Sept. 30 is the deadline for college students nationwide to apply for the next Campus Coverage Project. Mitch Smith, Kiah Haslett and Paige Cornwell attended last year’s 4-day workshop.
IRE, in partnership with Education Writers Association and the Student Press Law Center, is launching the third year of a program that shares investigative reporting skills with college and university students that they can apply to covering campus issues. Seventy-five students from around the country will be selected to participate.
In the program’s first two years students from more than 60 campuses nationwide won scholarships to attend.
The centerpiece of this program will be a national workshop from Jan. 5-8, at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University in Phoenix. Sessions at the workshop will focus on specific campus-coverage issues and overall reporting techniques and skills.
Travel and lodging expenses will be covered, thanks to a grant from the Lumina Foundation. Additional training opportunities will be provided throughout the year.
Selection criteria:
• experience reporting for campus-related news outlets
• at least one year of coursework remaining.
Students can apply online.
The deadline to apply is this Friday, Sept. 30.
For more information and an online application, go to http://www.ire.org/campuswww.ire.org/campus.
Contact:
Mark Horvit
Executive Director
Investigative Reporters and Editors
573-882-1984
Email:mhorvit@ire.orgmhorvit@ire.org