WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BECOME INVOLVED?
Newspaper, newsmagazine, broadcast and Web news sites would be eligible in the first year. No cost to participants.
• Access to the Internet for story planning, information gathering, story filing and sharing is essential.
• Equipment to be able to produce digital images and story files.
• Willingness to be an active participant in all phases of the project.
• Enthusiasm to expand your reporting coverage and make an impact on yours and other schools.
Questions? Contact us: jabowen@kent.edu
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To download an application, go here
The Center for Scholastic Journalism wants to partner with high school journalism programs across the nation, organizing them into a news consortium to be known as JWire.
JWire will:
• Meet electronically to share ideas, sources and stories.
• Plan, develop and produce, individually or in teams, multi-source reporting for print, online and multimedia formats, for member publications and other “subscribers.”
• Present sessions at scholastic journalism conventions about the project and show the importance of such reporting in a democracy.
• Offer a road map for others to follow to help them report like this.
• Catalogue depth stories others can use for models and resources;
• Train online and at Kent State to be better at investigative reporting, multi-source story planning and multimedia techniques;
• Receive special critiques from newsroom and classroom professionals;
• Share ideas and sources, including discussions (blogs, Facebook, Google Doc Use, Wiki, Twitter, etc).
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WHAT WE PROPOSE:
Starting in January you have a chance to make a difference in how journalists like you look at reporting tough issues.
2009 will mark the beginning of a new approach to reporting essential stories, with student journalists from schools across the nation sharing information with each other and with national experts...and providing their work to others via the Center for Scholastic Journalism’s Web site.
• All AT NO COST to participating schools.
• All based on student ideas with critiques and support from working journalists and nationally known advisers.
• All presented in multimedia formats, with training and sharing sessions via electronic means.
WHY THE NEED EXISTS:
Judges of scholastic publications across the country report not only fewer examples of in-depth or investigative reporting – by teams or by individuals – but also a dramatic decrease in the caliber of existing stories. Too few expert sources, too little overall perspective and background, and too much author opinion in factual news articles.
JWire offers students a chance investigative and in-depth reporting and create a model for others to emulate. This model will allow student media programs to share ideas and reporting while receiving encouragement, training and coaching. |