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First Stardust schools chosen Five Arizona high schools will get fully equipped multimedia newsrooms in time for fall classes as part of a new high school outreach program by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Stardust Foundation of Scottsdale. The five schools are Buckeye Union High School, Coolidge High School, Douglas High School, Miami High School and Snowflake High School. The schools are the first to be chosen for the Stardust High School Journalism Program, a unique initiative to create newsrooms in high schools. Five more Arizona high schools will join the program next year under a grant from the Scottsdale-based Stardust Foundation. The grant targets schools with large minority populations that do not have school newspapers or viable journalism programs. Those are the schools that often don’t have the resources to publish school newspapers, said Cronkite Dean Christopher Callahan. Under the program, the Cronkite School will equip newsrooms at each school with computers, scanners, video cameras, digital cameras and
software necessary for publishing an online newspaper that can also be published as a print product. The Cronkite School staff will install the equipment and manage servers that host schools’ Web sites. More than 100 students will take classes in multimedia reporting and producing this fall, learning skills such as writing, reporting, grammar, editing, page design, Web production, videography and photography as well as journalism ethics
and values. The Cronkite School will provide ongoing training and support for teachers and students in the program. The first group of teachers and advisers will participate in a converged media boot camp this summer at the new Cronkite building in downtown Phoenix, where they will get help developing journalism curricula and learn up-to-date technical skills. Continued on page 3
Dave Cornelius, director of the Cronkite School’s Stardust High School Journalism Program, is installing multimedia newsrooms in five Arizona high schools this summer.
ANF announces scholarship recipients
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JULY/AUGUST 2008
Maria Konopken
The Arizona Newspapers Foundation is pleased to announce that Maria Konopken and Candace Begody are the two recipients of its 2008 scholarship program. Each budding journalist was presented with a $1,000 award for tuition and will be introduced at the Arizona Newspapers Association 2008 Fall Convention and Annual Meeting on Oct. 11, 2008. Maria Konopken is a junior at Arizona State University, majoring in Digital Journalism. She is a member ANAgrams Arizona Newspapers Association 1001 N. Central Avenue, Suite 670 Phoenix, AZ 85004 - 1947
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of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and has interned at Latino Perspectives Magazine. Candace Begody is a senior at the University of Arizona majoring in Journalism and minoring in Indian Studies. She has interned at the Tucson Citizen and the Missoulian and has freelanced for the Navajo Times. Both Konopken and Begody show remarkable talent and potential in the journalism field, and are a true asset to their communities. “PRSRT STD” U.S. POSTAGE PAID PHOENIX ARIZONA PERMIT NO. 3429
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2008 ANA FALL, PAGE 12 Candace Begody