2012 Journalism in July visit Univision 26. (©Borderzine.com)

Journalism in July 2013 is now accepting applications from high school students

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DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: APRIL 15, 2013

To all El Paso area high school journalism/media student advisors:

We invite you to nominate your top journalism students for “Journalism in July” at the UTEP campus from July 7-14. Journalism in July recruits 20 students from high schools in the El Paso area to train them in the basics of journalism and how to use digital tools to tell stories on the web. During the 7-day residential workshop, student journalists stay in the UTEP campus dormitories. UTEP faculty and volunteer media professionals teach news reporting and writing as well as video, audio and photography practices. They visit print and broadcast media outlets, and ultimately produce a bilingual, multimedia student web magazine filled with news and enterprise stories and featuring digital photography and video.

Students participating in Journalism in July produced the e-magazine That's What They Said. (Borderzine.com)

Journalism in July Camp to focus on Multimedia Journalism

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EL PASO – Twenty high school journalism students from the El Paso and Juárez area are expected to participate in The University of Texas at El Paso’s annual Journalism in July camp. This year’s camp runs from July 14-22 and will focus primarily on the multimedia aspect of journalism. “Journalism is an increasingly competitive field,” said Zita Arocha, director of borderzine.flywheelsites.com, senior lecturer of communication at UTEP and coordinator of Journalism in July. “Multimedia experience is essential for students’ future success.”

During the nine-day camp, presented in workshop format, students will attend lectures and seminars about brainstorming, reporting, photography, videography and editing. UTEP faculty and local media professionals will teach classes and seminars.

Border students practice multimedia in Journalism in July workshop at UTEP

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EL PASO, Texas – Journalism in July is a one-week summer workshop that brought high school students and future journalists from El Paso and Ciudad Juarez to the UTEP campus to learn how to be multimedia journalists. The workshop, which began July 9, and ended a week later, is in its eighth year and has evolved from a print media program into a multimedia program. In this transition, it has emulated what has happened in the real world of media where journalists had to develop multimedia skills to keep their work modern and more available to readers. A total of 21 students attended the workshop sponsored by UTEP and the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund. They came from the border region and included two students from Preparatoria El Chamizal in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

UTEP Summer Workshop to Focus on Web Journalism for a Multimedia Age

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NOW ACCEPTING HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT NOMINATIONS FOR JOURNALISM IN JULY

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: APRIL 2, 2010 (Deadline extended to April 16, 2010)

To all El Paso area high school journalism/media advisors:

We invite you to nominate your top journalism students for “Journalism in July” on the UTEP campus from July 9-17. This summer’s 9-day residential workshop trains high school journalists in the basics of news reporting and writing and how to use digital tools (video, audio, photography) to tell stories on the web. Students will also create their own multimedia web magazine filled with news and enterprise stories and featuring digital photography and video. The 20 student journalists will live on the UTEP campus  at the Miner Village dormitories. There is no cost to attend the workshop.