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 13—19, will accept applications through April 30, and participants will be selected soon afterward, according to John Russial, associate journalism professor and the workshop director.

"Students will do all of the reporting, editing, photography and design for the paper," Russial said. "They also will have an opportunity to help produce an Internet version. 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 the local high school publications adviser or Russial at the UO School of Journalism and Communications, (541) 346-3750, or send e-mail to jrussial@oregon.uoregon.edu.

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