BE A REPORTER! TELL YOUR OWN STORIES! CONNECT WITH OTHER TEENS AND YOUR COMMUNITY!

REPORTING ACADEMY FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

WINTER 2013 APPLICATION NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Increase your writing portfolio with published work. Workshops once a week for 8 weeks. Classes on a real college campus with real reporters. One-on-one mentorship with Columbia College Chicago grad students and professional journalists. The pay rate for teens is $50/week.

Why wait? You can be a paid reporter this winter!

This academy is a great opportunity for high school students seeking experience in reporting. Students will participate in an intensive 8-week workshop writing articles and essays about issues impacting their lives and using multimedia tools to tell their stories. Work will be published online and in our student magazine, R_Wurd.

All students will have the opportunity to submit an application and be considered for an interview.
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The reporting academy begins with an orientation. To learn more, go to www.columbialinks.org Participants must attend workshops once a week and work with an assigned mentor once a week at 33 E. Congress Parkway on the corner of Wabash and Congress. For more information, please contact the Columbia LINKS office at (312) 369-8993 or columbialinks@colum.edu.
Columbia Links is a journalism skills-building and leadership development program for youth and teachers in the Chicago Public Schools, housed at Columbia College Chicago. Through workshops, mentoring and the creation of youth-produced publications, Links works to build expertise, relationships, skills and opportunities that connect students, teachers and volunteers through journalism while revitalizing youth media in Chicago. Columbia Links is funded by the McCormick Foundation and the Dow Jones News Fund and supported through the journalism program at Columbia College Chicago.