Applications are available to become part of the innovative Student Projects and Student Campus training programs at the 28th Annual NAHJ Multimedia Convention & Career Expo in Denver next June.
The 28th Annual NAHJ Multimedia Convention & Career Expo in Denver, Colorado will be the largest gathering of influential Latino journalists and media executives, a premiere networking conference where they assemble to discuss and debate the state of the news media and issues affecting the nation’s Latino community.
Under the theme “NAHJ en Denver: El Grito Across The Rockies”, the convention in majestic Denver June 23-26, 2010 will feature more than three dozen sessions – some lasting all day long – focused on multimedia skills training, online journalism, and technology that is transforming the gathering, production and the dissemination of news.
Student Projects
The emphasis on online journalism also holds true for the student projects at the convention. Dozens of aspiring journalists will work side by side with professionals and mentors to produce solid and innovative journalism primarily online, but across other media platforms as well as we “converge” them all to tell the stories of the convention, of our profession, and of our people in different ways and using different technological tools.
The Latino Reporter Digital website will be the main hub of content distribution for all the students’ work and a prime source of news and information about this gathering for convention participants and online users across the country and the world. Students, in their roles as reporters, photographers and/or producers for The Latino Reporter Digital, will simultaneously produce breaking news and longer form work for radio, a television news magazine, and a newspaper. The web publication and all other news produced in the various mediums will feature journalism in English and in Spanish. Students will be trained in video, audio, webcasting, podcasting and multimedia skills that are now key to building a solid resume.
Student Campus
The Student Campus is designed for college students interested in learning more about the changing world of journalism in the early stages of their career development. The students participate in intensive training, tours, mock press conferences and career-building exercises in classrooms, television studios, media outlets, the streets and neighborhoods of San Juan, and government or other types of institutions,. The program, also features workshops and seminars on journalism ethics, obtaining newsroom internships, how to make the most out of the networking experience at the NAHJ Convention, and on various ways to write a good story in this age of multimedia journalism.
The journalism educators and professionals leading the program offer the students a real perspective on the working world of journalism today and help them gain awareness of their respective communities. The 2½-3 day session takes place just before the convention and ends right when the convention starts so participants can fully avail themselves of the training and networking the conference has to offer. This program is geared to students who are early in their career development, mostly freshmen and sophomores, and those who have not had their first journalism internship.
