Conference announces stipend to help Rural Newspapers Attend
The upcoming Rural Health Journalism Workshop has announced they are offering assistance to make it more accessible for small newsrooms. Recognizing that many newsrooms that want to cover such issues might have some funding issues, they are offering some financial assistance to smaller newsrooms, so registration, up to two hotel nights and a year of membership would be funded.
Set for May 2-4 (that's a Friday-Sunday) in Columbia, Mo., on the campus of the Missouri School of Journalism, the workshop has some great resources for journalists. They start with the basics: a Friday afternoon kickoff event on "What reporters should know about rural residents."
Then some great story-generating sessions are to be held the following day, including:
Speakers from across the country will attend. A web page has been devoted to the workshop -- www.healthjournalism.org/rural -- and there is a link titled "Small Newsroom Stipends" on the right side, under the workshop logo.
Missouri Press would like to thank the Illinois staffers that helped judge the Missouri Advertising Managers' Association Advertising Contest. MPA members Kristie Williams and Beth Ott delivered the newspapers to the Illinois Press Association in Springfield on Friday, March 14th. A special MPA thanks to Kim Filson and Kim Draper from the IPA for their help in recruiting judges and setting up for the event.
Once in Illinois, a strong support group helped judge the entries. That group included Jack Brimeyer, Phil Jordan and Mary Swaringen from the Peoria Journal Star, Rewa Boldrey, David Porter and Jeff Holman from the Illinois Press Association, Don Hurd from Kankakee Valley Publishing in Kankakee, Melissa Wilson from The State Journal-Register in Springfield, Karen Pletsch from Shaw Newspapers in Dixon, Steve Holt from the Monroe County Clarion in Columbia, Amy Eckert from The News-Gazette in Champaign, Jeff Egbert from The Daily Journal in Kankakee, Ed Bushman with the Dixon Telegraph, Kim Goeckner with the Effingham Daily News, Sandy Pistole from the The News-Gazette Community Newspapers in Tuscola and Linda Dawson with the Illinois Association of School Boards in Springfield.
This grants program is limited to interns attending a Missouri university, college or other training program. Contact the newspapers listed and say you are interested in applying for a Missouri Press Foundation summer internship.
FOUNDATION GRANTS PROGRAM
The Missouri Press Foundation is continuing its Internship Grants Program in 2008 to help train tomorrow's professionals by providing grants to support internships at Missouri Press Association-member newspapers.
THE NEWSPAPER'S OBLIGATION
Newspapers on the accompanying list agree to host an intern.
Students may apply for internships of 4-weeks to 8-weeks.
Newspapers will hire the interns and negotiate their wages.
SELECTING INTERNS
Interns eligible for this program must be students enrolled in an accredited post-secondary academic, professional, or vocational newspaper journalism program in Missouri. They may work as newspaper reporters, editors, photographers, designers, advertising representatives or web site editors/reporters, according to jobs being offered by the participating newspapers.
In addition to earning a salary, interns may receive institutional credit, if their schools allow it. Interns are responsible for arranging credit.
Newspapers are responsible for hiring the interns. Potential interns should contact the newspapers listed. IMPORTANT: Identify yourself as seeking a Missouri Press Foundation summer internship.
This grants program is limited to interns attending a university, college or other training program in Missouri. Relatives of a selected newspaper's owners or employees are prohibited from benefiting from the MPF internship grants program.
OTHER REQUIREMENTS, RESTRICTIONS
At the end of each internship, host newspapers and interns must complete an evaluation form provided by the MPF, and submit it to the Missouri Press office.
PARTICIPATING NEWSPAPERS
Paper Supervisor Contact # # of Weeks # of Hours per week Type
earned a BA from the University of Tulsa. Within five years she had started the Springfield Business Journal. As if a start-up business wasn’t enough to keep her busy, Osis also headed back to school. She earned a Masters of Science from Missouri State University in 1986.
Jennifer Anne Jackson, PhD, Springfield, MO; and Bart Sak, MD, Holland, MI. The couple also has two grandchildren.