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SAC's
Summer Workshop Gives High School Students an Inside
Look at Career in Journalism
For
Immediate Release
July 11, 2007
Contact: John Hammond, Director of Public Relations,
San Antonio College
210/733-2147
jhammond@accd.edu
Sixteen
aspiring journalists from area high schools recently
completed an intense two weeks of training in the
23rd Annual Urban Journalism Workshop at San Antonio
College, directed by Instructor Irene Abrego.
Melissa
Macaya, a Clark High School senior and 17-year-old
native of Caracas, Venezuela, received the first Regina
Montague Memorial Scholarship, valued at $2,000, established
by family members and the Express-News to honor Montague,
a former workshopper who died in an auto accident
in 2004.
Three students
received $1,500 scholarships from the Alamo Community
Colleges Foundation Board: Laura Barrera (Taft), Melody
Mendoza (East Central), and Stephanie Rendon (McCollum).
Rendon was also nominated with Hillary Castañon
(Warren) for the $1,000 Dow Jones Scholarship national
competition. The Dub Daugherty $1,500 scholarship
went to Michael Vásquez (Taft), Castañon,
and Sarah Miles (Jefferson).
"The
workshop is truly a community endeavor for our department
and the college," said Journalism-Photography
Chairperson Marianne Odom. She added, "It connects
us with high school students and teachers, local chapters
of professional organizations, journalism faculty
at senior institutions and media professionals from
the San Antonio Express-News and other major Texas
newspapers . . . to give students an inside look at
a career in journalism and an experience they will
never forget."
The
workshop included networking with local media professionals
and a phone interview with Naka Nathaniel, a 1990
workshop participant who works at the New York Times
with Nicholas Kristof, producing online op-ed pieces
on Darfur and other stories.
Students
researched, wrote and photographed stories for a tabloid
publication You S.A. (at http://www.theranger.org
), several of which were published by the Express-News.
Articles covered such topics as a Colombian teen whose
family had to flee terrorist attacks, the TAKS test,
high school students who live alone and support themselves,
and the impact on teenagers of the increased minimum
wage.
Major sponsors
for the workshop are San Antonio College, the ACCD
Foundation, the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, San Antonio
Express-News, Austin American-Statesman, The Dallas
Morning News, Standard-Times, Canon, Texas State University,
and San Antonio Press, Inc.
For more
information about the Urban Journalism Workshop or
the Journalism-Photography program at San Antonio
College, call 733-2870 or go to http://www.theranger.org.
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