Cutting-edge online publications participate. Dr. Ann Brill directs the Center for Online Excellence. This program acquaints students with the challenges and excitement of reporting on business for daily newspapers. Up to 12 minority college sophomores and juniors will be selected. Barbara Martinez and Lisa Brownlee, both alumnae of the Newspaper Fund's editing program, direct the one-week training course at New York University.
Applicants take a one-hour test sent directly to proctors they identify on the application form.
They deliver real-time economic, business and political news to audiences around the world on private computer circuits and the Internet. Most of these internships will be in the New York City area or Washington, D.C. Dr. Rusty Todd of the University of Texas at Austin explains the program in depth. As many as 12 positions will be available. The Newspaper Fund brought professional journalists to its Princeton headquarters for a free three-day seminar on copy editing for college journalism teachers and newspaper advisers from Aug. 25 through Aug. 28. The program will be offered in Summer 2001.