The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation awarded a $50,000 grant to the Dow Jones News Fund to encourage health reporting in its 2019 summer high school journalism workshops. DJNF will award a total of $60,000 to colleges and nonprofit groups to host students from under-resourced communities or who lack access to journalism training. Special emphasis will be placed on hosting community forums, followup and other outreach activities to maximize exposure for the content the students.

Melissa Falkowski, a journalism teacher at Marjory Douglas Stoneman High School at Parkland, Florida, has been named the 2019 National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year. The National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year Awards program is managed and sponsored by CSPA and co-sponsored by DJNF and others.

The Dow Jones News Fund selected five high school journalists as winners of $9,000 in its 2018 Summer Journalism Workshops Scholarship Competition. The competition recognized the best work by participants in eight summer high school journalism workshops focused on health and wellness. The workshops were funded through a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Media organizations are invited to hire Dow Jones News Fund interns in digital media, data journalism, business reporting and multiplatform editing for summer 2019.