Are you wondering what the 2024 Hubbard Reporting Experience is all about? Here are  reflections from the first few days:

"I'm impressed with the problem solving. As they approach the stories, they're coming at it from so many different angles. Making decisions for the reporting that they'll need to do, the social media companion pieces that they'll need to create how to make it visual and interesting for a newscast. It's impressive."  — MATT CIKOVIC, HUBBARD ASSISTANT TEACHING FACULTY

"It allows students with incredible faculty and staff to simulate a real news setting. During classes, we have usually week to complete a project but here, it is one day and that's exciting."  — KATRINA BAILEY, PARTICIPANT

"They are doing the work. We send them out in the field.  They are operating in a newsroom, actually reporting on the ground as opposed to doing it for a class.— and with really minimal connections. They come back with some wonderful story ideas that we're going to publish. That's what I really like to see coming together."  — SETH RICHARDSON, HUBBARD LECTURER

"(This) has proven to be an effective program that educates students on the fundamentals of journalism. By giving students real-world reporting experience and educating them on lesser-known topics like trauma-informed reporting and social media nuance, the program has been a great experience so far.  — EVAN PEDERSON, PARTICIPANT

"It's an extremely valuable, compressed experience. (It's) what a newsroom feels like — how it works, the rhythm of it, the pulse of it, the demands of it, the fun of it. There’s camaraderie, and there are conventions and standards that students have to adhere to. All of that put together in a 10-day period, I think, is really valuable for them to understand in a way that can't happen in the classroom."   — GAYLE GOLDEN, HUBBARD SENIOR LECTURER, CHARNLEY PROFESSOR

"The community involvement and the chance to get hands-on practice with motivated people are big draws to me."  — HENRY STAFFORD, PARTICIPANT