N.Y. Times Selects Students for Journalism Institute

30 From HBCUs Chosen for the First Class

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The New York Times has selected 30 students for the first class at a Student Journalism Institute it is establishing to provide intensive, hands-on training in reporting, editing and photography.

The institute will be held May 18-31 at Dillard University in New Orleans. The institute’s teaching staff will comprise journalists who have taken part in The Times news editing workshops, other Times reporters and editors with special areas of expertise and faculty from member schools of the Black College Communication Association.

BCCA, an organization representing journalism faculty members and media advisers at historically black colleges, is collaborating with The Times on the institute.

The institute director is Don R. Hecker, who developed the news editing workshops for The Times and has taken them to many college campuses.

The Times will provide each student with free room and board and a $200-a-week stipend. Only students from the 41 historically black colleges affiliated with BCCA were eligible for the institute. Applications came from students at 27 schools.

The institute is an extraordinary opportunity for motivated students to polish the skills they will need for successful careers in journalism by working with some of the nation’s best known and most accomplished reporters, editors and photographers. A newspaper displaying the best examples of the students’ work will be published at the end of the two weeks. Copies of the newspaper will be made available so that students will have clips showing their work.

Posted April 2, 2003