This is a fantastic opportunity if you can get your application together swiftly (deadline 6/6/07). --pep ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gregg Morris <[log in to unmask]> Date: Jun 4, 2007 10:06 AM Subject: [HUNTER-L] Open Letter to Editors of Student News Media To: [log in to unmask] -- Student News Editors, Student Journalists, (I know it's summer time but I had to post) Think about - uh oh - pooling resources so that top editors can go to conferences for student journalists and learn what other student editors/journalists are doing on their campuses; get in a grapevine, learn to network (you can still be competitive while engaging in a collective effort to learn). Think about it when you're working on your student budgets for next year. The info below is only an example (this not an endorsement and nor does it imply nor infer that I'm a fan of Katrina vanden Heuvel): Applications for the second annual Nation/Campus Progress Student Journalism Conference are being accepted until June 6th. Taking place on Monday, June 25 in Washington, DC, the conference will host student journalists from across the country at the Center for American Progress for a day of workshops, panels, seminars, conversations and parties. Please pass this note on to any students you know who might be interested. http://www.campusprogress.org/common/1476/2007-campus-progress-national-student-conference-agenda The event is hosted by Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel and Campus Progress director David Halperin and features talks by Eric Schlosser and Barbara Ehrenreich; panels with David Corn, John Nichols, Helen Thomas, Dahlia Lithwick, Ari Berman, David Cole and Tara McKelvey and workshops with Laura Flanders, Jeremy Scahill, Chris Raab, Ezra Klein, Betsy Reed, Richard Kim, Roberto Lovato and other acclaimed writers and editors. Topics will range from covering corruption and reporting on national security and the Constitution to sessions on muckraking, blogging, investigative reporting and cultural coverage. The conference is entirely free, including food. Travel grants for students to DC are also available. Both undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to apply, but space is limited, so don't wait! Click here to apply and for more info: http://www.campusprogress.org/page/s/2007jtraining Last year, CSPAN broadcast our first Student Journalism Conference live and replayed it many times last summer so we're hoping the network will broadcast the proceedings again. Watch this space for details and check the StudentNation site. - 30 - G Morris ___________________________ - Read the WORD, http://theword.hunter.cuny.edu - Lori Berenson Unfairly Imprisoned in Peru - Free Lori: http://www.freelori.org, http://www.lorilibre.org ------- "There is an insatiable appetite for race-related discourse in the country. Imus is just a barstool bigot, but there is such a river of anxiety about race in the culture that it doesn't take much to tap into it." -- Edward Wasserman, a journalism professor at Washington and Lee University. ***************************************************** To leave the list or view archives, go to http://hunter.listserv.cuny.edu/archives/hunter-l.html <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> If you wish to unsubscribe from the HUNTER-L List, please send an E-mail to: "[log in to unmask]". Within the body of the text, only write the following:"SIGNOFF HUNTER-L". -- Peter Parisi, Ph.D. Dept. of Film & Media Studies Hunter College 695 Park Avenue New York, NY 10021 212-772-4949 "People don't change. They just find out who they are." -- Ray Skean