EUGENE–About 20 minority students from Oregon high schools will produce a newspaper in a week’s time during a summer journalism workshop at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication.

The workshop, scheduled for June 18—24, will accept applications through May 5, and participants will be selected soon afterward, according to John Russial, associate professor of journalism and the workshop director.

"Students will do all of the reporting, editing, photography and design for the paper," Russial says. "Participants will attend classroom sessions in the mornings. In the afternoons, they will work closely with visiting newspaper professionals and journalism professors."

The workshop, including room and board and transportation to and from Eugene, is free to participants. Students will stay in a campus residence hall with college-age chaperones.

The Oregonian Publishing Co. and the S.I. Newhouse Foundation provide a financial grant to fund the workshop, the fifth conducted by the UO School of Journalism and Communication.

For information and application forms, contact local high school publications advisers or Russial at the UO School of Journalism and Communication, (541) 346-3750; e-mail, jrussial@oregon.uoregon.edu.

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