2011 Minority Journalism Workshop
Minority Journalism Workshop 2010 students.
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- Teamwork training from W&L
- Writing, skits and a newspaper tour
- Columnists, weather, graphics, editing and Hotel Roanoke lunch
Contact
For more information about the Minority Journalism Workshop, please contact Kathy Lu at 540-981-3224 or kathy.lu@roanoke.com.About the workshop
The Roanoke Times has conducted an annual Minority Journalism Workshop since 1983, a year after Walter Rugaber became publisher. He wanted to address the fact that the number of minorities who worked in newsrooms nationwide was disturbingly low. It's a situation that still persists today.
The workshop aims to make more minorities aware of job opportunities at newspapers and hopefully entice them to think about careers in the business. Having people of different backgrounds employed at The Roanoke Times is important for many reasons. For our news pages to be accurate, we must reflect the entire community and we can better ensure such coverage if we employ people who have had various experiences.
The workshop is for rising high school sophomores, juniors and seniors in the Roanoke and New River valleys and the newspaper covers all their expenses during the workshop. Through teaching them about the newspaper, we hope that it will also create a diverse pool of potential employees for the future.
The dates for this year's workshop are: June 19-24, 2011.
Workshop partners
This is the sixth year that The Roanoke Times has partnered with Washington and Lee University to teach the participants the basics of journalism. This year, the students will spend one day at the university, which is 45 minutes north of Roanoke in Lexington. At W&L, journalism professors cover everything from the basics of reporting to journalism ethics. Workshop participants also get to know each other through team building activities.
Important dates
The dates for this year's workshop are: June 19-24, 2011.
The deadline to apply is May 13, 2011.
Download the application now! (.doc)
