School Hosts Journalism Workshop
For the second year, the School of Communication and Media welcomed 18 high-performing students from 11 New Jersey high schools to the annual Summer Journalism Workshop – a program where students live on campus and are immersed in the fast-paced worlds of communication and journalism.
“We want students to not only learn skills in journalism and communications, but also to learn about the entire industry and the types of jobs that will be available to them,” says program co-coordinator and multiplatform journalism professor Thomas Franklin.
The workshop combines in-class lectures with hands-on instruction in multiplatform journalism, broadcast journalism and filmmaking as well as field trips to ABC News and the National Football League’s New York Giants’ public relations department. It also gives participants a firsthand taste of college life.