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What applicants should submit
All materials should be attached to your online applications. The documents that the applicants do not have electronic copies of should be scanned and attached to the application. For more specific instructions on uploading some of the video, audio or photographic work samples, see below.
Resume:
One page resume listing your educational background, work history, awards, journalism-related internships, other scholarships, language proficiency and any work done for your school or community newspaper, radio and/or television.
Letter of Recommendation: A reference from someone who is familiar with your academic and/or journalism work. (Examples: professors, counselors, employers, faculty advisors, etc. Letters from relatives will not be accepted.)
Unofficial School Transcript: If you have attended more than one school, a transcript is required from each institution unless grades from the previous school (s) appear on the present transcript.
500 Word Essay: Your essay is to be written in the third person as a news story. The essay should be typed, double-spaced and not exceeding 500 words. Pick one of the two topics:
- Why should you be selected to take part in the 2008 UNITY Students Projects?
- What do you think the trend toward convergence means for the future of journalism?
Work Samples: Print, television, radio or photo work samples. Please limit to three. (Explanation of work samples.)
- Work samples may be in English or Spanish. Judges will be viewing all applications in a web browser, so make sure your work is formatted for the web.
- Print samples can be stories written by the applicant that have been published in a high school, college campus or community newspaper or magazine or online. Applicants should include no more than three clips of published work. If not already on your computer, scan your work samples so that you can upload them.
- Television samples should be no longer than 3 minutes. After you edit your work sample, export your clip to your computer using the web settings. Make sure you save your video as a Quicktime .MOV, or .MPG file. Once on your hard drive, upload like a regular file.
- Radio samples should be saved as a Quicktime MOV, or .MPG files. Again, the total time should not exceed 3 minutes.
- Photojournalism samples should be saved as JPEG, or GIFF files. Make sure the photo's resolution is at 72 dpi and no larger than 600K file size. If you need to resize your image, you can use a resizing tool at resize2mail.com.
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