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{Arizona State University} Cronkite Institute for High School Journalism: Summer Journalism Institute
For two weeks every summer, the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication brings top-performing high school students to ASU for two weeks of intensive, hands-on experiences in broadcast and digital journalism.
{Boston University} Summer Journalism Academy
The Summer Journalism Academy at Boston University gives students ages 14 to 18 the opportunity to expand their skills and prepare for college, either through a residential experience on campus or through remote instruction from home.
Each academy instructor is also a working journalist, so what’s taught is grounded in real-life experience. Each lesson is tied to its practical application, by giving students actual reporting assignments. Each day is a sample of life as a news reporter.
💰 Scholarships Available
{Elon University} Emerging Journalists Program
For students curious about what it means to be a journalist, reporting and producing news that informs communities, the Emerging Journalists Program at Elon University provides the ideal platform to explore their media interests.
This free, educational initiative is meant to inspire high school students to embark on journalism careers. The goal is to engage hundreds of high school students from around the country and provide them hands-on journalism experience. Through the program’s virtual Exposure component, students will participate in four interactive learning sessions and build foundational journalism skills.
The second phase of the program, Immersion, brings high school juniors to Elon for a summer on-campus residential learning workshop.
Additionally, students who complete the Immersion program will be assigned a mentor to help identify, report and produce multimedia stories during their senior year of high school.
💰 Scholarships Available
{Emerson College} Journalism Institute
The Journalism Institute helps rising sophomores, juniors and seniors explore digital journalism techniques in a variety of multimedia formats. Students move beyond the traditional methods of communicating news and explore using Twitter and other social media through their mobile devices to find and interview sources, take and format pictures, and shoot and edit video. These elements get scripted to create packages online and on the air. The program takes advantage of Emerson College's state-of-the-art journalism labs giving students access to the ultimate multimedia learning environment.
{Indiana University} High School Journalism Institute
Join us for an immersive learning experience at Indiana University Bloomington, where high school students participate in hands-on workshops to practice and improve their skills, and high school advisers take advantage of collaboration with seasoned pros or develop independent projects. Attendees stay in IU residence halls and attend workshops at The Media School in Franklin Hall, and they have all of campus and the city as a backdrop to their projects.
{New York Film Academy} Broadcast Journalism Camps
Several years ago, NBC approached the New York Film Academy to start an education program where aspiring broadcast journalists could acquire the real-world skill set necessary to thrive in broadcast TV, cable, and internet news. Now, we extend that same caliber of training to teens in our 3-Week Broadcast Journalism Camp, located in the international news capital of New York City. Through study and hands-on practice, camp students are trained in the fundamental principles, techniques, and craft of broadcast journalism. This is accomplished through a combination of lecture, demonstration, hands-on production, and the students’ own work. Students study under our world-class faculty, whose work has been seen on local and national television as well as cable and digital platforms.
{Ohio University} High School Journalism Workshop
Every summer since 1946, the school has offered high school students and teachers the opportunity to interact with our faculty and professional journalists while learning the latest techniques for doing journalism in a school setting. The workshop will include faculty from the School of Journalism, the School of Visual Communication and the staff from WOUB, as well as several visiting professionals.
{Princeton University} Princeton Summer Journalism Program
The Princeton Summer Journalism Program (PSJP) is one of the only programs of its kind offering a free, innovative journalism and college prep institute for high achieving high school juniors from low-income backgrounds. Over ten days every summer, up to 40 students from across the country explore current events and world affairs through workshops and lectures led by Princeton professors, professional journalists, and alumni on campus. The summer program culminates in the publication of the Princeton Summer Journal, the student-produced newspaper. During their senior year, students are matched with a personal college adviser, who will work with them on their college admissions process. In our 17-year history, PSJP has graduated approximately 380 students who have gone on to attend some of the best colleges and universities and produce content for the most respected publications in the nation. Another 40 will join them this spring, as they complete their senior year and the college admission process!
💰 Scholarships Available
{University of Illinois} 360° Sports & Entertainment Camp
360° Entertainment Camp is a 6-day residential program on the Champaign-Urbana campus for rising sophomores through seniors in high school. Get hands-on experience about entertainment media from every angle. Learn from College of Media faculty and pros in the field.
{University of North Carolina} North Carolina Scholastic Media Association
Students and teachers are invited each year to enroll in the North Carolina Scholastic Media Institute on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. Instructors travel from across the state and nation to offer their expertise in newspaper, yearbook, online, magazine and broadcast journalism. The four-day Institute is open to journalism and media advisers and to students who are rising ninth-graders through 12th-graders. The schedule includes 20 hours of instruction, plus time for a pizza party and awards presentations.
{University of Southern California} Storytelling in the Digital Age
The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the biggest news stories of our lifetimes. You will report and write stories that show how it disrupted your life and your community. Individual and team-reported projects will highlight what's working, what's not working and bring attention to the unsung heroes of the pandemic. You will have the flexibility to produce stories about sports, politics, religion, the arts, and culture. You will write journal entries in the first person. You will profile people who live in your community. You will learn storytelling techniques for text, video and audio platforms. You will gain an understanding of the challenges and opportunities for journalists in the digital world. Your critical thinking and analytical skills will expand.
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