SUNY Buffalo State High School Journalism Workshop

High school students! Apply for a chance to represent New York state at a prestigious high school journalism conference in our nation’s capital next summer. Each year, one high school junior from every state and the District of Columbia is selected to attend the (all-expenses-paid) Al Neuharth Free Spirit and Journalism Conference at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Conference dates for 2017 are June 17-22. Sponsored by the Newseum Institute in honor of the late Al Neuharth, founder of USA TODAY and the Newseum, the goal of the program is to encourage free-spirited students to pursue a career in journalism and to emphasize the importance of the First Amendment in a democracy. Each student is awarded a $1,000 scholarship to the college of his/her choice.

It's Graduation Day at the workshop. Had an awesome week with all of these future journalists!!!

Some last day fun around Buffalo State!!

Jo Stevens and Maya Westcott reported on the emerald ash borer problem: http://hsjournalismworkshop.blogspot.com//emerald-ash-bore

Zak Billo takes a seat at the anchor desk.

Zak Billo and John Madsen teamed up on a story about the makings of a documentary about the paranormal: http://hsjournalismworkshop.blogspot.com//film-seeks-answe

And one by Cameryn Jones-Dutchess, who worked solo and got that professional multi-media journalist experience: http://hsjournalismworkshop.blogspot.com//jordan-hogan-int Jones-Dutchess

Interviews are done. Video is recorded. Now the fun begins: putting all that information into a package. Get your creativity on!!!

Cameryn Jones interviewing Buffalo State WR coach Jordan Hogan on his rise from player to coach!

The workshop is getting college level instruction on how to edit and use Avid for their interviews!

Brian Milbrand stops by to teach the workshop how to use the video camera for their interview.

More good stuff today...social media, feature writing and camera operation. Interviews with news makers tomorrow. Let's do this!

Time to interview your workshop teammates and use the skills you have been taught!!