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NAHJ member Jacob Rascon, who is a student at Brigham Young University and is in an NAHJ-funded Fall 2010 internship at the Salt Lake Tribune reports on the Park City, Utah Columbus Community Center, which has honored disabled people and the employers who hire them. Check out Jacob�s story by visiting: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/50500185-76/columbus-center-disabled-lake.html.csp. Jacob�s internship is funded by NAHJ thanks to a generous grant from the Chicago Tribune Foundation.
October 29, 2010 1 Comment
By Yvonne Latty Journalism Professor at NYU�s Carter Institute Director Reporting New York and Reporting the Nation I want to thank NAHJ for making a big dream of mine come true. I write this in a car on my way back from Nogales, Mexico, where I just left two of my students with freelancer Monica Campbell. One of my students, Amanda Palenscia, is reporting on the economic impact of the drug war on this border town, the other Kelly Knaub, is doing a piece on human rights violations. I have 15 other students scattered throughout Arizona and Mexico reporting on immigration issues across media platforms. They are looking for the truth, looking for great stories, learning, pushing themselves and growing as journalists. This is it. This is why I left the newsroom to teach. I could not have made this happen without NAHJ�s support. Only four months ago I met Dr. Celeste Gonzalez de Bustamante at a Dart fellowship for Journalism Trauma at Columbia University, It was the first academic fellowship Dart had offered and I was pumped to be a part of it. I met Celeste that very...
October 20, 2010 0 Comment
NAHJ member Jacob Rascon, who is a multimedia journalism student at Brigham Young University, reports for the Salt Lake Tribune on the efforts of Provo, Utah resident Lorrin Gehring to help troubled teens. Rascon reports that the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has granted Gehring its Young Adult Leadership Award for mental health advocacy. Check out Jacob�s story at: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/50468307-76/gehring-health-mental-youth.html.csp. Jacob is serving a Fall 2010 internship at the Salt Lake Tribune as an NAHJ-funded intern. NAHJ is able to provide this opportunity through a generous grant from the Chicago Tribune Foundation. He is the tenth NAHJ student member to be helped through this opportunity since 2004.
October 20, 2010 0 Comment
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