Campus Coverage Project

Friday is the deadline for college students nationwide to apply for the next Campus Coverage Project. IRE, in partnership with Education Writers Association and the StudentPress Law Center, is launching the third year of a program that shares investigative reporting skills with college and university students
that they can apply to covering campus issues. Seventy-five students from around the country will be selected to participate. In the program’s first two years students from more than 60 campuses nationwide won scholarships to attend. The centerpiece of this program will be a national workshop from Jan. 5-8, at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University in Phoenix. Sessions at the workshop will focus on specific campus-coverage issues and overall reporting techniques and skills. Travel and lodging expenses will be covered, thanks to a grant from the Lumina Foundation. Additional training opportunities will be provided throughout the year. We’re asking your help in getting the word out to qualified students -- those with experience reporting for campus-related news outlets who have at least one year of coursework remaining.  Students can apply online; the deadline is this Friday, Sept. 30. For more information and an online application, go to www.ire.org/campus.

Thanks,
Mark