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Updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Published: Thursday, June 28, 2007 |
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NABJ Selects 2007 Student Project Journalists, Creates Student Convergence Team
WASHINGTON, DC June 28, 2007 The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) announced the 46 student members participating in the annual Student Projects for the 32nd Annual Convention and Career Fair in Las Vegas, August 8 12, 2007.
In addition to NABJ-TV, a student-produced nightly half-hour newscast; the NABJ Monitor, a daily convention newspaper; NABJ Radio, a student-produced radio news program, and NABJ Online, the NABJ convention Web site, selected students from each project will also participate in the newly created Convergence Team.
Were excited about the evolution of the Student Development Project because it truly mirrors the revolution professionals are experiencing in the industry, said Allison Hunter, Student Education Enrichment and Development (SEED) Program Chair and executive producer, WGN Morning News. Both our students and mentors will explore multi-platform storytelling skills in a learning environment-a process that speaks to the basic tenets of NABJ.
NABJ student projects give students an opportunity to work side by side with professional journalists in the real world of daily deadlines and production pressures. Students work all facets of newsroom positions from reporters and photographers to producers and editors.
Project coordinators are: Allison Hunter, Executive Producer, WGN Morning News, NABJ S.E.E.D Chair; Jon Beans, News Director, Alabama Public Television, NABJ-TV; Michelle Johnson, Journalists in Residence, Emerson College, NABJ Online; Doug Mitchell, Project Manager, Next Generation Radio, National Public Radio, NABJ-Radio; Rochelle Riley, Columnist, Detroit Free Press, NABJ Monitor.
The students, schools and their media project include:
NABJ Monitor
Bahiyjaui Allen, Ohio University
Aisha Al-Muslim, Herbert H. Lehman College
Cortnee Blayton, Oakwood College
Maya Carpenter, University of Florida
Zettler Clay, Georgia State University
Jared Cook, Alcorn State University
Hannah Davis, Temple University
Chardae Davis, Northwestern University
Atoyia Deans, Ohio University
Erin Edwards, Boston University
Jaya Franklin, Clark Atlanta University
Jason Fritz, San Francisco State University
L. Kasimu Harris, University of Mississippi
Terry Jones, Southern University
Cynthia Levy, Point Park University
Wendell Marsh, Morehouse College
Gia Parker, Notre Dame College of Ohio
Dominique Squires, Central State University
Rebekah Tsadik, Northwestern University
Connease Warren, Harvard University Extension School
Nacarla Webb, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Dioni Wise, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
NABJ-TV
Jennifer Borget, Brigham Young University
Tarrah Cooper, University of Missouri Columbia
Darren Cunningham, University of Michigan
Kennedi Greenwood, Temple University
Christina Hordge, Florida A&M University
H. Dwight Holmes, Florida International University
Todd Johnson, Northwestern University
Damon Maloney, Columbia College Chicago
Kisten McGowan-Sims, Florida A&M University
Amanda Nembhard, Howard University
Sean Nixon, University of Houston
Rasheena O'Quinn, Hampton University
Jamiese Price, Syracuse University
Megan Rowls, North Carolina A&T State University
Justin Smith, University of Southern Mississippi
NABJ Radio
Alexis Brown, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Anna Hart, Brooklyn College
Alana Lowe, Humber College - Canada
Nailah Sims, University of MissouriColumbia
Tamika Smith, Howard University
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Ana Alvarez, Emerson College
Sierra Brown, Spelman College
Renita Burns, Temple University
Aaron Morrison, San Francisco State University
Meet this years Student Project Multimedia Team:
NABJ-TV, a student-produced nightly half-hour newscast.
The NABJ Monitor, a daily convention newspaper.
NABJ Radio, a student-produced radio news program.
NABJ Online, the NABJ convention Web site.
Professional Volunteers
For more information on the students and professional volunteers, click here .
The 2007 class is the latest to benefit from NABJ's Student Education Enrichment and Development (SEED) Committee , which helps support student members each year with internships and scholarships and the chance to cover the annual convention with student media projects.
An advocacy group established in 1975 in Washington, D.C., NABJ is the largest organization of journalists of color in the nation, with more than 4,100 members, and provides educational, career development and support to black journalists worldwide.
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