NABJ Student Projects Application Available Now

 

Deadline: Feb. 18, 2011



Program Description
NABJ offers an expenses-paid fellowship to outstanding students pursuing a career in journalism. For one week, students work on varied news assignments.  Students will produce stories for the NABJ Monitor, our convention newspaper, NABJ TV, NABJ Radio and nabjconvention.org, our daily news web site. They will work alongside professional journalists and journalism educators from across the country. Students will gain hands-on experience using the latest tools to produce both breaking news as they cover NABJ's annual convention, and longer-form multimedia storytelling of broader issues.

Application Format
All applications must be received online. Resumes, cover letters, and clips should be uploaded as Word documents or PDFs. Complete links (where applicable) must be included. Use third-party sites such as Google Docs, YouTube, Flkr, or MyPodcast to provide links to work samples. Please screen your own work to provide the requested number of samples; we are not able to review all the content on an applicant's website. Please have these files ready prior to beginning the online application.

Qualifications
Positions are open to sophomores, juniors, seniors or graduate students attending a four-year college or
university, or an accredited community college. Applicants must have a demonstrated commitment to print or broadcast, and online journalism. At least one previous internship at a daily news organization is preferred, and multimedia experience is a plus.

General Requirements:

• Current college undergraduates and graduate students are eligible, including students who will graduate in May/June 2011.
• NABJ Student members only.
• Must be available to take part in these program during the convention, August 1 - 6, 2011.
  
• Must be 18 years of age.

Reporting Applicants (Print)

• Cover letter, including your reasons for entering the news profession 
• Resume 
• Official college transcript (Scanned, saved as JPG)
• List three references from professional journalists, professors, advisors who are familiar with your journalistic work.
• Links to five samples of your reporting work

Reporting Applicants (Broadcast)< /span>

• Cover letter, including your reasons for entering the news profession 
• Resume 
• Official college transcript (Scanned, saved as JPG)
• List three references from professional journalists, professors, advisors who are familiar with your journalistic work.
• Links to five samples of your audio and/or video work

Television Producer Applicants: 

• Cover letter, including your reasons for entering the news profession 
• Resume 
• Official college transcript (Scanned, saved as JPG)
• List three references from professional journalists, professors, advisors who are familiar with your journalistic work.
• Links to five samples of your TV newscast work.
• Familiarity working closely with assignment desk and producers on coverage, story selection, live coverage, and assignment of reporters and crews.

Copy Editing Applicants:

• Cover letter, including your reasons for entering the news profession 
• Resume 
• Official college transcript (Scanned, saved as JPG)
• List three references from professional journalists, professors, advisors who are familiar with your journalistic work.
• Links to five samples of your copy editing work.
• Applicants must have strong language skills and some editing experience.

Photojournalism Applicants: 

• Cover letter, including your reasons for entering the news profession 
• Resume 
• Official college transcript (Scanned, saved as JPG)
• List three references from professional journalists, professors, advisors who are familiar with your journalistic work.
• No fewer than 10 images, (maximum 20) and at least one photo story, essay or multimedia package (audio slide show, video or combo) with a link to your online portfolio (print) and/or links to five samples of your video work (broadcast).

Graphic/Design Applicants: 

• Cover letter, including your reasons for entering the news profession 
• Resume 
• Official college transcript (Scanned, saved as JPG)
• List three references from professional journalists, professors, advisors who are familiar with your journalistic work.
• 10 web links of infographics, page designs, illustrations or clips. 
•  Applicants must have strong computer and design skills. Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign skills strongly desired.

Multimedia Applicants: 

• Cover letter, including your reasons for entering the news profession 
• Resume 
• Official college transcript (Scanned, saved as JPG)
• List three refe rences from professional journalists, professors, advisors who are familiar with your journalistic work.
• Links to five samples of your audio, video and/or print work
•  Digital video editing skills required, i.e. Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere or equivalent. 
• Familiarity with web publishing, social media and other web technologies preferred.

Application Deadline: February 18, 2011
HOW TO APPLY:
https://nabj.site-ym.com/?page=SEEDstudentproject

AP NEWSWRITING INTERNSHIPS DEADLINE OCTOBER 26th

The Associated Press offers a highly selective, 12-week, individually tailored training program for students who are aspiring print, photo, broadcast, graphics and multimedia journalists.

We're seeking potential applicants for Summer 2011 internships right now!


AM I ELIGIBLE?

The internship is open to full-time juniors, seniors and graduate students at American colleges and universities.

HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE IN THE PROGRAM?

Up to 22 interns are selected.

WHAT ARE THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE PROGRAM?

You get to work in an AP bureau under the supervision of a designated trainer. You get paid. And you get to cover breaking news that may be featured in many media outlets.

WHEN DOES THE PROGRAM START?
Start dates may be anytime between mid-May and mid-June, depending on your schedule.

FOR MORE INFO CLICK HERE:   AP NEWSWRITING INTERNSHIPS - SUMMER 2011

NABJ/New York Times Leadership Academy To Be Held November 2010 – August 2011

Application Deadline: October 1, 2010



WHO IS THIS FOR? Beginning or mid-career managers.


WHAT IS IT?
The Leadership Academy is a unique training and development program for print and Web journalists who are, or aspire to become, newsroom managers. Beginning or mid-career managers will be guided through the issues and challenges of newsroom leadership, and will gain skills necessary to lead in a rapidly-changing media world.

Journalists selected to attend the Academy will receive all expense paid leadership training at The Times during the fall and at Harvard University through the Maynard Institute Media Academy in January and March (each session at Harvard is a week long). The group will come together one last time at the summer NABJ convention to share their experience with interested colleagues.

Applicants should have two to five years experience in one or more management positions. Deadline for applications is October 1, 2010.


HOW DO I APPLY?

The Leadership Academy is open to newspaper and Web journalists with strong leadership and managerial potential who want to further develop their skills. Applicants may come from a range of newsroom experience including--but not limited to—department or section heads, deputy or assistant editors, assignment editors, slots, photo editors, photographers, designers, graphics editors and Web editors.


An application must contain ALL of the following:

1. The application form, completed and signed
DOWNLOAD APPLICATION HERE:
http://www.nabj.org/resource/resmgr/docs/application-leadership_acade.pdf

2. Your resume
3. A letter of recommendation
4. Proof of membership in NABJ

Applications may be obtained and information provided by contacting the coordinator of the Leadership Academy Juanita Powell-Brunson, at 212 556-3599 or poweljf@nytimes.com.

Applicants must be able to meet the time requirements including two days in November or December in New York; one week at Harvard in January, another week at Harvard in March; and the NABJ convention in August.

Deadline:  Applications must be postmarked by October 1 and mailed to:



CONTACT
The NABJ/New York Times Leadership Academy
Attn: Dana Canedy
Senior Editor
PO Box 2690
Times Square Station
New York, NY 10108

For more info, visit: www.nabj.org

Bay Area Anchor Famous For Singletary Interview Gets The Boot

Maybe you've heard about the infamous live interview 49ers Head Coach Mike Singletary did recently with KPIX sports anchor Dennis O'Donnell. In case you haven't seen the video, you should watch it below.

Having just recently viewed the video myself, I felt the need to voice my opinions here.

I think what Singletary did to O'Donnell on the air was completely uncalled for and downright disrespectful. But beyond that, for O'Donnell to be removed from that special segment is even more ridiculous in my mind.

Not only were O'Donnell's questions timely and topical in wake of a recent Yahoo! Sports article, he was giving Singletary a chance to set the record straight in the team's special segment on KPIX's newscast, which I'm sure is where 49ers fans expect to get the most direct information regarding the team. Even if Singletary didn't know or respect that, he's certainly aware of the money the station pays for that access. And for that reason, he should have been more cooperative during O'Donnell's interview.

Being a sportscaster myself, I just hate the idea that the station and team executives didn't do what was right and have Singletary apologize to O'Donnell. Instead, as we often see in Corporate America, KPIX station execs seemed to bend over backwards to appease the 49ers. It seems as though being a slave to the almighty dollar supersedes doing the right thing.

Sports Journalism Institute: Application

The 2010 Sports Journalism Institute is a nine-week training and internship program for college students interested in sports journalism careers.

The Institute is designed to attract talented students to print journalism through opportunities in sports reporting and editing and enhance racial and gender diversity in sports departments of newspapers nationwide.

The program will run from June 4 through Aug. 6, 2010.


Sports Journalism Institute: Application