Sign Up For Summer High School Journalism Workshops

The Connecticut Health I-Team (www.c-hit.org) is offering unique, one-week workshops in journalism this summer for high school students interested in refining their multi-media, research and writing skills, while learning about the evolving field of journalism from award-winning writers and editors.

The workshops, now in their sixth year, will be held at Yale University (New Haven) and the University of Connecticut (Storrs). The programs provide select students with the opportunity to spend a week on a university campus, learning the tools of investigative journalism by participating in seminars led by professional journalists; working on stories for publication; and spending a day visiting local newsrooms.

Students ages 16 and older are eligible to apply for the programs, which are led by a team of instructors including: Kate Farrish, formerly an award-winning reporter for the Hartford Courant and now a UConn journalism instructor; C-HIT senior writer and co-founder Lisa Chedekel, formerly an investigative reporter for the Courant, where she won several national awards; and C-HIT Editor Lynne DeLucia, a Pulitzer Prize-winning former Courant editor.

C-HIT’s workshop graduates have gone on to study at major universities, have been awarded scholarships through the Dow Jones News Fund, and have secured internships at major newspapers, including the Courant and the Boston Globe.

Dates are: Yale University, June 26-July 1 or UConn, July 18-22

For information, go to http://c-hit.org/ or contact Lynne DeLucia at delucia@c-hit.org.

Photo caption: Journalism students from New York and California work with instructor Kate Farrish, right, on tweeting news at the Connecticut Health I-Team Summer Journalism camp at Yale University.