Hello!

By now, you may have heard about the Miami-Whitewater Valley Public Media
Project for which the Journalism Program received a grant, and I wanted to
give you a bit more information in case you're curious as to how you can get
involved.

This project will make it possible for students in many journalism classes
to see their stories published or broadcast by area news organizations with
which we have formed partnerships. Last semester, students in several
classes were involved in a pilot project that contributed to our getting
this grant.

In those pilot projects, students' work was published in print editions of
Cox Ohio newspapers in Middletown, Hamilton and Dayton; in print and online
by the Richmond, Ind., Palladium-Item; and in the Cincinnati Business
Courier (also print). Student stories also were broadcast on WMUB, Miami's
public radio station, and students were heavily involved in producing two
Friday morning forums on WMUB.

For now, if you're enrolled in a class in which your instructor is
coordinating content with a partner news organization, you are probably
involved in this project (whether or not you knew it by its formal name).

The main advantage of these partnerships for those of you who are students
is that your work will be published by professional news organizations < but
that also means it will have to meet professional standards. Your professors
and the editors in the partner organizations will work with you to make sure
your stories reach that level.

Meanwhile, if you would like to know more about this project, please contact
me, Professor Ed Arnone or Journalism Program Director and Professor Richard
Campbell.

We'd love to find ways to involve as many students as possible in this
effort, so let us know if you have suggestions for doing that!

Cheryl

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Cheryl Gibbs
Assistant Director
Journalism Program
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Miami University
Oxford, OH   45056
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