The Oklahoma Institute for

Diversity in Journalism

5th Annual Summer Journalism Workshop

 June 8-14, 2008



The Oklahoma Institute for Diversity in Journalism's 5th annual summer journalism workshop is for promising high school students. Its goal is to expose youth to careers in the world of daily journalism. OIDJ’s mission is to provide opportunities for students who would otherwise lack access to journalism training or who face other barriers to pursuing careers in journalism.


Students report, write, edit and shoot photos and videos for stories on a variety of topics and news events that will be posted on a special Web site. The students stay in a dormitory on the University of Oklahoma campus. Previous participants have taken field trips that included a tour of the Oklahoman and a local television station. They have shadowed journalists there for one afternoon in order to get first-hand exposure to daily journalism.


In addition to their intensive training sessions, student have been treated to presentations by the Society of Professional Journalists, Freedom of Information Oklahoma, the Norman Transcript, the Oklahoma Gazette, the Oklahoman, the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication, and the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation.