Contact John R. Crosiar (541) 346-3135 June 12, 1997 NOTE TO EDITORS: For information about workshop activities through June 21, please call the UO Office of Communications, (541) 346-3134. EUGENE--Eighteen minority teens from 16 high schools in 12 Oregon cities will learn about newspapers and polish their journalistic skills during a June 15-21 workshop at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. Funded by a grant from the Oregonian Publishing Co. and the S.I. Newhouse Foundation, the week-long session will provide instruction and hands-on practice in topics ranging from interviewing to digital imaging, according to John Russial, assistant professor and workshop coordinator. "The workshop is an excellent opportunity for minority students to explore journalism as a career option," he said. "It's also a great opportunity for news professionals to serve as mentors for high school students who have an interest in the field." Russial added that the UO workshop and others like it across the country "support the newspaper industry's very important goal of ensuring that a wider range of voices and perspectives are heard in journalism." Students, ranging in age from 15 to 18 years old, were recruited from communities throughout Oregon by their teachers, advisers and local newspaper editors and publishers. Reporters, editors and photographers from The Oregonian in Portland, The Mail Tribune in Medford, The Statesman Journal in Salem and The Register-Guard in Eugene will join Russial, emeritus professor Ken Metzler and journalism dean Tim Gleason as the teaching faculty for the workshop. Anne Burnett, a UO journalism graduate student, and Kathryn Campbell, a UO journalism alumna now pursuing a doctoral degree at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, will assist. While they're on campus, workshop participants will "learn by doing," studying reporting and newswriting, interviewing and feature writing, news photography, copyediting, newspaper design and layout, opinion writing, legal issues and media careers. "They'll also interview campus sources and participate in mock news conferences," Russial said. "Throughout the week, the students will create and produce a lab newspaper that we plan to publish on the World Wide Web, making it available to anyone with Internet access." Workshop participants will stay in the university's Walton residence hall complex. Serving as resident assistants will be Jack Orozco, a senior electronic media journalism major from Eugene, and Erica Pereira, a junior journalism student from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Oregon high school students selected for the UO workshop include: COOS BAY--Meliah Mesiba, 15, a freshman at Marshfield High School. DALLAS--Andrea Kezar, 15, a freshman at Dallas High School. EUGENE--Favoure Miller, 18, a senior, and Brandy Rochelle, 16, a sophomore, both at Churchill High School; and Marieke Young, 16, a junior at South Eugene High School. GERVAIS--Karina Morales, 17, a junior at Gervais High School. HERMISTON--Angelic Rome, 16, a junior at Hermiston High School. INDEPENDENCE--Cruz Lopez, 15, a freshman at Central High School. MILWAUKIE--Yvonne Ngai, 16, a sophomore at Milwaukie High School. ONTARIO--Natalie Lopez, 16, a sophomore at Ontario High School. PORTLAND--Heather Cain, 17, a junior at Benson High School; Eric Mashia, 16, a junior at Jefferson High School; Wasim Rahman, 16, a junior at Lincoln High School; and Sony Han, 16, and Annalisa Perez, 15, both sophomores at Marshall High School. REEDSPORT--Ana Laura Villalobos, 16, a junior at Reedsport High School. SALEM--Jenny Hsu, 15, a sophomore at Sprague High School. SPRINGFIELD--Rebecca Sanchez, 15, a sophomore at Thurston High School. -30- #P-2249/Local,OrDailies,HT,Journ,Special