For 26 years, The University of Alabama Department of Journalism has been committed to increasing diversity in America's newsrooms.
We're currently recruiting high school students to attend the 26th annual Multicultural Journalism Workshop.
Students who will be in the 9th grade through freshman year in college in fall 2009 are eligible to attend the June 12-21 workshop.
The students will study and practice journalism under UA faculty and top journalists, learning how professionals report, write and present the news in print, online and by broadcasting
An application form will be posted here Feb. 1. For answers to your questions about the workshop, call 205-348-2772.
The first Minority Journalism Workshop, as it was originally called, was held in 1984. It was conceived as a means to introduce talented high school students to the ins and outs of a career in journalism through an intensive 10-day workshop on The University of Alabama campus.
Each year, 20 to 30 high school students are selected from a competitive applicant pool to attend the workshop.
With each passing year, the diversity of cultures represented by the students attending MJW has continued to grow.