-minute television news show and a 30-minute radio news broadcast.
The workshop is open to all high school students. All interested students
are encouraged to apply.
"Our partnership with the Post has been extremely valuable and has
helped this program in so many ways," said Darlene Superville, who has
coordinated the workshop for WABJ since 2004. "We've had great success getting the
word out about us. We've had a huge increase in the number of students
who apply every year.”
“I think we've been able to really open students' eyes about what it's
like to be a journalist and that is so important," said Athelia Knight, director of YJDP. "It's an
absolute delight to see them out in the field, notebooks in hand and
interviewing people."
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student-produced Urban Journalism Workshop Newspapers:
Download an application
for the 2008 Workshop
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