Application Deadline Extended to May 12. NOTIFICATIONS HAVE BEEN SENT FOR ALL COMPLETE APPLICATIONS.

The workshop will provide twenty-five energetic and talented college student journalists the opportunity to develop investigative journalism skills with a faculty of distinguished local and national journalists. Besides taking part in a wide range of seminars, panels and exercises, features of the workshop include:

  • Visit The Hartford Courant on Wednesday and sit in on a news conference and meet with staff;
  • Participate in a live broadcast Thursday of the news program Where We Live on WNPR (Connecticut Public Radio);
  • Have a talk by and interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh on Friday afternoon; and
  • Attend a documentary film screening Saturday led by award-winning filmmaker Eugene Jarecki.

Workshop faculty, including several Pulitzer Prize-winners, are made up of current and former journalists from The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Newsday, the Associated Press, ABC News and many other media outlets.

See the Faculty section for a list of faculty participating.

Topics covered will include, among many others:

  • Initiating investigative stories
  • Conducting the most effective interview
  • Using public data in investigative reporting
  • Making FOIA requests
  • Video and mixed media journalism
  • Making important stories interesting
  • Journalistic independence
  • Reporting on wars

See the Agenda section for a list of topics covered in workshop sessions.

A memorial project, the workshop's sessions by his colleagues will also reflect on the life and work of David Halberstam (1934-2007), a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, author of more than 20 books and great believer and champion of young journalists.

The workshop will run June 8-14, 2008, on the campus of Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. The program costs $350 (includes room & board) and is open to college students who have completed at least one year of study. Scholarships available - email for more information: registration@journalismworkshop.org.

Application Deadline Extended to May 12. NOTIFICATIONS HAVE BEEN SENT FOR ALL COMPLETE APPLICATIONS.