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he horrific explosion
in the Richmond Hill
neighborhood in the south
side of Indianapolis happened
in the heart of our school
district. It also happened three
days before our deadline.
I was out of town and didn’t
hear about the explosion
until the following morning,
which was a Sunday. I texted
my editor to see what she
was thinking. It turned out
that one of our staffers,
Kaitlin Fallowfield, had gone
to the evacuation site and
had already started on a
story. The editor, Jessica
De La Cruz, assembled the
entire staff before school
on Monday to brainstorm
other coverage ideas. I took
the managing editor, Andie
Reinhart, and the news editor,
Rachael Samm, into a faculty
meeting that morning so they
could take notes. After that
News Fund budgets
$492,000 for 2013
T
he Dow Jones News Fund will spend $492,000
on grants and general operations to support
its 2013 programs for paid summer internships
at professional news organizations for college
students, digital training for journalism professors
and workshops for high school students.
The News Fund promotes careers in journalism
for more than a half century by providing internships
for college juniors, seniors and graduate students
in business reporting, digital journalism, news
editing and sports editing. To prepare students,
it will operate eight residential training centers,
one more than last summer, on university
campuses across the country. The budget
also includes money for training programs
in digital journalism for faculty at historically
black colleges and universities and at
institutions with large Hispanic enrollments.
“We are delighted that with the support of
Dow Jones & Company and many other media
companies we are able to offer these programs
that are so critical to the future quality of American
newsrooms,” said Richard J. Levine, president of the
News Fund.
The 2013 budget approved by the Dow Jones
News Fund board of directors supports the following
programs and activities:
COLLEGE PROGRAMS will train students and
recent graduates to work as business reporters,
digital journalists and news and sports editors. The
meeting, Jessica, Andie, and
Rachael decided the paper
would devote two pages of
coverage. They had about 48
hours to put it together.
Ultimately, the kids did a
tremendous job of covering
an unexpected and tragic
situation while on a tight
deadline. When the paper
came out that Friday,
response from the school
was overwhelmingly positive.
Everyone, it seemed, had
a Journal in hand that day.
One of my students told me
someone in one of her classes
called the issue “the best
Journal ever.”
Mike Klopfenstein,
Adviser,
The Journal
Southport HS
mklopfenstein@
msdpt.k12.in.us
News Fund allocated money for intern travel and
operating costs as well as for $1,000 scholarships
for those interns returning to school.
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT PROGRAMS include
three newly funded workshops for a total of 28. Up
to eight students will be awarded $1,000 college
scholarships for the best writing, photography and
multimedia package produced in the 2013 summer
high school journalism workshops.
CAREER INFORMATION - More than 6,000 high
school journalism teachers, college professors and
media professionals receive Adviser Update, the
free quarterly newspaper on journalism education
and major media issues published by the News
Fund.
For more details about current News Fund
programs, visit https://www.newsfund.org/
uploads/2013DJNFBudget436.htm