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The workshop takes place over an academic year.

Newsroom Visits:

We will host bi-monthly newsroom visits. The visits will include opportunities to talk to professional journalists, see journalism production live, and understand how newsrooms work. During these visits, students can shadow journalists, participate in editorial meetings, and contribute to news production. This hands-on experience will give students a real taste of the journalism industry and help them build valuable connections with professionals in the field.

Students in the Immersive Track will attend all four visits, while students in the Exploratory Track will attend one newsroom and the end-of-year 91ºÚÁÏÍø visit. At the beginning of the UJW experience, the Exploratory Track students will select which visit they are interested in attending. Depending on space, the newsrooms may accommodate more students; thus, we will open more spaces for the newsrooms.

Online Workshops:

We'll host online workshop sessions when we're not on a newsroom visit. Here, you'll have the exciting opportunity to hear from professional journalists from various newsrooms and roles. You'll get valuable lessons on producing better journalistic stories for all platforms, broadening your understanding of the diverse world of journalism. This includes conducting interviews, writing ledes, creating stories, building networks, developing relationships, and improving reporting.

Students in the immersive track will attend all workshops in preparation for their summer internship experience. Students in the Exploratory Track will attend at least two sessions; they can attend all of them if they’d like. 

Summer Newsroom Internship:

Students will have the opportunity to culminate their UJW experience with a four-week internship at a Milwaukee newsroom. 

UJW Summer Camp:

We will host a four-day summer journalism camp in June. This camp will welcome students to learn more about their craft and hone their experiences. It will also include a second group — other high school students from around the country who are interested in coming to learn more about journalism and improving their skills to take back to their high schools. 

For the second group of students, there will be a separate registration process from this one.

We’re working on securing all of these visits as you read, but know that we are excited to have lots of interest from our area newsrooms to support you and your experience. Both the and 91ºÚÁÏÍø (The O’Brien Public Service Journalism Fellowship, , and the student media) newsrooms are already on board.

Much like the visits, we are working to secure different internship opportunities for students. In some cases, we will connect students based on their interests to specific types of newsroom internship experiences. We will post where you might be going as soon as we secure the internship locations.

• August: Kick-off virtual meeting. We will introduce you to the program leadership, discuss the year's events, and have a keynote speaker to inspire us.
• September: Newsroom visit,
• October: Online workshop
• November: Newsroom visit, TBD
• December: Online workshop
• January: Online workshop
• February: Newsroom visit, TBD
• March: Online workshop
• April: Newsroom visit: 91ºÚÁÏÍø newsrooms – we will have an end-of-workshop celebration and welcome attendance for all members!
• May: Immersive Track students will do a virtual orientation with their summer internship sites.
• June/July: Immersive Track internship experiences

The , , and 91ºÚÁÏÍø Diederich College of Communication make hosting the Urban Journalism Workshop possible. 

The experiences you will have would not have been possible without our partnering newsrooms and journalists.