SPRING 2011
Adviser Update
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Patch.com: An avenue to pursue our passions
By STEVEN LAU
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at Philadelphia; Princeton University Summer Journalism Program; and ThreeSixty Journalism
Camp, University of St. Thomas,
St. Paul, Minn.
Up to eight students will be
awarded $1,000 college scholarships for the best writing, photography and multimedia package
in the 2011 summer high school
journalism workshops.
CAREER INFORMATION
The Fund will update and
reprint “The Journalist’s Road
to Success: A Career Guide,” its
sister publication in Spanish “La
ruta al éxito del periodista,” as
well as its booklets on running
summer journalism workshops,
“How to Run a High School Journalism Workshop,” and starting
high school newspapers, “In the
Beginning.”
DIVERSITY
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our attitude can determine how
we handle change. “Attitude is a
little thing that makes a big difference.” ~Winston Churchill
Hopefully, we will make good
choices in our lives. Unfortunately, all our intentions are
not always fulfilled due to other
people’s choices. Because of this,
as human beings, we need to rise
above the poor choices of others.
We cannot dwell on what is negative or on what we do not like.
Life is change and choices. We
can choose to accept change, alter
our attitude, and understand the
choices that are made around us.
Author Albert Camus wrote, “Life
is a sum of all your choices.”
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Indianapolis Association of Black
Journalists; Eastern Illinois
University/Illinois Press Foundation, Charleston; Florida A&M
University, Tallahassee; Marquette University, Milwaukee;
SUNY - Stony Brook, N.Y.; New
England Journalism Workshop,
Boston; San Antonio College;
Texas Christian University, Fort
Worth; Temple University, Philadelphia; University of Alabama,
Tuscaloosa; University of Arizona,
Tucson; University of Miami;
University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg; University of
Missouri, Columbia; University of
Oklahoma, Norman; University
of Texas at El Paso; Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond;
Western Kentucky University,
Bowling Green; Wayne State
University, Detroit; National
Association of Black Journalists
black
in 2011 to students of five high
school journalism teachers chosen
as best in 2010. An additional
$4,000 was granted to promote
the program through travel
and speaking engagements for
the Teacher of the Year at news
industry, scholastic and academic
conferences. The program will
receive in-kind support from the
Poynter Institute for Media Studies, Columbia Scholastic Press
Association and The Wall Street
Journal Classroom Edition.
HS STUDENT PROGRAMS
Workshop funding was
offered to the following organizations: California Chicano News
Media Association/San Diego;
California Chicano News Media
Association, Mosaic/San Jose,
Calif.; East Palo Alto Journalism Institute; Columbia College
of Chicago; University of Idaho;
“Now that we have so many
Patches, we have an opportunity
to reevaluate and reorganize the
role of high school journalists,”
she said. “We are on the cusp of
change.”
Hopefully, Patch will develop
a way for all of its sites to allow
aspiring teen journalists to earn
invaluable experience as I have
done. High school writers are a
resource ready to be tapped, and
Patch is the best opportunity
available for teens to gain practical knowledge in the growing field
of multimedia journalism.
cyan
Brian Brooks; and Pennsylvania
State University, directed by John
Dillon. Centers at the University
of Nebraska, Lincoln, directed by
Dr. Charlyne Berens, and Western Kentucky University, directed
by Dr. Johnson, will train sports
editing and multimedia interns,
respectively.
Michelle LaRoche, training
editor at Dow Jones Newswires,
will instruct more than 12 college
students in the Business Reporting Program to cover business at
daily newspapers, news services
and websites.
TEACHER PROGRAMS
The board allotted $3,000
for scholarships to be awarded
moved onto a weekly teen column
every Friday, and by the summer
began covering news, too. In the
beginning, I struggled with the differences between writing for Patch
and writing for my monthly high
school paper.
Instead of having almost two
weeks to write an article, I usually only had a few hours to churn
out a finished story, photos and
all. And the stories I was asked
to write required interviews with
various individuals, from city officials to coaches to police officers,
whom I did not know at all.
It was a crash course in realworld online journalism, outside
the confines of the high school
bubble. But with practice, I began
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opportunity for limitless content,
and, most importantly, its focus on
community.
When Patch was starting up,
local editors for each Patch site
were told to connect to the community in as many ways as possible,
said Marcia Parker, Patch’s West
Coast editorial director. In carrying this out, many editors spoke
with local high school journalism
classes, and it was in that way B