Five students from the FAMU School of Journalism and Graphic Communication have been selected to participate in The New York Times Student Journalism Institute, May 18-31, in New Orleans.The five chosen will join 24 students selected from a total of 102 applicants for the program. The five FAMU students are:
Yewande Addie, a junior, Jhenelle Johnson, a senior ,John W. Marsh, a senior, Nathaniel Nelson, a junior, and Saraj Sabree, a senior.
“Students who come to the Institute are among the best and brightest in the country, and they have the drive and the talent to succeed without our help. But what we can give them is two weeks of intensive interaction with writers and editors from the most prestigious news organizations in the nation,” said ,Don Hecker, the Institute’s director and the training editor for copy editors at The New York Times.
The Institute, this year, is based at Dillard University in New Orleans.
“They [the students] see what it’s like to work at the very top, because for two weeks they work at the very top, and they do so in a setting created specifically to focus on each of them and to be supportive of their unique set of talents,” said Hecker. “Beyond that, the students get to spend time with others who share their passion for news, giving them a peer support network that will last through a career lifetime.”
During the program, students run a daily news Web site and the best work created is published in a newspaper at the close of the program.
once again the mighty 2s have done a good job.
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The J-School has soared tremendously since Ruggle exodus!
ReplyDeleteThe J-School has been outstanding since its inception. Let's not turn up our noses at all the successful campus publications, student broadcasts, faculty hirings, conferences, internship programs, and career placements that the J-School produced during the Ruggles-era.
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