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Resources for Students in Media-Related Fields
Select organizations from our 2007 Graduation Super Issue extended
feature on career in media and new media
By THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Staff
www.poynter.org
The Poynter Institute offers training programs
including summer fellowships for students in visual journalism,
reporting and writing.
www.collegemedia.org
Workshops at the fall and spring College Media
Conventions train students in various aspects of convergence and
multimedia presentation.
www.nabj.org
The National Association of Black Journalists’
annual convention also offers training sessions in digital media and
sponsors print, online and broadcast internships for students to cover
the convention in real time.
www.blackcollegewire.org
Black College Wire provides training, internships
and awards for HBCU student journalists, giving them an opportunity to
work with experienced professional editors. Its newswire service also gives
students an opportunity to publish news from their campuses, and often
find placement for their stories in major national publications and
broadcasts.
rccs.usfca.edu
Another useful site is the Resource Center for
Cyberculture Studies at the University of Washington.
digitalcampus.tv
Digital Campus, a podcast by George Mason
University’s Center for History and New Media, provides a biweekly
roundtable discussion of how digital media and technology are affecting
learning, teaching, and scholarship at colleges, universities,
libraries, and museums.
www.idmaa.org
A national organization that attempts to grapple
with, represent, and train professionals and educators for the new/(multi)media
convergence, the International Digital Media and Arts Association “is
all about the convergence of people, ideas, disciplines, technologies
and progress,” according to its website. It offers a meetingplace for
those from traditional disciplines including the Arts, Computer Science,
Engineering, Journalism and Communications, Media Studies, Film and
Television, and many other fields that are “embroiled in sweeping
changes wrought by new technologies, new applications, and new
challenges.” A low-cost student membership rate lets students receive
publications about new media, participate in juried competitions, and
attend an annual conference that brings together educators, artists,
students and companies from diverse industries ranging from computer
gaming to academia to web publishing.
www.bmf.net
The NYC-based Black Media Foundation seeks to
“address the under-representation of minorities in the media” by
increasing the numbers of journalists of color, to “create socially
conscious media and media professionals.”
It prioritizes assistance to disadvantaged Blacks
with interest in communication arts fields, helping young people to
develop skills in creative writing, newspaper, video and Web production
through in-school programs, summer institute workshops, and other
programming.
www.nbpc.tv
Working
with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Black
Programming Consortium produces and supports independent projects that
focus exclusively on African Americans and African Diaspora. Among its
special projects, the “Eyes on the Prize” Black College New Media
Program provides students from HBCUs with funding to make new media
projects “that speak to contemporary civil rights concerns from the
youth perspective.”
www.stc.org
The Society for Technical Communication, a networking organization for
those working as technical writers in a variety of subfields, offers
annual competitions for students at both the student and college levels.
Prizes and honors are awarded in a wide array of related areas including
technical writing, PR, computer art and design, online communications,
and more.
For more detailed information about media-related career resources,
visit the extended online edition of this feature at Blackcollegian.com.
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