VIRGINIA TECH jCAMP was July 18-22 in Blacksburg. Our students in the photojournalism class go to learn everything from the basics of photography to staff management. They produced all the audio and video for this Soundslides presentation.

NORTH CAROLINA SCHOLASTIC MEDIA INSTITUTE workshop in Chapel Hill, N.C. Click the link to view a slideshows of some of the work by the students as they completed assignments such as The Mug Shot, Blue, The Workshop and a scavenger hunt.

COLLEGE YEARBOOK CONSULTANTS workshop in New Orleans, June 3-5. Click the link to view a slideshow of some of the work by the students as well as photos of the workshop and good times in New Orleans at this workshop.

DOW JONES NEWSPAPER FUND 2010 • Every year, a group of a dozen or more college students starting their internships right after the workshop gather to participate in the Dow Jones News Fund Center for Copyediting Excellence at the University of Texas at Austin. Here are links to some of the work they produced as part of an editing/design exercise in real time and on deadline to produce a daily paper and website for three consecutive days.
First issue
Second issue
Third issue
2010 website
Look back at 2008

College Media Advisers SHOOT-OUT AUSTIN, fall 2009 • FIRST PLACE: Terry Ting, York University; SECOND PLACE: Salvador Chavez, Los Angeles City College (Rhonda Guess, adviser); THIRD PLACE: Jessica Hodder, University of Miami (Carl Stano, adviser); THEME: “Keep Austin Weird.” This was a tough assignment in an interesting city. There was almost too much to cover. But collectively, the images, with the highest-ranked ones shown here, project the city’s weirdness.

VIRGINIA TECH summer workshop 2009 • High-school photographers gathered at Virginia Tech to learn everything from yearbook design to Web publishing to photojournalism. This is a look at the work by student photojournalists.

College Media Advisers Shoot-out, KANSAS CITY, fall 2008 • Chantal Anderson, University of Washington (Kristin Millis, adviser) placed first in this portrait of Kansas City by the photographers attending the national college convention. “When the judges look at the pictures individually and collectively, they should get a feel for Kansas City. Offer an analysis of the city that goes far beyond the superficial. Find a person, place or thing that just screams ‘Kansas City.’”

College Media Advisers Shoot-out, WASHINGTON, D.C., fall 2007 • Evan Falk of Ithaca College (Michael Serino, adviser) placed first in this year’s shoot-out.

College Media Advisers Shoot-out, ST. LOUIS, Mo., fall 2006 • Annabelle Ombac of Virginia Tech University (Kelly Wolff, adviser) placed first in this year’s shoot-out.

College Media Advisers Shoot-out, KANSAS CITY, fall 2005 • Nathan Lang of Johnson County Community College (Anne Christiansen-Bullers, adviser) placed first with his photo of “Kansas City’s 106th homicide of 2005.”