By: E&P Staff The New York Times and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) will launch an intensive training program early in 2007 for Latino student journalists at Florida International University (FIU) and the University of Arizona.
The report comes today from Latino Reporter Digital, a web site covering the NAHJ conference currently underway in Fort Lauderdale. There, this morning, a New York Times representative explained how to apply. To qualify, students must be NAHJ members, have completed one semester at a student newspaper or major newspaper, be in good academic standing and write a 500-word essay about being a journalist, the Web site disclosed.
The program will consist of an institute for Latinos similar to one created for African-Americans in 2003 at Dillard University in New Orleans. Allan Richards, chairman of the department of journalism and broadcasting at FIU, told E&P today: "The New York Times, in conjunction with the NAHJ, will be addressing the underrepresentation of Hispanics in US newsrooms. The institute will help educate the next generation of talented young Hispanic journalists.
"FIU's School of Journalism and Mass Communication is 69% Hispanic. SJMC ranks number one in the U.S. in the number of undergraduate degrees in communication awarded to Hispanics. In other words, we've been educating and training Hispanic journalists for more than two decades. The pairing of the New York Times and FIU's SJMC is a natural."
Don Hecker, a copy editor at the New York Times who is involved in the project, said The New York Times Journalism Institute for Student Members of NAHJ, a one-week intensive training session, will launch at FIU in January with 20 students, according to the Web site. The program will then go to the University of Arizona in Tucson in 2008.
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