2009 Annual Report On the Cover:

Paul Kandell, 2009 National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year

RaShawn Mitchner, multimedia intern at Western Kentucky University

Left to right, Marcia Parker of Patch.com, John Dillon and Dr. Marie Hardin of Pennsylvania State University and Associate Dean Brian Brooks of the University of Missouri, Columbia 2009 Annual Report

Table of Contents From the President 2 From the Executive Director 3 Programs At-A-Glance 4 2009 Financial Report 5

Programs College Programs Multimedia Internships 6 News Editing Internships 7 Sports Editing Internships 8 Business Reporting Internships 8 College Educators 9

High School Programs Summer High School Journalism Workshops 10

Teacher Programs National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year 13

Publications 16

Board of Directors 17

Guidelines 18

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© 2010 Copyright Dow Jones News Fund, Inc. From the President/Richard J. Levine Embracing Change

As expected, 2009 was an extremely challenging year for the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, renamed the Dow Jones News Fund in February 2010 to reflect our growing work with the multimedia newsrooms of the digital age.

The Great Recession, triggered by the collapse of the financial markets in 2008, and the increasing popularity of the Internet as a news distributor combined to take a fearsome toll on the nation’s newsrooms. With advertising and circulation revenue plummeting, executives at newspapers, which still provide most of the Fund’s prestigious reporting and editing internships for college students, ordered sharp and painful cuts in news budgets. Not surprisingly, many editors were forced to reduce the number of interns they hired, and for the first time in many years the number of the Fund’s summer internships slipped below 100, to 78.

Yet against this grim backdrop, we remain optimistic about the future of the Fund, which is strong, focused and well positioned to recruit and train the young journalists needed to staff today’s rapidly changing news organizations. One reason for our optimism is the belief that most newspapers will be transformed but not destroyed by the Internet. It is heartening that, at long last, more and more papers are moving aggressively to embrace the new digital distribution technologies and overhaul their print and online publications.

The Fund certainly embraced change in a year in which we published COPY!, a book about our first half century. The programs we offered high school newspaper advisers, journalism professors and high school and college students put increasing emphasis on multimedia skills without neglecting the fundamentals of quality journalism – objective, fact-based reporting; clear, engaging writing, and careful editing. One example: a training program in multimedia journalism aimed at faculty at Historically Black College and Universities. We also reached out to an ever-broader array of newsrooms, including those at business-to-business magazines and online-only publications.

And the pace of change is accelerating. In the summer of 2010, we will offer two multimedia training programs for college teachers, adding a workshop for professors at institutions with large numbers of Hispanic students. In addition, web news providers, including ESPN, the Center for Investigative Reporting and Accuweather.com will hire Fund interns for the first time, joining the ranks of such long-time employers as The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Denver Post. As a result, we remain hopeful that we will be able to provide more internships this year than last – a very positive development in a still-difficult environment.

In our second-half century, the vital work of the Dow Jones News Fund continues apace, aided by the generous support of Dow Jones & Company and its new parent, News Corporation, as well as by scores of traditional and emerging news organizations.

2 Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Executive Director’s Report/Richard S. Holden Into the Future

This is the last annual report from the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund.

No, we certainly aren’t going out of business. But we are now operating under a new name— the Dow Jones News Fund. Discussions among our board of directors were ongoing for several months, and the official change took effect on Feb. 2, 2010.

First, a bit of history. Bernard Kilgore, then chairman and chief executive of Dow Jones, and four other executives created the Newspaper Fund Inc. in December 1958. Kilgore wanted the Fund to encompass and serve the entire newspaper industry, not a single entity, and feared that adding “Dow Jones” to the name would work against that goal.

The original name stayed with us until 1982, when “Dow Jones” was added. By that time, Dow Jones had contributed $5 million to the Fund and also was paying all of the Fund’s administrative costs, including salaries, travel and related expenses and providing office space. It continues to do so today.

Ours is not the first organization to make the change from “newspaper” to “news.” Others that have switched include the American Society of News Editors, the Online News Association and the Society for News Design.

Several factors went into the name change. First, it allows us to brand more closely with our parent company, News Corporation. Second, we still retain our well known “DJNF” logo. And, third, it reflects the growing number of non- newspaper participants in our programs.

While our work with college students, college professors and the professional media remains the largest target of our funding, we continue to provide much-needed support to high school journalism and to the great teachers who advise scholastic publications—many of which are devoting more and more energy to web-based publications.

In 2009, we provided more than $125,000 in support to 26 workshops for high school students at colleges around the country. Students are trained for up to two weeks in the latest technologies and taught the value in using—correctly and professionally—the social networks that have emerged over the past few years.

This funding is even more important today because many news organizations, faced with ongoing economic difficulties, have reduced their support. Fortunately, news organizations have continued to provide professional journalists to work with the students.

One of the strongest proponents of journalism in the digital age is our 2009 High School Journalism Teacher of the Year, Paul Kandell of Palo Alto High School. Paul’s students have won many awards for their online work. But as he has said, technology isn’t at the core of good journalism. “That is just the latest vehicle. It’s about values.”

That’s a sentiment we shared as the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund and will continue to share as the Dow Jones News Fund.

2009 Annual Report 3 Programs At-A-Glance

College Internships • Business Reporting - One training site: 15 interns from 9 universities, 9 news organizations • Sports Copy Editing - One training site: 7 interns from 7 universities, 7 news organizations • Multimedia Editing - One training site: 8 interns from 6 universities, 7 news outlets • News Copy Editing - Four training sites: 48 interns from 29 colleges, 39 news organizations

High School Journalism Workshops • 25 workshops, 17 states, 425 students • 7 Workshops Competition Scholarship Winners

2009 Teacher Awards Program • Paul Kandell, Teacher of the Year • Christina Geabhart, Distinguished Adviser • Aaron Manfull, Distinguished Adviser • Ray Westbrook, Distinguished Adviser • Carol Richtsmeier, Distinguished Adviser • Susan Colyer, Special Recognition Adviser • Denise Croker, Special Recognition Adviser • Coni Grebel, Special Recognition Adviser • Susan Houseman, Special Recognition Adviser

Publications • COPY! The first 50 years of the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund • Adviser Update – 5,600 copies distributed quarterly, 13 sponsors • The Journalist’s Road to Success – Online • La Ruta Al Exito del Periodista – Online and print • In the Beginning; Reviving Scholastic Journalism School by School – Online

4 Dow Jones Newspaper Fund 2009 Financial Report

DOW JONES NEWSPAPER FUND, INC. STATEMENTS OF CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS AND CHANGE IN FUND BALANCE FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2009* (Unaudited Financial Statement)*

CASH RECEIPTS CONTRIBUTIONS Dow Jones Foundation, Inc. $ 350,000 Scholarship Fund/Donations $ 4,488 Intern Training Grants from Newspapers $ 96,050 Total Contributions $ 450,538

OTHER RECEIPTS High School Workshops $ 5,000 Career Literature 20 Publication Sponsors 5,330 Interest Income 55 Total Other Receipts $ 10,406

TOTAL CASH RECEIPTS $ 460,944

CASH DISBURSEMENTS HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER PROGRAMS Teacher Awards Program Student Scholarships $ 2,000 Teacher Awards Program Operating Costs 11,386 Total High School Teacher Programs $ 13,386

HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT PROGRAMS High School Journalism Workshops $ 157,225 Workshops Writing Competition Scholarships 8,000 High School Newspaper Project 335 Total High School Student Programs $ 165,560

COLLEGE STUDENT PROGRAMS Editing Intern Training Centers $ 136,375 Business Reporting Training Center 11,359 Intern Travel Fund 9,625 Intern Scholarships 32,000 College Program Operating Costs 60,864 Historically Black Colleges and Universities Training Program 250 Total College Student Programs $ 250,473

CAREER INFORMATION PROGRAM AND GENERAL OPERATING EXPENSES Newsletters for High School Teachers $ 16,877 General Career Information 0 Production/Printing 395 Distribution 960 Postage 5,623 Postage (Dow Jones) 0 Telecommunications 0 Stationery and Envelopes 0 Miscellaneous Expenses & Insurance $ 25,141 Total Career Information and General Operating Expenses $ 48,997

TOTAL CASH DISBURSEMENTS $ 478,418

Change in Fund Balance FUND BALANCE (January 1) $ 154,670 FUND BALANCE (December 31) $ 137,196

2009 Annual Report 5 College Programs Internship Programs Continue to Explore New Ground

College internships have been the backbone of the Fund’s programming over five decades. Though the program offerings have changed with time, the core values of accuracy and excellence remain at the heart of all pre-internship training. Three residency centers -- Western Kentucky University, the University of Texas and the Business Reporting program at New York University -- had interns apply what they learned before leaving campus by creating publications and websites.

The 2009 Multimedia Center for Editing Excellence at Western Kentucky University published special projects in teams on female tattoo artists and help for refugees. Students used flip cameras, digital photography, computer assisted reporting, journalistic Bethany Mollenkof, Thomas reporting, writing and mashups to explore Wright-Piersanti and Ben their themes. Business reporters published Severance Economic Stimuli, a collection of reports on the business climate in New York City. Editing interns at the University of Texas, Austin, planned and designed three issues of Southwest Journalist, a six-page color broadsheet with stories and art from the wires. All are accessible through the Fund’s College Internships page.

Multimedia Editing Sports Copy Editing Western Kentucky University University of Nebraska, Lincoln Dr. Dr. Pamela Johnson, director Charlyne Berens, director

Renee Deemer Brian Atlas Western Kentucky University University of Illinois The St. Paul Pioneer Press Julia Haslinger University of Missouri Arthur Hur McClatchy News Service, Washington University of Kansas The Hartford Courant RaShawn Mitchner Interns with Dr. Berens and Richard Holden Howard University Allison Hong Indianapolis Star University of Southern California Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Bethany Mollenkof Intern Update Western Kentucky University Sara Martinez Palm Beach Post Matthew Day Marquette University Macalester College Daniel Petty The Journal News, White Plains, N.Y. Philadelphia Daily News University of Richmond The Denver Post William Powell “Life since the DJNF copy University of Missouri editing internship featured Ben Severance The New York Times a return to Minnesota for Western Kentucky University my final year of college The Valley News, New Hampshire Amanda Walck and a winter spent more University of Colorado on job hunting and media Albert Sun The Denver Post digesting than homework. University of Pennsylvania The search ended when I WSJ.com Will Woodbery accepted an offer from Dow University of Tennessee Jones Newswires to work for Thomas Wright-Piersanti Palm Beach Post 10 weeks this summer as a Rutgers University reporting intern in New York Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Mass. City.” 6 Dow Jones Newspaper Fund News Copy Editing Emily Ristow Temple University Edward Trayes University of Missouri Scholar Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Mass. Dr. Edward Trayes, director Robin Kawakami David Reinbold Tyler Armao Robin Kawakami pursued Penn State University University of Missouri financial journalism after Charleston (W. Va.) Gazette Dow Jones Newswires a career in advertising. Julie Stewart With a degree from City Hailey Branson Lehigh University University of Oklahoma University in London and The Eagle Tribune, Lawrence, Mass. The New York Times experience in Europe, she was placed at The Wall Street Scott Toland Marissa Carl Journal in 2009. University of Kansas Penn State Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, S.D. The Wall Street Journal Dr. Ed Trayes chose her as the sixth intern to receive Matthew Day News Copy Editing Macalester College the scholarship that bears his University of Texas at Austin Philadelphia Daily News name because of her excellent Griff Singer, director performance during the pre- Kelly Dawson internship residency and the Sean Beherec Columbia University quality of her work on-the-job. The New York Times University of Texas at Austin The Amarillo Globe News The scholarship is endowed Ellen Gilmer Ball State University by Terrence O’Toole, a 1979 Stephanie Call The Oregonian graduate of the Temple program University of Missouri though the O’Toole Family Arizona Daily Star Adam Gonzales Foundation of Short Hills, N.J. Marshall University Arianna Davis The Hartford Courant Penn State University New York Daily News News Copy Editing Robin Kawakami City University, London Penn State University Brady Jones The Wall Street Journal Dr. Marie Hardin, director University of Nebraska The Dallas Morning News Doris Nhan Emily Anderson Aja Junior University of Maryland University of Nebraska University of Missouri The Journal News, White Plains, N.Y. Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Mass. The Detroit News. Matthew Negrin Kathryn Dvorak Alexandra McGuffie Boston University Penn State University University of Missouri The New York Times Naples (Fla.) Daily News Beaumont Enterprise Emily S. Sher Shannon Epps Hedy Phillips Penn State University Hampton University University of Central Florida The New York Times News Service St. Petersburg Times Contra Costa Times Brandon Springer Elizabeth Herrara Hilary Stohs-Krause University of Colorado University of Central Florida University of Nebraska Philadelphia Daily News South Florida Sun Sentinel The Amarillo Globe News Fort Lauderdale Zachary Tomanelli Vikram Swaruup Ithaca College Johnna Hjersman University of Texas at Austin The Roanoke Times University of Nebraska The Austin American-Statesman Palm Beach Post Jacquelyn Valley Cody Winchester Kent State Adam Kommel Baylor University The Virginian Pilot, Norfolk Bowdoin University The Waco Tribune-Herald Standard Times, New Bedford, Mass. Jennifer Wright Phenola Lawrence Ball State University Penn State University The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

2009 Annual Report 7 News Copy Editing Business Reporting University of Missouri, Columbia New York University Brian Brooks, director Michelle LaRoche, director Anna Codutti Training editor, University of Missouri Dow Jones Newswires The Detroit News

Abby Farson Deborah Acosta University of North Carolina University of Miami The Denver Post South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Aaron James Erica Alini University of Nebraska Georgetown University Grand Forks (N.D.) Herald The Wall Street Journal John Hornberg Haley Jones San Jose State University Christina Burton University of Kansas Los Angeles Times Howard University MarketWatch, Washington, D.C. ASI, Trevose, Pa. Amanda Kushner University of Missouri Sara Castellanos Sarah Kyo The St. Paul Pioneer Press University of Denver San Jose State University The Denver Post ASI, Trevose, Pa. Adam Martin Eastern Michigan University Charles Cutter Jennifer Larino The Detroit Free Press Indiana University University of Central Florida The Associated Press Naples (Fla.) Daily News Colleen Loggins University of Illinois Bradley Davis Brittany Levine Kankakee (Ill.) Daily Journal Columbia University George Washington University Graduate School of Journalism MarketWatch, San Francisco Kendra Lueckert Dow Jones Newswires University of Missouri Shan Li The Kansas City Star Ansley Haman New York University Catholic University Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Mass. Benjamin Phelps The Wall Street Journal Indiana University Stephanie Raposo The Indianapolis Star Penn State University The Wall Street Journal Andy Reuter Intern Update University of Washington-Platteville Jodie Xu Jodi Xu The Minneapolis Star-Tribune New York University New York University The Wall Street Journal Asiliyah Salaam The Wall Street Journal Wayne State University Kate Zhao The Detroit Free Press “After the summer CUNY-Graduate School of Journalism [business reporting] Elizabeth Schubauer Dow Jones Newswires University of Kansas internship at The Wall The Kansas City Star Street Journal, I was extended to intern on the same team until December until I graduated from New York University’s Business and Economics reporting master’s program. This spring, I will continue to intern at Dow Jones Newswires in New York.”

8 Dow Jones Newspaper Fund For College Educators

Fund Sponsors Multimedia Seminar Fourteen professors from the nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities attended a multimedia seminar funded by DJNF in summer 2009.

The five-day session was held at Western Kentucky University, the site of the Fund’s summer training program for college students working at multimedia internships. Photo by Clinton Lewis: Western Kentucky University Dr. Pam Johnson of Western Kentucky University, left, with Richard Holden, Dr. Pam Johnson, director of the School of Journalism center, poses with multimedia fellows. and Broadcasting at Western Kentucky, said, “All Sherlynn Howard-Byrd Sandra Lee journalism programs are struggling with how to move Alcorn State University Grambling State University their programs forward in terms of multimedia skills for themselves and their students. The workshop was Paula Briggs Debayo Moyo, Rust College Norfolk State University designed to have the faculty work in teams to ‘feel’ the Wanda Peters assignment of producing a multimedia web story.” Li-Jing Chang Grambling State University Jackson State University Gina Kinchlow, a professor at Florida A & M University, Yanick Rice, Howard University summed up the group’s sentiment saying, “I am so Lona Cobb Winston-Salem State University Sunny Smith energized and motivated with all that I have learned Jackson State University in the workshop, coupled with the great guidance and Coke Ellington suggestions I received. It is obvious you (Dr. Johnson) Alabama State University Ingrid Sturgis, Howard University and your great staff have put a lot of work into this event Ayana Haaruun Valerie White and will impact many HBCUs as a result.” Jackson State University Florida A & M University

Rich Holden said that 30 professors applied for the Gina Kinchlow program and that the Fund plans to hold another at WKU Florida A & M University in 2010.

Professors Champion Editing at Annual AEJMC Breakfast The Fund sponsored the Breakfast of Editing Champions at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference in Boston for the first time on Aug. 6.

The breakfast, coordinated for the past eight years by Deborah Gump of Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, had been underwritten by the Knight Foundation and the Hearst Journalism Fellowships.

The free program provided assorted goodies for professors to take

David Beard of Boston.com away like DVDs loaded with editing exercises, references, texts, and Joshua Benton of the articles and web links. Nieman Journalism Lab at Jan Freeman, The Word Harvard during the breakfast. Presenters David Beard of Boston.com and Joshua Benton of the columnist, with Deb Gump. Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard gave the audience an earful and lots to tweet about while discussing the future of copy editing.

Andy Bechtel from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill moderated the Teaching Idea Exchange, a segment where professors share techniques and resources that work.

For a complete account go to http://www.editteach.org/specialprojects?id=67. 2009 Annual Report 9 High School Programs Summer Workshops Reach Milestones and Students

San Antonio College celebrated 25 years as the host of an urban journalism workshop that blends cooperation of Texas professional journalists, second generation participants and faculty who have kept coming back for a quarter century – no matter where in the country they happen to be.

Programs advanced to electronic publishing from blogging to broadcasting and posting PDFs of printed newspapers on the web. Stories ran the gamut from international relations to immigration, civil rights, sports, fashion, historical journalism, style, trends, health and the economy.

ALABAMA Mr. Joe Rodriguez, director ILLINOIS Meredith Cummings, director Mosaic Dr. Sally Turner, director Multicultural Journalism Workshop CCNMA/San Jose Chapter IPF/Eastern Illinois High School Site: University of Alabama Site: San Jose State University Journalism Workshop Tuscaloosa Journalism Site: Eastern Illinois University Co-Sponsors: Co-Sponsors: Charleston Alabama Press Association Journalism Castellano Family Foundation Co-Sponsors: Foundation San Jose Mercury News Illinois Press Foundation Mobile Press Register/Newhouse Bob Kieve/Empire Broadcasting EIU Student Publications Foundation Rigo Chacon/Abrazos and Books Delta Kappa Gamma Department/College Funds Monterey County Herald Wal-Mart Endowment Income San Jose State University Journalism McCormick Foundation UA Office of Community Affairs Arby’s Other donations Mr. Leonel Sanchez, director Sweet Tooth Bakery CCNMA Multicultural Journalism County Market ARIZONA Workshop News-Gazette Ms. Lisa Button, director San Diego Chapter Journal-Gazette Diversity in Journalism Workshop Site: Point Loma Nazarene University Pepsi for Arizona High School Students San Diego Site: University of Arizona Co-Sponsors: Ms. Dawn Callahan and Tucson Riverside Press Enterprise Ms. Brenda Butler, directors Co-Sponsors: San Diego Union Tribune Green in the City Workshop Tucson Citizen, Gannett Site: Columbia College of Chicago FLORIDA Co-Sponsors: CALIFORNIA Mr. Yves Colon, director McCormick Foundation Dr. Cristina Azocar, director Peace Sullivan/James Ansin High Columbia College Ronnie Loveler School Journalism Workshop Bay Area Multicultural Media Site: University of Miami KENTUCKY Academy Coral Gables Dr. Beth Barnes, director Site: Center for Integration and Co-Sponsors: Dow Jones Summer High School Improvement of Journalism Peace Sullivan Journalism Workshop San Francisco State University James Ansin Lexington Co-Sponsors: The Miami herald Site: University of Kentucky GAP Foundation South Florida Sun-Sentinel Co-Sponsors: CIIJ General Fund WSVN Channel 7 Scripps Howard Foundation The New York Times UM School of Communication Winchester Sun Louisville Courier Journal

10 Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Mr. Robert Adams, director MISSISSIPPI Xposure Elizabeth Ann Fitts, director Site: Western Kentucky University Dr. Samir Husni, chair Bowling Green Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Co-Sponsors: Summer Workshop WKU School of Journalism and Site: University of Mississippi Broadcasting Oxford The Courier-Journal Co-Sponsors: Landmark Community Newspapers Mississippi Press Association Bowling Green Daily News St. Louis Post-Dispatch NEW MEXICO Scripps Howard Mr. Jeffrey Harjo, director University of Missouri UJW Daily News, Murfreesboro Native American Journalists (Shalonda Farrow) showed incredible Canon USA Association/Project Phoenix persistence during the workshop. After other ideas fell through, she came up with the idea Paxton Media Group Site: University of New Mexico, for this photo for her theft story. She worked WKU Student Publications Albuquerque hard, is a pleasure to deal with and will be an Co-Sponsors: excellent journalist. MASSACHUSETTS Cherokee Phoenix Ms. Donna DeSimone, director John S. and James L. Knight New England High School Foundation PENNSYLVANIA Collaborative Ms. Deborah Licklider, director Site: Regis College, Weston NEW YORK Philadelphia Association Co-Sponsors: Professor Yvonne Latty, director of Black Journalists Private Donations Urban Journalism Workshop Philadelphia Allison Cattan Site: New York University Site: Philadelphia Daily News ANSI Co-Sponsors: Co-Sponsors: Village Voice and Michael Lacey Philadelphia Daily News MISSOURI The Wall Street Journal Temple University Ms. Anna Romero, director National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Missouri Journalism Workshop Association Dr. Joseph Selden, director Site: University of Missouri Jason Samuels Multicultural High School Columbia Bloomberg LLC Journalism Workshop Co-Sponsors: Site: Pennsylvania State University Missouri School of Journalism Mr. Zachary Dowdy, director University Park St. Louis Post-Dispatch Robert W. Greene High School Co-Sponsors: Missouri Press Association Journalism Workshop Centre Daily Times Kansas City Star Site: SUNY- Brockport B. Denise Hawkins University of Missouri Provost Baldwin Gannett Foundation Co-Sponsors: Wendell F. Holland Newsday Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Cablevision News 12 Donne Renella Friends of Bob Greene Jacqueline Robinson-Melchor J.P. Morgan Chase Bank Joseph Selden Roslyn Savings Bank Touro Law Center TEXAS Ms. Irene Abrego, director OKLAHOMA Urban Journalism Workshop Mr. Ramòn Chàvez, director Site: San Antonio College Oklahoma Institute Co-Sponsors: for Journalism Diversity San Antonio Express-News Site: University of Oklahoma Robert W. Adams, Xposure director Texas State University Norman Mattie (Russell) won the Gary Hairlson San Antonio Press, Inc. Photojournalism Scholarship and the most Co-Sponsors: difficult choice was which of her two pictures Ethics & Excellence in Journalism taken at a high school all-star football game Foundation should be nominated. In addition to the The Oklahoman dominant picture on page 1 and the sports The Tulsa World page, she had four other pictures published.

2009 Annual Report 11 Dr. Zita Arocha, director Journalism in July WASHINGTON Site: University of Texas at El Paso Mr. Tomas Guillen, director Co-Sponsors: Urban Newspaper Workshop University of Texas at El Paso Site: Seattle University El Paso Community Foundation Co-Sponsors: El Paso Electric Company Seattle Times Hervey Foundation Seattle University Tacoma News Tribune VIRGINIA Yakima Herald-Republic Ms. Carol Mawyer, director Seattle Post-Intelligencer Urban Journalism Workshop Site: Virginia Commonwealth WISCONSIN University Ms. Rose Richard Professor Daxton Stewart, director Richmond Urban Newspaper Workshop Texas Christian University Co-Sponsors: Site: Marquette University Site: Texas Christian University Richmond Times-Dispatch Diederich College of Communication Fort Worth Virginia Press Association Milwaukee Co-Sponsors: Virginia Press Women Co-Sponsors: Fort Worth Star-Telegram Department of Public Instruction SPJ-Fort Worth Pro Chapter Milwaukee Journal Sentinel TCU Office of Inclusiveness Foundation TCU Conference Services Texas Christian University 2009 Workshop Competition Provides Scholarships Each summer photographers and writers for Fund-sponsored summer high school journalism workshops compete for $1,000 college scholarships. In 2009 DJNF introduced a multimedia competition as more programs began to offer blogs and websites in addition to or instead of printed newspapers. ���������������������� �������������������������������������������������������������� Page 7 Writing competition winners Iraqis transition to life in Tucson Lutheran Social Services to pay her back to Iraq, Farooqi said. Sargunjot Kaur, Mosaic, Mission San Jose (Calif.) High School rent for the first five months after “They thought that America she arrived. would take care of everything. Because she has been unsuc- Financial security, social security. cessful at finding a job, Malillis has Once they are brought here, they are Leigh Jensen, Arizona, Canyon del Oro High School, Oro Valley been receiving support from the left unsupervised, unattended, and government. neglected totally, in different ways.” Malillis and her daughter, Tanya But for Malillis, the same close- Jordan Hendricks, OIJD, Edmond (Okla.) North High School Ali, 8, plan to move to Section 8 knit Iraqi tradition has been recre- low-income housing. ated in Tucson. Ali has been in school for a year “When I came here, there was Janah Campbell, NYU, Bayside High School, Queens, N.Y. and speaks perfect English with no the same strong sense of communi- Imam Farid Farooqi accent. She sometimes interprets ty,” she explained. for her mother. “In Tucson, there is the same cul- band was kidnapped during a busi- Islamic Tradition ture, same tradition, same connec- ness trip in Baghdad. Farooqi emerges from leading tions.” Malillis said. “We all help Photo competition winners “I don’t know who took him, if his congregation in prayer and each other and share news about new he’s still alive or not,” Malillis said smiles warmly as he walks into his programs (like governmental aid).” through a translator. “I don’t know office. Imam at the only mosque in Malillis describes her typical Shalonda Farrow, Missouri, Roosevelt High School, St. Louis anything about him.” Tucson, Farooqi has a deep con- social activities as spending time Malillis went through a seven- nection to the families at his with fellow Iraqis, cooking tradi- month process to apply for refugee mosque, wishing “Salaam tional food, and discussing news Mattie Russell, Xposure, Hopkinsville High School, Madisonville, status, living in Syria and Turkey ’Alaykum,” or “peace be upon from home. before finally arriving in America. you” to everyone who passes by. “The relationships in the commu- Perched on a chair in the living Aside from the obvious mone- nity are so closely tied that, socially, Ky. room of her cramped midtown tary obstacles, Imam Farid Farooqui moving to America has been no apartment, it’s clear that she has sees challenges among the youth in huge change,” al-Husseini agreed. made the best of her circumstances. the Iraqi refugee community. Sadeq, al-Husseini, and Malillis The room is filled with family pho- “They are in cultural shock. And all agree that Tucson and Baghdad PHOTO BY LEIGH JENSEN tos, vases of artificial flowers and if we (the Islamic community) don’t have many similarities. Multimedia winner Nadya Malillis and daughter Tanya Ali, 8, moved to Tucson from mismatched furniture. It may not be take care of them properly, there “The warm climate, small Iraq a year and a half ago. beautiful, but it feels like home. will be a disaster,” Farooqi said. buildings, and relatively slow style applying for refugee status because “When I first saw Tucson, I start- Farooqi has known refugee youth of living are all like Baghdad,” al- Leigh Jensen “there is no safety in Iraq, at all,” ed crying,” Malillis said. “‘This is to join gangs if left unsupervised. Husseini said. Tiffany Ng, BAMMA, George Washington High School, San THE CHRONICLE said Nadya Malillis, another not America!’ I thought to myself.” He believes in the importance of Despite the challenge of Wound tightly around Mudhafar refugee who moved to America a Malillis was expecting a big a strong support system for Iraqi revamping his entire life, Sadeq is Francisco al-Husseini’s right hand is a string of year and a half ago. glamorous city, like New York or refugees. very optimistic about America. He thick, yellow beads—he has a piece Many Iraqi refugees have Las Vegas. “How to get a driving license, he said that Americans are easy to of home with him wherever he goes. found an extensive support sys- Al-Husseini had an easier transi- what to do if you cannot find a job. deal with; they are friendly, help- “They’re my prayer beads. I tem among fellow Iraqis and the tion because he had been a translator What is Social Security, ful, and he never feels like a carry them with me to remind me Islamic Center of Tucson, 901 E. in Baghdad for both the New York Department of Economic Security, stranger or a refugee. They will receive their scholarships in 2010. The students’ stories of Iraq,” he explained. “You can’t First St. Times and the U.S. Army. Working what is 911, how to handle emer- Sadeq said he has not experienced find these in America.” “Financially, morally, socially, with Americans gave him an advan- gencies. These things are not avail- disrespect because of his ethnicity, Al-Husseini, 23, moved to we are supporting them. If there is tage in the relocation process. able in all countries,” Farooqi said, nor does he feel stupid when he strug- Tucson from Baghdad two any conflict or any dispute among Malillis and Mustafa Sadeq, 18, describing the types of advice he gles with English. He does not get and photos were republished in Adviser Update. months ago, and he discovered he them, I will be talking to them, giv- agree that the biggest challenge for gives refugees on basic services questioned as he’s walking down the is not alone. ing them direction,” said Imam refugees is finding a job. Sadeq is offered in the U.S. street, like he used to in Iraq. According to the Arizona Farid Farooqi, describing the serv- still supported by his family. His Farooqi estimated that any- “I could sense the freedom Refugee Resettlement Program, 36 ices offered at the mosque. limited English skills make finding where from 300-500 Iraqi refugee from the very first day,” Sadeq percent of all refugees who entered Many of the refugees have employment hard. families have moved to Tucson, said, smiling. 2008 Scholarship Recipients Arizona from October 2008 to endured intense hardships in Iraq, “I have applied for four restau- mostly within the last two years. Malillis has hope that things March 2009 were Iraqi, and they all but that is not to say that their prob- rant jobs. But I still depend on my However, some refugees are will improve in Iraq. have one thing in common: they lems disappeared the moment they parents for cooking, laundry, having such a hard time making “Iraq is my country. If Iraq will be These 2008 winners received scholarships in 2009: left Iraq to lead safer lives. set foot in America. money, advice,” he explained. money in America that they are stable and safe, I intend to return.” Jamari Caldwell, BAMMA Increasing numbers of Iraqis are Malillis left Iraq after her hus- Malillis received support from willing to risk their safety by going Melissa Chan, NYU More UA students checking out PCC courses LisaVictoria Button, Harper TheArizona university will lose evenworkshop“Pima is definitely cheaper,” director THE CHRONICLE more money next year and fur- said Britney Prince, a creative Rashmi Guttal, Mosaic ther tuition increases are expect- writing senior at the UA. “I took LeighThe economic Jensen crisis and the ed incame July, Thompson said.to ustwo with classes there journalism just because it experience and recent decline in funding for Karen Weaver, the academic was more convenient.” Melissa Martin, San Antonio College schools may be leading more advisor at the UA School of The downtown Pima campus goodUniversity of writingArizona students Journalism,and seesleadership several students is a few minutesskills. away from In the her story about Iraqi to take classes at Pima a day who come to ask about tak- UA. Miki Onwudinjo, Penn State University Community College. ing classes at Pima. The UA continues to have a refugees“It’s less expensive to goin to aTucson,Weaver explained she that wentsteady enrollment outside each new aca- her comfort zone community college for the first because of the budget cuts, there demic year, Thompson said. two years, then transfer to a uni- are fewer teachers, and that Robert Riza, the assistant Chinh Doan, OIJD awakingversity,” said Erin Vanbebber, to adifferentmeans bigger class sizesstories at the vice chancellor in her of students own at backyard and her sophomore majoring in kinesi- UA. Pima, said there was an increase ology at Pima. “You save When courses fill, students in the number of students attend- Josie A. Green, Mosaic desiremoney.” to coverhave to them. wait another semester, ing Pima during the 2008-2009 Students who attended commu- Weaver said, and added that at school year. nity college in Tucson paid Pima a seat is usually available. According to Riza, there was a approximately one-sixth as much Students do not want to wait 12 percent enrollment increase as those at the UA for the 2008- to take a course at the UA if it is this summer compared to the pre- 2009 academic school year, offered at Pima, especially if it is vious year. according to tuition rates posted cheaper there, according to Pima has an average class size on the UA and Pima Community Weaver. of 20 students. College Web sites. Tuition for resident undergrad- Forty-seven percent of the Although the UA and Pima are the future, according to research Because of the state budget uates at the UA has increased by classes at the UAhave fewer than two different kinds of colleges, done by Bridget Long, a profes- deficit, the Arizona Legislature $659 for next fall. Out-of-state 19 students. In the fall, however, they fall under the Arizona sor of education and economics has cut funding to the UA and undergraduates will pay $2,575 three large classes will be held in Course Applicability System. at Harvard University. other state universities. UA more. Centennial Hall. Attending a four-year univer- “Transferring from a commu- administrators had to deal with Pima’s tuition has gone up Like other universities and sity is the more costly of the two nity college to a four-year insti- an $80 million cut for the 2008- 3.7 percent for the fall, making colleges in the U.S., the UA and choices, but those who attend a tution can be difficult,” said 12 Dow Jones Newspaper Fund 2009 school year, said UADean one credit $51.50 for residents Pima have an arrangement that four-year university are more Long. “Research suggests that of Students Carol Thompson. and $87 for out-of-state stu- allows students to tranfser cred- likely to receive a bachelor’s far fewer students are able to do it dents. its, Weaver said. degree and earn more money in than would like to.” Teacher Programs Paul Kandell, Adviser to The Paly Voice, http://voice.paly.net, and Verde newsmagazine 2009 National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year Venerable Awards Program Recognizes Media Teachers and Their Students Following are excerpts from the multimedia presentation Paul Kandell gave at the awards luncheon on Saturday, November 14, Paul Kandell of Palo Alto High School in California at the National Scholastic Press Association/Journalism Education became the 51st National High School Journalism Teacher Association convention in Washington, D.C. of the Year and the first dedicated primarily to teaching online journalism. His award-winning Paly Voice news I often find myself saying, at the end of a day, “I love my job.” On a site is distinguished as one of the first to be recognized by day like today, when I am with all of you celebrating the work that professional online media with a Webby-award. we do jointly, I have to say I love it all the more. Kandell received a plaque, a pin and a state-of-the-art Scholastic journalism California-style laptop for use in his newsroom. A classroom subscription I come to you today from the great state of California, home to The Wall Street Journal and access to webinars and seminars at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. of the Free Speech Movement, which began at my alma mater; home of the strongest student press laws in the country; home of The Distinguished Advisers are: Ray Westbrook, St. Mark’s 1994 Journalism Teacher of the Year Nick Ferentinos, who, with School of Texas, Dallas; Aaron Manfull, Francis Howell his students, on Day 1 of the Hazelwood era, courageously and North High School, St. Charles, Mo.; Carol Richtsmeier, successfully used Education Code 48907 to block Hazelwood Midlothian (Texas) High School, and Christina Geabhart, from California schools; home of the ground-breaking Journalism Oak Park High School, Kansas City, Mo. Teacher Protection Act, brought forward by our legislative champion, State Sen. Leland Yee; Home of the one-man institution Special Recognition Advisers are: Susan Colyer, Southside we know as Steve O’Donoghue, our 36th Journalism Teacher of High School, Fort Smith, Ark.; Susan Houseman, the Year, who, after three decades of advising, is still giving to Conestoga High School, Berwyn, Pa.; Coni Grebel, Lee scholastic journalism, organizing adviser retention and mentoring County High School and Lee County Ninth Grade Campus, Leesburg, Ga., and Denise Croker, The Harpeth Hall programs and collective publishing opportunities for students; School, Nashville. home of Silicon Valley, which in turn is home to Palo Alto High School, where — between a newsmagazine; a sportsmagazine; The panelists were: Karl Grubaugh, 2008 National High a broadsheet newspaper; a daily broadcast show; yearbook, School Journalism Teacher of the Year, Granite Bay (Calif.) photography and video production programs; a journalism web High School; Logan Aimone, executive director, National site — I and my colleagues teach and advise some 300 journalism Scholastic Press Association and a 2005 Distinguished students a year, 500 if you add in the rest of our media arts program. Adviser; Candace Perkins Bowen, scholastic division chair for the Association for Education in Journalism and * * * * Mass Communication, executive director of the Center for Family connections Scholastic Journalism at Kent State University and 1989 It turns out that my kids. . . have more than a little journalism blood Teacher of the Year, and Diana Mitsu Klos, senior projects director at the American Society of News Editors and a running in their veins. member of the Fund’s board of directors. Their grandfather, my dad, was: an award-winning high school --- 2008 Teacher of the Year Scholarship Recipients --- journalist; a reporter and editor of his college newspaper.; an Air Force public information specialist working in print and radio; Scholarships were presented the following students in 2009 an award-winning professional journalist with the Herald-Examiner based on their selection as winners of a writing competition in Southern California; a public relations consultant for two held at the schools of each honored teacher. decades, a career capped by his work in creating resident-run newspapers for low income, minority communities in the LA city 2008 Teacher of the Year and Chicago housing authorities — truly awesome undertakings; In Brittany Nielsen, University of California at Berkeley retirement, an editor of a nonprofit newsletter in Eugene, Ore. Karl Grubaugh, Granite Bay (Calif.) High School 2008 Distinguished Advisers He taught me the basics that I teach my own children and that I Weston Reynolds, University of Virginia apply in my classroom today: Valerie Penton Kibler, Harrisonburg (Va.) High School 1. Tell the truth 2. Fight for justice Devon O’Brien, Iowa State University 3. Insist on equality for all Ann Visser, Pella (Iowa) Community High School 4. Nothing worth doing comes easily

2009 Annual Report 13 Three ideas Aside from fighting against censorship at every opportunity, I come back to this: How can we get more students into journalism classrooms? What can we do to give more students the publications experience, to get more of them in the front-row seat?

Here are three ideas for bringing more journalism education to the nation’s students:

A new approach on minority outreach First, if we’re going to get more students into those front-row seats, we need to focus on outreach, to address our terrible lack of diversity, a lack of diversity seen in professional journalism, in JEA and NSPA – just look around our convention – and in our schools, where white and Asian students and their parents have figured out that journalism is one of the most potent enrichment programs out there; their Latino, African-American and Pacific Islander counterparts for the most part aren’t taking part.

At Paly, we’ve tried special invites, conversations with La Raza and the Black student union, even a diversity-in-journalism club. Over time, the problem only got worse. Last year, out of hundreds of students in beginning and advanced journalism courses at Paly, none were on the free- or reduced-lunch list, none were from East Palo Alto, our sister community a few miles away that has a vastly lower socio-economic profile. We had to do something.

So this is what we did: We held a two-week summer workshop away from the school, in the community where our minority kids live; we offered students $8 an hour for 40 hours to take a basic Beginning Journalism class, and we got them a paid six-week internship, and, finally, we said, if you can do all of that, you can skip Beginning Journalism – something we never do – and let you move right onto a journalism publication.

Our efforts have met limited, but promising success so far. To these kids, I say we want you Photo by Randy Swikle 2008 winner Karl Grubaugh presents with us; we need you for us to be whole. Paul Kandell’s plaque. They attended the Missouri School of Journalism Inoculating all students with journalism values together. I’m proud of our summer program, and we’re looking for funding to do an expanded version this year. But I also realize it’s not enough. We need to think bigger. We all need to think bigger.

How can we inoculate all students: · With First Amendment values? · With the journalism brand of critical thinking and writing? · With 21st century communication and web literacy skills?

At Paly, our answer — think of it as our version of “No Child Left Behind” — is to try to embed a high tech beginning journalism curriculum into our required 9th and 10th grade English classes. That way all students will get the enrichment, all students will get qualified to work on a publication. You want 21st century citizens. This is where to start.

Creating digital journalists As a prelude to my final point, let me tell you what’s been happening in the past month in Paly journalism. For years, a login and password for the Paly Voice was something you could only get if you were one of 30 or so members of the Web staff. This year, the voice staffers, sick of the hours of uploading and marketing the work of our print publications, said, “No more. Do it yourself. We’ll teach you how.”

I’ve been doing digital journalism with students since 1996, when at a national convention in San Francisco we set up one room for students to produce and upload stories and another — like a little news museum — for them to see what had been produced in the first room.

Since then, my students have won many awards for their online work. And time and time again advisers and students from other schools have said, how can we do what you do? My answer for 13 of the 14 years of my advising career has been a diplomatically phrased version of, “You can’t.” My students were operating in the stratosphere — I had no idea how to do what they did.

No more of the same — get on the web.

14 Dow Jones Newspaper Fund But all that has finally changed. For the first time in my career, I’m happy to be able to say, “You can do what my students are doing.” In the last year, the technology has finally become accessible.

There are lots of places to start.

I, for one, am a fan of JEA’s Digital Media Page, maintained by Aaron Manful. The message of the site is clear: No more of the same. Get on the web.

And I’m a fan of Tracy Anne Sena who Student staffers salute their teacher on the campus of Palo Alto (Calif.) High School. joined me in throwing out our same-old, same-old summer adviser training program and said – no more of the same – we need to get these advisers on the web. Essays Win Classroom Subscriptions The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition gifted And I’m a fan of Journalism Education Association of Northern 16 teachers with subscriptions to the paper, which California, whose leaders got it right when they threw out includes 30 classroom sets and a daily Journal for the the template for their tired old state conventions and pivoted, teacher. The Fund asked teachers for write 250 words completely, to say – no more of the same – our convention needs to explaining how they would use a free subscription to be about digital journalism. the Classroom Edition.

And I’m a fan, too, of JEA and NSPA for producing a national One of the winners, April Sniffen of DeLand (Fla.) convention that also gets it. No more of the same. It’s about the High School, wrote: “I want my students to appreciate web. the print medium for what it is – a tangible product they can touch, smell, read, without straining their eyes But we can go farther. Let’s get a clue from the Poynter Institute looking at a projection off the Internet.” and offer distance learning for students who have trouble making it to national conventions. Why isn’t this speech also a webinar? Other winners are: Why aren’t all the presentations at this convention? No more of the Stephen Truog, Buckeye (Ariz.) Union High School same – we need to get our practice the web. Howard Ruffner, Media Academy High School, Oakland, Calif. These were exhilarating moments, but at its core this is not about Lauren Athearn, Franklin High School, technology — That is just the latest vehicle. It’s about values. Stockton, Calif. When I see our summer program in EPA bearing fruit, when I see George Telzrow, Cardozo Senior High School, my students engaging in great storytelling, in getting that rush from Washington, D.C. delivering breaking news, when I see them exercising their rights Mary Stapp, Wilson High School, to fight for what they believe, I am drawn back to those Kandell Washington, D.C. family values. Ana Zuniga, Coral Gables (Fla.) High School Anna Cannon, Colquitt County High School, Those aren’t just family values. Those are American values. And Moultrie, Ga. Nancy Story, North Hall High School, quality journalism education is, for me — and I know, for you — Gainesville, Ga. the greatest way to pass them on. Michael Doyle, Belvidere (Ill.) High School Buffy Sallee, Deerfield (Ill.) High School Tara Lemenager, Donovan (Ill.) Jr./Sr. See a video of this presentation online at High School https://www.newsfund.org >> Programs >> Teacher of the Year Megan Ortiz, Summer Creek High School, Houston Mark Eaton, T.C. Williams High School, Alexandria, Va. Michael Goodrich-Stuart, Hanover High School, Mechanicsville, Va. Brooke Brown, Washington High School, Tacoma, Wash.

2009 Annual Report 15 Publications Fund Publishes Anniversary Book

COPY! The first 50 years of the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund tops the list of DJNF publications in 2009 as its inaugural volume chronicling the history of the small foundation was published. Written by Dr. Rick Kenney of Hampton University, the book was compiled from notes, papers and interviews with executive directors and key actors in the foundation’s development.

The idea was to tell the Fund’s story in honor of its 50th anniversary. Dr. Kenney and Rich Holden traveled to Sea Island, Ga., to interview Don Carter about his job as the Fund’s first executive director.

Mr. Carter fondly recalled offering the initial teacher fellowship program for what would be a few dozen applicants but getting hundreds of applications instead. To his delight, his bosses allowed him to accept and send all 250 teachers to summer journalism training.

Some stellar graduates of the DJNF internship programs shared their The cover photo pictures the four reminiscences, too. For example: “There ought to be a book – ‘All I Really executive directors: Richard Holden, Thomas Engleman, Paul Swennson and Need to Know I Learned in a Newspaper Fund Internship.’ In one summer, I had Don Carter after a board meeting. the ecstasy of a Page One byline in The Wall Street Journal – and the agony of editing a mistake into an important story. Both experiences were invaluable.” James Willse, Editor, The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J., DJNF Intern, 1965

Three thousand copies of the compact paperback, edited by Rich Holden and Richard Levine, were printed. The book sells for $20. Order forms can be downloaded from the website and returned with checks only.

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Among media The grant targets schools with Under the program, the Cronkite staff members install provides grants to organizations HS, Coolidge HS, Douglas HS, information about the Newspaper Fund, its my closest friends, and when we pushed me to hone my writing to honors high school students. parents, but sometimes, we need Cronkite School equips news- the equipment and manage serv- that impact family and neighbor- Miami HS and Snowflake HS. services and programs and selected articles large minority populations that produced tangible work that I can skills, learn new ways to express In that fateful Intro to Journal- someone from the outside, some- rooms at each school with MacIn- ers that host schools’ Web sites as hood stability. 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16 Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Board of Directors Officers Richard J. Levine/President Our new name is Former Vice President, News The Dow Jones News Fund Dow Jones & Company effective February 2010 Barbara Martinez/Secretary Reporter The Wall Street Journal

Ken Herts/Treasurer Vice President, Finance, Consumer Media Group Dow Jones & Company

Richard S. Holden/Executive Director Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, Inc.

Directors Don E. Carter Neal Lipschutz Member Emeritus Senior Vice President/Managing Editor Former Executive Director Dow Jones Newswires

Thomas E. Engleman Laurence G. O’Donnell Former Executive Director Retired Managing Editor Program Director, New Jersey Newspaper The Wall Street Journal Foundation Dr. Reginald Owens Gregory Giangrande F. Jay Taylor Chair of Journalism Senior Vice President, Human Resources Louisiana Tech University Dow Jones & Company Robin Gibson Sawyer Les Hinton 2000 Journalism Teacher of the Year Chief Executive Officer First Flight High School, Kill Devil Hills, N.C. Dow Jones & Company Dr. Russell G. Todd Peter Kann G.B. Dealey Chair, Journalism Department Retired Chairman and CEO University of Texas at Austin Dow Jones & Company Staff Diana Mitsu Klos Richard S. Holden, Executive Director Senior Projects Director Linda Shockley, Deputy Director American Society of News Editors Diane Cohn, Director of Finance

2009 Annual Report 17 Guidelines

Deadlines for Program Nominations and Proposals

National High School Journalism Teacher Awards Program News Editing Internship Program Description: To recognize high school Journalism teachers who Description: To encourage students to consider copy editing have made an outstanding contribution to teaching journalism as a career in news and multimedia journalism by providing and/or advising a high school newspaper, newsmagazine or training, paid summer internships and scholarship grants news website Eligible: College juniors, seniors and graduate students Eligible: Any high school journalism teacher or adviser with Grant: $1,800 at least three years of teaching experience. Nominations may Deadline: November 1 come from principals, newspaper editors, other teachers, alumni, press associations or the teachers themselves Multimedia Editing Internship Program Awards: $1,000 college scholarship for a student of the Teacher Description: To encourage students to consider multimedia of the Year; $500 college scholarships for a student of each of editing as a career in journalism by providing training, paid the four Distinguished Advisers summer internships and scholarship grants Deadline: July 1 Eligible: College juniors, seniors and graduate students Grant: $1,000 DJNF High School Journalism Workshops Deadline: November 1 Description: To encourage high school students to consider careers in journalism by providing an opportunity to work with Business Reporting Internship Program professional journalists and instructors on reporting, writing Description: To encourage college juniors, seniors and and editing a student newspaper, magazine or news website graduate to seek business reporting internships by providing Eligible: Colleges, schools, nonprofit organizations training, paid summer internships and scholarship grants. Grant: $2,500 up to $8,000 Eligible: College juniors, seniors and graduate students Deadline: October 1 Grant: $1,000 Deadline: November 1 Centers for Editing Excellence Description: To provide pre-internship intensive training Sports Editing Program for college juniors, seniors and graduate students, selected Description: To encourage students to consider sports copy through DJNF’s News Editing Intern Program, who will work editing as a career by providing training, paid summer professionally as copy editing interns for news media internships and scholarship grants Eligible: Colleges or nonprofit organizations Eligible: College juniors, seniors and graduate students Grant: Maximum of $20,000 for 10 students Grant: $1,800 Deadline: October 1 Deadline: November 1

The Newspaper Fund is a national foundation supported by Dow Jones & Co., Inc., Dow Jones Foundation and others within the news industry. Our emphasis is on education for students and educators as part of our mission to promote careers in journalism. DJNF operates several high school and college-level grant programs. For more detailed descriptions, visit the Programs section. Those who would like to submit unsolicited proposals should go to the Grant Proposal page at https://www.newsfund.org to read more and download a form. Grant applications, guidelines and instructions also appear in the Forms section.

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