DENTON (UNT), Texas – Across the state of Texas, 16 high school students have completed the UNT Scripps Howard Fund Emerging Journalists Program Multimedia Workshop and most have landed internships at media outlets in Texas.
The students participated in the multimedia high school workshop June 8-12 on the UNT Denton campus. Students focused on fundamental newsgathering, ethical reporting, writing across platforms, journalism industry standards and style, and multimedia storytelling. Upon successful completion of the workshop, students were placed in a paid internship with a media partner in their local market.
Grace Hu, a student at William P. Clements High School in the Houston area, said the workshop “was very valuable in the sense that it gave me hands-on experience with creating a multimedia project, from pitching the stories to finding and interviewing sources to actually creating all of the different parts that would go together. I learned a lot about video editing, a medium I was previously unfamiliar with, and I was able to improve on my writing skills with lots of help and advice from experts. I was able to get a feel for the real newsroom experience, being able to bounce ideas off of my group mates and learn how to work collaboratively with other student journalists. I also found all of the guest speakers very insightful. I was able to directly interact with professionals in the field and get an insider’s look into my dream career.”…