For 25 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 25th annual Multicultural Journalism Workshop and alumni and friends of MJW to attend MJW’s Silver Anniversary Reunion.

Students who will be in the 9th grade through freshman year in college in fall 2008 are eligible to attend the July 11-19 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. For answers to your questions about the workshop, call 205-246-3334 or 205-348-8607.

For a workshop application form click here. 

For more about the Silver Anniversary Reunion and a reservation form, click here.

 

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.

With the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the workshop, it was decided by the student participants, workshop alumni and coordinators to reflect the evolution of the workshop by holding a reunion of MJW participants - from visiting professionals to the most recent attendees from 2007.

This website is dedicated to providing news related to the 25th anniversary of the workshop while also updating all aspects of the on going program - Ed Mullins, director, 2005-2008.