Sixteen high school students from around the country attended the Journalism Summer Academy program June 19-23, 2023 at the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Participants included: Zoi Bascom, Elsa Block, Sarah Buck, Alex Cook, Azi Dau, Lauren Dixon, Laura Gonzalez, Lucy Kincaid, Burhann Meyler, Mandie Michaels, Hunter Pitrak, Naima Salvary, Cadence Schapker, Gracin Stein, Marin Torres and Maika Walker.
The camp was instructed by Dr. Joe Dennis (MA ‘07, PhD ‘16), the co-chair of the mass communications department and associate professor of mass communications at Piedmont University, and Keshondra Shipp, recent graduate of the journalism master’s program at Grady College. They taught students the art of interviewing, multimedia reporting, writing, editing and producing.
Participants were also introduced to principles in visual journalism and social media storytelling. They took a visit to The Red & Black student newspaper, where they caught a snapshot of a working newsroom, listened to guest lecturers, wrote articles and published to a news website, Rockstarwriters.blog.
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