WASHINGTON – The Howard University Multicultural Media Academy invites high school students to attend a free journalism workshop from June 14-25, 2021. The virtual 10-day program is open to U.S. high school students in ninth through 12th grades and new graduates who will be entering college in the Fall. The program will focus on how to use the power of multimedia journalism to cover health and wellness in underserved communities. 

“We’re honored that Howard was again selected as one of the national sites to host this new series of workshops with a special focus on health and wellness,” said Professor Yanick Rice Lamb. She is the co-director of the program with Christine McWhorter, Ph.D., an assistant professor of broadcast journalism.

The workshops will be held virtually from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. The free workshops include sessions on reporting, interviewing, scriptwriting, editing, multimedia, social media, ethics, professional development and other topics. Students will work under the guidance of a talented pool of professional journalists along with professors and college students.

They will learn how to write news stories, capture audio, shoot and edit video, take photos, use interactive tools and incorporate social media. They will also develop an understanding of interrelated social issues –such as housing and hunger – that contribute to making communities unhealthy. Their work will be published and distributed by the award-winning Howard University News Service.

The application for the summer program is available at http://bit.ly/2021HowardHealthJournalism. The deadline for application submission is at noon Saturday, June 5. The workshop is sponsored by the Dow Jones News Fund, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Department of Media, Journalism and Film in the Cathy Hughes School of Communications. 

For more information, please contact mjf.howard@gmail.com or (202) 806-7927.

About the Department of Media, Journalism and Film

The Department of Media, Journalism and Film is the largest unit in the Cathy Hughes School of Communications at Howard University. Its faculty and alumni include award-winning, internationally renowned filmmakers, journalists, media producers, documentarians and research scholars. The department offers one of the top MFA programs in film and the only one at an HBCU. It was named as having one of the best university cinematography programs. USA Today and College Factual has ranked the journalism program among the top 20 nationally, and the National Association of Black Journalists ranked the program as No. 1 in the United States. The Broadcast Education Association honored WHBC student radio with the Signature Station Award. Howard is one of two universities in Washington and among seven HBCUs accredited by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. For more information, see http://communications.howard.edu. 

About Howard University

Founded in 1867, Howard University is a private, research university that is comprised of 13 schools and colleges. Students pursue more than 140 programs of study leading to undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees. The University operates with a commitment to Excellence in Truth and Service and has produced one Schwarzman Scholar, three Marshall Scholars, four Rhodes Scholars, 12 Truman Scholars, 25 Pickering Fellows and more than 165 Fulbright recipients. Howard also produces more on-campus African American Ph.D. recipients than any other university in the United States. For more information on Howard University, visit www.howard.edu.

Media Contact: Aaliyah Butler, aaliyah.butler@howard.edu