The Dow Jones News Fund announced a 2021 operating budget of $550,000 that supports programs designed to help talented young people launch journalism careers and increase diversity in American newsrooms.

The Dow Jones News Fund invites college students studying journalism or working for student media at community colleges and four-year universities to apply for free registration to attend journalism conventions this summer.

The Columbia Scholastic Press Association has named Ray Westbrook the 2021 National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year. Westbrook, a journalism teacher/adviser of the newspaper and yearbook at St. Mark’s School of Texas in Dallas, was selected from among 17 teachers who were national finalists.

The Dow Jones News Fund appoints Shirley Carswell, a distinguished journalist and educator, as executive director of the Fund, effective Jan. 4.