FOR STUDENTS

Click HERE to download an application form. Deadline: March 4.

* Increase your writing portfolio with published work

* Workshops once a week for 8 weeks

* Classes on real college campus with real reporters

* One-on-one mentorship with Columbia College graduate student

* Teens will be paid $40 a week!

Why wait? You can be a paid reporter now!

This academy is a great opportunity for high school students looking for experience in reporting and the ethics of journalism. Students will participate in an intensive six-week workshop writing articles and personal essays about various issues impacting their lives. Work will be published in our student magazine, R-WURD, with further publishing opportunities citywide. All students will have an opportunity to submit an application to be considered for an interview.

The reporting academy begins on April 5 ORIENTATION. Classes begin on April 8.

Participants must attend workshops once a week AND once a week with an assigned mentor at 33 E. Congress Parkway, corner of Wabash and Congress.

For more information, please contact the Columbia LINKS office at 312-369-8993 or email columbialinks@colum.edu.

Click HERE to download a pdf listing to scholarship opportunities for students.