News Fund Workshops

The Dow Jones News Fund supports summer workshops to inspire high school students who face barriers to pursuing a career in journalism to consider working in the field. Significant support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provides the bulk of funding for aspiring journalists to concentrate on health and wellness topics as they learn to report and write for an audience, shoot and edit video and take photos. Since 1968, the News Fund has joined other sponsors to introduce more than 12,000 high school students to journalism careers and provided valuable hands-on experience publishing in print and digitally. These workshops add value beyond the newsroom, exposing students to campus life, thinking critically and working collaboratively. Email heather.taylor@dowjones.com to learn about funding opportunities for high school summer journalism workshops.

  • Arizona

    Indigenous Youth Media Workshop
    June 15, 2025 - June 25, 2025 Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, Arizona
    Application deadline: April 18, 2025

    Calling all Indigenous high school trailblazers, aspiring storytellers, and media makers! This 11-day comprehensive, hands-on, immersive media production workshop is your ticket to mastering multimedia broadcast journalism and unleashing your storytelling prowess. Dive into the vibrant world of broadcast media and journalism while you create documentary-style multimedia news stories in our state-of-the-art Media Innovation Center and Television Studio! Collaborate with accomplished Indigenous filmmakers, journalists, and photographers, NAU Film and Journalism student mentors, and NAU Media Arts faculty to amplify the voices of your communities and shape the narratives that define our world! Immerse yourself in college life, dining in the student union and living in residence halls! Learn multimedia journalism skills and produce a live news broadcast using professional broadcast equipment!

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  • District Of Columbia

    Howard University Multicultural Media Academy
    June 24, 2024 - July 5, 2024 Howard University Washington, D.C.

    Spend two weeks with us, and we will teach you how to use the power of multimedia journalism to cover health and wellness in underserved communities. You will learn how to write news stories, capture audio, shoot and edit video, take photos and incorporate social media. You will also develop an understanding of interrelated social issues — such as housing and hunger — that contribute to making communities unhealthy.

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  • West Virginia

    WVU Media Camp
    June 24, 2024 - June 27, 2024 West Virginia University Morgantown, West Virginia

    Learn fundamentals of Advertising and Public Relations, Journalism, and Sports and Adventure Media while exploring new and innovative ways to tell stories. Workshops will focus on writing, photography, video, broadcasting, social media strategy, and other methods of storytelling.

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