RTNDF’s High School Broadcast Journalism Program awarded six grants in the 2007-08 school year.

Seed Grants of $1,000 each to help start new broadcast or online programs or add journalism to existing programs went to:

 
            IDOC Healy South Alternative High School
            8007 Cottage Grove
            Chicago, IL 60619
            Teacher: Annette Elmore
           

            Perry High School
            1200 18^th St.
            Perry, IA 50220
            Teacher: Jim Ellenberger
 

            South East High School
            2720 Tweedy Blvd.
            South Gate, CA 90280
            Teacher: Donn Cotton

 
            St. Benedicts Prepatory High School
            520 Martin Luther King Blvd.
            Newark, NJ 07102
            Teacher: Richard Lorenzo
  

            King Drew Magnet High School
            1601 East 120^th St.
            Los Angeles, CA 90059
            Teacher: Neil Monaco

 
A Mentoring Grant of $1,000 was awarded to the CCNMA Latino Journalists of California (formerly the California Chicano News Media Association) to support the 2008 San Diego Multicultural Journalism Workshop for high school students at Point Loma Nazarene University. This free, two-week journalism workshop is organized by San Diego’s news media professionals. Sponsors are the San Diego Union-Tribune, KNSD-TV (NBC 7/39), KPBS News Radio based at San Diego State University, the Riverside Press-Enterprise and the San Diego chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

Lead instructor is Janye McClinton, executive producer at NBC7/39 and Dwane Brown, morning new anchor/editor at KPBS News Radio. Workshop director is Leonel Sanchez of the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Grant Application Period for the 2008-09 school year will open in late November 2008. Grants will be awarded in March 2009.