Applications Due March 1 for American Indian Journalism Institute
February 6, 2009
VERMILLION, S.D.—The Freedom Forum is recruiting participants for the 9th annual American Indian Journalism Institute at the University of South Dakota, June 5-19, 2009.
Students are eligible if they have completed at least one year of college and have a passion for journalism. This highly competitive academic, scholarship and newsroom internship program is open to Native American students regardless of where they live or the college they attend.
Applications are welcome from any Native college student hoping to become a journalist and whose summer schedule would permit them to take a two-week class at the University of South Dakota and then travel to a different city for six more weeks to work as a paid intern in a newsroom.
Instructions and downloadable application forms are available online or by e-mailing Janine Harris. The application deadline is March 1.
AIJI students who successfully complete the multimedia journalism course at the Freedom Forum's Al Neuharth Media Center may be eligible to earn 3 hours of college credit from USD. Tuition, room and board, fees and other related expenses are paid.
For more information, phone 605/677-5424. A more detailed story about AIJI is available on the Freedom Forum Diversity Institute Web site.
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