The special 10th anniversary issue of The Princeton Summer Journal is now online!
Be sure to check out the students’ hard-hitting investigative report on expired medication found in NYC stores.
“Happy 10th Anniversary SJP” cake presented by SJP alumni for the four founding directors at the final banquet. From left: Richard Just ‘01, Rich Tucker ‘01, Greg Mancini ‘01 and Michael Koike ‘01
The 2011 edition of The Princeton Summer Journal — a special 10th anniversary issue — is now online.
The students at the New York Times!
Followed by tours of the Daily Beast/Newsweek, CNN and reporting on their investigative project.
#SJP11
(Source: princeton.edu)
10 years of non-stop journalism fun. On our first full day — here’s what’s on the roster: Saturday July 30
A few of the students and counselors at SJP in front of the Dinky Station.
Today we kick off the 10th Anniversary of the Princeton University Summer Journalism Program.
In honor of this occassion, please read Richard Just’s column from 2002: ‘Prince initiates minority summer journalism program’
Follow us on our journey on Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter (@PrincetonSJP) and our blog.
Katie Zavadski (SJP ‘08/Harvard ‘13) on high school/college journalism, SJP and Rachel Maddow.
E-mail us at sjp [at] princeton [dot] edu if you have any last-minute questions. Good luck!
Link to application/more information: http://www.princeton.edu/sjp/admissions
“The role of the Class of 1969 intern at the Summer Journalism Program is very different from the role of interns at most organizations. Essentially, the job of our intern is to run the program for the summer-to set up the schedule during the weeks leading up to the ten-day program itself, and then to help manage the program for the ten days that students are on campus.”
If you’re a Princeton student, you can apply to intern with the Princeton University Summer Journalism Program. Read more here.
Please encourage qualified high school juniors to apply to the 2011 Princeton University Summer Journalism Program. More information here: http://www.princeton.edu/sjp/admissions
“I wouldn’t have had mentors like Mrs. Sanchez, my Valle Verde English teacher, who helped me apply to the Princeton Summer Journalism Program. This program provided me with the most vibrant educational experience of my life.” - Elizabeth Gonzalez
For the second time in three years, a Princeton professor has been awarded a Nobel Prize. Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, a visiting professor with the Program for Latin American Studies and the Lewis Center for the Arts, was named the literature prize winner this morning.
The Swedish Academy cited Vargas Llosa’s “cartography of the structures of power and his images of the individual’s resistance, revolt and defeat” in granting him the award.
Please watch from 35:27 - 42:25 for SJP 2008 alum Andrew Boryga’s television appearance, where he discusses his experience reporting for The New York Times.
Also, read his blog post on his experience interning at The New York Times this summer: http://pusjpblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/reporting-for-new-york-times.html
From The Nation:
In tackling such a simple but widely ignored issue, the high school students who wrote the report for the Princeton Summer Journal have exposed a large-scale failure on behalf of New York City to enforce a crucial environmental law. But what’s nearly as exciting about the investigation is that the students proved that investigative journalism doesn’t require huge budgets, a rolodex of exclusive sources and years of training: It can sometimes grow out of a sharp observation, a few simple, on-the-spot interview questions, and some persistence, and eventually garner the type of attention that can warrant stricter enforcement of essential laws.
“The Princeton Summer Journalism Program is one successful example of educating students in media and journalism at a young age.”
“Some high school kids in a Princeton summer journalism camp came to NYC to report a story about scofflaw cars and buses idling illegally on the city streets, damaging the environment. Caught red-handed: Conde “F*** the Ozone Layer” Nast.”
SJP Alum ‘07/Columbia ‘12, Amanda Cormier, a New York Observer intern, explained the significance of this in this way: “Gawker media (including Jezebel, etc.) is read by more people collectively than the New York Times. I think.”
(Thanks to Amanda for tipping the Observer, leading to this shout-out on the Daily Transom: http://www.observer.com/2010/daily-transom/items-grad-school-rejections-quadratic-equations)
