Student Workshops

Dow Jones Minority Workshops

The fully funded two-week sessions on the Kent State University campus ran in 2001 and 2002. Watch for details for future workshops. Learn journalistic writing styles, hear from area professionals and produce a Web site for everyone to see. (Click below)

Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Workshop 2002

Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Workshop 2001

For more information, contact Candace Perkins Bowen at cbowen@kent.edu or 330-672-8297. For information about a workshop for minority rising 9th graders, contact Gene Shelton at gshelt1@kent.edu.

Photo: Alex Hitchens, Shaker Heights High School, interviews David Lee Morgan, reporter for the Akron Beacon Journal. While other workshop participants watched the game and took human interest crowd shots, Hitchens shadowed Morgan and viewed everything from the press box. (photo by Leah Hitchens)

Photo: Web page copy editor Marguerite Moore, Shaker Heights, checks her notes as she starts to write a story about Guitar Mania, the fund-raiser that added color to Cleveland streets. (photo by Arooj Ashraf)

Photo: A Saturday trip to the Great Lakes Science Center was fun for Aman Ali, Gahanna, as he takes part in a bubble experiment. Amanda Cheek, Canton, wrote an article for the Web site about exhibits at the hands-on museum. (photo by Leah Hitchens)