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Student Journalism Institute

Thirty students were selected for the Student Journalism Institute, which the New York Times will set up at Dillard University in New Orleans, May 18-31, 2003.

Darby Baham, Howard University, has worked as a sports clerk at The Times Picayune. She has spent two years as a writer at the student newspaper The Hilltop.

Nikki G. Bannister, Southern University in Baton Rouge, has been the copy editor for The Digest, the student newspaper. Ms. Bannister has a slightly different background, having served six years in the U.S. Navy as a yeoman/gas turbine diesel technician. She has just been hired as a sportswriter for The Westside Journal, a weekly newspaper in Port Allen, LA.

Simone S. Bridges, Howard University, has also worked for The Hilltop and the independent The District Chronicles.

Elizabeth Broadway, Florida A&M University, is the managing editor of The Famuan student newspaper.

Talia N. Buford, Hampton University, has worked for The Flint Journal and had a copy-editing internship at The Commercial Appeal.

Daarel Burnette II, Hampton University, has worked as a paid newsroom assistant and reporter at The Dayton Daily News.

Collin C. Chappelle, Florida A&M University, is photo editor of The Famuan.

Cecil R. Cross II, Clark Atlanta University, has been an intern at The Seattle Times and is a stringer for the Atlanta Journal Constitution. For the last two and half years, he’s also been the sports editor of the Clark Atlanta student paper, The Panther.

Lester J. Davis, Norfolk State University, has been a writer for The Spartan Echo for two semesters.

Akeya Dickson, Howard University, has been a news aide at The Washington Post for three years.

Stanley M. Donaldson Jr., Norfolk State University, has worked at three daily newspapers, The Vindicator, in Youngstown, The Star-Gazette in Elmira, NY, and The Akron Beacon Journal, where he interned as a business reporter. He worked on The Spartan Echo.

Ryan Justin Fox, Howard University, has had internships at The Gazette/Star Newspapers in Landover, MD, and The Baltimore Sun. He has also served as neighborhood editor of The District Chronicles, the independent student paper circulated to students in and around Washington.

Brian Henderson is graduating from Grambling University in May and plans to spend the summer as an intern at Gannett News Service and USA TODAY before entering graduate school.

Alicia Johnson, Howard University, is a sportswriter for The District Chronicles.

Naeemah Khabir, Florida A&M University, has been a copy editor, assistant news editor and news editor for The Famuanan intern at Bloomberg News. She has an internship this summer at Black Enterprise magazine.

Paul Ryan Knight, Southern University, is the graphic designer and photo editor for the Southern Digest student paper.

Crystal Y. Lewis is a graduate student at Florida A&M University who received her bachelor’s degree from the University of South Alabama. She received a Knight Ridder scholarship when she graduated from high school, and has been an intern at The Mobile Register.

Carah Herring, Bennett College, has been on the staff of The Bennett Banner for three semesters.

Natalie Yvonne Jordan, Bennett College, has also been on The Bennett Banner staff for three semesters

Christina M. Johnson, Prairie View A&M University, was in her junior and senior years in high school, editor of her school paper, and she now serves as copy editor for The Panther, Prairie View’s student paper.

Gabrielle Maple, Southern University, is editor in chief of The Digest.

Tameeka Mitchem, Norfolk State University, has been associate news editor of The Spartan Echo and spent eight months as editor of HarlemLive.

Faith M. Karimi, who is graduating from Grambling in May, has been the editor in chief of her student paper and served copy editing internships at The Austin American-Statesman, The News-Star of Monroe, LA, The Shreveport Times, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Rashida R. Rawls, Spelman College had an internship on the copy desk of the Atlanta Journal Constitution that led to a part-time job at the paper on the desk.

Rashaun D. Rucker is graduating from North Carolina Central University in May and heading for a full-time job as a photographer at The Detroit Free Press. He is also photo editor of his student paper, The Campus Echo.

Kimberly M. Starks, a senior at Savannah State University, is the editor in chief of her school paper, The Tiger’s Roar, and a stringer for The Svannah Morning News.

Markuetric D. Stringfellow, Grambling State University, grew up in tiny, neighboring Ruston, LA. Even before he had graduated from high school, Stringfellow was writing for the Ruston Daily Leader and now also writes for The Gramblinite student newspaper.

Janene Tate, Southern University, is the managing editor of the student pape The Digest.

N’Gia Timmons is another graduate student from Florida A&M and a nontraditional student. Timmons’ first, brief, career was as a respiratory technician. He has had a newspaper internship at The Macon Telegraph.

Najah Aidah Ummah, Hampton University, has served two semesters on The Hampton Script student newspaper.

Applications were received from students at:

Alabama State University
Alcorn State University
Bennett College
Bethune-Cookman College
Central State University
Clark Atlanta University
Dillard University
Edward Waters College
Florida A&M University
Florida Memorial College
Grambling State University
Hampton University
Howard University
Jackson State University
Lane College
Lincoln University of Missouri
Morgan State University
Norfolk State University
North Carolina A&T University
North Carolina Central University
Philander Smith College
Prairie View A&M University
Southern University/Baton Rouge
Spelman College
Tennessee State University
Virginia State University
Xavier University